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Writer's Block: Game dream believer
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Well, because I only play WoW... I gotta say WoW. Even though, having lived in SoCal in the 80s, I could say I've already lived in GTA.
Honestly, though, my race and class wouldn't matter. I hope the Video Game Genii would be kind enough to start me off on my 24-hours in a town, because that's where I'd stay. I'd be a naked lvl 1 bank-alt.
Translated into real life, the majority of shit you see in video games would be absolutely terrifying.
Playing Horde in WoW, for one, you've got undead people roaming around. Which isn't too bad, except the ones who've lost their bottom jaws. But there are also 9' tall minotaurs, cannibalistic trolls and orcs with anger management issues. Step outside Orgrimmar, the major Orcish city, and there are fucking scorpions the size of hogs. Seriously. I've got enough trouble with the 3" scorpions in my back yard. I don't want to walk outside my city and encounter toxic-yellow scorpions as big as fucking wild boars (there are wild boars out there, too, but they don't attack you, unless they've been corrupted. How do you corrupt a wild boar? Get it to smoke cigarettes & panhandle?). Compared to the boars and scorpions, there are some rather small velociraptors. At the foot of Thunder Bluff, another city, it's a little more doable - wolves, mountain lions, some prehistoric-looking flightless birds and vultures that will rip your face off. Never mind waiting for you to die and for the wolves and cougars to soften you up... nope, these vultures attack. At least there aren't too many of them. If you're one of the aforementioned Undead, outside Undercity, there are demonic dogs and bats, with bad zombies. How do you know if the zombie shambling up to you is friend or foe until they're already too close?
In every city, there are people standing around hoping you'll fulfill some minor deed for them in exchange for money, equipment, or 'the experience' (isn't that what joining the military is all about? Going off doing someone else's dirty deeds for 'the experience'?). Most of these quests involve leaving the town and going out and collecting some putrid organ from one of the local flora or fauna. "Go fetch me 5 vials of darkhound blood, and I'll give you this shiny piece of crap". Of course, you have to kill the darkhounds, it's not some nature program's capture, radio-tag and release thing.
The worst, most horrifying thing about the whole concept is that I'd wake up in WoW as an Alliance toon.
Well, because I only play WoW... I gotta say WoW. Even though, having lived in SoCal in the 80s, I could say I've already lived in GTA.
Honestly, though, my race and class wouldn't matter. I hope the Video Game Genii would be kind enough to start me off on my 24-hours in a town, because that's where I'd stay. I'd be a naked lvl 1 bank-alt.
Translated into real life, the majority of shit you see in video games would be absolutely terrifying.
Playing Horde in WoW, for one, you've got undead people roaming around. Which isn't too bad, except the ones who've lost their bottom jaws. But there are also 9' tall minotaurs, cannibalistic trolls and orcs with anger management issues. Step outside Orgrimmar, the major Orcish city, and there are fucking scorpions the size of hogs. Seriously. I've got enough trouble with the 3" scorpions in my back yard. I don't want to walk outside my city and encounter toxic-yellow scorpions as big as fucking wild boars (there are wild boars out there, too, but they don't attack you, unless they've been corrupted. How do you corrupt a wild boar? Get it to smoke cigarettes & panhandle?). Compared to the boars and scorpions, there are some rather small velociraptors. At the foot of Thunder Bluff, another city, it's a little more doable - wolves, mountain lions, some prehistoric-looking flightless birds and vultures that will rip your face off. Never mind waiting for you to die and for the wolves and cougars to soften you up... nope, these vultures attack. At least there aren't too many of them. If you're one of the aforementioned Undead, outside Undercity, there are demonic dogs and bats, with bad zombies. How do you know if the zombie shambling up to you is friend or foe until they're already too close?
In every city, there are people standing around hoping you'll fulfill some minor deed for them in exchange for money, equipment, or 'the experience' (isn't that what joining the military is all about? Going off doing someone else's dirty deeds for 'the experience'?). Most of these quests involve leaving the town and going out and collecting some putrid organ from one of the local flora or fauna. "Go fetch me 5 vials of darkhound blood, and I'll give you this shiny piece of crap". Of course, you have to kill the darkhounds, it's not some nature program's capture, radio-tag and release thing.
The worst, most horrifying thing about the whole concept is that I'd wake up in WoW as an Alliance toon.