There is the huge rumor that the company Blizzard is thinking about releasing another MMO, unrelated to Warcraft. With Starcraft 2 in the works right now, wouldn’t it make sense if they made Diablo into an MMO, and how awesome would that be?!
I have been a fan of playing Diablo 1&2 since when they came out, and I still play Diablo 2 on Battle.net. I honestly think Diablo is one of the greatest games ever. I would be so excited if Blizzard decided to turn it into an MMORPG.
But some questions come to my mind as I think about it. Such as, how would they do factions or PvP. As the game is now, where you can play it online thanks to Battle.net it is basically you against everyone. It seems like they would take a different path then the one on Diablo 2 right now because that would seem to get hectic.
Do you think they would have factions? I am not sure! If I was one of the game developers, I would probably make it to where you could choose any race/class you wanted and then choose if you wanted to be sided with Heaven or Hell… or maybe you could choose as you progress into the game? Hmm… that would be neat! I just know I would probably play an Amazon. 
Anyways, I have heard it is just a rumor, but even the possibility of it excites me, and we all know how Blizzard likes to keep things hushed up! I honestly think it could do even better then World of Warcraft. Reasons being, MMO’s are such a HUGE thing now, and Diablo 2 is viewed as one of the greatest games of all time.
We all know that our gaming world is turning a new page at this point, and even to me it feels like a lot of stuff is still changing as we go into new chapters. Gaming has progressed so much over the years. Think back to playing Atari where you had 2 lines that you bounced a ball back and forth with. Then think about what it is today, and how it has changed us and progressed through the years.
Most changes were great! Games are so much more fun and intense now. But some also not so great, at least in my opinion. The internet + gaming combined brought out some behavior in gamers which at times can be quite appalling. (Which I covered 2 blogs ago.) Gaming in itself has become it’s own society of people. Did we see that coming when we were sitting around playing Pong? Most of us… probably not, and I sit here and wonder what new exciting things are waiting for us in the future!
So, I sit here and think about it, and I am wondering about you guys, my fellow gamers, and wonder what changes and new exciting things you would like to see happen to the gaming world. Here are few thoughts of my own.
MMO’s- Ohh yes! I love my MMORPG’s (Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game’s.) I am so excited to think about what the future holds for these type of games. Some things I think we can learn from the past…
Okay, I will use World of Warcraft as an example. While, I still love and play this game some, I look back and honestly think a lot of it was a huge waste of my time and money. I remember at one time being so addicted. It was so much fun when it first came out, but it is such a time consuming game I barely touched any other games about over a year, which makes me very sad. It just felt like it took so much time to do anything remotely fun in that game.
Comparing that to Lord of the Rings Online, my favorite MMO I have played. Turbine took a much more casual route with that game. They designed it to where you could sit down for 10 minutes or up to all day and you can still have fun! I don’t know how they exactly did it, but that is the way I feel about it. Also, the player base as a whole seems to be a lot more mature in LotRO and I do enjoy that a lot too. I could play LotRO for a while, get stuff done and have a great time, then move on to another game when I felt like it. It was really nice.
Which brings me to my other point… supply more for the casual gamers! I don’t know how many times I have told someone to try this or that game out, and they look at it and say,”Ohh, I don’t know when I will have time to do that.” While I myself am not even close to being a casual gamer, I just wish it could be somehow less time consuming so more people could get into it. Gaming industries need to look at people and realize most do have lives, and make games that work around that also. It is hugely centered around competitions, and “being the best” that some people who want to play casually are hesitant to even get into gaming.
Also…Don’t take away single-player games! Gaming has been shifting more and more to the internet, that I have been afraid one day that is all it will become. There is nothing I enjoy more after a long day then sitting down in a quiet spot and playing something by myself. I don’t have to listen to people constantly, and I can just relax and have fun on my own.
Okay, one last thought to wrap this all up. I wish more gaming companies would be more brave and take more chances then they do, rather then to just appeal to what we already know and like. I will give credit to Nintendo for not being like this though.
