Upgrading Video Cards to Waste Time?
I'm looking at a new video card. About a week ago, Brenda and I braved the wilds of Best Buy and picked up a new ATI Radeon something-or-other for the computer. I haven't installed it just yet, and that probably should speak to the priority I've assigned being able to play MMORPGs.
Initially, the primary reason we picked this up was because we wanted to be able to play games, or at least play them better, on our "main" computer (the computer with which I write is in the bedroom, filling up one half of a walk-throgh closet - we call it "The Nook"). I had installed a newer video card about a year-or-so ago so I could play City of Heroes on this machine, but there were some problems with it (that could very well be related to my near-stepping-on-the-card-and-putting-my-entire-weight-on-it), and I could never really get to spend too much time playing (before my system would freeze and/or glitch). Truthfully, though, when I was playing City of Heroes, I had more fun creating my characters than playing them.
City of Heroes would have been my first go at getting involved with an MMORPG. Brenda had played The Sims a bit, but I never got into the WoW-craze, and as tempted as I might have been about that Star Wars game, I had a bit of lingering resentment toward that game over some fairly petty issues (not worth going into any more), so CoH was my first go.
But there IS a Conan game on the way, and that had me fairly pumped. The threat that either Marvel or DC was going to have something as well was intriguing, and a Star Trek MMORPG? Hmmm . . . Could be interesting . . .
But after watching some friends pretty much devolve into antisocial hermits this week with the release of the new WoW-whatever-the-hell-it-is-patch-update-thing, I think I'm over it.
I don't think I'm above playing those games - I AM a gamer, after all - but I guess I just don't understand not just being able to but actually looking forward to spending every waking minute over a three-day period devoted to something like that. I don't have time for it. I want to be a producer, not just a consumr, you know? I can't waste all that time on a game (and I know my addicitve personality - I know I'd get sucked into an online game like that too much because I can't seem to tell myself, "No," as often as I should!) when I have so many other projects going on.
This started out as a sort of mini-rant and then just kind of fell apart, didn't it? Bottom line: I'll still install that video card at some point, but I think Brenda'll be using it more than me.
Initially, the primary reason we picked this up was because we wanted to be able to play games, or at least play them better, on our "main" computer (the computer with which I write is in the bedroom, filling up one half of a walk-throgh closet - we call it "The Nook"). I had installed a newer video card about a year-or-so ago so I could play City of Heroes on this machine, but there were some problems with it (that could very well be related to my near-stepping-on-the-card-and-putting-my-entire-weight-on-it), and I could never really get to spend too much time playing (before my system would freeze and/or glitch). Truthfully, though, when I was playing City of Heroes, I had more fun creating my characters than playing them.
City of Heroes would have been my first go at getting involved with an MMORPG. Brenda had played The Sims a bit, but I never got into the WoW-craze, and as tempted as I might have been about that Star Wars game, I had a bit of lingering resentment toward that game over some fairly petty issues (not worth going into any more), so CoH was my first go.
But there IS a Conan game on the way, and that had me fairly pumped. The threat that either Marvel or DC was going to have something as well was intriguing, and a Star Trek MMORPG? Hmmm . . . Could be interesting . . .
But after watching some friends pretty much devolve into antisocial hermits this week with the release of the new WoW-whatever-the-hell-it-is-patch-update-thing, I think I'm over it.
I don't think I'm above playing those games - I AM a gamer, after all - but I guess I just don't understand not just being able to but actually looking forward to spending every waking minute over a three-day period devoted to something like that. I don't have time for it. I want to be a producer, not just a consumr, you know? I can't waste all that time on a game (and I know my addicitve personality - I know I'd get sucked into an online game like that too much because I can't seem to tell myself, "No," as often as I should!) when I have so many other projects going on.
This started out as a sort of mini-rant and then just kind of fell apart, didn't it? Bottom line: I'll still install that video card at some point, but I think Brenda'll be using it more than me.
posted by Brother D at 12:11 AM
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