Playing As You!

I have recently been playing Mass Effect 2, and after watching an episode of Extra Credits on the escapist I noticed something.

If I play the game answering questions not in the mechanical way that I usually do to get paragon or renegade points the game play changes significantly.

I.e. at one point I come up against a military leader and a renegade action lets me shoot and kill him before the fight starts wich allows for a much easier fight against his squad.

Instead of thinking and acting like the paragon I was I just shot and killed the guy. Mainly because I knew that it could get really hairy in fights.

This got me to thinking, what would happen if i tried to answer each question and complete every quest as me, will, the person who sits here writing this blog? I found out that it can actually make the storyline a lot more interesting.

a good example is were I have the option to toast something when drinking brandy with the ships doctor (btw I am attempting to keep this as spoiler free as possible) I can either toast the allience, technically the faction that has turned it's back on me, or I can toast my fallen comraides. Of course the Allience was set at the nuetral middle position and the fallen were set at the lower renegade option. I usually always pick nuetral or paragon, but this time I found myself toasting the dead. It just seemed right.

So this is an interesting questions that I put to you: When was the last time that you actually played as you in a video game?
It's games that challenge who we are as people that makes gaming as a media so interesting. People on the outside may see it is nothing but escapismn, but I think that if we truely want to show people that games can be something more, we need to stop buying games that are pure spectical like God of War III and start buying games that can help us realize our value as human beings.

Thanks For Reading

DFTBA

Games Taking Up All My Time

Hey Guys it's Will Again

I have recentlly realized that games are taking up most of my time!

Not a big revolation you may say but when time spent on games is too the exlusion of everything else I think there is a problem there.

I have started to neglect my work so I can play these games, and no matter how much I say to myself that I should really try to do some work insted I can never tear myself away from the TV screen long enough to do assignments. Even at college my mind is occupied by other things.

I really should focus on my studies more but I can't help it. I have decided to try and get around this as soon as possible. Maybe I can find away to beat gaming as an addiction. Not that it's like a drug or anything, that's a rediculus statment and however believes it deserves a boot up the arse.

I have a lot of work due soon so I guess I should get on with it, but I think that after the promise of a practically based second year being told how much written work I have to do is such a blow :(

New Blog Yay!

Hey guys this is a new blog that I have started for several reasons.

1 to start doing reviews of games
2 to start talking about all my game related projects like creating games, my video game show etc
and 3 to just talk about games in general like stuff that interests me or that occurs to me while playing games and stuff

That really it for my first post I guess. I'll post more later :)