{"id":2128,"date":"2012-09-28T22:24:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T05:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2012-09-28T22:24:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T05:24:02","slug":"what-im-looking-for-in-an-mmo-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2012\/09\/what-im-looking-for-in-an-mmo-redux.html","title":{"rendered":"What I’m looking for in an MMO (redux)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I know I’ve talked about this before<\/a>, but it came up in conversation during date night with Margie. \u00a0“What three things,” she asked, “are you really looking for from a game?”<\/p>\n

I hemmed and hawed, and we discussed, and this is the (not quite three) list it boiled down to. It’s a bit less mechanics-oriented than the previous one, and more functional:<\/p>\n

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  1. \"\"<\/a>I need to feel heroic<\/strong>. \u00a0Jogging everywhere in the world? Doing boring grind missions?\u00a0Imperiled\u00a0by battling three opponents? \u00a0That’s not feeling heroic. (Note: this doesn’t necessarily mean “super-hero” or “comic book hero”.)<\/li>\n
  2. Duo-friendly<\/strong>. A big part of my gaming life is playing with Margie. \u00a0A game that makes it difficult for us (and usually just us) to play side-by-side, due to different start points, or poor leveling \/ sidekicking setups, or whatever, is going to be a frustration to us. \u00a0(Heck, I remain irked at CoH for quashing Level Pacting.)<\/li>\n
  3. A variety of content \/ replayability.<\/strong> I don’t want to feel railroaded through just one course of action. I want parallel ways of gaining experience and exploring the world and so forth.<\/li>\n
  4. Well-written content<\/strong>. I don’t mind humor, but overall I want to take the story seriously.<\/li>\n
  5. Alt-friendly<\/strong>. For whatever reason, Margie and I are both alt-aholics. \u00a0We like to try out different character types and combinations. \u00a0We’d like to play something (in conjunction with requirement #3) that doesn’t require us to delete characters in order to roll up new ones.<\/li>\n
  6. Soloable.<\/strong> Though we game together a lot, sometimes we like running solo, just to try something new, or because the other person isn’t around or doesn’t feel like gaming. \u00a0(This tends to be tied a lot to #4.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So that’s more than three, but those are the important things I’m (still) looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Yeah, I know I’ve talked about this before, but it came up in conversation during date night with Margie. \u00a0“What three things,” she asked, “are you really looking for from a game?” I hemmed and hawed, and we discussed, and this is the (not quite three) list it boiled down to. It’s a bit less … Continue reading “What I’m looking for in an MMO (redux)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}