Now this is from a purely light hearted viewpoint and is not intended to be of any scientific significance unless someone reads this and then decides they will tackle the idea for their Doctoral Thesis or something in which case I will be expecting royalties, credit etc.  Thank you.

I was sitting around with my brother working on Final Fantasy 12 the other night and I have to say that Square Enix did a really good job with this game.  Now I will say before I continue that I am not a big Final Fantasy player and have pretty much only the time I have spent with FFXII as previous experience but I do know that the series has gone through many changes and it is not as linear as I thought it was.

I guess my interest in starting to peak for Final Fantasy XIV but if it is a MMO game, probably not.  Regardless, I am straying from my blog topic into the vast realms of the Final Fantasy Universe and I guess the Square Enix Universe since I did actually play Dragon quest VIII – Journey of the Cursed King and I loved that game.  I may actually start playing it again just because, and on the PS3 to boot.  =)

So as I recall from playing Dragon Quest VIII, there was a lot to do and I mean a lot.  From a pure save your sanity viewpoint, you do have to save your game a lot.  A lot.  It is something that my brother and I joked about, “Wait, go back, you only saved it nine times, you have to save it one more time.”  =)

We were exaggerating of course but that didn’t stop him from saving his game twice at every save sigul.  I also noticed that when he was looking at his Status menu (FFXII) and the Licenses that he wanted to make sure he had an entire section opened before he moved on to another one.

This last tidbit drove me a little mad as I wanted him to buy the licenses for the Ether and Potion upgrades so that he can progress the game rather than stay in a section and comb the entire area before moving on.  LOL  I am the same way when it comes to a new game or a any RPG for that matter.  I haven’t played too many of them but I may play more of them now.  I might actually go ahead and see how far the FFXII playable demo will take me.

I might just wait until FFXIV comes out though too.

It made me wonder though when it comes to gamers just how much of our personalities are prone to obsessive compulsive behaviors?  It makes me wonder if you could treat OCD with a video game?

From my own experiences I think I can safely say that there are some compulsions when it comes to my gaming.  How many of you gamers have thought at the end of a level, “Just one more, it shouldn’t take long.”  Yeah it will take long, go to bed already.  I will spend hours trying to take an online road time just to see my name listed as owning that road (Burnout Paradise) but I am happy to say that as far as my OCD goes, I am doing pretty good.  Maybe we need to look at another acronym rather than the OBSESSIVE Compulsive Disorder, not do away with the OCD mind you but add another one.  One where the compulsion is recognized but it is not obsessive and you can function normally in Society.  I say that because OCD cases tend to stand out in a crowd.

Well, my sons came in and interrupted my train of thought so I am posting this now.  I think I got what I wanted down.