Reality vs Adventure

Here are a few Magic: The Gathering 2020-I'm getting excited! Think I found some new collectibles, but I really want to play the games.

Magic The Gathering looks fun too and they also have cool cards! Looks like they are still making them in 2020. Thanks for the heads up on those. Wouldn't mind buying some cards, but there are so many! There's also Gwent from Witcher 3. Wonder if they will add booster packs to Gwent for the coming years. Would be good to get them now huh.

I wouldn't mind playing a TCG. But I wish there was a way to do it online. I have the GI Joe TCG but never played, just as a collectible. I came across Flesh and Blood. It looks fun and the cards look pretty awesome. I've always wanted to play Dungeons and Dragons.

Quest in AC Odyssey I actually just started. A guy was standing on top of a building threatening to commit suicide with a crowd gathered around. Kassandra goes up there and tells him he is a coward and is not going to do it or he already would have. He is complaining that his village is poor and he left to come to this place to fight a Minotaur, but again he was too cowardice to fight it. So he is a coward once more by asking Kassandra to steal some prestige armor and an axe for him to bring back to his village so he can lie about being a hero and that those are trophies for slaying the beast. That's cowardice all the way around, but I decided to help. Should have just given him a Spartan kick right off the thing. Guess that makes me a conspirator. But it was supposed to increase tourism to his village. Guess if more mouths are fed, his lie won't hurt but himself.

There are several ideas that come to mind, but what I would love is to tackle GI Joe and make the game for a very mature audience and not tailored to a kid as they always tend to do. I'm not talking action packed shoot em up or another spec ops missions. The franchise has terrorists, ninjas, saboteurs, elite gov. military force, best technologies, weapons dealers, entire brainwashed towns with cobra attire in their closet. I would add a lot of drama and apocalyptic situations. Some terrorist plots will succeed and others fail. There are so many characters that can be utilized from the Joe and Cobra lineup. It's hard to do, but I would use a wide variety of them instead of the typical lot. I would have a remarkable story where you may even sympathize with Cobra. I have read Joe comics in that sense; where Cobra Commander actually had a reason to become an anarchist and able to recruit so many to add to his militias that had similar fall outs. It would be so much fun to play a character you loved as a kid, switch gear and weapons, level up etc. Or make a character in the likes of yourself. You know how much nostalgia that would bring to all the adults that had Joes as a kid and desire to see a mature environment of that awesome time? Bet your ass it will be a big hit. But I'll dream big and given $millions to play with.

I think the competition is gonna come from the VR. As their game list grows and specs improved, people will spend money on it and take away from the 'classic' consoles. But, they better make it more user friendly somehow because even though VR is fun, you have to be in the mood for it. It's a lot more user friendly to play a regular console and chill with your pets.

I hope so, or else it's just another marketing ploy. Makes no sense to have a game for the ps4 and start it all over again for the ps5. I mean, is it that important to replay the game just to see a few extra hairs on a horses ass?

It's a good time to finish some up and try new ones. For me, I have a habit of jumping into a new game before finishing others. But I am gonna focus on some big games I have been playing for a year. Don't want them to end though. I know you got tons of cool games. Decisions, decisions!!! It's that time of year.

I had a pretty good gaming year for 2020. I got a ps4 the summer of 2019, but I have played the best games and had the best immersion in adventures this year. Those top games being AC Odyssey, AC Origins, Witcher 3, Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, and others. I tried VR Oculus for the first time. Never before have I been this much into gaming and it continues to grow on me in a good way. For 2021 I'm looking forward to finishing those large games I have and beginning new ones. I know AC Valhalla is going to be a big one for me this coming year. I have Cyberpunk 2077, but I'll wait for a couple more updates before I get into it. Sure that will be a big one too. There are quite a few ps3 games I want to finish including the Dead Space series and Mass Effect. I wonder what new games I will decide to get in 2021. I'm excited for all the new adventures.

I just want to get to the fun fighting, but it's kind of a pain for me to look around for things to buy, get a job, study, hang out with someone, go get a spa on a certain day. I've forgotten all those things, so to get back into the game throws me off.

I thought Bioshock 1 was creepier then Infinite, so that environment for me told it well to watch my step. But Infinite sure did set it well too. Unique games. Horror games have to have that. Would be weird to be playing sims, then all of a sudden a demon rushes you.

Morality is a very interesting subject when it comes to deities and things we can't possibly understand. But there is a universal rule. That is when pitched against unfathomable decisions, do what causes the least amount of suffering. But maybe that doesn't hold true at all. Mortals that can't see the future will do what they think is right at the time, but a deity will have a different standard if they can see the future, or even if they have a better understanding of humans over a span of thousands of years since a deity probably has witnessed man's existence from the beginning. All humans know is a short written history manipulated by man and time. I can't think of a game where morality is held to a different system. But definitely gonna think on it.

