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... but I am actually considering resubbing to AC (Asherons Call) as a WoW alternative!

Also considering going back to COH/V but I cut my teeth on UO and AC and the nostalgia factor is really kicking in. So many places I did not see in 99-00 and amazingly people still play. Plus houses and a killer non linear loot table!

Yeah I am crazy...but has anyone gone back?

I hope you get banned.

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For what? Is AC taboo around here?

If so my sincerest apologies.

HYU?

This is the thought which leads you to doubt your sanity?

I guess I do not get the witty "too cool for me" inside joke. I thought this was an MMO section and posting about resubbing to an old game that was generally regarded as very good in it's day (and is still going) was acceptable.

What a strange lot...

Prediction: You'll think you made a great decision for a week, maybe 2.  Then the "novelty" factor will wear off and you'll be about another week or two out from going back to WoW because its more polished, less of a hassle to play, and have a (presumably) larger base of friends to play with.

That what has happened to me every time I have tried to replace WoW with another DIKU, the only other MMO that has kept my attention long term has been EVE.  But then again, I suppose that puts me pretty much right in the middle of the road around these forums.

LOL no one would have to ban me, I would save the admins the click if they asked. I was not trying to troll or offend, I was asking an MMO based question in an MMO thread.

No, you made an MMO thread to ask a question. And it wasn't a question so much as a statement disguising a cry for attention.

You are insane...

I have not played the game in 7 or 8 freaking years. So I cannot ask if anyone has gone back and what its like? See that squggley thing at the end of my sentence? <<< its called a QUESTION mark and where I come from those are indicative of a question being posed.

I can find 100 threads doing the same thing on this forum (none of which relate to AC) did you berate them as well?

Indeed, I think not... we all know why you are baiting. It is uncalled for, mean spirited and just rude, but it is not well disguised.

Have a nice day.

Stand up and get your digital beating like a digital man. It's part of being here, snarking and get snarked for no reason other than being here. I would say you know it after a hundred of posts so don't pretend to take it personal and go on with your silly nostalgia plan.

Actually, assuming you are not hyu, I suggest you to go here (http://forums.f13.net/index.php?board=92.0) and post the results. Seriously. I would read it.

LOL oh I am definitely not taking it personal at all. Ignorance does annoy me, but it is the internet so it is par for the course. Some people are more dim witted than others.

I will go read that now, thanks.

That was my first thought, especially after Politics.

Heehee.  The irony.  It burns.

So what am I looking for in that link? f13 radicalathon.../confused

It's where you go to chronicle your adventures in AC.

 :oh_i_see:

how about someone just tell me what or who HYU is?  :grin:

Can you unplug your keyboard and turn off your computer now please?  Thanks.

One of a small handful of people banned or otherwise chased off for treating F13 like his blog as well as being a jackass.  Distinguishing characteristics include an obsession with AC and a penchant for returning repeatedly under new pseudonyms.

I have one AC post (well this thread) and I have never used any alias. If you compare my comments to those against me, it would be hard to call me a jackass save for the fact that I got in a nerdrage espisode with a few internet know it all tough guys.

Wow even the admins are assholes for no apparent reason.

No worries I will stop posting (yeah probably not...the love for you guys is too strong), it is really not that big of a deal. I just thought a forum with gamers had perhaps seen AC in the last 7 years.

Doubtful

You should really just play SWG, better game by far.

Chargerrich, seriously

your nerdrage is misplaced, you didn't sign up yesterday.
And this is the first time you realize what kind of a lovely place f13 is?

People with knees weak like yours usually ban themselves before post #20. If anything I am surprised you were so not ready for this.

Yeah, we get it. You're a genius. Blow it out your ass. You're also condescending and arrogant. Keep that shit in politics (even though I know a few others are leaking their annoyance outside there).

Anyway, the link to the radicalthon was for reals. Check out the other threads there. An AC Radicalthon would probably be pretty funny. Take some screenshots and chronicle your journey through that old relic of a game for the enjoyment of all.

