Yes but those are boring numbers and little icons. In MMORPGs you can run to people with big freaking glowing swords and way oversized shoulderplates and ridicilous Plate Armour and they instant know that you are quite good in the game.
And that does mean you are quite good in the game?
Same thing with game ranks, achievements, etc.And that does mean you are quite good in the game?
More likely it does mean you have played the game quite long time.
Simply put, you don't bother. You man up, grow some *censored*, and play yourself a REAL game, like an FPS along the lines of say... Halo 3 or Counterstrike: Source.
...Not really. It takes a boatload more skill to play FPS than to play an MMO.
I was making a penis joke.
Not really.
Strategy, for one thing. Counterstrike requires a lot of it. Not just who's going to tank and who's going to heal who- it's about ordering and organizing your team and trying to outsmart the opposition. Skill comes in when you get to the shooting part of it. Using short bursts and crouching to improve accuracy, sneaking behind an opponent and stabbing them in the back (or shooting them in the neck, both ways work), using a flashbang or grenade to stun them or flush them out of cover...
In WoW, you organize your team and try to make one of several "types" of teams. For example you can be a burst team, which is meant to quickly take out the other team, or you can go for outlast, or crowd control. This is strategy. As for PvE, the only difference is that you know what you're up against in most cases. However, you can't just decide who's going to tank the boss and who heals the tank, you'll wipe. There's more things like knowing when to attack what, knowing what you have to avoid, and what you don't need to avoid. You may need to have awareness of what your target is doing, for example if it's trying to cast a spell that you have to interrupt.
WoW doesn't have any aiming, I'll give you that. You can do everything pretty much without releasing your mouse ever in a fight, (and most don't either,) but does that mean anyone can do it? There's no skill, just luck? Hardly. You have plenty of spells, abilities, items and pets that help you, and if you can't manage them well, you won't win anything.
I've played WoW before. I've experienced massive player versus player battles. I totally took control of Stormwind for a few hours.
And where is the strategy? Organization, ok. But how about flanking? Ambushing (without a Rogue)? Trampling with mounts? Covering fire (with arrows or spells)? Maybe I used the wrong word. Tactics is what I'm going for. Ways to approach fights other than stunning, slowing, pulling, or rushing. The only "tactic" I've ever used was taking my raid on flying mounts and dropping right on top of the heads of Alliance members in Stormwind and take them out.
World of Warcraft is NOT Metal Gear Solid, in case you didn't notice. Although avoiding an enemy army and ambushing from the flank or rear is a viable strategy in real life, it doesn't really work too well in World of Warcraft unless your raid is made up entirely of Rogues or Mages with invisibility active.
That's pretty simple. I know that if a Warlock is casting a damage-heavy spell I need to run and interrupt him with a skill of my own.
Since when did I say MMO's don't take skill? I agree with that, however. There is a plethora of abilities. But if you've already gotten used to all of them by the time you hit level 70 (or 80, nowadays) you won't be overwhelmed and you'll know which ability exactly does what. There are some spell combos to use (like frost nova-ing a melee class, blinking away and starting to cast some spells and etc.), but it just gets too hectic when you have a lot of people at once.
This is the ultimate example of how even a skilled newbie can't take down a higher level simply because he's a higher level. For the most part, in FPS, there are no levels. Everyone is (statistically) the same, with the same health and armor, and has access to every (or specific yet balanced) weapon. Anyone can kill anyone. It's just a matter of how good you are.
Yeah... I need to fix that.
I honestly never played EVE Online. It looked interesting, but I've read a few reviews and it said that the game was utterly boring. The new expansion looks pretty sweet, though.
First of all, i totally like the idea of actually hacking into the game(unless its a private server) and use those Flying mounts in Azeroth. That sounds like something for me.
No.
Depends on the levels. If both sides are of nearly-equal level, the 20 men have the advantage. If it's 20 level 10's against 10 level 70's, it's quite obvious that the 10 men will win.
I think that's probably why no one ever mentions EVE, since it's made for boring people. Dungeons and Dragons (the REAL game) is more action-packed than that stupid game. The new expansion LOOKED cool. That's it.
Then let me play as kael'thas, at least?
Yeah but no matter how hard you play you never get really recognized, unlike in the real world, if you do something epix you are unique and world-recognized.
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Depends which FPS you play. Many triple-A FPS have objectives in them. Counterstrike, for example, has two objectives: to either rescue/defend hostages or to detonate/defuse a bomb. Battlefield 2 has the "capture and hold all the points on the map to deplete all of your enemy's tickets (spawns)" objective.
You forget, most MMO's don't have a "battlegrounds" like World of Warcraft.
