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Of course it is, I'm sure a lot of people get pure enjoyment out of playing games. That's why we play them.
But if you played Halo all day for years on end, did nothing else with your life, and then you were told you had 1 week to live, what would you do?
Continue to play Halo for your final week? Or get out of the house and do whatever you wanted, trying to fit as many experiences into that week as possible, making amends where they were needed, and more?
If anybody was put in that scenario, they would completely abandon their daily routine.
Another hypothetical situation:
Say you were born in a room with nothing but a television, an xbox 360 and Halo 3. There were no ways out of this room.
For your whole life, Halo 3 would be all you would ever know.
If you were going to die eventually, you would feel content. Because you never knew that there was anything more to life.
That is the only situation where playing a game would give your life fulfillment. But in the real world, we know that there is more to life than games, so much more.
It is human instinct to experience new things, to find self purpose. Most people will ignore these feelings and set them aside in order to live in the routines of daily life. But if they realise that they don't have long to live, their daily lives become nothing, and their instinct for fulfillment comes to the front.
Like I posted before, getting the most out of life isn't always about doing what you enjoy, it's about pushing yourself, taking the 'greater risk, greater reward' leap and testing your limits.
I'm sure that if anyone was about to die, all they would want is to think 'I made the most of it.' People don't think about it now, but when the gate comes crashing down, your perspective changes and you focus on what's really important. Playing a game would not be in that group.
[Edited on 04.06.2011 5:26 AM PDT]