I was discussing games with a co-worker yesterday and was mildly disappointed that he doesn’t play the best game ever, but…I overlooked that point in the interest of the conversation. His love is Grand Theft Auto, and he plays it a LOT.
I really don’t have any experience playing it, although I got a GTA 3-pack from Best Buy about 2 years ago to play on my laptop because of its limited gaming ability. I think he’s a few releases down the road from me, but at least I know what he is talking about.
What got him about the latest version was the constant need to take care of his guy. There was food, and clothes, and sleep, and all kinds of stuff that he said belongs in The Sims, not in a car-jacking game. After sitting in your car all the time, your avatar gets fat and slow. Steal a few cars, and you have to go eat something. It’s annoying.
How much worse do we have it, though? I mean, we drop a month’s worth of gold and mats to craft one piece of armor! Some food recipes go for some pretty good money, as does the food itself. And for what?! To give to our pets after they aggro too many mobs and die. If you stop playing a toon, he loses everything in the mailbox (don’t ask Gitr what happened to his Lionheart Helm that he was trying to sell). If you don’t upgrade your armor, you suck AND you look bad.
If you don’t play the AH or go out grinding good areas, you become poor. Once you’re poor, it is very difficult to do anything fun. You can’t buy training, recipes, potions, or anything that you can’t make once you farm it by going grinding in the first place.
At one point in leveling Deadr, I got so fed up with looking at his goofy get-up that I had an entire set of Shadoweave armor crafted for him, despite the loss of +INT stats. What things have you done for your toon to keep them happy, pretty, or fun? Inquiring minds want to know.
Thinking about it the most I have ever done is just spent a ridiculous amount of money for a measley 100 in armor difference. If you ever see Drow around town he looks like a hobo trying to keep warm, purple, red, blue, grey, I’m sure if you look long enough you will see the rainbow that is Drow.
On the “pretty” side: I’ve been playing for a few months now, but only got the expansion last week, so one of the first things I did was head over to Azuremyst and get a Blood Elf Bandit Mask for my NE Druid. One actually dropped from my first kill, too. Oh the vanity!
The only thing i doo for vanity.
I never show the stupid capes.
I only show the good looking helms. Hell ive had that stupid wolfs head for several levels now…..still cute though. Reminds me of Rool from Willow. Though his was a rat.
I had to finally turn off that wolf helm because I chose Deadr to have awesome hair, and I can’t even see his face with that thing on. It was fun for a while, but it was freaking me out on the login screen.
HEHE i think the gnome looks dangerous with one over those on.