Well, of course games are about escapism ?
But - you can't deny that a farmboy would be able to defeat Darth Vader without any proper training.
And - imho - through this training he gains at least *some* sort of "power".
In some games this is played out more differently than in others, imho. In BG2 you can become a God, and would you still say that this position would have no power ?
It is also a matter of how people perceive games. I see things often through glasses labelled "power". I often evaluate things this way. If I put these glasses off, then i see no more an aspect o "power" in a thing (no matter what it really is).
Power is there, and people want to 2rise to power". It just happens in Real Life (Dictators ! Kleptorats !), so ouldn't it be possible that people who just cannot become Dicttors would try to become - at least - as powerful as possible within any "virtual world" ?
Some people might even be totally immune to this "power aspct". Good for them, good for society, because there goes the almost-proverb :
"Power corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely."
