Midnight Crossroads said:
Sonic Doctor said:
This tells me that you haven't played LoTRO or haven't played it very long.
I usually saw at least one Gandalf look alike each day I played it. Heck, my dwarf runekeeper was a dwarf version of Gandalf. He had a hat like Gandalf, and everything he wore was dyed gold. I called him Frenin Thegold(it would have been The Gold, but the last name thing won't let me have a two word last name). So with that I can be happy and imagine all that I want that my dwarf is a gold wizard.
Heck it you want to go the staff magic route, you have the Lore Master class. Several times I saw a Lore Master that was dress like Gandalf, but his clothes were all in black(with the wizard looking hat). He even had wizard in his name, Wizo-something, I don't remember the full name.
The powers of these classes have are awesome and feel just as good as it would if there was a wizard class.
The only thing that is barring players from being a wizard, is an imagination. I always played my dwarf as if he was a wizard. I was going to right a back story for him too, I just didn't get around to it.
/facepalm
Right, and the only thing barring my warrior in WoW from being a Jedi is that the sword doesn't glow! Oh wait, enchantment and all that. I guess that means there are Jedi in WoW.
You can facepalm all you want, but what I said is totally valid and based in fact about what I have seen and done.
That is the problem I see with some gamers, they apparently don't have a good imagination. With a good imagination, one can believe anything they want about a game and have fun.
If I played WoW and decided that my character was some Jedi transported to another world by some weird portal, than it will be as such because I'm the one imagining it when playing the game. It doesn't matter if I'm the only one playing along or if everybody thinks I'm crazy, it is what I imagined and it makes me happy when playing the game.
It is one of the reason why some people don't like Minecraft, they aren't the type of gamer that uses their imagination when playing a game. The reason the game is a hit is because there are hundreds of thousands of people that have imaginations and like to explore and create things using those imaginations.
Just because something isn't in a game, doesn't entirely mean one cannot achieve it.
I believe that my dwarf in LotRO is a wizard, guess what, he is a wizard.
Just because you say my dwarf isn't a wizard because the class isn't a wizard(even though it uses powers that a wizard class would have), doesn't make my dwarf not a wizard.
