Yes guys, it’s time for another WWIIO:BE post! (Have no idea how to abbreviate this hellish title 
) The reason being ofcourse that I recently bought myself a joystick for the simple reason that I Believe I Can Fly…or at least I Want To Believe.
Continue reading ‘The Day Ffaffner Got His Wings (will hopefully dawn in the near future!)’
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The other day I was eating dinner with a friend of mine, who just finished his last paper getting a degree in IT-something-something. It had been hard work, and he told me he’d been drinking a few beers before going to sleep while finishing the paper. He told me that he calmed down, and was able to go to sleep in spite of the stressfulness of his situation. He ended his small tale with a shy smile and a “I never thought i’d be sitting drinking beer all by myself!”-comment. Ofcourse the last comment was all made in jest, as the guy doesnt have a drinking problem, but I still couldn’t shake the thought that; “Hey, I do that at least once a week!…or do I?”.
Since MMOs went from text-based MUDs to beautifully 3d-rendered virtual worlds, there’s been a…”discussion” regarding the importance of graphics vs. gameplay. I really don’t wanna make this a new battleground for the MMO-kiddies and the MMO-purists to throw mud(*pun-alert!*) at each other, but lately I’ve been having an out-of-mmo-experience and I feel like addressing a few issues. Let me start out by saying that graphics are very important to me. I need to believe in the world on my screen. I need to immerse myself enough that I forget the real world, where I’m not allowed to wield a 2-hander at work or blast off into space while emptying plasma-cannons onto evil adversaries and nearby traffic.
Continue reading ‘Wait, eeerrhh…there’s eyecandy in my MMO!’
After about a week of my 30-day trial of the 8 year old MMOFPS World War II: Battleground Europe, I am surprised at how exciting I’m finding this game. It might just be the smell of new MMO, but it’s like this game is everything I ever wanted Counterstrike and Battlefield to be.
Continue reading ‘Surprised by an 8-year old’
Did you ever find yourself standing, facing a wall and waiting for “something” to happen in your favourite MMO? You know, like hanging around waiting for a group, chatting a bit in /guild, deciding which toon to play or which zone to adventure in. Then suddenly glancing at your watch realizing you’ve been “playing” for 3 hours without getting anything gamerelated done at all. It can be a really annoying feeling taking a wife-faction hit without getting into any action or fun, and I bet this feeling has lead to quite a bit of either MMO-jumping or MMO-quitting.
Both in the real world, and in our beloved synthetic cyberworlds of escapism, succes is often determined by how you interact with people who views the world differently from yourself. We all have a tendency to drift towards people with the same views as ourself, which in the world of MMO’s often result in the making of guilds; a somewhat crude tangent to how we also group up in the real world.
But how about the way we “physically” view our MMO’s or videogames in general? Continue reading ‘A fresh view on things’
The Grind(tm)….It’s part of every MMO out there, whether it’s about collecting gold, status, faction, resources, crafting, spawning of rares or simply getting a less creative quest done. And yes, I did my own share of whiningly bitching about it.
Ofcourse there’s a difference between blatently grind as a simple timesink and a grind wrapped up in a nice questy setting, but my guess is that The Grind(ugh) will be more or less a part of every future MMO too, no matter how many an avid MMO’er will spue discontent mixed with the latest e-Slang on every single web-board in existence…so why not just try and learn to deal with it?
Then again, how the hell do you deal with clicking the same 5 buttons over and over again, in the exact same frequence and the exact same order without going completely and utterly mad? At the start of my own MMO-career(Ffaffners wife: “Pff, career? It’s an addiction, stupid”) I simply clicked the buttons until the in-game music got tattooed into the inner ear of my very soul.
Later on I had the brilliant idea of actually turning off in-game music, and putting on a CD instead. A lot can be said about music, and I personally both love and practice it, but is it really “entertaining” in the long run?
My next move to fight the boredom of powergrinding was to watch some TV during the emptiness of it all. This way I accomplished 2 things: In-game I died a lot and out of game I had no chance following even the simplest plot of the easiest accessible sitcom (I was born before multitasking…OR got dropped on my head by the midwife).
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