Massively multi-player role-playing games never failed us in giving an alternate world of what we want. Like what I’ve said in my previous entries, we play the part our avatars portray. It is simply a game of playing your role, only which you have a dummy perfect avatar of you. But what if this kind of MMORP gaming has gone to a different level? What if MMORPG’s is not just on your laptop screens and gone through our own grasps and reality?
The gaming industry nowadays is levelling up that fast. MMORP games on the other hand, has also gone through drastic changes since the creation of the first MMORPG back in 1990’s. What I have in my mind is that if this kind of gaming genre, or even in the other gaming genres, has gone through the psychology and mind of the players and created a realistic gaming using our minds. Apparently this idea is from an anime Sword Art Online, which portrays a virtual reality type of MMO. Basically it is real but the thing is it runs through our mind when we sleep, just like dreaming. If this kind of gaming has gone through our world, what would happen? In my opinion, this would be a loud boom to the cyberworld. Imagine a world where you can do the things your character does in the game, like slashing monsters and performing magic. It would be a real hit for all gamers out there. According to the article “The Future of Online Games” by William Murphy, of the site http://www.mmorpg.com/, “Whether or not we see the results anytime soon, the MMO is changing: both in terms of size and scope, and in terms of gameplay and ideals.”
Sword Art Online, for those who are not familiar with, involves the systems of a real MMORPG like missions, levelling up, trading materials and even marriage. Since you are living in a virtual reality, life is like you are the main character in an adventure novel. This is like playing Sims + Everquest +doing real life activities at the same time. But what is different about this game is that if players are killed within the game, they also die in reality. Sounds cruel to be in the real world, right?
Sad to say this type of gaming is far from possible to happen. Listed the ideas of that anime, it would be a great conflict to the technical, financial and ethical values of our world. Also ideas about this type of MMORPG are far from the current status of science and technology. According to the article “Sword Art Online: An Idealistic View of MMORPG” of the site wwwpolychromium.wordpress.com, “A game like Sword Art Online is just a distant dream.”
The thing I am pointing out here is what if and only what if MMORPG in the future is like this? Sooner or later, our world’s technology might be unreachable and could link to the era of virtual reality. This isn’t something good entirely, but more of a bad idea. It would make the human race battle against the rights of this world. But I cannot lie that if this thing has come to reality, I would probably submerge myself into it.
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