3928: Mushrooms & Roses
Note that this may just be my perception of it, but I feel like the reason people are so into "high fantasy" [castles, kings/queens, knights, etc. into elves, dragons, magic, etc.] is that it's a significantly simpler life, once you get past the whole Bear Grylls element. That is, to a degree, it's easy as a fantasy character to decide to go hunting and live in the wilderness but always have access to something resembling civilization when you want, so long as you're ready to fight off wild animals and monsters.
Making the fantasy [as it were] more enticing is the "item drop" element introduced in fantasy games, that just the act of going out and killing things generates money and fabulous prizesitems. It's easy not to need a job in such a realm. [If I have to explain why this is alluring, do us both a favour and please stop reading my journal.]
For instance, Meteor Games is developing a FB app where you inherit your father's shop and fill it with random crap you find, literally, everywhere for people to come buy. Literally crap, too, since Sludge is not only a salable item but an achievement should you manage to sell it [which I have, several times over!]... also, Unwashed Clothes, Poison Ivy[!!!], and all kinds of food off the ground =p
Hey, if someone wants to buy MY unwashed clothes at an exhorbitant mark-up, fine by me!
I'm most of the way through Magic Kingdom for SaleSOLD!, and I get exactly that impression as to why Ben Holiday agreed to buy the kingdom. Sure, he wasn't hurting for a job since he had the money, but that he wanted to run away from the complexities and dreariness of Real Life to go play in a fantasy world where any bumpkin can survive off eating magic tree branches all day is exactly my point. It's just SIMPLER. The only thing to worry about at all is pure survival. And even that was largely handed to him by having kobold guardians. [It's a little more complicated than that, but at its core, it doesn't disprove my theory.]
Which is not to say this is a fault, exactly. That's part of why it's called fantasy in the first place, I expect. Real Life is Hard Work, and it's too easy to just want all that to go away, even to the point of taking one's health and safety for granted.
I mean, I don't know if it's worth going all Bear Grylls to avoid having to figure out why the huge discrepancy in my QuickBooks figures, but some days... =_=
Making the fantasy [as it were] more enticing is the "item drop" element introduced in fantasy games, that just the act of going out and killing things generates money and fabulous prizesitems. It's easy not to need a job in such a realm. [If I have to explain why this is alluring, do us both a favour and please stop reading my journal.]
For instance, Meteor Games is developing a FB app where you inherit your father's shop and fill it with random crap you find, literally, everywhere for people to come buy. Literally crap, too, since Sludge is not only a salable item but an achievement should you manage to sell it [which I have, several times over!]... also, Unwashed Clothes, Poison Ivy[!!!], and all kinds of food off the ground =p
Hey, if someone wants to buy MY unwashed clothes at an exhorbitant mark-up, fine by me!
I'm most of the way through Magic Kingdom for SaleSOLD!, and I get exactly that impression as to why Ben Holiday agreed to buy the kingdom. Sure, he wasn't hurting for a job since he had the money, but that he wanted to run away from the complexities and dreariness of Real Life to go play in a fantasy world where any bumpkin can survive off eating magic tree branches all day is exactly my point. It's just SIMPLER. The only thing to worry about at all is pure survival. And even that was largely handed to him by having kobold guardians. [It's a little more complicated than that, but at its core, it doesn't disprove my theory.]
Which is not to say this is a fault, exactly. That's part of why it's called fantasy in the first place, I expect. Real Life is Hard Work, and it's too easy to just want all that to go away, even to the point of taking one's health and safety for granted.
I mean, I don't know if it's worth going all Bear Grylls to avoid having to figure out why the huge discrepancy in my QuickBooks figures, but some days... =_=