Should Games Count?

I believe that this same question came about when the internet and television first came out and that is one reason I believe that they should. I would have to say yes games should count and I will explain why. There are a wide variety of video games out there such as: first person shooters like Call of Duty, Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games or MMORPG like World of Warcraft, Skyrim, or the Sims, and Sports and racing games. I think that the MMORPG games make the claim for video games to count because of the fact that you are you own character in a whole other alternate reality world with the capability to do just about anything and choose what you want to do and when and how you will go about doing so. You can interact with people you have never met or will never meet in person on these games and live a second life within them. You can be who you wish you were or anything that you wanted to be. There is a movement in society were people judge you for how good you are at games more than they would be judging other things about you. Even in the sports game you can customize you own character to play wherever you want and make them as good as you want to be. With games evolving to the point where you customize your own person to do what you want is the big step for games counting because this is where it starts for your own story in the game to progress from. Game can teach us about our culture because they have such a huge impact as to where people will wait for hours or days for their release. Some say the the First Person Shooter games where developed for the military to desensitize the population to killing people and make it easier for them in basic training to teach them their ways. There is a lot that goes into game from what type of game, the type of mythical creature or real people to the music that is in the games to influence what kind of music you listen to outside the game because it was in the game that you played. These are the reasons i think games should count and I look forward to reading everyone else opinions on this topic.