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<blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 2804813" data-attributes="member: 9045"><p>I don't know people, this thread has gone off in an odd direction. Software trends and hardware potential and how many MMORPG players are into RPGs (I will not use that moronic 'TRPG' acronym any more than I will call my PH a PHB) and whatnot.</p><p></p><p>All I know is that I enjoy computer games. I've always enjoyed computer games. I liked Pong when Pong was it. I liked Asteroids and even that god-awful E.T. game on the atari that had nothing to do with E.T.</p><p>And I still remember sitting with a buddy, with our C=64s set up side-by-side playing Pool of Radiance and saying "It'd be so damned cool if we could hook the computers together with a null-modem and see each in the game." </p><p>I wanted to do it then, I'd love to do it now (if it was done right, and I didn't have to pay a friggin subscription fee to play it). But it'll never take the place of actually playing D&D because (as has been touched on before) D&D (technically table-top RPGs, but we're talking about D&D in specific here) has the potential to include pretty much anything at the drop of a hat. It is, if all else was stripped away and made equal, the ability for me to think of the most wildly bizzare and outlandish actions and be able to try them. As much as I like (and still play) Baldur's Gate 2 (and liked NWN before my play disk shattered in the CD drive), there's no option to... say... rip off my cloak and throw it over the ogre's head, swing onto his back by the edges of the cloak hanging from his melon and shank the heck out of his kidneys. But I can enjoy the look on the DM's face in D&D when I say that's what I'm going to try to do.</p><p></p><p>And really, even if you *could* try it in an MMORPG... I'd still miss the look on the other guys' faces that I get at the table. hehe</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wolv0rine, post: 2804813, member: 9045"] I don't know people, this thread has gone off in an odd direction. Software trends and hardware potential and how many MMORPG players are into RPGs (I will not use that moronic 'TRPG' acronym any more than I will call my PH a PHB) and whatnot. All I know is that I enjoy computer games. I've always enjoyed computer games. I liked Pong when Pong was it. I liked Asteroids and even that god-awful E.T. game on the atari that had nothing to do with E.T. And I still remember sitting with a buddy, with our C=64s set up side-by-side playing Pool of Radiance and saying "It'd be so damned cool if we could hook the computers together with a null-modem and see each in the game." I wanted to do it then, I'd love to do it now (if it was done right, and I didn't have to pay a friggin subscription fee to play it). But it'll never take the place of actually playing D&D because (as has been touched on before) D&D (technically table-top RPGs, but we're talking about D&D in specific here) has the potential to include pretty much anything at the drop of a hat. It is, if all else was stripped away and made equal, the ability for me to think of the most wildly bizzare and outlandish actions and be able to try them. As much as I like (and still play) Baldur's Gate 2 (and liked NWN before my play disk shattered in the CD drive), there's no option to... say... rip off my cloak and throw it over the ogre's head, swing onto his back by the edges of the cloak hanging from his melon and shank the heck out of his kidneys. But I can enjoy the look on the DM's face in D&D when I say that's what I'm going to try to do. And really, even if you *could* try it in an MMORPG... I'd still miss the look on the other guys' faces that I get at the table. hehe [/QUOTE]
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