Not Massively Multi-Playing

Once upon a time I played video games. Lots of video games it seems, so much so that I regularly regurgitated my opinions of games and the gaming industry to a web page on a regular basis. I also spent a lot of time in the game Diablo, my friend Fuse didn't like the game much so I ended up with his copy and I played it for hours with my room mate, Short Circuit. We setup a third computer with a low level character to act as our server to keep our Diablo dungeon persistent. Eventually we beat down Diablo.

A few years later Diablo II came out, I was living with the woman who is now my wife and while she never got into the game, I spent a lot of time playing Diablo II and the expansion with all my close friends. I can say with full geek pride the last night I was a bachelor we spent a few hours getting a network going and played Diablo II and drank beer early into the next morning.

I had played Diablo II since it was in beta, so when the next Blizzard beta rolled around I signed up. World of Warcraft was free for me to play for about a month, and as the day it was to come out got closer I mused with another Tauren while waiting for the severe lag to subside about weather or not I would buy the game. I had decided not to. I mean $50 and a monthly fee, that's a bit much. Sunday night the servers were turned off, and by Tuesday when the game came out I was jonesing so bad I bought the game that day, and I've played it up until August 26th 2008.

Yep, nearly four years WoW was the main video game I played. Got 3 characters to 60, did some raiding, and some PVP. Even got the wife playing. Then got the expansion and got one of them to 70 an epic flying mount, and got 2 others fairly close. But, it's time for a break. It's time for me to play the other games I've been buying.

Still I find myself lured in by other MMOs even though I like RPGs, and not MMOs... And have decided to look at some free ones. It's been awhile since I've done that, the last one I played for any length of time was Rappelz which was a very nice looking game, but that doesn't make a great game. I wasn't fond of the controls, the combat system was painfully slow, and the dialog of the quest givers read like a voice overs for kung-fu film. Still, I'm about to give some others a try.

Or maybe I should just go play some Super Mario Galaxy.