After watching the TED Talks video with Jane McGonigal, I have really thought a lot about if video games could actually solve real world problems. In my own opinion, I don't think that they can. Sure, that "epic win" can totally hype you up and boost your confidence in things, but how is that going to help our world and its problems? To solve real world problems, you need to be able to solve very complex problems. You just aren't going to do that by playing Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto all day. In order to solve real world problems you would have to play complex games that mirror the reality that we live in now.
Some of our real world problems anyways is that we spend too much time playing video games. People are exercising less, and playing games more. Wouldn't it be better to go play outside or do something else productive in your life than sit around and play video games? Read a book instead on Global Warming or Colony Collapse Disorder. Those are the real world problems, and you definitely won't find those in any type of video game. Another issue I have is that while spending all of your time playing video games, you aren't interacting face to face with other human beings, so you are losing social skills. If everyone spent all of their time on video games, we wouldn't know what to do when we came face to face with someone else. It would make life awkward. If you can't socially interact with anyone, how would you really solve real world issues anyways? There needs to be a happy medium between video games and living your life outside of them.
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