“What videogames have taught me is that if you are fighting enemies on your journey you’re heading the right way”(Bill Murray). Games challenge humans and inspire them to be better. By doing this games make humans stronger, smarter and healthier. Games give humans something to aspire to and make them do things they would not have thought possible. Therefore games are beneficial to society in areas such as medicine, therapy,and learning.
Games are beneficial in medicine by distracting the mind, thus producing an effect like a pain killer. This effect is useful, because in many patients pain killers are not enough to significantly dampen the pain perceived by the individual. This is remedied by distracting the centers of the brain normally …show more content…
Some of the problems with physical therapy are, that it is boring and painful. Games can also be used away from a facility, and don't usually require a lot of specialised equipment. In addition, games are fun and easy to use, even small children would be willing to, or even want to do therapy. Gaming devices like the Wii, strengthen weak muscles, thus reducing the cost of therapy which is currently very expensive. This would probably lower the cost of therapy significantly because lots of special equipment would be rendered …show more content…
For the test the hero could fight a boss or fight a major battle. If the student wanted to review a lesson they could go back and review a level. If the student wanted help, it would be easy to contact the teacher or get help from other students. Students that are more advanced can easily jump ahead in subjects while the students that need help can easily get it. Other ways students could interact is by challenging each other in various subjects. This probably increases productivity many times over as the students would study to challenge each other and become the best in that subject. As the students fight more and more they gradually get smarter and smarter until they all display a mastery in that subject.
In conclusion games are incredibly important to human society. Playing challenge humanity, then games improve on it. Games make humans stronger, smarter, and healthier. Therefore games are beneficial to human society in areas such as medicine, therapy, and
Games are beneficial in medicine by distracting the mind, thus producing an effect like a pain killer. This effect is useful, because in many patients pain killers are not enough to significantly dampen the pain perceived by the individual. This is remedied by distracting the centers of the brain normally …show more content…
Some of the problems with physical therapy are, that it is boring and painful. Games can also be used away from a facility, and don't usually require a lot of specialised equipment. In addition, games are fun and easy to use, even small children would be willing to, or even want to do therapy. Gaming devices like the Wii, strengthen weak muscles, thus reducing the cost of therapy which is currently very expensive. This would probably lower the cost of therapy significantly because lots of special equipment would be rendered …show more content…
For the test the hero could fight a boss or fight a major battle. If the student wanted to review a lesson they could go back and review a level. If the student wanted help, it would be easy to contact the teacher or get help from other students. Students that are more advanced can easily jump ahead in subjects while the students that need help can easily get it. Other ways students could interact is by challenging each other in various subjects. This probably increases productivity many times over as the students would study to challenge each other and become the best in that subject. As the students fight more and more they gradually get smarter and smarter until they all display a mastery in that subject.
In conclusion games are incredibly important to human society. Playing challenge humanity, then games improve on it. Games make humans stronger, smarter, and healthier. Therefore games are beneficial to human society in areas such as medicine, therapy, and