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• • why do people throw away money?

  • Sorry, but your post completely goes over my head.  The games I play do NOT stutter or crash on me.  I haven't even run into any major bugs on them.  What kind of system are you running on?

    Besides, I think that in some cases you can trace buggy games back to the player.  Have you ever entered a closed beta with the intention to REALLY test the game and report the bugs rather than get a 'free' look at it?  Closed Beta is an integral part of the testing plan of most every thing.  I remember when Windows had new releases that were 'closed beta' tested.  The people getting the beta version didn't get paid to test it and didn't expect to.

  • Posted: 5/12/08 2:03 PM
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• • Would you want a player character that insisted on being nice?

  • Okay, have you been on a LoTRO server in the last 4 months?  When LoTRO first came out it was innundated with people who played it because it was the 'latest new thing'.  Now that its been out a year and is "old hat", I very seldom see people passed out drunk  (unless its the festival and they are playing the hobbit tavern run or have had a drink of the special keg of brandy which is mainly fun because you wake up in some random, determined by the computer, place.) or seeing how high they can fall before dying.  Its a fairly mature community.  But then I can't claim to have been in ALL areas, so your milage may vary.

  • Posted: 5/11/08 12:29 AM
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• • WoW vs LOTRO

  • The one thing that everyone seems to complain about with LoTRO is the lack of PvP.  Since the game was specifically designed without PvP and they only added Monster Play to try and appease the people who wanted SOME PvP, that's to be expected.  I really wish people would accept that LoTRO is not a PvP game and rather than criticising it just say that "I like PvP and since LoTRO doesn't have it, it doesn't fit my needs."

    I played WoW for the free trial game and actually enjoyed it pretty much.  If I weren't money and time crunched there's a fair chance that I would subscribe to it as well as LoTRO, but I would always play on a PvE server as I'm not a PvP fan.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 9:28 PM
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• • Lord of the Rings Online - or why I hate cute worlds

  • Originally posted by derbischof
    

     

    Originally posted by Jirel
    

    Okay, I'm not sure because i wasn't interested enough to persue it further but has anyone tried Witcher?  isn't it an MMORPG or is it a single player PC game?   The way it was presented at GenCon was that your choices were to make the better of 2 bad decisions all through the game, and it looked dark.

    
    The Witcher is a single player RPG, but it is a very good game and yes,  the world is darker than most of SPRPGs and MMORPGs.

     

    It is a High Fantasy Universe, but most of the quests and situations in the game are more in the Low Fantasy aspects.

    Anyway, I really enjoyed the game and found it better and deeper ( in story and rpg aspects ) than Oblivion, Neverwinter 2, Fable etc.

    I keep getting tempted to try it for a while, especially since you say its totally single player.  Its just that I have quite a bit of darkness in my own life and usually are looking for things that are more fun, but then I can't convince myself to play any of the super cute ones either.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 10:39 AM
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• • Totally Wireless Computing.

  • Yeah, I 'd love to have a 32 inch TV screen and play my games on it from my chair.  There IS one or two keyboard/mouse set ups that are supposed to broadcast up to 15 feet and have testimonies from people that the batteries don't run down quickly, but they aren't real cheap and like I said - there's only one or two of them.

  • Posted: 5/09/08 10:25 AM
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