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[PA Comic] Monday, April 7, 2014 - Time
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Create a character played for a few minutes then I start asking myself :"Haven't I already played this before ?" So, just to be sure I un-installed it and launch back on my Titans of the Warring Sun squad commander seat.
If I have to play something I already played before it should either be something I enjoyed back then or at least the original.
The best part is admiring how great the background came out in this, but then realizing how it subtly influences the foreground in the first panel... and the weeping goes on.
Witty signature comment goes here...
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Also, is it just me or does "I wept with the grieving" read a little funny?
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This comic makes me happy though, the text carries well.
also I'm pretty sure that's the point smoogy.
... My, what a boring Signature.
-Tycho Brahe
Like, whenever you hover over an enemy, it displays a montage of every single time you've fought and killed that exact same enemy. Like a flashback.
"3 STR, 4 VIT, Basic proficiency in a foreign language, or a renovated bathroom"
Not necessarily - modern MMOs have been reducing the item-grind. Unfortunately it's been reduced to grinding for one or two item types, like tokens, rather than grind for 30 different items. So the time input exists still, but you can at least focus on just one thing.
For instance in FFXIV any boss above the low 50's content will drop varying amounts of tomestones. All the raids, and some of the daily quests will give some as well.
Different ways / places to gather things is gonna be way better on a player's mind than gathering multiple things from individual sources each. It's the same shit at the end of the day in terms of time invested, but still. Also, a "collect just this thing" system allows for people to save up and spend as they desire.
Any MMO that comes out is going to suffer from WoW comparison, as it redefined the mmo genre. Titanfall is great (albeit stripped-down to the nth degree), and you will always be able to compare it to Call of duty and team fortress.
Still, I crave... I CRAAAAVE bethesda to even make a half-assed attempt at making a core Elder Scrolls multiplayer. Arena was multiplayer. There are mods. It can happen! Why, oh why, did they play it safe and give us Elder Scrolls flavored ice cream, instead of a true elder scrolls gelato with real chunks of scroll in it?
That's probably true, but at the end of the day, it's all really wasted time. Of course, that could be said of any video game -- yet I still play them. My only MMO experience is FFXI and WoW, but I'm not playing either of those now. When I think back on all the time I spent on various types of grinds, it's hard to still see it as worthwhile. It's still possible that I could go back to WoW since I only recently left it, but my FFXI days are definitely over. What good are those max level characters now?
-Tycho Brahe
Once MMOs can figure out how to do this, they'll get my money again. Until then, if I want to grind, I'll at least go into some F2P game whose marketplace I never visit.
It's only a waste of time if you're not enjoying yourself. Bringing it to WoW, the latest MMO I was able to touch the end-game of, I was able to project how long it'd take to do this, that, and the other. But every day was bringing me a success, either tangible or significant goal post meets, so I was enjoying it. But then I hit a particular threshold of progression where it would take a week for a chance for something so I stopped playing.
I'd say I've mastered my addiction to have perpetual characters, but I'm playing TOR now so fuck me.
Nonsense. It's just a slightly more poetic and evocative way of saying it. If you compare it a phrase like, say, "I shook with fear" you see the meaning. What would be a better way to say it? "I wept from grieving?" "I wept with grief?" "I wept in grief?" All of these are much less pleasing to the ear IMO.
"The Grieving" is actually Tycho's poetic-screamo black speed metal band. They play on Wednesdays.