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the 'Paranormal' and Gaming industry

Category: Default Game: All games Posted on Feb 02, 2009 7:58 pm

Do you remember the first time you have watched star trek, Lord of the rings, Harry potter, X-files, superman, Spiderman, bewitched, charmed, Casper, Sabrina the teenage witch, Dracula…etc

How did it feel? I bet it was one of the most intriguing feelings one can experience at young age, ‘ he is flying’ , ‘she is changing her appearance’ , ‘ how can he walk on the water’, ‘ he can crash cars’!!

I never forget when my dad handed me ‘Alice in wonderland’ book, I used to believe everything in it, and cry why I cannot shrink like her, I also remember ‘Aladdin’ and the Jinny who could do anything for him, I forced my mom to buy me a lamp and kept trying over and over, but the Jinny never showed up.

I sound funny isn’t it? But so does all the kids whose minds are controlled by the unusual that fills the media, a fast selling product which has billions of audience.

When your brain is provoked to follow the illusionary/imaginary world of the paranormal and myth it creates a density or mass of superficial thinking not analytical, so you relate all the incidents that happens in your life to a vague unknown creatures, your reality shift into illusion and your brain will trick you into a stage where you belive you have invisible powers in you as a defense toward these so called ‘evil powers’, and you believe that you are able to fight it with a similar ‘x-men’ like abilities, and what would be more entertaining and amusing than playing a character in a MMO world which holds magical, superior powers to kill massive giants, ugly monsters or cast a friendly healing spell on a friend, or curse a foe? You cannot believe that your don't have these powers!! those supernatural abilities are not in you!! So the only place you turn to, is (fantasy games) or more movies.

The fantasy genre has shown an overwhelming growth in the industry and competition which has made it so hard to beat, so any new MMO that comes to the market is always considered a ( copy/cloned/similar) due to the lack of imagination of the new games developers in the industry and the ‘sell fast’ concept.

There are few original concepts lately, and if there is, the execution is either poor, or the fame of the other games beats it.

A part from this topic, I would like to ask people who are drawn to this genre, which paranormal feature are you most attracted to, and why?

Do you believe that you possess a supernatural power like ‘heroes’ characters, and if so, how can you benefit the humanity and your other friends with it?

A Personal Thought to ponder upon: The world evolves around you with Science and knowledge, not with havoc and myth, it’s time you wake up and hold onto those who really helps you Bloom, not those who drag you to insanity.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. Garrison Keillor

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BaltazarDZ

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Post Time : Oct 13,2009 9:10 am

I like Fantasy stuff in general. Why? Because why would I like to play a game where I do the same things I do in my real life? If I want to experience something like that then I jsut leave my computer and go outside.

Also my personal thought... Science and knowledge is evolving but it's not like it's at the peak. There are so many things that have not been researched yet. Just because we are better in science than in 18th century it doesn't mean that maybe after several centuries people will look back and say "Man 20th century was such a dark age. they didn't believe in ESP and Magic. Can you believe that?" just like now we can say "People in past thought the Earth is flat. Can you believe that?"

Enzhan

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Post Time : Feb 04,2009 3:00 am

kewl can you be my heroes hehehe take care my friend.

aisu

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Post Time : Feb 04,2009 2:00 am

"Fantasy is the reality of the believer." do u belive... I will leave it in that

angelforce

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Post Time : Feb 03,2009 10:33 pm

WOW, this topic is my forte lol. First off, there are SO many unusual things that happen in life that noone can explain or even have the capacity to think that it can. There are several types of "ability's" people have now, but most people are turned off to immediatly they hear the person say they have it. NO, im not talking about super regeneration or any weird stuff like ( woooooooooo i can control fire ) elemental control or teleportation. What you seriously need to look into if you have a curiosity about learning about this topic is look up psycic gifts. There are several gifts one can have.

#1. Telepathy

This type of gift supposedly allows the person to hear another one's thoughts. Also anyone thinking atm ( omfg this guy is a freak aka:me ) bear with me. People like this "normally" only hear glimpses or aka:whispers. Basically its gestures not the entire thought or sentence the person is saying.

#2. Empathy

This gift i have a LOT of experience with because I am one. Empath's are one of if not the most misunderstood psycic gift out there. What can an empath do your asking? I'll get right to it. An Empath picks up on other people's emotions, and feeling's. People with an extreme gift for it can also literally FEEL what a person is feeling by connecting to their persona or w/e you wanna call it.

1st Scenario

Me being an empath I have had many encounters where I've become aware of my gift's. Where there are places with a lot of people, I cant go there. I pick up everyone's emotions around me literally making me feel ill, simply because my body is overdosed on so many feelings and emotions. Mall's, Movie Theatre's, Concert's, and even some grocery stores are out of the question for me.

2nd Scenario

There are times when a family member of mine that im close to gets hurt, happy, or any intense emotion really, that I'll feel that way at the exact same time they do. No they don