For the past week and a half, I've been playing the game Tomb Raider on my xBox. Just last night, I finally finished playing it. The total gameplay time was about 20 hours, which was good... and the game still has an online multiplayer mode that varies each time depending on which of my friends I decide to play with. Now, as you can imagine, as the game progessed it got increasingly harder. In the beginning, there was no tutorial... the game just teaches you how to play as you go along.
For those who don't know what the game is about, it's essentially about a girl named Lara Croft who is an explorer/adventurer. In the game version I was playing, she was trapped on an island held under the curse of the Sun Queen, who was allowing no one to leave. Some of the obstacles Lara had to get over in the game were incredible... from scaling cliffs to climbing to the top of rickety towers thousands of feet in the air, the game was very thrilling and also very difficult to get the hang of. While playing, I'd often think about what I would do if I were in the same position as she was... and I'd think to myself, "I'd be dead within minutes". To be honest with you, the first time I attempted to do many of the tasks... I DID die in the game. It took me usually 5-10 attempts before I accomplished the harder goals because I needed to learn how to control my character properly, etc. However, even when I did die... I didn't have to start the whole game over. There was always the trusty save file waiting for me, that checkpoint I could rely on to save my progress. A lot of people love to use the saying "life is a game, so play like you mean it". While I myself have said this... I've come to find that I don't agree with it. In life, there isn't a save file waiting for us if we make a mistake. We can't go back and alter the past, no matter how much we may want to... and every choice we make has an impact on our current situation. Once we've made a choice, we can't find it leads us to a bad ending and just restart to get the more desirable ending. No, we have to live with our poor decisions... and sometimes die with them too. There are no extra lives. There are seldom any wonderful coincidences. And everything we say and do has a repercussion. Playing the game and seeing how many times it took me to get a freaking controller move correctly made me questions how many times it has taken me to get something right in my own life... how many chances I've used up and wasted. How are my mistakes affecting me? Do I even REALIZE what I am doing is a mistake until it is too late? So many questions, and barely any answers. To anyone who thinks life is a game... before you go saying that, please stop and think about what you're saying. It makes no sense. UNLESS, of course, we want to explore the probability that our whole world is a gigantic game and we are being controlled by another form of being that we aren't even conscious of. Then, there are many different possibilities. In games, when a character dies and the save file loads... the character has no memory of their death. They just go back to what they were doing just before their death, and the player often makes them act differently or switches how the character acts in that situation.IF we are but characters in some other being's game... how many save files have we un-knowingly ripped through? How many mistakes has our player made and then fixed... because in any game, there is no way you can get through without your character dying at LEAST once. Just some things for you to think about... Maddie
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