I have lived many lives in video games and saved countless worlds. Of the hundreds of characters I have become, none has felt closer to my heart than Ptolemy, the gnome mage I played for years in World of Warcraft, the game that transformed my unhappy teenage years into an epic voyage of magic, empowerment and friendship. Though today’s games are more compelling and artful, no other game has consumed me so completely since I left the land of Azeroth 12 years ago.
我在電子游戲中活過很多次,拯救過無數個世界。在我扮演過的數百個角色中,沒有一個比托勒密(Ptolemy)更貼近我的心。托勒密是我在《魔獸世界》(World Of Warcraft)中玩了多年的侏儒法師,這款游戲把我不快樂的少年時代變成了一段充滿魔力、力量和友誼的史詩般的旅程。盡管今天的游戲更吸引人,也更巧妙,但自從我12年前離開艾澤拉斯大陸后,沒有任何一款游戲能夠如此徹底地讓我投入。