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• • what would your ideal career be?

  • My ideal career would be serving the American people, day in and day out.

     

    I have considered the military, many times, but I do not think it is for me for varied reasons.

     

    We will see, however, what the future holds.

  • Posted: 12/02/08 3:27 AM
    General Discussion
• • Um...still active?

  • No.  The population has not gotten better.  It is worse.

     

     

    Yes.  The game is "active" if you mean taking it off of life support and -gasp!- it sill breaths.

     

    The developers, I think have done some cool and smart things, though:

    • Living Legacy (old school zones with good drops; brought back the challenge, fun, and excitement of grouping again);
    • Mercenaries (though I do not have a merc, and I do not even have the expansion, it has made duoing with friends, at least, 5 times easier and more convenient);
    • Other, not knocking the devs, it is late/early, and I am tired - perhaps I cannot think of anything else, or there is nothing else. 

     

    My style of gameplay, however, is different;  I just group with friends, maybe once or twice a week.  I check old school named mobs from time-to-time.  Might slay a dragon.  /shrug.  Never was a raider, though, I was a Raid Officer (old, old school) and leader of a raid guild.  I am, and perhaps always will be, a sort of explorer, grouper, socializer.... Trying to find a game that has that, and until them, I will play EQ.

    Actually, you might want to check on Vanguard soon.  I keep hearing good things, and I will keep following the game's progress.  Besides Vanguard, really, all of the games are lacking, in my view, in imagination, depth, complexity, challenge (raiding is NOT what I mean by challenging), world immersion, customization, fascinating Questing, and social MMORPG features.  I canont log-in to slay 5 things anymore to level to advance in a decision-tree for skills to raid.  Where is my world?  It might be Runescape, a freaking browser game - that is free.

  • Posted: 12/02/08 3:19 AM
    Everquest
• • Sandbox vs Theme Park

  • 90% sandbox

    • Freedom
    • Options
    • Immersion
    • Customization
    • Deeper Questing
    • Player tool
      • Design Cities, Taverns, Items, Ships, etc.

    
    

    10% theme park

    • Easy, log-in tasking
      

    
    

    The vast, majority of us "gamers" want a sandbox.
    

    So developers keep giving us theme parks.
    

    And wonder why they cannot slice a piece of WoW's pie.  WHISPER:  We want a different pie (with some of the flavors, ingredients and things we like in WoW).

  • Posted: 12/02/08 3:12 AM
    General Discussion
• • mmorpgs are complete rip offs

  • Originally posted by ArchAngel102 

    Average lifespan of a video game for me? Two weeks to One month.

     

    Result? MMORPG's are EXTREMELY cheap. I can subscribe to FOUR MMO's for the price of ONE PS3 or PC game...

     

    You are playing the wrong games. Ha, ha ha!  Aside:  I wish people with your "financial logic" would shop at my brother's online store more. 

     

    I play Warcraft III online, for free, in fact playing as I type this.  I play online regularly.  The game is timeless, and players can customize all sorts of maps from roleplaying to PvP style to more strategy - you name it.

     

    I also play CoD online.  I continuously play Sim City as well.   My games have a much (much) longer lifespan than yours. 

  • Posted: 12/01/08 1:49 AM
    General Discussion
• • Your Gaming Preference

  • You could almost take your list and put it in reverse order for ME.  I , too, have an 8800 gtx, yet graphics for me are the least important.

     

    I like to be fascinating.  I like to "feel" as if the character that I develop is unique and part of something large in the world I am exploring.  Content is crucial in all respects from grouping to Questing to tradeskills.  Community is increasingly important, I think, because I enjoy the social aspect to MMORPGs more, today, than ever before.  

     

    1. World Immersion
    2. Story-book feel
    3. Content
    4. Community
    5. Audio
    6. Visuals (aka graphics)
  • Posted: 11/30/08 11:52 PM
    General Discussion