You people are making me wish that I had taken a Gaming Design diploma instead of a Biomedical Science Diploma. Worse of all, my school has both courses, and it's a bit too late to transfer at the moment. Not to mention that my parents would throw a fit...

When it comes to books, historical fiction is my favourite genre, and in gaming, it would definitely be my favourite genre as well. The particular time period I'm interested in is Chinese history, particularly during the dynasty period. In fact, the warring dynasties period, to be more precise. I would definitely play a game like that, as long as it remains true to the source. When I think of historical games, I want a game in which the settings, characters, quests, all come from that period. I won't even mind fighting monsters from time to time, as long as there is variety in the quests offered.

Until then, I'm just happy with fantasy games based on historical periods. Main reason why I was so much in love with Cantha when I first visited it.

My eyes hurt after seeing your post... all that red... must be the drunken effect. *rubs eyes vigorously*

Heh, in Free Realms, you still have to manually move your character to the NPC, even if all the directions are shown in green lights. In Ether Saga, all you have to do is open your quest log, click on the name of the NPC, and your character walks there. They even have a quest search window where you open it, click on an interesting quest, click on the NPC's name, and yes, your character walks there too. Sounds more "evolved" than Free Realms, doesn't it?

That being said, different games are for different people. Personally, I don't mind games like these, because after a hard day of work, all I want to do is just sit down at the computer and relax by playing games. It does feel nice to bash monsters over the head and have everything else taken care off... or rather, at least in my opinion.

Yeah, I got invited to the close beta, but I'll probably not be taking part, since I'm really busy right now. Guess I'll wait until the open beta, but I'll definitely be playing it. Plus, there is going to be a character wipe as well, and I don't want to dedicate myself to a character that's going to be deleated.

I'm going to have to vote on Guild Wars as well. I know that it is a PVP game, but when it comes to PVE, it ranks as my favourite out of all the games I've played in the past. My favourite part of the game would definitely be the cinematics, though development of the major characters as well as setting plays a major part as well. In fact, it's the first gave I've ever had the urge to write fanfiction for. It's almost like a movie, really and I really enjoy it.