Sunday, January 3, 2010

Best 5 MMORPG games of 2009

Here is my list of best MMO games of 2009. It is only my personal opinion, maybe I better make a poll for it. If you have any other suggestion, please comment!


Aion
Best MMORPG game of the year. The game features fantasy, winged characters in a beautiful, 3D world. It is a game with unbelievable depths.
Many magazines announced Aion the best game of the year.

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Dragonica Online
Second best for me but also cool, cool, cool. Fun, cartoon characters running in scrollable 3D world and fighting monsters and bosses. Many skills, interesting classes, cool world and big hammers. I spent many hours playing with totally unknown people from all over the world, fighting in missions and having fun.

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Jade Dynasty
Jade Dynasty is a beautiful, Asian game by the creators of Perfect World. The game creates a special atmosphere with its Chinese mythology creatures, martial arts skills and oriental world.

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Grand Fantasia
Grand Fantasia is a free-to-play, MMORPG published by Aeria Games. It has bright, anime-styled graphics, cool and entertaining gameplay and many cool features, accessible very early and at low levels. This MMORPG is a great experience with its boss fights, mounts, pets and many customization options.

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Runes of Magic
Runes of Magic is a 3D MMORPG, similar to World of Warcraft. The game has highly customizable characters, unique class system with many choices, many quests and is free to play.

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Dragon Oath
One more beautiful, Asian game centered on Chinese mythology. I learn more about the Chinese legends than any other national mythology, including my own country’s stories. Anyway, Dragon Oath is cool game, with Asian styled graphics, nice characters and interesting story.

Ok, they are six. Sorry.
Please, comment!

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Short list of upcoming games I want to play in 2010

With so many games under development gamers won’t be bored this year. I made a short list of games, coming out in 2010.

Aika
Aika is a 3D, fantasy MMORPG, published by GPotato. The game was announced for December but nothing happened. I’ve heard and read only rumors, but it is going to be PvP or RvR oriented MMORPG and I really want more random and mass PVP in the games I play. It looks similar to Lineage 2 and Aion but I can’t tell if it is as good as them without playing.


Kung Foo!
Perfect World Entertainment grabbed the gaming world attention with this parody MMORPG.
Are they serious? It may be only my curiosity but I want to try this game.


Mabinogi Heroes
Another good, Korean title. It is a fast-paced, action, real-time MMO with some features from its predecessor Mabinogi. Mabinogi Heroes will be room oriented like Rakion.


Heroes of Telara
Fantasy MMORPG, by Trion World Network. It looks promising on the trailers.


Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2 is a fantasy MMORPG by ArenaNet and a sequel of Guild Wars MMORPG.


Priston Tale 2
It is 3D MMORPG game published by Suba Games. The game will pay special attention to the PVP battles.


Star Trek Online

Thursday, December 31, 2009

TLBB ( Dragon Oath Europe ) – gameplay review

Site: http://tlbb.eu.changyou.com/

Here you can read my preliminary Dragon Oath post.

Dragon Oath, known also as TLBB (Tian Long Ba Bu) is a Chinese MMORPG recently made available around the world. I played on the European servers so my impression is related to them only.

