Recently I found this game called Archlord.

 

 

 

Since I quit RuneScape I've been looking for a new game to get into, but most you need to pay for,

 

and others are too laggy with my pc as it has a really terrible integrated intel graphics card.

 

 

 

 

 

So far I quite like it. The population is pretty small, apparently they recently celebrated the

 

500,000th user. Also fansite and other support documentation is very limited. A lot of the fansites

 

the official site suggests are now closed and sold off, or in another language, or just don't really

 

have enough data to be called a help site.

 

 

 

The gameplay is similar to Guildwars, you start doing quests for NPC's and have to progress through to reach other parts of the map, which is surprisingly big.

 

The unique feature of this game though is the ability to be the 'Arch Lord' of your server. This means you get to control the weather and be really powerful and stuff, pretty cool. You get challenged once a month (or two weeks can't remember which) by people trying to get your position.

 

 

 

Anyone else have experience with Archlord?

They switched it to an f2p model a while ago, didn't they? I always thought of maybe trying it but the launch reviews were so bad I didn't bother.

 

 

 

I hear there is a new expansion pack coming out though.

Yeah it used to be p2p but it's now free, and they've seen a huge boost in users (predictably).

 

 

 

And the expansion pack is coming soon, with lots of content.

I quit playing like a year ago after killing a few slimes near the beginner zone & my free trial ran out, decided it's definitely NOT worth paying for. It just seemed too blank of a game... Not sure if I'd compare it to Guildwars, it seemed like an absolute carbon copy of WoW with worse dialogs (written by plain font) and the exact same combat system.

 

 

 

Thanks for mentioning it went F2P, might check it out again in spare time later 8-)

I would probably compare it more to Lineage II, BlueLancer. However I'm not sure if it's quest based or not.

It has some major flaws, definitely.

 

 

 

There are loads of spelling mistakes (feild) which will eventually get to me.

 

Also the places some quests tell you to go to don't exist, or are spelt wrong, so it takes you ages to find out where to go.

Meh, it's ok for an F2P, my brother bought the game when it was P2P like ages ago. But yea, it's pretty heavily based on grinding, quests are good at the start to get you understanding what skills do and stuff. Graphics are pretty stunning for an F2P. Theres no character customisation though, for example, a Human Mage has to be a female, an Orc Bezerker always has to be male, etc.

 

Didn't play deep enough to see what the endgame pvp sieges were like :(

 

 

 

As a side note, I didn't get grouping at all =/