In my opinion this could go so far. The only problem is that Nintendo isn't taking it as far as it could.
Example: Nintendogs- I was done with this game by the second hour. It used the touch screen very nicely. The only problem is the game itself wasn't very long or made for long extended play. You could only participate in 3 competitions, meaning you could play for 15 minutes and be done for the day.
Not my style.
When longer games come out it (IMO) will become much better, but for now I think it has many possiblities.
I believe that WoW has turned into the 800lbs gorilla. I am a retired player, and this game is absolutely amazing. The addiction is an avalanche. You begin playing for free, and the beginning area is very nicely set up. Quests build and story line develops. By then you have played for your free month, and you have been leveling fast so you pay for another 6 months. Now that you have forked out nearly 150 bucks for the game and playing time you feel obligated to play. You play partly because the game is awesome, and partly because of the expense. Then you get better and better, and the story line gets worse. Quests no longer build up like they did (for players see Deadmines with Van Cleef, and then later on with Scarlet Monestary). The first takes about 6 quests to finally get to the final one, where you take on Van Cleef himself. Then by the time you are in your mid to late 30s you go on to Scarlet Monestary and you get one quest linking to the whole thing. The prediction is by this point you are involved in your character and arn't as worried about story line (true for some, not for me). Once you hit the legendary level 40 you have it all, a mount making pvp a lot easier and more fun, because you have an escape and can catch others with ease. For me (and a friend) this died off at about level 42, where we were then happy with how much pvping we had accomplished and wanted to return to leveling. At this point it took far to long to level (another scheme at making you play for extended lengths of time for little gain). The only way to level at this point was to run instances (dungeons for the non players) and grind (mindless killing). This got old... and for some it may be interesting; for me, my 6 month was almost up and I was exhausted. So for 7 months blizzard made 150 dollars off me alone. Now once one hits level 60 there is a lot more of getting no where fast. My guildie had played a total of 50 ish days (game time)and was still playing. Blizzard is continuing to make money off of him...
So all in all for 7 months I purchased no other game... but Blizzard made money throughout.
Pick whether its hurting or helping the gaming industry, either way WoW is a big Gorilla, quite possibly a 850 lbs gorilla.
This sounds like Save Toby.
Where a man threatened to kill Toby, the cute little bunny rabbit, unless he recieved $50,000.
Pay Pal thought it was horrible and thus froze it.
If this is another repeat I commend Pay Pal.
I'm still trying to figure out why people would want an Xbox over a computer. For that price you could buy a bottom line computer that would essentially do the same as the 360, and a little more.
Sure the 360 can game and play dvds, but the computer can do that- email, word process, surf the internet.
I am also struggling with the reliablity level with the XBOX, 4 people I know that have XBOXes have had them break, or had to replace some component of them within the first year.
My computer- hasn't had issues yet.
The earth's core spins faster than the earth's shell eh?
Isn't this obvious. I had this figured out before high school, I'm wondering now why this is so amazing.
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In my opinion this could go so far. The only problem is that Nintendo isn't taking it as far as it could. Example: Nintendogs- I was done with this game by the second hour. It used the touch screen very nicely. The only problem is the game itself wasn't very long or made for long extended play. You could only participate in 3 competitions, meaning you could play for 15 minutes and be done for the day. Not my style. When longer games come out it (IMO) will become much better, but for now I think it has many possiblities.
I believe that WoW has turned into the 800lbs gorilla. I am a retired player, and this game is absolutely amazing. The addiction is an avalanche. You begin playing for free, and the beginning area is very nicely set up. Quests build and story line develops. By then you have played for your free month, and you have been leveling fast so you pay for another 6 months. Now that you have forked out nearly 150 bucks for the game and playing time you feel obligated to play. You play partly because the game is awesome, and partly because of the expense. Then you get better and better, and the story line gets worse. Quests no longer build up like they did (for players see Deadmines with Van Cleef, and then later on with Scarlet Monestary). The first takes about 6 quests to finally get to the final one, where you take on Van Cleef himself. Then by the time you are in your mid to late 30s you go on to Scarlet Monestary and you get one quest linking to the whole thing. The prediction is by this point you are involved in your character and arn't as worried about story line (true for some, not for me). Once you hit the legendary level 40 you have it all, a mount making pvp a lot easier and more fun, because you have an escape and can catch others with ease. For me (and a friend) this died off at about level 42, where we were then happy with how much pvping we had accomplished and wanted to return to leveling. At this point it took far to long to level (another scheme at making you play for extended lengths of time for little gain). The only way to level at this point was to run instances (dungeons for the non players) and grind (mindless killing). This got old... and for some it may be interesting; for me, my 6 month was almost up and I was exhausted. So for 7 months blizzard made 150 dollars off me alone. Now once one hits level 60 there is a lot more of getting no where fast. My guildie had played a total of 50 ish days (game time)and was still playing. Blizzard is continuing to make money off of him... So all in all for 7 months I purchased no other game... but Blizzard made money throughout. Pick whether its hurting or helping the gaming industry, either way WoW is a big Gorilla, quite possibly a 850 lbs gorilla.
This sounds like Save Toby. Where a man threatened to kill Toby, the cute little bunny rabbit, unless he recieved $50,000. Pay Pal thought it was horrible and thus froze it. If this is another repeat I commend Pay Pal.
Well, I would say that until the Feds start posting cameras in everyones house it's okay to do whatever you want in the privacy of your own home.
I'm still trying to figure out why people would want an Xbox over a computer. For that price you could buy a bottom line computer that would essentially do the same as the 360, and a little more. Sure the 360 can game and play dvds, but the computer can do that- email, word process, surf the internet. I am also struggling with the reliablity level with the XBOX, 4 people I know that have XBOXes have had them break, or had to replace some component of them within the first year. My computer- hasn't had issues yet.
The earth's core spins faster than the earth's shell eh? Isn't this obvious. I had this figured out before high school, I'm wondering now why this is so amazing.