As a long time MMORPG player, I have noticed many things in my days of playing. I find that you only really reflect on these finer points about games, after you have both played, and quit, many of them. What I have noticed most is the behavior of people within the games, their attitudes toward people who have quit the games, and also, their feelings about all other MMO’s, except the one they currently play. If humans are good at rationalization, then MMO players are masters of it.RR
Gaming
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Maslow’s Needs and Gaming
What does it mean to achieve something? Is it good enough to feel like you achieve, when you really don’t? Does the modern world provide a false sense of achievement too often, to the point at which people don’t actually do anything? Image generated using this neat tool. It is hard not to notice the impact of computers and video games on the overall productivity of oneself. For me, being a little bit obsessive, features highlighted by the above are just the type of thing to deter me from being more productive. I do not, however, blame them in any way for my lack of productivity. In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, it can be seen that video games in many ways fulfill a good amount of these needs. MMORPG’s it has been seen, fulfill almost all of them. Let us start outside the realm of massively online multiplayer games. Let […]
Go play a real guitar…
I have thought about this subject a lot. When playing a game like Guitar Hero or Rockband, people always say “Why don’t you just play a real instrument?” This question I feel is easy to answer, as I am going to try to do here. First and foremost, I would like clarify the subject of gaming as a whole, for me, the simplest way to do that is to compare it to other things which EVERYONE does: Gaming is: A waste of time. Watching TV is: A waste of time. Watching Movies is: A waste of time. Sitting around drinking beer is: A waste of time. Reading Magazines is: A waste of time. Now that we have that out of way, when people look at me as an adult gamer, they find it hard to understand why I play games. It is such a waste of time after all, right. However, if I […]
Anyone wanna watch some Metal Gear?
So I finally got to use my Playstation 3 for something other then an overpowered Blu-Ray player, Metal Gear Solid 4. I am still not really sure if I am writing a review of the game or not with this post, but I tend to think its not so much of a review, more of just some of my impressions of it. So I started the game out on “Big Boss Hard” mode and it took me about 4 hours to get about an hour into the game. Even though I generally play every game I get on the hardest skill level, it got so frustrating that I finally just kicked it down to the normal difficulty level. It became a lot more fun after that, since the game is about sneaking around everywhere and the only way we were able to succeed on hard was to shoot everything, really […]
Online behavior, hiding behind the keyboard
You know, one of my favorite pastimes is arguing with people over the intertubes. I’m not sure why but it’s always fun to verbally assault people when there is no risk or repercussion. I have to say though, that recently I feel this once fun pastime has taken a turn for the worst. I feel like almost everyone on the internet is a guy like this: I have spent a lot of time on message forums, IRC, online games, and where ever else you can chat with people online over the years. It seems though, that as the generation of kids after my generation is beginning to mature, absolute ignorance is beginning to run incredibly rampant online. It started out with innocent abbreviations, you know LOL, BRB, OMG, things like that, now online language has turned into a completely different animal…I am honestly not sure sometimes if the kids even […]