I may also use the birthday card as my excuse to reminesnce anyway… ¬_¬ :P

Or Chucky Egg.

:)

Basically, it’s a large persistent world fantasy MMO with all the usual elements: running around, doing quests, killing mobs, developing your char, your class skill tree in the desired path, crafting items, collecting materials, guilds, guild wars, instance dungeons, etc. The difference though is that it also has a vertical element. All characters classes can fly by various means. and as your levels develop, you find that there are just many things up in the sky to quest and grind on as on the ground. Think LineageII with a far higher Z-axis.

The graphics are above average but no where near system taxing. Probably in the range of WoW. What does stand out though is character creation: Never in my life have I seen so many details available for customization. You could realistically spend several hours tweaking your char with well over a hundred different option slides or simply choose to modify from about a dozen pre-sets. What’s more, once you create your char, you can go back at any time and edit them cosmetically, should you grow bored of staring at them on screen after many hours.

On the bad side, it’s still a grinder and the Engrish NPC dialoges are hilariously difficult at times to wade through if you’re into role play and actually caring about the game plots, but so far, it’s pretty fun.

I count that as a one minute of fame (I’ve used about 12 already).

(And in case it wasn’t clear: it took 10 months in game but only couple of hours in real life) ;)

Ah, what? Comment editing? Hurrah! Also: oooh!

I just couldn’t imagine it. I still don’t really understand it. But fun it is, especially if you play it with a bunch of people you know.

There are a load of different game modes, like, for example, the first player to pick up 30 items wins, or Pitfall, where you have to run through a linear parcours of rooms as fast as possible, or Willy Tag, where you have one player (with a pinkish color) start a bit later than everyone else, and everyone who has that color turns everyone he touches pink as well, and the last nonpink willy wins.

Another fun aspect is that you can make your own animated sprite to use in the game, and on the TIGSource Game Nights, many popular video game figures could be seen on the server. Someone (hehe) even found a way around the only-black-and-white-pixels limitation imposed for sprites by the game, which made drawing the sprites far easier, but also a good deal less challenging.

I’ll try to join or open a server for half an hour or so now, just in case ;)

I think far more interesting are Toady’s continuing dev logs, and the ridiculous levels of under-the-bonnet random detail that are going into world creation. I love it.