Interesting read. Missed the article when it first came out. Wish I was in on EQ when it arrived. Always wanted to be, but I was a kid with limited funds and couldn't build a computer to handle it back then. 

Sometimes use a random generator sometimes I sit and think about it. Depends on how up to the task I feel when creating a character. Sometimes I use words or portions of words from random things sitting on my computer desk.

ok...thanks for sharing.

Have fun, I guess.

Originally posted by Elikal

Originally posted by DM19

Time to find a better ISP?

Not possible. Here we have a monopoly for the cables on "German Telekom". There IS no alternative. Another provider would have to loan Telekom cables, which are limited to this.

Yeah, was going to side with you Elikal. Some folks really don't have all that many options for an ISP. I know I got two. My slow ass dsl, or I can go cable. But I don't want to wait around from 9am to 530pm for the cable guy to come out and install my service, and I am actually fairly happy with my DSL right now.

think it took me three days to get the full download. No big deal for me, really. 

Originally posted by Joliust

Exploration is its own reward.

I think this, in my opinion. I like going to areas of the map that have interesting sights and don't necissarily have anything to do with a quest. The key, for me would to make the whole world interesting to look at/investigate not just the areas that have to do with questing.

wow, that does look pretty cool. Too bad I suck at pvp. Hope you pvp guys enjoy.

I ain't gonna lie, I really want to play a panda monk.

I just don't know if I want to play WOW again.

I had a great time in wow, but it's time has passed for me.

Originally posted by Squal'Zell

i just saw the trailer...and read a couple of post above this one about milking buttlerflies....

seriously pass whatever you're smokin... or whatever the devs and concept artists were on in the time of conception....

hehe, exactly what I thought after watching the trailer.

But I've heard it is unique and fun and all that. Just might be a little too out there for my tastes.

So you got me to watch it. Did it look a bit like wow? yeah, I guess some parts. Actually, I saw some similarities to a few games out there. I guess it would be a bit hard not to seeing as it is a fantasy game. No big deal for me. I'll give it a go when it comes out.

I actually thought that the opening part with the piano music was a bit corny, but hey, it's just a video.

Originally posted by elocke

Originally posted by Gravarg

I don't get how people can play MMOs solo.  It's boring as heck.  I am almost never solo in any game I play, and I tend to play with friends that I've played other games with, so we know each other well.  You can take just about any horrible game, add a friend grouping with you and it's at least 10x better.  I don't know how soloers do it.

The same way you read a book by yourself or watch a movie/tv.  The same way you drive your car or ride a bike by yourself.  That's how.  As with the things I mentioned, they can be done with others too, just like MMORPGs.  So just because we say we are solo players, doesn't mean we don't group at all or ever.  We just prefer to drive the car listening to our music singing at the top of our lungs because no one is in the car with me to get all wierd about it. 

hehe...well said. Completely agree.

Was going to comment on the "inane chat" part in your previous piece that was linked...then I realized it was a month old. So I guess I'll do it here.

I like to play solo, but I do like to have guild chat full of folks chatting away. Sometimes I pay attention to it, some times I don't, but it makes me feel like I'm not alone in the world...even though I play mostly that way. Weird, I guess.

Well, if there is anything I've learned on these forums in the past few years, it is that every new big-time game coming out is both, "the greatest game ever," and "a steaming pile."

So, yeah, I've learned to wait and see for myself.

Originally posted by Bladestrom

And since when did anyone think of themselves as solely a grinder, oh wait "grinder"  well anyway to argue against this, a "racer" races past content then promptly starts complaining - I want content! thats the issue.

I think this is the issue SOME have. Me, I could give two plops (i'm a, by your definition,  "grinder", btw).

that might actually get me to play this game...

but no, probably not. NIce idea though, just not a fan of the game.

Originally posted by Cacophanist

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It is also just a mass of instances. It does not feel like a coherent world. Nothing open to it. Sure some of the instances look big and open but they are just levels in a level based game.

...

THIS is what I don't like about the game.

yeah. It would have to be given. Otherwise you'll see a lot of "Darth Fuzzy Bunny" or some such...

Doom. 

There I am, almost dead to begin with, only a pistol in hand, nervous about going into the next room cause I know what is going to happen. So I do move on anyways, and then, all the sudden doors would slide open and 20 baddies would come pouring into the room. I would jump in my seat and shout "shit!" IRL.

And if I managed to survive...I'd go on to the next room.

edit* never realy felt too immersed in an MMO. I've been in awe of landscape, and how big certain areas were, but that's about all.

Originally posted by MMOtoGO

I wonder what the pop of VG would be if everybody who lamented the 'low pop' status actually resubbed at the same time...

hehe, catch 22. I wonder myself.

Originally posted by talcott

I so often returned to VG because its so different although its a quest game. its not like bubble gum (like modern games), its like a decent cooked meal compared to the recently released games.

a non-existing development is poison to game motivation cause you got the feeling youre playing a game without future. and damn VG deserves that future amidst all these shallow new hype games!

I think that is what it was for me. I really like the game, but I just can't bring myself to play it long term.

If at level 40 you don't like the combat of the burglar, then you will never like it. The combat in LOTRO is, indeed, slow, and I understand how people are turned off on it.

For me, it was never really a problem. I kind of enjoy the slow pace of the whole game.