sexta-feira, 27 de fevereiro de 2015

Back to London

Well PT was fine and dandy but wasnt for me, back to London.

domingo, 14 de abril de 2013

Mabinogi!! wait...I mean Mabinogi North America!

Tittle Says everything, back on the day, Mabinogi was just, Mabinogi, after the collapse of the European servers, Nexon Europe kicked us to North America Mabinogi(Ence Ill start refering to Mabinogi Europe as Mabinogi EU and Mabinogi North America as Mabinogi NA, this is a way to people know from what server I'm speaking and so people understand that I played on all of the servers for more then one month. Ill refer to "Mabinogi" when I'm speaking the game in a general way, since there's more then the EU/NA/JP/KR/CH/TW servers.)


Ok, some people been asking me lately what I find special about "Mabinogi" in general, not speaking about servers here.

Simply putted, the skill system, I love how the skill system works on this game, could have some changes, true, could be better, but heck there's no way to imply that to Nexon in any way since they couldn't care a bit of what a single player would want.
Another factor that I love on "Mabinogi" is the story, yep even if they did fucked up a bit in my opinion with the whole driven out of the main story with G4 to G17...

Now, about the questions from some people about what the game is, since there's more and more people interested in the game but unaware of what the game is in reality and thus, they avoid it because of the graphics.

"Mabinogi" or "Mabinogi Fantasy Life" like the tittle implies, is taken from a medieval anthology of Welsh legend, The Mabinogion, or the Four Branches of Mabinogi. The tales are based on international legends, pre-Christian British Celtic myth, and medieval historical traditions, mostly using names of zones or people from those.

"Mabinogi" is a game were your free to do what you want when you want, you can simply be a farmer or a Blacksmith or even a Merchant, odd you say? not quite.

"But I want to fight Goblins and Ogres and and DRAGONS!"
Well, there's that too! but I don't advice anyone to fight a Dragon head on, you'll end up dead in the first hit.

I made a reference already about the skill system, and how simple and deep it can be, the skill system in Mabinogi is indeed grand but needs a bit explaining, so I shall explain it the best way I can.

But before going into the skill system lets explain a bit of the basics, like on all mmorpgs you need to level in order to get strong, by that you can complete quests, be normal ones, dungeon quests, event quest(that award XP) or, even story quests(that are called Generation quests)
By leveling you gain AP, or Ability points, those are used to rank skills.(they have another use but that's to be covered later on)

Skills, now this is were it gets a bit complicated, some of you would prefer using a sword and shield, going all out fighting dragons and what not, on "Mabinogi", once you get strong you can do just that, since your reading this and your already in-game and starting or, you probably want to start, Ill start with the basic of the skill system, Skill system is separated in Seven tabs for now(not counting with the special tabs you'll unlock because of the Generation quests/story of "Mabinogi" and skills you can gain from those)

Combat; Like the tittle implies this tab is the one with all the Combat skills, they have a red background.
Magic; Magic skills will be listed here, there's quite a list of Magic skills and takes a bit of time to get all of them, they have a Blue background.
Life; Life skills will be listed here, most of the life skills are related to crafting and production of materials to crafting, these skills will have a Yellow Background.
Alchemy; Alchemy skills, many of these skills require a Cylinder to be used, or some of them Alchemy Oven's and whatnot, these will have a mix of a red and orange background to it.
Figther; Figther skills will be listed here, this is a melee skill set, instead of sword and shields you use Knuckles to fight your foes, the color of the background of this skill set is gray.
Music; Music skills will be listed here, keep in mind you can make music in "Mabinogi", Bard skills will be listed here with Pink Background.
Puppetry; Puppetry skills will be listed here, as the name implies this skill set is related to Puppet using, will have a Teal Background color.

note that skills require AP to be ranked all skills go from Rank Novice to Rank 1, depending of the rank and the skill each skill may require more or less AP then another to be ranked.

Now, some people would instantly throw the question "wait, then that means once I reach lvl 60+ will be difficult to level and gain AP?"
The answer to that is yes and no, you can Rebirth, by using the Rebirth System you can reset your current level and again raise your levels and gain more AP.

