Gaming is good for your health..?

[gamesaddict]

This is not a preview for one game, this post is related to any kind of game. It is just one of those random thoughts that hit me from time to time. I was wondering “what are the actual damages that games can cause to us?”. I've been looking it up and found out that it's not as bad as it seems to be. In some articles, they even mentioned how good it could be for us to play games (like the 5 good reasons why games are good for you on sheeparcade and also another article I found on ign but I could not find the link again later on sorryyyy). They actually mentioned a lot of health benefits for playing games and how gamers are doing better with social skills (because they socialize the whole time while playing online, how they have better visual skills (some new research found out that gamers were able to get better vision and were able to identify some shades of colors better than people who don't play at all). It also showed that people who play games more deal better with mental illnesses and defeat depression faster than non-gamers. All in all I think that we are just great after all not like the old myths say "games are just for people who don't care about their health" or "if you play too much you will get sick easily" or even "if you play games too much you will end up being depressed and alone" but I guess these articles are proving them all wrong. I honestly started thinking about that topic since my mom was bugging me every single day about playing and asking me to "get an actual life instead of a fake one" but I am very sure it is not as bad as she thinks it is. So here it is, a post that you can show your mom when she calls you out for playing too much XD. Needless to say, everyone needs to find a proper job, to study, to meet friends, to spend some time with their families… you know, all the usual things that are usually done to keep a stable life, but this post is here to just tell you that it's ok to play moderately because it is not harmful and it's fun ^^. Peace out.

[Rising-Sun]

Yes and no, there some that are overweight, this help them to focus on multi-tasking rather than eating too much. Its good to work on reflex and multi-tasking, but some people out there can get vertigo sooner than others. Like those VR headsets, most adults and older people cant handle that well. But for youngsters have build up resistance to get use to it.

As long take a break regularly, whenever you feel dizzy, just simple take a break. Some cant handle long term games, such as War in the Pacific: AE on grand campaign, some can only do short scenarios instead.

I have both this PC and PS4 Pro, when i need to get off this PC, sometimes i roll back on a sofa to play on PS4 Pro. But for that VR Headset i have, Vive Cosmos, was the most expensive hardware i ever bought for a PC and i cant use it due to serious vertigo at my age. I cant even return it for refund.

[LarryP]

Gaming has helped keep my sanity. Although that could be debatable I guess...

[Rising-Sun]

ORIGINAL: LarryP

Gaming has helped keep my sanity. Although that could be debatable I guess...

Also help me to stay out of troubles too lol, learning new things, etc.

[MrsWargamer]

I'd be gaming a lot more if I wasn't so obsessed with making models.

[LarryP]

I remember a female judge on TV about twenty years ago, I can't remember her name now, but she really got down on men that play video games. It was that popular judge that paved the way for others at that time. She's rich now from it. Anyways, she thought of anyone that played video games to be fat and lazy. I'm sure there are plenty of that type, but I have never known any like that. All the games that I play exercise my mind, and my health issues keep me down whether I play a game or pick my nose. I pick games... [X(]

Judge Judy? She had an east coast (in the USA) slang, kind of short too.

[ThomasJay]

Well anything can be bad for your health if done to excess. Don't know your personal circumstances but if your mom is bugging you everyday to get a real job instead of pretending to have one in a game maybe things are a little out of balance?

There is plenty of legit evidence for health benefits from gaming, though I'd question multiplayer games developing social skills. For me personally, flight and sailing simulators helped me regain depth perception and hand-eye coordination after a stroke. And wargaming along with the reading that goes along with whatever I'm playing undoubtedly keeps my mind sharper than it might otherwise be.

[Rising-Sun]

ORIGINAL: ThomasJay

Well anything can be bad for your health if done to excess. Don't know your personal circumstances but if your mom is bugging you everyday to get a real job instead of pretending to have one in a game maybe things are a little out of balance?

There is plenty of legit evidence for health benefits from gaming, though I'd question multiplayer games developing social skills. For me personally, flight and sailing simulators helped me regain depth perception and hand-eye coordination after a stroke. And wargaming along with the reading that goes along with whatever I'm playing undoubtedly keeps my mind sharper than it might otherwise be.

Interesting, kinda opposite for me. Since i like getting into wargames, learning things about WWII in the Pacific when i was a kid. Over the years started to get into more complex stuffs, i dont play video games, like those typical ones, just like something that is more complex and steep learning curves. For me, wasnt good around people due to social mental issues, something happen to me when i was so little and started to learn doing things on my own.

Many things online, esp games i can learn from. But that is not easy to find, due to many silly, boring video games. I finally found some peace here, keep me busy for a long time. I do take a break time to time to get into something different or short trips in these previous games i have played.

[Lobster]

When playing war games I always look into the history of what I am playing to get some background on what is happening. I've learned much over the decades regarding history that I would have never bothered with if I didn't play the games. It has made me realize how many war games people say are the greatest ever are really not. They might be fun but are far from historic. Some are no more realistic than Hearts of Iron or Company of Heroes. The setting is historic but it ends there.

And maybe people are unhealthy when playing games because someone is in the background stressing them out about playing games. [:D]

[Orm]

Yes, gaming is unhealthy compared to a lot of healthy activities that could be done instead. Yet, in reality, those healthy activities were usually not any alternatives. The realistic alternatives, I suspect, would be partying, drinking, watching TV, and so on. So, I think, gaming is quite a healthy alternative. [:)]

[ncc1701e]

It is a way for me to relax from my stressing job.

[zakblood]

spam soon to be removed same as your account

[Jim D Burns]

Gaming has helped keep my sanity. Although that could be debatable I guess...

Gaming probably kept me from becoming an alcoholic. When I worked as a police officer, I'd get off work late at night and found it impossible to simply go home and put my head on a pillow to drift off to sleep due to all the intense stuff the shift had brought that night. So I started hanging out at the local cop bar to decompress after shift and it became a bit of a habit. Once I recognized this habit forming is when I first started delving into PC gaming as an alternative to the drinking sessions after work (up to this point social board wargaming with friends is all I did). There is not a lot else to do at 2-6 AM (cop bars close up and lock their doors at 2 AM and then stay open privately for cops due to our late shifts), so AI opponents on the PC helped me to stay out of the bar. I know a lot of cop friends who didn't game and many developed drinking problems down the road. So PC gaming saved me from that kind of grief in life, or at least I tend to think so as I had been spending way too much time in the bar prior to that.