Back in the day, I used to play a lot of videogames. Videogames were a huge part of my life, been playing them since I was 8 years old. That used to fill in a void a lot, gave me a lot of agencyplaying as a farmer, or a hero, or a badass gangster. Right now I'm watching The Dota 2 International and started to get back into Dota 2 again. I'm as excited about this as I was with the world cup. So I'm gonna talk about a few videogames in my life and how they made me feel.
Dota 2
Dota 2 is a tricky one. I've spent 2000 hours on the game and I can't recommend it to anybody because it can fill you with full of rage and hate, where you could be losing a game for half an hour to a full hour. Dota 2 is a MOBA, a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, where 2 teams of 5 people duke it out in a map full of friendly and hostile mobs. It is a game best played with friends, and I used to play with a lot of friends. I usually play as a support, which is a hero that doesn't need gold or items and plays to help the team get kills and vision across the map. I like playing as a support on dota2 because I feel like my whole team depends on me to save their asses and get them the money needed to git gud. It's a nice feeling, to be depended on.
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature
This is one of my childhood games, where you're a farmer in the countryside and you have to plant and water crops, look after and get resources from cows, sheep and chickens to earn money. Then you can improve your home, get a kitchen and a double bed fitted and then get married and have kids. Was a really cute sim game, I sank hours and days into that game. I'd name my chickens swearwords, I remember 'Twat' used to lay golden eggs because I won a chicken race with him.
Battle Hunter
This was a card and dice game I had for PS1 which I played with my sister. I felt through that game I got closer with my sister, loved it so much I emulated it on computer so I can play with her. It had fucking awesome music too. You get dropped on a random boardgame like map and you're tasked with getting an item, which can be hidden in one of the 10 random crates in the map. You use trap cards to lay down traps for enemies as you fight each other for items, which you can sell or use ingame. I remember my sister had 2 sets of crutches, which regain your speed if you have you broke your leg on a trap. So my sister used 2 sets of crutches to boost her speed to +2, so she would purposely break her leg to get a speed boost. I called her a skittering tripod. Fun times.
Why I am so passionate about videogames.
I've lost my interest in videogames just after I got sent to hospital, but I still talk about them with my friends. For a few hours of a day, I could suspend my disbelief and immerse myself in the experience of being a hero.
I've even written a dissertation on how videogame companies come up with different strategies to make money. 15,000 words on game companies, but I forgot about what most I learnt.
Oh well, at least I always got Dota 2 to fall back on. If you're suffering from a void, I really suggest filling it with videogames.
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