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"Gaming, breath taking landscapes, the taste of air and good music."

Once apon a time in the midst of confusion, somebody decided that beyond all things he could see, there was a much deeper meaning to why that man was placed in the position he was in.

The meaning of life.

We play games, I'm pretty sure of that. But have you ever sat comfortably and asked yourself truthfully why you play games?

Well you should have. And yes... you probably came to the conclusion that it was no more than an escape from the meer thought of living in our world.

But then, what are we really escaping from?

In a land of misery, we stand. We can't get away from what we believe our lives will end up like, the haunting voices speaking and telling us that we WILL fail, we will NEVER become more than anyone else. We are only human. In this land of misery, we could indeed fall.

I don't believe I will never fall. I know I will never fall. I will always stand to see what I believe to be right, and I'm going to live my life as I see fit, not how people expect me to.

And "Sorry?" I hear you ask... "Where the hell does gaming fit into this?"

I'll come to it. Really.

You may have noticed the title to this post. Four things that all have one thing in common.

Experience in creativity.

I have found it incredibly more and more difficult to sit down and play games. I just don't feel like doing it anymore, because I don't get anything out of it.

But... if I told you to go and look at the sea, I expect you would say the same thing to me. Nothing out of it. Pointless.

I beg to differ.

How many people look at screenshots and think: "Hey, that looks good!"

Yes, everyone. People might even put it as their desktop background because of it. Because someone designed some characters, programmed a bit of code, put it into a nice looking scene, and you love it, and it's your background.

The sea never changes. The sea has and will be there always, at least in our life time. So why don't people get the same reaction when they look at it than when we look at a picture of a new game?

We strive for things that are better. The rat race of things to please us before we die. That's what we're escaping from. Bigger and better things to entertain us before we pass away.

My life is now scripted inside my head. I don't know every single detail... I know what experience I will need. I know that I need money, and how to get it. I know that I'm going to have stills from movies on the corridors of the Swordspines Offices. But I don't know what qualifications I'll need. Do I need to be qualified?

Will it happen? Will I reach my dream?

When I was in year 10 I designed and made a ventriloquist monkey. "Oh... err... that's nice." I hear you say again.

Ever since then, I've always made the effort to outdo myself. Push myself beyond my limits. I cannot stop, because I cannot fail. The only way I can fail is by dying, and I'm pretty sure that won't happen for a while. As long as I'm careful.

And here's the connection.

While playing games and wishing for bigger and better experiences, I'll be pushing myself to make bigger and better things, to push myself, go beyond what I've done before.

Why?

Because I find looking at the sea, breathing in the fresh air and listening to music while watching the sunset much more important. It gives me time to think. It gives me time to think about what I can do next, to push myself beyond what I've done.

But hey... gaming is only an escape. Isn't it?

Or are we just hiding from what we're supposed to be doing? Pushing ourselves to become better as a person?

I leave that down to you.

I knew by reading that title that it was going to be one of those posts ;)

Hmmm

Well where to start with this reply.

Lets say in the last year I have slowly decreased playing games... actually since I started posting on the forums I have gradually got bored with games or cannot be bothered to play them.

There was a time back in November-December and March-May where I simply didn't play games as these where highly stressful times in my life as I had to study and do tests at school and my social life took up all my remainign time, I had to sleep more as I was more tired, mind you I still posted on the forums a lot, not to do with gaming just for friendly chit-chat etc. To be honest I didn't really mind, in that time I never bought any new games and when I did play again I was getting to annoyed at it as I didn't want to fail and had to win as my exams where looming I had this sudden drive to succeed and I couldn't fail so I just gave up on them and didn't miss them too much.

I only play games for fun and nothing else... fun, when games begin to stop becoming fun I stop playing them.

I haven't really rcovered from that, yeah I have bought a few games but really if it is a choice between 3 albumns and one games I'd go for the music. So there you go.

I was thinking on holiday (after my near death experience). I was looking onto really nice scenery and having a lovely drink, listening to Radiohead (The Bends) and reading Animal Farm when I took a small thought to think about gaming. (saw advert for game or something). Anyway I was more relaxed and enjoying myself and the fact of playing a game didn't appeal to me...

Don't know where to go now...

So there Gaming, lovely scenery, the air of my drink tasted nice and was listening to good music.

DA DA :D

Once apon a time in the midst of confusion, somebody decided that beyond all things he could see, there was a much deeper meaning to why that man was placed in the position he was in.

The meaning of life.

We play games, I'm pretty sure of that. But have you ever sat comfortably and asked yourself truthfully why you play games?

Well you should have. And yes... you probably came to the conclusion that it was no more than an escape from the meer thought of living in our world.

But then, what are we really escaping from?

In a land of misery, we stand. We can't get away from what we believe our lives will end up like, the haunting voices speaking and telling us that we WILL fail, we will NEVER become more than anyone else. We are only human. In this land of misery, we could indeed fall.

I don't believe I will never fall. I know I will never fall. I will always stand to see what I believe to be right, and I'm going to live my life as I see fit, not how people expect me to.

And "Sorry?" I hear you ask... "Where the hell does gaming fit into this?"

I'll come to it. Really.

You may have noticed the title to this post. Four things that all have one thing in common.

Experience in creativity.

I have found it incredibly more and more difficult to sit down and play games. I just don't feel like doing it anymore, because I don't get anything out of it.

But... if I told you to go and look at the sea, I expect you would say the same thing to me. Nothing out of it. Pointless.

I beg to differ.

How many people look at screenshots and think: "Hey, that looks good!"

Yes, everyone. People might even put it as their desktop background because of it. Because someone designed some characters, programmed a bit of code, put it into a nice looking scene, and you love it, and it's your background.

The sea never changes. The sea has and will be there always, at least in our life time. So why don't people get the same reaction when they look at it than when we look at a picture of a new game?

We strive for things that are better. The rat race of things to please us before we die. That's what we're escaping from. Bigger and better things to entertain us before we pass away.

My life is now scripted inside my head. I don't know every single detail... I know what experience I will need. I know that I need money, and how to get it. I know that I'm going to have stills from movies on the corridors of the Swordspines Offices. But I don't know what qualifications I'll need. Do I need to be qualified?

Will it happen? Will I reach my dream?

When I was in year 10 I designed and made a ventriloquist monkey. "Oh... err... that's nice." I hear you say again.

Ever since then, I've always made the effort to outdo myself. Push myself beyond my limits. I cannot stop, because I cannot fail. The only way I can fail is by dying, and I'm pretty sure that won't happen for a while. As long as I'm careful.

And here's the connection.

While playing games and wishing for bigger and better experiences, I'll be pushing myself to make bigger and better things, to push myself, go beyond what I've done before.

Why?

Because I find looking at the sea, breathing in the fresh air and listening to music while watching the sunset much more important. It gives me time to think. It gives me time to think about what I can do next, to push myself beyond what I've done.

But hey... gaming is only an escape. Isn't it?

Or are we just hiding from what we're supposed to be doing? Pushing ourselves to become better as a person?

I leave that down to you.