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Like R.O.S.E. Online for example.

Um.. I'm not sure, but.. I think i remember a post about this game sometime ago. It's been in beta for a while, its in Open Beta at the moment, and free too.

I only tried it out because my roomate decided to check it out and it doesnt look half bad, so I gave it a go.

Been playing it a bit lately, esspecially with the updates and maintenance on FFXI. So far its pretty fun. The "click-to-move-everywhere" Diablo-style movement um... can get quite annoying and takes some getting used to. Though I have to say the game is pretty fun, and there are some really cool aspects to it, like for instance the Party Level gauge; It levels up the more your party fights monsters and if your not fighting it slowly lowers, but if you get to 100% all members of the party get instantly healed HP and MP... and that's pretty sweet.

The classes start out very limited, you start out as a "Visitor", then when you hit level 10 you can choose from 4 base classes: Soldier (think Warrior), Muse (think Red Mage, the buff/heal/offensive generic magic user), Hawker (think Thief/Rogue/Monk, can use h2h, daggers, and other such weapons and later levels get stealth abilities and other flashy moves), and lastly Dealer (Think Mercenary/Ranger, they excell in ranged combat, guns/bow/cannon <- *drool* and they aparently get the ability to hire additional merc npcs to help them fight).

Each basic class has 2 more higher classes you can eventaully advance to. Soldier -> Knight and Champ. Muse -> Cleric and Magician. Hawker -> Scout and Raider. Dealer -> Bourgeois and Artisan. Each of those 2 classes specializes in something different than the other (obviously).

The graphics are very cartoonish, though not quite as warped as WoW. It feels very Kingdom Hearts-ish to me. It's quite a vibrantly colorful game though, and really does look quite visually appealing.

There are tons of little things that irk me about it, but all in all, its fun to play, and its a blast to play along with one or both of my roomates together. (we got the other roomate playing it too XD ) ((I have 2 roomates)) And considering its open beta and its free, its definately worth checking out. For more info on it, if you think its a game for you check here R.O.S.E Online. I had a problem getting my registration verification email with Aol mail, quite frankly I never recieved it. Made a Yahoo email account and got the mail no sweat. Some people may have to play with thier spam settings, or check your spam folder if it doesnt appear with your main mail.

And here's me yesterday, I'm a Soldier, and this is the lvl 10 soldier gear, along with my quite pimp axe, I hit lvl 16 yesterday night before I went to bed.
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Yeah, a lot of people in my b.net clan played this a while back ago. It grew old quick for them, but hey it is free, and if you can't get on FFXI, why not give it a try?
 
<3 Ecks

I never understood why during a maintenence people will sit in here, or chat the whole time on AIM complaining about SE when there are literally thousands of other games you could play to pass the time :twisted:
 
Guess what im playing for most of today. :)
 
Coolies, I have today and tomorrow off. (same as last maintance >< )

So.. ill probably play Rose for a while, maybe start watching Witch Hunter Robin since I got the whole series in the mail yesterday. <3 Ebay $25 for complete collection. I had originally planned to buy all the individual dvds as they were coming out, but.. I could never find the first one locally, even as most stores around here had most of the rest of the series.. I ended up buying dvd 2 and 3, and then just stopped. So.. yeah, at $20 a pop im glad I didn't pursue that further. I'll be taking the 2 dvds I own to GameStop and get some store credit for em. (hell they're still in plastic wrap XD)
 
LOL maintenance...... I'm gone again for a few months and when I come back ... maintenance :) Poo, and I'm trying to get away from ps2 FFXI and transition full time into the PC version, no tweaking tonight I guess.

Ah well, we just downloaded "The Warriors" for xbox, maybe I'll give that a whirl.
 
Battlefield 2 FTW! :twisted:
 
This game really is great, I decided since my younger cousin had no dough and he likes MMORPG's that we can play this together, I also checked out Lineage II, anythings better then Runescape, no one deserves that kind of punishment. :lol:
 
i sugest you try Rakion, its awsome! its made from the makers of gunbound, its mostly PvP, and theres only 5 character modles, and theres some major balance issues, but it just went into open beta last friday, so there are little/no hacks on it. you should try it atleast.
 
I play Rakion too :D I love Golem Wars ^^ I'm a Ninja!! HYAH!!!
 
ROSE is a fun game, I jumped to 23 with a soldier in no time and only joined a party for like 15 mins in that whole span XD

Here's a a screenie from a few days ago that I found amusing:
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XD yeah, people have all sorts of funny shop comments.

Well know I know if I see a Gatttsu running about that its you.

I have 2 characters on Rose, after I made the soldier I decided to make a dealer.

Zenriori 18 soldier

Lexxa 22 dealer

When I do play, its usually on the #3 channel
 
there are so many of those type of games >< I'm tired of them all.

I prefer an old school ghetto mmo like Terraworld Online. http://www.terragaming.net/
 
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