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Ever since I tasted the genre called MMORPG, I don't feel like going back to other genre...
HebrewBomb
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Does anyone feel the same way?
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LOL... Yep, it's tough at first. Especially when you are actually playing a good one. I remember playing EQ1, I didn't buy any games for, I think, a full year.
Between MMOGs it feels like you are in a state of limbo. Every non-MMO game you play seems like it is just a crutch to get by. Sure, some of them are pretty fun, but in the back of your mind you are saying to yourself, "Man, I need a good MMOG."
for the most part I do. Whenever I play a Single player game like Knights of the Old Republic or Sims2, or even Doom3...it felt like I was missing the other half of my body.
Without question, mmorpgs will be the next big thing gaming genre. I know it already is, but I think it will get so big that practically 90% of all games made will be mmorpg-style.
The single player game will almost be a novelty in probably 10 years.
I would put stock options into the mmorpg market if I knew it weren't for many gaming companies folding right now. Back in 1994, I borrowed a hundred bucks from my dad to invest in AOL stock...lol, its still in there...you can take a gander about how much that is worth right now.
But anyways, I see mmorpgs getting even bigger.
People who have to create conspiracy and hate threads to further a cause lacks in intellectual comprehension of diversity.
it seems the first day that I spent on everquest, something corrupted my soul. It spoke "Forestlight, this is the future of gaming. First person is no more. marvel at my diversity and community and pay money to play games after buying the game at exhorbitant fee's for years to come!" Sadly, it's all true :P
Multiplayer games (expecially MMORPG) have taken hold on my life. Single player games just dont seem to hold the candle anymore. I beat Dawn of War in 3 days. I haven't beaten EQ yet! They're just more challenging. Fun. Dynamic. Expensive
Man, I remember reading about the buzz on UO a year before it came out, thinking to myself, "Now THAT is a bad ass concept!" I knew as well that this was the future of gaming (at least for me).
EDIT: And your last comment about expensive? Hey, if you are playing an MMOG and paying only $12-15 a month. Think of the money you save by not buying a single-player $50 game every month. Or even every two months. Typical single-player game lasts around 20 hours or less, so you are getting a bargain on just about any MMOG you like.
I definately feel like something is missing while I wait on WOW or EQ2. I'm playing Morrowind again, and although it feels like an MMO my brain knows I'm trying to fool it.
I guess it's the interaction among players, the competition to get this or that trinket, armor, weapon first, showing off your duds, gameplay and overall community feeling that I miss
Playing non-mmrpgs is definately a much less entertaining experience than it used to be, especially lately. Damn you WoW!
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Played: Asheron's Call 1, Dark Age of Camelot, Earth & Beyond, Star Wars Galaxies
Tested: Asheron's Call 1, Asheron's Call 2, Dark Age of Camelot, Eve Online, Lineage 2, Risk Your Life, Saga of Ryzom, World of Warcraft
Uninstalled ASAP: MU Online, Knight Online, Rubies of Eventide, Priston Tales, Star Sonata, DarkSpace
"Welcome to the Club"
(there was an old 80's Rock song by that name) LOL
I keep telling myself I'll go back and "finish" all of my SP NWN's campaigns...
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"It'll be dark soon."
"Aye...that it will."
the main problem ( for me ) of course is that you can't show off with your new gear :P
When I first got my red lightsaber in Knight of the Old Republic I thought "Cool, but... uhm...
DADDY! Look I have a red lightsaber" "Very nice son.
" But it just wasn't the same 
Now that didn't really happen but its a possible scenario I think
Flych - 70 Blood Elf Retribution Paladin - Tarren Mill (EU)
Mediocre - 70 Undead Discipline Priest - Tarren Mill (EU)
Hehe! I havent played a single player game for around 4 years. Its just not the same anymore.
The only problem now is that expectations are jut getting higher, i mean cmon, you put so much damn time into MMORPGS when u find a good game and the next fix (game) just has to be so much better .
Right now I am waiting for DnL, so I have a long w8. Damn I miss being engulfed by a good game.
The thing about single player games, is that they're just too static compared to MMOGs.. with MMOGs, you can have unique experiences as you play, throughout the time that you are playing them, even over a period of 2-3 years... with single player games, once you beat the campaign or the main story, there usually isnt' much to bring you back to it.
Even with a game as good as civilization 3.. it's still that way. You may have won it on warlord, then on monarch.. but what's the point of beating it on emporer.. it's just the same thing, only a little harder. No new things to see, no new strategies to try, there's just nothing nearly as dynamic about single player games as there is about MMOGs.
Thing is, right now we're at a point where a lot of the original MMOGs are old and tired by now, from 2-3 years' play. There are new ones coming out, but many are rushed to be released, or they borrow too much from archaic concepts from older games... the ones that come out with new concepts, new ways of being dynamic, new ways of capturing the attention of the playerbase, are the ones that will succeed to the degree that the original ones did.
But yeah.. I think the main reason that MMOGs are so good compared to single player games, is the factor of how dynamic they are. The only environment where a wider variety of things can happen is in real life.. but MMOGs are 2nd in the list of "most dynamic environments available to experience in this world", I think.
