“What must it feel like to be forced to play god? To create evil for the sake of defining good?”
A few days have passed since Jason’s confrontation with Alfred and he’s debating whether to re-enter Awaken Online. Alfred has made a proposition that Jason isn’t certain he should accept.
After the battle with Alexion, Jason has also been appointed as the Regent of the Twilight Throne. He must assume the mantle of ruling an undead city – with everything that entails. His first task is to investigate the dark keep that looms over the city’s marketplace. This act will lead to a chain of events that might ensure his city’s survival or create new enemies.
Meanwhile, Alex re-enters the game listless and angry after his loss against Jason. With his reputation in the gutter and no prospects, he will face a choice regarding how he intends to blaze his path through the game.
Well I’ve made it to the end of the second book and boy oh boy I am obsessed now. Haha
So, in this series we split time between the real world and a VR mmo. Now this is full dive VR where you are literally in the game, where you smell and move and feel pain just like in the real world.
The reason I explain this is because it is one of the reasons I am really loving these books. Being the first game of its kind, throughout the books so far there is a dialogue about the different problems a game like this brings up.
These problems range from the VR headgear tapping into and potentially altering you brain function, to the behavior of players in game. I’m sure anyone who has played a mmo knows there are those players who like to pvp other players just for fun or to torment others.
Now when that’s happening on a screen where you don’t have full control on your character its mostly harmless, but what about when you are in a game where you can do whatever you want, and the other person feels pain. This doesn’t just apply to fighting other players but what if players wanted to go into darker things in game. I’m sure you can imagine the slippery slope I’m talking about.
I know that sounds a little dark and ominous, but I was just really intrigued when I started to think about how a full experience VR game in real life would work and all the hurdles and intricacies you would have to deal with while making it. Haha
A little bit of a ramble about only one very specific aspect of why I love this series, but that’s how my “reviews” usually end up.
The Shadow Library 