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Unfortunately, yeah. But I don't see many P2P MMORPGs with some of the things I mentioned either. And I'm Asian, I can handle the grind. :

Epic The description of the game in that article isn't amazing, and I assume you don't want to go buy and read the book, so basically, it's as realistic a MMORPG as you can get, while still having magic and the like. You can do just about anything.

As one of the biggest F2P MMORPG players on here, I suppose I'd say they've come pretty far. Going back to 2000, games like RuneScape were the norm. Though just about every F2P MMO has been a grind, the gameplay has progressed a bit. I don't think there's a RTC F2P MMORPG yet, but I'm sure in a few years at least one will pop up. Graphics really have improved. (Just look at RSC. Then look at any remotely popular game now, minus RuneScape. Notice a difference?) Most importantly, the fact that skills, other than combat, have appeared, like Nadril said, in Anarchy Online, has been great. That, to be honest, is what developers should start looking at. Yes, I'd imagine real-time combat to be fun. Yes, good AI is needed. But it gets ridiculously boring when all you do is kill monster, after monster, after monster, mixing in a few players now and then. I read a book this summer called Epic, and if anyone could actually make a game like that, that would be well...Epic. :P Oh, and Nadril - The thing you said about using magic to cast fire unto a weapon? You can do that in Silkroad Online. Pretty lousy game otherwise (Despite me having praised it so much in the past), but I suppose that was one of the better features. Secondary classes can add so much more strategy.

Lenin, why are you using asterisks instead of apostrophes? Just wondering... Attempts at humor almost always fail. Some people can pull it off, and they come around once in a while. Then they get banned.

You're also apparently racist if you think the other way. If you think Obama is the greatest president ever, apparently you hate all white people and love blacks. :roll: To those saying that it's stupid how only white people are labeled racist - Though that would be stupid, Asians, at least, are labeled racist for doing the same things. Probably not as much, but it still happens a good deal of the time. Oh, and according to my former French teacher, she can't be racist because she was born in Africa and has lived in more countries than we have. And she's a woman. :wall:

Final Smashes were built so unbalanced that it sucks the fun out for me. 1 with the Space animals/Sonic and you lose a life, for sure. It has the exact same properties and effects as a regular item. It's just too random and unbalanced. Though nothing is better than somehow getting three KOs with a Warlock Punch, getting a smash orb with the same Warlock Punch, and then using it once the respawning players' invincibility is over, getting a total of 6 kills with only two presses of "B". Too bad it only happened once. :(

Ah, Brawl is just too casual. Melee, not as much (with combos and all), but a good blend between casual and competitive. I played some fighter when I was bored at a department store in Taiwan, but I have no idea what the name is...Some Naruto thing, I think. Was pretty fun, though I was playing against like 7-year olds. :P And Soul Calibur 2 was no doubt the best in the series.

If they did it to themselves, wouldn't that mean they have some sort of...issue that caused them to do "it" in the first place? Like...I don't know, a drug addict in high school. He drops out, doesn't go to college, something like that. Ends up homeless, on the streets. Rehab? I don't sympathize with those people (aka, no "aw poor you"), but rather have a "go get help" feeling. As for those who had absolutely no control over whatever landed them there, yes, I do sympathize with.

That's only if you're playing casually, against other button-mashers. (Though that's fun as hell, hitting random buttons ftw) Other than Necrid. He was button-mashing either way. My friends who don't own the game don't know how to do anything other than button-mash. They get creamed nearly every time. Though...Raphael had that really cheap move you could do over and over and over...And Lizardman and his nut-kneeing move... #-o

I'm a Soul Calibur guy. Meh.

:roll: And it is exactly the same thing. Kid younger than everyone else in his class is supposedly smarter. Math, astronomy, I really doubt it makes a difference.

So when Lenin does it, it's fine. When I do it, it isn't? Whoo. (Nothing against you Lenin. Just wanted to point that out, I actually kind of anticipated this to happen... :? )

You know how most uppperclassmen hate Freshman? Yeah, I'm known for being the only Freshman in half of my classes. Next year I'll be taking classes with Seniors. :wall: I personally prefer upperclassmen over my own kind, the freshmen. Call me arrogant, sure. I suppose I do consider myself better than most people in my own grade, at least when it comes to academics... my math class though, I'm amazed I get along with them so well. Though I sure get a lot of hate, it sucks having a kid younger than you get a better grade. (Heh, my three best friends are a sophomore, a senior and a freshman.)

