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The "I just need a game until..." syndrome
Lhex
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Well, wherever my journeys lead, I indefinately land on a post or comment about I just need a game to hold me over until.... (no need to name names).
Like an alcoholic or a really bad drug these things, what we call em?, oh, MMORPGS.
As in any addiction we always need more, need, need.
What we have isn't good enough. There is always something better over the horizon.
IMHO, saying I am playing a particular game to get me by until another comes out is an example of the depiction of the snake consuming itself.
And when that golden miracle of a game is finally in your ROM, is it just another link in the chain holding you over until the next one, and the next and the next?
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Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Well I am playing Lineage 2 and Ragnarok Online till Vanguard to be in beta. So I would try those games, or if not, Survival Project seems like a fun side-game
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Ragnarok Knights Supreme Leader
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I never been so addicted to any other genre more than MMORPG's. And MMORPG's are apart of gaming so your response is redundant in apparency.
I like your signature however...
BETA Tested: Everything
lol
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Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm playing EVE Online now a days. It's just to kill time until EverQuest 2 comes out really. Althought I strangely find myself enjoying my time in EVE a lot more than I had thought.
That said, I do enjoy the genre alot. I like the community aspect, it keeps me coming back. I too am playing mmorpgs in 'short term' mode until my own chosen game is released, because I genuinely like the genre.
Yeah I find it pretty wierd when people say that they are playing x game until another one comes out, but then again I have this 'no treadmill' policy so it's easier for me.
The most addictive game I've ever played was probably the first Civilization game (and this text-based dos naval combat game that was pretty darn fun; I wish I could find it again
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I would have to use a rating system to explain this. Currently some games are 8 to 10's much while others will never be more than 5 to 7's if you know what I mean. So while I exhaust my last favorite "9 or 10 game" I play it until well I just need a change and I look for something new that is going to be a potential "10".
To be a 10 you can't simply make a game and use "your" ideas to make it good and expect it to be a 10, only game with enough capital and investment can afford to even league at such a level, they will need great graphics, concepts, and support, and encompass so many areas of gaming that no indy game could possibly get to that level. BUT some of those lesser games are great fun, for short time periods, hell even some of the very expensive games just fall short of their potential and end up being a 6 or 7, and end up remaining only a "hold over" game until the next great one.
IMOHO theres only be a few games that have constituted greatness. Everquest by all but the casual gamers standards was the grandfather of greatness, no one in their right mind, with any inclining of the MMORPG industry understanding could say different. Then in many standards DAOC held a flame close to EQ but fell slightly short. But still many could say it was definitely a 9ish game. Some would argue for a few others but in the end it doesn't matter.
The next great game IMOHO will be WoW, I've beta tested it extensively and see no reason it wont be a huge success that people will play for years to come. A bit off topic but well it belongs here anyways.
I first noticed this with Shadowbane. People convinced themselves it was the BEST GAME EVER before it had even entered beta testing. Forum threads about the game I was playing at the time would quickly de-volve into "Well, I'm just waiting til Shadowbane! Then I'm cancelling!" And then SB came out and wasn't Jesus and didn't hand out steak and didn't give you a 10 inch wang. The whining was swift and terrible.
What happens is people take games way too seriously and then build themselves an elaborate fantasy game based on the scant information in previews (which themselves come from magazines and websites that want to stay on publishers' good sides, so they can get free stuff) and rant on message boards about how great the game will be, then take it personally when it turns out that, hey, it's just another stupid computer game. I'm anticipating the same thing will happen with World of Warcraft.
And then their new love doesn't quite have the features they want, so they start pining for a new game and the process repeats itself. Add in the hype that pervades gaming and you have the syndrome you described.
I started playing runescape first but didn't really know the definition of mmorpgs until I played closed beta of Lineage 2 and now I love mmorpgs, they are the best genre out there.
~Greatness
Games Currently Playing: Lineage 2, Runescape
Games Beta Tested: Lineage 2, Eternal Lands, World of Pirates, A tale in the desert 2, Guild Wars, etc.
Games that I want to beta test: WoW, E2 DnL, RYL, etc.
~Greatness~
Currently Playing:
Nothing
Actually, yes, mmorpgs do tend to show the ability of getting people hooked to it just as much as some kinda drug (or even more perhaps, I don't know I aint no fuggin scientist person)
I'd say the only reason I've played most of the games that I say sucked was because they were just addicting, plus I can flaunt superior playing abilities, which makes me feel more confident! (that last part was a joke if you're too stupid to know that on your own)
MMORPGs, seem simple, and most of them hardly offer anything different from another save from how it looks, it's like each one is a diamond, only cut a different way...
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Badmouthing second-rate MMORPGs since 1998
Gandalf: "JOO SHALL NOT PASS!"
Avatar from www.Squidi.net
DUDE! FPS games are to me like.... [blank] is to [blank] (insert something witty in those blanks.) But I still say mmorpg games are the most addicting, and I've played basically every genre out there.
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