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Ixarku:
--- Quote from: ShurikenUK on March 17, 2013, 07:45:36 PM ---Yea no offence to the fans, but I whole heartedly agree good sir, or madam. I lost a CLOSE friend to WoW. I witnessed the guy transform from social, funloving little devil, into a reserved, reclusive and completely anti-social husk after he started getting into MMO's (specifically WoW). Those games "turn" people, like a digital form of heroine, and I've seen real life examples of both, so Im not just sprouting nonsense.
Soon theres gonna be MMORPG refuge clinics where hopelessly addicted vagrants get their fix of life as an orc or an elf, JUST like the Cathode Ray Project in Video Drome (except with games, not just TV), or the heroine dispenseries in real life. Nah Im making it sound like a joke, but I feel quite strongly about games like WoW, especially after the loss of a good friend. I'll take a minutes silence now, to reflect on times long past and honour those who lost their lives in this ancient struggle.
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Actually, I lost a RL friend to the WoW Hellmouth as well, although my friend in this case wasn't that social to begin with and was as always a bit unstable in certain ways. He disappeared into the game years ago, and I'm not sure now if he's alive or dead, as I have no way to contact him now, and before we lost touch, he rebuffed any attempts to contact him by anyone we knew.
I myself played WoW for a while but gave it up completely, I dunno, maybe 4 years ago. Shortly after WotLK came out, whenever that was. I love games but I've not been hooked on any game like that, before or since. Now I shun WoW completely. A couple of my friends periodically bring up the game, but I'm well past the point of caring anymore. I've sampled a few other MMOs since, but the spell that kind of game once had on me has been broken.
ShurikenUK:
--- Quote from: Ixarku on March 17, 2013, 08:27:12 PM ---
--- Quote from: ShurikenUK on March 17, 2013, 07:45:36 PM ---Yea no offence to the fans, but I whole heartedly agree good sir, or madam. I lost a CLOSE friend to WoW. I witnessed the guy transform from social, funloving little devil, into a reserved, reclusive and completely anti-social husk after he started getting into MMO's (specifically WoW). Those games "turn" people, like a digital form of heroine, and I've seen real life examples of both, so Im not just sprouting nonsense.
Soon theres gonna be MMORPG refuge clinics where hopelessly addicted vagrants get their fix of life as an orc or an elf, JUST like the Cathode Ray Project in Video Drome (except with games, not just TV), or the heroine dispenseries in real life. Nah Im making it sound like a joke, but I feel quite strongly about games like WoW, especially after the loss of a good friend. I'll take a minutes silence now, to reflect on times long past and honour those who lost their lives in this ancient struggle.
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Actually, I lost a RL friend to the WoW Hellmouth as well, although my friend in this case wasn't that social to begin with and was as always a bit unstable in certain ways. He disappeared into the game years ago, and I'm not sure now if he's alive or dead, as I have no way to contact him now, and before we lost touch, he rebuffed any attempts to contact him by anyone we knew.
I myself played WoW for a while but gave it up completely, I dunno, maybe 4 years ago. Shortly after WotLK came out, whenever that was. I love games but I've not been hooked on any game like that, before or since. Now I shun WoW completely. A couple of my friends periodically bring up the game, but I'm well past the point of caring anymore. I've sampled a few other MMOs since, but the spell that kind of game once had on me has been broken.
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Sorry to hear that man, well said though, you had a taste but you managed to keep ontop of it and pulled yourself away in the end. I dont want to seem like Im just hating on the game or its fans, but I just see MMO's as a bad thing, its hard to concentrate on their good points. I love gaming too, Im twiddling away at my PS3 analogue sticks nearly every day and grew up in a "gamers household" (lol), but atleast those kind of games (sounds kinda arrogant but its not meant to!) can still be considered GAMES, and not life-replacements. Games were cool when they were just... games!
kitamesume:
i've preferred games that didn't take days to finish, mostly strategy games or the now-well-known MOBA genre.
games i liked aside from the two types of games mentioned above are Metro2033, Left4Dead series, Diablo series (except 3 since it retardedly needs you to play online), half-life series, Minecraft(can you even call this a game? lol), and i forgot the others.
now to be on topic, i dunno why but i really disliked(dunno if i'm at the level of "hate" yet) huge open world games, like stalker or fallout3.
SamDeanLove:
Big Bang Theory (the show). I just think it's really not funny at all. I mean all it does it make fun of nerds. And that's it. That's the entire premise of the show. Ooh look at the nerds being socially awkward.
I also agree on CoD. It's just not very good gaming imo. There are so many other games I would rather play. I'd play my neopets PS2 game from elementary school before I'd pick up my game of CoD.
jaybug:
--- Quote from: SamDeanLove on March 19, 2013, 06:39:00 AM ---Big Bang Theory (the show). I just think it's really not funny at all. I mean all it does it make fun of nerds. And that's it. That's the entire premise of the show. Ooh look at the nerds being socially awkward.
I also agree on CoD. It's just not very good gaming imo. There are so many other games I would rather play. I'd play my neopets PS2 game from elementary school before I'd pick up my game of CoD.
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And all they really did was make Urkel white.
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