Mystic Worlds

1,000,001 - Another Game Makes a Liar of Me

I don’t particularly like mini-games.  I’ve done them occasionally when trying to fill some restless time.  I’ve played Bookworm Adventures trying to fall asleep in a hotel room.  I’ve baked with Cake Mania wasting time in a LONG and boring meeting.  However, when it comes to game time – moments I explicitly reserve for gaming, a mini-game isn’t what I’m after.  I tried them before dismissing them.  Games like Puzzle Pirates don’t appeal to me.

Then there’s instancing which I hate.  I lump zoning into the same category.  All those things that take me out of the game and sit me in front of a “please wait and watch this static picture” while the clock is ticking on your game-play time.  I accept that they exist in all MMOs on some level.  But games that zone me in and out at every turn immediately raise my ire.  Pirates of the Burning Sea didn’t have a chance with me because of the constant zoning and instancing.  I have a hard time considering that type of game play as MMO, even if I do prefer to solo content, I don’t want to be off in a private space doing it.

Free Realms: Closed BETA

For years now, I’ve been on the hunt for a massive title that I can convince my girlfriends to play.  I’m so envious of players that have static groups of friends adventuring together in MMOs.  That used to be me with my kids.  *Sniff*  Even then I still wanted something to play with my BFF other than re-telling each other our The Sims tales.  Back when we both blogged about our Sims shenanigans our gaming felt a little connected.  Now that neither of us plays the Sims, there’s nothing gaming related to share and I miss it.

My BFF’s chief dislike of the MMOs I play is that you have to kill things to advance in the game.  She’s also not of fan of being assaulted by mobs when she’s walking along minding her own business.  If you could have heard her screams and shrieks over the phone when I was trying to show her how to play World of Warcraft, you’d have bust a gut.  Our adventures in WOW didn’t last very long.