Trying out a game I found! My first impression of AdventureQuest Worlds (MMORPG)
As I might have said quite a few times[1][2][3], I love exploring and creating new worlds. Games are some of the best tools for this hobby, since the creators spend a lot of time designing their worlds with explorability as one of the main focuses. I just discovered a game that reminded me a lot of DragonFable. Its name is AdventureQuest Worlds (published in 2008). My brother says that both games were made by the same creators called Artix Entertainment. They have also made other games, the third most notable being MechQuest.
Well, without further ado, let's get into it!
I like the name Yorumi, so I'll be playing there. It sounds like the African language called Yoruba. I have a Steem friend who speaks it. I may try to learn it sometime.
The game starts with a cinematic. I love cinematics and this one seems very high quality :) I do hate, however, the fact that the introduced characters don't seem to support a cause, such as recovering some holy territory or defending their right to do something, but just "HURR EVIL DURR EVIL". Plain and unapproachable.
Dragons and skeletons are destroying the world and my character appears too! She doesn't do much, but we're just starting. :) The ambience is very immersive, the design is amazing, props to the painters and UX developers.
Aaaand, uugghhh, I have a faction. I like to decide these things by myself. U_U The world is too big and there are too many possibilities to have our opinions already be set in stone by a creator looking to entice me toward immersion.
The design is 2D, there's a Runescape-style chat, I have some basic skills (2 available out of 6) and... I am a hero! My character is literally an assassin, dressed in black, mouth covered, armed to the teeth and trained to destroy, and I am a hero.
Overall, I'm laughing at everything, not an exaggeration. Whenever I look at the background or the details of the movements of anything, they are all ridiculously amplified. Look at this scene, for example.
They wanted to build the setting and left this 3-second bit on repeat. Too cute.
And this is the attack animation.
The character runs toward the mark and the mark trips and dies. Stealthy! But this is actually a bug. The normal animation is slashing down with the swords or stabbing with both ot them at the same time. The character still jumps up. Only one death animation.
There is also a remote auto-select mode where you click the attack you want to make at the bottom of the screen and the game decides whom you want to attack.
It's pretty neat but the automation destroys any hope of immersion. Seriously, I'm not even sure I want to keep playing it. But let's do a little bit more, see if I can find something that makes it worth it. :)
My first quest!
That Bone Berserker looks much stronger than the other ones. I love his axe with shiny red imprints. He has a nice white beard, horns, a very thick armor. Wait, he's a skeleton with a beard? I suppose they wanted to make him more like a Nordic barbarian than a boney weakling.
Unfortunately, he was just as weak as the other one. One hit, he's down and I have a sword called Venom Head, very fitting, and a hammer called Bonehead Bludgeon.
The sword has the same stats as my dagger, but the hammer seems exciting!
It's an "Awesome Rarity" that apparently makes the latest victim a certain kind of pet that helps you in battle. It also looks very awesome! It's like a bone wand made of finger bones and a skull-like thing. I wonder what that is supposed to be, but it looks a bit like the skull of a giant insect.
The badge to the right is also pretty neat. Ever since I started drawing, I wanted to create badges and/or decorations like that. I even learned how to make gold and emerald textures for the precious metals and stones.
I click equip aaaand....
NOPE. You have to pay to have awesome stuff. Since you're poor, have a mediocre day, Ms Sharon, on you go *pat on the shoulder*.
I think that the badge means "premium content". That's why it was so neat. 😢
I found a nifty shop that will buy the hammer.
250 gold. I imagine that gold is pretty devalued in this world if one first-quest hammer will give me a whole bag of gold coins. I actually checked and have like 20,000 coins as a default. I'm a rich merchant! In a country where gold is as common as lollipops. Wait, do they have lollipops? I think that if I sold lollipops I could make a fortune, since there are less of them than gold coins.
You know what's also devalued?
Praises!
This sword is gifted to the most promising heroes who train in Oaklore Keep.
most promising heroes
I imagine that there are tens of thousands of players in this game, or were at some point in time, and they all walked by this same shop where the only tool that is sold, and a tool that is cheaper to buy than the sale of any basic item that you have (be it the ones you started with or the ones you get from quests) is not some average tool but the gift that is given to the "most promising heroes".
Well, this is the end of this journey. The characters can be pretty cool:
But this world doesn't seem very deep. Mind you that this is my first impression. There's probably a lot more to it, some great sceneries, some humour. I would expect some angels and demons to be hiding around the set waiting to pull a prank on the noobsters. And perhaps there's even a couple philosophical questions along the line, though I doubt it.
Well, this was it. The hike ended up being much shorter than I expected when I started this post.
Leave a vote and a comment below with your thoughts! :) I'm eager to read your opinion on today's journey.
You can also come and chat with me on Discord if you want.
Ohh, you beat me to it! I think this is the first post about Aqworlds I've seen on the platform. I remember playing it as a child, because a friend told me about it. I got addicted to it and played for hours, sadly most of my accounts have been deleted due to the lack of use, the only "pro" one that remained is this one:
http://www.aq.com/character.asp?id=maxrenesto
Now I just play it occasionally, and I notice the amount of players has decreased a lot, but it's still funny and reminds me of my childhood. Artix also created this game in 3D, you can play it on the Playstore or Steam.
If you need help I can give you a hand with my account :)
Hellooo, nice! I didn't know that so many people played it, but there's already two here in the comment section. It seems to have quite a lot of attraction to it! I was just playing it casually yesterday to give it a test run.
Most old games have been dying off in favour of the newer games, but some still keep the masses attentive, such as Runescape, Tibia and WoW.
If I play it again and take some time in it, I'll tell you :D And we can play a bit together. However, I'm not sure if I'll try it again, since the world seems to be a bit shallow.
<3
It looks very entertaining and interesting, Sharon. Although it was created in 2008 it shows that it's not necessary to have very advanced graphics to give the player a pleasant gaming experience.
:)) There are plenty of games that I've loved over the years that have very old looking graphics. The simplicity doesn't have to take from the playability and the world-building depth, although in this case it seems to have taken a toll on them.
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Which one is YOU? lol
This one!
Hahaha that side scrolling 2D Sprite looks bad ass and the two dagger assassin trope though haha
You would think that the enemies would be stronger than just taking one hot but it may be on account of your t o skills and double daggers hahaha
Hmm, I also thought of that. Maybe assassins have a one-shot bonus or some crits and more damage. There was actually only one dagger equipped. Even after I wore the sword, I could see a TWO-dagger wielding sprite. I didn't check with another kind of weapon to see if the daggers are actually fixed and not the image of what you're equipping. Maybe even if you wear a hammer you can see two swords.
And yeah, it looks pretty baddass :3 I've always liked the dark assassin aesthetics.
That one doesn't look like my cup of tea. But have you heard about this one: puzzle pirates. I think I played it long long time ago and it gives me memories. Not sure what reminded me of it though.
Not mine either. :P And I haven't seen it around. I'll check it out!
Can't play it, needs Java 🙃 Firefox refuses to accept Java for some reason. Linux madness.
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.AdventureQuest World is my very favorite game. Playing this game does not remember the food
Wow! Such a coincidence. :) I hope that you at least set a timer to eat. Otherwise, you might damage your body from the wild gastric juices trying to digest. What level are you in it? What class is your main character?
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Wow, you just hit me with nostalgia hard. I remember playing this game (AventureQuests and AdventureQuestworlds arent the same probably/) and absolutely loving it.
I remember creating a bunch of accounts because as a kid i would forget the password and had to create brand new emalis :P