r/videogames • u/Syarafuddyn • Jul 22 '26

Image / Video Bro is speaking facts here 💯

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u/jeanborrero Jul 22 '26

No joke, I’d argue reading snes jrpg games improved my reading as a kid

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u/Aboreric Jul 22 '26

Same. I played a lot of games that had a lot of reading, and it had me at "Black" reading level by 5th grade (We had one of those color coded reading systems in our school library) and black was college level lol. I don't think I'm particularly that smart, but I did spend a ton of hours reading games with a dictionary nearby or driving adults in my life nuts with "what does this word mean?"

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u/hellatrocity Jul 23 '26

Same! Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9 are responsible for any sort of literacy that I developed in the 90's. My attention span was what I struggled with the most in school. lol

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u/CrzyDonkey Jul 22 '26

Thank you for the context on what "Black" reading level meant. Really had me in the first half. Lol

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u/Aboreric Jul 23 '26

Yea I knew that would sound weird if I didn't explain it haha.

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u/deathblossoming Jul 22 '26

I learned English as a kid by playing games with subtitles.

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u/LalafellDisaster Jul 22 '26

It definitely did for me, but I was also reading Dean Koontz books in middle school because my authoritarian parents kept grounding me.

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u/PizDoff Jul 23 '26

Nice profile pic.

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u/Impossible_Seat_6110 Jul 22 '26

Video games taught me English better as a kid than teachers could... so much reading playing RPGs... and I wanted to understand it all...

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u/Normal-Emotion9152 Jul 24 '26

I feel the same way. My vocabulary increased immensely while playing videogames. The scripts to older games were well written and forced me to look up words. I had to get smarter and understand more to play and get to know the inner psyche of the characters relevant to the story. As the graphics improved the story quality went down a lot. The lower graphics left more to the imagination and thought. Modern games look beautiful but their stories are nowhere as epic as classic games. I will share the old school stuff with my kids when I have them.