4 Valuable Life Lessons to Learn from Video Games

Learning is a lifelong process and some of the best life lessons come from the most unexpected moments and places. Whether it’s a character from a book or a video game's protagonist, you can relate to their journeys, experiences, triumphs, and failures. From this, you can learn some invaluable insights and lessons.

Though it may seem surreal to relate to virtual characters and learn life lessons from them, today’s genres of video games have highly relatable characters and plot lines. Through intricate storytelling, video game characters experience relationships and personal struggles that echo those in real life. 

Video games and their characters can serve many different purposes, from posing a challenge to providing an adrenaline rush. With a simple shift in perspective, characters can change from mere protagonists to guides offering valuable life lessons.

At Just Geek, we’re immersed in the realistic fictional world of video games, bringing our love for characters through unique video game collectables to fans and gamers alike. With National Video Games Day just around the corner, it's time to celebrate the gaming characters you love and adore so much. 

In this blog, we’ve listed some of the most popular games, their iconic characters, and the timeless wisdom to be gained from them. 

1. Super Mario Bros - Try Until You Succeed

Mario and Super Mario belong to the timeless genre of video games that are a staple in every true gamer’s history. This platform game and its subsequent iterations followed a moustached man in blue overalls and a red cap on his journey across the Mushroom Kingdom.

Mario is also joined by his brother Luigi to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser, the antagonist. This iconic video game franchise never fails to champion one of the core principles in life - keep trying until you succeed.

The ability to fall, get up, and start all over again is one of the key lessons you learn when playing Super Mario. As you navigate Mario through various challenges, making mistakes and failing, you’re learning that making mistakes in life is okay, and you just need to keep trying until you make it.

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2. The Last of Us - The Importance of Love, Strength and Companionship

One popular game played from a third-person point of view is The Last of Us. It follows the journey of Joel, a smuggler, and Ellie, a teenager, in a post-apocalyptic United States. The Last of Us describes Joel's trials and tribulations as he transports Ellie across towns, forests, sewers, and other uncharted territories of Pittsburgh's zombie-ridden lands.

The Last of Us is a storytelling masterpiece highlighting companionship and love in life-threatening circumstances. It showcases how the unlikeliest of friendships can be forged between two people, even when they start off as strangers. Joel’s loss of Sarah, his daughter, evokes paternal feelings towards Ellie. This game shows that familial love can still exist after emotional loss and tragedy.

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3. Fallout - The Butterfly Effect

A role-playing franchise, Fallout belongs to the action genre of video games. It has enjoyed popularity since its first iteration in 1997. Since then, this action role-playing game set in a post-apocalyptic world has enthralled audiences as a successor to Wasteland. 

Hard-core gamers would know Fallout 2 boasts nearly 47 variable endings, giving players multiple permutations and combinations to choose from. This choice allows you to understand the cause and effect of every small decision and how it can influence a desired outcome. This cause and effect is also known as the butterfly effect, teaching you how the repercussions of one action can affect the other.

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4. Assassin’s Creed - It’s Okay to Question the Past

Traversing through the annals of history, Assassin’s Creed is an iconic historical action-adventure video game franchise. It revolves around the thousand-year-old struggle between the Order of Assassins and the Knights Templar. Blending historical events and science fiction, this video game series has characters traversing significant real-life events, making it relatable to players.

Don’t be surprised if you begin to question the events and institutions shaping our modern world. This game makes you think about how religious, political and corporate machinery works.

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