So over the last 4 years or so I developed an fixation on Lord of the Rings, I started off liking the movies alot but then decided to read the books and got sucked in. It's a great story right up my alley and I am willing to bet money Tolkien was a lot like us. So much detail and history in this immaculate fantasy world he created in his mind. Long chapters of dialogue that make the character's personalities clear to you as they change throughout their individual journeys.

So to further my obsession I discovered Lotro (lord of the rings online) and signed up to play for free so I could actually enter these realms I went to in my mind when reading. I have never been a gamer at all, never had the attention span or the money or the need to entertain myself with video games. Not that I look down on gamers, I just would rather daydream, but I got very sucked in. The mmo rpg games are addictive as it is, and it allowed me to create characters I could name and give my own backstory to all the while learning more about middle earth lore and all that dorky jazz.

So I learned how to play the game well and did get to the cap, but I spent alot of time just zoning out with it and not even playing just getting into my characters, 11 of them lol. I think of it alot like playing with toys as a kid, except I have the entire playset for everything! you can have your own house, job, family members, play music,  own pets, go fishing, socialize with other fanatics which I did for a while, but eventually became antisocial, which is against the whole point of this kind of game which is to team up with people and defeat enemies as groups. I'm just into the experience of the worlds and I know I'm not the only one.

But now it's been 3 years and I have middle earth inside my head. I spend day after day thinking bout what my characters wll do that night or I'll just log in and go there as an escape from reality. It's like I'd rather live in middle earth, I've said to myself too that that's where I want to go when I die lol. this actually allows me to live in a world I control instead of reality and ignore friends and family and everyone else. Now I find myself pacing and thinking about it instead of playing, some nights I feel like I have to make myself play because I've gotten so deep in dreams with it I've made up accents for each realm of the world and details about their cultures in a way to make them even more real to me. I find it very fun and exciting but I also realize it's a huge waste.

The problem is when you get to the point where you feel you're really good at making up these types of stories and making them real in order to entertain yourself,  that's just it.. you're entertaining yourself alone. Because it's someone else's story, I suppose I could make fanfiction stories but I dont think anyone would read it, and having story making talent doesnt mean anything to anyone who doesnt read it. Not like I could get tolkien enterprises to approve a story I wrote and do anything with it, I suppose it's possible but it would be very defeating for me to spend all the time writing and sharing for nothing.

Of course I know I need to stop it, my intention of this post is to see if others have used videogames in this way or if anyone's currently or was fixated/obsessed with an already existing fictional story or characters. I've also made full length features in my head of these types, batman and x men mostly. I'm very proud of MY x men trilogy which is much darker and deeper, and would require a much bigger budget xD.  Again I dont feel I could realistically ever make these movies, I haven't a clue on how to write a screenplay and don't have any film industry knowledge or credentials to be taken seriously, but I've always wished I could share them with the world. Just plug my brain into a giant screen so everyone could see and be amazed. I'm currently working on "The Phoenix Nebulin" which is a trilogy based around Jean Grey in which she is a time traveller, it serves as a prequel to the x men trilogy because it follows her back story before x men and as a "postquel" as well because she travels into the future long after the xmen are gone. 

What's hilarious is that no one out there has any idea I give two craps about the x men at all, my best friends and family would never equate me with a die hard x men or comic fan at all. it's all locked up and as much as I'd like to share it all I dont think the world would understand or even give it a chance. So if anyone has  anything to say about it I'd love to hear it! Peace!

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Comment by Nathaly on November 9, 2013 at 3:16pm

Oh my God, English is not my native language and I don't have all the liberty of the expression in Englsh, but I'll try...reading this I was trembling because it is so about me too!!! I meen LOTR universe.

