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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t