How RPGs influence people. Options

[Eldar]

Last night i was a bit drunk i got all philosophic about games, specially how rpgs affect us, i mean are we like other people ? we always have a dragon, an elf, swords and magic in our mind, others dont.

Do you people think rpgs make us more creative ? more violent ? less social ?..... you get the idea.

Peronally i think they make us much more creative than the average folk.

[milanius]

[quote=MerGirl]Like everyone else, I think RPG's make you more creative and more into characters and stuff. You know, actually caring for the plot kind of deal. I think some RPG's make some people more social (like EQ and Phantasy Star Online).

It really depends on what kind of RPG's you are used to, I guess.

(Oh, I, myself am really ant-social unless I'm with small kids, friends or talking online. With Phantasy Star Online, I play off-line by myself or with my sisters, so yeah, RPG's didn't help my socialness at all.... Maybe if there weren't so many jerks/pervs online, and that they would get rid of the online fees... )

So RPG's= creativity[/quote]

MMORPG = A Pain In The A**
RPG = Phantasy. And Dreams. Your dreams.
Before Morrowind I never thought that some game will make a serious impact on me, and although I can be a violent player (toward NPC's and everything in-game, general) I always held up the "Live & Let Live" motto... but then MW came and I was just sweeped by it's story, it's atmosphere, it's poetry... it's everything. If it wasn't so I wouldn't be here, typing this, saying that TES 3: Morrowind is probably one of 5 greatest phantasy role playing games ever made by a group of people. I am eternaly grateful to everyone at Bethesda for making it like that; most of the games have some feeling of crudeness and unfinished-ness to them - MW doesen't have that. It is a masterpiece from top to bottom.

p.s.: About that violence remark - I never made a single killing spree in MW and never will - it just wouldn't seem right to me.