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| 30 JAN 2007 at 9:09pm |
MarkGuild Master
Posts : 3803
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | That good, huh?
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 30 JAN 2007 at 9:18pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | You need to take the test.
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=7630199738550734280
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 30 JAN 2007 at 9:19pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Maybe start a club with this guy.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=72355
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 30 JAN 2007 at 9:20pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Not good enough dear. You have to brag. Tell us what level you're on, your kill rate or whatever else it is you get measured on. Come on.... twirl your pistols.... impress the natives....
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| 30 JAN 2007 at 9:21pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | And most importantly you need to watch this South Park episode
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=29882
Which is extremely funny.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 30 JAN 2007 at 10:36pm |
AvatarPrivate Detective
Posts : 661
Joined: 3 JAN 2004
Status : Online | I don't know if it's that good... I like wandering about, and love some of the lower levels of action. Some of the group stuff is OK, but the big battle stuff is monotonous. (And I don't do the PvP fighting... I don't do duels.)
I like being a level 15 and fighting level 5's. (it's a power trip thing. a need to feel in control of my life... hee hee)
My highest level is 15 (hoarde warlock, and for a walking-dead person, i have a great body, i must say... even if my knee and elbow joint bones show). I'll admit, however, that at my current rate of play, i could get to higher levels fast. (*sigh*).
Honestly, I like going back to lower levels and helping out other people on their quests.... I'm a helper-dead-person with lots of magical powers. It's fun.
Originally Posted By Lucien21 (30 JAN 2007 9:18pm)
You need to take the test.
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=7630199738550734280
Okay I took the test... Here's my result:
You seem to enjoy the game, and understand it, but it hasn't yet taken over your life. This is probably a good thing, depending on who you talk to.
My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.&&&&The measure of civility in a society is not how it treats those that are loved, but how it treats those that are hated.
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| 30 JAN 2007 at 10:48pm |
ShadowWalkerJourneyman
Posts : 997
Joined: 27 JUL 2005
Status : Offline | Hello There! [smiley=silly.gif]
Good to be back!
Well.....Avatar it could be worse.....you could have been playing Everquest.....and that one has had a lot of history about people losing even their lives playing it.
I already met one woman who was a banking executive and lost her..........mind!...job!...body cleasing rituals....body weight from not eating (took time away from playing the game)........playing Everquest!
I work in a psychiatric unit and I can tell you that this is not hearsay.....she was one of our patients!
I was there when she was brought in by the police and the ambulance.
Stop playing..........stop playing!
It is just a game and you have better things to do and a life to lead.
Just do not know what to tell you right now without more info.
And I am sorry.............to put it this way...........THE HELL WITH THE STATS!
AVATAR!.........PLEASE!!!!....ITS JUST A GAME!
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 1:04am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Lucien21 (30 JAN 2007 9:21pm)
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=29882
"Gentlemen: This could very well lead to the end of the world... of Warcraft" [smiley=rofl.gif]
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 2:54am |
HelenGuild Master
Posts : 3436
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | You may never come back, BEWARE!! Hubby has been addicted for 2 years now. : He reached the highest level ( I believe 60 ) and ran out and got the expansion as soon as he could. But his old guild broke up so hes been slightly depressed about it and hes now looking for another one. : He is completely obsessed with this game, I thought it was bad enough when he was addicted to "Starcraft" and didnt think it could get any worse...but it did.
I had to treat him like one of the kids, one night he stayed up way to late for one of the neverending "Quests" and got up late for work. : He now has a curfew on work nights.
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 3:13am |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5537
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | I could see how easy it would be to get addicted to that. But I'm turned off by the idea of having to pay that monthly fee as well as the cost of the game. And I'm not crazy about the multiplayer part either, and how many things in that kind of game are off limits if you want to work alone . Now if someone ever created a MSPORPG (Massively Single Player Online Role Playing Game) I'd be there in a flash. I'd love a dynamic ever changing world to explore -- just by myself, without all the hassles that having all those people playing at once bring to it. But that's just me, apparently, seeing how popular MMORPG's are.
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 3:28am |
SirDaveGuild Master
Posts : 4940
Joined: 17 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Well, there's nothing else to do but get yerself to BestBuy and pick up the World of Warcraft hats they've been selling during the last week or two.
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 4:26am |
| Deleted User | Reasons why I don't start playing these games seriously:
- They take a HUGE amount of time, and I have better things to do on my free time that I don't want to give up.
- The monthly cost puts me off. The only MMORPG I've given serious time is Anarchy Online because you could get a free account for a limited amount of time.
- The nature of all these games that I've seen so far is extremely repetitive. I find the missions boring and all the same. In a virtual, social world I want to be able to do things, rather than endless fighting of monsters to gain stats. I know it's not all that simple, but overall I am not impressed with the offerings I've seen so far.
- I don't have an addictive personality. I grow tired of increasing in levels and don't get enough kicks from it to keep caring. I don't care for the social status part of it either. It is much more fun to play in groups, but it's not really that rewarding for me.
Those are just personal opinions, I don't look down on the millions of people who love these games, some of which are my best friends... I think the format has a lot of unused potential, and if they offered more things to do in them, (which I am sure they will in the future) and with another format than the standard RPG systems so that other types of goals would be available, I'm sure I could get hooked as well.
