Board 8 > Have video games helped you read and write?

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I consider myself an above average writer and attribute a large reason of that to playing RPGs throughout my childhood. I never liked to read books but an RPG is essentially a visual novel.

An RPG is not usually a visual novel
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I don't think he means "visual novel" in the video-game-genre sense. I think he means it as the other version of those words. Visual meaning something which can be seen. And novel referencing a well told story, normally consumed in book form.

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Video games have definitely helped me write, they taught me to how to think more critically about what I experience and to analyze every facet of what makes up a particular work, from game design, to music, to the story, etc.

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I think they conditioned me to type and read faster. They didn't impact the quality of my reading and writing though.

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Reading speed and comprehension/vocabulary sure, couldn't hurt. But realize I grew up on the NES and SNES mostly and the quality of the writing there wasn't amazing or anything. I guess you could call PSX/early PS2 part of my later childhood and it ramped up a little there but...

But I also won a ton of spelling bees up through the state level through my HS years so that was probably more significant

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Writing? No not really. Reading? A little bit.

I can attribute my typing speed and skill to early 2000's PC gaming though.

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Even with most RPGs coming from Japan and often having translation issues, they vastly helped me with my grammar, too.

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I'd say computer games and maybe computer use in general helped me learn to read faster. When I was very young they said I had a reading level at least a few grades higher than the one I was in.

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lol definitely not

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My brother learned how to read from video games. I had to read the text from old NES games to him and since he played them so much he learned how to read. (I learned to read when I was two. Freaked my family out)

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Probably not RPGs in my case. My first RPG was Breath of Fire 2, which has a terrible translation. I was already almost a teen at that point, anyway.

That said, playing Wheel of Fortune on the NES at age 5-6 probably didn't hurt, as well as some other game show based games later on like Hollywood Squares and Jeopardy.

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Not so much reading, but I feel like they're a significant influence/inspiration on my creative writing and the way I view characters and plots in general. Like if I'm coming up with a group of characters it's often shaped by RPG party tropes.
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Helped me learn English for sure.

I remember a teacher at an English course I took didn't know what an omen was. I learned it from AoE 2.

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Raka_Putra posted...

I remember a teacher at an English course I took didn't know what an omen was. I learned it from AoE 2.

That's ominous.

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No

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Definitely my vocabulary and maybe reading a little, writing probably not.

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Yeah, as a non-native speaker video games and the internet in general put me way ahead of my classmates in elementary and high school when it came to English.

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I mean I learned a few words I probably would have never learned until years later but I was always a quick reader

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No, but playing RuneScape all these years has made me type faster. I mean, it's not the proper way to type, but I can get out a long message in seconds, and that's all I really care about.

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I was really eager to learn to read as a young child so that I could read video game manuals by myself. That probably helped.

The actual games...probably didn't hurt but I don't think were a major factor.

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Maybe, that would explain why I'm a terrible writer

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Reading as a kid for sure

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absolutely not, but i am glad some games tend to have passable grammar since very little else does these days

Reading definitely

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No, I was already a pretty avid reader and RPGs just fed that desire.