With the PS3 and XBox360, they gave us just that, and it was in their comfort zone. (I love them both still…don’t get me wrong.) But Nintendo came out with this new cool thing that could revolutionize gaming, the Wii. I personally think the Wii is underrated, and I congratulate Nintendo for coming up with this and going outside of their comfort zone to give us something new and exciting that makes us see what is possible in the future.
Anyways, those are just a few thoughts I have. I would love to hear what you guys would love to see in the future, so be sure to share your own wishes and ideas.
I know most of you have some sort of caffeine beverage you consume to keep up your wits and energy in the gaming world… but have you ever wondered how much it would take to kill you?
Now that question can be answered! All you do is put in your weight + they have a large variety of coffees and energy drinks to choose from on the list. The results are quite suprising!
http://www.energyfiend.com/death-by-caffeine/
My favorite drink is Red Bull and I weigh 99 lbs. So it would take exactly 84.46 cans to kill me. Haha, I think I would throw up before fitting 84 cans in my stomach!
What would it take to kill you?
A lot of my fellow gaming females have been touching a subject that has been bothering me for quite some time. When and why did the gaming world become so negative and not centered so much around just having fun anymore? Why do people insist on cursing, using racial slurs, and just insulting people.
I have talked to some friends outside our “gaming world” about this. (We will call them “outsiders”.) These outsiders actually look at our world in a very negative way, and can never see themselves being a part of it. It’s no wonder our hobby is blamed for violence in schools and with guns, even though there has to be a lot more going on then just pwning people in games to cause that, but outsiders don’t see that! All they see is the people using foul language and the violence that is in our games. So they just put 2+2 together.
I myself try to avoid using bad language. People who play with me can tell you that I rarely ever do any of these things. I am just here to play the games and have fun with people! But there are these few people who stand out more then the people like myself.
You know you hear them over Vent, XBL and as “trolls” on the internet. They are the ones insulting you, calling you rude names, and in my case making fun of me because I am a female gamer. (I already covered some of that subject.) But if I try to stand up and say their behavior is inappropriate and annoying, I am the one getting laughed at and ridiculed! Come on people, grow a pair! Why am I the one getting the crap when this guy is acting like a complete moron. Are you scared of him or something?
Here is a prime example of what I am talking about. This is reality, as sad as it is. He really needs to step away from the controller.
(Warning NSFW as loud profanity and crude terms are used.)
These people must have some pretty low self-esteem if it is making them feel better by trying to belittle others in a video game. But the people joining in and laughing at the people like me trying to call them out just adds to it. I am beginning to think this is beyond repair, and it will always be like this. But why does it have to be?! I know there are many of you out there who have kept quiet this whole time, and just dealt with it in the ways I have… by not doing anything! Which isn’t going to help solve anything now is it?
Honestly the way things are right now, if I had children who wanted to play online video games, I probably wouldn’t want to them to just because of the people I see on here. I honestly could care less what these people say to me, but if my young child heard stuff like what is said over vent/XBL, I think it could honestly hurt them.
Why does something that can be so much fun, have to be so negative and crude? I mean the regular trash talk “Ohh you just got pwned/worked/stomped on” is fine, but do these people have to constantly say the “F” word, drop “N bombs” and yell into their mic?
Come on gamers, stand up for what you believe is fun, and against these people constantly trying to tear you down. With enough of us, we can defeat all this hatred for a brighter gaming future.
If you guys didn’t take the time to play the single player of Call of Duty 4. DO IT! I know there are some of you who haven’t! (*cough cough* my brother!)
Never in an FPS have I felt so wrapped up in all the action going on. I mean, I thought Half-Life was great for all that, but in my opinion CoD4 topped that. I started playing it, and could not put it down.
I felt a great mixture of emotions and excitement, and it helped me practice shooting stuff to pwn people in the multi player. I played the game at the 3rd level of difficulty, but even as a Recruit it is still challenging!
My husband has also played and finished it, and he said it was amazing the amount of research they did with the military. (My husband is a Sgt. in the USMC.) The guns are realistic, the equipment is just like that used by our own troops, and the storyline sucks you in!
