In more seriousness, I have indeed had some feelings of reality escapism sometimes in the less recent past.
[img_left]http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/vgbisq_cropped_resized.jpg[/img_left]The part about "you want to move into its world" in "
You have been playing too much adventure RPGs when...",
and one of its symptoms, shown in this picture edit on the left (click to view full size),
that I made, applied to me way more than I'd like to admit.
TASVideos, and speedrunning in general, however, has absolutely nothing to do with it.
It has more to do with extremely captivating RPGs. They don't call those games "fantasy" for no reason.
Other types of games, not so much. Eh, even now, I'm listening to some FF7 soundtrack.
Now I realize that this post gives some people a convenient excuse to point fingers at me for other topics I'm interested in. At most, I chuckle, because I've done way too much explaining and I've seen what it accomplishes.
P.S. No, that scene in the picture is not something that I particularly crave for. It just happened to have an ideal perspective, detail level and lighting conditions that I knew I could replicate with my equipment. I wanted to do a similar shot of somewhere in Chrono Cross, but I never could find such a scene that would work well. In all of them, either the angle is too acute, or the character (that is, me) would be rendered too small in the picture, or the lighting conditions were such that I could not replicate indoors.
![[img_left]http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/vgbisq_cropped_resized.jpg[/img_left]](http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/vgbisq.jpg){kind=link}
EDIT: Yeah, pointless.
Lucky Star?