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UsernameBeathawk
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Real NameJanne Annala
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JoinedMarch 23, 2008
GenderMale
Age17
LocationOulu, Finland
Last VisitApril 4, 2008
Post Count5
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Online gaming since 1998.

 
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Latest Blog Entry - Underground rocks
From my blog 10 years of MMORPG [Beathawk]

Much content + Nice graphics + Good playability = The Best MMORPG? Not.

Just take the first five games from the games toplist, and you can already see that they are all just trying to use the same pattern as above. Currently all mainstream MMORPG's are overpopulated by random people all over the world with the age ranging from five to fifty.

How can yo even think that so many people could get along with each other in an online game if they can't do that even in real life. It's a chaos when it's the time to form a party greater than two people. If you need for an example five random people, it's 99% possibility that one of them is an idiot. That one idiot can ruin the party and make everyone else annoyed. It doesn't take much to detect that kind of jerk from the group, but usually there are no other options so you'll just have to tolerate that person.

These kind of incidents can't be avoided when the game community is greater than, let's say 500 people. Have you ever played an MMORPG with players less than 500? I have. Can you imagine how fun it is to play when almost everyone in the game knows everyone? If someone scams someone, the scammer will ruin his reputation and half of the community will avoid him. Everyone knows who is a bad guy and who is a good guy. You know who you can trust and who can you ask to help you with a quest.

Now I'm talking about the game Dransik. I played for three years, when I was just a kid. Once one guy from a bad PK guild came and asked me to follow him outside the town. I followed him for sometime and suddenly he started shooting me with a bow. I started running back but my way was blocked by his guild mates. I got ambushed and looted, too bad. But that was just an example how well the teamwork works in a small community.

The game was only 1.5 Mbytes in size, and the graphics were the same as in Ultima 5 (256 colours 2D). There were hardly any quests. But the map was big, and you were able to PK anyone outside towns. There were no magic, only bows and melee weapons. There were simple trade skills and some other misc skills. Every monster had something they dropped always, something they dropped sometimes, and then some rare (0,1% - 0,01%) drops which you tried to get for many days. And when you finally got it you were so damn happy! There were only about five different high end armour sets, and you always knew how much each of them cost and which monster dropped them.

The game is still running and free, but alas the new commercial company (Iron Will Games) that bought it has ruined it with account locks. You have two account locks for you account, and you must use them to lock your account to the computer you are currently playing it. When you run out of locks, you can't play it on any other machine than those two locked ones. Now you can't play it in school, FRIENDS or anywhere else. I think they think they are awesome because they found out such a great way to prevent account trading, but actually they are just big idiots.

At the moment I'm looking forward for Elderlands, which is the new oldschool game by the original developer of Dransik, Mr. Lothgar a.k.a Jason Ely. He was a programmer in the group that made the Ultima games, and he is the best game designer in the world. He is dedicated to his work, he has new unique ideas and he listens to the players. I'm very sure that his upcoming game will be even better than Dransik was. As a proof of that, hunderds of old Dransik players have been talking on Elderlands forums for many years already, waiting for the game, even though it hasn't been released yet.

Elderlands open testing will be published propably in some months, when they have achieved the goals they have set for the next release.

Dransik - http://www.dransik.com/
Elderlands - http://www.elderlands.com/

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    • a good game??
    • No, you must probably shouldn't try this one. If you want an MMORPG that's fun to play for one week, then this is good for you. Otherwise not.

      When you get around level 150, you can see that everyone has the exactly same armors, weapons and skills. The only difference is the grade of the armors and weapons. When I was playing, the best weapon was +10. And it cost 1000$, and the guy who owned it was invincible.

      So if you have few thousand dollars to waste for in-game equipments and skills, then it might be fun. Otherwise you will just be killed by the guys who have bought the best weapons and armors.

      There are few games with the same game engine. Such as FlyFF, 9Dragons, 2Moons, Perfect World. Each of those games suck except PW, that's my recommendation for you if you want a good and free game that give you long lasting fun.

