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"Why do you play games?" Asked my mum yesterday after I’d emerged from my room after a four hour stint on Excitebike. "I’unno" came my offhand reply. "Because I enjoy them, I suppose" I followed up.
This short but sweet conversation got me thinking. Why DO we play games? Is it because, deep down, we want to be that bloke running around with a gun who always gets off with the gorgeous bird? Is it because, just for a little bit, we want to get away from our miserable stinking lives? Just for a bit, we can get away from it all. We can leave it all behind, forget our problems and immerse ourselves in a different world? Maybe it’s because we’ve just got nothing better to do, so we just need something to kill time. Which one of these is it for you? I know which one it is for me.
Let’s be reasonable here, who DOESN’T want to be James Bond. Who DOESN’T want to leg it around Russian bases blasting the hell out of anyone who gets in your way? Remember what you used to play in the playground? You and your gimpy mate going around, pretending to break in to secret bases, and disarming nuclear weapons. Hell, I even know people who still do that! We’ve all done that. Any normal kid SHOULD have done that. It’s only natural to want to be someone else at some point in your life. Who hasn’t watched Michael Owen on the pitch and not thought, "God I wish I could play like that" Maybe we play games so we look up to the main character in it. Maybe we don’t.
Then there’s the "God I hate my life" option. When you encounter a rough patch in your life, you just want it to go away. So what do you do? Go out on the razz and get completely ratted until you’re so drunk you fall asleep in a flowerbed. What’s the result of that? You wake up with a horrible hang over and the problem seems to have got worse. So what else can you do? Whenever I hit a low point I lock myself in my room, slap WWF No Mercy or ISS 2000 in my N64, stick Acquiesce by Oasis (especially if it’s a family problem) on and just play and play and play. I play until my problems gone, until I feel good about myself again. I immerse myself so much in the game that I just forget what’s going on in my life and until I BECOME the person in the game. Until it’s ME who’s kicking the Rocks rear all over the ring, until it’s ME who’s just scored from 30 yards. I’ll emerge from my cocoon feeling better and happier, read to embrace whatever the problem may be.
Then there’s option 3. I’m bored so I’ll go and play my computer until I can think of something better to do.
I barely ever do this. If I do it’s usually only for five minuets. Why? Because playing a game just to pass time leaves me feeling hollow. I just don’t enjoy it when I do this. I can’t explain why I don’t get enjoyment this way but I just don’t.
I believe that these are the three main reasons why we play games, you may very well have other reasons or thoughts. Post them.
So, which of these 3 is it for you? Is it another reason why YOU play?
This short but sweet conversation got me thinking. Why DO we play games? Is it because, deep down, we want to be that bloke running around with a gun who always gets off with the gorgeous bird? Is it because, just for a little bit, we want to get away from our miserable stinking lives? Just for a bit, we can get away from it all. We can leave it all behind, forget our problems and immerse ourselves in a different world? Maybe it’s because we’ve just got nothing better to do, so we just need something to kill time. Which one of these is it for you? I know which one it is for me.
Let’s be reasonable here, who DOESN’T want to be James Bond. Who DOESN’T want to leg it around Russian bases blasting the hell out of anyone who gets in your way? Remember what you used to play in the playground? You and your gimpy mate going around, pretending to break in to secret bases, and disarming nuclear weapons. Hell, I even know people who still do that! We’ve all done that. Any normal kid SHOULD have done that. It’s only natural to want to be someone else at some point in your life. Who hasn’t watched Michael Owen on the pitch and not thought, "God I wish I could play like that" Maybe we play games so we look up to the main character in it. Maybe we don’t.
Then there’s the "God I hate my life" option. When you encounter a rough patch in your life, you just want it to go away. So what do you do? Go out on the razz and get completely ratted until you’re so drunk you fall asleep in a flowerbed. What’s the result of that? You wake up with a horrible hang over and the problem seems to have got worse. So what else can you do? Whenever I hit a low point I lock myself in my room, slap WWF No Mercy or ISS 2000 in my N64, stick Acquiesce by Oasis (especially if it’s a family problem) on and just play and play and play. I play until my problems gone, until I feel good about myself again. I immerse myself so much in the game that I just forget what’s going on in my life and until I BECOME the person in the game. Until it’s ME who’s kicking the Rocks rear all over the ring, until it’s ME who’s just scored from 30 yards. I’ll emerge from my cocoon feeling better and happier, read to embrace whatever the problem may be.
Then there’s option 3. I’m bored so I’ll go and play my computer until I can think of something better to do.
I barely ever do this. If I do it’s usually only for five minuets. Why? Because playing a game just to pass time leaves me feeling hollow. I just don’t enjoy it when I do this. I can’t explain why I don’t get enjoyment this way but I just don’t.
I believe that these are the three main reasons why we play games, you may very well have other reasons or thoughts. Post them.
So, which of these 3 is it for you? Is it another reason why YOU play?
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Some of us may want to play games- so we can go of to new worlds and fantasies. We play on games to have a break from the real world, and go to a new one. We play games to have a bit of fun when we are extremly bored...but 4 hourse RBS- that a bit much, headache?
I had little problem with Comic Zone and i found it a bit short. Those girls were hard until i found out they were scared of Roadkill the Rat!
Comic Zone was absolutley awsome a little short but absolutley awsome probably one of my favourite games!
Grandprix wrote:
> I play games because I'm good at them.
Ant, what is Comix Zone on
> the Megadrive like and what is it about?
This guy gets thrown into in his own comic, and the baddie in his comic has now taken his place, so he can write in monsters, etc.
You're meant to complete the comic, really. You go along the pages, into the next cartoon, until you get to the end.
There's about 6-7 very long levels, and once you die, you go right back to the story.
I'm surprised no controllers have been broken, especially when I was about to finish the 5th level, and this annoying monster shot a huge ball of fire at me!! AAARRRGGGHHH!!
> I play games because I'm good at them.
Ant, what is Comix Zone on
> the Megadrive like and what is it about?
This guy gets thrown into in his own comic, and the baddie in his comic has now taken his place, so he can write in monsters, etc.
You're meant to complete the comic, really. You go along the pages, into the next cartoon, until you get to the end.
There's about 6-7 very long levels, and once you die, you go right back to the story.
I'm surprised no controllers have been broken, especially when I was about to finish the 5th level, and this annoying monster shot a huge ball of fire at me!! AAARRRGGGHHH!!
In the words of Rocky Balboa (sly)
"Because i can't sing or dance"
"Because i can't sing or dance"
I play games because I'm good at them.
Ant, what is Comix Zone on the Megadrive like and what is it about?
Ant, what is Comix Zone on the Megadrive like and what is it about?
RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Ant wrote:
> I wrote a topic exactly like this a while ago. But
> mine was better.
> {:D
No, I beieve your topic was stating
> WHY we played games and you came to the conclusion it was the fun
> factor. The two posts, although loosely based on the same thing, are
> actually completely different.
Yessir.
> Ant wrote:
> I wrote a topic exactly like this a while ago. But
> mine was better.
> {:D
No, I beieve your topic was stating
> WHY we played games and you came to the conclusion it was the fun
> factor. The two posts, although loosely based on the same thing, are
> actually completely different.
Yessir.
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