Good day/evening to you, Steemian, and welcome to my Lutece's weekly shout out post where you'll find some awesome gaming related articles by fellow Steemian. I think I have an idea to differentiate the two posts of this series. Alpha for the Thursday shout out, and Beta for the Sunday. A reference to the timelines of the multiverse in BioShock trilogy. Kewl, right? RIGHT?!
There's more and more people joined OP Gaming Discord and I hope the group will be kewler than it already is. But, if you think that I only pick the posts from the people in the Discord channel that I'm in because it's easy, read the reminder below. Anyway, 4 best gaming posts of this week coming right up!
[EN] Gaming Challenge : Why are the games good ? Four games that have marked my life as a gamer !
by @maeva
How someone's life affected by video game and how they got into gaming is one of the topics that I enjoy reading on Steemit. Steemit #whygamesaregoodchallenge was started by @deadspace, a challenge that asks Steemian to list 4 favourite or most influental games to your life, and this is one of the entries by @maeva which was an awesome post to read. Looking at that Dragon Age cover I feel like listening to the Dread Wolf theme song again. *sigh* better prepare some tissues...
Classic Game Reviews - Mega Man 2 - The Beginnings Of A Retro Legend..............
by @jameslashomb
Still about gaming from the past. And this time, here, have some blast from the past with this nicely written retro review of your favourite arm-cannoned hero Mega Man. Not sure which game in the series I played back then, but pretty much like the author here I've never finished the game. I don't know why but for a moment I used to think Mega Man and Astro Boy were the same person... I feel so stupid for it. One's blue!
Bye, bye, World of Warcraft. Cya in August!
by @pipiczech
You know that anime Log Horizon and Sword Art Online where gamers are stuck in the MMORPGs that they're playing? This is a similar case, except the author couldn't get out simply because the game is just that good that she's addicted to it. That's what popped in mind when I read the first sentence. Here's a quick observation of the Legion and the Battle for Azeroth DLCs by a seemingly avid WoW player, and one of the Steemians whose the post formatting I liked most.
Learning 日本語 with Games? Three Games That Can be Easy to Learn Japanese With
by @ahmadmangazap
Learning English from playing games? Ask every gamer you know and chances are they said they've learnt some. But how about Japanese? If I remember correctly, I've never learnt Japanese from games before. Right now I'm playing Ni No Kuni II in Japanese for the purpose of learning it in the smallest way. If you're interested, check out this post to see what other games where you could learn Japanese with.
I hope you liked these gaming posts I picked because they are entertaining to read and worth your time, some of the best posts of this week! So don't forget to give them some support on your way out.
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If the post is decent, it'll probably be mentioned whether or not the author is in the group.
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When I was little I leared English by playing video games in the language, so I think playing games that teach you other languages it's something that will work for sure.
Me too, and until now I sometimes still found new words/sayings/way of speaking from video games, something that I don't think I heard of in school (in my school at least). Not saying that my English teacher was incompetent, but you know what I mean...
Playing games, watching videos, reading articles, etc. can indeed help you, but you need to keep learning, and you need some base knowledge to build learning on.
When learning a new language you start with learning vocabulary and simple grammar. Learning Japanese/English/… by switching the language of your media to Japanese/English/… without any other aids will make you learn very slowly, consuming media in another language to primarily learn vocabulary/sayings/…, basing it on your pre-existing knowledge can be very helpful though.
My English and Japanese are prime examples for this, actually.
In Germany pupils start learning English somewhere around age 8 to 10 in school (meaning: 2 or 3 times a week: 45 to 90 minutes of learning plus homework).
Starting at age 15 I actively started watching English let's play videos, putting what I've learned to the test. IMHO I think it helped me learning English a lot, so 8 years later I feel very certain, speaking English.
Also at age 15 I started watching anime in Japanese, with subtitles, without any base-knowledge to build on. 3 years later I could say simple sentences like "I am …", and I wasn't even certain about that.
2 years ago I took a Japanese course in University though, teaching me a lot in one year, thus now I can read and understand Japanese media, learning, while looking up stuff. The year of Japanese in Uni is a base of knowledge for helping me to learn when consuming Japanese media.
Gist of me rambling:
You need special media to consume, to also learn from, without having a "base of knowledge" to work on. Which the mentioned games seem to be thumbs up.
Yes, language switching feature like that would be so much help. When I was in middle school I started watching movies (in English) with English subtitles, then without subtitles.
Didn't work out well, I couldn't understand like, half the movies I've watched lol. So did with games. But it was a great practice. And now I can understand... pretty much everything without subtitles. Now my English is still not perfect, but definitely better than I used to (Imagine how atrocious I was).
I wish I could watch anime without subtitles. I think I've learnt some simple Japanese sentences like you said, something like "I am... .", which is something that the 15 y.o. you understand and I recently learnt years later. This is some very good tips from an experienced person, so thank you!
I thank you very much for choosing me in the selection, it really makes me happy ! I didn't think my post would be interesting so it makes me glad to know that you liked it.
You're welcome...
It's interesting to read and I liked it! It's nice to know how games impacted someone as a childhood. I always go "Oooh s/he played that too?!" whenever I see someone played and liked the same games as I do haha.
Of course I think the same :)
oh man i remember mega man on dos! it wasn't mega man 2 but it was awesome!