Lost that lovin’ feeling
I haven’t officially discontinued my WoW account, but I’ll probably do it this week. I realized after looking at SpartanUI that the lovin’ feeling is completely gone. A few months ago, I would’ve absolutely LOVED this UI. It’s clean, stylish, and out of the way. But now I look at it and I think two things:
- It looks a heck of a lot like Aion’s UI. Wouldn’t surprise me if some add-on developers got some under-the-table “help” from Blizzard to combat the competition.
- It made my skin crawl to think about playing the game again: leveling, button-pushing, doing dailies, putting up with pugs…
I just got this really depressed feeling like I have let my friends down by having zero interest in playing the game.
It is interesting learning about Aion, but I’m not sure about when I’ll go back to playing that either. It’s also very button-pushy. As in: push button one, wait for cooldown, push button 2, wait again, take a potion if necessary, flash heal, repeat.
The game I’m enjoying most right now is Fallout 3. It’s very immersive. It’s like BioShock meets Oblivion. I’m totally geeking out on it!
November 18th, 2009 at 7:38 am
There’s just one small problem in your comparrison to the SpartanUI MOD and Aion’s UI. Aion has actually been in developement in Korea six months before the SpartanUI was even put out. It also has undergone many betas prior to its public release in Korea over a year ago before we got a chance to enjoy the scenery. In either case, your not exactly far off either. Though you should take into consideration there are other games that use pretty much the same UI configuration. I forget which game used it first, but it’s still out there. If a bit in obscurity. If you’ve lost that lovin feelin from anything, I would have to say it’s from WoW’s cartoony graphics. But, if you want to go back to that and go play some popeye armed NE female, be my guest. That’s one less we need to hear whineing on the LFG channel.