WoW: the off again on again (off again) MMO love affair

So it seems like I will be steppin into Akarius' boots once more. I cannot deny that I am excited.


In video gaming there are characters that are already fleshed out (Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Niko Belic, John Marston, Naked Snake) and there are characters that are left blank, for you to create. Normally, and because of technology restraints, you are only able to flesh out the appearance of a character and left to imagine a personality. Some companies have taken steps toward a more interactive approach, such as Bioware, where you are able to flesh out your character's temperament through choices in conversation responses, as well as actions, and subsequent repercussions. I normally have a love/hate relationship with making my own character. On the one hand, it allows for better suspension of disbelief, on the other, it makes connecting with a character in itself more difficult. Maybe you made the character look too dumb, maybe you didn't put too much thought behind the character creation process...all in all, it's led me to have a lot of characters on WoW that I never really played, because I didn't " feel" them.

I normally didn't like the nelf models, and the nelf lore is sorta boring to me. I tried making a night elf druid, a night elf mage, a night elf hunter etc. Why? because as much as I could have disliked night elves, I disliked humans and gnomes more. =/

I made a night elf rogue that took me a long time to level, and I finally made a night elf warrior. At first it was odd, it felt like an odd choice (a spindly, nature loving being doesn't strike me as spartan in nature) but he eventually grew on me. And I eventually learned to play the class somewhat well, even with crappy gear. And I eventually geared him correctly. And right before I quit the game, he was becoming incredibly powerful, even for his level, to the point where we could be bullies in pugs (got tank? will pug)

And now, given this on again off again attraction we have to WoW....it seems we will be stepping into Azeroth again, after a quite brief respite...and I will be able to take my shield up yet again, and get hit in the face, be it for praise, be it for glory.


Good hunting!

MMO withdrawals

I've been feeling it. I haven't seriously played an MMO in roughly a month. Uh, well, that's counting my stint coming back to LOTRO under a free trial account. I'm not sure that counts... If not, then it's been a long time. A few months at any rate. I've been missing my warrior.


And every time I miss WoW, I'm reminded of all the douchebags, all the lag, all the elitism.... and it kind of goes away. It's also left me a bit broken on the whole MMO as a multiplayer thing front. One thing I am totally looking forward to in SWTOR is how story heavy it will be. I know my girlfriend loves end game, she loves raid (truth be told, I LOVE end game lewt, seriously) but I get a bit cranky at the amount of dedication required. I'd rather do my own thing. And this game seems to allow for that for longer than WoW.

Anyway, SWTOR is still like 6-9 months away, so.... anyway, I tried Guild Wars this weekend. I was....delighted, but unimpressed. It seemed fun, the class repertoire was fun as heck, the surroundings were lush and attractive, but something was missing. There was something missing. Even...missing from LOTRO. LOTRO invited me to jump RIGHT in. GW is not ....it's missing something. I can't pinpoint it yet. Maybe it's the pace?


Well, we spent a good part of last week trying to play the FF14 beta. We were not able to get into it because our graphics card sucks. After roughly 50 hours of downloading, and prodding, and waiting for a key...we didn't meet the systech requirements.


...there was a battery test to check if your computer could handle the game, and it seems as if our computer passed it.


I dunno, Squaresoft...if you're going to make someone wait in line for a hot dog for an hour, you should let them know they need to have a drink already at hand in order to eat their hot dog. Just a thought, you know? (I want a hot dog)


We tortured ourselves and saw some of the intro videos for the classes and the races, and just went absolutely gaga over the game. It's so sad, because we both LOVE Final Fantasy...but with this fiasco, on top of all the accounts of how bad the beta was.


Currently cello is waiting for GW 2 and SWTOR. I think I'll just keep my candle lit for swtor. Im a bit concerned that Im just not into mmos anymore. It would suck, because it's something easy and low impact to do with your significant other. Plus, my gf is a paramount star wars geek.


And so am I. Or I was. Ish. Like Ben Kenobi.