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delete5230
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I'll have a little secret going on that only you people can understand.
I have a very active life with a job, family and many other activities. My house is located in deep farm land that takes ten minuets to get to any highway or populated areas.
Long time ago when mmorpg's were REALLY MMORPG'S, I would have an alternate story going on inside my head. It was a fantasy world filled with excitement, intrigue yet the future was unknown. I would have a group for friends and belong to a guild of people who shared a common goal. I would have situations unknown to "real life people" where I wouldn't dare try to explain.
I always felt I developed two states of mind keeping them separated from each other. Every dry minuet in real life I would drift into fantasy and it would be at it's best when alone, such as driving the farm land to work in the dark, or before I fall asleep. Even in the middle of doing something complicated at work such as locking a terminal onto a satellite, setting up for communications, I would still catch myself drifting into fantasy..... This had to be kept a secret. But one I was good at. My daily goal was to take care of all business, responsibilities, and even fun activities so I could return to my mmorpg and continue my adventures.
Off Line Video Games can only fill half this void, and modern mmorpgs "none at all". It's almost like modern mmorpg's are like nothing !!!........ They fill no gap what's-so-ever !!!...... They're brainless, simple, easy, carrot-on-a-stick !!!
I guess I'll have to accept the "new group" that took over this site that are looking for simple hit-and-run-fun. But I'm searching for something more.... Call me crazy (I don't care), but I want more !!!!
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen
I have a very active life with a job, family and many other activities. My house is located in deep farm land that takes ten minuets to get to any highway or populated areas.
Long time ago when mmorpg's were REALLY MMORPG'S, I would have an alternate story going on inside my head. It was a fantasy world filled with excitement, intrigue yet the future was unknown. I would have a group for friends and belong to a guild of people who shared a common goal. I would have situations unknown to "real life people" where I wouldn't dare try to explain.
I always felt I developed two states of mind keeping them separated from each other. Every dry minuet in real life I would drift into fantasy and it would be at it's best when alone, such as driving the farm land to work in the dark, or before I fall asleep. Even in the middle of doing something complicated at work such as locking a terminal onto a satellite, setting up for communications, I would still catch myself drifting into fantasy..... This had to be kept a secret. But one I was good at. My daily goal was to take care of all business, responsibilities, and even fun activities so I could return to my mmorpg and continue my adventures.
Off Line Video Games can only fill half this void, and modern mmorpgs "none at all". It's almost like modern mmorpg's are like nothing !!!........ They fill no gap what's-so-ever !!!...... They're brainless, simple, easy, carrot-on-a-stick !!!
I guess I'll have to accept the "new group" that took over this site that are looking for simple hit-and-run-fun. But I'm searching for something more.... Call me crazy (I don't care), but I want more !!!!
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen
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That feeling i had of no hand holding,no linear direction was and to this day done by VERY few games.If al the games were like Wow back in the day,i would have never got into mmorpg's and just stuck to playing single player rpg's.
The designs that turn me off all resemble f2p/ Korean type games,stuff i never want to play.Maybe some day that will change but i doubt it,i see it getting worse as now these developers are aiming more at yet more shallow gimmicks like battle Royale's and "end game" and RAIDING and ARPG like combat.
When i used to play my Ranger it was incredibly exciting,i would be thinking oh cool i wonder what i should use an accuracy arrow or a piercing arrow or a blunt arrow ir maybe i'll use an xbow and sleep bolts and elemental arrows and stun bolts and drain bolts etc etc.Then one day i would be thinking,hmm maybe i'll try using a gun sounds like fun,then a whole array of different bullets.
Then i would set out to harvest the materials and craft my ammo,now a days i see most every game the Ranger class doesn't even have an ammo slot...sigh,such terribly bland boring crappy designs happening out there.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
The original EQ is still out there, Looking for you.
MAGA
I know, I had a short experience with P1999. I played it at a bad time in my life with many temporary situations going on that had cleared up for the most part.
However, I have to admit EQ1 shows it's age.
It's best played with ones that had an already experience with it. It's not to say a noob's can't catch up, but playing catch up with established players is a hard thing to do...... I decided to let that one rest. I'm ready to play on an even playing field with something more up-to-date.
I'm sure millions of players would feel the same
When I go back and watch old movies I can kind of feel that same excitement/imagination and get lost for an hour or two, but I find I'm a bit wary these days. I've realized that people use media as a way to get people to think their way and take advantage of them. It is the same today.
I do feel that the more sand boxy environments of older games allowed for greater use of imagination. Today very little is left to imagination and experiences are very directed. Part of this is because not everyone has a good imagination IMO. I used to get so lost in movies and games as a kid it's like I had a VR going on inside my head. This even persisted throughout my 20s. Most people need directions and good graphics. There is more money to be made there.
Another part is there is just too much entertainment. I can feel the impact of this myself. I was lucky enough to grow up right before the big video game/entertainment explosion. Part of my life I had to use my imagination for almost everything entertainment wise. There were movies, but they weren't quite as widely available. I didn't have a TV in my room initially and ended up with a black and white small TV at some point. Instead my friends and I mostly made things up for fun or played sports. This was in the 80s.
In the 90s I started playing video games a lot more. I think by the 2000s my imagination was already starting to suffer a bit from all the non stop entertainment. Things have changed a lot. People don't have time to stop and imagine things in this day and age. Everything is about factual data and statistics.
