So I was just playing some Xbox 360 gaming goodness when I suddenly wondered if there was ever a gamer out there so weird that he or she stopped playing a game when his main character or whatever got killed. Now I'm not talking about ye good olde days of gaming when you got three lives for a quarter, with bonuses at X amount of points, rather I'm talking about a game like any of the more recent Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Halo, Mass Effect, or any of those titles with a story-driven single-player campaign mode.
I was thinking about perhaps a guy playing a GTA game, getting himself killed in whatever fashion for the first time, and then just stopping...as if he couldn't keep playing unless he bought another copy of the same game to continue. Do you think there's ever been anyone out there that weird who would play in such a way? That they were just that dense that their brain goes, "Oh, my. My character just got killed. Oh well, that was a pretty good 60 dollar purchase for five minutes of fun. Perhaps I'll get another copy to see what happens if I can get a little farther now that I know what not to do!"
I know, it's completely out there. But given the number of weirdos in this world mixed with the number of different types of games out there multiplied by the number of years video games with longer story lines have been around (we can take it all the way back to text adventures if you like), you'd think that perhaps such an anomaly might actually exist. And if it does, I want to meet it.
