Andrew wrote:Estranged, i'd check it out - I kind of dig it.
It's a little buggy but it's basically HL2 with a little bit of the first Bioshock horror thrown in, graphically it's almost Stanley Parable. It's free so no excuses.
Free is good. Checking it out.
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MrNovember wrote:My roommate first year ended up dropping out of University because of his WoW addiction. The other roommates and I would make fun of him to his face and he wouldn't even register it because he was so engrossed in the game. No clue how many hours he logged but it's got to be quite a few.
Don't think I could ever play that game; it's an addiction I really don't want
I'd only worry if you have a penchant for unfun grinding
Yeah, it's just as grindy as other MMOs, but disguised. At least the quest system sometimes throws you an interesting one at the end of an area, though. It does have slightly better quests than a lot of MMOs, but when you go from area to area a lot of the quests are rehashed. Kinda like how they throw the same enemies at you that you fought 10 levels ago, but this time they're bigger or with a different color palette. You can either do a bajillion quests or you can do dungeons all fucking day long.
When you get to 80 it is soul-crushing to do a 20-minute dungeon and find out that it only filled your XP bar by like 5%. I can't play WoW or any other MMO that uses the more traditional, less actiony combat system anymore. I got to 87 and just couldn't go further. Why am I doing this? I'm doing this because I'm paying to play this game. I have to keep up with my friends, who fucking play all day every day. I feel obligated to play this game because if I'm not playing it then I'm not getting my money's worth from it. It's like paying a company to work for them.
I know the raids are the "core" of the game or whatever, but after all that slogging I no longer give a shit. This is why I don't play subscription-based games anymore...I'm constantly progressing towards this one point in any MMO where I realize that it's just gonna be the same old shit after this exact moment. I've reached the full depth of my abilities in this game. And then my will to play is instantly dead.
Those all sound like other valid reasons why I'll never play WoW.
Also I absolutely hate online gaming for some reason. I just don't play video games to be social.
Yeah me neither, I fucking hate dealing with other people on the internet. I sometimes play online games with my irl friends but almost never online, except very occasionally the odd game of that gmod american football thing that's hilarious.
^ have you checked out Cockatrice? it's officially down because of Wizards, but there's unofficial servers and always some players online. free all the way.
vallaton wrote:^ have you checked out Cockatrice? it's officially down because of Wizards, but there's unofficial servers and always some players online. free all the way.
I have...
But competition and prize support on the official WotC stuff is just so much better. It'll eventually just suck me into the real thing. And suddenly I don't even know what "Gear" is and I've spent all my money on digital cards.
ah, alright. i find competitive card playing and prizes better in the analog world. mainly use cockatrice for testing out decks and to play with friends who live far from me.
i don't spend that much money in cardboard anymore though. i usually play legacy or casual decks, so i don't have to worry about rotations and such, so once in a while i'll get a pedals worth of cards for a new deck or something.
I played MtG from around Masques to Mirrodin. Invasion block draft was soooooo much fun. My brother and a few cousins and friends were into it, too. It was way too expensive so we bailed and sold all our cards. I mostly played legacy with stuff like wildfire/tinker/turbo land. I tried to build a deck around Shard Phoenix but would usually end up winning by Skullclamping a bunch of tokens into a massive Firestorm. I hear the clamp is banned everywhere, now.
I'm close to breaking and buying a PS3. I can't resist the call of the Souls much longer.
disclaimer: I'm an engineer with DigiTech/DOD good deals
Just started playing Soul Hackers; twenty minutes in and the story has already gone off the rails.
edit: 30 minutes in and here's the run down
~hacked my way into the second life beta
~a crt monitor tried to steal my soul
~my hacker gang's leader bought a computer-gun hybrid from a junk shop
~a coyote spirit revealed itself to me and forced me to live out a memory of a dead guy
~I am now the chosen one
~my best friend got possessed by an evil spirit that was apparently stored as a .rar
~my friend with dreads named "Lunch" upgraded my gpu
~my gang leader is being attacked by demons
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lady killer.