    • Posted: 3/24/08 5:47 AM
      Turf Battles
    • 9 Dragons really that bad?

    • Originally posted by 3on1
      true u dont get quests every lvl but u do get enough.

      INDEED. Thanks for proving my point. You don't get quests every level. Though you should get many quests every level to keep the game interesting to play. Now you just do one small quest in every few levels and the rest is pure grinding.

    • Posted: 3/23/08 7:36 AM
      9 Dragons
    • Great game but it just doesnt appeal to me
    • I agree with the poster above me :) MMORPG's have really became boring lately. For me, this happened when I hit the maximum level in WoW. After that I haven't played anything for one year. LOTRO is like a copy of WoW, it has nothing new and it was boring.

      Any game can be good if you just have friends to play it with. Once I played one 2D 16bit oldschool mmorpg (Dransik) for three years because I had friends playing it too, and the community was awesome. There were couple of guilds, and they really had wars and alliances with each other. PK guilds sometimes cheated some newbies to follow them to some exciting place and then ambushed the poor player with the whole guild. It was really awesome, even though the game was only 1.5 megabytes in size. It also had only a few quests, but it's still the best mmorp g I've ever played.

      The communities of these new games is so big, that people don't really know each other. That's why I prefer less-known games with a small but intense communities.

    • Posted: 3/23/08 6:11 AM
      Lord of the Rings Online
    • 9 Dragons really that bad?
    • I agree with the previous poster. I played this game for sometime and got VERY bored. It had almost no quests at all after level 30, and nothing to look forward. You just grind monsters and nothing else. This games has like no content at all.

      It neither has WASD movement, you have to click with the mouse. Also one big storyline quest in the beginning which I can't remember now, was way too hard for a normal player. You had to have a big (10 players) party or someone high level to help you out.

      Planning to play 9Dragons? I suggest you not to, it's a waste of time. There a lot of better games with this exact same game engine such as 2Moons (from Acclaim) and Perfect World (MUCH content). Both are free.

      Score: 5/10

    • Posted: 3/23/08 5:52 AM
      9 Dragons
    • Perfect World ~ Why is it 'Perfect'?
    • I fell in love with this game too. It is much much better than any other game made with the same game engine, and there are many (such as 9 Dragons and 2 Moons). This game has everything. It has a lots of quests, balanced XP tables, PVP, Beautiful Graphics, Beautiful and big world to explore, Flying, Auction House etc etc.

      The most interesting part is that the game is interesting. I get really easily bored of RPG games, and that's why I haven't played any mmorpg in the past year. This game has kept me interested, because I have all the time something to look forward (like new armors, new wings at lvl30, mount at 40 etc).

      This game has everything that every popular mainstream game has. The only thing different is that the world and the musics are so beautiful, so it makes me feel like I'm in a real faerie world. It's such a nice feeling.

      So now we know that everything in this game rocks, except this few things:
      - The chatbox is WAY too small, and the font is annoying and hard to read.
      - It's very difficult to type in different channels like Guild, Party, World etc.
      - It's sometimes poorly translated, even I could do better and I'm not even native speaker. (example: "he had dead")
      - The quests are sometimes very poorly guided. Sometimes it just tells you to kill some mobs but it give you no information at all where they are, and the world is BIG. (but internet helps)
      - The combat system is strange. When I press shoot, it starts casting after one second, not immediately.

      Okay it's a free game so it must have some bad parts.

      One thing I'm really missing is an ENGLISH FANSITE that would have guides to quests and so on. If you are not in a guild or have nobody to ask for help, then you are very lost with some quests. I found a guide for level 10-19 elf quests but it's in some strange language but it still helped me a lot.

      http://www.perfectworld.clanfree.net/elfe10a19.htm

      This game gets an 9/10 from me.

       

       

    • Posted: 3/23/08 5:44 AM
      Perfect World

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