Personally I believe we play games to escape from our daily lives. To find something that we could never experience normally. Look at Skyrim for example. How many of us will go around killing dragons and shooting fireballs out of our hands? Pretty sure no one can. It is this feeling of the surreal that I believe leads us to sit and spend hours immersed in a game chipping away at the story line desperate to know the next part of the adventure.
We as humans crave the extra ordinary. We love to find new ways of completing tasks or discovering new things because humans an inquisitive by nature. Games nurture this, they help us evolve this understanding and desire for knowledge. Even on a day to day basis we still make goals for ourselves and gamify things, so to speak. In the gym we try to 'level up' our muscles, in the library we try to 'level up' our intelligence...well this is how I see it but that's cause I am a nerd and enjoy games and putting them into my daily life. Anyway! I believe that games are so popular because they are a release for our creative juices and give us a way to express ourselves in our own little way. There are games that inspire us to go out and try new things, games that help us bond with friends and family, games that make us strive for that perfect 100% score and then there are games that make us want a zombie apocalypse so we can run around with chainsaws and brawling with the undead. Just normal gaming stuff really.
Regardless of what games a person likes they will always find some solitude in sitting there in their own little bubble, away from the world they know, and into their own adventure. This is why we play games. To experience the sensation of being somewhere else, to have the feeling of freedom of creativity and in the end. To have fun!
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