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Wasted too many years with MMORPGS. [mod edit]
VicodinTaco
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Seriously, I'm tired of playing with trolls and 13 year olds, and groups of game snobs that want me to play a certain way.
I've spent so much time chasing mmoprg releases over the last decade that I've missed a whole slew of killer single player games... like, I'm talking about going all the way back to 2001.
I'm playing some Civ 4, some Hero's of Might and Magic 4, Total War, Oblivion, and even some MORROWIND with the MGE mod. Fucking amazing. This little mod just brings that whole game to life, I don't know how those kids did it.
I'M ACTUALLY ENJOYING GAMING AGAIN lol.
Not all stressed out trying to find a group, getting called a noob every 2 minutes, or listening to how every little feature of a certain game is a "total failure".
The BS rhetoric surrounding MMORPG's is toxic. Fuck all of it.
Later's!
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Flounce post is flouncy.
Can I have your stuff?
same story here. Playing Arkham city and getting into dota2 now, and games are actually fun again. At this point I just come here out of habit. Probably a habit I should kick.
You'll come back , they always do.
I'm pretty close to that point myself. I've been enjoying SS3 co-op and Gears 3 Horde mode MUCH more than any MMO recently released. Plus, Torchlight 2 will hopefully be out soon. Oh, and once my shiny new 6870 GPU arrives, I'll be able to play The Witcher 2 with a reasonable framerate, lol.
Your very bad at selecting mmo's, and that is totally on you. My sugestion would be to be more selective and don't buy into the hype.
Velika: City of Wheels: Among the mortal races, the humans were the only one that never built cities or great empires; a curse laid upon them by their creator, Gidd, forced them to wander as nomads for twenty centuries...
Wholeheartedly agree with the OP, its the Kids that belong to the Mememememe Generation that are bringing most if not all MMO's down by flooding the communities with their non-stop crying and pathetic attempts to bait people into what... conversation? Is this cause Twilight and Glee doesnt talk back to them? I just dont get it. I guess its a symptom of having no real friends.
MMO's need to start making suggested age servers so mature players dont have to deal with these pathetic little kids anymore, sure some will "troll" but if there are sufficient warnings about childish behaviour I'm sure reports with evidence from players followed by bans or simple server transfers from staff would work for the most part and get them away from us
I have not enjoyed an MMO community since EQ1 pre-velious for this very reason.
Actually judging from the attitude and mood of your post, as well as the topic header, you seem to be exactly the type of person you seem to despise in mmorpgs. So bye! One less to worry about.
So its kind of funny, I agree with you, and at the same time, Im really glad to see you go.
I think the funny thing about this post is kids calling other people kids...
In addition Jay and Silent Bob struck on a great idea at the end of their Strikes Back movie... I so wish it was reality lol
One online community that does work for the mature gamer is iRacing, as you are forced into using your real name for online competition as it comes from your CC, the sim is simply too much for the kids to understand and handle so they go back to "phoar NFS!!!" LOL, iRacing do not tolerate childish behaviour there and it is why they have such an unbelievable good multiplayer sim with a co-operative community which quite frankly is absolutely refreshing in these times.
While I agree the communtiy is bad in a lot of games, joining a good guild,clan,kin, or corp and just running dungeons,instances and PVP with them only makes things much more bearable. Also, turn off all world, trade, LFG channels and life is good again.
Try it, it works...
The key to fun times in a MMO is joining or starting up a guild with likeminded people.
PUGing can be a rather horrible thing. Something I can really recommend otherwise is playing a CORPG together with some friends (DDO and Guildwars are both perfect). Or actually try pen and paper RPGs.
BTW: try the caveman2cosmos mod to CIV 4, it make the game so much better.
QFT
I have yet to play a MMORPG where General Chat did anything but destroy your brain cells.
But taking some time away is also a great idea. I am considering the same. For me, the reason is that I really would like to see more virtual world type games with player choice. I am getting very tired of the Theme Park approach and each new MMOPRG seems to be more on rails than the last.
Sounds like the OP is part of the problem. Nice job pointing fingers at everyone but yourself.
At least now OP you are helping the community by leaving.
I was in a similar mind frame as the OP, however without the tantrums and dummy spitting, then I downloaded EQ1 and after years had a bit of a whirl, found a good bunch of people on Crazic Thule server and found why I liked MMORPG,s so much at the begining.
Running away and screaming to a zone line was oddly refreshing, having a sense of loss when you screw up was also refreshing the things I bitched about years ago, I now find to be the things I miss because without reward/loss where is the competion, where is the sense of achievement.
Having to do multiply sub quests, and camp a bit for an item makes me appricate the item a whole lot more than lets say getting a good item within lets use EQ2 as an apt example of the degrading of experience, you get very good items for the most trival of quests at times in EQ2 and thusly I just dont give a flying fart about them.
In short all MMORPG,s of late have degraded the whole MMORPG experience down to the level of a phone app, its cheap, its nasty and has hidden costs up the yaahzoooo.
It really is kinda sad how mmo community has changed.
Some of the best friends of my life I met playing Everquest. It was a game designed to bring people together to make us need each other and trust each other, build relationships with each other.
15 years later 80% of my everquest guild still talk to each other on the phone at least once a week, email or text each other almost every day, exchange xmas, and birthday cards, and presents, and get together any chance we get.
