I read the news, bulletin or whatever you want to call it about 2007 being a bad year for MMO's and to be honest I was rather shocked with some of the games that were listed as a downer. The main two that made me turn my bottom lip up and say you've got to be kidding me as far as them being bad were DECO online, and AsdaStory. I completely understand that those views were simply personal oppinion, but still for them to be listed like that was rather strange in my view point so this is my ideals on the subject.

As many of you might know, or at least those who have kept up with my blogs little by little I absolutely adored DECO online and I still do to this day(though my pet is probably way passed dead <.< ) There was not one thing that I found to be upsetting about the game, the leveling was not a complete grind like most if not almost all games that came out in 2007. You know what in fact there were very few, VERY few games that came out last year that had the ability for one to ignore the grind. The only one I can think of that had this going for it was Lunia. When playing through the game you tend to forget you're trying to level unless you're obsessed with gaining that item you're onnnnneeee level away from...that gets annoying.

DECO,Asda, 2moons, Ghost online, 9Dragons, World of Kung fu, Silkroad, Rappelz(which I found to be boring as hell), Flyff(KING OF GRINDING NEXT TO MAPLE) all of them had grind that was easily noticed. Yeah I played them all and then some I would surf the site looking for games to play and new ones to try just because I wanted to play the field so to speak.

With Asda story the customizing the outfits was nice, but that's not all it had to offer. I wont start on the Soul Mate system because that gets enough hype as it is and to be honest I really did like it. The skills in the game were easily set up, the graphics were nice considering it was F2P. Moving on to make my point yes there was grind, but it was not that bad, and since Asda story was one of the most anticipated games I highly doubt it did not live up to it's hype considering what it was competing with. When I got into the closed beta and played I did not even once get upset with the OBT. I loved it to be quite frank the game was all around fun. I did not really notice the grind unless I kept getting myself killed like a dumbass which happened from time to time.

To be honest Deco and Asda mirrored one another. In my personal view point DECO was like a version of Asda where the characters just got older and got drawn into a war, depends on how you look at it. I based this of course simply on the way their characters were designed, the whole crazy looking armor and what not.

The quest system on DECO was rather nice to be honest I loved it. Instead of having to go look everywhere for your specific person that you needed to find in order to do a quest you knew where the person was and they had all your quests for a certain amount of levels. Once your power passed the monsters in that area you had to move on to another area with the same quest manager (in appearance) giving you new quests. Yes the quests cost money but not a great deal for one to complain. The monsters gave a great amount of EXP so I don't get how one can say that it was a big grind. Some quests gave 1000 exp while the monsters gave about 100 exp per kill. So it all worked itself out if you were having fun it was a pretty simple thing and easy game to play without worrying about the grind that I wont deny existed.

Sure 2007 was a bad year for MMORPG's but I present it was for a different reason. Not because most every game that came out was just horrible, but we allowed ourself to get so hyped up over almost every game that was coming out. Such as Seal online if we really took the time to look into that game we would have been able to see what a crap fest it was going to be. Some people like Seal and really it's not that bad of a game, but not a game for a person who considers theirself to be gamers.

As you level up on Asda you have to challenge yourself with certain quests and there are quests you just can not do alone. Unless you purposely grind your ass off to do it. Like the chess world or queen's dungeon(sp?). So that's your own fault if you don't want to run through it with a party lolz. No seriously it's wise to do those things with parties.

Yeah, people this IS  a rant I'm just a little e-hurt about two of my favorite games from 2007 being on the bad list (for those of you who don't know the being hurt part is complete sarcasm I'm just having fun with this.)

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ON A SERIOUS NOTE

I haven't posted a blog in a while so I thougth i'd stur things up a little bit. Yeah I like both of the above mentioned games but this entire blog was not really needed. But hey!I 'm bored it's 1:21 am here I don't have class tomorrow and I didn't feel like doing art work so there you have it, a new blog entry from me. ^_~ hope you enjoyed taking all that seriously XP