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Valve Believes Games Can Help Education [33164]

 
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:54 pm    Post subject: Valve Believes Games Can Help Education [33164] Reply with quote

ock, Paper, Shotgun has an interesting article about why Valve believes games can help education. Here\'s an excerpt:

The first time I ever played Portal was damn near magical. Each room I walked into held promise of some diabolical new assault on both my brain and the laws of physics, but I made them look like chil

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeh thats nice, whatev.. where is half life 3?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh geez HL3... man when desperation kicks in eh? LOL! I couldn't give a shit about HL3 myself. Same shit in a different skin.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wake up Valve. Like Jane's, DID had been making military simulations to train Grunts and pilots when the first Gulf war kicked off. That's education.Couple that with incredible machines from eons ago and you have physics along with ballistics. Gt academy teaches professional driving and on it goes. Portal was more about illusion rather than exceptional gameplay dealing with real world environments.
Want to go down that route; how about Quake in space and portals?
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