Profile: Ragnaven
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Seems to me of late every game has managed to fall into it's nich to the point of some of them just feel the same. Grind games, well they all have your grind stuff out, others are all trying to knock WoW off it's thrown as it did EQ in ages long forgoten. But, have we the games been forgotten in the shuffel? Seems more and more the games are coming out with gimics and slogans to make you buy it, but on the opposit side of the coin when you get down to it the game itself isn't that inventive.

Warhammer took a page out of many games books, and age of conan did as well in it's own way, so to have most of the others that have come out. I guess I'm just getting old, but I used to live and breath mmo's and now they get to boring me pretty fast. I toughed it out with lotro but that was because me and my room mate played, we were the dynamic duo. My guardian right beside his burgler, I guess what I am asking is where did I miss the turn where it became up to us to make our own fun in a game? When did it devolve into you have to kill x number of these mobs to lvl day in and day out?

At least in EQ we could fake it some, we could always try our skills against things far beyond our skills, and sometimes win. I guess I just miss the challenge of it all, back before the only challenge I could find was other players. Somewhere, somewhen the kid in me died on the alter of games. He died for dreams of the worlds he would see but never saw, worlds he was promissed would be one way yet came out another.

Where did the feeling of being a part of something go, the harmless ribbings of people you never met that became your friends later, the world within a world of old? Did we just accept it all to death? Did we say okay, it's alright we just want a game and nothing more once to offten?

I look to what is coming out and for the most of it I see a bleak season, games for niches, games for grinding away the hours, and forms of thousands without mass or fuction. I guess I am just old, I guess I should step to the side and remember the past with a pipe in one hand and a glimmer of loss in my eyes. I long for what cannot be, a world where skill can tip the balance, where story and lore are enough to make me crawl for hours through some forgotten library tower. A place where a random path off into the woods promisses adventure few may have ever found.

That may be the core of it, the truth of it, so many of us play today but we do not play. We game without seeing anything around us but the loots and the mobs, on a server of thousands one can truely feel uterly alone. That my friends, that  is the true shame of our age. We all long into the same world, for different reasons, but we are all there. Yet, there we all make friends, we all game, but we are fast to ignore the rest of the world.