replacing pain with fear-induced, adrenaline-rushed, monster attacking mayhem
While I was driving to the office today, I remembered something really out-of-the-blue.
Rewind to 2006. I was finding ways to get over pain, I was belching smoke like a badly tuned-up car, my coffee expenses were rocketing sky-high, but as soon as I get home, the nightmares start.
And most of the time, I was at home.
I had to find something to do. So I plugged in my PS2, and went in a search for games that didn’t remind me of him.
Fat chance.
So I asked a friend to let me borrow some CDs, and he gave me Resident Evil 4 (RE4) among the mix.
Resident Evil was memorable for me. Back in highschool where PS1 had Biohazard, I remember flinging the controller and running for dear life from being scared to death of zombies, the sound effects and the really bad aura.
So I decided to go for it. After all,I felt sunk, it didn’t really matter if I was scared to death. In fact, the whole pain+fear+agony was enough for my masochistic tendencies. LOL
The first part was the crappiest. Adrenaline was pumping, the fear was multiplied, and each moan and each creak sent me jumping off my seat. Until I was beyond a hour of gameplay, then 2, until I went on. Getting new guns, getting new amo, continuing the plot, and still jumping every now and then from the vibrate of the cellphone.
Up to date, I finished RE4 around 2-3 times just to get the cooler guns.
I have no idea if it helped me, but I guess it sorta did. I was too busy feeling the fear that I forgot some of the pain, plus imagining every crazed, possessed, monster dude in the game was the guy, and I was head-shooting, suplexing, and beating them to a pulp, was a reliever.
I guess if I was going to be asked on ways to get over a guy, I would say.
Play RE4…
I think games are a perfect way to release tension and temporarily escape what can sometimes be the harsh reality that is everyday life. Personally, I can always get lost in a good puzzle/action game like Metroid Prime or any of the Zelda games. There’s something about the meticulous design of these titanic Nintendo franchises that keeps me enamored for hours on end. As with any kind of media it is nice to be able to find a title in which one can truly get lost.
Nice post.
Why thanks :), yeah, people rarely understand the need for gaming, like I could sit up for hours playing Dota even after a day’s work (which I need to be stuck looking at the monitor for more than 8 hours), it’s different. it gives you a nice feeling :)