Video Games

Video games are not an escape. Video games are a way for people to be who they want to be. People they couldn't be outside the game. People who spend their time tending a farm, living a life filled with intrigue, action, excitement. People blowing the heads off of demons with a sword. People who are leaders taking their troops into battle. People who know how to fire a gun. People who know how to be a good teammate. Video games allow people to acquires skills that they wouldn't normally be able to achieve in real life. Take the Sims for example, the premise is ridiculous. Live some other persons's life. But the premise is not crazy at all. To live the life of a person without inhibitions. To have total control is what people enjoy about the game. It's not the desire to escape that causes people to play video games. For most I would guess it's the want to have control over your own surroundings and take responsibility for your own actions. Most of us in everyday life live in a bureaucratic world we have a boss, a paycheck, a job, a government, a life we must take care of, and rules we have to follow. Video games allow us to become the boss, the government, the place where we are the only people who can affect change in the world. This is what I think people enjoy most out of games. The feeling of being powerful.