Online gaming and RPGs

I am not an online gaming maniac either...the only games i play online are the word games on yahoo. ;)

Althought, i just love those video clips we saw today in class, its more about the graphic for me, than the game or the community behind it. I totally agree with charles. For me, the simulations are very fake and unrealistic. And also the fact that most of the gaming communities are engineered and if they wanted to form a more natural form of bonding..as a community they have to go outside the boundaries of the software to do it is like going against the norms of Online gaming VCs.

But then again maybe i feel like that because i haven't really got myself involved in an environment like that. But, like Mike mentioned in class about his friend who actually had a high level of emotional involvement, for them online gaming and RPG will mean a different thing. They would probably die for their mates online and feel heartbroken if their online partner went off with someone else...hehehe...weird.

I agree with what Stew was talking about in class today. I think we would understand the full impact and of VC only when we are fully part of it. I didn't think i understood what its all about because i was analysing what my day to day experience was on the VC. And to this day i still don't agree that its a VC. but like he said, to the people who are in there 24/7 will have a different experience. They will give all they have and they will feel like they belong, that they are important and have a "presence" with the VC.

Anyways, those are my thoughts for now.
cheers