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Goodspeed wrote:Easily option 2 because of that little afterthought "mass appeal". Think about what a big change in the general population that would imply. If the masses are interested in a game like AoE3, that means there's a market for RTS and we'll get a lot more good ones. It also means more people will play other strategy games like Go, board games etc. Last but not least, interest in strategy games correlates with intelligence, which means the average IQ went up by like 10 globally. That's great for so many reasons.
did you just pull that one out of your ass or do you have any proof ?
Out of ass. Which part do you think is debatable?
It's an interesting assumption. A quick search brings me to this article which argues that playing real-time strategy games is correlated with an increase in cognitive function. The researchers compared cognitive function before playing either SC1, SC2, or The Sims, and after.
Using a meta-analytic Bayes factor approach, we found that the gaming condition that emphasized maintenance and rapid switching between multiple information and action sources led to a large increase in cognitive flexibility as measured by a wide array of non-video gaming tasks. Theoretically, the results suggest that the distributed brain networks supporting cognitive flexibility can be tuned by engrossing video game experience that stresses maintenance and rapid manipulation of multiple information sources. Practically, these results suggest avenues for increasing cognitive function.
These authors found that 23.5 hours of training on real-time strategy games led to enhanced executive control and visuospatial skills relative to a non-playing control group. Furthermore, this paper demonstrates a causal link between video gameplay and improvement of certain executive and cognitive tasks. Then these authors find positive transfer between skills in certain games and closely related laboratory tasks. It seems like there is a consensus that certain video games (real-time strategy, fast-paced shooters), can lead to improvements in cognitive test performance.
Goodspeed wrote:Easily option 2 because of that little afterthought "mass appeal". Think about what a big change in the general population that would imply. If the masses are interested in a game like AoE3, that means there's a market for RTS and we'll get a lot more good ones. It also means more people will play other strategy games like Go, board games etc. Last but not least, interest in strategy games correlates with intelligence, which means the average IQ went up by like 10 globally. That's great for so many reasons.
did you just pull that one out of your ass or do you have any proof ?
Out of ass. Which part do you think is debatable?
It's an interesting assumption. A quick search brings me to this article which argues that playing real-time strategy games is correlated with an increase in cognitive function. The researchers compared cognitive function before playing either SC1, SC2, or The Sims, and after.
Using a meta-analytic Bayes factor approach, we found that the gaming condition that emphasized maintenance and rapid switching between multiple information and action sources led to a large increase in cognitive flexibility as measured by a wide array of non-video gaming tasks. Theoretically, the results suggest that the distributed brain networks supporting cognitive flexibility can be tuned by engrossing video game experience that stresses maintenance and rapid manipulation of multiple information sources. Practically, these results suggest avenues for increasing cognitive function.
Let me quote my signature: 'Correlation doesn't mean causation'
Goodspeed wrote:It seems rather obvious to me that thinking games attract thinking people... I don't think we need studies to prove that
One could also argue that strategy games often involve warfare in one way or another and therefore attract people who enjoy violence. So yeah for a colloquial discussion i think you are right, but overall i think it warrants being questioned.