evildead2099
09-24-2004, 08:41 PM
This is a topic that I originally posted over at The Third Moon (A board maintained by Dire 51, whom a few of you may know from this very place). I don't mean to boast, but I think that I came up with a fairly neat topic so I thought I'd share it with y'all.
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Let's suppose that it is somehow possible for you to become totally and completely immersed in the world of one of your favourite video games - immersed to the extent that you're literally living the rest of your life in that game's environment. Now, let's assume that you have a choice as to which game's environment you'd like to live in. Please, share that choice with myself and the rest of those who frequent this forum. If, by chance, you are content with the sort of life that you live in this world, pretend that you must choose a videogame world in which to live in for the sake of keeping this topic interesting.
My #1 pick is easily the land of Hyrule - the medieval kingdom that I came to know through Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series. Although the world of Castlevania also appeals to me quite a bit, I think I'd rather live in the land of Hyrule since Castlevania is almost totally populated by the undead - not so great as far as my chances of surviving are concerned. What's more, the Zelda games do a nice job representing the sort of gothic settings that one visits when playing an installment of the Castlevania series.
I would also like to live in the land of Sub-Con - The dreamy place that I came to know and love through Nintendo of America's hack of Doki Doki Panic (Super Mario Bros 2, as it's commonly known to North Americans). Sub-Con's environments appeal to me because they are incredibly lush, diverse, unusual and - dare I say - trippy... *daydreaming for about a minute's passing*...
Kid Icarus' Angel Land is yet another setting that I'd love to become immersed within. Angel Land appeals to me because I, for as long as I can remember, have been obsessed with ancient Greek mythology. Truth be told, I indulged in that fascination throughout several of the parochial classes that I was forced to endure over the course of my childhood as well as my adolescence. Because I was nearly put to sleep by irrelevant and seemingly endless lessons concerning family lineage, I preoccupied myself by composing illustrated tales about the gods and the mortals with whom they interacted. I wonder if the focus of my attention throughout those particular Sunday school lectures makes my piety comparable to a petty heretic's (or worse) in the eyes of The Church. Considering the fact that I was raised to be a devout Roman Catholic, I'd venture to confirm that suspicion.
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Let's suppose that it is somehow possible for you to become totally and completely immersed in the world of one of your favourite video games - immersed to the extent that you're literally living the rest of your life in that game's environment. Now, let's assume that you have a choice as to which game's environment you'd like to live in. Please, share that choice with myself and the rest of those who frequent this forum. If, by chance, you are content with the sort of life that you live in this world, pretend that you must choose a videogame world in which to live in for the sake of keeping this topic interesting.
My #1 pick is easily the land of Hyrule - the medieval kingdom that I came to know through Nintendo's Legend of Zelda series. Although the world of Castlevania also appeals to me quite a bit, I think I'd rather live in the land of Hyrule since Castlevania is almost totally populated by the undead - not so great as far as my chances of surviving are concerned. What's more, the Zelda games do a nice job representing the sort of gothic settings that one visits when playing an installment of the Castlevania series.
I would also like to live in the land of Sub-Con - The dreamy place that I came to know and love through Nintendo of America's hack of Doki Doki Panic (Super Mario Bros 2, as it's commonly known to North Americans). Sub-Con's environments appeal to me because they are incredibly lush, diverse, unusual and - dare I say - trippy... *daydreaming for about a minute's passing*...
Kid Icarus' Angel Land is yet another setting that I'd love to become immersed within. Angel Land appeals to me because I, for as long as I can remember, have been obsessed with ancient Greek mythology. Truth be told, I indulged in that fascination throughout several of the parochial classes that I was forced to endure over the course of my childhood as well as my adolescence. Because I was nearly put to sleep by irrelevant and seemingly endless lessons concerning family lineage, I preoccupied myself by composing illustrated tales about the gods and the mortals with whom they interacted. I wonder if the focus of my attention throughout those particular Sunday school lectures makes my piety comparable to a petty heretic's (or worse) in the eyes of The Church. Considering the fact that I was raised to be a devout Roman Catholic, I'd venture to confirm that suspicion.