Just stop being such a douche about it.

Charge, you have the Internet equivalent of the Doucheface. Within two sentences are reading one of your posts, I get the urge to punch you in the face. And I am decidedly nonviolent.

Too bad in real life that would end up putting you in the hospitial...I have seen your avatar!  :grin:

LOL even with the scary red eyes you look about as tough as a house cat.

Fake edit - yeah you win gryeyes  :awesome_for_real:

You said you were going to stop.

What and miss out on all the fun? I love witnessing nerdrage and internet toughness. It is like my own personal petting Zoo.

Definitely a douchebag.

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I would like to read a thread on AC revisited.

And I would be happy to post one with pics as soon as and if i resub. My son actually wants to resub to AC and COH/V so we need to decide what we are going to do.

It has been so long I am not even sure where to start!  :grin:

I think i missed something.

Stop making threads. Didn't we already go over this?

To be fair, it's not Hyu, Hyu would have specifically mentioned Darktide.

Also, from the last time he trolled my blog, Hyu is in China currently.

Don't stalk Lum - he stalks back!

This coming from a guy who has noted his disdain for internet tough guys.  :oh_i_see:

You need a Twitter account, not a message board.

and there is a SWGEmu out there.  One could hypothesize about the new way to unlock Jedi.

Set up your own server and unlock it that way. Then you don't have to deal with the other asshats playing too.

Hyu always reminded me of this Usenet troll (Nobody's Perfect) who sparked death threats on alt.sega.genesis (http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.video.sega/browse_thread/thread/312238b2ef9c194e/bf13355cd7a4ee76?q=chinese+pirates+%22nobody%27s+perfect%22#bf13355cd7a4ee76) back in the 90s Sega Saturn days…

This thread makes me wanna Chong Li something.

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Several times over the years since it's release, save yourself the time.  Dereth is an empty world compared to the early years, which even then was complained about as being barren of player presence.  I could support the idea of turning AC into a browser-based MMO ala Quake-Live, but short of that I would never look back.  The feeling of burnout remains.

Every couple of years I get this strange urge to go back to AC also.  It may be the only addiction I've ever beat that keeps coming back to haunt me.  As an explorer I really loved wandering around finding interesting little places to mark on my map.  Carefully optimizing the arrow type I used for my target, buffing up that first shot into a Cruise Missile of Doom.  Collecting spent arrows for reuse and generally taking my time as I wandered around.  Watching the world actually change with the seasons.  Dancing on Arwic's grave.

So anywho, to preserve what little sanity I have remaining I've made a list of reasons why I quit AC just to remind me each time the urge comes back:

1. Server Lag.  Worst. Rubberbanding. Ever.  It would fade or peak in severity, but it never went away, even years after launch when nobody else was on the server.  Unforgivable cheapness on the part of MS/Turbine.

2. Lack of respec.  One misspent point and it's reroll time.

3. Horrible sub-par even for it's prehistoric time character graphics.  I wouldn't have thought it possible to depict a human in three dimensions with just 15 polygons prior to seeing AC.  I still don't think it should have ever been attempted.  The world was beautiful, but the creatures occupying it were polygonal misfits that make Lego people look like Rembrandt sculptures.

4. Waay back when, about year 2 or 3 after release, they reworked spawns in the dires such that it became impossible to explore anywhere west of the inner sea thingy prior to level 100 or so.  Seeing as I never got past level 50, that shrank the world in half for me in one swell foop.

5.  Remember all those cool items you had in your last house?  Many of them rewards from quests or events long gone? And the motes and shards and stuff stored in the house chest?  They're all gone now.  Whoever picked up the rent after the last time I abandoned the game got a nice bonus cache.  I hope they got much enjoyment from them.

That's how I talk myself out of going back to AC.  It leaves me a bit sad, even a tad misty eyed.  But it works.

Just remember.  You can never REALLY go back.