The Rebirth System, simply putted resets your current level back to 1 and allows you to re-level again.
"Wait! Ill lose my levels and skills?"
No, you'll reset your current level only, you wont lose skills ranks.
By using Rebirth you'll reset your current level, but you'll keep a track of all the levels you gained, that's called Total Level, there's Achievements for that too, but well cover those later on.
You age on "Mabinogi", each week that passes you gain one Age point, note that, you can start at 10 years old or at 17 years old, appearance may change a bit on your char since when your 10 years old your quite small, yet, you can gain some stats bonus with that by aging each week that passes.
When you reach Age 20, you'll be able to Rebirth for free.

More about "Mabinogi" later on. and probably some videos and whatnot.

Back!

Was thinking on the other day... "Why did I move from Blogger...?" anyways, after a time thinking I decided to re-use this Blog space, instead of real life stuff, Ill use it for gaming purposes only, and for the ones that from time to time come and read my rants/posts from the past, Ill leave them untouched like I promised on my supposed last post heh.

domingo, 12 de agosto de 2012

Moving!

Yea, a lot of people will think that I'm moving again(home) not yet hehehe, but, that probably will be before the end of this year(if everything goes well enough) anyways, back to the point, I decided to move my blog to another blog hoster, Blogspot or Blogger was nice but heck it, its time to move on, top of that, I need a blog that fits some needs and I found one that is very interesting in a lot of aspects, so I'm moving!

Now now, don't go "Omg!!" Ill leave this blog open and untouched, and for the ones that were like "Finaly! we got rid of him!" not yet, nor I plan to "be gone!" of the internet so, live with it.

ho right, the link of the new blog is Selzyr New Blog

segunda-feira, 6 de agosto de 2012

...

"I find no fault with you when it comes to standing agaisn't me with Courage.
However, very few have the courage to sheathe their sword once it's out, Fear is not evil...
It tells you what your weakness is.
And once you know your weakness, you can become stronger as well as Kinder."


mhm this been on my mind for a time....I can say that I didn't follow that for a time, and I've acted out of what I was for a lot of time, or, out of who I real was....time heals everything and teachs us when we make mistakes, I did my fair of mistakes this year...


I finally got a "new job" and if everything goes well, in one month or two, Ill be back to my normal life, not only but to my routine, with some changes ofc, but Ill be back to the "Online World", I wont be 24\7 online, not like before, but Ill pop up more and then and ofc, Ill update this Blog with more news about my life & projects that I got pending.


Hope someone still reads this Blog heh ^_ ^'

sexta-feira, 22 de junho de 2012

.Hack//--- Part 3

Ok, time to continue with this...this wont be the last post about the subject since I still got a lot to tell about .Hack//, ALL the info posted on the the last two posts, was taken from the Wiki until now, the follow up posts like this part 3 will be now with word of mine, with some research, anyhow...were was I....ha!

.Hack//G.U Trilogy, this is a movie created by CC2, telling from another perspective, keep in mind that this movie doesn't follow to the line the Games, but still tells the main part of the Story.

after a month or two, CC2 released one show anime movie called .Hack//Returner, a spin on the story telling a bit more about what happened on "The World R:2" after the events of .Hack//G.U(Games), Ovan returns on this anime movie.

CC2 released another game, said that was the last of the series on .Hack//, altough this isn't true, a lot of people lost hope on the .Hack// project, with this, losing hope that CC2 would release a actual version of "The World"(online).
This Game is called .Hack//Link, tells the story of a young man that wanted to join "The World R:X", the name of the young man is Tokio, Tokio Kuryuu;


"An avid gamer who never thinks about his future and cares only about games. Because he beats most games easily, he becomes excited about the release of "The World: R:X" and is disappointed to find he is unable to obtain it. When Saika Amagi suddenly invites him to the rooftop one day, she uses a mysterious black R:X disc (dated 2019.12.24, recorded by JxxxxAmagi) and transports Tokio into "The World". Tokio finds that he is both physically and mentally present in the game and is soon caught in a fight between Kite and Fluegel. For reasons unknown, Fluegel's weapon does not work on him."
                                                                                                                          ^info taken from the wiki^

