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[West Texas CEO]

Have you ever learned any real-world skills from playing games? I’ve learned a couple.

-Playing MMOs taught me a lot of people skills.

-I learned how to type ridiculously fast playing MUDs when I was younger.

-Saving money is a skill I’ve helped to hone through playing GTA Vice City.

All of the above have helped me with school first, and later work. What about the rest of you?

 

[Maddoxswe]

Yes, to roll when i’m in a fight.

 

[Paasei]

I learned how to respawn.

 

[Zheph]

Charging attacks to maximise damage

 

[Nankatsu]

-Saving money is a skill I’ve helped to hone through playing GTA Vice City.

OP never bought guns on Vice City.

 

[TintoConCasera]

English. I think any ESL kid that wanted to beat this shit had to either learn english or fuck off:

I also learned about computers and coding thanks to my love for games, and now I make a living out of that so yeah, thanks videogames!

EDIT:

oh shit, strategy games! who hasn't learned a few history beats from playing Age of Empires?

also, Yakuza 6 taught me about baseball.

 

[Dacvak]

Absolutely I have. I played competitive Melee for around 20,000 hours, and I continued to have noticeably faster reaction times and better hand-eye coordination the more I played. Turns out that fast-paced intense games like that are a sharp exercise for the prefrontal cortex and aid in quick decision making and executive functions.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still a dipshit. But I’m a quick dipshit.

 

[lughnasadh123]

Yes, persuasion skills are maxed out explaining to others why I should be gaming instead of doing (blank).

 

[ReBurn]

Is sitting in the same place and barely moving for 18 hours a skill?

 

[BouncyFrag]

Morrowind taught me to honor the Sixth House and the tribe unmourned.

 

[Danknugz]

yes, don't waste your life with horrible boring games.

 

[Fahdis]

Yea, taking a shit with distractions is better without.

 

[_Ex_]

Countless times. Just a few examples:

Learned a lot about how aviation works through flight simulators.
Learned orienteering fairly well via Miasmata.
Learned how to play chess via chess video games.
Learned lots of geography via the Carmen Sandiego games.
Leisure Suit Larry series taught me what women are really like.

 

[Skifi28]

I know what I'm doing next time I find myself facing an enemy crab in real life.

 

[Topher]

Because of video games I've learned more about mergers and acquisitions than I ever dreamed.

 

[ReBurn]

OP never bought guns on Vice City.

That's what cheat codes were for

 

[DelireMan7]

My English and especially vocabulary definitely gained from videogames.

I am working in a non English speaking country but at my work, we are speaking English. Often I "impress" my colleagues with some English words( from non worked discussion) I know from videogames.

I like to think that my years on Warcraft 3 developed my multitasking.

 

[AJUMP23]

Probably better hand eye coordination, but I was well rounded as a child and I learned most life skills from my parents.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Im able to perform light surgery on myself thanks to the Trauma Center series.

 

[Dacvak]

Is sitting in the same place and barely moving for 18 hours a skill?

 

[Majormaxxx]

English vocabulary and dogfighting skills, both from playing Chuck Yeager's Air Combat.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Yes, to roll when i’m in a fight.

Didn’t learn that from MMA?

 

[recursive]

Gaming has improved my irl chirps.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Because of video games I've learned more about mergers and acquisitions than I ever dreamed.

 

[ToadMan]

 

[FoxMcChief]

I learned that war never changes.

 

[Exede]

I learned that pickup lines in Hentai games don't work in reality. /s

 

[f~N_CH_1:3:3:3_SushiBoat]

Was a shit student in grade school. Hit OG FF7 hard summer between 5th and 6th grade. Went from less than a 2.0 to honor roll and advanced math. Reading all that dialogue and min maxing stats; pretty sneaky, Square.

Also typing - i cant beleive some scrubs i see these days - and general tech literacy.

Though i honestly feel more of my life skills have made me enjoy and / or learn gaming more haha.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I also learned in MGS4 that war has changed.

 

[Švejk]

Learned how to do a roundhouse as a kid thanks to Double Dragon.

 

[Venom Snake]

I've learned to walk like 2b.

 

[tommib]

I knew where to find the Bed of Chaos when I went to Angkor Wat on holidays.

