No Boundaries

 

by Archie

Most virtual gaming worlds show “drop-dead” gorgeous landscape environments. Problem is, you can never go there. But you can go in There!! 

The Bear Went Over the Mountain.  

I am a total sucker for cool view. I see the distant hills shrouded in fog and simply can’t still. I don’t care if I’m walking, hoverbiking, buggying, ‘packin, or boatin’. I simply gotta get moving or my wanderlust will cause to go into a serious “jones”. 

Which is why most virtual worlds make my brain ache. Even my kids Mario games. Oh! What I would easily give to explore the mountains of Super Mario Bros. backgrounds! Rofl!! 

Like so many games, Super Mario 64 gets close but still is hemmed in by invisible walls. Yeah, I understand the physics. The game would be “shot to heck” if instead of progressing you just took you avie off over the hills in a free range of exploration-

-Game writers would simply be begging for latte’ change at Peet’s if they couldn’t stick with the boundaries and “life energy” challenges of typical game scripts. I am glad we are different in There. 

BAM BAM BAM!! 

SHWINNNGGG!  

Swords, ray blasters, and just plain old everyday shooters. Well There does have paintball, and it’s quite effective. Your “damage” is simply time and displacement. You have to spend a few seconds to “get it together” after you get hit- fair enough, and yes the scoring system in organized paintball games. There has it all, except you’re not stuck in the boundaries of a world with “edges” 

Some of us have been around the globe. 

It takes like, ‘forever’ Just for the record, and Bluedaisysky did it on foot!! She ran around the globe! Amazing! It took a few months. Hoverboating is the most popular way, but not the fastest. Monster truckin’ is the fastest and even that takes around a month- well if you could leave it on night and day, and never miss a “reset”, ‘hmmm I wonder.  

Monster Trucking, How Fast Is It? 

The Monster Trucks can travel really fast and have less fish tail problems than regular buggies. This brings up a sort of challenge then doesn’t it? What is the fastest verified around the world trip time? Please contact me if you know, or plan to attempt this.

And so beyond the boundaries of a spherical globe like There, is outer space, and even that has been breeched by the like of the Rush’s Deep Space 999,999 the historical million meter mark. What’s next? The Stars? Perhaps strange new unfinished worlds filled with unconnected islands and avies who walk like they’re in pain? Eeeww- unless someone finds that star that is hiding the elusive There II, You’ll find me, still exploring the ever surprising, and endless globe, here, in There.

 

Happy Travels,

Archie