Gaming Mom

For all of you fans of the text based MMO’s, well a baby has been born in the gaming world, just barely 2 months old this text based MMO is surprisingly a breath of fresh air!

Alex Priebe aka Nightmare in game created this MMO on a whim. Do we think it will make him rich, no, but for a lover of the text based MMOs, I think its a nice breath of fresh gaming air.  Similar to Kings of Chaos and Ruins of Chaos, Alex’s MMO, The Shadow Wars, gives us a bigger variety of races and bonuses for those races, but he adds a bit more still by making certain races have enemies, which will effect them differently in combat.

Each color is the enemy of another color (like a 5 way Rock-Paper-Scissors). See the arrows on the picture above? Whichever color your chosen color points towards is your enemy, and you get an extra 10% bonus to your damage whenever you’re in combat against that color.

The game is eye appealing, no harsh contrast, so for the die hard text based MMO gamer, yes you can sit and wait for the next turn.  Speaking of turns, well you wont get a rash of people taking your gold, being you get attack turns every 4 hours, and like a lot of these text based games, there is no clicking needed to up your army, this game is pure UP. Another feature I do like is your TBG (turn based gold) comes every 10 minutes, so growth isnt something you have to wait for.  Sure there is room for growth and expantion, but for something born 2 months ago, I think Alex is on the right track.

In my opinion for a game that was seemingly thrown together, it has the desire and the possibility to be something bigger then it is now. If you, like me enjoy the relaxing pace sometimes of a text based MMo, then show some support for a guy and his baby and join TSW.

http://www.dsclan.info/sw2/index.php

The Shadow Wars

So, Im pretty damn evil in my games I play.  But it is still just a game.  anddddd no one likes me, well except those that have realised it is just a game.  Somewhere in the deepest darkest realms of the Internets there is a guy on a bike and he is riding as fast as his little feet can peddle.

Why?

So he can run the one very and only computer in a town where they hold the death shrine to me.  On a very cold stone is my name, in blood i imagine. With sentiments of smut ridden language, this man peddles and another man yells in some off language, FASTER FASTER!

He then posts on the group forum how his entire village will sacrifice their only goat in a ceremony that will disease my crops and ravage my herds. *blinks*

Ohhhkay, and yes, he did say this. Why? Well I sabotaged his alliance and wiped out their DA, duh.  Well of course it makes pure sense now.

How a person can get so angry with someone is irrashional. I digress.

An entire community, based on my actions in a game, loathes the mouse I click. To an extend a few years back, people paid a hacker to hack my account and some in my alliance. What drives people to such a hate, they would pay cash money to another to destroy sometihng that can simply be replaced with the click of a button and a new account.  But these people still came at me, and still do, not with such a force though.  Death threats, insults, secret meetings about how to run me out of the game.

They still hate, but not with such a drive and desire as they did in the past.  Some hold grudges, and when they encounter me it leaves them with memories they just cant let go.  As if I had personally come to their home and taken their last piece of candy, or for that matter, their mouse.

It is mind boggling to me that the role I play in a text based game, enrages some to fits of drinking and cursing and yelling, and I don’t even get to enjoy it. How can someone hate another like this. Most have never seen me, most have no idea whom I am where I live, they just know that whomever sits behind my account they have a passionate hate for.

Surprisingly, most of these people are not teens or young adults, they are older men and women with families and jobs.  Whom outside their text based realms no one knows of this brewing hate for a women about a million miles away, on the Internet. And the only thing I did was play a game.

Its an interesting emotion online.  I mean sure you hear of people falling in love online, so i assume the same can be said of hate and loathing. But you don’t fall in love because of an account in a game. Makes me laugh a bit when I think about it.

     There are such a big amount of  MMOs. Most being built by smaller scale programmer’s and coders.  Seems that if you haven’t tried your hand at one, pfftt then who are you in the net world!  I consider  smaller games with about 5k less players.  Usually its player base is friends that followed from another game or word of mouth, not a whole lot goes into advertising because the whole lot of money that is to be had goes to pay for servers. This doesn’t mean at all that the game itself isn’t good. Just means its small.  A lot of these games have the foundation to be a Maple Story or a Runescape, it just takes some time and patience.  In a market of MMOs are a dime a dozen, texts based games may end up prevailing as it seems the 3d MMOs dont have the technical abilities to offer seasoned gamers, Offering something the 3d games are lacking in, and that’s self imagination.

The problem with these smaller scale MMOs is that they don’t give you anything different from the next one, they all have the base same races, elves, humans, orcs, dwarf’s, undead. Some may get fancy and offer you Dark Elves or the likes, they all have the same bonuses it seems within game.  I think with these games to get bigger and more known in the gaming circle they need to offer something extra that will catch the gaming eye.

I have played so many of these that I surely get bored and move on, as not many do actually lead to something new or exciting. One game I used to play a lot of though, was Martial Law www.martiall.com .

In this game you have a character whom has mercenaries whom fight for you. you can train them, or really train them with paying for lessons.  There is a town where you can purchase items and sell items.  A labyrinth of different levels exists where you can fight demons and ghosts for weapons.  You can train, up different stats to hold more weapons, or get more gold per turn. What I did like about this game was after you were done using your turns to battle, you could still level in the labyrinth, or go into town and play games for gold, go hunting for different items. It didn’t leave you bored until the next reset.  It left you with other things to do.

NewAge3 Reborn www.newage3.com

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This is also another game I play, currently. I like it because after u battle to level yourself you can go into what they call the “spacial field” It goes from text to a 3d environment. you can land on planets and build them up, attack and destroy or mine and harvest. All of these things helping to develop your character. This game has in-game forums as well, for the community and for your own alliance if you choose to join one. I like that aspect as it keeps people in game.  A lot of times smaller scale games suffer the more active forums because people just cant be bothered to log out and go to the forums to see the latest update or gripe about players or the admins themselves.

These are my 2 hot pic games of the month, if you like text based with a bit of 3 d actions and more things to do and skills to learn then just battling, then i suggest you try these games.