In all seriousness, you can tell a serious gamer by how great they are in pvp, now dont get me wrong with all the lotro playing, semi-casual but decked out in best gear gamers, theyre good. but skill isnt measured by how decent your gear is. pvp is.
PvP, the one act in any game (imo) that makes it worth the entire downloading.. opening.. configuring.. leveling.. dying at night because you leveled all day... getting some gear... part of the game....
Going into the battlefield or chilling outside of a town, chasing down opposite factions or people the belong the a different guild, just the act itself is thrilling, you have the have quick reactions and a setup that suits the way you act in crappy situations... for instance, your killing a mob, you have 50% hp and most of your skills are on cooldown, your mana is dying down and someone attacks you, AMAZING. why?!?!?!?!? you think, maybe your close to leveling or your just close to getting that quest finished but someone attacks you. that's when killer instincts fit in, if you die and your the one ganking, your bad at your class, no defense for that. you just are... but the people who survive isnt it glorious?
All the survivors know who they are too, your the ones with the decked out pvp gear, the people that can take out anyone of anyclass, there are so few of you but your all fantastic. but then there are the losers.. the people that are god awful at pvp but still flood the halls of every game, spamming duel requests to people 10 levels lower or going to a lowby zone just so you can get that 2 second kill thrill that doesnt really mean anything to you but you do it anyway so when they call you a newb after you die you can think to yourself or even /y it ffs, "that's why i pwnt you"
Pwnt.. thats a clever little word isnt it? i t means owned, like the P adds anything to the meaning, you can say owned or pwnt, either way your calling the other person a newb, gg on that btw, whoever made that worth that is.. i honestly beleive that you should only be able to say pwnt if there was a massive challange that could have presented itself but didnt.. your fighting someone equal level but you know they have a party member somewhere that'll hop in if they see their friend dying, or maybe fighting the OP class that all the newbs play because they dont require skill.. that's pwn-worthy but getting off topic...
PvP should have some sort of test.. there are drivers licenses to see if your good enough to drive, their are even req's to get into freaking holes in the walls filled with monsters, but pvp? no... it's meant for the newbs to enjoy right, but what about when you walk around and notice everyone that pvps with your class.. is giving your class a bad name, like personally im a hunter on wow "alliance" and zomgwtflawlerz im a night elf, so i have 3 negatives against me right away and my thought process on this is... no matter what i do to win a duel, if i dont 4 up that person, as in pwn them in 4 ways, they always have something to come back at me with, pvp is serious business
leave it to ppl that are good...
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FLAMEE!!!!!!! lawl, just getting that done with before someone else jumps in with it..
Yup! prepare for the flaming!
but seriosly.. dude.. you cant possibly mean that PvP in WoW is thrilling and require some sort of skill and good thinking beside knowing what buttons to smash ? best gear and max level, then you got your so called "skill" ;)
Games are serious? I thought they were supposed to be fun. Not just for the "elite gamer" , whatever that is, but for everyone who plays.
PvP is seerius busines, now with that outta the way I agree with you.. to some point. I think in many games (WoW included) the PvP is broken. All the idea is to get the "Phat Lewtz" and a "1337" keyboard that you can whack faster with your head. Some games have immersive PvP and in thoses rare, skill-based, games PvP is really enjoyable however most of above stated games aren't mmorpg's but mmofps instead. Back to WoW because that sounds like the game you're talking about mainly; I think that WoW PvP is broken when you say "Pwn every class" I think you're thinking of Blizz's "Fav class" as the forums call them, of the patch. Well I'm rambling. Anyway I think that PvP can be fun and immersive and that it can be a focal point of a game, not simply an afterthought, but in the very few years of MMORPG's (which mind you there have not been many) Not many PvP games such as the ones you've stated have been made, nothing to do but wait I guess, oh well. Peace out!
PvP is usually extremely lame imo because it's very easy to tell whether you will be able to kill the person or be killed by them. Now if you had said a game like UO (ultima online) or Lineage 2, then I would say "ya this guy knows his stuff" but the fact that you even consider the "PvP" in WoW thrilling means you honestly have no idea what PvP is all about.
Really not trying to put you down man but WoW is one of the worst PvP systems I have ever seen, and I have played quite a few mmo's. But good post though you can actually put your thoughts into complete sentences and that is impressive in a world of acronyms.
Sorry to post twice but I think I was a bit too critical of you in my last post. I wanted to say that you are quite right in a lot of what you said, but honestly man if you enjoy PvP there are much better games to do it in than World of Warcraft. But, if that's the game you enjoy and you like the PvP in go nuts my friend because that's what games are all about...having fun. Take care and thanks for posting something worth reading.
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