Day 1 - Very First Video Game.Pokemon Blue:
I am sure when it comes to gamers and especially girls who were a children of the 90s pokémon stands out as the game which got people playing. I played, I conquered, I caught 'em all.
Day 2 - Your Favourite Character.
John Marston - Red Dead Redemption.
I hated all the most recent grand theft auto games for one principal reason. The protagonists were cunts. The gameplay was fun, I like thesandbox, but the characters were just idiots who let themselves get caught up in awful situations. I admit my main experience is with the ever dependable Nico Bellic. A man who comes to liberty city hoping for a new life, and instead of getting a job, tags along with and gets screwed over by his inane and equally stupid cousin. What is there to connect with. Nico was nothing like me, and I certainly didn't want to have sex with him. (The bits with girlfriends weirded me out.. because WHY? Why would anyone date the silly bastard... he didn't exactly smoulder with bad boy sexy, he was just always getting into situations where killing was the only option.
This brings me onto John Marston. I was nervous when I bought this... I'd paid £35 for it and if it didn't pay dividends it would have all been wasted. I.e. if Marston had not been someone I connected with I would have kicked myself. My fears were quickly allayed. John is surly, quiet and cowboy-like but polite to women, generally kind and always trying to do the right thing. This frustrated James who was trying to play marston as evil... the game rarely gives you that option. Marston is a fully rounded character. He tries to do the right thing, but he is occassionally vengeful. The ambiguities of the west are fed to the player through his character. The landscape is a once lawless, and yet Marston's situation is being controlled by the corrupt government boys whose appearances open and close the story. I was interested in the story in ways which other games usually fail to engage me. Plus he's sexy as!
Day 3 - An Underrated Game
Chocobo Dungeon Wii.
Admit it... you've never heard of this game. And when I bought it, neither had I. My expectations were as low as the price. It is a rogue dungeon quest game where you step onto dungeon maps and have no clue where you are going or how to complete to the next level. The protagonist is an over-friendly and very helpful chocobo. Voice acting/ cut scenes aside this was a really fun game... until I got stuck on a dungeon where I only had one hit point. Ouch.
Day 4 - Guilty Pleasure.
Plants Vs. Zombies.
I think guilty pleasures are the games you play for waaay too long, pointlessly. Games with no story, no beginning, no end. This goes for most addictive games whether they are casual or hardcore. Super Meat Boy certainly falls into this category. As do the katamari games. I'm not going to apologise, my mum certainly doesn't when she plays spider solitaire for four hours at a time.
Day 5 - Game character I think I'm like.
It was going so well. This would be so much easier if I was a man. There would be characters to aspire to, characters who I would love to be, or love to be mates with. But for girls? What games actually cater for them.I can think of one or two examples of "strong female characters" such as Lara Croft, or Bonnie from Red Dead. But the woman in video games has for so long been the princess to be rescued... or the sexy woman. I'm not saying I'm not sexy, I'm just saying that it's not my only character trait. I don't want to pretend I'm like some boring cardboard cut out of femininity. So for that reason I am choosing... Oh wait.. Kirby's male. Did you seriously have to claim that one?
I guess I'll just have to hope that one day I can be half as interesting, exciting and dangerous as:
GLaDOS I think we can put our differences aside.
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