Complete side note, two days ago I saw a Sarrasri (archer), an Aramel (mage), and a Sojiro (warrior) running around in Fiesta on the Bijou server. When I asked them if they played Lusternia, I got a unanimous, "lol wut".
>_> Looks like your names are no longer original.
Edit: I also saw a Fain just now. But he ran away before I could screenshot him.
>_> Looks like your names are no longer original.
Edit: I also saw a Fain just now. But he ran away before I could screenshot him.
(Hmm... for some reason the board does not like my long post of games... oh, ahha, fixed it!)
Most of these games I would say that you do not want to invest time in seriously. They're fun games, and can be very addictive for a little while, but they all tend to get pretty boring pretty fast unless you have a few friends playing with you.
Let's start with the dinky downloadables.
GPotato game portal - I haven't gone through and tried these personally, but I have a friend that was having a ton of fun with the pet stuff in Rappelz for a good couple of months.
Internet Gaming Gate, this company liscenses all sorts of random little games. All of them are of Asian origin, though, so finding support and help can be a little wonky at times. There's also a problem with botters on most of their games, but meh.
- Voyage Century - As someone posted earlier, Voyage Century is worth taking a look at. It's a primarily colonial age, ship-based game, with class-ish choices like explorer, merchant, yadda yadda. I had a ton of fun trying to find places with my little explorer, ranging up and down the coast and throwing poor crewmembers into the open jaws of the wilderness and their hapless fates.
There's also stuff like planting and growing herbs or crops, a nice ship battle system, trades, pets...
- Zu Online - This was a game I looked forward to for a pretty long time, as it's based around the whole Chinese Legend of Zu Mountain setting, and I was an absolutely enormous fan of the movie and other such stuff based on it. The gameplay is fairly WoW-like, with menial kill quest lines that have story now and then and a fairly simple and straightforward interface(once you learn to click on underlined things). Much, much of the game is guild PvP-centric, although there's not really any amount of actual depth to PvP combat (it's a common gripe that skill is generally not a factor), and a titling system that unfortunately encourages ganking lowbies in towns. The visuals and style factor is where this game shines, though... swordsmen and bead fairies float instead of walk most of the time, point to point transportation involves flying on a weapon, or a cloud, or a bird made of summon spirit papers. For weapon-wielding classes, weapons float and move on their own. I just wish this game had the funding for higher quality area graphics, as the visuals would be absolutely gorgeous if only they could have been able put more people into refining them. Even still, it's a pretty game to look at.
- Tales of Pirates and Angels Online - Both of these take the Ragnarok Online approach to sprite-based worlds. In ToP, there are tiered area quest lines that draw you from place to place, some decent gathering skills, and newer trade professions. Where the game shines, though, is land only makes up a tiny amount of the world, all the rest is ocean and small islands. Unfortunately, there's only one class that can even use their skills at sea, but the little ships are pretty solid on their own. AO has an interesting approach with a skillset system, it's easy to drop all of your class skills and just pick what you want to try and mix and match. The world's broken up into three factions, each with pretty distinct areas (generic Well Off Town Place, Forest Land, and Desertville). The place has some pretty neat robot-based tradeskill classes, where they ride around on and fight with their bots. Quest lines are generally repeatable, so it's all exploring-grinding and finding people to group with.
Haven't tried any of IGG's other ones, yet. Still waiting for the 'blah' of playing too much ToP/AO for a little while to wear off.
You like browser-based games? Browser based game likes you!
- The Kingdom of Loathing - KoL is a quirky, joke-riddled, fun game to go through at least once. It's pretty easy to pick up, or to leave for a while and then pick up on again later. I've known some people that have been playing for years, though. (Also, the KoLWiki is an excellent reference if you do decide to try this little ditty.)
- Travian - Who doesn't like building little kingdoms? A little managing here, a little raiding your neighbor there, a little joining up with your friendly, local super alliance and crushing your enemies' fledgling empires beneath your medieval boot heel. It's all good.
- Magellan Wars - Trying to keep the spirit of Archspace alive after it was sadly shut down last year. Still working a few kinks out, but... take part in the space race! Build ships, explore and take planets, develop them, build your empire... but be ready to play both offensively and defensively, as other people working on their own out there are quite ready and willing to try to take those big beautiful worlds away from you. This is all about working in with other players in councils, making alliances, tweaking out solid designs, and finding race/playstyle combinations that work for you.
How about some good, old fashioned, single player, time wasting games? More browser based things.
- Bowmaster Prelude - Nothing says, "Hello and welcome to my kingdom!" to your enemies quite like an arrow to the face. For beginners, I highly, highly suggest going into Options in the top right corner after starting a game and changing the bow setting to auto aim or point aim.
Who can forget Rogue-likes? While ye may not be able to get ye flask or go dennis, these make for fun distractions after you get the hang of them.
Ancient Domains of Mystery, or ADOM - I don't think I want to admit how many hours I've wiled away working through various games in ADOM. It's addictive. It's got a great system. Fairy dragons are sooohappytomeetyounoreallythey'rereallyhappy. There're set dungeons, randomized dungeons, infinite dungeons, a nice world map, a few snappy stat-customizing things. Just... remember to always write down the first thing you ever kill. Always. (And keep ye reference sheets of the ADOM Guidebook on hand, but try not to spoil the game for yourself!)
Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King - This is a very interesting Roguelike that's currently in the works, and the system built so far for it is absolutely excellent. Hard game, though, very hard. A lot of the fun is creating characters... because quite often they die pretty quick, even after you get used to the places. There's a character reincarnation option, though, so don't be down even if you do lose a few good ones. Incursion's page also links to quite a few other worthwhile Roguelikes that the author was inspired by. Check some of those out, too, if this is your cup of tea.
