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Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Well, the A's are officially over. Somehow, that feeling of euphoria one should have when such an examination is over, didn't really come to me. I have hardly anything to do until the 4th of March, and really, sometimes I sit around, wondering what I'm going to do with my life.

Sure, I've got my games to play, but honestly speaking, they're all getting a little old and boring. I tried going back to the games that I used to have a lot of fun in, such as Rakion, Runes of Magic, as well as Neosteam. Rakion and Neosteam are now both dying games, and while its not impossible to play and have fun, the games just feel a little bit too empty, and sometimes there aren't enough people to play with. Runes of Magic is a great game, and its thriving. However, I can't seem to get immersed in it. It just feels very broken and unpolished, and I don't like any of the classes in the game.

I did find one game that I'm currently playing now, and that's Dragonica Online. Its a free to play MMORPG, and what made me stick with it is its special gameplay. Instead of using your mouse and pressing the usual numbers to use skills, this game plays like some sort of an action platformer. One close example of how this game is played is Little Fighter 2. You move around with your arrow keys, and you use the keys on the left side of the keyboard to use various skills, which may or may not allow you to perform combo attacks, depending on your class. You can even use your PS3 or Xbox 360 controllers to play the game. Apart from the way the game is played, the questing system is very similar to Guild Wars, minus the henchmen. There are main quests, which are instanced mission maps. However, these mission maps do not contain the sophistry of Guild Wars, since they are usually made of straight paths, requiring you to eliminate all the monsters in the map before you can proceed to the next map, eventually leading to a final boss who you have to defeat. Its unique, but without a henchman system, its going to lead to problems when the population and levels don't accommodate certain players.

Also, I've completed playing Assassin's Creed on the PSP. Its pretty interesting, since you get to do all the stealth kills and all, as well as jumping across roofs and scaffolds. The AI and controls need to be improved, since the controls can really piss you off at times, and the AI makes fighting a little too easy. I'm playing Little Big Planet (LBP) now, and its surprisingly fun. When I first saw LBP, I always wondered, what's so fun about a usual Mario-like platformer? Well, its not your usual Mario-like platformer. You get to solve puzzles, use switches, jetpacks, ride on magic carpets, and possibly a lot of other stuff I haven't found out yet.

posted @ 4:35 pm
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