OT: What other games are people playing??

[Aku]

Anyone know anything about Guild Wars? This game may be interesting.

http://www.guildwars.com/

There is the link. Tell me what you think.

[KroolDeath]

Hmmm.. I've been reading alot of reviews on Eve, as well as their site, and the more I read, the more I'm interested. The "problem" with Corps is also the main attraction of Eve. It means there's alot of activity that's player driven.

Lex, thats the same line of thinking that interested me, its not story-driven but driven by the players, up to and including the economic model.

I am still looking into this game of course. I'm going to cruise around their website some more. Looking at the interstellar map, it appears there is plenty of room for growth without having to join one of the existing corporations.

Krool

[Lex]

I've got a long list of games I *MUST* play. So the time commitment of Eve is a bit worrisome. But nevertheless I'm pretty sure later in the week when work eases up, I'll sign up and spend several days reading every rule/story/forum/guide and really check it out for real

Edit: how cool would it be to start a Corp called Dominions (although in a space setting, it'll get confused with the Dominion from DS9)

Lex said:
I've got a long list of games I *MUST* play. So the time commitment of Eve is a bit worrisome. But nevertheless I'm pretty sure later in the week when work eases up, I'll sign up and spend several days reading every rule/story/forum/guide and really check it out for real

I was, and am, impressed by the same things. (I've been watching and laughing at the game news over the Last few days about a big series of races sponsored by one of the NPC Empires. To make them exciting, the races are partly run through low security space, and some of the naughtier player residents have decided to object and blockade certain systems. So most of the race participants are now being blown away before they can finish!)

The trouble is that all the single-player stuff - mining, agent missions or NPC pirate-hunting - is just as dull and grindy as it seems to be in most MMORPGs (not that I'm an expert). Trading might be more fun and rewarding, because you're playing in a more-or-less genuine market; but I haven't tried that yet. Hopefully it'll get more interesting once I'm fully integrated into Corporation actiivities, and my Corp moves closer to player-run space. The issue there is finding the right one.

Anyway, it's all very intriguing. I'm just still not decided whether it will be rewarding in the long term.

[Lex]

Freelancer is a single-player only game, that is almost EXACTLY like Eve. And I loved Freelancer. Although the tactical combat was really well done in Freelancer, and seems to be boring in Eve. But I spent literally hours just watching my ship courrier supplies from neighbouring systems for profit. It gets boring after a while, but that's only cos nothing ever changed. In Eve, everything changes week to week. I think by the time you got bored in Eve, you'd be advanced enough to become part of a Corporation, which would then open up a whole new set of activities and interests.

[rabelais]

Playing some Posband and some CoH.

I love the REALLY slow dom 2 game I'm in, it's strategically dicey, but I have time to DO OTHER THINGS!!!

WooHoo!

Rabe the Newbie Scrapper on Liberty

I read the post about the uber(in-game)scam some guy pulled in eve. (search BoingBoing)

If you can grift it, that's pretty real

[KroolDeath]

Mark,

So are you saying oyu've begun playing Eve, or is this just from reading the web page?

Krool