Real World Skills Learned by Video Gaming

Deathsythe | October 20, 2008 | Pictures | PC Playstation 2

Leave it to the guys over at SomethingAwful to find legitimate learning excercises in non-educcational video games.

On a recent installment of Photoshop Phriday the goons modified the box art in some of their favourite games to highlight the "valuable real world skills they learned"

Check out all of the images after the jump.

We all know that video games make for really awesome murder simulators and serial killer training programs. That's why we love them so much. But what if you could learn other skills from them that didn't involve shooting people with guns? I know, it sounds absurd, but that's exactly the question the Something Awful Forum Goons attempted to answer this week. They took their favorite games and edited them slightly to show off all those valuable real world skills they learned. Who know video games were so gosh darn instructional?

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Kim Jong Il | October 20, 2008

Wow, one of those came very close to making me laugh.
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Deathsythe | October 20, 2008

Just close?

I legitimately laughed out loud at several of them...

Well maybe not laughed, but at least chuckled.

The RE4 one, and SH4 ones both are pretty amusing.
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redneonfish | October 20, 2008

How about, learning how to pull people out of upside down cars, because the might set of fire. Like that girl did in an article a while back?
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  TurMoiL911 | October 20, 2008
  
  The guy would saved a man's life after a car accident with the CPR he learned from America's Army comes to mind as well. That was brought up a couple of times, too.
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BANDITO ATTACK | October 20, 2008

the css one was the best. some of those were pretty weak for SA tho. :{
i usually like photoshop phriday
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R1DDL3S | October 20, 2008
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tallteen86 | October 21, 2008

Meh, it was alright. Mildly amusing for me.

I hope the next joking article like this is funnier >_>
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Final Blade | October 21, 2008

_{I lol'd at the attached main picture on the article. Lemmings? Honestly thats quite clever.}
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  Deathsythe | October 21, 2008
  
  In order to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs.
  For the good of the populous.
  The ends justify the means.
  
  There is nothing wrong with sentencing some of those poor little lemmings to their death in order to save the rest of them.
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    Hyflyin_Vertigo | October 21, 2008
    
    thats life in the world of Lemmings.
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    Final Blade | October 22, 2008
    
    _{Never said there was, I just didn't expect anyone to use a lemmings photo, at least not on something like this.}