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Ladies, Gents.......others.

The other day i was around at my girlfriends place whilst her brother and his friend were playing a Cricket game in high definition of some ridiculously massive screen and while i could appreciate all of the pretty pixels moving in absolute perfect sync with each other, in all honesty after watching about 2 minutes of this game i wanted to kill myself. The fact that someone would make a game about a game (dig at card game games *cough* yugioh *cough*), the fact that the only soundtrack was the crowd sounds recorded at the last armageddon during the kamehameha competition and the annoying commentator that smokes thirty packs a day and narrates his own life and to top it all off they made a game about cricket which is in itself the most boring game known to man, it really just makes me think that someone had too much spare time, a sh*tload of programmers just sitting around playing too much Gears 2 and way too much free porn to bribe them with.

However this got me thinking"Why do we play video games?" the answer to which i found by playing sh*tloads of Final Fantasy (thankyou square-enix, we would be lost without you). In my opinion we play video games to do things that we normally wouldn't be able to do in real life like....hmmmm.... say murder thousands of zombies in a mall complex using an array of awesome and progressively more hilarious weaponry (Dead Rising FTW). Last time i checked that hasnt happened to me and will more than likely never happen, which means my zombie plan is for nothing...........bugger. Coming back to the point, video games exist so that we can leave our own boring lives and become a part of something amazingly awesome that will leave you crying in your seat begging for more blood, guts, gore and real-time shadow rendering *drool* not too mention massive swords and bad ass theme songs. To make a game about cricket, to make a game based on any sport that can be played in real life is blashphemy especially if it is done as poorly as most sports games are. To all those people who play sports games, go out and play it with your friends (especially the friends who are playing WoW, get them out and save their souls before it is too late), if you dont have any friends then rally your family members, if your family members hate you then it may be time to re-think your life. Anyways thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it.