Am I jaded?

First of all I wanted to apologize for missing a blog day yesterday. I got distracted by a bunch of things I had going on, and just completely forgot. So I decided to do a post today to make up for it.

So here we go:

For some reason I find myself getting bored of these F2P games after about 1 week of playing. Actually, 

Dragon's Nest I played for about one day and already got sick of it...

What's my deal? Is it me? I'm so sick of quest grinding... That's all Dragon's Nest has been. That, and the fact that the dungeon's aren't random, so I ended up running the same one four or five times just to finish the damn quests. They're short too, so there's no real sense of exploration. Granted I was only level 6, so I have no idea how the game is later... but I'm ALREADY super sick of it. Spiral Knights too. 

For some reason that game is slightly more entertaining even though the combat is much more simple. Could be that the dungeons change constantly. What I'm not a fan of though, is the fact that I have to spend $10 just to craft my Tier 5 set. I know, I know... I'm complaining about $10 for a F2P game... But still, there's no way around it. 

I can spend the $10 of Crystal Energy to craft my suit of armor, and just run off mist energy to dungeon crawl... but then I'm only playing for about 20 minutes per day... not very involving. 

So once I figured that out I basically gave up on that. Because even if I just grind out the crowns (Spiral Knights currency) to buy the item itself, I'm still going to spend a ton to get into the dungeons themselves. 

Basically in order to get my gear and play as much as I would have liked, I'd be spending more than $15 in one month. Suddenly this F2P game is more expensive then the worlds most popular MMO.

Can't stand quest grinding at all anymore. Doesn't matter what the game is. I'm just fed up with "Go to <place> and gather x of <item> for me and come back." I realize not ALL quests are like that. For example there are actually quite a few quests that are fun in WoW... but they're just drowned in the amount of meaningless tasks you have to do to find them while leveling.

I just feel like I can't do quest grinding anymore. Even Borderlands is boring to me now, and it's FPS.

Hell, the quests in EverQuest were more involving and were mainly there for you to get gear. They were actually fun. Gathering tons of different and exotic items up from different places throughout Norrath. Not even the epic quests in WoW have the same feeling as EverQuest's did. Hell the quest line to get Crafted Armor for my warrior was a blast. Not even really sure why. Like I said, could be me.

Maybe I'm jaded... Maybe the gaming industry needs something new as far as MMO's though. I don't really know. Bioware is claiming their quests are a lot more involving and draw you in. Based on what I've read they're doing a pretty good job of it. 

I sure hope so... Because if I find myself playing another MMO where almost every quest has the exact same gathering objective with nothing to really back up why I'm doing it... probably gonna punch something. Get your own damn berries, and kill your own damn wolves... And why do only half of these stupid birds have feathers? I need eight feathers, and I've killed 20 *#&%ing birds! WHY!?

Spiral Knights

For the past couple days I've been checking out this new game that released a couple weeks ago called Spiral Knights. I'll admit at first I was drawn in by the cartoony look and the fact that it was free.

After installing it I began to play and noticed right away that it reminded me of classic Zelda, kinda mixed with Bomber Man (though I don't really know where I got that portion from). Noticing Sega made the game kind of explained why it felt kind of like Phantasy Star as well. Started playing it with Slib and we were having a blast.

Dungeon crawling with our little knights while collecting money and materials to transmute new armor. It was sweet. The only draw back is that since the game is free, it costs energy in game to go into the dungeons and also to craft.  You have a Mist Energy bar that has a max value of 100, and over a period of about 22 hours will recharge completely.

The way the game makes money is through micro transactions of purchasing Crystal Energy, which is used in place of Mist Energy, once you're out.  It's really cheap, 750 Crystal Energy is only $2.49. We both decided it was worth it and after spending $5 we split 1,600 energy and jumped back into the dungeons. Seriously ran  to the bank at 2:30am so that I could deposit money into my checking account to get the energy. I was having that much fun.

Just hit tier 2 last night. Shweet.

For such a simple game, Spiral Knights is actually really fun, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for some sweet co-op arcade action.