Needless to say, Jason quickly decides to give it a shot but finds his expectations heavily subverted as he finds himself without any goals or enemies. It promises players an unprecedented level of fidelity, enough to make them forget the real world ever existed. There are no real redeeming factors or rays of hope for him to look forward to, and so he seeks a means of escaping his existence, a prayer answered in the form of a new virtual reality game called Awaken Online. This turns them into a means of escape from reality that only becomes increasingly powerful as the technology allows the games to be more immersive… something our protagonist Jason discovers in Travis Bagwell‘s highly-acclaimed Awaken Online: Catharsis.Īs the story begins we are introduced to Jason, a man who is basically fed up with his reality, with his inability to influence it to his contentment. Video games are an especially interesting medium in that regard as they could potentially allow players an unprecedented control over their environment and the people in it. We simply accept that we cannot control all that much beyond ourselves and choose to go on with our lives while channeling these desires through various means, such as writing stories, making music… essentially, through any creative activity. For most of us, however, the ability to shape and manipulate the world is extremely limited by our tremendous lack of resources and relative unimportance in the eyes of others. The power to influence the world is something virtually every single person on Earth covets, dreaming of the fantasy world where their actions actually have a meaningful impact on everything. Travis Bagwell Takes Us Into Our Tomorrow
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