tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post3205411321384761509..comments2024-03-26T20:47:12.919+00:00Comments on Going Commando | A SWTOR Fan Blog: Lessons Learned from ESOShintarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-27191071646395924272019-07-09T06:34:22.133+01:002019-07-09T06:34:22.133+01:00I don't exactly disagree with you - I always s...I don't exactly disagree with you - I always saw myself as trying to be lawful good on the classic D&D alignment chart - I just don't see what exactly about this set you off on this philosophical tangent.<br /><br />I'm not prescribing how anyone, even I, <i>should</i> feel, just trying to spot and describe patterns that I see in order to understand myself better. Dabbling in the science of my own gaming so to speak.<br /><br />They might turn out to be wrong (we don't always know what we want after all) or change over time. I don't see that as any more restrictive than saying that the sky looks very blue today. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-22557056076319796712019-07-09T04:52:47.312+01:002019-07-09T04:52:47.312+01:00The comment above wasn't directed at SWTOR or ...The comment above wasn't directed at SWTOR or ESO, I play neither of them. It was directed at you instead, illustrating my surprise at the way you approach gaming. There's a very conspicuous rhythm of ping-pong to it, from what I understand based on your posts: "I like A but I dislike B; I like C but I dislike D; I like E but I dislike F." It seems overly organized and methodical (to the point of mental/emotional rigidity) to me, as I'm used to a much more free-form approach. Perhaps this will surprise <i>you</i> in turn, gaming is to me (like many other things in life) an exercise in ambivalence. I can effortlessly associate any given feature of any given game to both an advantage and disadvantage simultaneously; more often than not, to me it's "normal" to both like and dislike at once a given aspect of a given game.<br /><br />At times, I long for the beautiful simplicity of the way judgmental types conduct themselves. At times, I do wish I'd be able to integrate into their universe. But growing older I've realized the irrevocable nature of the immiscibility I've evoked earlier on. I feel the loving embrace of a <i>boa constrictor</i> within your stable and ordered universe, whereas mine is perceived as chaotic and incongruent to you.<br /><br />Hehe, a chatty Fancypants like you may even concoct a blogpost on this very topic! A topic of divisiveness in gaming, without addressing the usual culprits such as gender, and resorting to the analogy of the "lawful versus chaotic" schism in the D&D of yore. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-91783899013013340082019-07-08T21:58:35.186+01:002019-07-08T21:58:35.186+01:00The two games seem to appeal to similar audiences ...The two games seem to appeal to similar audiences for sure, as I know quite a few people who play or have played both. And I do think that ESO is a good MMO, even if this post came across as quite critical.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-78743661538508076092019-07-08T14:51:37.389+01:002019-07-08T14:51:37.389+01:00SWTOR and ESO are basically my secondary MMO's...SWTOR and ESO are basically my secondary MMO's at the moment, behind Elite Dangerous (only sort of an MMO!).<br />I agree a lot with your sentiments above but find I'm actually playing far more ESO than SWTOR recently. I didnt even know there were guild levels in Swtor until I saw your other recent post!<br />ESO's combat has all the flaws you mentioned but I actually prefer it to Swtor though that may not have been the case a couple of years ago.Cryptographyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396055699591027683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-75650924311425100062019-07-08T06:39:37.566+01:002019-07-08T06:39:37.566+01:00Okaaay... but what does that have to do with SWTOR...Okaaay... but what does that have to do with SWTOR or ESO? :)Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-15919919115568107112019-07-08T06:22:28.403+01:002019-07-08T06:22:28.403+01:00Unholy bananas, Shintar. I've read in quick su...Unholy bananas, Shintar. I've read in quick succession both this post and then the older one from 2014, the very first inference was: if I were to approach anything (gaming in particular, life in general) with a mindset similar to yours, I'd go berserk fairly soon. Through rationalization I develop a limited comprehension of the propensity to rules, without being able to actually appropriate it whatsoever. You prefer a well-defined system of rules, laws, judgements of value, patterns, traditions. It constitutes a stable and ordered universe to you; whereas to me it's tedious, exhausting, joyless. If we were to employ the tongue-in-cheek metric of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)#Law_vs._chaos" rel="nofollow">D&D alignment system</a>, I'd certainly lean toward being chaotic thus we'd be rendered immiscible like oil and water. :PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-10882528038409186062019-07-07T15:12:33.536+01:002019-07-07T15:12:33.536+01:00Yeah, I totally get that it's practical to rec...Yeah, I totally get that it's practical to recycle content like that. From a lore/immersion point of view it sucks though.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-21948412279665323452019-07-07T02:32:46.487+01:002019-07-07T02:32:46.487+01:00The reason why they opened up the other factions&#...The reason why they opened up the other factions' questlines is --I believe-- part of the One Tamriel update. If you had just the one faction's worth of questing to work through, it's a <i>very</i> short questing experience. I took longer to level my first SWTOR toon (back in the "old days" before SWTOR went F2P) than to go through one faction's worth of questing in ESO. I think they had to do something fast, and opening up all the quests to a single toon meant that you suddenly got triple the content without having to create new toons.Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-18835603678455834602019-07-06T09:50:14.233+01:002019-07-06T09:50:14.233+01:00One word: aesthetics. I really don't like Guil...One word: aesthetics. I really don't like Guild Wars 2's art style when it comes to character models, gear etc. I also strongly disagreed with some of their core design decisions at launch (everyone is dps, no quests etc.) though I guess they've walked back on some of those since then.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1538233114133115363.post-70359678240096365532019-07-06T01:54:40.629+01:002019-07-06T01:54:40.629+01:00I still wonder why you haven't given Guild War...I still wonder why you haven't given Guild Wars 2 a try, it has explorable world, much better combat and more distinct classes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com