Originally posted by Metentso

EVE was original after EQ. That destroys your argument.

Anyway being completely original is not the issue, it's being different enough as to be interesting. There is a thread in the Pub about this.

You are saying the EVE didn't use any of the technology that came before it?

fill your life with love and everything else in this world will seem pointless most importantly love yourself.  even if you are a serial killer dont let others judge you or get you down.

Originally posted by colddog04

You're born and then you die. Everything in between is meaningless.

 

BRB, hanging self.

i LOL'ed.

OP, I'm having trouble reconciling your association with the meaning of life to video games. That kind of fatalism is generally reserved for something more meaningful, I've never seen it used to suggest people shouldn't try being original. That was interesting, I guess...

But for every Plato there's an Aristotle; for everyone that believes nothing is more than an imitation of something, there's someone who feels a unique interpretation of something is much more.

You're unlikely to bridge the gap between the two philosophies, don't bother trying.

Originally posted by jairus

fill your life with love and everything else in this world will seem pointless most importantly love yourself.  even if you are a serial killer dont let others judge you or get you down.

*sniff*...*sniff*.

Well said. Finally someone who understands.

** re-arranges collection of severed heads in basement refrigerator while waiting for the rest of the last victim's headless body to dissolve in an industrial stength barrel of hydrochloric acid**

Originally posted by ktanner3

Originally posted by Zezda

Originally posted by ktanner3

Originally posted by bartoni33

Heavy first post OP. I can feel your angst from here.

Sounds like MMO's (or anything) are not your cup of arsenic. Such is life.

Have you tried mind-altering drugs? Works for some. Death for others.

I hope other people do not get you down too much.

EDIT: The hate you see here is because some people had WAAAAAAAAAY too high expectations for this game. Unrealistic ones. Hence the self-loathing when they were let down. Can't be their fault they were looking for something that was never going to be here. So they lash out at the game. Easy peasy. You will see this repeat itsself when the next batch of uber-awesome games come out. Prepare tissues my friend now.

This. Happens every game. Game X comes out, fanboys drool over it and claim it to be the next WOW killer, game releases and turns out to be just an ordinary game, and then these same Dr. Jekylls all turn into Mr. Hydes towards their fallen savior.  Happened with Warhammer, Age of Conan and TOR and soon it will happen to GW2. MMO players tend to be the most fanatical when it comes to their hobby.They nitpick every nook and cranny of a game and tend to spend more time griping about what a game doesn't have than what it does right.

Except that some games are actually better than others and some deserve the criticism more so than others.

 

People are keen to talk about this mystical cycle since it's happened with the last few games. What they fail to also see is that the 'last few games' have all more or less been a re-hash of the same thing done slightly differently. Just wait until some good quality games come out that are actually different and this 'cycle' is going to fall apart.

It hasn't just been a case of a few games. I've been a member of this site for six years and that cycle has been constant with every release:  LOTRO,Rift, STO, Champions Online, DCUO, Warhammer, Darkfall, Fallen Earth etc.etc. If you can't find happiness with that many titles, the majority of which are all different from each other, then there really is no pleasing you folks.

I am assuming it's because either PVE and/or PVP has had the same issues and overall design as the previou with one distinct feature. 

Though it'd be interesting if the distinct features where designed and balanced together all into one game, I can't really name an MMO that's currently released and attempted such thing. 

At the very least themepark wise I can name two that finally are attempting that and atleast one of the two so far seems to have it, and has been experienced and what not.

The biggest issue is time as while those two themepark/boxes where under developement, rehashes of the same with one nice distinct feature have been releasing and what not.

All I'm saying that's what it looks like to me when looking at MMOs.

If for what it's worth MMOs where not for me until this year. Because every PVE content I tried resembles WoW which I assume it took from EQ.