STEP 1, remove brain...
Ok it's not a gadget but it could be and I definately don't need it: Everquest 2.
Ok so the local folks kept goin on and on and on and on and on about EQ2, better known as EQ-revised, reformulated to be ever more crackful. The original EQ claimed a good portion of my life in my late 20's. It was fun, offered a good escape and then whack job addictedness occured. Eventually I broke free, free from its deadly level grinding grasp. Luckily the class I played was just too damn nerfed to do anything, it was a good time to go. Course it was two way street really, i do have an addictive personality, if i get a taste of something i like i eat it all up endlessly if possible. I played Asherons Call 2 in much the same way I devoured the world of Norrath in EQ1.
Deep down I really don't need another epic to play. I mean I've got Bliztreg, Painkiller, Doom3, Sims2, Spellforce and Battlefield Vietnam to play. Do I really need yet another game,.. especially another time consuming epic to suck the hell outa my life? At this point, no. So why? Well I can't resist the horde, its the sponng way, what the many get the one must follow. Cause well we all wanna play something in the winter really. The weather starts gettin cold and the first real thing to comes to mind is online gaming time.
Sure I'm curious about this new take on EQ, last night i picked up a copy installed all 3.9 whatever gigs of it on the pc booted it up, patched for 20mins and got in game, made my troll, and began the grind of xp questing and more. Why did I buy this I kept thinking to myself wandering around whackin globins with a rusty axe. Do I really want this again? Part of me does want the epic really, something fast, furious and fun. Thats usually deathmatch though, a good FPS to blow crap up for 45mins and then move along, move along. I'm still interested in World of Warcraft, I'll get my hands on that soon enough. EQ2 though, I dunno. Provided the local band of brothers can all play nicely together.................HA! maybe its possible for goodness.
So to say I picked it up for the local peer pressure effect is really lame. Lets face it when it comes to games, I want to taste them all really. Online epics and winter time snowfall seem to go together nicely. Actually though I should be this energetic and excited about personal relationships, eating right, working out and hell learning after effects, but nope I'll know all about x island or x portals or x weapons or x towns or x mobs and x guilds and x players and x and x and x vs something really useful. Games are designed to take me away from reality and so I leap into the void willingly hoping some greater connection to something whether it be just good ole solo or group play bliss to be had or something more typical the lame machocistic self abusive gotta zone now relationship between me my characters and Sony.
So knowing all this now why, why must I continue to tread into the cave of ever slipperly surfaces where one minute ill be happy about killing that named goblin finishing that big quest and getting that gem of something or armor plate of amazingly lackluster cause yer lowlevel right now etc. I don't know.
Level 6 and counting... see me after class.