These are games that provide us with the opportunity to consider what a truly 'spiritual' life looks like by encouraging us to have empathy for the suffering, love for our neighbours and our enemies, and an imagination vivid enough to contemplate a better world." "Our list is not 'Christian' games, but rather a list of games that pose important spiritual questions to those who play them. "What if video games have more to offer than just an exciting diversion into a digital battlefield, fantasy war, or alien invasion? While these types of games are certainly the loudest and most financially successful, there are a growing number of games asking important questions about life, the human condition, and even God." LTN exists to be the love of Jesus to nerds and nerd culture, you can read more about them on their website. It starts with 12 with a challenge us to be a good neighbour, and follows with others added over time. In this list, provided by the LTN (Love Thy Nerd) editors, we bring together video games that have the potential to offer more than entertainment. Games like Watchdogs 3, Red Dead Redemption, Sea of Thieves and Fallout. There are other games where you create your own character and it enables you to choose someone who looks older. There are other games where the character has a mythic quality that disguises old game, like Geralt in Witcher 3 or Kratos in God of War.
This includes games where an older character has a heroic role, like Joel in The Last of Us or Corvo Attano from Dishonored 2. Either way, these games offer a chance to step into the shoes of a senior character.
This may be because of the stage of life they are at, or because of a role they play in the game's narrative. There are some games that specifically star older characters as the main protagonist. It's therefore, no surprise that games are made to appeal to a wide range of ages and address topics that are important at different stages of life. The average age of a video game player is late 30's and 31% of 45-64-year-olds in Europe play games regularly. These days though, people of all ages play games. Video games are often considered to be a young person's pastime. In video games, we step into other bodies so we can better understand our own and those of the people around us. In travel, as Andrew Soloman says, we go somewhere else to see properly the place where we have come from. More specifically, to use body therapy language, games offer us a chance to discover the inviolability of our bodies, personal autonomy, self-ownership, and self-determination. Whether this is into the awkward teenage years of Mord and Ben in Wide Ocean Big Jacket, the grandparent-escaping Tiger and Bee in Kissy Kissy, the fractured heartbroken body in Gris or the haphazard movement of Octodad we have a chance to reassess our own physicality and how we respond to and treat other people's physicality. Stepping into the shoes of a vulnerable, small or endangered character can help us understand for a short while some of what it is like to be someone else. This is not only an enjoyable way to escape the reality of daily life but a chance to reflect on and understand ourselves, and our bodies, better. Whether we step into the powerful frame of a trained marksman or brave adventurer, while we play we have a different sense of our physicality. Video games offer an opportunity to inhabit another body.