OPINION
WHY I LIKE
WILDSTAR: A SCI FI
GEEK’S GUIDE
For a geek born in the late 70s, video games became an escape from school-yard
bullies. Sci-Fi became an escape from the grind of life in small-town Australia.
When I got older, I learned to fit in, but my love of games and sci-fi only grew.
T
here was a time,
were designed to never be beaten;
you tried nonetheless. A design
somewhere between
though consisting of a small screen
theory that has gone the way of the
the Cretaceous Period
made of a few dots, it allowed
aforementioned period of prehistory.
and the iPad, when video games
escapism that television couldn’t.
were made for geeks. Gallaga,
They were amazing challenges,
Asteroids and Space Invaders
that you knew were hopeless, but
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Some games have taken the
easiness too far -- even MMO’s --
The GameOn Magazine