Originally posted by Delanor

Originally posted by kitsunegirl

Ive never heard of Miffy... and I knew about HK back in the 80s I think.

 

So?

Nijntje was first published in 1955.

"In 1964, Nijntje appeared in Japan as Usako and later as Miffy (or Miffy-chan). She became so popular that Japanese marketers soon realized her commercial potential as a fashion icon. They knew that the Japanese tweens, teenagers and even twenty-somethings would love her simple design and cuteness (“kawaii” in Japanese).

In 1974, the Japanese company Sanrio adapted her to Japanese fascinations, which feature not bunnies, but kitties, and not the Dutch, but the British culture. Miffy, the Dutch bunny rabbit, became Hello Kitty, the English kitten.

In an interview, Dick Bruna said that Sanrio admitted to being inspired by Miffy. Sanrio has, however, never admitted this in public, and the copyright has never been worked out."

But that is not our concern, of course. Just interesting to know. For me it explains why Hello Kitty look so much like Nijntje. My first thought was "hey did Dick Bruna make that?" Apparently not.

So? I wasnt saying you made stuff up... I just said I had never heard of Miffy.

Originally posted by dethgar

Regening health should be life like and require a stay in a hospital. There should of course be permadeath, and death by natural causes(heart attacks, strokes, starvation, disease). Also, anything 3 ft or shorter should be puntable.

I dunno about permadeath... maybe dead until a cleric happens by and res's you? hehe Of course then youd have people whine-spamming "Rez plz!"

Ordered it, paid 10$ will pay more next check. I dont want to go in and find out oh, we ran out... theyd better not run out if I pay for the whole thing! >.>

Ive never heard of Miffy... and I knew about HK back in the 80s I think.

You could say it looks beautiful, the graphics are awesome... thats not breaking the nda.

Originally posted by jakoblin

omg omg  These are the cutest cute cute avator I have ever seen and played.

 

i love Santrio avator,  I have all Santrio Stuffs in my bedroom ,

I knew a woman over in Lansing that had such a set up... you never saw so much pink in your life. lol I loved it.

All my giggling and poking fun aside. Im curious to know if this is f2p or p2p...  if its free... Ill download it and try it out. I like crafting too. >.>

Originally posted by bonobotheory

Will there be free-for-all PvP?  I want to pwn some kitties.

LOL damn I was hoping to be the first to giggle and ask for pvp... Be the first to stun your opponents obnoxiously  cute character! Get insanely cute arena gear to help you stun better!

Oh yeah... I can just see Wow having a head on collision with HKO. World Kittycraft Online.

*gigglesnort*

Originally posted by Centhan

It won't truly be a MMO success until we see naked kitties dancing on various objects, and farmers selling cat nip (the game's currency I assume) on their websites.  We'll just call them nip farmers.

Can you imagine the in-game spam messages?

Message from UberKitty1092783:  Buy ur Kat nip here.  1 mil nips/$10.  Come to xxxxxx site now! omGz!

Stop... please stop... my sides hurt and I cant hardly breath... lol

Black Kitties dancing naked on mailboxes.... catnip spammers.

I wait with baited breath and barely contained giggle-fits to see a nude-patch. xD

Originally posted by JustBe

 

Originally posted by harvest151

LOL, here's a tip. Never ever ever judge a beta games graphics and design. I think you're gonna be in for a pleasant suprose when open beta rolls out. Thats all I'm really allowed to say...

 

Well if they're realsing these horrible videos and screenshots then why can't I judge them? That's the whole point of releasing them to get people excited over the game and I worry if this is all they can do then it's abit sad.

I love the Warhammer universe but there has yet to be a good Warhammer game and I know poeple will say Dawn of War but I hated that game cuase it has too many races and not enough detail.

Why? Ever heard the expression, dont judge a book by its cover? Ive have been guilty of that, but read the book anyway and was amazed at how good the book was despite the cover looking like a preschooler drew it.

Those videos youre complaining about are demonstration videos. They arent there to show you how the world will look when its finished or how great the char-creation is. They are there to show you examples of whatever it is they demonstrating. Such as pvp or combat, or spell-casting. Or even crafting.
Mechanics come first, then the skeletons and all the underlying models. One of the last things applied is the "spit and polish." Making the world not look like its still in Alpha testing.

