Gamers Lament
# Sunday 6th December, 2009 - 2:57am with 0 comments
So, I’ve been having a bit of an issue lately with my inability to focus on gaming as much as I used to be able to– and it’s not a lack of interest that is actually forcing this, it’s just an underlying restlessness with everything I try.
For example, for a long, long while there I was focusing solely on Misseri, my blood elf rogue on WoW, but somehow that went tossed to the wayside as I got a bit bored of waiting for raids to pick up, or to find people inside an RP community that for some reason think they are better at this game than I am, (as a note, they’re not. I’ve been playing for ages and primarily raided and PVPed– I know my class and I play her well).
All this left that kind of stale taste in my mouth that had me fleeing from the character for a while so that I didn’t absolutely end up loathing playing a Rogue, and in the end, her. Thankfully, the boyfriend and I have friends that wanted to try some Alliance side stuff, so that drew me towards making a character there, which they chose a Draenei hunter for me– go figure.
I don’t mind leveling her at all, really, the entire thing is somewhat enjoyable as a Hunter’s skill is likely compared to that of a Warlock and if you can roll your face across the keyboard you can be ‘good’, and ‘survive’, but to be amazing you do need some modicum of skill. Regardless, the levels have been flying by when I’ve actually been working on it, but again I find myself wanting something else.
A friend of mine took the time to re-up my City of Heroes account, which of course meant I got to try something else for a while– in the realm of RP and leveling type– that was different from the fantasy setting of World of Warcraft. Again, this is a good, good thing as now I have a choice in gaming, but I still feel that CoX lacks something– some of the bugs that were there when I left are still there, though they’ve added in new features, supposedly to compete with Champion’s Online (which is a whole ‘nother post waiting to happen). I don’t understand the thought process of ‘throw this in, it’s shiny and will distract them from the flaws we’ve let run for years).
Ontop of that, I’ve found it kind of difficult to find RP that I actually feel engrossed in, which is one of the whole point of CoX for a whole as me, as end-game content after 50 doesn’t revolve around anything more than slotting your build– which requires much in the way of farming infamy/influence and buying recipes. At least WoW has raids, right?
All in all, I’m wondering if I should be going back to my console and trying to run a few linear RPGs that don’t involve the whole MMO aspect for a while to see if my head clears up from this gamer’s fog.