Nice post delete, I think what you are looking is for novelty and it hasn't been there in ages. Try something new and different, maybe it will help, my video game hiatus is going well, no games in the past week, feel better about myself, more motivated, etc.
Good luck trying to find something new.
Cryomatrix
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Kids these days!
I had so much fun,
Remember the first run at level 6 from Darnassus on the island of Teldrassil to Darkshore, then the boat to Menethil Harbor, across the wetlands to the Loch, then into Dun Morough into the great city of Ironforge ?..... Years later, I did this run several times showing my RL friends, they loved it too!
We would have such battles just outside Scarlet Monastery, even sneaking from the Library to the Armory was hard when you had a Horde Warlock ready to blast you in the face !
Sunken Temple was my all time favorite, deep in the waters located in Swamp of Sorrows, we spent hours in their at level 50.
Good times !!.... Good Good times
Great gameplay is timeless.
~~ postlarval ~~
Now you are guilty of giving the very excuses he said would be the reason for people not playing a game like Pantheon for why you quit playing Everquest. I don't think you even recognise how your threads reveal your own enthusiasm for something you have no clear idea of and yet support but in reality may be a game you cannot actually hack. Complaining about Everquest graphics... gameplay as pointed by @postlarval is timeless. Any true connoisseur of good gameplay will not condemn a game for its graphics.
The other thing about your excuse is the reason that there were too many high level players in the classic server of Everquest but you played till like level 5 so another lame excuse. I don't think there was any danger of you actually seeing the end game at the time you made the decision to quit the type of game you have been clamouring for on these boards.
I wish you would admit while posting these threads that the lofty vantage from which you purport to give your views is false and has no real footing since you do not have any experience other than vanilla WoW to back it. Vanilla WoW was a terribly easy game in comparison to Everquest.
@Jean-Luc_Picard had a point.
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
The other issue is that you can complete most goals on your own. The only guild recently that I was involved in much and felt sad leaving was in WoW. (I loved my old one from DAOC and WOW). This new guild was pretty tight but moved into raiding as most groups that play a lot together tend to do in WoW. I was asked to help run the guild but wasn't into raiding and eventually grew board of the game.
The Realm and UO had hte best guild / Friendship experience for me. I would say it was the older player base but at that point I would have been in my 20s maybe.
I thought about the game often but never did get into a fantasy mind-frame. I always had too many other tings I was thinking about
Wa min God! Se æx on min heafod is!
Auto mechanic - Like it or not each day is a different adventure. You walk into the unknown depending on the job given. You may pull a transmission or change breaks or change ball joints, maybe a simple day of changing oil in five vehicles...... Variation !
Restaurant waitress/waiter - Like it or not each day is the same. Customers arrive, you may talk a little, take their order and serve them food....... No variation !
"I can't believe variation needs to have an explanation"
No creativity in mmorpgs any more !
After playing two hours straight, do you really have to give any thought of what you have done, or what you will be doing next time ?
Important:
Many here think I'm insulting modern games or game players...... Honestly, yes the modern games, the players no !!!!!....... Except the ones that think their should be only "no variation".
I could name at least five heavy posters that feel their should be no variation EVER.
First here are some facts:
- Because of the state mmorpg's are in, many posters here are gone and are not here to vote. They simply gave up and moved on. They would have voted negatively and you know it. I would like to say thousands if not millions, but if I attach numbers, this would open your small attempt to white wash this poll.
- This poll runs approximately every two months, ALWAYS with the same results. Yet it's ignored for SOME REASION !
- Other than this site polls, their is no other way to be sure other poles are not white washed. This site has at random mmorpg players and are not affiliated with any company. It's basically the best you could get in all fairness. "Reputable" is the key word !!!!!
- This poll ran for 6 days and had 56 votes, again the best results you could find any place. Other polls have ran longer and more results ALWAYS THE SAME RESULTS !
- mmorpg.com developers admits this site needs to go beyond mmo's for advertisement's.
How are things:
1 Yes, better than ever 19.64%
2 Yes, but not as good 17.86%
3 Maybe 1.79%
4 No, but some in development 16.09%
5 No, but absolutely nothing like before 44.64%
Ok, now for some math:
4 and 5 = 60.73%
2, 4 and 5 = 78.59%
3 doesn't seem to count
That's 60.73 or 78.59% say "not good", depending on how you would like to view the results !
Hay, lets try and NOT ignore another poll !!!
Look at the amount of time people can spend in social media, that is living online surely? Is it casual, well just like gaming you can put it down, but people do spend hours at a time on it. Many play "casual" games for hours at a time too. Some sort of digitally interconnected life seems to be desired by most people on the planet. But what form would it take?
Funnily enough I think the social media types would want what has diminished so much in MMOs, a community. Where as gamers want to game, but maybe now you are seeing how those two separate visions could unite?
Something like Second Life, but with decent games and graphics, indeed you could drop some themepark and sandboxes in something so vast. AOL had an idea for a vaguely similar sort of online life community.
But it could be quite awful, bringing with it all the inanity of YouTwit, the virtue signalling and witch hunts of Twatter and the privacy intrusion of Facepalm. Ok by now you have realised my opinion of social media is not high.
In many ways we are better off in games worlds where all that is kept firmly outside.
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
~~ postlarval ~~
Greed and need for great graphics are killing mmorpg's. Too much time is put in both.