Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-1496755-20181030195158

Oh, I've seen some overly ambitious players that specifically hunt for this or that item. But what they really accomplish is robbing themselves of all the fun but turning gameplay into a mechanized "farming" process. And since there's a lot of randomization going on, this process can take ages, until they start forgetting what the actual gameplay was all about. It's a sad fate that is best avoided.

Heh, developers sometimes like to mess with our heads. I remember going into a game with the ambition to find and defeat a certain very rare boss creature. Turned out it was an April's fools joke that was left on their site, as if it was a real thing. Too bad, it would have been fun to actually face something so vile and powerful (if we believe the description).

But of course it has to be realistic... and gritty. The protagonist must absolutely have some dark story where he was abandoned as a child and raised by wolves, then betrayed by his best friend and left for dead in a lava pit or something. And don't forget, he has to spend at least half an hour every day just sitting in a dimly lit room, brooding over how miserable his life is ;)

Fast typing takes practice, just like anything else. Gaming certainly helps (just as it helps with learning English). Eventually I got used to the letters' positions and thus my fingers find them quickly... and then we have that Cyrillic typset where everything is in positions that make no sense to me. So my Bulgarian typing was at a snail's pace usually. Really glad Phonetic exists because it relies upon key positions I am used to. I press F and I know I'll get the Cyrillic "F" (Ф) on the screen, not some random other letter. I have tried and found out that I can type without looking, but it's a really strong habit so I have trouble making myself not look at the keyboard. This can lead to some annoyances when I type a whole sentence and siddenly realize that I haven't changed the language, so I get an English sentence in Cyrillic letters. Looks really weird.

Heh, purists like us are usually considered some sort of fanatics, at least in the Doom community. They'll have you believe a purist is some sanctimonious jerk that nitpicks at people using source ports, but in reality we're just people who remember how the game was played "back in the day" and prefer this for the sake or nostalgia oro ther reasons.

I guess power fantasies are a popular idea for mods. One of the most popular mods I've heard about is something called "Russian Overkill" which basically adds absurdly overpowered weapons to the game. Then we also have the WoW geeks who claim the game is "utterly unplayable" without 10+ addons to help them find their quest objectives ("But I really need that huge red arrow pointing the right direction!") or other stuff. So this is what exploration has become - following visual clues? Ugh.

Aaaaah, you'd give me up so easily. It's like you don't care. This is exactly the kind of stuff that breaks otherwise perfect marriages. You'll be sleeping on the couch tonight, mister :P

There are quite af we things we could enjoy together - Diablo, Battlefront, just ot name a few. Just have to figure out as way to organize ourselves. It would also be nice if people would stop pestering me all the time with various stuff to do.