A direct benifit of playing Skyrim is that I smoke alot less. Lease say's no smoking in the house. Board person smokes more. I've been a stay at home wife for the past 2 yrs. I'm 42. i've worked since I was 15 ( real jobs anyway) I'm not used to having 8 to 10 hrs of "free time". I can read a book outside, I can even play on the puter outside, benifit of wi-fi. But I can't play Skyrim outside( x-box). Less than 2 hrs of my day is taken up with "house cleaning" and animal care. maybe 3 hr's of the day cooking different meals ( I cook from scratch).


So basically I think your wrong. A game CAN affect RL even if it's only in a small way. For some it may be in larger way's.

Interesting.

Skyrim hasn`t improved my life at all. If I had never known about it, everything would still be the same.

If one game I would say ever `improved` my life it has to be IL2 Sturmovik, the realistic combat flight simulator. from that game I actually understand how planes generally fly, learned about different types of aircraft and a lot lot more that I never even imagined about flying aircraft and it led me onto FSX which then taught me more.

This had direct implications to real life for me.

In fact, truth is, Skyrim is slowing me down in my work (not good) and I might have to put it on hold to stop this.

Anyone who says video games can't improve your life is full of crap or has a very narrow mind. If not for playing Oblivion on my friend's Xbox when I was 14, followed by playing it and modding it on my PC, I would never have decided to become a game designer. I'm not even a full year into my degree yet but if not for that game I never would have figured out what I want to be doing with my life.

As for Skyrim though? It's entertaining and even keeping me busy for a few hours or letting me blow off some steam after class or work is a life improvement. I'm sure once I get into the CK I'll fall in love with making my own content again.

Skyrim has significantly reduced the amount of time I spend playing video games.

Skyrim hasn't done anything to improve my life.

IDK, I would probably just be sleeping, now I get to play skyrim instead!

If Skyrim didn't improve my life in some small incremental way, I would be doing something else instead. That I'm not doing that something else with my gaming time indicates that that something else is a less valuable use of my recreation time than is Skyrim, so Skyrim clearly improves my life at least to that small degree between the enjoyment I get out of it and the enjoyment I would be getting out of something else instead.

Made me feel sixier in myself

Nope. Whilst skyrim is AMAZING. it quiet possibly made my exam marks worse.

It's a taught me a valuable lesson in never pre-ordering a game again.

Thanks to Skyrim I violated my duty of homework and thus scored one hell of a bad score in my biology test. Which is bad, since I aim to become a biologist in my life.

Yea, it`s important to know your priorities.

Playing games is nice, but you don`t want to have written on your tombstone `I was a great gamesplayer.`

Don`t think that`ll impress anyone. If playing a game means so much it becaomes a `life` thing then they really need to get out more or find something more worthwhile (in real life) to do besides just games.

Playing games should be done with moderation, as with everything.

OMG this game is so broke and your giving up real life things for it. WTF is wrong with you people??? A non bugged, crash ridden title souldn't take away you from living life, let alone this junk title. Do yourselves a favor an get a clue. Your better then this.

It gave me something to do for awhile.

U mad, bro?

I was going to say "Me too!" but then I realized you weren't talking about porm.

It improved my life by not being as good as I hoped it would be, so now I spend more time doing things other than obsessing over Skyrim, like reading, exercising, going for a 2nd degree... oh who am I kidding, I just play other games, but at least I have variety!

At least until some killer conversion mods come out.

LOL if anything it's detracted from my life...

So many hours wasted in a computer game when I could've been out in the world socialising with mates, meeting new people, working on my business, spending time with family, doing sh1t around the house, catching up on sleep and that's just off the top of my head!

Don't get me wrong, it's an entertaining game, but to say it's improved my life is an absolute joke.

skyrim has made me not care about my social phobia and my non existent life, nor my depression, ocd or chronic fatigue. it has however worsened my substance abuse issues

Well, it made me stop exercising, eat more, and spend lots of time in front of a TV.

If anything it just made me go back to BEFORE all those efforts I made during the summer.
But anyways, I never thought I'd say this of a Beth game but it's just starting to get old anyways. I'm probably gonna be ENTIRELY done with it before summer arrives

Skyrim has improved my life because it's inspired me to make art again, which I hadn't been doing for awhile.

I wasn't aware I had purchased a self help RPG... Or is this some kind of cult?

I dunno if I'd take it as a self help RPG or a "cult".

I mean, when you listen to your favourite music, does that not inspire you or drive you? When you're at the gym or jogging or mellowing out, does it not have an effect on you? Was music released to be self help? I know when I listen to music, it can get ideas flowing, can make me happy, sad, excited - anything.

When Wolfenstein 3D was released, was that created to be a self help shooter? But that's what it most likely ended up doing in an odd way. Heaps of developers out there saw that and thought they'd want to create the next one, but better.

One thing that applies to me - I saw a photo of a Triumph Daytona on the net. As soon as I saw that motorbike - I wanted it. I had never ridden a motorbike before, but I got out there, got my motorbike license, got a 250cc motorbike and worked my way up to a Daytona. Love the bike, it's my escape from everything. To hit the road and have (to me) absolute freedom is awesome. There isn't really a feeling like it. To go from 0 to 100km/h in 3 seconds is unreal. There are bikes that go faster, but there is something about a Daytona I really like, the handling, the looks, it's a unique bike in the world of motorbikes. I went on a massive road trip around New Zealand on a bike (that was on a 250 though). All of this stemmed from that one photograph.

I guess how I see it - Skyrim (and any game) are artforms that can inspire people to be better. I play Skyrim and I see the art in it, I see some cool story telling. And it makes me want to write. For some odd reason. Dunno why, just thought I'd want to try it. Tried it in the past, gave up, this has just inspired me to try again.

I highly doubt the game was released as a self help RPG (obviously), I don't play the game to help myself. I play the game because I enjoy playing it. Would I play Skyrim or be on my bike? I'd pick being out on the road anyday.

So self help? Maybe. Very loosely.
Cult? No way.

Anyways, that's the way I see it, plenty of other views on it, but it's a source of ideas and inspiration. Crikeys, a beer coaster designed a certain way can be inspiration or trigger an idea.

Yeah I am thankful for another TES Game. I don't have to listen or read all the drama B.S. on the internet or think about the crap going on in this world for awhile.

Sir, the only video game that ever improved my life was Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey.