It comes a time in the life of every man when he should take important decisions; take the right one and you'll be granted with a plain life full of happiness and fortune, take the wrong one and you'll have a slumbered life of unconscious pain and you'll ask for death to take you away ASAP.
I'm facing one of those decisions. MMORPG or FPS? Darn, I wish I hadn't buy that Atari2600 in the first place! Darn I wish I'd never visited that arcade around the corner! Well... it's too late for regretting. Here I am now and I should face it as a person who has videogames constantly burning inside the veins.
I used to be a typical FPS gamer who, from time to time, played other kind of games. Yeah, yeah, I started with Pacman, Mario Bros., Pole Position and stuff like that, but then Doom showed up, followed by Doom 2, Heretic, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty, etc, etc, etc. (I must admit I skipped Counter Strike... I know, I know: shame on me!).
In the mean time I started to develop some tasty humour for the RPGs. We all played Castlevania and Zelda, right? But some of us stopped right there, at least until Final Fantasy VII was born. FFVII brought a lot of gamers back to the RPGs. I know there are other legendary RPGs that deserve a special mention (like Chrono Trigger) but nobody can argue that FFVII is one step above them all.
So, here's the deal. I've been playing GoonZu Online for over a year, which is a very interesting MMORPG that has it's strength on it's way to handle politics and economics, not to mention how interesting PD (manufacture) system they got (PvP sucks though), and I'm currently also playing Call of Duty 4 online on my Xbox360 (just got back to it a week ago). I've been thinking in maybe give a try to other MMORPG (WOW, Guild Wars, Everquest... there are a lot of interesting options) and, also, now that I started playing CoD4, I felt like I want to install again my old Wolfenstein Enemy-Territory, which is a game I played for over a year and I stopped playing it like 2 years ago. Another option I'm seriously considering is Half Life 2.
However, the dilemma is quite simple: there's no time for both genres. One of them will have to become 2nd in my priorities list. I'm not talking about deciding the games I'm gonna play (that will be a dilemma I'll have to solve after this one), I'm talking about what GENRE should I consider my main.
Both genres are amazing, provide a lot of options (different games) and have very lively communities online. But, at the same time, both genres require a lot of time if you want to be one of the best members of your community. Dedicate a lot of hours to it or get pwn3d. And no gamer likes to be pwn3d all the time, right? When I play an online game, I bust my... brains for reaching the top places and gain myself a little respect from other players. Every gamer enjoys to have a name that inspires fear, respect and admiration.
In order to achieve all this, I need to pick one: MMORPG or FPS. Which one would you chose?
