League of Legends and MTG are great for networking... at this point they should be called sports simply because they are played so much. I can connect with guys in almost every country at this point as those two games are played by a large group of men there.
I would say 97% of the world sits in front of a boob tube and does absolutely nothing with their life beyond their job, their house and their immediate family. Getting married is such a big deal they have a huge wedding bash where they blow all their money. I think life has always been this way, its not the TV or the hobby, its just people realizing their own nature by watching others 'watch'. Before TV, people would work in the village, read books, maybe they were a bit more social but only a little. The extroverts took the huge risks, going out on the sailing ships and getting around the world despite not having access to information. Trade routes with tall ships used to be huge, at one time the entire world was heavily connected by them, now you hardly hear about the merchant marine at all.
From my time in the 3rd world I still noticed that people would rather be propped up in front of a TV. Just a very small minority were actively taking part in making their lives better by going places. When people get too comfortable with food/shelter even if its in complete crap, they tend not move. That's why you rarely see 1st worlders in the 3rd world but you always see 3rd's in the first. You are just too comfortable and living comes too easy to you. If you are feeling like you aren't part of the world, its probably cause you aren't. Buy a $10 backpack and pick any poorer country, get the shots, save some cash and go. You can still play Morrowind, just do it while sitting in another country to blow off some steam, it is infinitely more rewarding to play those games when you have to hunt down an Xbox, find the underground to buy the English games and have a projector shooting the image on to your wall. All my friends and I played through Skyrim and HALO 4 but we did it by getting together and trying to track down the places that sold the English games under the table... that was an adventure in itself. I knew all the places in the city that sold games and movies and how much... haggling to get them was actually more fun then playing them. Eventually, I just noticed that I was trying to collect all of them and that became the hobby I spent the most time on.
You have to remember even people on TV are not really extroverts either and they are not REALLY adventurers. These are people who are basically in a room, doing everything in front of the camera. When we watch TV, it looks as though we are part of their world when in fact they are doing all their movements and reading from a script, mechanically, facing the camera... this is not the same as putting yourself in front of REAL people. We often equate movie stars with adventurers but nothing could be further from the truth, these are imaginary characters created by other stay-at-homes, dreaming about what the world 'might be like'. You want to meet other extroverts, you gotta go abroad, you'll meet them on airplanes going to far off destinations. Even meeting women abroad is an adventure and a challenge, you've got to re-learn what works and apply what you know. You'll get more out of your interactions with the local girls as you'll put in more effort and have more fun trying to communicate the most basic things, you'll also have more patience and it will create a deeper connection.
That said, I am an extreme extrovert forcing myself to live in the 1st world (built for introverts). Everything in the 1st world is created for better introversion. Of course they have nightclubs and other small arenas where I can be myself once in awhile but for the large part, the west is introvert central. I hate it. My friends and for some reason my wife, are all introverts and I notice that introverts tend to gravitate towards extroverts. I'm the 'that's our LivefreeX' in my social groups. Now having said that, all my introvert friends still managed to get married and start families in the 3rd world without PUA/Game. There is just something about getting out into the 3rd world which activates your survival instincts and you become better at everything you do. If you lean more towards extroversion, its going to make you an extreme version of yourself.
If you are more of an introvert, it will force out your extrovert tendencies and reinforce that you must make friends in order to survive. When abroad and you see someone who is clearly not from the local area, its very easy to strike up a conversation and make a connection be you intro or extro. No amount of learning game and picking up women at home will offer the same rewarding experience that being out in the open world does.
Morrowind is a game for adventures, as is fallout. You've got the skills to survive in the hostile environment, now you just have to put play into practice and see what comes out. If you like that type of Sandbox game, you're gonna love the real world.
What applies?
You go out in search of money/quests.
You see a new person, your first instinct is to run up and talk to them, quiz them on information from your quest, once in awhile someone joins your party.
You learn new skills to conquer hostile environments.
You build and buy houses abroad and create safe areas where you can relax.
You eventually become wrapped up in the quests of others and start crusading on their behalf, trying to track down items and resources that will help them complete their quests and increase their loyalty scores.
Sand box Games are incredibly useful to real world adventuring.
Yes, it goes down just like this. I honestly don't know how he got these North American girls to go along with this but whomever made this video is a genius. This is so accurate to my experience, its uncanny.
That was how well the game was done. It was like a real world, and I indeed learned a lot from it at the cost of not having a real life for several years. 