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By Danny "Ralsu" Gourley
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Please refer to the
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Free-to-Play Games Portal to find out how to get a game you
make or like on this list.
Week in Review
This week, I played quite a bit of Rohan:
Blood Feud.
I really have nothing but good things to say.
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has nice graphics, good music, a familiar user interface and controls,
interesting lore and a fun skill tree system. It also features some
very unique social options. Players caught botting or selling gold can
be put under a citizen's arrest and sent to a "jail." From the jail,
they cannot speak in global chat or gain experience.
With a tool
as powerful (and so open to grief) as this citizen's arrest component,
the onus is on YNK Interactive, the publisher for
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to be sure that the complaints are legitimate. Repeat offenders who
earn their imprisonment will be banned, of course--as will people who
wrongfully accuse the innocent repeatedly. The setup is aimed at
encouraging the community to police itself, but I did not get to play
with this tool. I wouldn't want to try it out without a developer
approving my use of it.
My early impression is that Rohan
has a solid tutorial and some fun starting quests that allow players to
get into the lore. The factional-based PvP elements are apparent early.
I'll try to bring Ten Ton Hammer readers some
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the next week, but for now, I will just give you the overview from the
official website:
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is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). The game
is a rich and expansive persistent online world, set on the continent
of Rohan. The land is full of quests to embark upon, from simple to
glorious. Friends and enemies will be made and lost, spectacular
battles will be fought, and an abundance of unique game features will
keep players on the edge of their gaming seats. There are many features
of the game that set it apart from more traditional MMORPGs, including:
REVENGE:
Players who have been slain in-game by another will have their killers
automatically recorded on their "Hit List". Once resurrected, the slain
can teleport to their killers for a chance at revenge.
TOWNSHIP
BATTLES: In-game groups - called 'guilds' - have the opportunity to
rule each town within Rohan. Other guilds may wage civil war with the
ruling guild, with the chance to gain control of their own. In addition
to treasure & riches, the right to tax all commercial exchanges
within the town for one week goes to the winner.
BUY & SELL
SAFELY: There are several ways in which players can buy and sell goods
within the game, including a website specially designed for
player-to-player transactions.
With my attention focused fully on Rohan,
I did not get a chance to play the copy of
style="font-style: italic;">Rakion I installed.
I'll look at it again next week. I did go through a couple of quests in
the Holic
tutorial and decided that game is best left to our sister site,
href="http://tentonhamster.com">Ten Ton Hamster.
It is very clearly aimed at young gamers even though the foundation
looks solid enough for older audiences.
Finally, with Rohan
coming onto the list, something had to drop off. For now, that game is
style="font-style: italic;">Fiesta Online. That
is not to say Fiesta
is not a good game. I actually have enough quality titles here now that
it is getting pretty tough to contain myself to 10 choices!
The List
Coming up, I will bring readers some coverage of
style="font-style: italic;">Rohan. I'll
make Rakion
a priority, too, and look one week for a functional download link for
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before giving up that search and looking at another game,
style="font-style: italic;">Hero Online.
Here are my Top Ten Free-to-Play Games for this week.
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Free-to-Play Games
June 12, 2008
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style="font-weight: bold;">Mythos
- (
href="http://www.mythos.com/">www.mythos.com
style="font-weight: bold;">) Flagship Studios,
Inc.
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/329">Mythos
Portal
Many Mythos
players are
in limbo now. They can either test the overworld on the test server or
test the old content on the beta server with the understanding that
most resources are going into the overworld. It's a little stagnant
right now, but the results will be great.
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style="font-weight: bold;">Mabinogi - (
href="http://mabinogi.nexon.net/">http://mabinogi.nexon.net)
NEXON
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/856">Mabonogi
Portal
Mabinogi
actually gets more fun the longer you play--just the opposite of many
other free-to-play games.
3
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style="font-weight: bold;">Wakfu - (
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target="_blank">www.wakfu.com
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Ankama
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/1017">Wakfu
Portal
The English Closed Beta of Wakfu
has finally started. The game is under NDA, though, so beta testers
can't comment on Wakfu's
progress.
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N/A
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style="font-weight: bold;">Rohan: Blood Feud - (
href="http://www.playrohan.com/" target="_blank">
style="font-weight: bold;">www.playrohan.com
style="font-weight: bold;">) YNK Interactive
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/906">Rohan
Portal
Rohan has nice lore, appropriate music, and most of the bells and
whistles of a pay-to-play game.
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style="font-weight: bold;">Dream of Mirror Online - (
style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"
href="http://domo.aeriagames.com/">http://domo.aeriagames.com
style="font-weight: bold;">) Aeria Games &
Entertainment
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/997">DOMO
Portal
Dream of Mirror
Online gives players all of the versatility with classes
of Final Fantasy XI
without the monthly fee.
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style="font-weight: bold;">Requiem: Bloodymare - (
href="http://www.playrequiem.com/">www.playrequiem.com
style="font-weight: bold;">) Gravity Interactive
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/769">Requiem
Portal
Requiem
is easily the highest quality horror game I have tried.
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style="font-weight: bold;">Dungeon Runners -
(
target="_blank">
http://www.dungeonrunners.com
style="font-weight: bold;">) NCSoft
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/110">Dungeon
Runners Portal
Dungeon
Runners is great for mindless fun and dungeon romps. It's
even better if you have a set gorup of friends to play with.
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Online
- (
href="http://mwo.enjoymmo.com/" target="_blank">http://mwo.enjoymmo.com
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Goldcool Games
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/983">Magic
World Online Portal
Weeks later, and I still can't find many games with stories as good as
the one in Magic World
Online.
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(
href="http://www.neosteam.com/">www.neosteam.com
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Hanbitsoft
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/963">NeoSteam
Portal
NeoSteam
is one of those games most gamers will either love or hate. It's a
pretty good game that does not get a lot of attention.
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style="font-weight: bold;">Warrior Epic -
(
href="http://warriorepic.com/">http://warriorepic.com
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Possibility Space
href="http://www.tentonhammer.com/taxonomy/term/691">Warrior
Epic Portal
Warrior Epic
is still one of the more secretive titles on this list. I have faith in
the concept and look forward to seeing the execution.
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