Posted July 14, 2015
j0ekerr: Aah diablo, champion of time wasters, avatar of procastrination, bane of productivity.
Let me recount an anecdote about my favorite subject, me, and something not so favorite, WoW.
I played WoW for 3 months once, urged by a friend, and a desire to: "find out once and for all what the flying fuck is up with this game and everybody's grandmother."
During those 3 months I played the damn game for no other reason than: "this thing costs money so I'm wasting it if I don't play."
When my subscription expired, I felt three things.
1- That I had achieved absolutely nothing (not even having fun)
2- That I was going to miss absolutely nothing.
3- Liberated.
And in the end the question of "Why do all these people play WoW?" became an even greater mystery to me.
I had more fun playing Neverwinter. (At first, anyway.) Let me recount an anecdote about my favorite subject, me, and something not so favorite, WoW.
I played WoW for 3 months once, urged by a friend, and a desire to: "find out once and for all what the flying fuck is up with this game and everybody's grandmother."
During those 3 months I played the damn game for no other reason than: "this thing costs money so I'm wasting it if I don't play."
When my subscription expired, I felt three things.
1- That I had achieved absolutely nothing (not even having fun)
2- That I was going to miss absolutely nothing.
3- Liberated.
And in the end the question of "Why do all these people play WoW?" became an even greater mystery to me.
I tried WOW, was a paying member, found a guild or clan or whatever to get into, and it was still like watching paint dry.
I wasn't going to be a part of anything that might be interesting unless I was willing to sink hundreds of hours into it, if not more.
Ended up letting my subscription end, deleted it and that was that.
I've been looking at Victor Vran, and it seems like an action-RPG with a lot more life to it.
Have also tried a bit of the Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing and it seemed interesting.
There's more to the genre than the loop of kill/loot/kill/loot/kill/loot/sell crap/kill/loot/repeat ad nauseam.
Think I have maybe two more titles to try in that genre for the moment - Din's Curse, which looks appealing since the world is actually involved in the events of the game, and Sacred, which I enjoyed well enough years ago, never completed, but want to give another shot just to see how large the world is in that series.