How many of you actually use video games for escapism?
Like load up a game, create a story in your head, revel in the experience of being there and doing things.
Kinda like a holodeck experience i guess.
Games as escapism
Ryder Reed
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Kevin Ross
I'm not poor, unhappy, alone, or bored. I play games for fun and the challenge of completing them. Many I get into them for their stories and find a lot to enjoy. If I am playing to escape, I am considering myself a failure and I'd consider anyone seeking escapism a failure.
Carter Turner
>>>/edge/
Hudson Mitchell
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Hudson Scott
I try my best to, but it's getting harder and harder
Grayson Allen
found the depressed teens who play the same game for 12 hours a day to escape from their family they hate
Jeremiah Thompson
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Angel Ortiz
See, I'm the other way around. I'm not much interested in video games for the sake of challenge/difficulty/competition, although these things, particularly the second one, can add a lot to a game. I feel like investing a ton of time into a game for the sake of competition (think of ASSFAGGOTS games) is even more of a waste than playing for escapism.
Playing for escapism makes sense as games, more than any other form of media, have the capability to put you in a fully-realized, lived-in world. Whereas challenge is something you can get from more productive pursuits (e.g. taking a new qualification).
John Taylor
Ever thought of, maybe, I dunno… getting a job??
Adam Roberts
immersion is a mental illness and doesn't exist.