Grind Quest: Objectives

Top 10 games (in no particular order) and my opinion of their objectives:

• World of Warcraft: 
• Get to max level, grind gear, spend time with friends, waste a sh*t ton of time.
• Dungeons and Dragons Online: 
• Get to max level, grind gear, spend time with friends, waste a sh*t ton of time.
• Lord of the Rings Online: 
• Get to max level, grind gear, spend time with friends, waste a sh*t ton of time.
• Guild Wars 2: 
• Get to max level, grind gear, spend time with friends, waste a-little-bit-less ton of time.
• Halo 3: 
• Stop the Covenant from destroy the universe with your friends. For the third time.
• Minecraft: 
• Grind blocks, get gear, build structures, spend time with friends, waste a sh*t ton of time.
• Terraria: 
• Grind gear, get blocks, build structures, slay boss monsters, spend time with friends, waste a sh*t ton of time.
• Tetris: 
• Achieve the highest score you can (Grind blocks, get lines, waste time)
• Borderlands: 
•  Find the vault alongside a few of your friends. (get to max level, grind gear, spend time with friends)
• Pokemon (series):
• Collect and train pocket monsters, level the monsters up to defeat gym leaders with aspirations of beating the champion. Also completing against friends for fun.

I'd define the kind of game that appeals to me as: Multiplayer games that let me spend time with friends, or people in general. More specifically, RPG’s but it doesn’t have to be. Tetris is the only game I can truly say is one of my favourites that doesn’t follow under this umbrella. I suppose the only way it relates is that it allows me to complete with my friends on a score-based level.

Though I realize I define the objectives of the game sarcastically (as most of them are MMo or Online in general), but that’s how I see the games are when it comes down to it. I know that there is no true end objective that I can reach in many of the games I play; however that isn’t why I play games. I play games to soak up a universe, level up, get kick-ass loot, all alongside my friends or other players. In other ways, I realize that I mostly just like comparing myself to others and the real feeling of “completion” is whether I’m better than my friends. I suppose what’s different in this situation of “completion” is that it can be taken away from me.

If I had to put myself in a box with a label and pretty red bow, and call myself a particular genre of gamer, I’d go MMORPG. That is where I’ve spent my most time, and is what I have the most passion for when I play it.

-Jordon