With a snap, I'm inside a new world. Something far beyond what previous Virtual Consoles can do, it can perfectly track feeling and other such details, even smell... and I can tell due to my... new smell.
I no longer spell like dirt and mud but instead I smell like a mixture of battery acid and lavender, I can feel my hands grate against leather gloves and I feel metal strapped to my chest.
I'm in my old avatar, to be honest its a little nostalgic... just a little. So I begin walking around the giant bustle of... people. There is just people here for now, only later can I assume many different structures will be here. So I wander around, it's quite a lovely place to be honest... it feels like the perfect temperature and I don't work up a sweat even running top speed for a while.
Eventually a computerized voice game me some instruction, open a menu... pick a game... whatever. I'm more interested in the HUB right now.
After exploring for a little bit, it seems that there are slot like areas to enter games. Much like an Arcade machine but you are the coin. You see previews and other such things outside, and you can even see some things happening inside!
Very cool indeed, they managed to get the Hub slightly connected to the games themselves, that surely would improve connections while in game... more servers to pull Data from.
Let's see what games are available!
Games sorted by popularity |
StarDuster MMO |
HellGate FPS |
Pathological2 MMO |
Prophecy MOBA |
Only four games up and running... hopefully we get more choice down the line but it does seem that... they have a sequel to Pathological.
That... damn game...
They think its OK to just have it here? That game killed hundreds, if not thousands! I'm lucky I logged out in time... I have no clue how painful it would of been to die in something you spent hours in, it would feel like a betrayal.
I guess I gotta try the sequel at least.
That's probably why they have me here, one of the few who experienced Pathological... but they don't know I wasn't actually in there during the incident. Well, it doesn't matter... What are they going to do? Scan my brain? Unlikely.
After being pulled in by a wormhole like slot, I'm eventually taken to a menu screen... Load old Character or create new, of course... I'm going to load my old one.
Without further ado from that point, I'm sent back into the world of Pathological. It was funny, many shows and books depict VR games somehow killing their players... when the first VR MMO came out everyone was joking about it, then it actually happened. ' Die in the game, Die in real life ' Many said... ironically they did.
That was long before the whole ordeal with... everything. It all started with a some dumbass overdosing on 'Josephine '... whatever that is, I never seen it. Then one thing after another the world fell apart. Then it got political, then internationally politically... then War. What's stopping world powers from commiting war crimes... just a flimsy sheet of paper.
Well, this will make a good escape from it all... no politics in VR games, that's agreed upon by everyone, except politicians of course but then again, who cares about what they say. This is our exclusive club from the world, all people of all nationalities all enjoying games together.
I mean it when I say ALL nationalities, I see many people with Chinese user names, some people from Korea, some from all over the place... even places were at war with, I can tell because keyboards are always in the language you speak... so names always appear in native languages of a person. I see everyone while inside pathological, how this small company has influence all around the world is pretty crazy... but that makes me what to put my trust in them, they don't care about where people come from.
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