Behind The Games We Play

So I heard everyone is talking about Slender and Amnesia.

Apparently everyone likes a good scare, though why, I don't know.

Maybe its just the way that life gets gets to boring for them, with jobs and studying and chores getting into a regular cycle, and they would do anything to get a kick out of life, even scaring themselves half to death, preferably twice.

Me? I have higher tastes. I don't need scares to keep me entertained. All I need is just a virtual sword/gun/magical power/god-like acrobatic skill and the ability to mow through legions of enemies and I'm a happy chappy.

Okay... Maybe I have crappy tastes.

But IMO, scary games should stay scary, and action games should stay action-y. Remember Resident Evil? Used to be a proper survival horror, now just another shoot-em-up.

The classics were the best though. Who could forget Mario and his never-ending quest to rescue Princess Peach?

All done.

But sometimes, people play games in their real lives. In college most of the games played by us revolves around love. A flirt here, a gift there. Suddenly making out, suddenly breaking up. It's a game, and one that is often played by the human race for a goal called survival. It's a game of winning the other person's heart, one I admit I play, but not so often.

What really irks me is that some choose to play games with other people's lives.

The game of love can very suddenly turn into this sort of game of control, where one controls the other, no matter if both or one or neither realises it.

Sadly, governments absolutely LOVE to play this game. To them, we are just pawns (some being bigger than others, apparently), prepared to be moved around according to their plans at a whim. We are soldiers, prepared to step into a war. And if we do stuff they don't like, BAM! They come out with, if not laws, then at the very least, guidelines, to make sure we become "ideal" citizens.

Next thing you know, V-necks, tight shirts and big bags will be banned from being sold in malls, and no one would be sure if guys and girls should be seated apart, seated together, or if everyone gets their own table in the future.

It used to be so simple before 2000. Games were just UNO, Scrabble, Batu Serembans and chasing each other down the hallway. At the very best, Pokemon Red & Blue on my cousin's Nintendo Colour.


Maybe that's cause I was still kid, and now I'm bigger, I'll hafta play the game of life.

*sigh* Maybe true games are, after all, another form of escape from reality.

Well, cya soon then. Time to hit the X-Box. Assassin's Creed and Final Fantasy FTW!!!

Not forgetting other games too: