“Looking for an oasis on earth? You fool! Earth is already an oasis in the space!”
-Mehmet Murat ildan
Adventure
“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation.”
-Herman Melville, Hawthorne and His Mosses
It’s Day Eight and it’s time to talk about something truly magical: adventure games….
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
– Bruce Lee
A Link to the Past is often considered the best game in the entire Legend of Zelda series, but why? What makes this SNES title so good?
“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.”
—Victor Hugo
“He always thought of the sea as ‘la mar’ which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen… spoke of her as ‘el mar’ which is masculine. They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”
-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.”
-Baron Humbert von Gikkingen
“Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.”
-Aesop
“Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.”
― George R.R. Martin
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.”
-Richard Puz
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
“There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.” – Sir Francis Drake
“I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.” [HAL 9000]
-2001: a Space Odyssey
“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” –William Shakespeare
“I wonder if aliens ever say: Do you believe in humans?”
-Anonymous
“When convention and science offer us no answers, might we not finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility?”
-Fox Mulder, The X-Files
“Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot. So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible…”
-Bruce Wayne, Detective Comics #33
“Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can’t see the enemy.”
― Frank Miller, Batman: Year One
“Sometimes… sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We’re inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it’s your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass… and we are you.”
― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum – A Serious House on Serious Earth
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe–share their world at all costs.”
-Hideo Kojima
