Video Game Blog #2

Much to my chagrin, I ended up having to change my choice of video game from Fahrenheit to World of Warcraft due the lack of substance the game ultimately had- I feared I wouldn't be able to write about it when the time came. It was a friend who suggested World of Warcraft and frankly I was vaguely horrified with the suggestion as I didn't believe there was any story line involved and I was hoping to avoid a game with overt wars. It was unavoidable however, especially in light of the overwhelming amount of writing on the subject. My negative opinion of the game hasn't altered having played the game unfortunately. Even from the very onset of the game, I found the interface to be very overwhelming, especially for someone who has little experience with video games and multi-player games; there were choices and options for everything including what race I chose to be (I picked gnome), and having made such decisions, I worried how they would affect the rest of my game play. However, getting past the initial decisions, the game itself wasn't difficult especially due to the amount of in-game instructions there were.

In terms of the stipulations of the game itself, it develops over time with the completion of quests. By this I mean, that as one transitions through the game, one gains more weapons and different attacks, which affects which types of enemies one can kill. This is a heavily multi-player game, even to the extent of receiving messages from random players during the game. This floored me, I not only was not used to but didn't necessarily like the idea of interacting with players in real time.

My hope is that the game will improve somewhat as I simply get more used to it.