Video Games Give Life

One of my favorite hobbies, behind socializing and adventuring, is playing video games. I know a lot of people don’t like video games and some think they are bad for gamers, but in my mind they are a chance to escape. Some of my favorite games to play ever since video games were a thing have been Super Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros, Call of Duty, Halo, The Elder Scrolls, and Fallout.  The reason behind this blog is because Bethesda is releasing a brand new and long waited Fallout 76. I am super pumped and cannot wait to play the new game.

A quote about the game from Bethesda Studios says “Reclamation Day, 2102. Twenty-five years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers – chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America. Play solo or band together as you explore, quest, build and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats”. It is set in the West Virginia mountains and allows players to decide what they want to do in the wasteland of post nuclear war. You can be a thief/bandit and only take to make yourself better. My style of play is to rebuild and help those in need to make America a better place for everyone.

 Most people see video games as a negative. That they make kids violent or that the video games aren’t educational in any way for the kids. In some ways yes this is true, but it does have a lot of positives as well. It lets kids escape the world we live in and it can make them a hero. I had a friend that gave a speech in a class who had a rough childhood with an abusive mom and a dad that traveled for work. He put it best that when he played video games he could be who he wanted to be. He could be the hero that he always wanted to be while growing up. Video games have something for everyone to with horror, action, war, puzzles, and simulations. Well that’s all I have to say about that, a quote from my favorite character Ezio Auditore "Don’t ever stop. Always keep going, no matter what happens and is taken from you. Even when life is so unfair, don’t give up".