howandwhy99
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I keep trying to play videogames, but I get bored by them really, really fast. Real life is too interesting.
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Agamon
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Played EverQuest when it first came out. I was addicted to the new shiny/keeping up with friends aspect of the game for a little more than a month. After that, I realized the pointlessness of it all. I've tried City of Heroes and WoW since, and still scratch my head at why it's so popular.
The odd thing is how mainstream WoW has become. My righand brother, the total opposite of geek, was telling me about his level 71 horde character (death knight or something) over the holidays. Me and my other bro gave each other strange looks before laughing out loud at how asburd it seemed. He then told us about how everyone on the oil rigs play on their off time. Wow, indeed.
Anyway, I prefer the single player experience for CRPGs, though even those only hold my attention for so long. As much as I dream about the perfect tabletop RPG game where everyone is always in character and care about the setting/NPCs, it really is about the socializing around the table during the game for me.
The odd thing is how mainstream WoW has become. My righand brother, the total opposite of geek, was telling me about his level 71 horde character (death knight or something) over the holidays. Me and my other bro gave each other strange looks before laughing out loud at how asburd it seemed. He then told us about how everyone on the oil rigs play on their off time. Wow, indeed.
Anyway, I prefer the single player experience for CRPGs, though even those only hold my attention for so long. As much as I dream about the perfect tabletop RPG game where everyone is always in character and care about the setting/NPCs, it really is about the socializing around the table during the game for me.
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Vocenoctum
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When I used to have a solid TV lineup, it was fine, but remembering when different shows are on when you only watch a couple each week just leads me to forgetting them. TV is a vast wasteland for me now.As far as I'm concerned, video games (online, multi-player, or just me at my PC) are a (superior) substitute to the dreck on television.
I played WoW casually for 18 months or so, right before the first expansion arrived. I had fun, but it was rare to play more than 10-15 hours a week, and only close to that if I could get a good weekend run through one of my favorite places with people I liked. I seriously doubt there will ever be an online MMORPG that really caters to my tastes sufficiently to garner more dedication. Apparently, my tastes are an odd combination now, that lacks popular support.
Like I mentioned before, even if you figure 10 hours a week, 40 hours a month, for 15$, that's not a bad "value" for entertainment, really. WoW is pretty "casual friendly". I have a friend that played Halo2 hundreds of hours in multiplayer, there's certainly a lot more variety to WoW than that. It's all just in how you feel like spending your time.
I agree 100%, though I'd stretch "not having a D&D game" into "not having something else to do". When I used to DM, I'd spend a lot of time getting stuff ready and so on, but I got tired of DMing long ago. So now I can work on getting my 50 pets to earn my pet skunk instead! Playing D&D is a lot less work than DMing.
Crazy Jerome
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Yep, I would not have bothered with WoW at all, were it not so friendly to casual players. As it was, I got some fun play out of it, and then quit when I was done. It helped not jumping on the bandwagon right away. Not only did this allow the first mad rush time to clear out, it gave me time to accept that WoW was not going to deliver what I really wanted. Once I accepted that, I could have fun for awhile with what it really is.
