So this is an interesting topic. I know a lot of people who change drastically while they game. It can happen very quickly too, they seem like a different person! See, my personality doesn’t change much while gaming these days, and it may even be because my personality has been influenced and informed by the games I play and enjoy. Dark Souls.Bloodborne certainly helped with my patience and with overcoming failure. Kingdom Hearts sure as hell helped me with my perspective on story writing, those games are a mess in terms of structure and flow but dang do those emotional beats hit.
So what about you guys? Do you change while gaming or in the time after you’ve played a game? To what extent?
While gaming, I tend to get very much into the game. Like in stardew valley i started stalking the characters that I wanted to get together with obsessively, whereas I don’t obsess over crushes like that in real life. Also I tend to become a lot more murder-happy in video games, so… let’s hope that’s very different.
I would imagine it is different, games don’t illicit the same empathetic responses that real life situations with real people do. There’s a part of your brain that’s always keenly aware that a game isn’t real and actions don’t really have consequences.
Whenever I play video games I tend to get way more aggressive than usual and I turn into a f-king monster. Yelling, Kicking, throwing, fliping shiz, and the occasional swearing
My mood changes while gaming because I get so braggadocios and arrgoant about winning the game. It is like I’m not the same me but don’t worry though, I try to keep myself calm in order not to annoy my brother
Ohh but the sims was because it was stressful creating the characters when we had to keep on re doing them over and over again and when we finally finished we didn’t know how to build the house and then you had to go home the next day and we were anticipating to play the game
