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SBFord
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Reading a Video Game? - SPONSORED - General Developer Journals
Have you been looking for a way to scratch that gaming itch while on the road? Have you run out of interesting games to play? Have you tried everything to recapture that sense of nostalgia from games past and just found yourself bored, grinding through endless levels?If that is that case, you might want to check out the new LitRPG genre.
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Yes, reading (or probably listening) to quests on the road would probably be much more enjoyable than seeing the walloftext more than once.
The world is going to the dogs, which is just how I planned it!
again lol at all the people that arent reading in an mmo. mmo shoukd be all about immersion. you ´guys sound like you never read a book before. and here i am, thinking that the predessor to mmos were MUDS... guess you guys arent that hardcore as you claim to be. but its fine, being a forum warrior is a class in itself...
You are assuming that everyone claims to be hardcore and that people play mmo's in the same way.
As someone who reads all the quests, I've found most to be crap and even worse they just send you somewhere so that you can collect/kill 3 things and then run back.
You also assume that mmo players played MUDS.
Just a really odd comment with extremely odd logic.
Your first paragraph had good points though.
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Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Also if you like to read these:
(These are the names of the series not the individual book)
Way of the Shaman
Mirror World
End Online
Deathlord
All fantastic, funny reads. Definitely worth your time. Recently found this genre and have been devouring it.
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Sounds like mmo players to me. Perhaps you meant RPG player. You left that part of. It is the key part yet you choose to leave that part out. Perhaps you aren't a rpg player?
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RPG players read the quests. MMO players only have to read the chat.
And you can be anything you want when you play a video game. Sometimes I am an RPG player, sometimes an MMO player and sometimes both. But most of the time I'm that lost pet @DMKano is looking for.
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And a very old short story from Dragon Magazine a long time ago..
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You're recommending books to people who can't manage to read one or two lines of quest text. How in the name of all things sacred are they going to get through a 200-page book?
You may want to cover picture books about gaming instead.
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NO !!
He is not claiming HARDCORE or that people should PLAY<<<keyword PLAY in the same way.<br /> We are talking about immersion and READING,playing and reading are two totally different things.
The truth is that the massive majority of these mmorpg games ARE FORCING you to play in the exact same fashion as every other player,with or without the dialogue.You might be allowed to press the arrows/directional keys differently,you might be able to wait longer or shorter between attacking something but the actual core design is forcing people to play the same way and follow the same route.
Two perfect examples...
1 Enter into the game world....VEE line directly towards that NPC with a yellow ? over it's head.
2 You are then told to go fetch 10 bear pelts
Every single player will be doing the exact same thing,you have the right to take your time before doing it but in the end your going to be doing it.
This is why i do not like or endorse linear questing games,i don't care what label people give them ...Themepark or whatever,they do NOT convey a role playing not even a MMO aspect to game design.
Also nobody is arguing that most of the time the dialogue is crap and nobody is arguing that most of the time they are just sending you to do some meaningless task.
That would be a whole new topic discussion based on WHY are you playing those games if they are crap in every aspect of MMO+RPG game design?
As well NOBODY is saying every single person on this earth does not have the right to do as they please "within law"inside a video game,that poster is merely pointing out an obvious fact that if you do not want to immerse inside a ROLE PLAYING+mmo game,then why are you?
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