Maplestory.

[HappyNooblet]

To be honest, Not a bad game, just bad company... and community... and lategame content.. and the grind is too long...

and...

You know what, its as bad as you make it out to be.

Seriously, i could bash how bad runescape, starcraft, league of legends, call of duty, guild wars, ANYTHING. ANYTHING CAN BE TERRIBLE.

Some people are just drawn to things.

No offense. But i'm drawn to maplestory, because of the anime feel, even though they were taken over a money hungry company and the economy was exploded into real life money out the window and the value of max mesos has literally gone down to 10 dollars when it used to be really hard to get.

I play this game because i feel like jumping around and throwing ninja stars with a cute avatar who can make this face

 

just adds on to my joy for this game.

 

Also the training, its not exactly like WoW, but its like, a duelly sort of slaughter feel to it. but to the extent of childish play.

 

[spoiler=Training at high level areas]

 

[spoiler='People spawning Balrogs(summoning pouches)]]

 

[spoiler='Friends fooling around after killing a boss]

 

 

Also, the bossing is very interesting(also a form of training and money). Almost anyone can boss, but the time elapsed is usually decided by your attack range, aka how much you hit ~~~ DPS ~~~

 

This is also another variable for "late game" content.

The easiest way to reach this point is to buy nx cash, but its usually at ridiculous amounts, thousands upon thousands of dollars are used to reach max damage, "999,999" per hit or what not.

 

Things can be said that this game is too childish,

Of course it is. Look at the front page, it draws attention to children to no end. Heck, i was playing this game around my niece and she wondered if it was a TV Show.

I'm pretty sure a bunch of you know of this TV series called "My little pony friendship is magic".

It draws you in, the cuteness of the characters, their magical sparkly goodness. Umm...

 

Anyways, if you can see what I'm trying to say is.

TLDR- maplestory is cool, the lategame content is hard to get to because most have quit pre 2nd/3rd/4th job advancement. most of the skills before 3rd job doesn't describe the true potential of the class yet.

 

Lets compare this to runescape,

Fishing shrimps and killing goblins with a bronze sword isnt going to describe the entire game.

Just no.

 

 

You would have to play for yourself and achieve level 120, and hitting your 4th job for yourself. It's quite the accomplishment. Just brighter lights from there

[Kaur]

 

Almost looks like the same game!

[Kaida23]

I used to play MapleStory as well. The graphics were the thing that drew me in the most, but ultimately I was turned off of it because of the exceedingly high number of bots/hackers and the poor community attitude I experienced while in-game.

 

In all my time playing RS I have never had someone follow me from world to world spouting obscenities at me because I got a rare drop that they didn't, unlike one of the last times I played MS and got a Maple Scorpio (which, as a polearm warrior was exactly what I was hoping for). It completely tainted an otherwise lucky day. <_<

 

In my experience, that kind of thing was the rule and not the exception. Kill stealing, drop rage, draconian rules that punished not only bots/hacks but would also regularly punish those around them...maybe one day I'll go back, but I doubt it will be anytime soon.

[Neos_Matrix]

Good ol' Maplestory. Had tons of fun while playing with my brother, his friend and my cousin. All those times we spent grinding to get to the Zakum (Which we didn't after we lost faith in the game) and the Maple Weapons we farmed and sold on the market.