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I downloaded and started the game with great expectations so when I saw the camera rotation restrictions I was a bit disappointed. The game camera is not freely rotated like other Asian MMORPG games, you can freely rotate around your character but the min and max camera height are very close and you look at the game from a certain angle. I really prefer to have much freedom of movement and to see larger area around my character, this helps a lot in PVP battles or even in standard PVE gameplay.
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Graphics
As most Asian games TLBB has beautiful and eye catching graphics. Players can enjoy fantasy sceneries and Chinese themed towns. I spent some time just sight-seeing and walking mindlessly around the world.
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Gameplay
Your character starts is journey in a beautiful Eastern town with many NPC and missions. In fact your starting town is large enough to get lost several times. This is not a problem because you can easily find a NPC or coordinates by clicking on it in the quest window or on the map. The game start with quests and you will have to do more and more quests. I prefer simple grinding but quests give you more experience and you level up faster through them. At some point somewhere around level four or five you must kill some mobs. The mobs on the first environment map are relatively weak, character level 5 easily kills level 10 enemies. Anyway quests give you more experience. There are treasure boxes all around the map, even in towns. You can open them and get their reward. Soon your inventory will be full of some boring stuff like bread (equivalent to potions in other games) and so on.
After two hours running mindlessly doing quests I was level 10 and I was allowed to join a class. I selected a pyromancer because I like to have strong attack and I don’t care for defense or hit points. There is no quest for joining a class, you just need to select join from the class representative menu after talking to him. After joining a class I receive a bunch of teleport tokens to go directly to my class palace.
The skills of pyromancers are awesome but you are overpowered against mobs even without skills.
I almost forgot about pets. You will have a mission to level up an ugly bunny. I really don’t care about pets in games but now they are fashionable. Leveling up your bunny is easy enough, you need to kill two level 1 mobs. Capturing your next pet – a duckling is also easy, I succeeded from the first try. But if you bring your pet to fight higher level mobs they will attack it rather than you. After joining a class you can claim a pet from the representative. I got something like hedgehog.
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Classes
  • Pyromancer - For weapons Pyromancers use spears and falcons. They give up defense for a short in order to have a powerful attack. They have the most powerful attack of all nine classes in TLBB.
  • Lotus Order - Lotus Order members use single or dual one-handed swords. They have ability to absorb damage and to heal.
  • Royalty - They prefer to use their finger than any weapon. Anyway their weapons of choice are Fan and Chakram. They have skills to stun the enemy or reduce his spirit abilities.
  • Minstrel - Minstrels rely on devices and traps to fight the enemies. Their weapons of choice are Fan and Chakram.
  • Taoist - Taoists use single or dual one-handed swords.
  • Voodoo - Voodoo members use single or dual one handed swords as their weapon. They are the weakest as physical strength and so they rely on poisons to inflict damage. They have strong defense against spirit.
  • Assassin - Assassins master the physical and ice attack, they prefer to do quick and powerful combo hits. They have a skill to become invisible. Their weapons of choice are fan and chakram.
  • Beggars Alliance - They use combination of moves and each hit increases the damage of their next attack. They can use poisons. They use falcons and spears.
  • Shaolin - They use falcons and spears. They have good offensive and defensive powers. 
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Monday, December 28, 2009

DragonSky

Site: http://dragonsky.aeriagames.com/

DragonSky is martial arts MMORPG game published by Aeria Games. The game is fast and action oriented, with many cool features like massive PvP battles, duels, bounty hunting, guilds, story-line quests, crafting and much more.

The game world represents an ancient China with some beautiful, fantasy motives. Two well-known fractions meet each other on the battlefield – Tigers and Dragons.

Gameplay
DragonSky have a little different system for characters and skills – there are no classes and any character can learn any skill. Leveling up and getting rank experience in game is achieved through killing monsters. Some items or equipment require your character to be a particular level or higher before using them. DragonSky has one more type of experience – Zen experience. You can acquire Zen experience through meditation. Zen experience influence learning of different martial arts and some skills.

The game has four different weapon types: Fist, Sword, Spear, and Hammer. Each weapon group has five martial arts associated with it.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Shot Online

Site: http://shotonline.gamescampus.com/



Shot Online is a free-to-play, sports MMORPG game featuring golf simulation. Sport MMORPGs are relatively rare and this is the first golf game I ever see. I am not really into sports, even online but the game looks cool and entertaining.

Gameplay
The game allows up to four players to tee off together, players can trade between them, gain experience and in-game currency from completing holes and have fun. Characters can level up and gain skills through in-game training. The game offers even quests and events.

Classes and Characters

Player can choose between seven classes: Zygmunt, Shaoring, Erda, Belzebuit, Wotan, Albus and Camilla.

Trailer:

Angels Online Trailer

Angels Online - 2D MMORPG with lots of angels, robots, pets and fun.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Neverland Online – Survival Guide

Neverlnd Online is a free-to-play 2D MMORPG. The game don’t need an installation, you can play it in your browser window.
The game is interesting and requires some thinking.

