How RPGs influence people. Options

[Aki]

[quote=MerGirl][quote=Aki]
Heh, 'Guild Wars' has free online play. [/quote]

But there's still those jerks/pervs/etc. still to deal with... I don't trust that whole 'free online' thing. There's got to be a catch. :shocked:

[quote]And it can be played offline too. :goodjob:[/quote]

You serious? But--but I thought it said on the box that internet/online stuff was required. [/quote]

From what i've read of the manual, i believe that theres offline play. Haven't played yet though, gotta switch out my current crap-tastic computer for a better one, installl it there today. Once i figure that out, i'll inform you.

And as for the jerks/pervs/etc. well, some people are good, some are bad. Just got to learn to avoid the bad ones.

Star Wars Galaxies had this awesome way to deal with them. Throw 'em on 'your 'Ignore list' and none of what they say/emote is hear-able by you. As if suddenly they were muted.

Great way to deal with spammers too.

[Zelda_Zealot]

[quote=Aki][quote=MerGirl][quote=Aki]
Heh, 'Guild Wars' has free online play. [/quote]

But there's still those jerks/pervs/etc. still to deal with... I don't trust that whole 'free online' thing. There's got to be a catch. :shocked:

[quote]And it can be played offline too. :goodjob:[/quote]

You serious? But--but I thought it said on the box that internet/online stuff was required. [/quote]

From what i've read of the manual, i believe that theres offline play. Haven't played yet though, gotta switch out my current crap-tastic computer for a better one, installl it there today. Once i figure that out, i'll inform you.

And as for the jerks/pervs/etc. well, some people are good, some are bad. Just got to learn to avoid the bad ones.

Star Wars Galaxies had this awesome way to deal with them. Throw 'em on 'your 'Ignore list' and none of what they say/emote is hear-able by you. As if suddenly they were muted.

Great way to deal with spammers too. [/quote]

If only it was worthwile to do that on Halo 2... those jerks are the only reason I even got into Morrowind, wait is that a good thing or a bad thing?

[Chumbaniya]

I'm definitely very anti-social, but I really doubt that it has anything to do with RPGs. If I didn't play computer games, I'd just do other things like read and play music rather than being sociable - I just don't really like other people that much . To be honest, It's a lot easier to communicate over the internet, since it's much easier to find people with similar interests (for example, it would take me years to find as many people who like TES in real life as there are here) and I'm too lazy to make the effort of actually leaving my house to go and see other people.

Yes, I am the ultimate anti-social nerd. Feel free to mock me

[Wolfie]

Hehe, why would i do that? you described me almost perfectly lol

[Chumbaniya]

[quote=LoneWolf]Hehe, why would i do that? you described me almost perfectly lol [/quote]

Anti-social nerds unite! Our time for world domination is nigh!

[Wolfie]

i prefer world annihilation, but whatever floats your boat

[gamer10]

I will call upon the great Dragons to come and help us fight these pitiful weaklings!

:evil7:

[Zelda_Zealot]

You better not be including me in that sentance... .

[milanius]

[quote=MerGirl]Like everyone else, I think RPG's make you more creative and more into characters and stuff. You know, actually caring for the plot kind of deal. I think some RPG's make some people more social (like EQ and Phantasy Star Online).

It really depends on what kind of RPG's you are used to, I guess.

(Oh, I, myself am really ant-social unless I'm with small kids, friends or talking online. With Phantasy Star Online, I play off-line by myself or with my sisters, so yeah, RPG's didn't help my socialness at all.... Maybe if there weren't so many jerks/pervs online, and that they would get rid of the online fees... )

So RPG's= creativity[/quote]

MMORPG = A Pain In The A**
RPG = Phantasy. And Dreams. Your dreams.
Before Morrowind I never thought that some game will make a serious impact on me, and although I can be a violent player (toward NPC's and everything in-game, general) I always held up the "Live & Let Live" motto... but then MW came and I was just sweeped by it's story, it's atmosphere, it's poetry... it's everything. If it wasn't so I wouldn't be here, typing this, saying that TES 3: Morrowind is probably one of 5 greatest phantasy role playing games ever made by a group of people. I am eternaly grateful to everyone at Bethesda for making it like that; most of the games have some feeling of crudeness and unfinished-ness to them - MW doesen't have that. It is a masterpiece from top to bottom.

p.s.: About that violence remark - I never made a single killing spree in MW and never will - it just wouldn't seem right to me.

