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Posted: Oct 22nd 2009 9:11AM (Unverified) said

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I rarely give a damn about the story. I enjoy fighting other players and working with groups of players to achieve objectives through PvP. To me.. Fighting against and with other players is fascinating. I grew up playing games like Wolfenstien, Doom, and Wing Commander and while I enjoyed all of those games I always felt like there was something missing and no matter what the difficulty level was set to the AI was always so predictable. Once you played the game for an hour or two you already knew how the AI would react to almost any situation and countering them was done with near mind numbing ease. Granted, video game AIs have improved significantly since then and there are times when you can guess what other players are going to do it before they do it in MMO PvP, but unlike with the AI it’s still simply a guess. I suppose I just like the ‘randomness’ that large scale PvP brings to the table. It’s uncertain, mostly unscripted, and it’s a hellva lot of fun to listen to people screaming on TS or Vent as their ship in EvE goes down in flames, their character in Darkfall is slaughtered, or their wanna be twink in WoW is pwned and their epeen is removed in one clean swipe. I’ve had my fair share of PvP catastrophes, but if I won all of the time I would get bored.
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