Basically, MMOGs ARE virtual reality. Virtual reality isn't having 20lb goggles strapped to your head, it's just playing a MMOG.
Any way, I'm rambling. It's all about how dynamic the games are though.
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Looking forward (cautiously) to: Age of Conan, Dark Solstice, Armada Online.
Will soon try: Guild Wars
Overall: Amazed and bewhildered at the current sad state of the artform of gaming.
I hacen't bought a console game since I played my first MMO. Every console game I play(when I rent them) I just feel like, "damn, this is only going to last me 2 weeks."
In my ~4 years of MMO playing, the only non-MMOs game I bought were Doom 3 and The Sims 2; bought them both in the recent "stale-period" of MMOs. Niether of them lasted very long, though I thought they were both good games.
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"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-- Ken Olson, chairman of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977
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"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-- Ken Olson, chairman of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977
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Looking forward (cautiously) to: Age of Conan, Dark Solstice, Armada Online.
Will soon try: Guild Wars
Overall: Amazed and bewhildered at the current sad state of the artform of gaming.
OMG Yes...
When I play other (non mmo) games it feels like I am eating card-board.
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Morlife
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Morlife
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Waiting to tryout WoW!
Card-board Yes Card-board...... LOL
As for me, the true matter of fact is this feel goes same for much hyped DOOM 3 (no Doom3 bashing intented) which I gave up after 1st level due to lack of my incentive to pursue the story.
NO FPS/SP-RPG games released past couple of months hooked me up beyond 1st level or 1st campaign/chapter.
Playing other genres after sessions of MMORPing is like forcing yourself to make love with the wall after you came back from Rave party.
Heh, I guess I'm not alone in this club then? Ever since I started playing MMOG no other game managed to hold my interest. Sure, I did get through half of Morrowind in a couple of long sittings, but at some point where I was supposed to negotiate this and that I just couldn't go on, Morrowind's world is huge and empty as it is but requiring me to interact with a NPC just made me realize how limited the game is, even if I could customize every single aspect of my character it still wouldn't be me (or rather who I wanted to be) in that game.
Also, ever since I picked up PS very few FPS games hold my interest, back before PS I used to play RTCW (first version) and DoD exclusively, now I find it hard to grasp at the fact the maps are only so big and there isn't a 20 men platoon behind me in case I mess up. Sure, I still go back to RTCW with friends, but it just ain't the same and I doubt I'll ever have a continious 12 hours 3 map session again.
My only problem with MMOGs, well, rather a mixed feeling here is the fact they're multiplayer... um, yeah, I know this requires explanation. Okay, when playing online I'm quite the socializer, and sometimes those online friendships grow out of the game, but in certain cases all that human interaction can hurt. I'm not talking about being on bad terms with this and that player, it's when those people take things out of the game it sucks, and not only that but those things you usually carry with you for a while. A single player game can piss you off, it can get you frustrated beyond belief, but it will never trigger the emotions MMOGs can.
Yeah, anyhow, there I go off rambling... bleh.
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I still enjoy a single player rpg with a good story as much as i did before(console not pc , cannot enjoy a story sitting in a damn chair infront of the monitor compared to lieing down and playing it on a plasma screen). My only grudge is they dont last very long
MMORPGS offer horrible stories and nothing truely evoling within them imo and they just really really suck compared to a good single player rpg story , but they do offer a fully functional virtual streamless world , competition and many other things. Which a single player game cannot have.
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Yes Like many other naive and foolish addicts.....
I bought an Xbox thinking it would be just as good as any MMO. I mean look at the graphics on the back of some of the games. Those games must hold a treasure of great stories and interaction right?
WRONG....
There simply is not a console game in existence that measures up to the experience that I get from playing an MMORPG. I never knew single player games were so boring and linear until after I played an MMO.
THIS IS A WARNING!!! If you have never played an MMORPG and are thinking about trying one Like WOW or EQ2 be prepared to never want to play your console game again.
I am now torn between 2 opinions. I don't know wether I would rather have never played an MMO so I wouldn't know what I was missing or If I would rather have never played a console.
All I know is now I wish I had my 150 bucks back that I spent on the xbox and the other 100 or so I have spent trying to find a game that measures up to my expectations. I would rather have invested the money in preordering WOW collectors edition or something.
ROLEPLAYERS UNITE!!!!!
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I couldn't agree with you more about this. I bought an Xbox hoping it would replace the typical MMO like FFXI. I couldn't wait for the Aclaimed title "Fable". Granted it was an excellent title for the who week it took for me to complete it... I plated FFXI sense its released date for a constant 2 years and never once worried about such things. I now pre-ordered EQ2 and long for a game that doesnt end.
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Hehe, I know of one game (or series of games) that still holds my interest, and that mmorpgs could just not fill the gap for sometimes.....RESIDENT EVIL!!!!! GOD I LOVE RE!!!!! and please let's not bring Biohazard into this lol, I think a lot of people will agree that is not RE goodness.