I had this percolating idea slowly taking hold of my brain recently, and was rather intrigued by the prospect of it possibly be applied to games. Perhaps this latest transient set of musings that I had as to allay my disappointment in Oblivion and pin quite defatigable and misplaced hopes now on NWN2, but I think the crux of this persistent thought that gripped my often ADHD addled mind could come from this overwhelming sense of aimlessness and hopelessness.

This quite unoriginal idea for this new game is to put a player cast as a detached and aloof observer. You basically play a role, as in a role playing game. At first, you do not control anything in the world, the gameplay consists of just 'observing' the life that transpires around you. You are just an average Joe, nor christened by any focus of narrative attention. You just react to what this fabricated world throws at you. But you harbour a cherished dream shaped by this imagination of powerful nature over the years consistently hinting glimpses of it through your fantastical, gripping visions. In the 'real' world meanwhile, a girl goes missing apparently for no reason, followed by this character suddenly appearing in your dreams all plaintive and distraught, pleading for something. Is the imagined world that you thought crafted by your innermost and private thoughts in fact be shared with someone? Can it become too powerful to actually materilize across the blurred boundary between assumed reality and pure delusion? Is what we perceive as reality impinged by our own prejudice and state of mind based on a set of desires and emnity? Based on your prior and still proceeding observations and actions committed accordingly, the world in which you now inhabit will undergo transitions, you being transported to the realm where the traditional trappings of conventional RPGs makes 'sense'. You are now the hero, but you are also the villain, with this girl representing the objective reference point upon all the figments of your imagination swirls around. Immerse youself in endless possibilties, forget the drudgery of this often cruel world...

I think this is just a shameless derivation of what Dreamfall is supposed to be about, although I have never read up on the game nor the previous game of which it is a sequel. It is an eagerly awaited adventure game from the creative minds behind 'the Longest Journey', but adventure games...bah.

I consider myself as having born about two centuries too early. I would have been plugged into a wholly encompassing virtual simulator if God had been more than merciful toward my plight, never to return to deal with this physical warped sense of my being right now. The irony of it being that even with the assisted banality of digital crackdom, I will still be unable to associate with anyone past superficial admission that I am...among unfeeling avatars of callous cardboard cutouts of people. What you see is what you get from me, the Internet does not skew my nature in any bit, in fact it more than hones my personality to be what it originally and irrevocably is mine. My real world personna is more or less rings more hollow than what I manage to project, however minimal, under the anonymity of this online medium...how sad, but too bad.