Originally posted by girlgeek 

Absolutely.

 

And that is why I'm going to say something totally "unpopular" around these parts and that is....

 

I find sandbox games (the ones made post UO, anyway) to be completely and utterly boring. That's right...I said it...B O R I N G.  Because honestly, a sandbox, in my opinion, is only as good as the imagination of the collective group of people playing it. And I don't find that people, over all, have the active imaginations that they had back in the early days of UO. 

 

Granted, I haven't played Darkfall yet. I have avoided it because of the "other side" of my "gaming moodiness".....

 

However, the seeming lack of imagination isn't really the only thing that makes these games boring to me, but in the opposite direction, as I've gotten older, it has actually become less of a draw to me to log into a game that requires me to "work" to play it. I really don't want to have to think very hard anymore...on SOME days. Now I don't feel like that EVERY day, but some days....I'm just tired. And on those days...a game that "leads me" (like EQ2, LoTRO, WoW) sounds pretty darn good.

 

On days I have ENERGY....wandering around in Telon (Vanguard) with no particular agenda in mind, suits me fine.

 

And I rarely, if EVER...have enough energy for PvP any more. I just quite simply do not CARE about PvP.

 

Welcome to the forces of time and gravity, and a fully developed immunity to caffeine in any format.

I want to respond really bad to this, but I am just not sure what to say... I mean there are plenty of days where I just do not log into EVE because I don't have the energy to do it, and yes EVE is much more a game of work than any other games I know, but thats also why I like it so much. However much I don't want to come home from work and work, I do... and I think this interview actually said it really well: "The lows (i.e. house-on-face) create the meaningful context of the highs (i.e. house-on-other-guys-face) making all the more rewarding." Those highs for me are just worth too much to pass up.

:)

Originally posted by uttaus 

I would say Eve is a good game BUT a classic Space opera it is not. It does what it does well. It does not give most players the epic classic space opera feeling in my opinion.

Before you ask what space opera is, a judge once said I know it when I see it.

 

To each their own.

Originally posted by Yamota

This article shows well what Eve does very well and that is the sandbox playtype. However what Eve does NOT do well is a sci-fi space game. Most of the times your target is so far away that he is just an icon and how fun is that? Fighting an icon...

Anyway, just wanted to point that out to anyone looking at these magnificent screenshots and read these amazing articles about Eve. A great sandbox MMORPG it is, a great space sci-fi opera it is not.

I went to create an account just to respond to this... I also found out that I apparently already had an account, but only after filling out the whole form... my point is I created an account to respond to this... for the most part.

I disagree with you. I disagree not with your assessment of how most the time you are so far away you only see an icon, but I disagree that EVE is not "a great space sci-fi opera".

Maybe I agree and EVE is not an opera, I don't like opera's, but it is most DEFINETLY an amazing space game. If you think the captain of a real (how ever not real it may be) space ship is going to be looking at anything but icons on a screen you are crazy, especially on the scale of a solar system entire fleets would be represented as a single icon. That is one of the reasons EVE is such an amazing sci-fi game, the scale is incredible. You do not plan massive wars thinking about single ships, you plan thinking about fights involving hundreds of ships and you never once care about a single individual one... OK well maybe a Titan.

You know whats best though, knowing what those icons represent when they go boom. They represent time and effort some one put into bringing it into existance and when it blips off your screen and you know some one on the other end that is now ejecting their pod into space is cursing and yelling you get to smile like never before.