[Wolfie]

uh...........it's spelled fantasy

[gamer10]

No it's spelled:


dsgfdhfdhf!

[milanius]

[quote=LoneWolf]uh...........it's spelled fantasy [/quote]
Damn it, man I hav a reputation to uphold... I'm a butcher of teh english language !

[Wolfie]

oh ok. You're not doing a very good job, that was your only error

[Aki]

Grumble....

My Comp kerploded trying to load the first thingy after character creation in
Guild Wars. Geuss i'll never know.

Bah.

Must. Get. New. Graphics. Card.

[minque]

I got a whole new sort of life after I was intyroduced to MW from my daughter. At first I just watched my girl(s) play, then I created a charachter and started out...very cautious because all those creatures and things scared the crap out of me.......then I became more and more skilled ..and started playing more massively. So I found the ES forums and now the real fun started, talking to ppl with similar interests....

The next step was reading fan-fic, that ppl honestly wrote stories influenced more or les with the game made me really interested. So I started to think about writing one myself......I was encouraged by some other writers..mostly treydog and so..I started writing .....

This writing have given me a lot, especially knowledge of the english language, oh I was not bad from start but I have improved a lot the last year, and also my creativity has risen quite a bit.......so there´s a lot of benefits with all this in my opinion.... :goodjob:

[milanius]

[quote=minque]I got a whole new sort of life after I was intyroduced to MW from my daughter. At first I just watched my girl(s) play, then I created a charachter and started out...very cautious because all those creatures and things scared the crap out of me.......then I became more and more skilled ..and started playing more massively. So I found the ES forums and now the real fun started, talking to ppl with similar interests....

The next step was reading fan-fic, that ppl honestly wrote stories influenced more or les with the game made me really interested. So I started to think about writing one myself......I was encouraged by some other writers..mostly treydog and so..I started writing .....

This writing have given me a lot, especially knowledge of the english language, oh I was not bad from start but I have improved a lot the last year, and also my creativity has risen quite a bit.......so there´s a lot of benefits with all this in my opinion.... :goodjob:[/quote]
:shocked: You've said crap... and PPL ?! OMG *falls off the chair* Who are you and what have you done to Minque ?!?

[Red]

[quote=minque]I got a whole new sort of life after I was intyroduced to MW from my daughter. At first I just watched my girl(s) play, then I created a charachter and started out...very cautious because all those creatures and things scared the crap out of me.......then I became more and more skilled ..and started playing more massively. So I found the ES forums and now the real fun started, talking to ppl with similar interests....

The next step was reading fan-fic, that ppl honestly wrote stories influenced more or les with the game made me really interested. So I started to think about writing one myself......I was encouraged by some other writers..mostly treydog and so..I started writing .....

This writing have given me a lot, especially knowledge of the english language, oh I was not bad from start but I have improved a lot the last year, and also my creativity has risen quite a bit.......so there´s a lot of benefits with all this in my opinion.... :goodjob:[/quote]

If you didn't tell us you weren't from an English speaking country, I would have never known.

[Wolfie]

Yeah, same here. If i diin't know she was from Sweden i could swear she was from an English speaking country

[Red]

Actually, when my friend went to Sweden, he said most of the people knew basic english.

[Aki]

[quote=Aki]Grumble....

My Comp kerploded trying to load the first thingy after character creation in
Guild Wars. Geuss i'll never know.

Bah.

Must. Get. New. Graphics. Card.[/quote]

Got to work on my other comp.

Okay, it IS online.

On the bright side however, the 'combat' zones (basically, everyhting not a town from what i see) are made so that each player occupies his own one, unless in a group. In which case a group occupies their own area.

Cool, huh?

It also has a ignore function too. So you can ignore jerks, and no kill stealing. Bwahaha.