I'm a blend. Everyone knows my name. I'm easily recognizable. But no one puts it together. And I know everyone else's name. Oh wait, that's what my sig says.

Largest after the Romans, before the Mongols. I think. I find Islam to be used as a justification (wrongly, I'd say), rather than a reason, for violence. There is no correct interpretation of the Qu'ran, so some will take it literally and say it promotes violence. It all depends on how you interpret it, though most Muslims do not promote violence.

Reminds me of Jack Bauer/24. And yes. Like Warri0r said, "Millions of people's lives > the psychological/physical well being of one person." Unless there's some other way to gain the information needed. Torture should nearly always be a last resort. (I'm sure there's some exception, that's why I put "nearly"...)

Technically, if you can buy it on Virtual Console, you're cheating Nintendo out of like $5. :| Will the money grabbing whore that is Nintendo miss 5 bucks? Though the smiley would've implied I wasn't entirely serious. I have a good deal of NES/SNES/N64 ROMs myself, so yeah... But it's not like someone's going to spend $255 for Super Mario Bros., huh?

LOL. =D>

I was at some sort of graduation or ceremony, and some guy was playing "A Knife in the Dark" or "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony" on a piano. :thumbup:

what if a dam bursts on you? You drown,or you get crushed by the cement blocks the dam was made of.Only way I can think of dying is by falling into the sea some 100 metres or more below you,then again,you can snap you neck when you hit terminal velocity. Last march of the ents? :?

Online. Huh, I do happen to be almost always online...

Technically, if you can buy it on Virtual Console, you're cheating Nintendo out of like $5. :| I personally wouldn't emulate modern, somewhat expensive, games. Older, rarer, discontinued games, however, I have no problem with.

Oh yeah. Commercial breaks. And Billy Mays. But not Vince. Vince is cool.

Oh, I had one last night that I remember. It was stupid. I was back in my middle school. With my group of "friends". (I hate one of them) A class was canceled, so we went to the cafeteria. I was drinking chocolate milk, then the kid I hate leans over me. (which he does in real life, it's creepy...) I lose it for no apparent reason and put him in a headlock and take him down to the ground. He's actually like twice my size, so this would never happen in real life, but yeah...No one notices, and I stop after a while. Then I go back to the lunch table and find that my milk isn't there. Apparently it's under the table. I kick it over by accident and it spills. Then the dream ends. Fascinating, eh?

Oh geez, I probably can't remember all the skills anymore. Not to mention what they each have to do with. Um, I'll try. Agility: 40 (Decent sprinter, good mid-distance, failure at long-distance) Attack: 60 (All about accuracy) Strength: 3.14 (Though I don't miss much, my hits do absolutely nothing) Defense: 30 (Since Runescape is stupid and agility doesn't determine how often you dodge things [or does it now?], I suppose that's defense. But defense is also how good you are at blocking and absorbing damage...So yeah) Construction: 10 (I built an earthquake tower for tech ed, and it failed miserably) Cooking: 2 (RAMEN) Farming: 10 (I tried growing a tree once for arbor day. My dad ran over it with a lawnmower) Firemaking: 1 (We used bunsen burners last year. I couldn't get my thingy to light. Probably because I'm scared as hell of fire) Fishing: 10 Fletching: 40 (Knives, on the other hand...) Herblore: 25 (I know my drugs) Hunter: 10 (Pretty good tracker, but generally with people, not animals) Magic: 90 (Alright. My reasoning: Magic is nearly always determined by intelligence, in other MMORPGs at least. Not to mention I know way too many quotes from Gandalf, and I suppose Saruman as well. No, they obviously don't work or anything...) Mining: 20 (I had to take a hammer, wield it like a pickaxe, and whack snow out of the way a week or two ago) Prayer: 70 Ranged: 60 (Good sniper in FPSs?) Runecrafting: 1 Slayer: 1 Smithing: 5 (I smelted two pieces of soap together?) Summoning: 40 (I summon friends, clearly) Thieving: 20 (I don't put it to use, or at least I haven't for years, but I can get away with taking a thing or two now and then...) Woodcutting: 1 Now I feel like an idiot. And I wasted a good few minutes of my time.