Jeremy
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- Goldenrod City, Johto
- Seen Jun 26, 2023
Well sweeties, I decide to make a little rant seeing as though my lil sister is hooked on one and nearly everybody at my college is either hooked on World of Warcraft or MapleStory.
I grew up playing classics such as Super Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, Pokémon (Before it came out in English.), Mega Man, Street Fighter 2, Castlevania, ect. It may not even show, but I was even exposed to some great PC games such as StarCraft. WarCraft 3, Diablo 1 and 2, Half-Life, Doom, ect. So I can safely say I'm a true gamer.
Anyway, I decided to try out World of Warcraft, not only to see how a RTS became a MMORPG, but to have fun ever since I saw that episode of South Park featuring WoW. After I downloaded and setup an account, and started playing...I was...confused. At first I thought attacking would be real time, (I hit a button, and something will happen), but it was different then I imagine. After spending a minute getting used to the combat system, I was off to accomplish some quests!
At first, the quest seemed normal, they were keeping me busy..for about 10 minutes. After awhile they felt like a chore. I was playing Pokémon to keep me amused while playing WoW. After getting getting further in the game (which took weeks since every quest was boring me to death), I found the suppose reason why people play WoW, the PVP.
The places like Warsong Glutch were fun, for a while. But I realize, to have a more enjoyable experrience, I had to level up and get better weapons, and to do that, I need to do more quests.
After doing a few more quests, I realize all the quests had the same requirement.
Either they had you to:
Go to Point A to Point B.
Go to Point A to Point B to defeat X amount of monsters and/or gather Y amount of items then return to Point A.
Go to Go to Point A to Point B return to Point A to go to Point C.
Ect.
This proved to be quite troublesome and borring in my opinion. For me, there was no drive to do these quests and as well I don't see any skill required to do so. All I see is the only requirement to master the game is if you're able to to use the WASD keys and use a mouse. I fail to see any strategy playing by yourself. The enjoyment is playing with other people. I tried to make friends and have a group to do quests with, yet people I met were either immature, snobbish, or just plain mean.
Well that was my experience with WoW, so yeah. I don't know about you, but it didn't seem too fun or an addictive experience for me.
As for MapleStory, all I gotta say is I was kinda disappointed on how it played...I'll probably re-install it and give it another shot. I've been level 5 in there for a year already.
I grew up playing classics such as Super Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, Pokémon (Before it came out in English.), Mega Man, Street Fighter 2, Castlevania, ect. It may not even show, but I was even exposed to some great PC games such as StarCraft. WarCraft 3, Diablo 1 and 2, Half-Life, Doom, ect. So I can safely say I'm a true gamer.
Anyway, I decided to try out World of Warcraft, not only to see how a RTS became a MMORPG, but to have fun ever since I saw that episode of South Park featuring WoW. After I downloaded and setup an account, and started playing...I was...confused. At first I thought attacking would be real time, (I hit a button, and something will happen), but it was different then I imagine. After spending a minute getting used to the combat system, I was off to accomplish some quests!
At first, the quest seemed normal, they were keeping me busy..for about 10 minutes. After awhile they felt like a chore. I was playing Pokémon to keep me amused while playing WoW. After getting getting further in the game (which took weeks since every quest was boring me to death), I found the suppose reason why people play WoW, the PVP.
The places like Warsong Glutch were fun, for a while. But I realize, to have a more enjoyable experrience, I had to level up and get better weapons, and to do that, I need to do more quests.
After doing a few more quests, I realize all the quests had the same requirement.
Either they had you to:
Go to Point A to Point B.
Go to Point A to Point B to defeat X amount of monsters and/or gather Y amount of items then return to Point A.
Go to Go to Point A to Point B return to Point A to go to Point C.
Ect.
This proved to be quite troublesome and borring in my opinion. For me, there was no drive to do these quests and as well I don't see any skill required to do so. All I see is the only requirement to master the game is if you're able to to use the WASD keys and use a mouse. I fail to see any strategy playing by yourself. The enjoyment is playing with other people. I tried to make friends and have a group to do quests with, yet people I met were either immature, snobbish, or just plain mean.
Well that was my experience with WoW, so yeah. I don't know about you, but it didn't seem too fun or an addictive experience for me.
As for MapleStory, all I gotta say is I was kinda disappointed on how it played...I'll probably re-install it and give it another shot. I've been level 5 in there for a year already.