LOTR was my start, my first point of  my way into the imaginary worlds...Firstly I've been paralysed by the first film, I was 12 at the moment. Then as I was very good in reading I've read the books. By the premiere of the third film my head was completely full of characters and details of the world. The difference between you and me, David, is that I was not interested in  the details and inventing new elements. I was happy with the things Tolkien had written. I only modified the story, introducing myself into it, but not much. Then in some years it happened that another story have come and still working, LOTR for me is a warm and important memory, but I fear, not my home anymore.

The thing I wanted to tell you that if you really so good in fiction, you should try to do something with this talent, I meen we can not repeat Tolkien or other great authors, but you still can search for something personal and special for you and write a book about it! Don't forget to say thanks to this site before publishing!

And remember that somewhere in  another part  of the world there is at least one girl who, just like you, is pacing, thinking about being a part of some great story.

Comment by David W on October 22, 2013 at 11:58pm

Well if you have any intentions of stopping dding dont get in an online game like that lol.

Yeah I was very disappointed in the movies, they could have been so cool! I knew I could have done better, I had already done better! They didnt even have the sentinels! They mixed up the order of appearance and there was no Gambit or Jubilee! The fox show was actually my inspiration for many big action scenes in my story, one is directly from an episode, I think was the very first one, where they're in  a shopping mall when the sentinels come in after them...Yeah..I made a totally amazing opening sequence out of that ;)

I also DDed Batman alot growing up, had my own alternate versions of the movies after Tim Burton stopped making them. I hated the following two Joel Schumaker movies. It's funny because I had an alternate ready for the Dark Knight expecting to hate it, but it was so good I left it alone lol. That one made it into my box office as it was..But not the next one :P

But I do have a few originals, not knock offs that I spent  a long time DDing, my best one is about Vlad the Impaler and how he came to be known as Dracula based on all the actual legends from old Transylvania and Walachia. I watched this long documentary about it and thought it would make the coolest movie. Then looked up documentaries on Vlad and his war with Turkish Muslims and his brutality. It was cool for me to be able to make a story that was historically valid...just in case.. one day I decide to really write it...not!  If you're curious about the actual legends that spawned the notion of vampires and werewolves in that region and time period http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigoi

It's really cool and scary and supposedly true! Maybe incorporate what you read into something you're DDing if it does anything for you.

I can babble on and on myself, I like your babble, so babble on!

Ok that's way too much use of the word babble for the week.....

Comment by Stormy on October 22, 2013 at 6:30pm

I just got very excited when I got to the part about X-Men! Oh my goodness. Let me tell you! I discovered X-men when I was 14 I think? Maybe it was 15. Whenever the animated series came out on Fox (I think it was Fox! Oi! My memory!) in the 90's. I fell in love. I was absolutely suckered in.

I would rush to the grocery store (I'm from a small island so we didn't have much in the way of comic stores at that time) and there was this small comic book stand and sure enough there was X-men! I grabbed every series they had of it. I developed a habit with the show and all the comics.

I couldn't wait to get home from school just so I could rush to my room. Read over the comics again and again. And then sit in my bed with the door closed and DD. I would share mine but this was when I was a teen girl and my head of full of romance. I just imagined romantic escapades amidst the action. Wolverine won over Jean. And Gambit and Rogue. This went on for years I think. 

I was very upset by the live action movies of X-Men. Disappointed. I think it was due to all the years of DDing it. I was very attached to the comics ...or Graphic Novels I should be calling them! And the original cartoon. The movies just were not up to snuff in my  mind. 

Also around the same time I fell in love with Vampire Hunter D. SciFi channel did the special Anime "Carnival" or something like that. Once a year a week or so of all kinds of amazing anime movies. Several of them really stuck with me for DDing. But none as powerful and intense and as enduring as Vampire Hunter D. Now I collect the translated books and art books and it feeds it even to this day and I'm 34 now! It's not as much that I DD Vampire D but it's certainly still here and there! Just a month ago to be exact.

Well, sorry for all the babble. I certainly can relate to that! I have never experienced anything like online world building. But it sounds like something I'd probably do if I did set up something like that! Ha!

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