Oh... um...
...good luck, Joe.
I said nuffin'.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
'Safe'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
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Pete, Husband of Jilli - May 27, 2008 7:16:22 pm PDT #706 of 26133
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
NoiseDesign - May 27, 2008 7:21:18 pm PDT #707 of 26133
Our wings are not tired
I enjoy MMO's, I typically don't get too sucked into them. I tend to play for a while and then get busy and walk away from them.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - May 27, 2008 7:28:36 pm PDT #708 of 26133
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Methinks ND has just uttered what are commonly known as "Famous Last Words".
Volans - May 28, 2008 1:27:48 am PDT #709 of 26133
move out and draw fire
I have to say that despite my fears of being sucked into WoW, I wasn't. I played for 2 hours and was mostly bored because it was the same-old-same-old.
Maybe I didn't get ENOUGH crack, as I didn't join up with a clique, but I didn't see any real point to clicking on kill-fodder and scooping up the random things the fodder sloughs off when killed.
It was real pretty, though.
(This from the girl who easily puts in 11 straight hours on Rock Band, and once played Civ II for 54 straight hours with only limited sleep breaks).
Miracleman - May 28, 2008 3:22:17 am PDT #710 of 26133
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I didn't enjoy WoW all that much, for precisely the reasons Raq stated above.
City of, however...
hippocampus - May 28, 2008 3:25:10 am PDT #711 of 26133
not your mom's socks.
Stories that involve lost MONTHS to that game.
My sister, the WoW widow. Let me show you her.
I'm interested in being part of a gaming group... but I don't fit the mold (mac-primary, severe lack of experience, [ETA - sprog-based lack of time]). BT, if we could figure out the time difference, that would rock. My sister could come play too (if her DH would back away from the computer for a bit) - NZTelecom just gifted them broadband.
Jessica - May 28, 2008 3:35:20 am PDT #712 of 26133
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEAN!!!
Frankenbuddha - May 28, 2008 3:43:12 am PDT #713 of 26133
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Birthday happies, Sean!
amych - May 28, 2008 3:53:11 am PDT #714 of 26133
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I've never been all that interested in MMOs. The idea of playing video games with a bunch of strangers just doesn't appeal to me. All too often, the total strangers turn out to be total dicks.
This is me, pretty much. In theory, I like the idea of playing games with actual people and not just the machine. In practice, not THOSE people, and usually not those games.
unrelatedly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SEAN!!
Frankenbuddha - May 28, 2008 3:56:22 am PDT #715 of 26133
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The South Park WoW episode pretty much killed the minimal curiousity I might have had about MMOs.