Red moon rising
It's
been quite a few years since I played any video games. Just not
interested. Besides, as far as I can tell, they just keep publishing
the same game over and over, with updated graphics. The few times that
I have gone to a video game store and tried to use the game system set
up in the corner, it hasn't worked and no matter what buttons I press
in the controller, nothing happens. It's like the system can somehow
sense me coming and this way express its dislike.
However, this certainly doesn't prevent me from enjoying video games as an abstract concept. Boing Boing links to the site of Richard Cobbett, a British writer with a whole bunch of excellent essays about gaming and writing. For example, we can note "A Wail in the Desert" that points out how in MMORPGs, "evil" characters are not really allowed to actually, you know, be evil and do evil things:
However, this certainly doesn't prevent me from enjoying video games as an abstract concept. Boing Boing links to the site of Richard Cobbett, a British writer with a whole bunch of excellent essays about gaming and writing. For example, we can note "A Wail in the Desert" that points out how in MMORPGs, "evil" characters are not really allowed to actually, you know, be evil and do evil things:
A few years ago, an Everquest player going by the name Mystere wrote a piece of fan-fiction about their character - an evil Dark Elf - and promptly got banned from the game for including elements such as rape and murder and under-aged nastiness. You know. Evil things. About an Evil-aligned character, in a city of Evil, in the Evil part of the world. In a game whose Evil quests include...nope, not kidding...murdering a pregnant halfling.
Creator Verant’s attitude was that it’s okay to say you’re an unpleasant dark warrior who’d lick Satan’s boots, but in reality, you have to tow the line just as hard as the noblest paladin. In most of these games, you can’t kill other players, you can’t be rude to them, you can’t plot and scheme and you can’t commit crimes. Nastiness is forbidden. Evil means ‘I wear dark clothes’.
Other notable posts include, for example, "Five Ways People Failed The Audition", "Writing A ‘Girls In Games’ Article", "Sierra Sudden Death Syndrome", "Six Quick Facts", "Cheaters (Should) Never Prosper", "Book Millionaire" and "Sex and the Strip". Furthermore, the post "This Is Game Programming Code" links to a game engine that uses probably the highest-level programming language in existence.
FYI
Take a look at
http://www.vihrealiitto.fi/yleviarkisto/0034.html
and see what all everybody is entitled to and what inalienable rights by the laws of nature everybody has.
Posted by Catilina | 12:09 PM