Actually i enjoy books a lot and i do not find it hard to imagine the things i read in books. In fact, i pretty much always have a decent picture in my mind of how things look. That is also why All quiet on the Western front manages to depress me so much every time i read through it.
I was saying that not about myself but rather in general, as many people these days do not seem to like to read. At least around here it is quite scarce. It is for people like this that movies work out a whole lot better, and i think videogames could also contribute to that.
Now, i am not at all saying that a videogame could make you feel EXACTLY like what a soldier would feel or think what he would think.
To think that it could simulate the feeling of being wet for 5 days straight or something similar is lunacy and not at all what i suggested.
But what you CAN do is SHOW it to people in a game, make them SEE soldiers being wet and miserable, or make them cry or break down after a fight. And because the player is participating in these events, he could feel something too. At least i know i did during one of Brothers in Arms: RTH30's missions where Leggett falls down crying between the dead bodies of Allen and Garnett.
Or the moment in Earned in Blood during one of the last fights where Red sees his youth friend being evaporated in front him by a HE shell, after which he is dragged by a teammate to a save spot at which point said teammate collapses and bleeds out. Despite the rough edges a game obviously has, that gave me quite some shivers down the spine.
I get the feeling you are hung up on the word 'first hand' though, but in my original post it was already in quotation marks symboling that ofcourse it doesnt come close to the real thing, but you can get a general feel of the situation by immersing yourself in a videogame, movie or book.
It's simply another tool to educate people.
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