One of the Game..

that I'm playing on and off is GE (Granado Espada), which is based on the 17th century Baroque period, where ladies are sexy (wear corset and show their boobs) and guys are charming (wear tight pants :p), and where pirates roam the new world... It was free until 29 Aug where new players would need to pay a monthly fee to play... luckily they implemented a plan to reward those who started playing earlier with a 90 days free-to-play offer, so I get to play GE until around end of Nov for free..


These are my characters in GE.. The front guy is a fighter, who fights with one sword on each hand; the lady is a muskateer who is using a rifle while the guy on the right is a scout who heals the other two fellas when they get hurt.. They are currently at level 23. The only interesting part about the game are the fancy costumes. So far the playability of individual characters are quite limited, as one character can only be fighter, muskateer, scout, elementalist or wizard. Unlike WOW (World of Warcraft) where you get to choose side (Alliance or Horde), then a Race (from a total of 10 different races) then a Class (from a total of 9 classes) , and then 2 professions (from a total of 12 professions), so I can be a Gnome Ice Mage who is also a herbalist and a alchemist.. Imagine the possible permutations available!! :) The chances of meeting a similar character build in GE is VERY high, as there is limited permutations.. :x and unlike WOW where you can do professions, you need to keep doing quests or kill 'mobs' (aka monsters) and sell the 'drops' (aka what the monsters will drop when they die) in GE, which is kinda boring for me..

I am playing GE in one of their non-PK server. PK means Player Killing, where other players can just jump at your character and kill him/her which I hate the most.. It often happens when you are trying to get your character to level up by killing monsters, then suddenly 'BAM!' your character is dead.. That is one of the main reason why I stopped playing Lineage II. It has one of the best graphics among MMORPG, but I just hate the PK feature of it.. It is even worst when other players 'camp' there and kill your character every time your character come backs to life.. For games that doesn't have penalty for dying except, for instance in WOW, the inconvenience of running back from the cemetery to your character to resurrect it or in GE, the waiting time for it to come back to life, I can still live with these inconveniences, but it really sucks when your character lost some experience points and has to bear the possibility of losing some hard-earned weapon/armor/money/etc..

For those curious about World of Warcraft, there is a very cute episode of South Park that centers on the four main characters playing WOW.. That episode even won this year's Emmys for the Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming less than 1 hour)!! :) The episode is called 'Make Love, Not Warcraft' featured in South Park's 10th season.. Maybe I will restart my WOW account later this year... :)