Evolution of Video Games
Ted always amazes me all the time with it’s brilliant guest speakers. This time, David Perry, who is a game designer, made a magnificant speech about the evolution of video games.
From generation to generation, video games changed alot. It became more realistic, educational, and more entertaining. Everyone remembers the old classic ping pong game on their TV. From then on, the gaming industry expanded a lot. In our modern society, gaming became so realistic that the line separating the virtual world from the physical world, became increasingly thin.
There is a game called World of Warcraft. This game is popular to every teenagers, and even the adults. Believe it or not, the average gaming age is 30. The game itself is so addicting that people are willing to pay monthly to play this game. Also, people are also willing to pay an outrageous amount of the real money for the virtual island in the game. This is how the intensity of the gaming industry grew. People want to spend more money on their video game entertainment, rather than spending their money on real life.
Video games became awfully realistic. People will now feel like they can fly an airplane, snowboard, drive F1, take away another person’s life, etc. This is what the video game is doing to the modern people. Some people actually said that they were able to learn how to drive their car because of the video game.
Is this what we really want? Do we really want to live in a virtual society, where things you do doesn’t really happen? Do we want to live in a fake world, where you can be anyone you want and do anything you want to do, rather than living in a real world? If this is what we really want, our lives will be just like the ones in the movie “The Matrix”, where people’s mind roams around the virtual society, not knowing that their life is fake not real.
