marydell | Some things aren't meant to be....

I downloaded the demo of Guild Wars, because it looks pretty and I like RPGs (Oblivion is my recent favorite; NWN1 is my all-time fave RPG, I think) I haven't tried a MMORPG, because I'd been too busy and I have eyeball trouble that limits my game time; also I like to game solo, unless I'm playing in RL with actual people that I can interact with in a normal social way. Um, normal geek social way, that is. But Mike likes WOW and I've watched him play some, and the better RPGs are mostly MMO these days, so I figured I'd try GW for free, and then if that's fun I'll give WOW a whirl.

So it loaded up the first world/level/whatever, and loaded my new character, and she's standing there and there's another person standing next to her. Then a third person runs by. There's a button that says "chat." My brain instantly goes, "what are these fucking people doing in MY GAME!!!!????" and I instinctively move my character off to the side away from the other people, and start hoping that I can just do a bunch of quests by myself and not have to talk to anyone. I see the "town crier" is being marked like someone I should talk to, and my brain goes "fuck that! I'm going exploring!" but then I realize he's an NPC designed to give me my quest so I reluctantly go talk to him.

Then my eyes get tired so I quit for the night but I don't think I'll be going back in. There are PEOPLE in there.