I'm the kind of MMO gamer that makes a Monk in EQ one and plays that one character for nearly 14years. I start learning to Feign Death explore any dungeon and Feign Death pull even when it was considered an exploit to do so. (I personally never saw a dev communication of that but I got all sorts of nasty tells exclaiming how I was cheating.) Later, after becoming fairly good in that role, I noticed that even though I could take a beating as well as any tank, I didn't have a taunt. So, I actively worked to get myself agro generation gear and when all the tanks died on a Quarm raid, I put it on and tanked him till he died. I left that guild shortly after as every tank was pissed at me. But that lead to my joining Eci public raiding which I did for the rest of my time in EQ.
Basically, I'm like John Lock from Lost. Don't tell me what I can't do. If I wanted to do it already and I get told I can't or there is some min/max reason that I can't, I'll make it my gaming mission to do it, and be better at it than those that thought it couldn't/shouldn't be done.
Often, that means I have some gaming elitist sending me tells about how I don't know how to play the game. Since that usually means that I don't min/max when they want me to (not that I can't when I want to), they are probably right.
But, hey, if you want a Monk that can single pull the entire zone and then tank the mob once in camp, you'll probably be happy to have me in the group. And I probably won't even take up a share of the gold because, out of habit, I'm still watching my coin weight.
In the 90's I often sat with my sister or streetfriends behind the pc. Playing adventure and RPG
There also was Carmageddon. Piledriving pedestrians and imagining it were one of the crazy teachers or rotten children at school we couldn't get away from in daily life.
Often going *OOooOOOOh OO* all together to this Trooper song by Iron Maiden ,as the blood splashed everywhere
Ex Virtual murderer
let me rephrase that
Cooperative player/soon-to-be crazy harmonizing bard !
Casual gamer who likes to craft and kill equally. I want to get immersed in the game, not just be a group of pixels within it. I like to get lost in the game figuratively not literally. I want the game to be good enuf that I am actually afraid to die. I want that kind of immersion. If Pantheon can accomplish that for ME then I will be happy.
A leasure explorer, in no hurry to get anywhere, yet with a desire to see everything.