Comments on: Evening Gaming

By: Thoughts at 60 | Kill Ten Rats

Thoughts at 60 | Kill Ten Rats — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:04:44 +0000

[...] Burning Crusade, but I am not sure how much I want to disturb this feeling of completion. I could exit on an up note, rather than going until it feels like [...]

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:54:24 +0000

“And you keep going until there are wipes, idiocy, or whatever drives down your utility from playing. Then the everything is ruined forever, and you can do naught but whine on your blog about it. Whine whine whine. So the night ends on a low point, and because we are most affected by beginnings (probably a stretch of waiting of group followed by a while to get rolling, followed by a while to try to fall into a groove) and endings (when it rolled over the cliff), the whole thing is a debacle.”

Hell is other people, Z. Join the dark side already. :)

By: Tholal

Tholal — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:02:06 +0000

I’ve noticed lately, that when I’m having a bad night of gaming, I end up staying up later because I want to end on a good note and losing repeatedly is extremely unsatisfying. So it’s often dangerous to try and end the evening with a multiplayer game, because you never know when you might login to find yourself on the eternally losing team, which can be frustrating.

By: Ravious

Ravious — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:23:30 +0000

It’s weird how you can literally have off-nights with TF2. I still need a damn hat. Then I could dream of not being some smelly unfortunate.

By: Moondog548

Moondog548 — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:02:20 +0000

Kinda like not having caffeine after a certain point in the day, not playing a competitive game after a certain point is probably a good idea too. ;-}

By: Pitrelli

Pitrelli — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:08:55 +0000

I always aim to finish something of note before logging off, be it that extra level or perhaps the completion of a quest chain.

At level 80 in WoW I think thats what made me burn out, I just didnt get a feeling that I was doing anything worthwhile or of note. If this teaches me anything its that im more of a leveller than an end game addict

By: Raethys

Raethys — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:36:05 +0000

It sounds to me like you don’t necessarily enjoy the “multiplayer” in MMOs you play:

Wipes are, by implication, caused by other people. Waiting for a group is not something in the game’s control; it’s caused by other people. “Trying to fall into a groove” implies coordination with other people.

You know you can skip all that and just play a game that… doesn’t involve other people.

By: Syncaine

Syncaine — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:57:10 +0000

You play a druid, don’t you?

By: Hudson

Hudson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:53:54 +0000

What happens to me is I cannot go to bed if B happens. If B happens, I log in a different character and relax once more and get something done away from other idiots.

Or I whine on a blog post THEN go to bed :)