Few months ago we had a guild reunion in the keys for a week, everyone pitched in and we rented 2 really nice vacation homes in Key West.
Lol we even trade kids for the summer sometimes, last summer my hubby and I took 6 of our guildies kids to Disney and Universal for a week.
MMO communities aren't like that any more, no need for others, no team work, no trust or commitment to each other.
Kinda sucks
You should never really care about all those snobs&kids out there, just ignore them.
Moreover "haters gonna hate" and theres alot of haters out there.
Peoples playing MMO's are same peoples you meet in RL and there is ALOT of a-holes everywhere.
Wish you eveything best and hope you won't be disapointed with ppl you meet, you can'r quit RL (well you can but its not legal o.0)
I have my fears so they don't have me.
that quote is so 2004...
My thoughts exactly. Sadly, he will be back.
An honest review of SW:TOR 6/10 (Danny Wojcicki)
while I think the OP has a point, I've simply refrained from interacting with people in MMOs unless I see demonastrable proof that they're decent people behind the keyboard. Also, staying away from forums is even better way to stay healthy, haha.
I try to balance SPGs with my MMOs...that seems to work well. You don't get burned out on either, and you don't rush through content.
A little dramatic but I understand your frustration.
Join a decent guild...there are a lot out there. If you have issues with kids, join a mature guild (The Older Gamers etc).
Problem solved.
like rise of man a new dawn myself.. is the one you mentioned in civfanatics?
Currently bored with MMO's.
You wasted years because you put all your energy into MMOs,that's not the fault of MMOs.I have been playing all the games you mention alongside MMOs.
You will be back.
yeah I can understand where the op is comming from, like myself, I have been playign mmo's for over a decade now since UO and EQ beta days, I can understand about the noob thing too it gets annoying for sure, I just learned to deal with it still.
I personaly love the mmorpg genre and I won't be leaving it till I die. Here's some advice to ya , if you feel frustrated or annoyed, just log out for afew days or weeks whatever and play some single player games, Like myself I am playing Modern warfare 3 ( ALOT of noob calling in there LOL! ) and Heroes of Might and Magic 6 which I am enjoying ALOT, ( First HOMM game I played ) Reminds me abit of shinning force back in the day.
Anyhow sorry that you feel that way man, I hope that this experience did'nt get you too upset.
"Your very bad at selecting mmo's, and that is totally on you. My sugestion would be to be more selective and don't buy into the hype."
"Actually judging from the attitude and mood of your post, as well as the topic header, you seem to be exactly the type of person you seem to despise in mmorpgs. So bye! One less to worry about.
"So its kind of funny, I agree with you, and at the same time, Im really glad to see you go."
"I think the funny thing about this post is kids calling other people kids..."
"Sounds like the OP is part of the problem. Nice job pointing fingers at everyone but yourself.
"At least now OP you are helping the community by leaving."
"My thoughts exactly. Sadly, he will be back."
etc. etc.
Bah, I've been a silent member of the mmorpg community since I saved all summer to get my first Tandy, and a 300 baud modem (which my dad chipped in half. lol.) I still think that might be the most expensive computer I have ever bought. Some $2500.
I've probably played more games than half of you posters combined.
I can say I'm not part of the friggin "problem" though lol. WTF. Trust me, I'm the most passive gamer you'll ever meet. I play, I absorb, and I contribute when asked. I don't talk shit and make crap up like some of you just did. And if you think I'm "helping the community by leaving" well let me tell you, I've tried all I could. The only thing I've discovered while scraping away at the 40+ mmorpgs that I've played is that this genre is becoming a chore.
BUT, the point of this post is not for all you tight-wad bastards and fuck nut d-bags that I've had the "chore" of playing with over the last decade... It's a manifesto to let maybe just a few of you know that, holy crap, there's some great single player games out there.
I know I'm not the only one. I have two friends also that have been almost exclusivly mmorpgs/multi rts since the UO/EQ era.
We skipped the Civ's 4+, Deus Ex, HOM&M 4+, Total War series, Elder Scrolls, etc. etc. Don't even get me started on games released after 2006.
And YES, missing out on all this shit was MY FAULT. But god damn it sure is fun to pick these titles up.
The metaphysics of mmorpgs has gone ass backwards. I got into the mmorpg genre cause it was an awesome entertainment option to define myself in an interactive way. I hate to sound like a fucking marketing consultant, but it's true. Mmorpg's allowed for that, while single player games didn't.
Well now the tides have turned. Mmorpg's now feel like that horrible two hour wait at the amusement park when you were trying to get on the next big ride... Surrounded by over-sexed teenagers and old people complaining about the heat all day.
The single player devs have really stepped up the notch. I don't know if ti's the graphics or what, but a lot of these games are making me feel like I just learned how to free up all that RAM needed to get Hero's Quest 1 to work.
They are works of art again! These games get my imagination working, that whole "one more turn", 16 hour all nighter that I haven't seen since UO, AC, Civ 3 or Wizardy 4-8 lol. The gaming "crack" if you will.
I deal with 14 employees and people all day at work. That's what mmorpg's feel like now. Work. Sometimes you have a great day and everything's good, most of the week though sombody is always bitching about something and being a total buzz kill.
This new breed of single player games (which probably isn't too new to any of you) is the most refreshing thing I've come across since not having to boot up my PC from the floppy drive to get a game to work.