1 Name: First Breaker : 2013-03-06 04:02 ID:agDH6cYA [Del]
My whole life I've seen video games as a way to live in, and experience different worlds and stories and be someone new and amazing, but lately it doesn't seem that's what video games are about. Were always stuck in the same world, maybe not the same universe, but think about it, the same blue skies, the same green grass, and the same brown dirt, it's just all the exact same. but why does it have to be like that? Is the world of game creation void of true creativity?
What if there were a world where the grass was a deep, deep red, and the sky was a dark purple lined with shining blue clouds and a two suns, one a deep orange and the other a wonderful green, and when they shine together they make the glass shimmer and shine, and where the water is a reflective silver on the top, but underneath it turns clear with a slightly silver saturation, where animals are a rainbow of colors, and can forge bonds with people as strong as the bond of soul mates, where the wind whispered secrets into your ear and the oceans waged wars with each other, creating giant, beautiful silver swells, where every night the stars came down form the heavens and played among the children of the world, giggling as if they them selves were human, a world where it's not weird for a human to be born with wings, or a deep blue skin, where mountains curved into the shape of an hour glass, on top a flat land of rolling hills on what mountain, a forest on another, even deserts here and there, a world where rocks float high above the skies, gigantic temples to old gods carved into them, where there are no cities, just villages where people come an go, shop owners moving form town to town, adventurers out to see the world, they all just keep moving, sometimes taking a short refuge in a small village, all for the sake of seeing everything that world has to offer! Why can't we play there? Why can't we hunt there? Why can't we fall in love with that world? That's the only world I want to see.
what happened to the heroism, the adventure, the necromancers, the dragons, the monsters, the princesses, the fantasies, where did they all go? The legendary swords, the great blacksmiths, the magics that flowed in the air and the lights that shimmered in the backs of the minds who played these! When did video game ago form being the dreams and fantasies to what it is now? Where is the dream now a days? Where is the baseless story that just keeps on going, the ultimate fantasy, where game designers, instead of giving us what they think we want, they give us their dreams, and lets us experience them! To see all those wondrous things!
Those are the worlds i want to see, what about you?
6 Name: Misuto!M4ZBq07Cs. : 2013-03-07 06:09 ID:3D63GlaX [Del]
>>2 This is certainly in the right board. In-depth discussions about games are just as relevant as talking about specific games themselves.
I don't think video games have really lost what you say they have. We've just broadened the genre to include the realist perspective they tend to take. There are definitely games out there today that fulfill what you're asking for.
We've just reached a point where people are somewhat driven away from the completely surreal, so we need to dilute it with reality here and there. At the end of the day, the video game industry is a business - if they didn't produce the "same world, pandering to fans" content that you dislike, they wouldn't be at liberty to even start producing the sort of fantasy you desire. It's a necessary step.
But to say games like that no longer exist is strange. I would look no further than content like Super Mario Galaxy to see we still have it in us to appreciate that nostalgic sense of fantasy. And I wouldn't completely discount the merit of games anchored in reality, either.
