Positive and Negative Impacts of Video Games on Individuals

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Video games is a very exciting invention in the electronic media and with the passing time many
advancements has been made in it which has made it more entertaining as well as challenging
(Bourgonjon, Vandermeersche, Wever, Soetaert and Valcke, 2016). Nowadays playing video
games is one of the major part of young people’s life, it can also be counted as a very important
activity in their day to day life. All the graphics and sound effects give the player a real feel
while playing it they can even challenge themselves and the most fascinating thing is that the
player can maneuver or control everything that is happening in the video game thus making it
more exciting and enjoyable (Griffiths, Kuss and Ortiz de Gortari, 2017).
Playing video games has its own benefit and has a positive influence on people to an extent for
instance, playing video games helps improve the decision making skills because whoever is
playing the game has to come up with instant decisions and if the decision was wrong in
previous game then they will come up with improved decision in the next one and that is how
they learn from their mistake and thus coming up with a good decision each time they play the
video game and this is how the player come up with quick and creative decisions in a very short
time interval (Green and Seitz, 2015).
Another plus point is that the video games improve the ability to solve any problem. In a video
game the player is required to reach a final destination from the initial point and during the
whole journey the player has to cross so many hurdle, obstacles or any type of conflicts and to
overcome all these distractions the player needs to solve the problem in a given time limit and
then he or she has to come up with unique solutions to resolve the situation. It is kind of a brain
teaser, hence improving the way one solves problem.
Most of the games are two player games or more and when a player spend time playing with
another player it helps them to socialize more and therefore improving their social skills.
(Granic, Lobel and Engels, 2014). While playing a multiplayer game the former can come across
to so many persons and they might be from the same country or another but eventually they are
meeting on the same level with the help of video games along with improving social skills, the
multiplayer game also provides enriched team work because while playing the multiplayer
games, the person has to play in teams and any decision made while playing has to be made as a
team and therefore give the chance to work as a team.

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Another benefit of playing video game can be increased concentration, while playing the game
the player needs to focus on the game and it’s all aspects that allows the player to play the game
without any distraction and channeling all its concentration power on one thing (Boxer, Groves
and Docherty, 2015). The other benefit from this perspective can be seen in goal setting abilities.
When playing a video game, the player can only complete the game either by reaching the final
destination or by winning any battle no matter what the situation is because in the end player
wants to accomplish his or her goal with the help of different strategies and techniques and
executing them properly to attain the goal.
The player needs to be focused and should have a good hand and eye coordination in such a
video game that includes shooting or the games in which enemies are lurking in the corners. The
players are required to be attentive and keep track of everything happening, at the same time and
this can be achieved with a great coordination of hand and the eye. This ability helps the person
by improving their motor skills and attention skills visually. In such kind of games that needs a
strategy, the player has to flexible and multitasking therefore it develops a good flexibility in
people because they are required to change their tactics and that too quickly and this requires a
lot of mind and with all these kind of games the player or people can learn so many new and
different things, also it is so fascinating to see how video games develop the multitasking skills
in a person and allow him or her to work on their focusing skills.
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Despite of all these positive influences of video games they have so many negative impacts on
the people too, mentioned as follow:
Along with improving motor skills, the shooting games also encourage violence and those who
play such kind of games are more prone to aggressive behaviors, violent thought and feelings
and decrease in socialization can be seen because such kind of violent games leaves a negative
impact on people and people become immune to it with a risk of becoming violent and show
very less or no empathy (Berger, 2017). Because of such games there arises emotional
callousness in people. According to some research it has been concluded that the violent video
game has worsened the nature of kids and also get awarded in many games for being violent and
on the top of that while playing the game people can control everything that is happening around