Fishstickz, I, and another guy got that Seal Online game last night and played it for a few mins. It was alright... except we couldn't understand anything that was going on

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Do you have stairs in your house?

That's what I'm talking about, WE can't read it. I didn't say EVERYONE couldn't read it. Now let's stick with our own games. You can play something that has a 'story' (even though you can't understand it)

I on the other hand, am sticking to good ol' FPS games and runescape.

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<Glyde> but.. you can't pick pickled peppers, even if a pickled pepper picker could pick pickled peppers!

Koreans are people too.

People meaning the vast number of people who understand english and not korean you know what I mean.

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<Glyde> but.. you can't pick pickled peppers, even if a pickled pepper picker could pick pickled peppers!

Koreans made GunBound. Die.

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saberopus
oh yeh wlel i jsut gots finesht wiht my morrwoind mod for teh JO An it takes up teh 900 gigabiets of spaec but i wlil not sowh yuo gyz teh scrnshoots becasue we dunat kare wut u gyz tihnk ne1 no wear i kan get ti hostad 4 dounlowd!!!!11!111 --Checksum

Bleh, Final Fantasy XI owns Runescape in every way. Not to mention that the leveling process is so bloody boring, and you CANNOT find ANYTHING without walking for about 3 hours. The fights are so plauged with LAG that you have to do some sort of heal like when you hit half-bar, because you may be dead by the time it casts if you try later. Oh, and yes you can do most everything you mentioned in Runescape, in FFXI. Not to mention the fact that FFXI is definately bigger than RS.

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.hack//SIGN - The World - Just Believe

(Yes, This is Cool Matty)

<3 GunBound.

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Do you have stairs in your house?

I want an mmorpg that looks like Zelda's link to the past, or Final Fantasy 6.. as far as i'm concerned, massive rpg's don't need any better graphics than those so long as theyve got style intelligence and gameplay [which most console games lack but that's a different discussion].

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[Blue Mink Bifocals !] [fsck -Rf /world/usr/] [<!-- kalimonster -->] [Capite Terram]
Applecore scowled. "What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?" -War of the Flowers
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

What I want is a game that looks like this



That's in English.. thats all I want..

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

There's some contemporary Japanese artist, one Murakami by name [not the same who wrote Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World], who if i recall correctly refers to the anime style/immersion as a post-ww2 emasculation of Japanese culture and art.

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[Blue Mink Bifocals !] [fsck -Rf /world/usr/] [<!-- kalimonster -->] [Capite Terram]
Applecore scowled. "What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?" -War of the Flowers
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

Don't blame little problems on lag. It dosen't lag on half-assed computers like mine. Oh and RS/RS2 is 5 dollars a month. FFXI is about 70$ to buy and then an extra 20$ a month last time I checked. Oh and FFXI is made by a multi-millionare company. Please don't compare stupidly like this again.


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<Glyde> but.. you can't pick pickled peppers, even if a pickled pepper picker could pick pickled peppers!

I won't argue that it was made by a multi-millionare company, but get your facts straight. The game cost $44.95 at Electronics Bountique and it's $12.95 a month. Oh by the way, Tsukasa, what's the storyline like in Final Fantasy XI? Oh and I actually spent about five hours playing Runescape. If a game doesn't grab your attention during that time, I don't think it's worth playing. Also how do you know Runescape was made by a small number of people? Didn't the company made several games with advertisement backing them up?


These are Sega Saturn graphics.


http://www.zeldaonline.com/zelda/ There you go! Although... Nintendo will probably spot them soon.


Like a professional sport where you can make money? That's impressive....

[This message has been edited by Cloud (edited January 04, 2004).]

Doesn't matter how big the company is. It's the quality of the game that matters. If it is FUN TO PLAY, then good. RS is NOT FUN. It is like Diablo with crappier graphics and a pay by month cycle. And lag is a VERY BIG THING when you are paying for the freaking servers.

