"Not now I'm saving the world, Son"

The article WII Shall Overcome brought up some vey very interesting ideas. The first one that I thought was interesting was having video games have a specific and meaningful purpose. Many people today believe what they are doing in the video game has real meaning, I think many people play video games to give themselves a sense of worth that they may not be getting somewhere else, like in their own home. If we could develop video games that actually have a true meaning people could feel better about them selves and have a real reason for doing so. The problem is what types of games could have a real meaning? The closest game I could think of that has real purpose is the WII FIT; you can set goals for yourself, such as weight loss, flexibility increase, and workout duration. These types of goals have real purpose, which can help an individual live longer and live healthier. The problem is that people already think that what there doing does have real purpose. The best example I can remember of this is a quote I heard one of my friends father say. As we walked in the living my friend said “hey dad”, without any other words being spoken his father replied “not now son, I’m saving the world.” What was he really doing? Playing the newest version of Call Of Duty, while he may have not really believed that what he was doing had an actual impact on the world, I think some people do. Young people today believe that there video game playing makes them ready for the real world, and the only solution I can think of is to have the video games they play teach them about the real world or have real world effect.