The gameplay is somewhat complex with many choices and options, and many newbie players stop playing after some time.


At the beginning you start with selecting a character. All characters can learn any skill but every class has its strong and weak points. Here are the classes and the corresponding skills and powers:
Male and female Rangers are best at Valor and Fortitude power.
Both Assassins’ best power choices are Confidence and Insight.
Elemtalists’ power choices are Fervor and Delusion.
For both Taoists you must choose Grace and Aura.

What does it mean?
The skills in Neverland Online are grouped in types or let’s use the term powers. Learning one type of power will allow you to learn its corresponding skills. For example with Valor you can develop Devil Bane, Desperate Strike, and Warlord’s Great Sword.
To open the power window go to Status (or press C) , and select the Power tab. There you can level up your powers. At the beginning select one power type, appropriate for your character class and level it up.


To level up skill you need a skill book at the appropriate level, corresponding power with the necessary level and skill rank. To rank a skill you must practice it – use it in battle. At the beginning your skills won’t do more damage than your regular attack.


Stat points
Stat points affect your character damage, defense, hit points, mana points. To open the stat points menu go to Status menu (or press C), and select the Ability tab.

Stat points:
Strength – increase physical attack damage
Stamina – max HP, defense against spells, increase heal spell effects
Agility – hit chance, physical attack critical chance, dodge chance against physical attack, higher probability to attack first
Intelligence – spell damage and max mp
Faith – max rage points, spell hit chance and critical chance, defense against physical attack, evasion
You have three buttons beneath the stat points – Damage, Balance, and Survival. They are quite convenient if you don’t know how to allocate your points.

Leveling up
Neverland Online has many quests and they give more than enough experience, rewards and game knowledge. If you are newbie, focus on quests. The NPC that has quests for you will have giant exclamation mark above its head. You can find all quests in progress and all available quests from the quests menu – the last icon at the bottom of your game screen will open it.
There are many different quest types – fighting mobs, catching pets, crafting, delivering messages, learning skills, and even quiz.

Pets
To catch a pet you need to press Catch during battle. You can’t catch a creature whose level is higher than you. Catching baby pets is very easy – you just need to select catch on the action menu. For normal pets you need to do some damage before catching them. Be careful no to kill them because you won’t be able to catch them.
You need to feed your pet regularly or it won’t be loyal to you and won’t appear in battle. You can restore the pets loyality and cure it at one of the NPCs. This NPC in the first town is Healer Quinny Boa.
To view and update pet stat points go to the pet menu. From there you can select See details to view more information, skills, wisdom, and so on.
The first pet, that worth some time is the brown bear.


Battles
The battles in Neverland Online are turn based. Who will attack first depends on characters agility. You have a menu with available options – Auto, Skill, Capture, and so on. You can select to use item like healing pot but you will lose one turn.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Luna Online – mmorpg review

Site: http://luna.gpotato.com/
Status: Free-to-play

Luna Online is a colorful, anime-styled MMORPG published by gPotato. The game has cute, fun graphics and relaxing atmosphere. If you like to spend some time in a tale world, this MMORPG is for you.
Do you have problems to fight cute, little monsters? (Am I cute?)

Luna Online

Gameplay
You can choose you character race, appearance and class. There are three available classes at the beginning, and 52 classes in total so players can customize their character development in details.
When you fight monsters you gain experience and level up, at each level you get stat points and skill points. To learn skills you need skill points, gold and to reach a certain level.
The monsters drop both whole items and parts for creating items. You can construct and reinforce different things.

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Classes
You have three classes to select at the beginning – Fighter, Rogue, and Mage. At level 20 each of them can advance to a new class. Not all classes are accessible from all races. Leveling up is not very fast, for two hours intense playing and doing quests I was only at level 8. Today I’ll try to reach level 20 and obtain a profession – Elven Mage.

Luna Online

Community
You can actually find many people playing the game. I was surprised to see so many characters selling and buying things at the shop area in Alker Harbor.

Luna Online

I’ll spend some more time in game before evaluating my impression. I am not exactly the type to like chibi characters but the game took my attention and I enjoy my playing time a lot.

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