Picking Your Perfect Game: The Guide
Written by Maazina Ishtiaq
HOW TO PICK YOUR PERFECT GAME: THE GUIDE
Within human nature, we experience certain emotions simply by looking at a combination of lines, shapes, and colours. This is where your own intuition stands out, and you alone assess which images are deemed beautiful, terrifying, intriguing, and so on. It is important to remember that each person follows their own nature.
When you play a game, you immerse yourself in a virtually generated world—a world that is perfectly engineered to enhance the stimulus-and-reaction relationship in our brains.
The study of combining different sights, sounds, and sensations in perfect synchronisation is constantly evolving alongside the development of the metaverse. They work together to provide thousands of 10/10 gaming experiences perfectly tailored to the human brain.
The link between ergonomics and immersion is constantly shifting as technology advances. There is an entire niche genre of immersive games that is poised to revolutionise the gaming world.
The beauty of having nearly a billion variations of games is that there are hundreds made just for you! However, finding them can be a hit-or-miss process.
Firstly, understanding the difference between simulation and tactical gaming, as well as acknowledging the range of experiences that games can offer, is crucial.
✰ Exploration
✰ Personalisation
✰ Unit control—consider more elements
✰ Clear ending
✰ Team-based
✰ On-the-spot decision-making
✰ Continuous gameplay
Of course, the best games often overlap in these areas. Think of it as a weighing scale; you may gravitate to a certain level without realising it.
If this is your first time gaming, identify which column (simulation vs. tactical) you prefer, pick a game that makes you go "ooOO," and just play it. In reality, there is no such thing as a perfect game. The objective of gaming as a whole is to stimulate the reward centre in your brain to release dopamine. This is where trends emerge, with similar personality types being drawn to similar games. For example:
Extroverts may be attracted to multiplayer games such as shooters, co-ops, sports, and competition-heavy rewards.
On the other side of the spectrum, introverts enjoy indie puzzle games, tycoons, and RPGs.
If you are naturally an emotional person, you're more likely to find calm and solitude within gaming and be drawn towards the "cozy games" genre, which includes The Sims, Animal Crossing, Sky, etc. Meanwhile, more impassive people might prefer shooters and action games.
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You may enjoy ethereal, otherworldly visuals compared to old-school arcade games. With the continuous development of immersive gaming, you can find any virtual or meta-world to dive into.
Loving a game is an extremely fun but lengthy process; it’s important to treat it as a hobby. The more undisturbed hours of gameplay, the larger the impulse grows within the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which can lead to a depletion of decision-making and judgment in real life—a literal definition of "brain rot." So, hydrate and have fun.
Overall, it’s best to have one trusty, forever game that you can always return to and improve upon, while also playing other games to test which combination of mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics makes a game impossible for you to put down!
