One of my favorite go-to gaming genres is the first person shooter. I think the reason why I so enjoy this format is because it is low effort gaming in the extreme. What I mean by that is that unlike other genres that often require greater mental effort on the part of the player to effectively participate in the gameplay, such as strategy games or role playing games, shooters are more about muscle reflex ("twitch") than they are about deep thinking. I mean, you don't have to be a genius to figure out how to place a crosshair on a target and pull the trigger. Now, that is not to say that there is no mental effort required; that would not be true. As I have pointed out before , most shooters are realistically brutal in their presentations of real world warfare. The player who willy-nilly jumps onto the modern virtual battlefield without using any brain cells will soon find himself to be the first causality on that same field of battle. Shooters ...
Because Edmund Burke would have been a gamer....