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[PA Comic] Wednesday, August 21, 2013 - Missive
Geth
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I don't think I could handle that with my dignity intact.
Gamer Dater - My Video Game Dating Website full of Faygo
Strip Search Wastebasket of Broken Dreams App I made
Just seeing the card art makes me want to re-sub.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
"And apparently I had children at some point around The Burning Crusade" kills me
That's what got me too.
I used to play WoW, but I wussed out after my first all-nighter when I slept for an entire day...
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that one was fantastic too!
I was, yes
Gabe being torn between his responsibility as a father/husband and his WoW addiction really is one of my favorite running gags.
That was a very long time ago.
As far as WoW, I miss it sometimes, especially healing. I haven't found another game that scratches that exact itch. I played a free week of the Pandaria exansion last year sometime and came out of it fairly at peace with WoW and my decision to quit it. I cannot imagine a situation that would result in going back to it, or any MMO ever again.
The MMO is its own special kind of monster. I was lucky enough to get broken on a mediocre free-to-play/pay-to-win Chinese MMO, so when I hit the end game there wasn't really anything keeping a grasp on me. Part of the fun of the MMO is learning and experiencing the world, but it is a very "caught in the moment" experience that only works until the game runs out of content to show you that you're interested in, or when you start to notice the road you're on doesn't really end and is the same grey pavement for miles neverending.
This is why, while part of me is excited about Everquest Next, I'm a bit scared of the hell it will unleash if it turns out to be any good. If I let myself play an MMO with dynamic content (second life is inaccessible with no goals or gamey elements and doesn't count), I'll probably be like any other hamster chasing after the next blocks I can stick on to my custom castle.
Just wait until it is implemented in the MMO too. How many comics ago was it, when they noticed that "players sometimes leave their computers"? Problem solved!
I really like what they call "living card games" and here is why. When you buy the game you get EVERY CARD.
When you play the game its all about your deck build and skill vs. the other players deck build and skill. Its NOT about who has the most expensive deck or how long you have been collecting for. (*cough* Magic the Gathering *cough*).
Android Netrunner is an absolutely amazing card game. Can't recommend it enough.
(warning: it has a pretty substantial learning curve. It is also asymmetrical so the runner and corporation both play differently and user differing terminology.)
So I miss every WoW related joke.
I guess they're all the same though. They're all about how nobody can escape WoW.
Also damn Mike and Jerry for reminding me I can't play it yet.
-hands back 'geek' card-
Right, best accept it and go buy myself Fifa.
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
Except for the part where you only get 1 copy of some cards in the box, so you either buy the box three times and throw out 75% of the cards, or don't have the same cards as the guy who DID buy 3x of every box. :P
A collectible card game is a collectible card game. There's different ways to dress 'em up, but no matter what, you're going to pay some money for them.
That said, I freaking love CCG's. Moving them over to the digital space is going to literally destroy me. I've already bought into Solforge and Hex. (And I swore, in one of these threads, not to buy into Hex after my Solforge experience.)
I have no doubt I will also lose many hours to Hearthstone. I just really, really hope, as Gabe does apparently, they don't find some way to drag me back into actual WoW to support my card game addictions.