To Game or Not to Game? A Soliloquy

To Game or Not to Game

To game, or not to game: that is the question:
Whether 'tis better for tired hands to suffer
The graphics and visual effects of greater entertainment,
Or to take arms against a mountain of Hadoukens from Ryu,
And by opposing end them? To die: to press restart;
No more; and by a restart to say we end
The exerted effort and the nearness of the thousand light seed trophy
That skill is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be practic’d. To beat the game, to restart;
To restart: perchance to perfect: ay, there's the rub;
For in that restarting what wasted time has come?
When we have released off this video game controller,
Must give us the pause button: there's the respect
That makes calamity of severe game difficulty;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of wallmasters,
The video game boss’ wrong, the careless gamer’s fault,
The pangs of taken for granted plasma grenades, the game’s glitches,
The poorly written game controls and the game’s ESRB rating
That enduring reward of the PSN trophies and XBL points,
When he himself makes his finishing combo
With just a 10% life bar? How many youtube hits would it make him?
To cheat and hack under a low rating game,
But that the dread of people laughing at lack of skill,
The undiscover'd consequences of thine hacks
No save state loads, which corrupts the game console
And makes us rather bear the difficulty of the miserable game
Than to buy a GameShark or an ActionReplay that we can cheat off
Thus Big Boss or Master Chief does make cowards of us all;
And thus the urge of hacking
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of social status,
And enterprises of great skill and dexterity
With this regard, our cheating passions has turned awry,
And that helps the action of gaming. - Soft you now!
The fair Playstation 3 hard drive! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my gaming habits remember’d.