I haven’t
played any video games for a long time. My first and last gaming
console was a PSX (Yup, that old!). But once a while, I do keep track
of some of the games that I like or played before, e.g. Medal of
Honor, Metal Gear, Tomb Raider and Resident Evil. When Tomb Raider
2013 was released, I was pretty excited and always checked online for some
photos and videos, but never excited enough to actually want play it,
mainly because I sucked at gaming. But when I heard about one amazing
game and watched the video, I was hooked and was for the first time in a long time
considering buying a console just to play that game. The culprit was “The
Last of Us”.
The Last
of Us is a post-apocalypse survival horror zombie game, but it’s
not just any post-apocalypse survival horror zombie game. The
storyline was absolutely amazing, it got players completely
connected to the characters, the gameplay was great, even the zombie
infection idea was more realistic compared to other zombie games and
movies. (Not going to bore you with my unprofessional details and definitely not going to spoil the game for you.)
I’ve
watched the “movie” version of the game on Youtube, downloaded it
and watched it again many times later. The story was that good. Even
though I’ve watch the video before playing the game (a serious
no-no for hardcore gamers), it’s because of having watched the whole
story that made me want to play the game even mor and experience it for
myself. True, I’m not a good gamer and most likely to die many
times even before getting a quarter-way through, I still want to try
playing it. The game has an easy difficulty setting, which is good
news for me, and from what I heard, the easy difficulty has an
auto-aim function, which is great for me.
The one
thing that is stopping me from playing the game right now is money. I
haven’t done my research yet, but I know that buying a console and
a game would set me back around RM1,000, maybe more. And to play the game, I need
to get a new TV too. The TV in my room is simply too small to play any
game, even the ones from my old PSX. So you can do the math on how
much the whole set-up would cost me.
Now you
see my predicament. I really, really want to play The Last of Us. But
the financial cost was just so high. Argh! What am I to do…
