the-future-now:‘Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ is my favorite game because it satisfies my
the-future-now: ‘Zelda: Breath of the Wild’ is my favorite game because it satisfies my anxiety When I was in fourth grade, my best friend Jennifer and I made matching RuneScape accounts. We were in her kitchen, sitting side by side on her dad’s two laptops, when we entered Tutorial Island as ninjaboy1570 and ninjagirl01. For those who don’t know, RuneScape was an mass multiplayer online roleplaying game that was first released in 2001 but reached peak popularity between 2005 and 2007. It’s a pretty standard adventure game with quests to finish, weapons to obtain and specific zones for player-vs-player fighting. But I was never in it for the adventuring. I spent so little time actually fighting anything that if my weapons weren’t virtual, they would have had dust on them. I was in it for the moments of calmness, for hanging out with other players in big cities like Varrock or Falador. Spending time in those cities allowed me to be whoever I wanted among other players. As the little gay kid in elementary school who couldn’t wait to leave his small town, I found this feeling relatively new. I could pretend to be a senior in high school who just got accepted into UCLA, a recent college graduate who got a job on his favorite TV show or even a 21-year-old gaming journalist in New York. As I grew up, I had less time for roleplaying games and started to lose interest in RuneScape. But for a long time after I left the game behind, I expected that I’d never find another game that made me feel so positively about myself. For a while, I was correct. Then I found The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Read more (Opinion) follow @the-future-now -- source link