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Allods: Applause

Ravven — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:35:55 +0000

I had a lot of fun this weekend in Allods. I’d started characters on the Empire side (loving very much the clockwork-doll look of Arisen), but due to friends playing on League, and also being less impressed by the starting area on the Empire side, I deleted every one and switched to League. Sunshine and meadows for me, thank you. :)

There are some very cool kind of post-revolution Russian shops and things. All signs are in Russian. That didn’t bother me, but the griefers speaking in Russian kind of did. (A post to come on how trying to ruin a fairly nice general chat channel is equivalent to griefing, and how we should never forget that we are all representatives of our respective countries.)

After doing Dead Soul (the first kind of mini-boss on League side), we left for the city on a stunning ship, sailing through the Astral. As the silhouette of the city came into view, I admit I was squeeing…just a little bit. :)

It’s the mark of success in a f2p game that you can have that feeling. That “omg, that is so cool!” squee feeling. Applause to Allods Online.

All in all, a very fun weekend.

Holiday Laziness

Ravven — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:48:18 +0000

Well, I have been doing some work on all the planned projects. But mostly I’ve been:

Reading
Eating holiday food
Drinking
Reading more
Levelling my paladin
Playing Allods Online – closed beta at last!

Edit: Yaay, I can finally add screenshots. BT is quite arbitrary on when they’ll allow connections to things like WordPress. It would be so nice if there was another reliable ISP that we could get in our area. Anyway…I finally finished the grind for the raptor mount! It wasn’t bad, all things considered – I’ve never wanted to try the Wintersaber rep grind on any character (I have a life!), but this one wasn’t bad.

And then there’s Allods Online. Allods is a lot of fun. A bit basic in normal MMO terms, but absolutely lovely for a f2p MMO.

Although the loading screen looks uncomfortably like Evony/Civony (no, I’m NOT going to link to it!).

For anyone who is unreasonably excited about playing the game right now, please note that I have (so far) not encountered any elf-on-elf lesbian sex. But who knows…perhaps there’s a reason for the steamy loading screen, and I just haven’t unlocked that content yet.

Perhaps I just have a dirty mind. If so, I blame teh Internets.

Allods Online Astral Trailer

Ravven — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:34:12 +0000

I have to say, everything I’ve seen online seems to indicate that this is going to be a fun f2p game to play. I’m really looking forward to it.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h72OKlTBopQ]

Too Much Kawaii

Ravven — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:06:46 +0000

I’d seen a few blog posts and reviews on Allods Online floating by, and while it looked pretty I’m not really in the mood for another F2P MMO. But then I saw this video on Keen and Graev, and I am consumed by the need to play it, just for the cuteness. Forget the more traditional humans and orcs and so on…I want to get all my friends to play so we can be total dorks, skipping around through the flowers. :D I love it.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWOuA0j3rMQ]