Multi-Player, Interactive, Online Games
Imagine that you were invited to play football for your country in an important international competition that was being televised to a global audience and when the referee blew his whistle to begin the game, you admitted to your captain, that you did not know the rules of football, in fact that you had never played the game before, but that you had played pool a couple of times.
How do you think that you, your captain, your team mates and the whole viewing public would feel? Mortified, outraged, upset, let down? This is how a lot of novices (newbies) think about going into a colossal, online, interactive multi-player game like ‘Dungeons and Dragons’ for the first time. They are concerned that they will ruin the game for everybody else.
And it is a fair point, but everybody in that game was a newbie at one time and there are steps you can take to learn a couple of pointers before you start playing. The very first thing to do, is find the game that you would like to play and read the manual. And then read it again and again. The game you decide on might also have a practice zone, where you won’t displease the skilled players.
If you see the letters RTFM after you have asked a question of someone, you will know that you did not read the (effing) manual thoroughly enough and that it is time to read it again.
You can also join forums about the game in question. Frequently there is a forum attached to the game itself. People are far more friendly and will be much more tolerant in the forum than in the game. Believe me, the Wizard of Daz would rather get asked where the bathroom is when he is in the forum than while he is battling his archfoe!
You also need to acquaint yourself with the controls of the game. There will be shortcut buttons for items like inventory, spells, weaponry, jump, cast a spell, turn left etc etc., so learn them until they are second nature. Again, it is very boring if each time someone meets you in a game, you ask: “Excuse me, but how do I ….”.
Don’t be surprised if people begin shooting you on sight, if that is how you intend playing the game. Which brings us to a different vital point: it is just a game. You win some and you lose some and like chess or checkers, if you lose, you just reset the game and start again. Don’t let your demise become boring when it is inevitable. Resign yourself to your fate, fall on your sword and start again.
The last essential for a great online multi-player interactive gaming experience is a fast Net connection and a reasonably new computer although the connection speed is the more vital.
Other players are not going to wait for your arrow to kill them as it flies from your bow and hurtles across the screen towards them at a snail’s pace – they will just side step it, walk over to you and put you out of their misery with a dagger before your arrow gets to where they had been.
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