Off-Topic General Discussion I - Hyped for a Lunchbox

Just downloaded Torchlight to hold me over until Diablo 3 launches. Starting to think it was a waste of $15. :/

I'm really not sure. It's just not gripping me like Diablo does. One of the things that does annoy me is that if there's a huge group of enemies, it seems like the game makes you pick up items over targeting enemies. So, in the middle of a fight, you'll stop attacking to pick up an item and God forbid you have a full inventory or you'll be picking that item up over and over while you're getting beat the crap out of, lol.

*looks at wiki staff tags*

*reads "I've never played it or Diablo."*

I think you're lying to me, lol.

I've played a little bit of Everquest (literally, a little bit. Played for a couple hours on a friend's account) > Guild Wars: Factions > About 4 hours worth of Maplestory > Then a bunch of WoW.

Torchlight didn't cut it for me because there is no multiplayer, and I only played Diablo 1-2 for the story and multiplayer.

But counting just MMOs that I can remember (not counting the millions of MMOs I quit in hours):

I've played too much MMOs that Guild Wars 2 is pretty much my last hope lol; made me realize I played so many MMOs back then for that era that I would not play today.

Everquest (stopped a few years before WoW). My first MMO (unless you count a few hours of ultima online) before my friends started getting computers, met a lot of cool people in this game. Looking back at this game makes me see how much games are more casual friendly.

Realms of Kaos: MUD that my friends and I played back when everyone had horrible computers haha. Hmm, technically this game is my first mmo.

Ragnarok Online was also fun when playing with a bunch of friends


My friends and I tried Lineage 2, but that game was horrible. I told my friend beforehand that it wasn't our type of game but he didn't listen, and since he paid for me I was like OK I'll play and I ended up right and we all quit in a month or two lol.

WoW (launch to season 2 of Burning Crusade); my friends and I had a lot of fun doing BGs together all day, then arena came out and it was pretty annoying because people loved to turtle so we just got decked out in the best arena gear and sold our accounts, that and they made it mandatory to pve for certain pieces because they don't have every slot of equipment for pvp gear.

RoK and WoW would what develop me and most of my friends into making PvP mandatory for our MMOs (but we dislike FFA PvP, and are more into objective pvp or factions). This is why I'm loving guild wars 2's world vs world vs world, and the instanced pvps.

Also played Guild Wars original. We loved the PvP, but we never had enough friends playing the game for the 8v8v8 (I think we had around 4-5) so eventually all quit it for WoW.

After WoW, my friends and I have been waiting almost 10 years for a decent PvP MMO.


Then came Warhammer Online, an awesome game that was kind of like DAoC's successor but not. EA bought out Mythic, and ruined the game.

Then came Aion. My friends wanted to try it out and I told them it would fail already for solely one reason. When you die, you lose a chunk of your abyss points (pvp points that you can purchase pvp gear with); I told them this would make most people too afraid to PvP. My friend said but we don't die much in pvp, and I was like yeah but I said think of the majority of players not us. Ended up right, it was mostly the same crews you run into unlike Warhammer where everyone would join in. The game also had gold buying issues and hacking issues, and the lack of GMs throwing their banhammers pretty much made everyone quit.

From there I tried out some MMOs like Rift and stuff just hoping to pass the time for GW2 but could never find a filler. Just played LoL off and on, and went back to console rpgs. At least diablo 3 is finally coming out on may 15, d1-2 never lasted me that long but at least d3 will last me until GW2.

I always loved GW1 but felt it was lacking some things (like world pvp and more variety of group pvp instances). GW2 pretty much added everything I felt GW1 and games these days lacked, been waiting for a game like this. Removing the holy trinity alone is revolutionary, no longer requiring tanks and healers (pretty much always me lol; I usually had to go healer or hybrid) and just letting everyone play what they want.

But yeah, most of my friends and I are really hyped for this game. Been waiting for a game like this for pretty much forever. Makes me sad though how my little brother won't be able to play it (passed away to cancer), but I digress.

What do you consider "The good C&C games"? I think the last one I played was Red Alert: Yuri's Revenge. Bluephoenix has played them all, or at least most of them. HE'S ALSO NOT GETTING GW2, AFAIK.

May have to look into that. I loved Yuri's Revenge.

About to get srs up in hea.

Octomom is not worthy of life. I hate it when people abuse welfare for shoes and the like (I work in a shoe store), but this is so much worse. She needs those kids taken from her. She also needs to not be on welfare. I don't want to be paying for her damn haircuts. >:|