---political correctness of the highest order---
Monday, May 31, 2004
you can take your online RPG ass and....
Role Playing Games have all gone down the shitter...
what with this new wave of "online gaming"
i can't say much for online sports/adventure type games since these gamers don't really require any form of real motivation to give them a reason why italy should win the world cup title. they win cuz i want them to period.
same can't be said for rpgs tho...lets face it..the draw of online rpgs are simply cuz they allow players from all over to 'interact' in a 'living, breathing world' and go on fetch quests together.
sure many of you dweebs out there prob enjoy this sort of thing and judging from current EverCrack and Ultima subscribers, the numbers are gonna just keep increasing...
but look past this interactivity crap for a second and consider what you paid $100 (or in the local case $20...cheap bastards) for. why do ppl even play rpgs in the first place? to interact with fools with names like "masterboi" whose vocabulary within the game world only consists of phrases like "my swords bigger den urs.."??
i think not.
within an online world, you're a nobody unless you've been playing the game for ages...(and who with any sort of life can spare that type of time). stop playing for a while and you're forgotten, the world doesn't wait for you. by the time you log back on after a week long break from gaming, hey suddenly everything's changed. so check this...you paid good money...to be a nobody. well done dumbass!
den there's the issue about closure...
who's the 'final' boss?? is there even one in the first place??
how can you 'complete' the game?
the concept behind most rpgs is to let the player control some ragtag grp of characters that eventually beat the living shit out of some omnipotent entity and typically save the world. you lose all that with an online rpg. in fact, you lose most of what makes a single player rpg so endearing in the first place, and gain the worst of the single player experience.
gone are the plotlines, scripted events, the hero and instead welcome to the painful world of stat building. yes, walking around for hours slaying monsters is the most fun thing to do with my time. did i mention stat building for nothing other den to boast "my swords bigger den urs.."
if i made a level one million monster, some geek would just level to a million and one so what's the point?? there is no final boss and no closure.
of cuz there're other trivial issues like monthly fees, hackers, player killers, bugs, bad service....etc that come along with any typical big name online game but well since nobody cares about such small things judging from the way online gaming is so warmly received...i'll just leave you peepz in ur lil' online world with ur god characters whose purpose is to give you the license to say "my swords bigger den urs.."
-BM-
GOT SOMETHING TO SAY??
-e|even¹¹-
what with this new wave of "online gaming"
i can't say much for online sports/adventure type games since these gamers don't really require any form of real motivation to give them a reason why italy should win the world cup title. they win cuz i want them to period.
same can't be said for rpgs tho...lets face it..the draw of online rpgs are simply cuz they allow players from all over to 'interact' in a 'living, breathing world' and go on fetch quests together.
sure many of you dweebs out there prob enjoy this sort of thing and judging from current EverCrack and Ultima subscribers, the numbers are gonna just keep increasing...
but look past this interactivity crap for a second and consider what you paid $100 (or in the local case $20...cheap bastards) for. why do ppl even play rpgs in the first place? to interact with fools with names like "masterboi" whose vocabulary within the game world only consists of phrases like "my swords bigger den urs.."??
i think not.
within an online world, you're a nobody unless you've been playing the game for ages...(and who with any sort of life can spare that type of time). stop playing for a while and you're forgotten, the world doesn't wait for you. by the time you log back on after a week long break from gaming, hey suddenly everything's changed. so check this...you paid good money...to be a nobody. well done dumbass!
den there's the issue about closure...
who's the 'final' boss?? is there even one in the first place??
how can you 'complete' the game?
the concept behind most rpgs is to let the player control some ragtag grp of characters that eventually beat the living shit out of some omnipotent entity and typically save the world. you lose all that with an online rpg. in fact, you lose most of what makes a single player rpg so endearing in the first place, and gain the worst of the single player experience.
gone are the plotlines, scripted events, the hero and instead welcome to the painful world of stat building. yes, walking around for hours slaying monsters is the most fun thing to do with my time. did i mention stat building for nothing other den to boast "my swords bigger den urs.."
if i made a level one million monster, some geek would just level to a million and one so what's the point?? there is no final boss and no closure.
of cuz there're other trivial issues like monthly fees, hackers, player killers, bugs, bad service....etc that come along with any typical big name online game but well since nobody cares about such small things judging from the way online gaming is so warmly received...i'll just leave you peepz in ur lil' online world with ur god characters whose purpose is to give you the license to say "my swords bigger den urs.."
-BM-
GOT SOMETHING TO SAY??
-e|even¹¹-
