{"id":1959,"date":"2020-12-25T22:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T22:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1331965"},"modified":"2020-12-25T22:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T22:00:49","slug":"video-games-change-the-way-you-feel-about-the-world-and-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"Video games change the way you feel about the world \u2014 and yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Beginner\u2019s Guide<\/a> is a narrative video game with no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person whose psyche is slowly unraveling. Along the way, it touches on issues of depression, loneliness, and self-doubt.<\/p>\n

I remember the very moment where it all fell into place and I no longer saw the person as a character, but someone going through the same emotional struggles as me. It felt as if the game held up a mirror and fundamentally shifted how I perceived myself. I had been harboring this constant need for social validation and the desire to find meaning when sometimes there just isn\u2019t any. I didn\u2019t think going into the game that I would come away shaken or with lessons that I still carry with me to this day \u2013 but I did.<\/p>\n

Even before my experience with The Beginner\u2019s Guide, I had been fascinated with games that strive to create challenging experiences. I don\u2019t mean challenging in terms of logic puzzles or twitch reflexes, but experiences that question the way I see, think, or feel about the world, the game, or even myself.<\/p>\n

Games challenge us<\/h2>\n

Some of my favorite games that elicit similar responses are Firewatch<\/a>, a walking simulator where you play as a fire lookout, and Papers Please, a game where you\u2019re an immigration officer for an authoritarian government deciding who can enter. Each offers vastly varying perspective-challenging experiences through player input and mechanics (the systems of rules in the game), allowing for experiences that are unique to gaming.<\/p>\n