I bought WCIII and it included the CD/DVD for WoW, but I never bothered to install and sign on. Money is tight and I haven't bought a game since FEAR: Perseus Mandate. I certainly don't want to incur a monthy bill for a game. If I were willing, I'd be playing Aces High.
I've always been afraid to start WoW considering how immersed I've gotten in other games (Halo, SimCities, Zeldas, American McGee's Alice--awesome game BTW). I still haven't bought Bioshock for the same reason, and I'm debating Dead Space, but yeah, I stay away if at all possible.
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Fear was a great game. I assume the sequel was decent?
Not as good as the other two: FEAR and FEAR: Extraction Point.
I hope the fourth installment in the franchise does better, but they need to close out the story soon before they run it through the ground and people are making fun of it like they do with Friday the 13th and Jaws.
It's highly addictive. I will usually play it every night for a week or so and then I get bored with it for a coupe of weeks, so I'm an on and off again player. I have a lot of characters, nothing high level, just up to 30. I had some of my friends addicted to it in Dallas and we all had to go cold turkey b/c it was affecting our personal lives hahaha.
A buddy of mine that went to Devry Tech Ins said that people were dropping out of school b/c of WOW and Everquest.
I play on a Neverwinter Nights 2 persistent world role-playing server called Avlis 2. It is based on a pen and paper campaign that goes back to the old AD&D days. It has several pluses in my book. There is no monthly fee and it doesnt get boring because there is always something new happening. I think I would get tired of the grinding to level.
Since I dont have any local friends that play PnP anymore, it allows me to play online with people from all across the globe.
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I played WoW with my wifes side of the family for about 2 years. Most of them are still playing, but I've moved on to Warhammer Online. I hit a point with WoW (same as when I played EQ) where I just wasn't interested anymore. The addiction faded over the course of about a week.
I just got Fallout2, waiting on Fallout 1. After I've beaten them, I'll get Fallout 3.
Fallout 3 rocks. I've been playing it a lot lately.
I played WoW when it first came out. Too carebear and boring for me. Eve has real consequences down, but it's not 'personal' enough. Blowing up someone's ship just doesn't have the same feel as taking a person down.
IMHO, the best MMO to date (for PvP if you haven't noticed that's what I like) is DAoC. No other video game rush compares to the ones of being a rogue and attacking someone from stealth. The rush was such that I was addicted to playing for a long time and don't really play MMOs much anymore because of it.
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit."-- Aristotle
Fallout 3 rocks. I've been playing it a lot lately.
I just bought fallout 3, haven't played it yet. I was at mohegan sun and they also had gears of war 2, which I bought. On it, it says, "do not sell before 11/07/08." Pretty cool to get a game 2 days early.
I've heard good things about Warhammer, but I myself wouldn't play it as I'm not a PVP person. I was an Everquest player for the longest time, then Everquest 2, and then WoW. (Also brief stints in Earth and Beyond, City of Heroes and Star Wars Galaxies and Guild Wars.) Between work and other things I need to get done I don't get as much play time as I'd like, otherwise I'd be a lot further along than lvl 63.
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No "happy hours" makes for a lot of miserable days. - Mahler
Yes, I understand that correlation does not imply causation and I understand that is the mantra of the board. We are talking about my cousin...not a scientific study.
Cousin doesn't play video games, he loses weight. Cousin starts playing video games, he gains weight.
I will fund a study to prove my hypothesis and I'll get back to you.
For the time being, hold you breath until I finish my experiments.
Just get your cousin a Wii Fit. Then he can workout while he plays video games.
He has Dance Dance Revolution and was using that and lost weight. I think he told me that he got to where he could dance for almost 3 hours and lost like 30-35 lbs, but then he started Fallout and regressed lol.
I lose weight if I let WOW get ahold of me b/c I stop eating while I'm playing. Great for getting ready for contests.
Launch has been surprisingly solid. Queue times for the realms have been rough, but that will pass soon enough.
It is cheap entertainment. Costs $15/mo instead of $40/mo for cable and I get many more hours out of it than I would ever spend in front of a TV. I get the psuedo-social interaction with friends also. I enjoy it quite a bit.
World of Warcraft...I know some of you nerds play
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