Pete,Mar 25 2006, 10:35 PM Wrote:Hi,I did play the original a bit, but not until late in its life when the bugs had been ironed out and it was more or less in its final form. It was in fact very good and immersive - imagine WoW without the graphics but hardcore and with GMs (wizards) who occasionaly intervened in the game to make life more interesting for you. Pvp made it quite difficult to survive and got the adrenaline going: if you had a reasonably high level character you entered a game very cautiously and tried to work out whether there were other high level characters stealthed who might try to take you out. It didn't help that you could be summoned against your will.
Thanks for the link, I learned something new today and that's always good :)
Did you ever get to play the original? Was it as bad as the link seems to imply?
--Pete
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I played its second incarnation, British Legends, a lot, and did eventually beat that game, i.e. become a wizard. But I had to do it twice because the first time I was within a few exp of making it an existing wizard destroyed my character for what she considered unacceptable behaviour (I mind controlled an opponent in a fight and made her rape a zombie. Well, I thought it was funny even if the zombie didn't).
It's strange that the game that was first in the MMORPG genre has just about been forgotten now.