And so here I am again, about to subjugate myself to another round of pain and suffering. This time I had a light bulb go off in my head, and then it promptly burnt out because I was using the wrong wattage again. I'll write about the multitude of horrors I experience while running around in free-to-play mmo's so that you too can share in my suffering because hay; nothing helps ease my unbearable pain quite like spreading it around. So without further adieu, I present part one of Free MMO Hell.
Mythwar II - http://mw2.igg.com/
Wow, I picked a real stinker for my first entry. Mythwar II (MW2) is an unplayable piece of crap unleashed upon the world by free mmo peddlers and baby killers IGG. After picking a generic RPG stereotype character to serve as my avatar I was immediately dismayed to discover that the game was played in a 2D, Diablo style viewpoint with a click-to-move interface. After speaking with the noob welcome character, a woman riding a flying bird, I proceeded wandering around aimlessly and picking up all the miscellaneous crap that was strewn about the ground everywhere. (Not at all unlike what I do in real life.)
I was surprised to discover that combat was initiated randomly while moving around the map, sort of like a Japanese RPG. (Final Fantasy 1, 2, 3, 45,824, ect.) In fact, combat is conducted from a static side view with an action timer like an old school JRPG as well, except that in this case its mind-numbingly dull and bereft of even the slightest element of strategy.
It took me a moment to figure out what the hell I was supposed to do as the game never gave me any kind of instruction how to defend myself, but basically all you do is select an ability to use, click on a target and then your character will preform the same action over and over again until you tell him to do something else or your target is destroyed. The fact that a magical blob thing appeared out of nowhere only to insult me didn't help matters.
I have a high end system but for some reason the game was running choppy on my computer and the interface was so horrible that I didn't bother chatting with anyone. I mean, why would I want to? What sort of sick, twisted fiend would play a game like Mythwar II for fun? It boggles my mind that people could actually log on to this game daily and enjoy themselves when there are plenty of other unbearably bad free mmo's out there that somehow still manage to be vastly superior to this one. I mean crap.
Oh, then after killing things for a while I got dead.
Well, unsure of how to wrap things up I ran into a familiar friend who offered me two choices, but we both knew there was only one that made any sense.
I deleted my short lived character and after I finish typing up this article I'm going to cast Mythwar II back into the bowls of the internet from which it sprang; bloody, mewing and oozing greenish puss.
So there you have it. There's bad free to play mmo's out there, and then there's games like MW2 that somehow manage to bend reality to achieve a whole new level of suck previously before unseen in the mortal realm. God, I need a shower.
One internets out of 10
I lolled
ReplyDeleteWell umm...(pete) if you would understand that mw2 is crappy yes but only...BUT ONLY cuz of igg. for that igg is not the orignal owner. and igg just bought a ticket to hell for this game. and dude you can't play a game for 5minutes and judge it for this game was fun and a game that actually lived by tje name of a RPG game. for this game does need stradegty. and for this game can actually take years to be the best in it. but enough of that.. and on the contrary.. you are one lonely bastard downloading any game trying it out and posting something about. (pete posted 7.58 pm) by looking at that u do this before its ur bedtiime i just hope you dont do this everynight for it seems this is the most exciting part of your day goodbye
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