The problem is all modern entertainment is stimulus based. You can be entertained by being passive. Even playing Counterstrike is passive in this way. Learning how to fine tune your head shot or climb onto weird locations is clever and skillful, but they are extremely niche skills and require very little high level thinking, which is much more difficult.
The more a medium encourages deep, abstract, logical thought, such as some of the old school strategy games, the better. In this way, people start to grasp principles more than just specialized behaviors. But, the more people become only specialized, the less they can communicate effectively with people not in their specialty, and the more misunderstanding, wheel reinvention, tunnel vision, etc. results. We're seeing this in academia already.
The more a medium encourages deep, abstract, logical thought, such as some of the old school strategy games, the better. In this way, people start to grasp principles more than just specialized behaviors. But, the more people become only specialized, the less they can communicate effectively with people not in their specialty, and the more misunderstanding, wheel reinvention, tunnel vision, etc. results. We're seeing this in academia already.