Originally posted by marowit

i'm willing to wait another full year for it if they manage to make it a masterpiece like i'm expecting it to be.

Another year... if I thought it was going to be the disappointment I found aoc to be, I would say yes. Wait... but Id like it out this year.

I wouldnt mind being a GM for a while... but Im not sure about Virginia. >.> Pretty state and all.

Majinash: When I preordered, I was told September 24th. Im curious to see how close they are to being right.

I nominate Samuraisword to be voted off the island... trolls arent welcome. Stupid trolls who have no reason to be here because they hate the game are welcome even less.

Originally posted by Samuraisword

So I am thinking let me check out Aion, heard it might be good. So I read the offical ultimate Faq thread in this forum, and there it is in black and white.

RAIDING AND INSTANCED DUNGEONS.

Enough of this crap already, raiding sucks and real gamers want a seamless non instanced game world.

I have a novel idea!

Dont play the game if you think its "more of the same crap." *sagenod*

Lets hope you are right. Afk-shops ruin a landscape as bad as those houses did in swg. And then if this game doesnt have collision detection, you can be sure some dimwit is going to get as close as he can to an important npc so that you can only click on his shop...

The only way I could see afk-shops used less than the ah is if both of them had a listing fee. Or you had to buy a commerce liscence and then pay upkeep on it... sorta like paying rent for housing in another mmo.

Adding PVP was just a desparate plea by the devs to try and attract players... Why would we kill our own people (pvp), when there are huge aliens wanting to wipe us out of existence...? It didnt fit with the theme of the game at all. Now if they had done something like Lotro's monster-play... that would have been fun. I would have loved to played one of those aliens attacking a CP. But no, they had to staple on guild pvp...

Every game does not need pvp. I know that its popular with a good segment of players, but Im sorry, sometimes it just doesnt fit with the game(s).
I liked the combat system... it was the one thing amidst all the general suckage that I actually liked.. besides the Forean girls. I found them oddly cute. I had the most fun sitting on a cliff-side picking off targets several yards away than anything else.

There was no point to the sigils other than to give us some sort of scifi magic-like spells...  Only two or three worlds made me thing more of RFO than anything fun. And the hordes of spawning aliens just got boring after a short while.

The one thing about the general feel about the world I thought was great was the PA announcements in the main base. I loved the MASH feel it had.

Originally posted by needalife214

Israel  was not even a country back then  

Youre kinda missing the point... Israel existed long before the muslim religion was even thought of. Israel = Jerusalem... alot of the Crusades were fought to take the holiest city of three religions away from the muslims so the pope could have it. If Im remembering my history right, the Catholic church wanted to set up the vatican on the temple mount. They didnt want to give it back to the Jews...

During the Crusades, Israel was a mostly Muslim country... but youre right about the Turkish/Muslim part.

I also love the sloppy haphazard look of a lot of really really old cities, like Prague for example. Even thought its stone walls and cobbled streets. They look a lot more earthy and comforting than giant metal buildings with laser-precision angles.

Nothing can top the homey-ness of an Irish peat-house, or those Scandenavian houses from the middle ages with the huge cone rooves. And windmills. :D

Player shops... *sigh* Worst thing about Lineage 2 (aside from the pking) was the player shops. Seas of afk-shops in Giran.. 3 minutes just for the city to finish loading. And it looks like they are in this game too. I wish that they would make a market instance in the major cities and have that be the only place you can set one up.

afk-shops = eyesore.

And to add to the person above me... when the Crusades were happening, the soliders brought back a unique building design: Rounded towers. Before that, square was the norm. Its alot harder to smash a tower that doesnt have a weak point (the corners), than it is to smash a rounded wall. Its also why the best shields are not flat surfaces but are bowed out somewhat. ^.^

The crusades part might be in error, I know at some point Europeans discovered round towers.

I was pretty sure I saw it as a type of shoe too...

Its gortrek? Im dyslexic, Im always reading stuff wrong. >.<