The Positive Effects of Playing Video Games

             Today there are many kinds of video games played by people. Playing a video game is a fun activity and can be playing in everywhere. A lot of people think that playing video games only gives negative effects. They believe that, playing video game spends a lot of time and money. In fact, there are at least three positive effects of playing video game in terms of language, teamwork, and reduce stress.

            The first, playing video game can make us easy to understand the language. We can learn about new vocabularies and also how to pronounce the words because we see and listen them whenever we are playing video game. For example, ‘Black’, war games, we can learn vocabularies about war such as commander, troops, retreat, defend and many more. We can make a note, remember and try to pronounce it those vocabularies, by ourselves or with our friends. Another example is myself, when I was at Vocational High School, I took machinery major, but later I chose English Literature because I was interested in game and the language. I see the words, usually with the picture and know their meaning. For example in the game Tomba 2, there are ‘Fisherman Village’ words. That game shows the village which has many people with them hook are fishing in the river.  Thus, I knew the words ‘Fisherman Village’ by seeing it and guessing the meaning.

The second, some video games teaches teamwork such as in war game, ‘Sniper Ghost Warrior’. In this game, we have a mission to kill all enemies silently as a sniper, so we have to communicate with our commander or other players. We plan the strategy from the start until we finish the game. When I am attacking the base camp of the enemies, another player protect behind me. It is useful when I join Legato, English Organization. I must work and communicate with other members, so the event will be successful. When I was leader, I must organize clearly my members by communicating and monitoring them. I asked the progress what my members did. Playing video game can make us understand the importance aspect of teamwork and learn about it. Thus we can apply it in the real life.

The last effect of playing video games can reduce stress. We can play the games by ourselves or with our friends. For example, when we get stress or bored with our exercises or something, we can make football competition in Pro Evolution Soccer and try to win all competition. We have a competition with 8 competitor. We have to win all the games from beginning until the final. It is very enjoyable to try to be a champion. Even though, we lose in that game, we still feel enjoyable. It can make us forget our problems at the moment.

In a nut shell, playing video games is a fun activity and bringing some positive effects. The first is playing video game can make us understand the language easily and enrich our vocabularies; the second is video games teaches us about teamwork, and the last effect is playing video game can reduce stress. Besides, if you want to improve your skill in English language, you should study hard at least listening, reading, speaking and also writing.

By: Agung Bimo Baskoro

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