Do you ever wish that you could go back and un-make some of those choices that have made you who you are today? Do you wish that you could scrap who you’ve become and completely remake yourself for the better? The good news is, you can. The bad news: only in video games. Very few video games, actually. One such game is City of Heroes, a comic book themed MMO* that I was addicted to about a year ago. In that game, there were certain points at which you could re-choose all of your superpowers, essentially remaking all of your past decisions using the knowledge you’d gained since then. Aside from the idea of actually being a superhero (because, really, what’s cooler than that?) this was my favorite feature of the game, redemption embodied as a gameplay mechanic. The only ting that could possibly;y be cooler than that would be if such a thing could happen in real life. What if I could just pack up all my shit and move to a city I’ve never never been to where I know almost no one and almost no one knows me? What if I could start over, create myself as if the old me never existed? What if I could be new?
I’d jump at the chance.
*Massively multiplayer online game
August 19, 2008 at 5:29 pm |
Sounds great, doesn’t it? But in all honesty, you’re right about it only being truly possible in video games. But hey, one can always try, right? I figured as much, btw. Tried the same thing in Brentwood, but that didn’t work out so well, so I hope you have better luck or greater determination than I did.