Silent Storm Dreams

[EEVIAC]

Its close to 5 am and I can't sleep because I keep having dreams about Silent Storm.

 

Imagine, if you will, Silent Storm crossed with deathmatching - the gameplay is still turn-based, but there's levels of camera control that allow close "chase views" of characters as well as (obviously) first person views, especially for my character. The squads are also more evenly matched, in terms of numbers and skills.

 

So I enter a random encounter with my Axis squad, who are all at about level six, and just begining to be quite lethal on a battlefield. I leave a wire-fenced enclosure and start sweeping for an enemy presence. It doesn't take long to get an enemy sighting. Something is wrong, though. On closer inspection, my squad of Carm, Eagle and myself have apparently faced off against John Romero and Tom Hall. Hall laughs in a high-pitched cackle and Romero calmly talks trash. So I aim up my Browning and give the customary spray from the standing position I usually do at the begining of a conflict. A warning of sorts. (I miss, for those keeping score.) Carm and Eagle then take shots with their scoped guns, also missing. I'm beginning to wish that I'd quick saved, how often will you get Romero in a random map.

 

The enemies turn - the place where it all goes wrong. I don't even remember being shot, I don't think I was, but somehow my whole team was wounded (perhaps it was some kind of "Silent Arrogance" weapon.) Bleeding, decreased percentages, deafness - I sense imminent defeat. At the end of the turn Romero and Hall fade quietly into the jungle backdrop. As soon as I have controll, I move the squad east, desperately looking for a place to get off the map. I see a blue car that looks exactly like a Banshee from GTA III, and Eagle pipes up that we can use it to get away. I have two thoughts - briefly I consider that the Banshee is a two door car and we're not all going to fit, then, more importantly, that I can use the car to (less than honourably) run down Romero. Suprisingly, we all zip into the car and I steer it along a gravel road looking for Romero. The car stops in the middle of the road, my brilliant tactical plan of hit and run ruined, but for some reason the entire party is now healed.

 

And that's as far as the dream went.

 

The reason I'm posting this (apart from public humiliation) is that it demonstrates how deeply the game has burried itself into my sub-conscious. I'm at the point where the complex inter-relationships of squad members is obviously taking up a larger part of my thoughts, whether I'm cognizant of it or not. If dreams are meant to tell us who we are and what we want to be, then I am a person acutely close to the PC I created in game. It speaks volumes about the quality of the game.

[Alaeth]

Impressive.

 

I haven't sunk that low in my obsession, but I do find myself right-clicking my browser to change the angle so it is more readable

[Swe_WolfPack]

**GULP** :wink:

 

Okay... That IS impressive, oh I do have kind of hard to sleep some nights when I have played too much... Dreaming of, how I move the team around the map in 1.000.000 diffrent turns, but somehow someone in my team allways get hit, I wake and being pissed :roll:

 

The above behavior makes my workingday kinda hard, because sometimes my thoughts is drifting to diffrent moves and tactics I will use in S2 when I get home...

 

So Alaeth your not alone :wink:

[Biggles]

I've had a coupl eof dreams which 'may' have been S2 influenced, but by far the biggest dream causing game for me was Baldur's Gate. I don't know why, but I'd constantly dream of that game after a long session.... it's very wierd, and cool at the same time, the dreams are like adventures which is lots of fun.

[Richard]

I used to have the same problem with Fallout... We are a bunch of sad-cases. :wink:

[ShadowHunter]

You all need professional help