Shepard the Leper wrote...
mopotter wrote...
I personally, don't play video games for educational purposes. I play a video game to have fun and I play BioWare video games to have fun, enjoy a great story and feel good after I'm done.
I don't understand what they've got to do with each other. I love history and reading can be both fun and educational. History is always sad, as is life itself. There is no happy ending: you, me, Shepard and everyone else is going to suffer and die in the end. Everything will be dust again, some day.
I prefer playing games that make an impression. I like to be staring at my monitor for a long time considering the hard choices that need to be made. That's the stuff I will remember, that's the stuff that creates real immersion, that's the stuff that makes (or breaks) games claiming to be about *decision making*. Up to this point, the only real decision we have made is the Kaidan / Ashley one. Everything else is only about helping someone or not (without any consequences). That is not only poor design but also a childish approach. I like games to be mature which, by definition, means you cannot have and/or do all.
P.S. Don't you think you'll feel happy when you finaly have destroyed the Reaper Invasion? Usually people are very happy when the war is over despite all the destruction, suffering and personal loss. Maybe you're mental state is influenced (too much) by Mass Effect's Paragon - Renegade system. You can still smile and feel happiness in the worst possible circumstances you know. Just saying :-)
Nice post. Pleasure to read.
I am very very picky about the games I play and keep. I still play - KOTOR; JE; DA: 2; Fall Out 3 with the extra DLC's; Force Unleashed, Fall Out New Vegas; Morrowind and Oblivion. These are in my play forever pile. Every one of them makes me feel great at the end and are fun for one reason or another. Notice Fall Out 3 with DLC not without and DA:O is not in this pile because I have a real personal problem with what they did to the Alistair romance. Most people don't and that's fine, I do so it's in my don't keep pile.
Sure, I'll feel happy if I destroy the invasion. But I'll feel happier and far more thrilled if I destroy the invasion with one game where I did this and everyone is there with me except the ones who have allready gone to the great video game in the sky.
I live a very ordinary life. go to work, come home fix dinner talk to my husband, watch some tv or play my games, Visit here or somewhere else, go to bed get up and do it all over again. I'm not a hero and I'll never be one. I like being the person who can make it happen in a video game and in that video game when there are more than one endings, I like having one where I managed to do the whole thing in an amazing fashion and we all survived. Not every ending, that would bore me, but one - definitely.
History isn't always sad. History is filled with both. People live, die, love and laugh. Both of my parents are dead, my grandparents are dead, I know what it feels like to have your loved ones die. Don't need a video game for this. These are sad memories. But I also saw my grandfather bring my grandmother a flower from the fields on their farm. Well actually it was a weed but it was still very sweet. And I saw them holding hands while he was in bed dieing. I want a video to make me happy, not depressed.
I love fiction. I've got every book Andre Norton wrote and most of the book Louis L'amour wrote; I read The Count of Monte Cristo about every 2 or 3 years, and a lot of books by Alistair Maclean. I've been reading books for over, well for a long time.
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