You´re right. I guess they are kinda teh new action figures. No wonder with all the shitty cartoons and animes coming out nowadays.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
I guess you could call MMO characters the new action figures, and why not? They can do 100 and more things than a stiff-joined Power Ranger or Ninja Turtle.Sisco10 wrote:
Nono, you got me wrong. We brought those figures everywhere, mostly school to show off how incredible they were. Then after school we met with friends to endure the most challenging adventures our minds could make up.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
I can understand the Nikes (since they do something), but action figures? Tell me a kid sitting alone in his front yard bashing action figures together has more of a social life than a kid playing WoW with a mic.
The drift nowadays is to do things with your friends, but not directly.Somehow.
But there are of course good things coming along, like the possibilty to easily make friends all over the world, or stay in contact with them when leaving the country (as in my case).
*You'd be surprised how many WoW lan parties there are. There's even a couple LAN room/computer maintenance businesses around the corner that I can walk into at about any time during hours (and sometimes after) and see 80% of the computers going with people playing WoW, L4D or, at one of the places, tabletop WH40K.
*The staying in contact bit is useful for people just moving out of a county as well as a country. Time used to be, you pretty much had to say your goodbyes and start all over with a new set of friends when you skipped over such a short range as a couple of towns. Kids should be encouraged to make more, sure, but the keep in touch factor is sweet. My earliest taste was with sporadic phone calls and games of Doom, Descent, Warcraft and Heretic. Now I'm still buddies (from casual to regular) with people all over the US and Canada that I've played Diablo, Quake, Jedi Knight and various MUDs with through IM, and would probably have an MMO base if I would've bothered with such titles as EQ or DAoC.
The thing that bothers me aboout it, is that with these figures, we used to imagine all the world we played in by ourselves, and the computing presents you a fixed, fully evolved world. Sure it´s very vast and detailed and complex, but in the end you fit yourself into something someone else has made up.
That´s what bothers me.