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The Daily Grind: What makes you feel epic?
On a very basic level, MMOs are all about trying to make the player and the player's character feel epic in some way. You're supposed to feel big and important, like you're making a difference in the world. But there are a lot of games that offer a lot of different paths to epicness, and while one player might want to be an Ascended fighting against rifts in, well, RIFT, other players feel more epic by being an influential farmer in Star Wars Galaxies. Maybe you feel epic banding together with a huge group of people to defeat an endgame raid. Maybe you feel epic working your way through small-group content with your closest companions. Maybe it's PvP, or crafting, or something else entirely. Whatever your game of choice, today we ask you -- what makes you feel epic? What sort of experiences make you feel really important in the game world around you? Every morning, the Massively bloggers probe the minds of their readers with deep, thought-provoking questions about that most serious of topics: massively online gaming. Please be advised that there's no need to make a joke about anyone's genitals on today's Daily Grind. (We see that one coming.)
Epic Win turns everyday chores into a game
Finally, a reason to do the everyday crap you don't want to do. You know, things like washing the dog, cleaning your apartment and pulling over when the cop behind you hits the siren. Well, at least some of those work perfectly with Epic Win, an upcoming iPhone app that turns your to-do list into a role-playing game. By completing tasks in the real world, you gain experience points in the game that you can then use to level up your character. If that isn't incentive enough to drive little Timmy to soccer practice, we don't know what is. In the spirit of the game, here's your first to-do item: jump past the break and watch the introductory video for Epic Win. It's about the easiest boss fight you'll undertake today -- that is, unless you actually fight your boss. We hear he's a bit of a weakling.