The Suffering Fatal Frame Mercenaries Destroy All Humans-Remaster doesn't cut it

Prince of Persia Sands of Time remake is in the works. Looking forward to that too

A hero in the 'eye of the beholder' reminds me of the Assassin's Creed games. In Origins, Bayek takes revenge on those that killed his son and defeats corruption in the process. He is sworn to protect the people. In Odyssey, Kassandra is looking for her mother and has to defeat an evil cult, but the game doesn't really emphasize to protect the people. She even has conversations with the philosopher Socrates about killing. Is an assassin justified for killing as long as the corrupted is among the victims? Maybe that is neither hero or anti-hero. But just simply a selfish act of vengeance. So true

Innocence is that natural instinct until we are plagued by ideologies and the environment around us. You are right that a hero is in the 'eye of the beholder' meaning even villains can be someone's hero. Just like someone who thinks they are a patriot but wants to enslave others, or a rebel that's wants genocide, or a hero that fights for pro slavery, a hero I refer to as being one has to uphold integrity and morality. And who am I to say what that is? Exactly My point is, I think that siding with a criminal in a game shows that being a criminal doesn't mean they are automatically cut off from having the capacity in heroism. Would it forgive the things a criminal does if he does something heroic? Probably not, but you have to weigh it in at least. But if a criminal could still have potential heroism in them, then someone upholding the law could pervert heroism. I guess we really don't know until a situation arises that clearly divides us into being either a coward, hero, or villain. Those three characteristics are probably in all of us interchangeably depending on what situation we find ourselves in. But a villain in attack mode is way more obvious. Choices you make in the game could also define your character a little more too. I remember in True Crime Streets of LA you are a cop that chooses whether to be a good cop or bad cop. Lines are easily crossed. Referring to The Walking Dead again, one of the characters was on his way to prison for murder when it all happened, and he became such a lovable character. So our human nature can turn, whatever direction that is. I guess nothing is set in stone. But when we need some good, heroes will rise. I won't judge if they happen to be a criminal.

Horizon Zero Dawn love the water

For whatever console you have, what themes are your favorite that you use? On my ps4 I only have God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn, which it is currently set on. I like the music. I'm looking to get some more and just came across some Witcher themes.

Honor-that is the key. Spot on with that one. Reminds me of Witcher 3 when Geralt, who slays monsters, was asked to get involved in politics and help kill a king. He said he doesn't kill kings. He's said that on multiple occasions actually. And he only kills when necessary. Not all monsters deserve to die that were demonized by villagers that provoked the monster.

Did you play as female or male? Supposedly you can alternate between the two any time. Is that true?

They have a Vahalla coat now. Think I'll braid my beard for next Halloween and get me some hatchets!

So, I got the game; what do I do now? Are they going to update the game with fixes? Sell a different version of the game? Play it and hope?

That is true Out of all those war games, shooting games, villains in games, etc.; they are a reflection of human nature and all the violence we cause in real life as if it's perfectly normal to assume there is always conflict. Even if human nature always fails in not letting evil gain power, we also never fail to have our share of heroes. In games usually it's one person or a select few, which in real life it also seems the heroes are few, but they are among us at times we need them most. Human natures always has conflict; conflict needs balance; heroes are that balance. And they can't prevent every mess; things get worse before they get better; But sometimes be proud we have those among us that nobody even knows yet, has a hero stirring in their heart. Sometimes only tragedy can awaken that hero. They are among us. Games in general usually portray a hero as huge, or a knight, superhuman, some kind of commando etc. And it almost seems a person has to be that way to take on all the evil. In real life we wish we had those heroes at the ready. It seems so far away and almost fantasy to hope for someone to come to the rescue. Playing games give us that 'fight for the good!' We have a natural instinct to want to do what is right. But human nature blurs our minds with all its poison and blinds that natural instinct. So a hero is just as natural as a villain. Whereas villains are constantly attacking, we see more of them, till heroes rise.

Any game that has different endings or consequences from the choices you make.

That's pretty interesting; I've never heard of it before. What kind of game would they actually make out of it? What if they can add jump scares as you walk through your home or the woods while wearing a headset? Now that would be somethin!!! Other than that or maybe a sport, I think it would be limited. Unless they can have it more of a personalized game where you can go anywhere you want and take a video, whether at the nude beach or Rome, and integrate the feed into a game. But if you wanted 50 hours of gaming, you would need to record 50 hours of video. Or maybe my beak is flapping like a hungry duck.