 

[Guilty_AI]

I learned to keep hoarding everything until i finally find some use for them.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I learned that it’s not ok to grab a man’s junk at the workplace.

 

[ReBurn]

Learned how to do a roundhouse as a kid thanks to Double Dragon.

I used to know a guy who would do Sonic the Hedgehog standing animations when he was standing still. God he was weird.

 

[Shut0wen]

Learned how to play chopsticks on drums because of rock band

 

[Humdinger]

I learned how to argue better by tangling with people on videogame forums. It's actually come in handy in various legally charged work situations.

I'm not sure how much I've learned from videogames themselves. Better eye-hand coordination, probably.

 

[ReyBrujo]

I became way better at English after playing Genesis MUD for over 10 years (my character there is over 1300 days old). And I'm a programmer thanks to games with passwords and the long hours I spent cracking NES password systems years before I had a PC (in Prince Banana, for example, I was kind of able to generate passwords for any level with any weapon and any amount of max hp but my notes had a gap which I didn't understand. So I worked it out until I found a password with a pattern that should work but I hadn't yet catalogued, when I tried it I went straight to the level I thought it would go but with a weapon that I had not yet discovered because the shop that sold it was hidden. I felt like Mendeleiev when he was designing the periodic table and realized there were gaps that must meant there were elements yet to be discovered.

And not even talking about the DS games for practicing and learning Japanese kanji.

 

[El Muerto]

Driving. I play a lot of racing games, and it taught me so much about how different cars actually drive. I scare the shit out of people when i'm driving them around.

 

[Schmendrick]

I pretty much learned the english language`s basics from games before I had it in school.

 

[Skelterz]

I’ve learnt that opting to wear anything light weight give me +2 stealing.

 

[Bond007]

I will always say Gran Turismo.
Played religously from day one when the series started. Taught me so much before i even had a permit. I still view alot through the lense of GT.

After that- Basketball games/Baseball. I am/was a two sport guy all my life and i learned alot about the games(IQ, Movement, rules) through these games growing up.

Im 39 now.

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

i learned English, but its more like disability than skill, because of that i started to use USA part of the internet and it gave me a lot of cancer.

 

[West Texas CEO]

I learned that war never changes.

I also learned in MGS4 that war has changed.

 

[WitchHunter]

Typing in the dark... first words in english, like sword and dragon. otherwise, nothing. And that shows how shallow games are as a medium.

 

[Tarnpanzer]

Yes, speaking ~fluent english as a german by switching to english language in videogames by the age of ~12. I was tired of translating item names in Diablo 2 from english to german and vice versa while trading with other players, so I switched to english. That became a habit for other games after that.

English as a language is neccessary here in germany if you want to work at big corporations who operate internationally. So by starting playing games in english as a kid I now have much better opportunities on the job market and therefore get a better salary.

 

[A.Romero]

I learned English. My younger brother too and he became a professional translator/interpreter without setting foot out of our country, just by playing counter strike 8 hours a day for I don't know how long.
I learned rules for several sports (Chess, Basketball, Soccer and Football).
I learned a lot of history.
I learned about of Japanese culture.
A lot of computer knowledge thanks to playing on PC and troubleshooting back in the mid 90's.

I have learned alot through video games.

 

[poppabk]

The general rules of Basketball, Baseball, Ice Hockey and US Football.

 

[Roxkis_ii]

I've learned to walk like 2b.

I think you need to share your talents with the rest of the class.

 

[LordBlodgett]

I have started several businesses, but that entrepreneurship started when I realized at 10 years old that I could get good deals buying people's consoles and game collections, and then splitting them up and selling them piece by piece. I would never have done that if I was not collecting games. I made over 20k between the age of 10 and 17 doing this, and also ended up with a collection of 22 different consoles and over 3,000 games.

I have a career in IT because my dad got me a PC for gaming when I was 12. This started my passion for PC tinkering, upgrading, optimizing, re-imaging, etc.......

The only reason I know anything about how the rules in most sports work is because of video games (I only played basketball, but I understand pretty much all US sports)

I have great spatial awareness and hand-eye coordination, and I do think video games played a big part in that

This one is silly, but I'm going to Japan this Summer, and for the last year I've been on-off studying Japanese, but also playing through all the Yakuza games. I feel that playing Yakuza in Japanese has helped me in learning some Japanese.