Do you not play WOW? Forked Thread: Wil Wheaton plays and reviews 4th.

[SHARK]

If you say so ...my experience differs hugely.

None of my weekly RPG group bore others with endless descriptions of the game or long lists of possible plans for next session.

I'm about as big a Star Trek nerd as you'll find and I seem able to avoid boring people with endless Star Trek minutiae.

I don't know what it is about MMO's, but the behaviour is noticeable, replicable...and goes away once they aren't playing for hours every day.

Greetings!

Indeed, my friend! Yeah, while you're playing several hours a day--the drive and consciousness of competing, achieving, accomplishing a variety of goals...it can get obsessive. Take a break, get away from it...and you seem to return to normal.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

 

[Teflon Billy]

Greetings!

Indeed, my friend! Yeah, while you're playing several hours a day--the drive and consciousness of competing, achieving, accomplishing a variety of goals...it can get obsessive. Take a break, get away from it...and you seem to return to normal.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Yup. agreed

 

[MacMathan]

I have played WoW on a casual level since the beta and I love it.

I also love 4e and all the versions of DnD before that too.

In fact many of the people at our weekly 4e game are the same people in our small WoW guild for the occasional 5-man dungeon.

I don't really see anything at odds between the two they are very different forms of entertainment.

I also enjoy Guitar Hero and a number of Wii games, all without feeling the need to compare them to 4e.

Then again using Wii controllers for just he right dice backspin would be funny.

The current obsession in the house right now is Fallout 3 which is the best single player RPG I have played in a long time.

I guess what I am saying is my geekdom knows no bounds and I enjoy the breadth of entertainment available today.

 

[Pants]

I play WoW.

I've played since a few months after WoW came out, quite for about a year after Burning Crusade came out and then I just renewed my account for Lich King.

I prefer D&D overall, but with WoW, I can usually play whenever I want, I can play at my own pace, and I can chat with my friends at the same time. It CAN get addictive, but if you play it in moderation it can be a lot of fun, even if the gameplay boils down to grinding to the next level.

 

[Dire Bare]

If you say so ...my experience differs hugely.

None of my weekly RPG group bore others with endless descriptions of the game or long lists of possible plans for next session.

You are a lucky man.

I'm about as big a Star Trek nerd as you'll find and I seem able to avoid boring people with endless Star Trek minutiae.

You are a kind man.

I don't know what it is about MMO's, but the behaviour is noticeable, replicable...and goes away once they aren't playing for hours every day.

I won't argue that a certain breed of MMO players will talk endlessly about their current game of choice. I had some coworkers at a previous job find out I played D&D, asked if I played EverQuest (I didn't, and this was before WoW), then without even listening to my response they just launched into an intense EQ discussion that sucked away the rest of my lunch hour into a sea of boredom!! And from that point on everytime they could corner me at work they would talk about EQ at me, despite the fact I kept reminding them I didn't play!

But as I said earlier, I've encountered this sort of behavior from all sorts of geeks. I've even been accosted by rabid scrapbookers and made to listen to them go on and on about the best scrapbooking techniques . . . .

 

[mattcolville]

All my friends play WoW, we have since the F&FA. We play all the time. In fact, probably at least two of my friends are on WoW right now. We're getting together this Sunday for an all-day RAID LAN.

We all play D&D. Every week. In fact, we play everything. We play anything.

 

[Minicol]

I have tried many MMORPGs, and while I enjoy them for a brief time, I rarely make it past the trial period.

They can't keep my interest like D&D ever did. Or even like a good solo video game (like Fallout 3) ever did.

 

[Campbell]

4e player and DM here.

I just don't seem to have the right temperment for online RPGs. I played WoW casually for awhile, but the presence of other players performing the same quests as me largely ruined the game's story elements for me.

I am a fan of Bioware's single player RPGs. Codemaster's Rise of the Argonauts isn't bad either - I really like the way it cuts out my least favorite element of computer RPGs (inventory management).

 

[Mercule]

If you say so ...my experience differs hugely.

I think it's a matter of some WoW perceptions. They think it's close enough to D&D that we care, so they babble on. I have friends who are perfectly capable of shutting off their "geek-mode" when in church, work, the theater, etc. We all like to play table-top RPGs -- mostly the same ones. But, whenever D&D comes up, they throw in WoW references freely. They just don't seem to get that WoW is as uninteresting to me as D&D is to their co-workers -- and as unrelated to D&D as it is to programming a web page.

Personally, I can't stand to even play closed on-line games with people I know. Diablo 2, networked, is painful. MUDs were bad, too. My limited experience with MMOs tells me they're even less fun.

Don't misunderstand: I love computer games. I've played and replayed countless CRPGs through to the end. It's just a solo activity for me. I did try out GuildWars and kinda liked it, but that was because you can completely ignore every other human being around -- it's just a solo CRPG hosted on a server.

I do have to say that I might be able to get used to having other people around me in a CRPG, but the shear number of people in the MMOs I've seen who can't form complete sentences makes it a sure bet that I wouldn't go there even if the game play was near orgasmic. To finish that thought, it'd be like having a picture of your grandma in her skivvies hanging over the bed.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

I like WoW. But no way in hell do I want my tabletop game to be anything remotely like WoW. Its apples and oranges.