The popular view of video games seems to be that they entail someone sitting with a controller in their hands, shooting people on a screen.<\/p>\n
Of course, this is a simplistic view, and there are several other kinds of video games. However, the ones which fit in with a stereotypical idea of what the games entail tend to involve controlling someone’s physical activity in a very simplistic way.<\/p>\n
Many video games<\/strong>, however, are based around a more considered, statistical way of getting to an end goal. It doesn’t fit in with the “rots your brain<\/em>” crowd’s idea of what gaming entails, but never mind.<\/p>\n Sports management simulations are very popular. Perhaps the most popular of all is the soccer management game Football Manager. Unlike a great many sports simulations, at no point in this game do you control a player and choose his immediate path to goal.<\/p>\n Instead, you take all of the duties of a soccer manager and try to create a winning team. You sign players, you choose tactics, you give motivational team talks and you try to analyze the computer-generated opponent to get the best results.<\/p>\n As this game gets developed and updated at least once a year, new elements are added. It is possible to release a statement designed to play mind games with your opponent before a big match, and players who aren’t getting much time on the field will express their disillusionment with you.<\/p>\n It cannot be long before the game develops to a point where you leak stories to the press about players who are annoying you – but there is such a thing as “too realistic”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The popular view of video games seems to be that they entail someone sitting with a controller in their hands, shooting people on a screen. Of course, this is a simplistic view, and there are several other kinds of video games. However, the ones which fit in with a stereotypical idea of what the games entail tend to involve controlling someone’s physical activity in a very simplistic way. Many video games, however, are based around a more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,8,13,10,11,9,7,12],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-video-gaming","tag-cheap","tag-for-kids","tag-free","tag-pokemon","tag-sales","tag-stores","tag-used","tag-wholesale"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichedemosites.com\/Video_Gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}