The Pros And Cons Of Video Games

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In the past, the kind of technology that we had to develop video games was just something really simple such as GoldSrc which was a game engine used internally by Valve Software to create a video game called Half-Life. We did not have anything advanced like Cryengine 3 or Frostbite 3 to create some currently well-known known games that have realistic looking graphics such as Crysis 3 or Battlefield Hardline. In our world today, entertainment has taken a big part in our lives, especially in developed countries such as the United States. Beside from movies, we have a really high demand and expectations toward our video games. For the purpose of competition, most video game developers are required to be up to date with their technology in order …show more content…

We came from watching a black and white blurry TV to an ultra high definition 4K-display smart TV that comes with 3D technology. With that in mind, the experience that we now have in video games are more real than ever. It is so real that sometimes while we are playing the game, it makes it hard to realize that we’re living in a virtual world by having our eyes looking at the screen for a long period of time and it tricks the brain to think that this is real life. However, those advanced technologies have downsides to it. It could change the way we interact with things or how we treat the people around us due to the fact that our eyes are used to looking at advanced virtual graphics in current video games that were so similar to real life and that could change our behavior from being a friendly person to an aggressive person, all that could be caused by what we hear and see in a video game. Especially for 3D video games, the fact that it looks so similar to the real world would sometimes give us the feel of wanting to recreate the scene of what we see from a video game to fully satisfy ourselves because we wanted to know what it is like to be that certain

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