Comment by Jeff

4/14/2004 @ 6:37 pm

I will respond only after you go to your user preferences and set a nickname so that your posts show your name.

Comment by TimF

4/14/2004 @ 10:48 pm

Who does Jeff think he is anyhow, some kind of moderator? That’s some cold ass shit.

Comment by Jeff

4/15/2004 @ 12:35 am

Ok ok, forgive my iron-fisted weblog rule. Here’s a quick rundown of my limited exposure to MMORPG’s. And when I say quick rundown, I mean all-out rant.

The first couple of these games I saw was Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot. My initial impression was that those games were awful. Today, my opinion is that these games are awful. Gangs of dudes (most of whom choose to be portrayed as buxom women) run together through a graphically sour landscape looking for something to do. Most of their time is occupied talking to each other. Half of them choose to talk in medieval fashion (”Thy breasts are most ample, young Steve013″). The other half talk, not surprisingly, like computer goons (”Dude, I milked another 25MHz out of my video card tonight, my framerates are killa! Oh, and nice jugs on your character, Greg”). In this sense, these games serve many of their players as a graphical chat room. If you’re not chatting, you have many opportunities to do battle for experience points, battle with foul, terrible beasts such as: deer, sheep, and gazelle. Yes, I know you move on to bigger creatures later on, but shit man. We’re not talking about a few minutes of this. We’re talking about several days’ worth of killing woodland creatures before you progress in the game. Big fun. So if you consider slaughtering monsters (rabbits) with a few mighty heroines (all dudes, probably at home naked) all the while engaged in conversation (farts, boobs, knives) then these games are for you.

Now that I’m done bitching about those, I’ll tell you about another one I’ve played. It’s called EVE Online. http://www.eve-online.com It’s not the greatest game ever, but it’s a good bit of fun. You start the game as a lowly cargo ship pilot and where you take it from there is up to you. You can go to work for a corporation, fight with one of many warring factions for power, become a bounty hunter, become a pirate and loot other pilots’ cargo, etc. The game looks great, has a very interesting (read: normal) player base, a good story line behind the scenes, ah hell just look at the website. It’s fun, ok?

These games’ subscription fees make you feel a sense of obligation to play and Chris once made a good point about MMORPG’s: the game can end in only one of two ways: you tire of the game and discontinue your subscription OR the developer goes out of business leaving you high and dry.

That is by far the longest comment I have ever written on this site. Please let me know what the rest of you have encountered.