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Fri, Apr. 9th, 2004 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceter*rubs eyes*
Just caught up with LJ again -- the boy got Final Fantasy XI from his job and installed it. And I went and made a character and have spent all of yesterday playing. I even dreamt about it, embarrassingly. I don't even play video games. I can't run in a straight line or keep anything straight in my head, and when things attack me, I panic and chuck the controller.
But it's also kind of addictive trying to get my character to level and get more spells and make money, etc.
It's quite strange, too! Complete new culture, a bit like anime culture in that everyone seems to want to learn Japanese and they use the Japanese/anime style smilies (^_^ or ^_~ or -_-;; etc. that I habitually use). It's a strange break from LJ and... western fandom (?!). Of course, this is probably because the only people I've found there are my sister's friends, and I'm guessing that the Japanese video game thing is a pretty straight link to anime for some of them.
Hee, one of my sister's friends really wants to learn Japanese now. Reminds me of me back when I first discovered anime.
And apparently there's this entire ettiquette that I don't know, like not examining people, and I'm not sure how to talk! Half the people "talk" in netspeak, I think because it's faster to type. And despite generally deploring netspeak, I get it in this context. Chat is faster, and it's probably more important to talk faster when one is killing monsters in teams/parties. Plus, it's nice to have to type less stuff when one is also trying to run to different areas at the same time.
There's all this different vocab as well -- levelling and aggro (when a npc attacks spontaneously), npcs (not sure... but the non-people characters. Maybe that's it?), etc. And some I'm a little familiar with because the boy plays so much, but most of the time it's like having to learn a new language, plus a new way to move. I can't keep straight how to attack and how many times I need to press the enter key, or getting out of a menu to target a character, and stuff like that. It's all pretty instinctive to the boy -- he doesn't have to learn the concept of targeting, he just figures out the control. I have to remember that I have to do that target thing.
Really weird.
Just caught up with LJ again -- the boy got Final Fantasy XI from his job and installed it. And I went and made a character and have spent all of yesterday playing. I even dreamt about it, embarrassingly. I don't even play video games. I can't run in a straight line or keep anything straight in my head, and when things attack me, I panic and chuck the controller.
But it's also kind of addictive trying to get my character to level and get more spells and make money, etc.
It's quite strange, too! Complete new culture, a bit like anime culture in that everyone seems to want to learn Japanese and they use the Japanese/anime style smilies (^_^ or ^_~ or -_-;; etc. that I habitually use). It's a strange break from LJ and... western fandom (?!). Of course, this is probably because the only people I've found there are my sister's friends, and I'm guessing that the Japanese video game thing is a pretty straight link to anime for some of them.
Hee, one of my sister's friends really wants to learn Japanese now. Reminds me of me back when I first discovered anime.
And apparently there's this entire ettiquette that I don't know, like not examining people, and I'm not sure how to talk! Half the people "talk" in netspeak, I think because it's faster to type. And despite generally deploring netspeak, I get it in this context. Chat is faster, and it's probably more important to talk faster when one is killing monsters in teams/parties. Plus, it's nice to have to type less stuff when one is also trying to run to different areas at the same time.
There's all this different vocab as well -- levelling and aggro (when a npc attacks spontaneously), npcs (not sure... but the non-people characters. Maybe that's it?), etc. And some I'm a little familiar with because the boy plays so much, but most of the time it's like having to learn a new language, plus a new way to move. I can't keep straight how to attack and how many times I need to press the enter key, or getting out of a menu to target a character, and stuff like that. It's all pretty instinctive to the boy -- he doesn't have to learn the concept of targeting, he just figures out the control. I have to remember that I have to do that target thing.
Really weird.
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Sat, Apr. 10th, 2004 08:58 pm (UTC)