Living in a video game.

I don't play video games very often. I have never been very good at finding my way through cyber space land where my main goal is to shoot people, grab coins, or win a car race. Yet, I have always marveled at these different cyber-worlds that you (the gamer) would explore. Since I have never been very good at playing them, I usually watch others do it, giving me plenty of time to think about the setting, characters, and effort that was put into making the entire thing. I do remember one day, my friends were talking about "how cool it would be to live in a video game!" I, however, hold a completely different opinion.

 Life would be completely awful if one lived in a video game. If I was a video game character and my game is opening up for the first time on someone's screen, I would begin by begging the player to actually do a good job. If he or she is a total failure at video games, I would be the one character in the game that glitches all of the time, telling them to just hand the game over to someone that will win. The majority of video games made today involves death in a horribly slow and painful way. It seems like the only way to actually fail a level is to fall of a cliff, get shot, get eaten, set on fire, etc. Take a character like Mario for example. It is a pretty harmless game, but, you have to pass through 12 or so worlds that range from awkwardly happy and dangerous to extremely dark, shady, and dangerous. All to rescue a ditzy princess who will just get kidnapped again in the next game. If you pass through these worlds, great, that means you gotten passed the singing turtles, enraged mushrooms, murderous venus flytraps, and all of the cliffs and pitfalls. You wouldn't even have to be a main character to have a completely horrible life. 

 Even if I was an unimportant character in the game. One that could quietly slip in and out of my cyber-space realm without being noticed, I would still have a horrible time. Simply because I would have to travel into another land, pass through all of those levels without dying, just to get to my location. Every place you go, you are in some form of danger. Buying a house in a video game land would be completely out of the question. Considering that the majority of the time would be spent running away or hiding from dragons, aliens, natural disasters, assassins/ hit men, and various mythical creatures, simply to walk across the street or travel somewhere. So, to sum this post up in a few words is to say that if someone feels like a video game would be in any way a normal living condition, they wouldn't last an hour without gunpowder, magical swords, or a force field.