And you are talking to an empty chair. He has been here since June. Clint Eastwood would be proud.Originally Posted by Indra Echo
Wow. You soloed most of the game. Sounds like fun in an MMO. You were grinding to get to EGO 950. Well I'm pretty sure you were doing it wrong then. I didn't have to grind at all to get there. The grinding comes later and is actually part and parcel of nearly every game today so I don't know what to think.
It's completely valid to say that if you have not done all time trials, side missions, hot shots, and rampages, then that's not completing the game. It's also valid to say that by soloing most of it that means you didn't do many coop things (not saying that's a major thing even) nor did you really do some of the most fun things that you could do, and yes some of those things are kind of games you and others make up yourselves. It makes grinding be not grinding.
As far as arkfalls go--if you think that they exist merely as some way for others to say "mine is bigger than yours" then again that is your mindset and it's fundamentally flawed. Arkfalls are what you make of them. They offer different challenges none the least of which are personal ones. You may merely want to see how good you can do but it doesn't have to be about how much better than everyone else you are. It may be about how many foes you can get rid of (which doesn't equate to a good score), or how much loot and scrip and salvage you can get.
And the game can be as little or as much as you want to make of it. If you don't like to play with others then I'd question why you got the game in the first place. I've mostly been independent in games, don't like to join groups and stuff, but this game changed that for me, and I've had a lot of fun getting help and helping others. Even racing to some location to help someone who needed reviving. Or coming upon a random person struggling with the Volge or whatever. I've had some real laughs with friends over odd things and yes bugs in the game. Yesterday I did Explosions 101 with friends and I got stuck on a fence and needed to be revived but they couldn't help me. It looked like I was swimming upside down. It was hilarious. At other times, I've seen a friend fly by outside of her vehicle and then a few seconds later I've seen the vehicle fly by like it was on remote control. Another funny moment. I've gone Volge Hunting in huge clan groups and in groups of 2. I've done that, started in a group of 2 and ended up in a convoy of a lot of random people. It isn't always about the things set up for you in the game-it's sometimes about just having fun. Some things are only as stagnant as the person doing it.
This as opposed to other games that define fun as linear where you start a match, kill others, and it ends when time is up or enough people have died, and upon doing that repeatedly, you get to advance in Prestige and do it all again. Or you capture points or take flags to points or bomb things, all so you can advance in Prestige and do it all again, over and over and over again. There's grinding and then there's grinding.
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