what is it that makes video game so addictive? i have to make a presentation on this. i need some points in which i can make a 10 minute presentation.
2006-11-20 15:08:34 · 9 answers · asked by B-land 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Video & Online Games
I think it's an easy distraction from everything in life. When you're absorbed in a video game, whatever else is on your mind seems to fade away.
2006-11-20 15:15:06 · answer #1 · answered by Peach 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of the "ability" of video games to put you in the psychologically rewarding state called "Flow".
This is an almost dreamlike psychological state that children are in when they play, or that you can get into when you read a really good book.
The activity is intrinsically rewarding, so there is an effortlessness of action.
What is gained in this state is the feeling of ...
- beeing in harmony between you ability level and the challenge (the activity is neither too easy (would be too booring) nor too difficult (would be too frustrating), but as challanging to demand a high degree of consentration and focus).
- total concentration and focus - and thus a limited field of attention (a person engaged in the activity will have the opportunity to focus and to delve deeply into it).
- loss of self-consciousness, the merging of action and awareness, like in a dream.
- not having a sense of time, like in dream.
- A sense of personal control over the situation or activity.
- having clear goals (expectations and rules are discernible)
2006-11-20 15:31:13 · answer #2 · answered by Nyx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I myself play video games to help relieve stress and take my mind of whatever is bothering me at the time. When I play Battlefield 2, I think of nothing else but staying alive and killing as many of the enemy as I can. It is so realistic that I get so caught up in it that I can think of nothing else!!! By the time I'm done playing I usually feel a lot better. I'm 37, so it's not just for kids and young adults. Good luck on your presentation.
2006-11-20 15:17:20 · answer #3 · answered by WTF?!!! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Video games provide the things people can't get in real life. It makes them feel skilled and accomplished, like they are somebody important and can do anything. When you are really good at a game it gives you a lot of confidence.
2006-11-20 15:19:17 · answer #4 · answered by Mal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are some reasons:
It is fun
They make you keep coming back to win the game
it is a form of playing like childs play
the graphics draw you in
they make them more and more realistic
some take intelligence to win, trys your mind.
it is like anything, if you do it enough you brain craves it
companies are making them more sophisticated
they try to interest teens and keep them buying more
Good Luck
2006-11-20 15:18:21 · answer #5 · answered by Nevada Pokerqueen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are fun! You use your mind, and practice strategy (of course depending on what you play). You can do anything and be anyone. Once you finish, you feel like such a winner! You accomplished something! (Plus it a way to get "physical activity" without leaving the comforts of home).
2006-11-20 15:32:19 · answer #6 · answered by Scalder 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because reality sucks, and videogames have the excitement, the freedom, and the ideals that we wish we had. That's why they're the way they are... they reflect what we really want in life. To be a hero, to fly, to be evil, to do justice, whatever. In reality that's just not possible, so videogames are our indulgence.
2006-11-20 15:19:24 · answer #7 · answered by Koko 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hah dude i dont know. i know it has to do with the "acheivement" part in your brain though and that everytime you do something good in a game you feel you have acheived something in life and should keep acheiving. also i know that if you dont succeed then u really feel like you need to or you wont succeed in life. just how the brain works i guess.
2006-11-20 15:18:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
cuz it's fun!!
2006-11-20 15:13:50 · answer #9 · answered by Yuffie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