Sadly, CC2 only released this game on Japan, and, for PsP, even so, most of the fans of the game "tried" to play or played the game in japanese, some understanding the game, since they could understand Japanese, and those same players spread the story, posted on the wiki, updated the "Dot Hack wikia" with info about .Hack//Link, spreading how the game worked what was the route that .Hack// taken with this PsP game, still some were disapointed, some were trilling to play it, some others, like me, just wanted to know what CC2 created for the .Hack//Project.

.Hack//project, like I refered was told that was going to stop with .Hack//Link, this disapointed a lot of fans too, that were in eager that CC2 released a true MMORPG with the name "The World", CC2 tough until this date didn't announce ANYTHING about a MMORPG being planned\created, still they planned to release a movie on 1 january 2012, not too sure what gone wrong, but this Movie(I think) didn't release on january 1 of 2012, altough the game released at 21 of January of 2012 CC2 announced a game to be released with this movie(note the name of the movie is simply .Hack//The Movie, its releated to "The World" and with a newer version of "The World", can't tell you the certain version of it, didn't check it much yet on the webs nor on dot hackers website, but Ill most likely do it later on) this game instead of a RPG or a MMORPG like most of the fans wanted is a figthing game, the first of this genre on the .Hack//project.(note that I call it .Hack//project, but I'm fully aware that from G.U+ is called .Hack//Conglomerate)

.Hack//...."The World"...the dream of an online game were your free to do ANYTHING, is the dream of most gamers that play online games(like my self) and NO ONE until now developed a game like that, not even UO(Ultima Online) that was very complete, reach the status of "fully complete online game", most developers say "Online games are NEVER complete, theres always something new to create or to add into it." this is true in a way, but what I tell of a FULLY complete online game, is a game like "The World" in a way UO and something like Mortal Online all in a mix, keep in mind that ALL of them are "diferent" and most of them wanted to achive\show what or how a Online Game could be complete, a lot of people ask if developers are blind to not create such a game, other people say that making a game like that is simply impossible, others say that developers simply don't want to create this game since would, not only take a lot of time, but be hard to manage, since players would be free to make ANYTHING in it, without bondaries, leaving some players that dislike some types\or how should I put it, ways of playing games, example, lets see....how about open PvP?(open PvP with full loot, like on Mortal Online) a lot of players hate this kind of systems since is hard to level, is hard to move on the world(if the game is open world, since your always being ganked by the "high level" players), balancing all of this would be painfull don't you think? the developers of games think the same way, could be done, but with a lot of trouble.

and...were driving off the topic of .Hack// now...heh, for a reason ofc, now I told my view about the .Hack//Project( a bit of it) and my view about "the perfect online game"..."The World"....could CC2 make an online game with this name that could change for real how Online Games are nowdays? or its impossible to create a game as vast as "The World" and with the same deept?...

Ill leave this questions up for you guys to answer, Ill do more posts following up this one with the e-mails I get, e-mail so you guys can send me your own views about online games, how you guys picture "the perfect online game" : Selzyr@live.com (my new e-mail guys)

terça-feira, 19 de junho de 2012

.hack//--- part 2

Making a follow up for the last post...were was I....ha! yes...

.Hack//Roots & G.U

The World R:2
Due to a fire in CC corporation headquarters a year following .hack//Legend of the Twilight(anime show), CC corporation had made a new version of the game called The World Revision:2 or simply as "The World R:2". The World R:2 offers new locations and old ones that are hidden within the game, these locations are commonly known as the lost grounds. There are many character classes, new and old. PKing (player killing) has become very popular in The World R:2 and due to this uprising, a guild called "Moon Tree" has been created against PKing. The leader of Moon Tree, Zelkova, is an expert hacker and created a place for hackers called "Net Slums".

