Halo ruined console gaming for me. After that genres started being shoehorned into a control scheme which obviously sucks for said genres. There are still some games which are hella fun, but not many.

hey sickle dont you find it weird how people find open world games like gta , infamous , fallout 3 , oblivion etc.. to be "very alive" and "addicting" lol, every time i play these games i want to play wow again cause im so bored out of my mind !!! they feel so fabricated and unappealing not to mention the mechanics are always terrible.

there is no real purpose in those games other than to reach the end and i want them to end much faster than they take. wow is on this pedestal and the only game that i feel is close to that purpose and goal creating and online pve and pvp was demons souls but still its no match for wow.

I'm not particulary fond of MMOs as well, even though I've played some free ones, but not for long sessions, as I get bored too soon. It's just a rinse and repeat mechanism over and over again, which strips RPGs of one of the basic pieces of the "soul" of RPGs: Story.

But WoW took it to a whole new level. Never before had I found a game in which I spent 10 hours literally doing the same thing over and over again. I even tried experiencing different classes and races to see if one of them had a different start, but each one was identical. You end stuck in area, hunting for X amount of things, to allow you to train some skills and gain some gold, then you do it all over again.

How someone can get suckered into it so much, that sometimes it destroys people's lives, it's trully beyond me. I agree that sometimes it becomes harmful, and there are even detox clinics for former WoW addicts. That's how bad it has come to. 

Interesting, I prefer console games because they end, and you dislike them because they end.

hey sickle whats your psn

 "You Wrack Disciprine!"


no but srsly. WoW is the best game out there if your into RPGs...end of story(atleast when you level cap). You shouldn't deprive yourself from it :P

This happens to all of us WoW players..since its a game of constant competition and its the epitome of geek awsomeness :) but we have to set our priorities. I've known people that use parental timers on themselves to stop playing WoW for the day... maybe that could work for you if you find it too hard to stop on your own.

I tried to get into MMO, but never played them for too long. The only exception being Tribal Wars, wich is awsome

i really want to go back but i got banned thats part of the reason i stopped lol and after almost 5 years with that account , i didnt want to start over from level 1 i knew my time had finally come to depart from the single best gaming experience ever created by human beings

wow is king

im getting urges lol

Have you level capped and started endgame raiding/pvp? Because thats when WoW sucks you in...

BTW, WoW has a spectacular story...it  just wasn't narrated with cutscenes and such like a Final Fantasy, so people had to actually read.

Blizz took a stept toward cutscenes now tho...not that great but its a start.

Ya I agree about open world sandbox games. First game I bought for Ps3 was oblivion and I kept thinking this world would be better if it had a online multiplayer option. I don't know my psn off the top of my head I'll tell you in a few. Why did u get banned?