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Post by Al on Feb 7, 2005 23:23:49 GMT -5
Speaking of PC-turned-board games, I just picked up Doom: The Boardgame by the same folks who made the Warcraft one. To sum up: SWEET. Very similar to Hero Quest, for those of you who were blessed with it in your youth. Without jumping into a drawn out explanation in a thread dedicated to something else entirely, the game is fun, tense, challenging, and easier to pick up and play than one might think. A bit pricey, but easily worth the money for any board game geeks out there. Now back to your regularly scheduled WoW discussion. Al |
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Post by dajaymann on May 19, 2005 19:09:28 GMT -5
Once again proving that the Video Game part of our forum is by far the most colorful.
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Post by Head Mutant on Jul 10, 2005 12:01:21 GMT -5
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Post by Head Mutant on Aug 12, 2005 8:36:42 GMT -5
So I did something the other day I've never done before: I started my own guild in WoW. There was a batch of new servers that opened up, so I started an undead priest (which I can relate to, particularly early in the morning before I've had my coffee) and went adventuring with about 100,000,000 other low level players also starting up. No good guilds to be found. So, what the hey, I started my own.
It's called Toe Tags (cause, see, we're undead!) and our slant is to make it THE guild for the casual (1-2 hours a day) player who just wants to have fun, have good conversations, and have mutual support if needed. So far it's going well, we have about 21 members and 2 officers to help me out. Lotta work tho, and I actually have to be pretty social to do it -- chatty for a undead with a sewn-shut mouth. Fun!
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Post by siegeshot on Aug 12, 2005 9:19:29 GMT -5
New stuff comin out on the horizon too, but it is startin to get a little bored when...I mean.... I played Ultima Online for 7ish years and we could just recall around mostly. I've been playing WoW for 8-9ish months now and I've about had it with running around. So has my fiance, so it is like we barely play now, plus time is short because we're moving, but its like.... run around for 2/3rds of our time to do what we want for 1/3rd, and thats if you exclude ya know..... trying to find groups or whatever, so our new thing is we just keep creating new characters over and over and over.
But I made my mind up to work on my 48.5 paladin until they fix hunters, then I'll play my hunter until they fix paladins. (hunter is 59.5)
(supposedly next patch) Pallies aren't fun enough to solo with, their blessings are too short for groups, and their dps is too low even with retribution tree.
(this up and coming patch) Hunters list of fixes are pets being almost useless, not being able to survive even using survival tree, and someone told me they're cranking up ranged dps too. Among other tons of little things.
(half this patch, half next patch) Restoration druids getting a buff, and feral druids getting a buff (their respective talent trees) and cat form is getting a buff.
The rest of the stuff is little things, but I think with those, WoW'll start being fun again until they can add other big things. A new awesome battleground comin out, I think thats the biggest thing I'm lookin forward too right now besides the big fixes comin up. They keep making new end game raids, and it is like.... common, on our server there are like no good end game raid guilds. They are all just jerrrrrrrks!!!!!! I want server transfers!!!!! arrrrrggggggg
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Post by Head Mutant on Aug 12, 2005 10:08:38 GMT -5
It's all about knowing when to take a break, and doing so. I played WoW from November beta through March, then just got burned out on it. Needed to take a break, step back, allow the game to have time to impliment updates and new content... and it really worked. It was great to play something different for a while -- MMORPGs tend to monopolize your gaming time when you get hooked on one -- and it helped to give me a fresh start when I took it back up in July. I also just play for fun, and never more than a couple hours a day (not that I can, really...). People I see in game who play 8 hours a day, minimum, day in and day out, scare me. I can't see the fun in that. I can see how old it would get, and how much of your life would have to be shoved aside.
As Drew said in another thread (to effect), gaming is about moderation. As is most every hobby you engage in with your life. You obsess, you lose. I used to game a lot more than I do now, but I actually find my gaming time now more precious and fun than it used to be. Mostly because my life's become a lot more diverse -- my hobbies also include a lot of reading, writing, and doing MRFH, plus making sure I spend lots of time with my wife, watching movies, and working on other projects. Once I got past that voice in my head that kept saying I needed to play a certain MMORPG a lot in order to "catch up" (with who?) and "beat" the game... the more fun it became. I like that.
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Post by PoolMan on Aug 12, 2005 13:03:36 GMT -5
"Gaming... time..."?
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Post by siegeshot on Aug 12, 2005 14:05:11 GMT -5
Yea I guess I just compete with myself in mmogs. We havn't been playing hardly at all cuz of lack of game time, but its like..... its frusterating and its hard to explain, I'm not burnt out but its more like, I wish the stuff they have planned would come out faster, their fixes/balances/stuff is just so good that I can't wait! ehehehe
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Post by Head Mutant on Aug 12, 2005 15:00:36 GMT -5
Yes. You know, it's like how you have "Flashing Time", only with video games and fewer court orders. |
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Post by PoolMan on Aug 12, 2005 18:34:35 GMT -5
I'll have you know Flashing Time is down 47% this month, and it's all I can do to hold on. Emotionally, that is.  |
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Post by Head Mutant on Oct 19, 2005 8:46:36 GMT -5
WoW just launched their halloween "Hallow's End" event, which'll go on for a couple weeks. It's really nifty -- they've sprinkled halloweeny decorations throughout the world and fun quests, secrets and prizes. My favorite is that you can walk up to any innkeeper (once per hour) and ask "trick or treat" -- and they'll either trick you (turn you into a weird creature, like a skeleton) or treat you (give you an item that can turn other players into different looking creatures, like pirates or leper gnomes). Groovy!
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Post by siegeshot on Oct 20, 2005 20:47:00 GMT -5
Dude we're going nuts on this trick-or-treet thing. Our new favorite thing is to get tons of those wands and wait for someone to party us, blast them with the wand and then quit the party real quick. It's teaching people to stop with this random party for no reason crap. Me and the fiance both do it.
One of the treats is these wands with 5 uses and if you party up with someone you zap them with the wand to turn them into various creatures, ghosts, wisps, bats, ninjas, skeletons and more. Man oh man they're fun.
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Post by duckie on Oct 20, 2005 21:09:11 GMT -5
Me and the fiance both do it. Totally off topic... siege, I didn't realize you were engaged... congrats! ;D |
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