tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post6916104129004870919..comments2024-03-28T10:18:05.213+00:00Comments on Inventory Full: No Plan Survives Contact With The Inner MeBhagpusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-82448194107857878202022-03-29T23:12:48.171+01:002022-03-29T23:12:48.171+01:00The Bel-Bhag spectrum needs to become the new unit...The Bel-Bhag spectrum needs to become the new unit of measure for MMO players, I feel. :)<br /><br />I probably sit fairly squarely in the middle of such a spectrum. Very much the case that I've embraced Krikket's 'play to satisfaction' mantra which occasionally means beelining for a specific goal... 'thing'... but often means just generally chasing after improvements by way of character (or account!) progression.<br /><br />In guild wars 2 specifically, this means things like... I have finished the personal story (up til the end of Path of Fire at least), I've decked out in Ascended gear, but haven't got a single legendary. I'm partway through the flying mount quest. I don't have map completion (but was probably at about 80%), incidentally, on a Ranger which was my first character too. :)<br /><br />I found the world map completion to be a huge factor in demotivating me from alt-play though. It felt like until I had it, playing an alt would be a waste of time. Sure, it might still be 'fun' (pfftt. ;)) -- but a lot of that fun would be eroded by the knowledge I could be closing in that last little gap of world completion and making the Ranger better instead!Naithinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830174305806727004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-40531720896442667072022-03-29T11:21:23.847+01:002022-03-29T11:21:23.847+01:00The original GW2 was absolutely designed with the ...The original GW2 was absolutely designed with the expectation that people would just wander around and join in with events as they happened. That was pretty much the USP of the game and ANet hammered it home in all the pre-publicity. Mmorpg players had been saying for years then that that was what they wanted - a dynamic world that felt like it was alive, where they could just be drawn into the lives and events of the imaginary people who lived there - so it seemed reasonable to assume it was what those players actually did want. <br /><br />Unfortunately it turned out what they really wanted was a prettier version of WoW that played pretty much exactly the same way WoW played, which is what ANet have spent the last decade trying to turn GW2 into, with some limited success. The original maps, though, still largely play the way they were intended, which is how you describe what you're doing, so if I was you I'd keep on doing that.<br /><br />Also, if this comment seems oddly phrased, I should confess to an unfortunate and often unconscious habit I have of absorbing the prose styles from things I'm reading and right now I'm deep in a book called "The Rap Year Book" by Shea Serrano and he has a tendency to sound a little like this. Probably going to do a post on it when I've finished. I'm about halfway through.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-49134447558404844522022-03-28T20:36:39.018+01:002022-03-28T20:36:39.018+01:00I think I fall somewhere along the Bel-Bhag spectr...I think I fall somewhere along the Bel-Bhag spectrum, probably closer to Bhag. <br /><br />Somehow's Bel's series got me to try GW2 again. I played long ago but had forgotten just about everything. So far I'm just enjoying pottering around the first zone, kind of going with the flow. Game says "LOOK THERE'S AN EVENT" so I dutifully run over to it and generally get to it just as it's ending, but that's fine since I have no real plan and maybe I've seen something new. One time someone invited me to ride around on their turtle and patiently waiting for me to figure out how to fire the turret. That was fun.<br /><br />I started a new character because when I logged into an existing character I was just overwhelmingly lost. <br /><br />The best decision I've made so far is NOT to use any of the experience boosts/level skips that I have (I have a full roster of characters...had to delete one to make the new one) and many of them had year 4-9 birthday gifts waiting in their inboxes. Back in the day I basically leveled a character to 80 MOSTLY by using daily rewards. Then I was level 80 and had no idea how to play the character.<br /><br />I'm having fun so far. Granted it's just been a few days and my new character is all of level 16 or something. Nimgimlihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00230174946054927922noreply@blogger.com