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Any suggestions?

My criteria:

-good gaming community

-at least 2D graphics

-entertaining background music and sounds

-loads of engaging quests

-fun pvp/guild warring

-plenty of non-combat activities (e.g. mining, fishing, cooking, etc)

-most importantly ... free-to-play-forever

Anarchy Online --> free till January 2007

Shadowbane --> mostly pvp? i will get bored soon :P

Silkroad  --> tried and it has pretty demanding requirements and very lagged up but good graphics

Runescape --> LOL

I would love something like Conquer Online but with more non-combat stuff like its gem mining. Anyone know bout the new Dragon Raja?

Originally posted by LoRd_VeNuS
Any suggestions?
My criteria:
-good gaming community
-at least 2D graphics
-entertaining background music and sounds
-loads of engaging quests
-fun pvp/guild warring
-plenty of non-combat activities (e.g. mining, fishing, cooking, etc)
-most importantly ... free-to-play-forever

I agree, you've got to hate those games that are all just vertices. How am I supposed to tell one mob from the next when they're all just a point on my screen? gosh

As a note, if you're looking for FTP games, best of luck in finding a good one. There's a reason some games cost money, and some don't, and it's called time and dedication. Free games have absolutely no thought put into them, or atelast none on the market right now. So best of luck to you

Well i don't mind paying for some power-ups and probably items from the game's online mall if they have one (of course they always do). But most games to that are just designed around a hack & slash concept and not much else.

To date, I've played lots of FTP games and haven't paid a single cent. E.g. MythWar, ConquerOnline, Supreme Destiny, Knights Online, etc etc. But none of them actually developed a more balanced approached other than pvp, hunting and guild warring. Even most of the popular PTP ones!

Never heard of Ferentus before. You have a link to that? Some games carry the beta accounts over when it goes live. Maplestory did. Some doesn't because people complain its unfair that the testers have a headstart. So it really depends.

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How is Ferentus? It seems interesting, never even really looked at it before. Is it point and click or WASD controlls? Also, will beta characters carry over into release? just wondering.

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You can choose between point and click or WASD controls, its very easy to switch between 4 different modes. The game has a very nice feel to it, and unlike other Korean exports it is very well translated and with a pretty nice interface. The graphics are nowhere near cutting edge but a head above both games like Dragon Raja or Legend of Ares. Combat is friendly enough but its a teeny bit simple if you're used to games like WoW.

I would say its definitely worth a check out. Though from what I can gather I will say the game isn't all there yet, there is a whole load of it still on the test servers which has been for something like 6 months. When that is released there will be a host of new features and environments to the game.

The link is www.ferentus.com just join the Beta. I don't know what will happen to peoples characters on release. It might say on their forum somewhere.