Yesterday, I just played Star Ocean on the PS2. I was just inventing stuff and not moving on with the storyline. I think I spent more than three hours doing so. What makes me wonder is that I keep doing the same thing. Well, not really exactly the same thing. I try out different combinations, but still, it is essentially the same thing. I think it's the probablility of getting different inventions that keeps me going. I try this and get that....I try it again and I get another...I try something else and I don't get anything at all. I think of it similar to the slot machines. There's this subconscious or inert (or something) motivation of some sort that keeps me going. Some might think this or I am pathetic. Well, maybe you haven't tried playing video games. I mean, really PLAY video games.
Okay, video games aren't so good. Well, I consider video games like watching a movie or reading a book. It's a form of entertainment. However, sometimes I think that it's becoming something more. Something that will lead me to my own demise. Well, I think I exaggerated a bit but I think it's true. On the other hand, playing video games has given me ideas that I might have not conjured up on my own. I learn words that I don't normally use. I get to experience adventures that could never happen in real life (seems pathetic but it's true!). Think: Where else could I race at over 1000 kph without ever hurting myself? Where can I go on an quest to rescue a princess and meet humans, humanoids and the like (other species included), explore vast plains, unforgiving wastelands, treacherous mountiains or the inside of an infernal volcano? Some of these can happen in real life yet the experience would risk my life or would take lifetimes to accomplish (both doing it, or trying to invent or waiting for the technologies). In video games, I could do them all in F-Zero, The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Metroid Prime and the many others.
Don't get me wrong. Real life cannot be replaced with virtual life. PC and video games bring us out on fieldtrips to parallel or completely different worlds where we could never go (or do) in real life.
Probably I'll dive deeper some other time...For now, let me continue with my gaming....