Most of these games I would say that you do not want to invest time in seriously. They're fun games, and can be very addictive for a little while, but they all tend to get pretty boring pretty fast unless you have a few friends playing with you.
Let's start with the dinky downloadables.
GPotato game portal - I haven't gone through and tried these personally, but I have a friend that was having a ton of fun with the pet stuff in Rappelz for a good couple of months.
Internet Gaming Gate, this company liscenses all sorts of random little games. All of them are of Asian origin, though, so finding support and help can be a little wonky at times. There's also a problem with botters on most of their games, but meh.
- Voyage Century - As someone posted earlier, Voyage Century is worth taking a look at. It's a primarily colonial age, ship-based game, with class-ish choices like explorer, merchant, yadda yadda. I had a ton of fun trying to find places with my little explorer, ranging up and down the coast and throwing poor crewmembers into the open jaws of the wilderness and their hapless fates.
There's also stuff like planting and growing herbs or crops, a nice ship battle system, trades, pets...- Zu Online - This was a game I looked forward to for a pretty long time, as it's based around the whole Chinese Legend of Zu Mountain setting, and I was an absolutely enormous fan of the movie and other such stuff based on it. The gameplay is fairly WoW-like, with menial kill quest lines that have story now and then and a fairly simple and straightforward interface(once you learn to click on underlined things). Much, much of the game is guild PvP-centric, although there's not really any amount of actual depth to PvP combat (it's a common gripe that skill is generally not a factor), and a titling system that unfortunately encourages ganking lowbies in towns. The visuals and style factor is where this game shines, though... swordsmen and bead fairies float instead of walk most of the time, point to point transportation involves flying on a weapon, or a cloud, or a bird made of summon spirit papers. For weapon-wielding classes, weapons float and move on their own. I just wish this game had the funding for higher quality area graphics, as the visuals would be absolutely gorgeous if only they could have been able put more people into refining them. Even still, it's a pretty game to look at.
- Tales of Pirates and Angels Online - Both of these take the Ragnarok Online approach to sprite-based worlds. In ToP, there are tiered area quest lines that draw you from place to place, some decent gathering skills, and newer trade professions. Where the game shines, though, is land only makes up a tiny amount of the world, all the rest is ocean and small islands. Unfortunately, there's only one class that can even use their skills at sea, but the little ships are pretty solid on their own. AO has an interesting approach with a skillset system, it's easy to drop all of your class skills and just pick what you want to try and mix and match. The world's broken up into three factions, each with pretty distinct areas (generic Well Off Town Place, Forest Land, and Desertville). The place has some pretty neat robot-based tradeskill classes, where they ride around on and fight with their bots. Quest lines are generally repeatable, so it's all exploring-grinding and finding people to group with.
Haven't tried any of IGG's other ones, yet. Still waiting for the 'blah' of playing too much ToP/AO for a little while to wear off.
You like browser-based games? Browser based game likes you!
- The Kingdom of Loathing - KoL is a quirky, joke-riddled, fun game to go through at least once. It's pretty easy to pick up, or to leave for a while and then pick up on again later. I've known some people that have been playing for years, though. (Also, the KoLWiki is an excellent reference if you do decide to try this little ditty.)
- Travian - Who doesn't like building little kingdoms? A little managing here, a little raiding your neighbor there, a little joining up with your friendly, local super alliance and crushing your enemies' fledgling empires beneath your medieval boot heel. It's all good.
- Magellan Wars - Trying to keep the spirit of Archspace alive after it was sadly shut down last year. Still working a few kinks out, but... take part in the space race! Build ships, explore and take planets, develop them, build your empire... but be ready to play both offensively and defensively, as other people working on their own out there are quite ready and willing to try to take those big beautiful worlds away from you. This is all about working in with other players in councils, making alliances, tweaking out solid designs, and finding race/playstyle combinations that work for you.
How about some good, old fashioned, single player, time wasting games? More browser based things.
- Bowmaster Prelude - Nothing says, "Hello and welcome to my kingdom!" to your enemies quite like an arrow to the face. For beginners, I highly, highly suggest going into Options in the top right corner after starting a game and changing the bow setting to auto aim or point aim.
Who can forget Rogue-likes? While ye may not be able to get ye flask or go dennis, these make for fun distractions after you get the hang of them.
Ancient Domains of Mystery, or ADOM - I don't think I want to admit how many hours I've wiled away working through various games in ADOM. It's addictive. It's got a great system. Fairy dragons are sooohappytomeetyounoreallythey'rereallyhappy. There're set dungeons, randomized dungeons, infinite dungeons, a nice world map, a few snappy stat-customizing things. Just... remember to always write down the first thing you ever kill. Always. (And keep ye reference sheets of the ADOM Guidebook on hand, but try not to spoil the game for yourself!)
Incursion: Halls of the Goblin King - This is a very interesting Roguelike that's currently in the works, and the system built so far for it is absolutely excellent. Hard game, though, very hard. A lot of the fun is creating characters... because quite often they die pretty quick, even after you get used to the places. There's a character reincarnation option, though, so don't be down even if you do lose a few good ones. Incursion's page also links to quite a few other worthwhile Roguelikes that the author was inspired by. Check some of those out, too, if this is your cup of tea.
screw mmorpg, go oldschool
Might and Magic 7, Wizadry 8, FALLOUT 2 FTW
Might and Magic 7, Wizadry 8, FALLOUT 2 FTW
