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    Positive and Negative Effects of Video Games

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    Video games can have both positive and negative effects on players. Some potential negative effects include increased aggression and violence from graphic or violent games. Games can also be addictive and cause players to neglect other responsibilities. However, video games also provide benefits like improved problem-solving skills, patience, hand-eye coordination, and the ability to make new friends. While moderation is important to avoid negative impacts, overall video games seem to have more potential benefits than drawbacks if played in a balanced way.

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    Positive and Negative Effects of Video Games

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    Video games can have both positive and negative effects on players. Some potential negative effects include increased aggression and violence from graphic or violent games. Games can also be addictive and cause players to neglect other responsibilities. However, video games also provide benefits like improved problem-solving skills, patience, hand-eye coordination, and the ability to make new friends. While moderation is important to avoid negative impacts, overall video games seem to have more potential benefits than drawbacks if played in a balanced way.

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    Video games can have both positive and negative effects on players. Some potential negative effects include increased aggression and violence from graphic or violent games. Games can also be addictive and cause players to neglect other responsibilities. However, video games also provide benefits like improved problem-solving skills, patience, hand-eye coordination, and the ability to make new friends. While moderation is important to avoid negative impacts, overall video games seem to have more potential benefits than drawbacks if played in a balanced way.

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    Positive and Negative Effects of Video Games

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    Video games can have both positive and negative effects on players. Some potential negative effects include increased aggression and violence from graphic or violent games. Games can also be addictive and cause players to neglect other responsibilities. However, video games also provide benefits like improved problem-solving skills, patience, hand-eye coordination, and the ability to make new friends. While moderation is important to avoid negative impacts, overall video games seem to have more potential benefits than drawbacks if played in a balanced way.

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    Positive and Negative Effects of Video Games

    Before we start, I assume everyone of you have played a video games at least once right? Well unless
    you’re living under the rock, you may have at least saw one games specially in this age where
    everywhere you look you will see a technology. Slaying monsters, car chasing with criminals, saving the
    planet, robbing someone’s house, even fighting with your own friend. I think you can only experience all
    of it by playing video games.

    Today I will inform you how video games can help us in developing personality and the positive and
    negative effects of it.

    I will tell you first what are the negative effects and the solution for it and then the positive effects and
    the abilities that you can gain from it and last I will answer the question “Is Video Games Good or Bad
    for us”

    Now that confirm that each one of you has knowledge on video games let’s now proceed to the
    negative effects of video games.

    In this era where the game industry’s competition is making a better graphics for games and making it as
    realistic as possible. These R-18 games sometimes have no censorship and may also look realistic
    depending on the graphics. Because of this, the player may see something that will disturb them like
    Killing Games, Gore Games or other Violent Games. And these days I know that there are games that is
    about sex but I’m sure that children will probably have no chance of getting those kinds of game. Why?
    because just before the game start there is always a warning and a description of what kind of game it is
    and at the back of the game cover there are warning and recommended age for the game.

    Another Negative Effect is it will lead to game addiction and pathological gaming, Base on what I
    researched, because of being addicted to game, the gamers are likely to develop anxiety, social
    isolation, loneliness and some will probably use games to escape reality. I think that parents should
    always guide the children on playing games and talk to them and making sure that they shouldn’t spoil
    the child with just games

    Neglecting other things in life is also one of the cons of playing video games and I am guilty in this case,
    when I’m doing something important I will do it at start but then I’ll take a break by playing games and
    once I started playing I always say to myself that just one more game or I’ll just finish this level but it still
    took me hours and sometimes I neglect what I should be doing and just keep on playing. Another
    example is when my friends asked me to hang out I sometimes reject them and said that I’m going
    somewhere or I have something important to do but the truth is I’m just at home playing. As a gamer I
    always spend my day by playing games and even I know that it’s bad for me so the only solution that I
    can think of or this is I should limit my time in playing games and I should manage my time, do what’s
    important first and finish it then play if you manage to find a free time and also don’t just stay at home
    and neglect you’re friends, hang out with them sometimes.

    There are other negative effects of video games but I’m pretty sure all of it have solution for it so now
    let’s look on the brighter side

    There are many things video games thought me and one of them is patience, Video games really
    improved my patience because some of the video games that I played required it, Like farming games
    that need to wait days to harvest what I farm or these JRPGS that requires a hundred or two of hours to
    finish. And also, years ago, we had a really slow internet and these video games that is updating or
    downloading took days to finish and sometime just when it is about to finish the file will get corrupt and
    I need to download it from the start so it really tests my patience

    I also learned problem solving technique from it, adventure games usually required solving puzzles or
    problems in order to get to another level, I probably cannot apply what I used in games in real life
    problems but at least it increased my thinking capabilities

    Better-Decision Making, when I’m playing mystery-solving games, at first, I always make the wrong
    decision but I always learn from this mistake so that next time, I won’t make the same mistake.

    Critical thinking capabilities, I used to play this game called Danganronpa a visual novel game where
    teenagers are forced to participate in a killing game and you will play as the detective for this game and
    will only be give second to make a decision because of this kind of games, gamer will enhance their
    critical thinking capabilities

    Hand and Eye coordination, this is pretty useful because we learn how to use hands and eyes at the
    same time while doing things that requires fast hands and eyes at the same time, Example of it are
    shooting games, fighting games, RPG games that require proper aiming while staying in position and
    moving from locations to locations

    OK, this may contradict what I said earlier, that gaming will cause social disorder and isolations, some
    will probably experience it but in my case, Games helps me make friends and I’m sure most of us gamers
    does, Here’s a proof, When you go to the library here in mapua you will see groups of students playing
    games in their laptop, They are playing Tekken 7, NBA and many more, and they are a GROUP and the
    are probably friends so I think games didn’t isolate them, games helps them made friends.

    Another example is me and my friends are playing games but we are missing one member so we invited
    random guy. We are playing with voice chat on and this random guy is living in Korea but he’s a Filipino
    and an adult with a wife and a child, Ever since then, we started playing together and sometimes his
    wife joins us and this goes on for years already. See, not only teens but even adults use games as a way
    to relieve their stress, And who would’ve thought that a group of high school students will befriend with
    someone far away and an adult one that is.

    Overall, there are many pros of playing video games like improving moods, quick thinking, dexterity,
    making new friends and improving concentration and I think that we should now decide which really has
    greater effect the positive or the negative?

    If we think about it, there are more on the positive effect than the negative and I think that playing
    video games are good for us because, the negative effects that I said have a solution and a prevention
    while on the positive effects, there are no demerits on having skills that you gained from playing games,
    Overall, We just need proper discipline on playing one and moderation is important

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