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 4:58am |
chronotigger65Journeyman
Posts : 1143
Joined: 23 FEB 2005
Status : Offline | One can have it worst. I'm a guy whose addicted to video games and who keeps buying games just about every week and never completes most of them. It's partly do to my OCD condition. I try to break it but it almost always wins. I'm trying now to concentrate on buying other things instead of the games.
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 6:52am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By chronotigger65 (31 JAN 2007 4:58am)
One can have it worst. I'm a guy whose addicted to video games and who keeps buying games just about every week and never completes most of them. It's partly do to my OCD condition. I try to break it but it almost always wins. I'm trying now to concentrate on buying other things instead of the games.
May I suggest Garden gnomes.
You can get them doing all sorts of helpful activities for your home or garden. You can paint them (nice relaxing therapeutic activity), you can send them on holidays with your neighbours (I've heard some gnomes even send postcards home to their owners), you can tell them all your secrets and fears and aspirations and they'll never laugh at you, never tell you to clean up your room and never ignore you and turn on the TV..... and when you get really angry at something you can take a dirty big hammer and smash the bejesus out of their stupid silly grinning faces. [smiley=angel_smiley.gif] And then you get to buy them all over again....
Really, they sound the perfect antidote...
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 7:20am |
chronotigger65Journeyman
Posts : 1143
Joined: 23 FEB 2005
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (31 JAN 2007 6:52am)
Originally Posted By chronotigger65 (31 JAN 2007 4:58am)
One can have it worst. I'm a guy whose addicted to video games and who keeps buying games just about every week and never completes most of them. It's partly do to my OCD condition. I try to break it but it almost always wins. I'm trying now to concentrate on buying other things instead of the games.
May I suggest Garden gnomes.
You can get them doing all sorts of helpful activities for your home or garden. You can paint them (nice relaxing therapeutic activity), you can send them on holidays with your neighbours (I've heard some gnomes even send postcards home to their owners), you can tell them all your secrets and fears and aspirations and they'll never laugh at you, never tell you to clean up your room and never ignore you and turn on the TV..... and when you get really angry at something you can take a dirty big hammer and smash the bejesus out of their stupid silly grinning faces. [smiley=angel_smiley.gif] And then you get to buy them all over again....
Really, they sound the perfect antidote...
They also have a tendecy to be stolen and either be held for ransom (with pictures sent to you in captivity) or be victims of arson. They also tend to act as spoke persons for travel agencies
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 6:19pm |
AvatarPrivate Detective
Posts : 661
Joined: 3 JAN 2004
Status : Online | I figure I'll get tired of it soon enough. I don't like the guild things (I just don't get 'em) and I don't like quests that require you have lots of people to complete them. I'm a loner...
I figure it's going to be like when I stayed up all night playing Myst V - once I get tired of it, I'll just stop playing.
I hope.
P.S. That south park episode was HYSTERICAL.
My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already thinks I am.&&&&The measure of civility in a society is not how it treats those that are loved, but how it treats those that are hated.
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 8:11pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Avatar
You need to think like a male to get into this guild system and enjoy the group combat.
Frankly, if you do disable your brain to accomplish this, won't you miss it when you return to real life?
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 8:22pm |
ShadowWalkerJourneyman
Posts : 997
Joined: 27 JUL 2005
Status : Offline | Hello There!
Maybe Caroline that might also be one of the reasons why I never play MMORPG'S. Besides the addition of bying the game, and paying a fee every month really bugs me. Not to mention that I always play as a female. Love it that way.
So getting into them is not my cup of tea.
The only exception to this rule was the game Gothic. That one really hooked me in, but I loved the idea of always being able to save anywhere and most important............not getting my butt kicked by some scrawny and geeky 12 year old playing on the same game.
I like playing them SOLO! But only if it is an adventureous role playing game like Gothic.
The only other one as well that caught my attention was Call Of Duty. The AI characters made me feel as a part of a cadre of players and still left me to play on my own at my own pace.
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 8:28pm |
BazzaLBPrivate Detective
Posts : 512
Joined: 27 AUG 2005
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Avatar (31 JAN 2007 6:19pm)
I figure I'll get tired of it soon enough. I don't like the guild things (I just don't get 'em) and I don't like quests that require you have lots of people to complete them. I'm a loner...
Same here, which is why I never got into these MMORPG thingies. Besides, one of my friends met his wife whilst playing Everquest... he in AUS, she in the USA... I think thats taking the guild thing too far
My daughter is making noises about wanting to try WOW, but being as this is her VCE year, it has been banned!
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| 31 JAN 2007 at 9:44pm |
anthonyJourneyman
Posts : 1270
Joined: 11 JUN 2003
Status : Offline | I wouldn't worry about addiction, Avatar, you're just really into the game right now. That's all.
But hey, if you like Warcraft, I just got a new shipment that's real sweet. This stuff is pure magic. It's pricey, but you'll know where the money went, cause it's real special, you see. Don't wait to long to cell me, cause my stash is goin' fast. Pass me by and you don't get high.
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