thespanishcel
Overlord
★★★★★
- Joined
- May 13, 2018
- Posts
- 7,453
Seriously I don't get the appeal. They are grindy as fuck, you have to devote too many hours to get good gear and enough level to do the cool quests, before that you've got to suffer a lot of repetitive shit. Graphically they are usually pretty bad and have a confusing user interface with too many menus, submenus, tabs, icons, etc. The gameplay is usually boring too, for example in Star Wars The Old Republic the combat gameplay is just spamming keys 1 to 4 to do different types of attacks, do this while your partner heals you each time you take damage and you're literally invincible. Also there's always some kind of suscription or pay to win mechanic that makes free players have a much worse experience than premium players, and if we get into clothes and accesories all the cool stuff is behind a paywall.
How do people get addicted to this kind of games? I would understand becoming addicted to MOBA, FPS or fighting games for the competitive component, but MMORPGs look so boring in comparison. Is the kind of game you play while you listen to music, podcast or voice chat? Or is the lore really that good to devote so many hours despite the boring gameplay? Probably my favorite videogame genre is RPG but the single player kind, and if the gameplay is boring or tedious I drop it anyways. For example I didn't like Dragon Age saga, the gameplay was too old school and strategic for my taste. Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, Mass Effect saga, Yakuza (more beat em up but it has many RPG elements too), The Witcher 2 and 3, that's the good shit.
How do people get addicted to this kind of games? I would understand becoming addicted to MOBA, FPS or fighting games for the competitive component, but MMORPGs look so boring in comparison. Is the kind of game you play while you listen to music, podcast or voice chat? Or is the lore really that good to devote so many hours despite the boring gameplay? Probably my favorite videogame genre is RPG but the single player kind, and if the gameplay is boring or tedious I drop it anyways. For example I didn't like Dragon Age saga, the gameplay was too old school and strategic for my taste. Fallout New Vegas, Skyrim, Mass Effect saga, Yakuza (more beat em up but it has many RPG elements too), The Witcher 2 and 3, that's the good shit.