Breakfast topic: WOW plus other games
by Elizabeth Wachowski 
Jun 11th 2007 at 7:49AM
Recently, I've been playing a lot of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. This in itself is not surprising -- I picked the game up a year or so ago, became overwhelmed at the options, and then finally came back to it when I had a lot of spare time.
I'm enjoying it, but it's beginning to mess with my WOW skills. Two fantasy-based RPGs do not always work well in sync. I've been pressing Ctrl to stealth, E to jump, and trying to hit C to cast spells. This leads to a lot of strafing and bringing up the character screen in combat. Oblivion has also left me with a marked aversion to clicking on anything or fighting in a city, despite most of WOW's guards being so clueless they couldn't recognize it if I stole their armor off of them.
I've had this problem before, with Diablo when I first got into WOW ("I keep clicking, why isn't my sword swinging any faster?") and Knights of the Old Republic ("So I don't get punished for doing morally incorrect quests?") Have you ever confused the mechanics of WOW and another game you were playing at the time?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
John Jun 11th 2007 7:54AM
ooooh, Control to stealth. Good idea.
Shel Jun 11th 2007 8:08AM
Yep, I keep pressing "num" in Counter-Strike for auto-run.
MrGrouch Jun 11th 2007 8:23AM
Heh, when I came back to WoW from playing NWN all the time, I kept moving the mouse to the edge of the screen to pivot the camera and left clicking everything instead of right clicking. Led to a lot of frustration for awhile.
Phillip Jun 11th 2007 8:24AM
I haven't crossed a game with WoW yet, but i did get up set that i couldn't grind my skateboard while heading to defuse bombs in counter strike after playing tony hawk pro skater
Klim Jun 11th 2007 8:37AM
I tried playing some NWN this weekend, after not touching the game for more than 6 months... Man, that was hard, I took forever to get used to the point-n-click and camera movements... Nah, I'll just stick to WOW :)
Azbaty Jun 11th 2007 8:49AM
Other games ?.......What other games ?.......There are other games ? Why hasn't anyone told me about the other games ?? /cry :P
WoW addict and proud of it !
Nick S Jun 11th 2007 8:54AM
I keep trying to autorun in FPS games. It's only really bad when the autorun button (wheel click) happens to be bound to, say, "throw grenade".
Kryptonls Jun 11th 2007 9:09AM
Yes, the stealth thing in Oblivion is much more life-like as it were, but it's nice to rob the king of his jewels from time to time, (if you're lucky) but I think that if principles like these were applied to WoW, then it would make life harder for us Rogues and other common tasks we carry out!
Sylvina Jun 11th 2007 9:15AM
No, but when I came back and played my Paladin to 60ish, and then played my 60 rogue for kicks again, I completely forgot how to play and was using all my paladin hot keys. I felt like I bought my account on eBay it was so bad. :(
Prauche Jun 11th 2007 9:29AM
I try to only play console games outside of WoW for that very reason.
Dave Jun 11th 2007 9:30AM
Sure have, because of wow I have a hard time not holding down the right mouse button all the time in an fps.
Preebs Jun 11th 2007 9:46AM
Yep. I play a lot of Kingdom of Loathing and I've caught myself many times hoping for WoW armor to have "+ Item drops" enchants.
Addie Jun 11th 2007 9:47AM
I dun play any other games. O.o but I catch myself holding my push to talk button on the phone. And I use 3d modeling software at work and the mouse wheel zoom controls are backwards.
Sylythn Jun 11th 2007 10:29AM
My problem is most often camera control - especially with Neverwinter Nights 2 - the controls for moving the camera and changing views are just similar enough to WoW, that I get totally screwed up by the minute differences. Though to be honest I haven't played NWN2 or Oblivion in ages. I'm glad I have them - and eventually I will play them to completion...but WoW is kinda taking over right now.
Quoi Jun 11th 2007 11:17AM
I often attempted to use Push to talk to talk to people IRL when I was sitting at the computer. As a result, I informed the MC raid I was leading that I didn't know where the cat was, and she wasn't under my bed. Mockery ensued.
Quoi Jun 11th 2007 11:18AM
Also, when I got Zelda: Twilight Princess, I would try to sneak by mobs without aggroing them. I also referred to the different temples as instances, and I was upset when I couldn't farm for rupees for my magic armor.
ben1778 Jun 11th 2007 11:18AM
I played a lot of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth for a while just before TBC. First thing I did after playing Cthulhu was run away from the mobs... I wasn't used to actually having a weapon and NOT going insane from seeing an enemy. The felreaver footsteps in HFP made me jumpy until I adjusted.
Nyx Jun 11th 2007 11:39AM
Neverwinter Nights, definitely. I keep wanting to play it again, but the controls are so frustrating compared to WoW...
C-DUB Jun 11th 2007 11:54AM
"Impulse 101" does NOT work in WoW.
Kyle Jun 11th 2007 12:25PM
I get the same problems with TES and WoW. I always forget what key does what on both games. Ill play WoW, forget thee Oblivion controls then go back to WoW and forget those. Always fun!