i was trying to find an article that fileplanet or someother site put out last year about the history of rpg/mmorpg, it was a 5part thing.....good stuff...
remember, all games steal from eachother, but eventually it gets twisted into something else or dies.
from my personal experiences the people who get sucked into games the most are the PKers, and that would obviously be for many reasons. A lot of the PKers, like your guild members, live to show off, which is why they PK. Therefore, they feel the need to be the highest levels, have the best gear, and be better than everyone else.
I knew a few people who were obsessive about showing off in online games, and they honestly have no other life. They will play a game for the sheer fact that if they grind long enough, they can kill anyone they choose. They will sit there, for days on end, just grinding the same beasts over and over again, just to be better than everyone else.
In my mind, I find that a weak mentality. If something as simple as killing another player, for the sole purpose of showing off, can take over your life... well lets just say you have some serious attention issues. Parents not love you enough or something?
I dont see how people want such praise from other players for being "gods"... frankly, when did an RPG become more than just being a plain hero? Everyone wants to be a god now, worshipped by their guild members for the sheer fact that they have no life. I just dont get how you can get satisfaction out of knowing that your intellect has sunk so low, that clicking the same buttons, on the same monsters, all day long, is enough stimulation for you
Hi, im Rob, and im a gamer... or atleast I was, before I got a mac. Nah, just kidding, im an explorer
rob, some of us are cold blooded killers, warriors in need of glory, gay ass rp'ers who must defend their land and have orders to kill anything on sight at yur own discretion by their king....
its human to want to rock someone's noodle and especially do it with godliness...and if playing yur game is yur life, so be it, just make sure you pay yur bills and call yur mom time to time. games are made to suck ya in....
what kind of games are you playing now?
(i'm testing 2 classified projects)
WoW(strictly PVP servers)- i'm basically done in this game, besides playing with my alts....i've been playing all the games from the past year i missed during WoW... Rome Total War, KoTor, Rise of Nations, BF2, HL2, and thats it i believe..
just today renewed my ragnarok online subscription: reason being, people around me were doing the private servers thing and i was like, " dude, that shits not real like the iro servers, cuz people can hook people up with stuff and go into godmode shit"... i was then like dont play ragnarok cuz i've wasted so much time, but i have a lil place for it in my heart for it....that convinced them to do the trial, and i got sucked back into iRO(GO DEITY and our alliance peeps on chaos)...you have to get into some of the end game WoE stuff, its good stuff=P
i'm waiting for CoV, just for pvp....i dont want the arena stuff...i renew it time to time
i'm looking forward to DnL, tabula rasa, and basically anything else i can play...
anyways, i rambled on and i dont want to give the impression that i'm disageeing with j00^^, but maybe you just need a rest from gaming, or pvp stuff just isnt for you...pvp is like playing a sport and the same meathead mentality shows up in online gaming; i just deal with it and do my own thing to the best of my ability=)
Originally posted by necbone i'm looking forward to DnL, tabula rasa, and basically anything else i can play...
Finally, someone else mentioning DnL. I've been in the MMOG crowd for about 5 and 1/2 years nows and I've played most of the major titles (WoW, EQ2, CoH, DAoC, EVE, Lineage 1 and 2, etc) but my original was Asheron's Call. The reason I'm saying this is because I believe that the original MMORPG that is played by a gamer is what he/she uses to judge the next MMOG(s) that he/she joins, provided that the original loses its appeal. I had played AC for about 3 years before I finally decided to throw in the towel due to repetativeness and the alure of "bigger" and "better" MMOG's coming out. Since then, every game I joined I have either consciously or subconsciously compared it to AC and whether or not I thought it was any match for the good times I had in my first game. With that being said, I think it would really help the gamer to not entirely disregard past gaming experiences, but treat new ones as just that; new. You can't compare Everquest to Asheron's Call because they're entirely seperate games. Sure, there are going to be things you do and do not like about each new game you try, but comparing them to another game just gives you another reason to leave the current game you're in and return to the old one you had lost interest in.
If you take anything from my post, just remember this. No matter what game you play, it will eventually lose it's appeal and grow repetative, but as long as you don't start comparing game features to prior games in which you thought were better, it will give you less reasons to to be bored and possibly more reasons to be out exploring, collecting, crafting, killing; whatever it is you enjoy doing. If you don't like/agree with it, don't do it! Focus on what you like to do. Simple as that.
