Alright so I never really got on the WoW bandwagon. I jogged beside it for a couple of months and thought very seriously about getting on, but it just didn't work out for me. For me the community ruined the game for me. What I found (and maybe this was just the servers I played on) was a lot of people challenging me to duels and calling me a 'f***ing noob" when I declined, or else not speaking at all and taking the whole thing far too seriously. I guess it was more than that though, as I played Runescape religiously for about 2 years and their community is 80% made up of 12 year olds and younger. That and Jagex completely ruined the game in their attempts to get ride of gold farming and item scamming. Don't even get me started on that. I'll just say this though, they turned a fun but kid friendly game into a no longer fun and aimed at 8 year olds game. I want those years of my life back dammit, I could have been doing something more productive! I could have played some other game!

I played Trickster Online for a good long while and found a really fun guild to join too which made the game a lot more fun because a lot of the time we all just went on and chatted and didn't take the game seriously at all. Pretty hard to really take a game like that seriously anyway when you're a 2D anime chick running around dressed like a sheep. The community as a whole in that game is probably the best I've seen though. I don't know why but everyone seemed very polite and friendly compared to most other mmos I've played.

I went through a bit of an mmo craz in a quest to find the perfect one. I played Mabinogi - a fantastic game and very fun although a little hard to get into, and quite expensive if you wanted to play it seriously. And it took a LONG time to get points to use towards skills like a reaaally reaaaally long time. The pathfinding was a bit annoying but the graphics were beautiful it was all cell shaded and some of the graphics would be adorable and some mobs were completely terrifying looking - fooking giant spiders!! I also tried out Atlantica Online and I absolutely adored the combat - turn based combat like traditional RPGs which is my favourite. However the plot didn't grab me and the lack of character customisation was not appealing for me. Angels Online I really wanted to love and play forever. The graphics were adorable - 2D sprites over beautifully rendered bgs if I remember correctly. However the limits on the skills you could learn annoyed me and once you hit a certain level it just seemed a grind fest with no end in site, and I'm talking like level 15 or 20, not an especially high level at all.

Anyway I'm going on far too much here. I just started playing Aion and it's crack so far. Absolute crack. As in addictive if you were confused by my strange and awesome language use. It's great to be starting a game when everyone else is just starting too. Everyone is very helpful and nice so far with little exception. There have been maybe 2 players who have irked me by stealing resources I was in the middle of gathering from ( seriously who the hell would do that?) and kill stealing. Tsk tsk. The only complaint I really have is that you don't have freedom to choose to make both races on the same server. There's only 2 races to choose from but you can only play one or the other on any given server. Which really sucks because you are forced to choose sides and can't back out of your decision without deleting any characters you've made already. I started on one side and got to level 5, then some friends told me to come play with them instead on the other race so fair enough I rerolled, and started again. I got that character to level 17 and was once again peer pressured lol, and with a great sigh deleted my hours of questing and began again. But the character customisation is amazing - you can tweak so much of how your character looks. Haven't tried crafting yet or any professions. You can't swim but you can fly so I think that's a fair trade =P. It's so FREAKIN pretty you wouldn't believe it. It is more challenging than WoW from what I've played so far. I'll be having a good time with battles and start getting a little slack, and some mob (usually a lower level than me or any I was previously fighting) will get lucky and I'll be D-E-D. Dying is expensive and I do it a lot being a cleric who solos 95% of the time.

I'm getting pretty tired now so just a quick finishing note about my favourite games of all time that are NOT mmos. Final Fantasy 7 is the greatest game I will ever play I'm pretty sure. I played Crisis Core and at first it was fantastic and fun and funny but I got bored with it after the initial =D about seeing Midgar again and the ever beautiful Aerith. She was a big disappointment to me to tell the truth she annoyed me, and this was a character I wanted to marry in high school. Ah well. I finished The Witcher - Enhanced Edition a couple of months again and it was fantastic. I really enjoy RPGs with a good story and while it lacked in character customisation like weapons and clothes it had a really good story and the quests were so well executed. I was never left walking in circles not knowing what to do next. And also, I got to see a lot of boobs =D. I liked the idea of Fable but sadly didn't so much like the game itself. For one thing it was too hard for me. I really do play games like a girl, which is not that surprising since I am one. I like pretty graphics and a good plot but I'm not so into the fighting and dying. And man I died all the time in that game.

I was obsessed with My Sims for a while although got over that after a few weeks and never completed it. I love cute games and it was so, so, so very cute =P. The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion I have so far failed to get hooked on since the characters are too 'stocky' looking and I want to make a nice slim girl character who is pretty but all I can make is chunky looking chicks. Seriously this is a real reason for me not to play a game. It's the reason I didn't play WoW for a long time - the characters were not pretty enough. Also Oblivion seems like it may be a little too hard for me. I love love love Black and White but NOT Black and White 2. Black and White was awesome although I never got to finish it cuz it kept crashing when I got to certain points and the save files would become corrupted. I got sick of starting over so much and finally gave up on it. However Black and White 2 was nothing like it and more like Sim City or something, the kind of Sim City where you build the same city over and over and over again for like 10 levels. Very very disappointing for me.

Oh I really liked Animal Crossing Wild World and also Let's Go To The City but in the end those games need far too much time, and there were days I didn't feel like watering the god damn flowers and pulling weeds so I ended up getting months and months behind and not being bothered to catch up. Also the fact it's a console game makes me less likely to play it every day. If it were on the PC I probably would have an easier time because my laptop is always on and with consoles I have to set it all up and it's all a very big chore really.

You know what game you should not get? Wii Fit. Man I haven't used that thing in months and months lol. Get Guitar Hero instead. And you know what really sucks? Nintendo DS. I mean for me it does. There are no games on it that I want to play. I tried playign the new Pokemon and I didn't like it, I think I may have outgrown Pokemon =(. The only game I really really want for it is Rune Factory A Fantasy Harvest Moon but I can't seem to get it in Australia and the last copy I bought on Ebay turned out to be pirated and died on me about halfway through the game.

Okay I'm going to bed now seriously.