I play video games to experience history.

I play FarCry Primal to experience the stone age. I play Skyrim to experience the middle ages with the occasional dragon and werewolf thrown in for flavor. I play Nioh to be a samurai and Red Dead Redemption to be a cowboy, and Call Of Duty WW2 to be a soldier. I play Sleeping Dogs to experience the present but in a much cooler way. I play Deus Ex to experience the near future(game seems an accurate prediction enough) and I play Mass Effect to see humanity's final destiny in space.