If you're like me, you enjoy a good RPG or two or ten. You may also enjoy a good multi-player game. If you're like me, you may also enjoy wasting away countless hours of your life in a futile effort to level up a character in a massive, multi-player world, achieving an end that inevitably gets you nothing in return, save for a cute little armored avatar.
Enter Ragnarok Online. Developed by the Korean game company GRAVITY Co., Ltd., Ragnarok has been going strong since 2002. I remember playing the beta back in the day, thinking that this
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Runescape – Making Your First 100K
by Junou Mathieu April 27th, 2011 | RPG
Just like in the real world, money makes the Runescape world go around. In other words, you need a lot of gold coins if you want to advance very far in Runescape. You need money to buy armor, weapons, food, accessories, potions, runes and just about everything else you can think of.
Once your attack, strength, and defense levels reach 40, you'll need thousands of gold coins in order to buy a full set of rune armor, complete with a rune sword or scimitar. In fact, you'll need at least 100k before you become even remotely close to buying your
Once your attack, strength, and defense levels reach 40, you'll need thousands of gold coins in order to buy a full set of rune armor, complete with a rune sword or scimitar. In fact, you'll need at least 100k before you become even remotely close to buying your
Earthbound: A Mother of a Game
by Jason Lightner April 6th, 2011 | Console Games, Game Reviews, RPG
I couldn't do it. I can't tell you why exactly, but while going through and cataloguing my collection something inside of me just said "You idiot, knock it off!" In all seriousness, I think it boils down to one game: Earthbound for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
A top contender for my favorite video game of all time, Earthbound and I spent an entire summer together as I mastered the game's many towns and various weapons and attacks. Oh, where are my manners? I should take this opportunity to formally introduce you.
Earthbound is a RPG about a young
A top contender for my favorite video game of all time, Earthbound and I spent an entire summer together as I mastered the game's many towns and various weapons and attacks. Oh, where are my manners? I should take this opportunity to formally introduce you.
Earthbound is a RPG about a young
On the Necessity of 3D Games
by Jason Lightner January 28th, 2011 | Console Games, Gaming System, Nintendo DS, Online, PlayStation 3, Portable gaming, RPG
Between the PS3's anticipated firmware updates and the Nintendo 3DS, people are all abuzz about 3D gaming. Being a child of the eighties and nineties, I'm a die-hard fan of 2D gaming at its most pure. I enjoy side-scrolling games like Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man. I relish top-down RPGs like Earthbound and Chrono Trigger. Fighting games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2 devoured many a quarter of mine when I ventured to the arcades. All this being said, I can't possibly be interested in 3D gaming, can I?
The answer is that I am completely fascinated by
The answer is that I am completely fascinated by
Wither the Pokémon MMORPG?
by Jason Lightner January 14th, 2011 | Console Games, Online, RPG
Something's been on my mind for quite some time and it's high-time it gets addressed. Nintendo, I'm looking at you, and I have just one question. Why haven't you given us a Pokémon MMO? It seems like an easy thing to do: Take the competitiveness and exploration of the Pokémon games, combine it with the exploration and questing of a game like World of Warcraft and throw in some good PVP action and you've got yourself a winner. Somehow, though, this never came to be, and I'd like to know why.
Instead of getting to play a truly epic
Instead of getting to play a truly epic