.Hack//Roots
is a 26-episode anime series, animated by studio Bee Train, that sets as a prologue for the .hack//G.U. video games. It is the first .hack TV series broadcast in HDTV (720p). It is set seven years after the events of the first two anime series and games. .hack//Roots revolves around an MMORPG game called The World R:2, also known as The World Revision:2 and serves a sequel to the original version of "The World".

.hack//Roots follows the story of Haseo, a black 'Adept Rogue' (a class that can use multiple weapons) and member of the Twilight Brigade guild. In the year 2015, the CC Corp. building burned down, and with it, most of its data for The World. By splicing data from what would have potentially been another game, CC Corp. created The World R:2 and released it in 2016. The main revisions of this release were that the game allowed for guild and PvP (player vs player) play.

Haseo logs into The World R:2 for the first time and falls victim to the PKers (player killers) that reside within the game. He is saved by Ovan, who prompts him to join the Twilight Brigade alongside Sakisaka, Tabby and Shino which are in search of finding the Key of the Twilight. However, a popular guild named TaN opposes the Twilight Brigade in order to obtain Ovan's unique character data. The Twilight Brigade discovered special items called Virus Cores and believed that they are the key to finding The Key of the Twilight and went into search for all of them. Once they had found all 6 of them, they headed out to use them in a one of the Lost Ground after learning there is a connection between the two
However they discover that it was a trap made by the members of TaN in order to capture Ovan. With Ovan gone and no sign of the Key of the Twilight, the Twilight Brigade disband and previous members such as B-set and Gord quit the game entirely. Soon after, Shino is killed within the game by a mysterious PKer named "Tri-Edge" that somehow put her in a coma in the real world which devastated Haseo. Haseo starts training to get strong enough to defeat Tri-Edge and save Shino from her real life coma. He becomes obsessed with power and becomes a Player Killer Killer (PKK) to find information on Tri-edge. When he completed a special event that promised a special reward, he gains a new power but corrupts also his mind and begins to kill PKers with more aggression giving him the title The Terror of Death.


.Hack//G.U


is a series of single-player action role-playing games for the PlayStation 2, developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai. The three games are titled .hack//G.U. Vol. 1: Rebirth, .hack//G.U. Vol. 2: Reminisce, and .hack//G.U. Vol. 3: Redemption.


.hack//G.U. takes place in an alternate version of Earth in the year 2017. As depicted in the first .hack game series, the "2nd Network Crisis" was an incident that occurred seven years ago in which many computer systems across Japan malfunctioned. Through the efforts of those games' hero, Kite, the incident resulted in the birth of Aura, the ultimate artificial intelligence (AI), capable of making decisions for itself. Under the guidance of Aura, The World, the most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game at the time, flourishes and the events of .hack//Legend of the Twilight occur during this four-year period.
In late 2014, Aura disappears, resulting in the slow decay of The World and the Internet as a whole. In response, the company that administrates The World, CC Corp, sets up "Project G.U." and tasks them with remedying the problem. They come up with the "Restore Aura (RA) Plan", in which they attempt to retrieve the fragments of Morganna—an AI that served as Aura's "mother"—and seal them into player characters (PCs) of The World. In theory, this would allow the Project G.U. programmers to manipulate the Morganna program to recreate Aura. Only certain "chosen" players could control these special "Epitaph PCs".
After locating candidates to operate the Epitaph PCs, the team proceeds to test the RA Plan despite concerns over "anti-existences" that might damage the Internet. The program fails catastrophically and destroys over 80% of the data for The World. Instead of trying to salvage the data, CC Corp develops The World R:2 and releases it to a new generation of players. However, this new game is less popular than its predecessor and becomes plagued by "player killers" (PKs), players who target other players for fun and sport. The Epitaph PCs which had been lost during the RA Plan disaster resurface in the new version, attached to certain players of interest.


Ill keep posting more about .Hack//, note that most of the info is ripped from the wiki, and most likely only the last post will contain words that are "mine" in a way.
hope you guys like the read, I mean, the ones that never played .Hack//