Do you pay attention to quest lore?

[Morreion]

The Daily Grind: The epic confrontation between that guy and what's-his-name

Greatest article title ever! ;D

We all go into autopilot sometimes. So, you know, we're on a marathon session to level up, and we're mostly just sort of clicking by instinct. You belatedly realize, however, that you were in the middle of a quest chain. The reason you realize this, sadly, is because you're at the penultimate stage of said quest chain, and the questgiver is making references to all the work that you've been doing to reach this point... when you don't really remember most of what you've been doing up until now. There might have been something with fish men? Or the other fish men. It's all kind of a blur, really.

Lore is important, and few people would argue that, but when have you managed to completely miss every bit of what's supposed to be going on? Did you not read up the backstory in the manual and therefore not know that the person you're fighting unleashed horrors on his own people? Did you forget about an NPC that is actually kind of important in retrospect? Or did you just steamroll through things and only find out later that there was an overarching reason for all of this?

I have to admit that I don't always pay close attention to all of the quest lore at this stage in my MMO career

[EchoVamper]

Just a couple of anecdotes for this:

I sometimes let my little one (5 yo) watch me play. Well the thing is, he is fascinated by the conversations with NPCs and loves for me to read what they say out loud to him (in character I might add!). We just have a blast doing this...the both of us do! It actually adds quite a bit to my enjoyment of the game. I learn a little lore from it too. Sometimes we just roam around talking to NPCs to see what they will say. Fun times. Some times we both get to giggling uncontrollably.

(PS - I do not let him play these games right now in any real sense (he plays Wall E and Mario). But I do let him move one of my alts around in Sanctum from time to time. I think maybe he knows more than I do about Sanctum. A couple of days ago he came to me all sheepish and said, "Dad your character fell way, way down...but he's OK, he landed back at the city dell" I LMAO! )

[Regolyth]

Oct 29, 2009 9:09:11 GMT -5 EchoVamper said:

Just a couple of anecdotes for this:

I sometimes let my little one (5 yo) watch me play. Well the thing is, he is fascinated by the conversations with NPCs and loves for me to read what they say out loud to him (in character I might add!). We just have a blast doing this...the both of us do! It actually adds quite a bit to my enjoyment of the game. I learn a little lore from it too. Sometimes we just roam around talking to NPCs to see what they will say. Fun times. Some times we both get to giggling uncontrollably.

(PS - I do not let him play these games right now in any real sense (he plays Wall E and Mario). But I do let him move one of my alts around in Sanctum from time to time. I think maybe he knows more than I do about Sanctum. A couple of days ago he came to me all sheepish and said, "Dad your character fell way, way down...but he's OK, he landed back at the city dell" I LMAO! )

Hahaha! That's awesome.

I used to read all quests I ran, so I could get the story and background. However, lately, I find myself disenchanted with the story lines and have been just skimming them for the most part. Sometimes I don't read them at all.

[Rakul]

Same here. There are some lines I enjoy reading, but other than that.... not so much usually.

[Loendal]

My son is head "smoosher" for DDO.

If there's a crate or barrel on screen, he demands control of the mouse so he can break it, he then gives control back to me to deal with the "baddies" or "bein' sneaky" (AKA "sneak sneak SNEAK.. sneak sneak") or any number of other little things