9.16.2004

I found this on the forums at NovaWorld. It is a quote from the latest issue of Computer Games, a popular magazine. "Bohannon is promoting his new book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Grand Theft Auto, A Study on Video Games & Psychology... Dr. Bohannon said his book is also concerned with the lessons learned in more recent games. "I've included research on Joint Operations, a new military simulation. In a study of the people who play on popular servers. I've concluded that this game will teach you that you simply don't matter. Its a realistic lesson in how the efforts of one person can't win a war. This is a valuable lesson after years of teaching our children that they have enough health to sustain seven or even eight shots before they need to find a medkit. In fact I demonstrate that this thinking might be part of the problem we're having in Irag. Many of the soldiers over there have never played a FPS with a lean key." I would ave to say that he is not accurate, but I think he is getting at something. I won't get into details, but certainly one person can make a difference in JO. However, the game was designed from the start to favor teamwork, thus its moniker. While this might be a good lesson for players, I don't know if it is part of the problem in Iraq. I believe are soldiers are trained to act effectively as teams, and teams within teams-- despite the counterevidence of the "army of one" ad campaign, which is bears as much realation to reality as a typical Pepsi commercial.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

come on now, if you have to tell us its "a popular magazine", how popular could it be.

Jordan said...
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Jordan said...

hahaha. yeah. its a funny post all around, not least of all because of my campy commentary.