Like it or not gaming is an emerging new way of entertainment with more and more time spent. Do you have a game that make you think or learn something?

what I'm going to do here is to create a thread to share a wisdom from it aside from the fun factor.
To make the discussion not only meaningful but fun for you, I am giving away Steam Code for sharing posts :)

Avernum escape from the pit
Dungeon Defender Collection - SalarShushan
Defense Grid - Nightblair

Let me start with mine, one of the game I played is maple story (many years ago). While it has a large grinding / repetitive leveling up element, it teach me to be persistent - Keep Killing monster and you get level up or exciting "job advancement" later.

Sometimes, I think why In real life I did not simply keep working hard like the game and become an expert later.

UPDATE:
Pick SalarShushan for the first game give away, congrat!
Pick Nightblair for the second game give away, congrat!

Respectfully, I wouldn't call that wisdom.

Some tasks merit persistence, and in the end yield satisfaction and value. Maple Story, however, is a mindless grind that gains you essentially nothing. Recognizing whether a task is worthy of your persistence might be wisdom. Spending your effort without thought is not.

Excellent idea for a thread, Muttala.

Max Payne 2:

"Max Payne: [narrating] Vlad was right. There are no choices. Nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask 'Why me?' and 'What if?' when you look back, see the branches, like a pruned bonsai tree, or a forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn't be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366758/quotes

Too many good quotes that are pushing you to think, so just read them. MP2 was truly special with his noir setting, that was straight from a Chandler novel. And the lines, the lines were something else...

"Endure. In enduring, grow strong."



Not in but +1

I have to confess, while I always considered myself well learned in human history, I'm constantly picking up little tid bits from games like Empire Earth and AOE. While the missions have zero in the way of realism or accuracy the notes before and after are actually halfway decent accounts of certain battles and certainly read better than your average text book.

i mean this in pure honesty, the good guys always win, unless its in real life.
damn its a hard lesson to learn that black and white doesnt exist!

Definitely this. I was a teen when I played AoE2:AoK, and I actually impressed my history teacher with my knowledge of Frederick I Barbarossa and his crusade, Genghis Khan and others. The textbooks weren't as detailed, and people were only getting used to the Internet, but I still didn't want to tell her I learned all that from a computer game. :/

What you can get from games? Well at first glance it is not much... But here is what I've got:

as a child:
- I've learned lot about English.
- Basic economy stuff.
- Basic programming skills.
- General knowledge about various things.

then later:
- I have a job in IT because games brough also knowledge about lot of things in computer in the past.
- I've learned something about tactics and strategy.
- Good reflexes (thanks Unreal Tournament)

Once, I've heard about some research (don't know if valid or not) that one group was given Tetris to play and other group FPS shooter. They measured their IQ before gaming and after some period of gaming.
These with FPS had better results than tetris players on the later IQ test ;)

Not in but here are two wisdoms from a game I recently played. Have to write them from memory so sorry if they're not 100% correct.

Fortune Cookie 1:
"Sex is like Bridge. If you don't have a good partner you better have a great hand."

Fortune Cookie 2:
"Light is faster then sound. Many people look brilliant before you hear them speak."

I'm not in, unfortunately, because I use only GOG.

Anyway, even if I'd never call wisdom something related to games, I think that they had been useful for obtaining:
- some logic skills and creative thinking from puzzles and adventure games.
- some eye\hand reflexes\coordination from various action games.
- more pc skills, really! (at least in the past)
- a bit of multitasking
- in my case, some help learning english :)

Games weren't, instead, useful for these:
- learning things from rare boring edu games and mostly wrong info from all the rest.
- understanding that playing too much causes health and social problems :\

My first 'real' game was Civilisation 3, and it was amazing how my history lessons suddenly started making sense after playing it. I was able to understand not just what the rulers and countries did, but why.

Shadow Warrior's cookies of fortune gave me much wisdom:
"Man who fart in church sit in own pew."
"Courtesy is contagious. So is Gonorrhea"
"Having sex its like playing bridge,If you dont have a good partner,you better have a good hand."

Braid maybe.. That quote it's just awesome!!!!!
here is another one:
""There's two types of people. Those who spend their lives trying to build the future. And those who spend their lives trying to rebuild the past."

Here is another one but from legacy of kain
"But does one ever truly have a choice? One can only match, move by move, the machinations of Fate, and thus defy the tyrannous stars.""

Hi, nice topic and thanks for the gifts offered, though I'm not in as I have them.

Wisdom with games.. I think my flashed memory about this comes from Final Fantasy IV back in the 90's on my SNES..

This game made me cry out loud, so emotional, party members sacrificing here and there etc.. It was at the end of the game, something along the lines of, " As long there will be Evil in our hearts.. There will also be Good fighting against it..."

True words of wisdom right there.. Now, I'm getting emotional again err..