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i was trying to find an article that fileplanet or someother site put out last year about the history of rpg/mmorpg, it was a 5part thing.....good stuff...
remember, all games steal from eachother, but eventually it gets twisted into something else or dies.
from my personal experiences the people who get sucked into games the most are the PKers, and that would obviously be for many reasons. A lot of the PKers, like your guild members, live to show off, which is why they PK. Therefore, they feel the need to be the highest levels, have the best gear, and be better than everyone else.
I knew a few people who were obsessive about showing off in online games, and they honestly have no other life. They will play a game for the sheer fact that if they grind long enough, they can kill anyone they choose. They will sit there, for days on end, just grinding the same beasts over and over again, just to be better than everyone else.
In my mind, I find that a weak mentality. If something as simple as killing another player, for the sole purpose of showing off, can take over your life... well lets just say you have some serious attention issues. Parents not love you enough or something?
I dont see how people want such praise from other players for being "gods"... frankly, when did an RPG become more than just being a plain hero? Everyone wants to be a god now, worshipped by their guild members for the sheer fact that they have no life. I just dont get how you can get satisfaction out of knowing that your intellect has sunk so low, that clicking the same buttons, on the same monsters, all day long, is enough stimulation for you
Hi, im Rob, and im a gamer... or atleast I was, before I got a mac. Nah, just kidding, im an explorer
-Rob
rob, some of us are cold blooded killers, warriors in need of glory, gay ass rp'ers who must defend their land and have orders to kill anything on sight at yur own discretion by their king....
its human to want to rock someone's noodle and especially do it with godliness...and if playing yur game is yur life, so be it, just make sure you pay yur bills and call yur mom time to time. games are made to suck ya in....
what kind of games are you playing now?
(i'm testing 2 classified projects)
WoW(strictly PVP servers)- i'm basically done in this game, besides playing with my alts....i've been playing all the games from the past year i missed during WoW... Rome Total War, KoTor, Rise of Nations, BF2, HL2, and thats it i believe..
just today renewed my ragnarok online subscription: reason being, people around me were doing the private servers thing and i was like, " dude, that shits not real like the iro servers, cuz people can hook people up with stuff and go into godmode shit"... i was then like dont play ragnarok cuz i've wasted so much time, but i have a lil place for it in my heart for it....that convinced them to do the trial, and i got sucked back into iRO(GO DEITY and our alliance peeps on chaos)...you have to get into some of the end game WoE stuff, its good stuff=P
i'm waiting for CoV, just for pvp....i dont want the arena stuff...i renew it time to time
i'm looking forward to DnL, tabula rasa, and basically anything else i can play...
anyways, i rambled on and i dont want to give the impression that i'm disageeing with j00^^, but maybe you just need a rest from gaming, or pvp stuff just isnt for you...pvp is like playing a sport and the same meathead mentality shows up in online gaming; i just deal with it and do my own thing to the best of my ability=)
Finally, someone else mentioning DnL.
I've been in the MMOG crowd for about 5 and 1/2 years nows and I've played most of the major titles (WoW, EQ2, CoH, DAoC, EVE, Lineage 1 and 2, etc) but my original was Asheron's Call. The reason I'm saying this is because I believe that the original MMORPG that is played by a gamer is what he/she uses to judge the next MMOG(s) that he/she joins, provided that the original loses its appeal. I had played AC for about 3 years before I finally decided to throw in the towel due to repetativeness and the alure of "bigger" and "better" MMOG's coming out. Since then, every game I joined I have either consciously or subconsciously compared it to AC and whether or not I thought it was any match for the good times I had in my first game. With that being said, I think it would really help the gamer to not entirely disregard past gaming experiences, but treat new ones as just that; new. You can't compare Everquest to Asheron's Call because they're entirely seperate games. Sure, there are going to be things you do and do not like about each new game you try, but comparing them to another game just gives you another reason to leave the current game you're in and return to the old one you had lost interest in.
If you take anything from my post, just remember this. No matter what game you play, it will eventually lose it's appeal and grow repetative, but as long as you don't start comparing game features to prior games in which you thought were better, it will give you less reasons to to be bored and possibly more reasons to be out exploring, collecting, crafting, killing; whatever it is you enjoy doing. If you don't like/agree with it, don't do it! Focus on what you like to do. Simple as that.
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