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Humanity is ending! Wait lemme save real quick. (Profile Post)
The online world has two faces. Its a god send and its the devils cake. As an avid citizen of the online world, I could vouch that it can rapidly change from a safe haven to the Apocalypse at the drop of a Warlord Skullcap(Warhammer reference). I have seen flamers have a feast upon my friends, I have had my caps lock on auto drive, I have seen hours of just nonstop ‘STFU NOOB’ being thrown around and sometimes I will take a step back after an epik 3 hour long flame war, and think to myself ‘why the hell am I wasting my time with this?’ (answering this question with a well deserved facepalm). However I cant say that I’ve never experienced a good time online. I have met a nice group of friends who have been with me for several years now, but this is exactly what John Funk means when he wrote Virtual Worlds and MMORPGS: The Best and Worst of Humanity. John Funk is a gamer and a reviewer, who is mostly seen on either The Escapist (known for the critic god “Zero Puncuation” Yahtzee Croshaw) or WarCry Net. Both sites are heavily into gaming and expand from MMORPGS to console games. His blogs consist of various game reviews and sometimes poking deeper into the mechanics or appeal of the game and every once in a while he takes a step back and looks at the bigger picture. He discusses current events in the gaming world like UN Group Urges Japan to Ban Explicit Games and Manga, Aion: Making East Meet West, or like Juan Carlos Pinerio Escoriaza’s Second Skin documentary (discussing people with virtual lives), which I find particularly interesting. Overall his blog touches on the topics I want to explore and in particular, his “Virtual Worlds and MMORPGs: The Best and Worst of Humanity” discusses the virtual lives of people that I am really planning to look into (however my view might be a little more…gritty or just plain biased to a certain point). He really takes the time to research his topics and brings in a lot of first-hand sources; he does a lot of interviews with common players and even the designers of the games. John Funk seems to be on similar wavelength as me, as far as what gaming world topic that he discusses, and he could provide a very good researched base for my topics which I intend use and abuse, but he tends to take a very neutral side on every topic he discusses. Which could be exactly what is appropriate for his purpose or for that site, but I intend to take these topics down where the sun don’t shine. I want to get a more realistic view from players and I plan to be able to go to various forums and actually get direct responses from players. For me, I dont want sugar coatings on my posts, and I wont make nice. posted by GOTOMonster @ 10:26 AM 0 Comments On Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 10:26 AM
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Sup, Im ZaiNu. Some other names Ive gone by are, CaptainPants, Rigg, Acell, Pit, Vice,etc. And recently I have been dubbed WarHammer. So who the hell am I? I am a fine arts student, struggling to get into the game design world. Hoping to take over Blizzard or to replace Akihiko Yoshida of Square Enix. Video games have been cocaine since my first game 7 years ago. I have a passion for character and story design, and cry myself to sleep wishing to be able to create my own awesome sauce video game one day(be it a mmorpg or a ps3 game). As a internet persona, I can be crude and brutally honest. For I tend to be a hypocrite and take up the idea that, its the internet and I can say watever I want (despite how much I hate on people who do that). But this isnt about me. Its about me educationally bashing on the behaviors of nerds in mass multiplayer online role playing games (mmorpgs). As apart of being a video game designer, I believe its my job to infiltrate the minds of my addicted victims, to learn what makes them tick and how to make my games even more addictive. I have also liked to observe the different players in mmorpgs like watching rats in a cage. I like to observe the way players interact with each other. How some players will take on another persona online, how some guys will pretend to be G.I.R.Ls (guy in real life) for in game benefits, or why girls tend to hide behind a male character. In a way it is like people watching without the awkwardness of staring. You can go as far as still seeing racism, stereotyping, and cliques in the online world. There are still the “preps” (girls or guys who “cam whore” themselves), the nerds (serious gamers who claim superiority in their player versus player (pvp) skills), the loners (like me, those who stay quiet and mind their own business and just play the damn game), etc. I see some mmorpgs transform from a game into a whole new world for people to live, lie and even love (I have played a game where people tend to focus more on “leveling” their relationships than actually playing their characters). I have been on both the player side, and the admin side and often notice that its like monkeys from warring cages flinging feces at each other. Which something I like to sit back, observe and enjoy with my extra butter popcorn (when Im not in the battlefield conjuring up my own feces balls to throw). While I find poking into the way people act in an online environment interesting. I still have to say that my true interest is in the game itself. What makes one game more appealing to one group of people than another? Or why certain genres of games make better mmorpgs? Do gamers like games with more storyline or is it just spam text to them? There is a little competition between Asian games and Western games. Japan is often on the top of the list in anything electronic, but nowadays the Western world has caught on to this rising market in video games and is becoming heavy competition to the Asian designers. Though, the two worlds have yet to really merge in any one game (discounting Aion since its still in beta form), there seems to be evidence that easterners and westerners don’t have much in common when it comes to games. Japan has Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, and Mario, all very story based games. While in the west corner there is Call of duty, Halo, Crysis, all of which are more gritty and “real”. Of course there are exceptions but nonetheless there is an evident gap between styles. Even in mmorpgs there are the Asian “grind fests” and the Westeners’ need for a purpose to kill 10 Furbolgs. I see various other blogs that discuss things I want to talk about, but some seem to never have enough details or maybe just not enough balls to really say something. Everyone can be too sensitive on the Internet and constantly watch what they say, trying to go neither A or B. But Im here to just fuck things up. My aim is pretty much to write something acceptably informative while still be over all amusing (every body loves pee pee jokes, if you dont then…MAMA DIDNT LOVE YOU) because thats just how I do. Now you know my agenda, so Ill leave off with words from a great man. “Its time to kick ass and chew bubble gum…But Im all out of bubble gum.” posted by GOTOMonster @ 11:14 PM 1 Comments On Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 11:14 PM
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So, My name is Goto. Im a addicted gamer who'd probably be found dead one day in her room clutching a mouse and a cup of noodles. Im what people
call, a Zai Nu (在 女). Which is a girl version of a lazy person who sits eats sleeps and poops, at home while playing video games all day.
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