Post by Jake on Feb 10, 2006 23:07:07 GMT -5
I don't think these games are quite the same any more, to me anyway. Hasn't it all been done? I mean, Kyle has already voted Jamie out. Tenzil has been voted out in the first fifteen days countless times. Why is this so appealing to us? It's all happened before, and by now - no one really cares much. The game relies so much on who you already know and what you've already done. And I think even worse than that is the sentiment that it's "only a game." No one plays the way they would otherwise if the game is "only a game." We're not playing for anything. At all. In the real game, they are playing for a real million dollars and they know that all game. They really fight to win. Here...it's not the same. There's no way we can recreate the real atmosphere of the game. Obviously the closest that anyone's gotten is Tonga and Okinawa - where everyone knew there'd be at least a payoff of a fair bit of fame and that hundreds of people would be reading the story. Almost no one knew each other, the game was intense, and everyone had real emotion.
I don't think we can say the same for this game. Yeah, it's an All-Star game, but even other games...there's no way to get around aliases and people knowing each other and pre-game alliances...it's all so fake. Yes, I know this is a simulation game, and I know it's not reasonable for it to feel like the real game, but all of these things are adding up together to make me realize why I don't want to play any more. Why are we playing anyway? For fun? Do we really have fun?
I don't really expect replies or anything, but I think I needed to say what I've said. Just random thoughts... *shrug*
I don't think we can say the same for this game. Yeah, it's an All-Star game, but even other games...there's no way to get around aliases and people knowing each other and pre-game alliances...it's all so fake. Yes, I know this is a simulation game, and I know it's not reasonable for it to feel like the real game, but all of these things are adding up together to make me realize why I don't want to play any more. Why are we playing anyway? For fun? Do we really have fun?
I don't really expect replies or anything, but I think I needed to say what I've said. Just random thoughts... *shrug*