Role-Playing Games are good for you in molding your character

everyone says games are not good for you, they're just things you play and play until you get bored. i say to you role playing games are NOT like those. for example, final fantasy 7... in a place called midgar, there is a group of guerrillas named AVALANCHE. they're primary objective is to stop midgar from getting the power source from the center of the earth or the lifestream. one of those guerillas is Cloud Strife, an ex-soldier in the army or shinra. He claims to be the next to the best in the past(actually its his dream to be the best) but he doesn't know that he isn't. he lost his memory from a comatose in a mission in his homeland, Nibelheim and traumatized him from excelling. the best is actually sephiroth, an a-class soldier who is an experiment by the scientist in midgar. he also doesn't know until the incident in nibelheim that made cloud have his comatose. sephiroth actually stabbed him in the chest but he actually survived. he had grudge against the "humans" who experimented him so he sought revenge. as the story progresses, cloud remembers what happened in the incident and detraumatized himself from his past by the help from his friends. he actually defeats sephiroth in the end of the game. ff7 tells us that if you fail, that doesnt mean its done. like the career conference said, failure is just a stepping stone. games like these can help us just as it helped me.

another example, star ocean 3: till the end of time. the story starts with the year 2800+. we found various planets that has capability of living so in this year, earth has been abandoned andwe started migrating. the story actually starts in a resort where the hero resides. Fayt Leingod, son of a renowned scientist, is having his break in college when suddenly attacks from another plant destroyed the resort and left with no other choice but to leave the place with a space pod capable of flying through space. he started to think why people from other planets are attacking one another so he started to research. he found out that there is a force that doesn't exist in their dimension. as the story unfolds, he found out that he and the universe is a virtual world created by man. its just as saying he himself is a playable character in a mmorpg game (massively multi player online role playing game) like Ragnarök for instance but that doesn't end there at all. even though we are living in a virtual world right now, we still live and thats the point. someone bestowed you life whether virtual or not. live it to the fullest. thats what the creator of this game wants to say.

Tales of the Abyss, another game to play. just finished it this year in 4 days =P. Actually this game's plot is actually similar to ff7. it starts with a stubborn stupid boy named Luke von Fabre. he doesnt remember the past since he also got traumatized when he got kidnapped when he was 10. the story starts with an ordinary day, ordinary life as a noble, daily sword practice with his master van grants. but when a lady named Tear Grants appeared in his courtyard, the story starts. they fought because tear wanted to kill her brother, van grants. their attack created a hyperresonance that teleported them to a random place. story unfolds and luke found out he was kidnapped by nine other than van grants. he is also a replica to the real luke von fabre who is now ashe, the ash of the sacred flame, btw luke means the sacred flame in the game. van had plans to destroy the world and replicate it using fontech. why? because the world destroyed his homeland and luke is strong enough to create a hyperresonnance to eliminate the crust thus destroying the world itself. luke believed that his hyperresonence can save the world and van tricked him into doing that. tear failed to stop luke and luke regretted. tear encouraged him to live on, dont dwell on the past. he finally realized that and defeated van at the end. this game actually tells us if you commit a mistake, dont dwell on it. do what you can right now to make up for your mistakes.

so rpgs are good for us!!!! they simply are books in a cd you know so dont say we players actually waste our time playing... we play because we want to learn. i personally learn english thru rpgs so dont judge a book by its cover... RPGs are the best there is! :D