Comments on: Free Realms: Three Million In Seven Weeks

By: bree

bree — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:30:28 +0000

ya it is a fun game would be nice to meet older people on it.
love the battles but there is a lot of young people on it.
if there was like a place where adults can meet to battle are chat.
would be nice and battle games together.
yes I’m young at heart love new games gives you something to do.

By: Spd from Russia

Spd from Russia — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:42:20 +0000

tried this. looks neat, but I dont like the controls
and I didnt find where to invert mouse

By: Arnulf

Arnulf — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:26:41 +0000

It’s a fun game. It’s really polished and has a WOW look and feel. A really great idea is the change-jobs-as-you-need-’em-Thing. I tried to level Brawler a bit, but since I was mostly alone, it was too hard. You need at least two people to complete most of the miniature instances.

Other than that, Free Realms is polished as far as I got. I stopped playing however, since I have already two MMO subscriptions.

Nice touches: character names have to be approved. One can teleport by finding warp stones.

By: Carda

Carda — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:45:10 +0000

It’s a pretty fun game; scratches the MMO itch if you can’t quite afford your WoW subscription.

As for long-term appeal, a glance at the world map shows several zones outside the existing landscape with “coming soon” tags on them, so they clearly plan to add substantial amounts of new content over time. Whether this will include additional classes is unknown, but considering how each class is fairly self-sufficient, it doesn’t seem like it would be a very hard thing to add in new classes; balance doesn’t really factor into it nearly as much as it would in a more combat-oriented game like WoW.

Granted, I’ll probably drop Free Realms for a while once my WoW guild gets active again, but it’s nice to have a game I can play in the meantime.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:12:42 +0000

I spent a couple hours on it and never logged in again. I can’t even muster enough enthusiasm to delete it off my hard drive. Meh.

By: BigJonno

BigJonno — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:43:37 +0000

I’d definitely recommend from my gamerdad perspective. My son is seven and he really enjoys the whole thing, plus it’s enjoyable enough for me and the other adult gamers in the household to play with him.

A major point in it’s favour are the relatively grown-up looking avatars (the humans are closer to adult proportions than children’s and you can have facial hair.) Some of the other kid-friendly MMOs force you into a child avatar and I felt rather uncomfortable playing an MMO as a child.

By: Brass Gerbil

Brass Gerbil — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:22:12 +0000

Hrm. All the avatars appear to be young, vaguely anime-like, soft-skulled teens. Can I create a frowning, curmudgeonly old fart who goes around growling at everyone and making them earn their living?

Oh, wait; that’s my real-life job. Never mind.

By: Nero

Nero — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:26:37 +0000

I’ve only played it for maybe 1 hour and while I might not go back it was still quite impressive. Lots to do, easy to get around and to know where to go etc.

By: Devan

Devan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:49:51 +0000

I probably would not have looked at this game if it were not held in such high regard at thebrasse.com. However, I personally found it not very fun to play and lost interest after a day. Perhaps it’s because I’m not in their target audience, and perhaps it’s because many parts of the game felt like they was designed primarily for micropayment potential. I think that’s understandable, but it’s sure not enjoyable.

By: Cedge

Cedge — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:39:47 +0000

I’ve been addicted to this game for weeks. This is the first MMO I’ve truly enjoyed in probably five years or more.

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:36:00 +0000

Chris: It’s a pretty standard MMO if you want to play as a fighter, but if you want to do anything else, like cooking, mining, racing (!) or whatever, those things all have their own minigame and levellable class attached.

You can also switch class at will.

There’s also a remarkably good collectible card game (ala Magic: The Gathering) attached. That’s probably the element that impressed me most.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:28:09 +0000

Hmmm, sounds like just the thing for my girlfriend to play. She LOVES Plants Vs. Zombies and all the little minigames in it, so if Free Realms also has lots of minigames then I’ll have to get her set up to try it out..