r/videogames • u/Syarafuddyn • 5h ago

Image / Video Bro is speaking facts here 💯

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u/Adrenalinx4 5h ago

It engages your brain in different ways just like reading does in different ways

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u/ArboristTreeClimber 4h ago

I’m currently playing Pathfinder and it’s basically an RPG with a fantasy novel combined! A lot of reading in that game

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u/jeanborrero 3h ago

No joke, I’d argue reading snes jrpg games improved my reading as a kid

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u/Aboreric 3h ago

Same. I played a lot of games that had a lot of reading, and it had me at "Black" reading level by 5th grade (We had one of those color coded reading systems in our school library) and black was college level lol. I don't think I'm particularly that smart, but I did spend a ton of hours reading games with a dictionary nearby or driving adults in my life nuts with "what does this word mean?"

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u/deathblossoming 1h ago

I learned English as a kid by playing games with subtitles.

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u/LalafellDisaster 2m ago

It definitely did for me, but I was also reading Dean Koontz books in middle school because my authoritarian parents kept grounding me.