As for FFXI, it costs $45 USD where I bought it, and it's $13 for an account. Yes, it costs more, but the game comes on 5 freakin CDs. The game ends up being 6 gigs or so on the HD, after about 100mb worth of updates. [Pretty much what Cloud said above]

Cloud: FFXI has 2 was of playing as I see it. One is to completely skip out of the storyline and play it as a *rush to the high levels* game. Unlike Diablo II, however, this doesn't throw off balance, since to accomplish many missions, you are required to enter areas where your level is limited (thus you drop about 50 levels, and are forced to play with skills you haven't used in a while. Quite fun actually )
The second way is to stick to the missions and the storyline. Each city has it's own story to tell. Most of them are based on the same basic storyline, but each tell it a different way. There seems to be a larger and larger feeling of competition growing within the community now, with the "Conquest" system. Basically, the conquest system is where you fight monsters in outerlying areas, after getting a special skill called Signet cast on you by your home town. When there are enough people from one town in an outlying area, that town will take over the area. Alliances have been formed between parties before to do this exact thing. (See www.clanbob.net. They did this just a couple weeks ago)
One thing is, once you hit level 12 or so, partying is pretty much required if you want to progress at any fast rate. However, the entire community is VERY NICE, people will help you out as much as possible. You spend five minutes in a harder area, and you will be in a party. There are plenty of people, and they all want the same thing, to party with others and get some exp and beat some tough missions. And THAT is why I like the game.



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.hack//SIGN - The World - Just Believe

(Yes, This is Cool Matty)

Im thinking of dropping SWG and moving to FFXI.. meh

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

pft.. leedo

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Do you have stairs in your house?

SQUEE.
Now if i only weren't on satellite that can't handly any mp gaming more advanced than muds.. >:-{
And were it anywhere near done. And not programmed in visual basic..

Nexus looks gorgeous as well but it costeds moneys and isp still won't handle it.. bah.

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[Blue Mink Bifocals !] [fsck -Rf /world/usr/] [<!-- kalimonster -->] [Capite Terram]
Applecore scowled. "What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?" -War of the Flowers
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

...Not to mention dor, if it were legal

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

Looks like you completley missed my point on the prisses. I was overegaterating the price.

Runescape: 5$

FFXI: 49$ + 13$ a month.

let's say we have each for a year membership..

Runescape: 60$

FFXI: 205$

Now, the price difference is one thing, and the company does matter. The quality of a game made by a few people isn't going to be as good as a game made by a few THOUSAND people. FFXI is also made in japan, and we all know those people can cook up some amazing things. I will not argue that RS is better than FFXI, but I'm saying that your comparison is not fair. But apparently it's not getting through to you people.
*sigh* Why do I even bother, you're as stubbern as a mule.

(PS: Cloud, the second picture you posted is from runescape members. For RS1 of course, you know the 5 FREAKING YEAR OLD GAME. You can't duel in RSFree )

EDIT: Oh, not only was I overegaterating, but I don't know the Canadian to American currency exchange. Sorry I don't bother with american economics, because I don't need to.
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<Glyde> but.. you can't pick pickled peppers, even if a pickled pepper picker could pick pickled peppers!

[This message has been edited by Glyde Bane (edited January 05, 2004).]

People can hack Runescape 2 already? http://forum.free-games.com.au/forum/Runescape_C4/RuneScape_2_F38/NEWEST_Runescape_2_Hacks_P37274/ Okay I think I found some Runescape 2 pictures.....





I still think the graphics could be more improved. Oh and Tsukasa, FFXI sounds very interesting... I also heard you can have 20 people fighting a single monster?

[This message has been edited by Cloud (edited January 05, 2004).]

[This message has been edited by Cloud (edited January 05, 2004).]

There's another point of contention with MMORPGs.. how the hell do you validate names. I'm sorry, playing a game with people named SkankDaddyio88765 and xSupahFlieHax0rzx and such would just remind me of AOL

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[Blue Mink Bifocals !] [fsck -Rf /world/usr/] [<!-- kalimonster -->] [Capite Terram]
Applecore scowled. "What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse?" -War of the Flowers
NPC.Interact::PressButton($'Submit');

SWG has naming restrictions. It works well for the most part.....something of that game must I suppose.



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