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The Chatterbox => Gaming => Topic started by: Ulti on August 28, 2007, 12:38:18 AM
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Okay, so I pretty much whored this in the lame-reply thread, but I'm going to do it again here, because I think I got ignored, and this game is too kickass to just let slip.
Here's the deal, it's an MMO set during the age of exploration, during the early colonization of a new continent. Craziness ensues here, because you can use guns and cannons all sorts of badassery, along with your more traditional magics and swords, etc. Furthermore, it's made by the main designer of RO, so you know it can't completely fail. To complete the weirdness of the game and setting, you don't control one player at a time, you control three. It reminds me a lot of some unholy offspring of Guild Wars-esque combat and micromanaging and the FF12 party system.
Here's the kicker though, K2 (the american distibutor) finally decided to not be an idiot, and just recently made the game free to play.
It weighs in at a pretty hefty 3.6gigs, just for the installer, but it's well mirrored, and I got it downloaded in about two hours. As a note, the graphics kick serious ass, without requiring the greatest computer known to man.
Here's the link (http://www.swordofthenewworld.com)
If any of you guys decide to play it, I'm on the Vespanola PK server, family name Ulti-
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I'd join, except that I already have more than enough MMORPG stuff, I mean, I'm playing on a couple private WoW servers as it is (and I have my official characters).
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Wow, that's fairly impressive.
I hate myself ;_;
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Eh, what's so impressive? I havent played that many MMORPGs.. only Mu online, Rose Online, Savage Garden, Silkroad Online, WoW, Ragnarok Online, and 1 or 2 others I may be forgetting, lol.
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No, I was making an exceptionally awful pun. Although I am slightly impressed that you can be playing on more than one wow server at a time, does that require multiple installations or anything?
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No, though I do have a copied folder, that was just in case the burning crusade might not like playing on my official (non BC) characters. I use the WoW front end to switch servers, because it automated editing the config.wtf file. All you do is point the game at a different realm server and make an account on the private server and you're on a private server. They actually made WoW pretty simple to get on a private server.
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Oh, alright. I've played on servers for Diablo mods and they require crazy editing of registry files and stuff, so it's not even close to convenient to just switch around at will. I love how this is now a thread about wow.
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ITT: bobbias & ultimate
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stfu ;_;
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I might start playing this once I get pissed off at wow.
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Alright, give me a yell if you decide to pick it up. It's a pretty minor time-suck, considering you can leave the game mostly unsupervised and your party will kill anything that gets within range. However you'll miss all your gear, and it's honestly not as fast as leveling actively, and there's nothing stopping someone from PKing you at higher levels.
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Downloading via Azureus right now.
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Alright. Toss me an AIM when you get started, I'm playing on Vespanola, family name Ulti-