Jan 04 2008
My current favorite online time suck
I’m spending an unholy amount of time playing Dragon Fable, an online RPG that runs in your browser using Flash. It’s continuously in development, so there are new quests and areas being added all the time.
The best part is, YOU CAN PLAY A GREAT DEAL OF IT FOR FREE to see if you like it, with no obligation to buy anything ever. There are a few areas you can’t access, some equipment you can’t use, and higher-level quests you can’t complete, but there’s still plenty to play with for free.
I finally had to upgrade because with the free version, you can make only one character, and my daughter really, really wanted to play, too. Plus, I really, really wanted to customize my dragon!
This is probably the first game ever in which I have not preferred warrior class. My mage is kickass (her name is Gnocchi, and her dragon, Dumpling, is fast becoming the scourge of the universe….), and my low-level rogue does more damage with those multi-hit attacks than my high-level warrior ever did. I’m still trying to level up my pirate armor to see what skills that gives me (so far, Scurvy, though not terribly useful, is my favorite, just because it amuses me), and I’m saving my munny for ninja class to try that out. The warrior is just lame, man. (I can’t believe I’m saying such a thing. I’m always Little Miss Hacks-with-Sword!)
The game has its flaws (I particularly wish party guests would level up—not that I don’t appreciate those 3 points of damage Level 2 Robina brings to the team), but like I said before, it’s a work in progress, and the developers factor user input into the upgrades, which is awesome.
Plus, it’s cool to go back and find something new to do on a regular basis, and the developers have a great sense of humor. They make fun of their own spelling errors, and there’s yellow snow in Falconreach right now, and the dumbass paladin exorcised the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future while they were helping you out…
It’s fun. Join me in the geekiness!
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January 15th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I never did tell you how much I loved this post, little Miss Hacks-with-Sword. My personal poison is Halo 3. I enjoy trudging about with the large fire thrower thingy crisping everyone to ash while, in my very best plays-well-with-others voice, I scream “FIIII-YAAAA!!!”
January 16th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Long, long ago, there was something on the web called Red vs. Blue, which was Halo gameplay cut together cinematically with voice overs, and it was freakin’ hilarious. I never played Halo solely because it couldn’t possibly live up to RvB.
Assassin’s Creed is my candy when I get to use the console—more stabbity stabbity. I may never play a shooter again because I hatehatehate the “aftertouch” feature on the PS3 controller. I have always played like I have a Wii—standing up, whipping my hands around, yelling at the TV—and if you tip that controller by one bloody degree at the wrong time, your aim is destroyed. Cannot shoot worth a damn with that thing.
Where’s my sword…?