Can Video Games Be A Spiritual Experience? | Game/Show | PBS Digital Studios

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Have you ever had an experience while gaming that was so transcendent, so powerful, that it could almost be described as spiritual? Whether you consider yourself a religious person or not, the feeling of cosmic connectedness can strike anyone. But is there something about videogames that lends to this elevated experience? Can they be more than merely a game? Watch the episode and find out!

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MUSIC:

"Oh Damn!" by CJVSO

"Digital Sonar" by Brink

"Mindphuck" by Known To Be Lethal

"After Hours"

"Lakes" by Chooga

"Beautiful Days" by Extan

"Spectrum Subdiffusion Mix" by Foniqz

"Good Way Song" by Electronic Rescue

"Alice y Bob" by Javier Rubio and Parsec

"Sleet" by Kubbi

"Toaster" by Kubbi

"Patriotic Songs of America" by New York Military Band and the American Quartet

"Lets Go Back To The Rock" by Outsider

"Run" by Outsider

"Fame" by Statue of Diveo

"Freedom Weekends" by Statue of Diveo

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Well, when i was 4, my dad bought a trusty XBox. you know, the first, ruggedy, blocky one from 2001. we had tons and tons and tons of fun playing all kinds of games together - until he died, when i was just 6.

i couldnt touch that console for 10 years.

but once i did, i noticed something.

we used to play a racing game, Rally Sports Challenge. actually pretty awesome for the time it came.

and once i started meddling around... i found a GHOST.

literaly.

you know, when a time race happens, that the fastest lap so far gets recorded as a ghost driver? yep, you guessed it - his ghost still rolls around the track today.

and so i played and played, and played, untill i was almost able to beat the ghost. until one day i got ahead of it, i surpassed it, and...~

i stopped right in front of the finish line, just to ensure i wouldnt delete it.
Bliss.

WARTHERAPY

came here from "player 2" to see 00WARTHERAPY00's

kasseen

only here because 00WARTHERAPY00's comment

kramdwar

00WARTHERAPY00's comment just made me want to be the best father I can. Grateful he shared his story.

zachrussell

I was playing Postal 2. I chopped off a cops arms and legs with some hedge trimmers. Attempting to crawl with her limbless body I pissed on her and set her on fire. I laughed maniacally the whole time. That is when I realized something about myself. I was going to go to hell.

PsychoFatCat

Reading a tumblr I found 00WARTHERAPY00's comments, and it touched the deepest feelings of me... I'm 35 yo, and my son is 6. We used to play video games before sleep (Casttle Crashers), but unfurtunally now we are thousand of miles distanced. I have all the music in my phone, and everytime I hear it I dream about next time we will be together playing again.All my respects to you, and thanks for shearing that experience with us

XcvmX

after reading 00wartherapy00 's story, it's impossible for me to keep me tears in my eyes.
so touching and I'm full of respect to this guy, as I can feel he loves his dad just as much as his dad loves him, uncountable!

aboykevin

I from Italy, I am here because I saw 00WARTHERAPY00 story an italian yt channel (Fuoco di Prometeo), this comment has become very popular in the world... respect.

steve.c

00WARTHERAPY00 respect bro
hopes you meet him in heaven nchallah

petermccaslin

Anyone looking 00WARTHERAPY00's comment here?

GokoSmileski

That game company's "Journey" gave me a completely different view on what life and death is. I have never been in that kind of awe before when playing a game and while I've played a lot of brilliant, amazingly beautiful games before and after "Journey". There was just something about that experience that I can't replicate. I don't know if it was spiritual, but it touched me deeply.

midnightnavigator

NieR:Automata gave me a spiritual experience when I played it for the first time. That game was extremely emotional for me, to the point where I was experiencing moments of grief due to just how f*cked up things got in the story. When I got to the very end, and made it to the "final boss" of the game, that whole experience changed me. It showed me the beauty of humanity, and I felt like I gained something very profound while I played it.

Glory to mankind.

SapphireLibra

I came her from watching "Player Two." To see the famous comment that video was talking about. I didn't even watch this video. but maybe I will some other time?

ball

65 % = Comments about 00WARTHERAPY's story, of which 35 % Italian comments and 30 % English comments
35 % = Other comments...

giannisabatelli

I don't see the difference between what people call a "spiritual experience" and what is just a profound emotional experience. I can play a game, read a book, or watch a movie or play that moves me in a profound way and has me feelzing ze emushuns, but it seems like once you add in the reflective existential feeling to it, suddenly the moment becomes "spiritual".
I don't see anything special about "spiritual experiences" in relation to any other kind of emotional experience, probably because I believe that any emotional experience in humans is caused by the biochemistry of the central nervous system. And if you accept that emotions are just neurons and synapses, then you can accept that any old benign thing could give you any sort of experience from the mundane to the profound, depending on how your brain is wired up at the time.
Here's a question for you, then. What are we going to do with the knowledge that video games can cause spiritual experiences?

CloudCuckooCountry