I tried something new recently... Quitting. Well, not exactly, i'll explain how it worked. I recently quit my main mmorpg. It was a struggle for the first day or two, i got the thing hang of it after awhile. I told myself i was done for good, and i won't play the game till a week has passed. After about the third day i got so frustrated with my mmorpg. How you ask? I wasn't playing it, but it was still in my head. What quests i am on. How is my guild coming along? Any good raids? Etc. It's kinda pathetic that i was thinking that in my head... I must be a total dork. I came to a realization that it was good that i was thinking these things. Let me be honest. I was playing my FPS during this trial period. What am i really getting out of an mmorpg, that i can't get out of an FPS? Well... If you think about it... I got friends on my fps, a clan, i can shoot people head's off. I can still talk to them on vent and teamspeak. What am i missing? Depth. Every game has some depth too it. Where it be... Chinese, or Western. Sci-Fi... Or even hello kitty online. It all has some depth too it. It doesn't matter how small or how big, we can always immerse ourselves deeper into it. If we haven't already. Time to get serious... This is how i broke it down. Bear with me.
Counter-Strike:Source is my FPS Shooter. For those who have played it, it is quite fun. It can be very dull at times, but what isnt'? You can rescue hostages, plant a bomb. Blow some body parts off. Mix and match some wicked skins. You keep your fingers crossed, hopefully you won't die from a sniper. Which happens often to me. Unless i get to him/her first. Why i play this game? Friends, servers, communities. I've grown into them. Plus, who doesn't love a good match once and awhile? So, when i'm not playing my mmorpg. I am sitting on my chair playing that. It does get boring at times i will admit. Mostly i find myself distracted from everything else around me when i'm playing it. Some matchs get intense and heated, or they are very mellow and relaxed and we are just chilling. I call it my de-stresser. I play it after my mmorpg, sometimes even before. Depending on what kind of mood i am in. A lot of us are like that. We play depending on our moods. Most of us have several mmorpgs we play. Some of us play consoles as well. I do as well. We are diverse in the games we have chosen. We play to our style accordingly. If we don't know our style. We search until we find our style. Gamers are so diverse. We have so many styles, so many requests. We take our time and search for a game for our own needs. If one game doesn't fit our style, we move on. There are a ton of games out there on the market. Fitting everyone from toddlers, to adults.
Everyday i struggle playing my main mmorpg. I play Dungeons & Dragons Online, Alantica Online. Currently looking for one more to play. Why do i play these games? Aye, well... I play P&P DnD. I'm a huge fan of it. I've been DMing and Playing for years now. Alantica Online reminds me of old school final fantasy with some cool features. I grew up on final fantasy series, and still play them today on my spare time. So i have some good reasons why i play these games, because they remind me of something else? Well, isn't that a clone of something? Alantica, cloned final fantasy? Hell no. Turned based games have gone far beyond final fantasy. I will say final fantasy is my favorite all time turned based series. Cloning is a process. We all know it now. A game is a clone of a clone. It's a never ending cycle. We must find what the game has that isn't cloned, so we can feed off that and live of it. So, we don't feel we are just playing another clone. Alantica is popular for a free-to-play a game. Depending on what server you play on, you will have different people. I play with a bunch of teenagers and adults, whom i enjoy playing with. It's unique, it's fun, and most importantly it's a time waster. Oh, thats so bad you call it a timewaster! No it's not... I said it's fun beforehand right? Someone could find jogging fun, and i could call it a timewaster right? Whats the difference? Not much really. Why do i play Dungeons & Dragons Online? Every weekend i play the P&P version with a bunch of friends. It's a hell an adventure everytime. D&D is a wide game. It has unique features too it, and some old. Though it does differ from the P&P version. It has it's kicks and punches which keep me going. Same with Alantica. You can say it clones a game so much too me. I couldn't care less. I will defend the game because i enjoy it.
I've stated many times. I do not love an mmorpg currently. I used too back in the olden days. Now it's just sort of bland. I'm contradicting myself i know. How can a game be unique and bland? Very simple. It has bland features and unique features. Every game has them. It could be outside, or inside the game. It varies from people. I love simple things, and i also love fancy things. Simple things keep us going, fancy things keeps us thinking, on our toes. A game can improve so much for the players, we have to improve for the game. What i mean by that is... You must try to love. You can't just say in the first day... "Omg, i love this game, it roxors my socks off" No it doesn't. It may impress you a lot. Good for you, you found a good game. My friends have done that so much, and it's always led to dissappointment a couple of days into it. A mmorpg does play the same tune. It always has. It just how you tweak the tune to your liking. You have to handle it delicatly. Rushing into a game, full speed, not stopping, marathon will get you nowhere your first time. It will lead to quick boredom, and a rush that won't sustain for long. Of course, don't get me wrong... When you get a new game. It's like a present. You wanna play with it all you can, and all you want it. Because it's yours now. Party right? Yes, party! My parties last around 4-6 hours the first day. It's pretty long if you think about it. If you play a new game for that long... You can get a couple levels in, some quests done, meet some people, join a gang, who knows? Might even find true love. Haha, who knows?
I said, i went a week without playing my main mmorpgs. I'm not gonna lie, it was tough, it was different. It taught me a lot of things. Some people say they are just a huge waste of time, and they are just games. They are an experiment too me. Yeah, i might be using the computer a lot. But i'm actually doing something. Helping people, talking to people. Meeting new people. I'm saying people a lot because it's true. We all interact in the real world. We work, we have families, we have friends. It's the same as online games. We have work, we have friends, we have families(Guildies). It's just we act differen't don't you think? Some people might be E-thugs. Some people might be 13 and act so mature we would never know. It's the personalities, and uniqueness in games that drag us down for me. I'm beginning to feel it again. We all have been discouraged, and disappointed. A light will shine down on us, and give us hope. It could be this year, or next year, or the year after. Who knows? The future is always changing it's course. Developers are always thinking. We are always changing. Mmorpg's are every evolving with the world. People are too. They want us to have fun, we want to bring the fun. 100% is given, 100% is taken. I've been posting a lot of blogs, because i have a lot to say. I don't care if people read them or not. At least it's out there for the public's viewing eyes. I love interacting. I love making friends, i love meeting new people. I think in some sense we all do. We just gotta find the right people to do it with.
Experiments end. Just like life does. Some people make gaming their whole lives. I'm not gonna hate you for that. Your choice. Mmorpg our sometimes our lives. We put 100% into gaming. Some of us don't, some of us do. I applaud the people who do. Because we should. Developer's work hard for us. Atleast, i still think they do most of the time. Haha. Enough of this blog. I'm done for the night! Cheers!
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