Did you know that some platoons in the Marines actually USE Call of Duty 4 as a simulator?! Sweet, I’ll join the military if I get to play video games! Haha… I am totally joking, and respect what they all do for us. But I just thought that was pretty darn neat! :0]
Put aside those fantasy games and pop in a realistic, raw, modern warfare adventure! You won’t regret it!
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Remember those days before the “gamer” titles? When you could sit in front of your Nintendo NES all day and no one really thought much of it. Most of the rest of the worlds was doing it too… I mean even our own mother and 5 year old sister’s were doing it! (The sister = me.)
Now look at it… it has turned into this huge thing. Competitions, Conventions, Expo’s that thousands of people turn up to to experience the new technology awaiting us. But that isn’t what I am getting into really in this blog… I am just wondering why the attitude of those days has changed so much. Do you ever realize how most people feel you are only a gamer depending on how good you are at these games?
Okay I am going to touch a subject that most people, including myself, am totally sick of hearing about, and wish it would pass, but it hasn’t.
“Girl Gamers”
I have been reading other blogs and arguments about this subject. But it can be so annoying being in this “gaming” world, and being treated so differently when I would rather just be treated like any other guy and gamer out there, and I speak for most girls on this one. Just because I am not the best at some games (can’t be good at each and every one, sorry), I have been called a “fake” and many other things. Guys are mostly the contributers to this.
Sure, some girls are “attention whores” or w/e (I am not talking about those at this time.) But since when did gaming become only about how good you are besides it just being about fun? So what if I don’t do the total best at competitions, I get nervous and there will probably be people out there better then myself. I accept that. But, I thought being a “gamer” meant you just played and enjoyed video games?
“Guy Gamers?”
Okay… so that obviously isn’t a title widely used, but have you ever seen fingers pointed at a guy, and him being called a “fake?” Well, I know I haven’t. I just wish guys would get over the shock that girls do game, and have been this whole time! The reason it made it so well known is the internet, and it came as a huge shock to guys, and hasn’t gone away since. So, the question is, when will it, or will it ever?
I basically wasn’t even aware I was a “gamer” until the internet. I have been playing video games pretty much non-stop since I was 5 years old, but until I was online, playing MMO’s and surfing gaming sites did I realize that gaming was a society in itself. I remember putting a picture of myself on a gaming site, and being called a “fake” because I was a girl. That was many years ago now, but that day always makes me realize why I saw girls taking pictures of themselves with their gaming equipment, and still do to this day. Is it because we want attention? No, it’s because guy’s STILL don’t believe it otherwise, and it seems to bug them a lot in ways…
Anyways… this subject has grown old over the years, and yet still continues on to this day. But mainly what I am curious about is when did you get the title “real gamer” depending on how good you are?
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Hey guys, my name is Liz, but a lot of people in the gaming and FPS world know me as Pinkdragonfly. A lot of girls out there have their own blogs and site they write on… so I thought, hey, why don’t I get in on this as well. I also have a web camera set up, and plan to do live blogs as well.
I have been gaming since I was about 5 years old. It all started when I would play my brother’s Nintendo NES. I used to love playing the games, Super Mario Bros, Bubble Bobble, and Legend of the Kage. Gaming has come such a long way since then, and I now enjoy games such as World of Warcraft, Half-Life, Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty 4, Warcraft 3, and Halo, just to name a few of the LONG list of games I play. I have been in a few competitions, but haven’t gotten fully into all that yet. I need to save more $$$ so I can do more of that in the future.
Right now in my life, I am living in Mystic, Connecticut. I originally am from Klamath Falls, Oregon but I made a move across the country after I met my husband on World of Warcraft and we got married. Yup… you heard it right, I met my husband over WoW. I know… totally nerdy! But it is great to have someone who has the same interests as myself. He is my best friend.
I am currently in the process of looking for a job, so I spend most of my days right now playing games, or renting and trying out new ones. I am not yet positive what I want to do with my life, still trying to figure it all out. I would love to have a job in technology and gaming, but I am not even sure if that is the path I want to take, or if it is a realistic one being so competitive for jobs in that career area.
Anyways… that is just a brief introduction of me! Stay tuned for more to come later on… and thanks for reading!
