Arkham Noir
With black birds following me
Video games are one of life's great joys for their ability to let us venture outside of our own world and delve into fantastic new worlds and stories. They let us marvel at things that we can't do in real life and allow our imaginations to feed on spending time as a completly different person, in a completly different world. We can become warriors, sports stars, super spies, ninjas, monsters, and even plumbers with abnormal jumping abilities. We grow to love not just the escape they give us, but the charming and fantastic worlds the let us explore.
As time has passed, video games have changed and an influx of different games begun to take their place on the market; reality based games. These are games that no longer let our minds wander into fantasy, but take everything from the world around us and thrust us that much further into it all. Warzones now shift from the evening news to best-sellers. Gangwarfare and drugs now take their spot as plot devices. We can even go bowling in our living rooms. Game developers have shifted their focus from fantasy onto re-creating our daily lives and letting us play it with a controller.
Both types of games exist and thrive among us, but which do you , as a gamer, prefer: Realistic games or those driven by fantasy?
For me, it is all about fantasy. As I stated earlier, video games provide an escape. When I sit down to play video games, it is about being apart of a completly different world. It's about letting my imagination run wild and leaving my troubles behind for awhile. Some games (example James Bond) do blend realism with fantasy, but I don't enjoy running around shooting guns and blowing people up when I known it's happening on the other side of the world at the exact same moment. I hope that the day never comes where innovative and imaginative realities are replaced with more of what we experience in real life.
As time has passed, video games have changed and an influx of different games begun to take their place on the market; reality based games. These are games that no longer let our minds wander into fantasy, but take everything from the world around us and thrust us that much further into it all. Warzones now shift from the evening news to best-sellers. Gangwarfare and drugs now take their spot as plot devices. We can even go bowling in our living rooms. Game developers have shifted their focus from fantasy onto re-creating our daily lives and letting us play it with a controller.
Both types of games exist and thrive among us, but which do you , as a gamer, prefer: Realistic games or those driven by fantasy?
For me, it is all about fantasy. As I stated earlier, video games provide an escape. When I sit down to play video games, it is about being apart of a completly different world. It's about letting my imagination run wild and leaving my troubles behind for awhile. Some games (example James Bond) do blend realism with fantasy, but I don't enjoy running around shooting guns and blowing people up when I known it's happening on the other side of the world at the exact same moment. I hope that the day never comes where innovative and imaginative realities are replaced with more of what we experience in real life.