Gaming Meme: Day 4 – Your guilty pleasure game
LARPs. While not exactly guilty, because I’ve made no secret about having met my partner at one, LARPs have gotten a reputation over the last few years (you know, having appeared on Tosh.0 and all) of being completely silly. Well, yeah, a little bit. FIREBALL!
But mostly it’s a bunch of people getting excited, getting dressed up, getting together and hanging out. They’re also performing a pretty complicated improv skit which almost entirely consists of playing off each other and the complications other people present. I mean, in theater it’s lauded as amazing. But throw in vampires and it’s silly? (Okay, so you’re also throwing in sometimes unwashed people playing the same character in a different name that they always play. And sometimes it is silly, but how is the idea of getting a bunch of people together, getting drunk or high off util you can’t see straight then letting chaos ensue not silly?)
Truth is, despite not getting along with some of the people, I miss it tons. It wasn’t about being someone else. It was about how well you pretended to be that someone else, how much you affected the people around you and how many people were talking about your performance at the end of the night.
As for video games; Farmville. I spend too much time playing it, and find myself way to driven to complete all the level of stuff and collections and what not. It started in the middle of winter because I missed gardening, then became something I did at night before bed so I didn’t have writing or reading on the brain and dream of working all night (because that’s not restful). But now there are levels of crop mastery and crafts to make and collections to get and ugh, damn if I’m not a little neurotic about trying to completely master a game. (Speaking of which ask me about trying to get a 100% on Final Fantasy 7…)
Full Meme List
Day 1 – Your first videogame
Day 2 – Your favorite character
Day 3 – A game that is underrated
Day 4 – Your guilty pleasure game
Day 5 – Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were)
Day 6 – Most annoying character
Day 7 – Favorite game couple
Day 8 – Best soundtrack
Day 9 – Saddest game scene
Day 10 – Best gameplay
Day 11 – Gaming system of choice
Day 12 – A game everyone should play
Day 13 – A game you’ve played more than five times
Day 14 – Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper
Day 15 – Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now
Day 16 – Game with the best cut scenes
Day 17 – Favorite antagonist
Day 18 – Favorite protagonist
Day 19 – Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in
Day 20 – Favorite genre
Day 21 – Game with the best story
Day 22 – A game sequel which disappointed you
Day 23 – Game you think had the best graphics or art style
Day 24 – Favorite classic game
Day 25 – A game you plan on playing
Day 26 – Best voice acting
Day 27 – Most epic scene ever
Day 28 – Favorite game developer
Day 29 – A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving
Day 30 – Your favorite game of all time