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=4795.0

Lurk more. Contribute to conversations instead of trumpeting your feelings/opinions/random thoughts. Quit being socially tone-deaf.

This .gif is strangely familiar.... HCWD?

Weekly injections of botox severely limits the emotions you can express.

Please to explain why people discussing one of the first big MMO's keep getting redirected to random threads in the PC/Console Gaming Forum?

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um, that didn't clarify much.  Glad you like the av tho.  wish I could remember where I stole it from so I could give them proper credit :/

I'll give this a shot.  Most people figure this stuff out on their own, but I'm feeling charitable so I'll break it down.

Because if all you have to say is "hey, I'm thinking about playing this game that nobody cares about," it can probably go in the thread that's full of one-off comments about what people are playing.  Most people only start new threads if they think there's an opportunity for an interesting conversation that hasn't been had before.

Another good option would be to wait until there's something to actually talk about (i.e. after you've already fired up AC and played it a bit so you could share your impressions, which might actually be interesting).  Then a post in the BiiF forum (which is dedicated to people sharing their impressions of games they've played) would be very appropriate.

Looking for a wife?

A place that won't refuse his operation.

Frontal lobotomy on the egocenter?

Or do they have a process for turning people into small japanese girls now?

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I tried going back to AC maybe a year ago, on Darktide of course, as its the only proper way to play the game.
Fuck me. Asheron's Call is awful.  All those fond memories of doing cool shit back in the day? Somehow my mind glossed over the horrible fucking movement, UI, graphics, and everything else that was only acceptable in 1999 because there wasn't anything else available.

I almost quit in the newbie dungeon, but instead I got out, made it to a town ran around for 15 minutes and saw absolutely noone until a level 40 showed up and ganked me, then camped the lifestone.

It used to be fun because we didn't know any better.  That being said, I'd still play the shit out of AC3 with updated graphics, the same skill system, a conan/ac1 hybrid combat system, and slightly less massive exploits like speedhack.

I never tried AC back in its hey day.

I did trial it a little while ago to see what it was like. It's amazing how used you become to streamlined evolved features. Or even being able to fight more than one mob at once without dying.

If charger does an entertaining AC Radicalthon, all will be forgiven.

Nope. That'd require another thread.

I went back to AC last summer, and it lasted a half an hour. I saw no reason to stick around. I didn't even want to explore all the new stuff, and AC has always been rich with the exploration. It was just...meh. Meanwhile I went back to UO last summer, and I stuck around for three months, just doing stuff I had already done to death for years after it launched. I'll probably go back there again later this year. However, I think a "Return to AC" radicalthon would be an interesting read. And all y'alls are WRONG if you think otherwise!

AC is great if you ever wanted to play a single player MMORPG.

I've been playing since last September, and went from L85 -> L136 only grouping once, only seeing someone about 5 or 6 times, since I randomly picked Verdantine, the lowest pop world.

Only a tiny part of the content is not doable solo.  Its possible to level just by re-running quests, they all have re-do timers and pretty much all give xp.  Not possible to level by only running new quests.  Its fun for a while, since you get better and better at them, running to locations and zipping though dungeons without even glancing at a map or notes in 5 minutes, instead of 45 minutes when you first learned it, but like everything it gets old after a while.

I still want another game that plays like AC:  0 downtime, 90% soloable, massive seemless world, 500 dungeons, armor that protects specific parts of the body, arrows and spells that actually fly through the world and can be blocked by terrain, every class can self heal (but not potion chug).

They moved the hosting from west coast to east coast (Mass.) a couple months ago, and moved it again locally a couple of weeks ago since the hosting was not good (too many site-related outages).   Game runs fine from me, but I'm in Ohio.

Wasn't a big part of AC some kind of pyramid scheme where people recruited other people and the uberrecruiter became a monarch or something?  Is that part simply ignorable?

wat?  I know they increased buff timers since I last played, but the AC I remember had downtime, particularly when buffing just before running through a dungeon.  Cast boon, stamina to mana self, health to mana self, lay down, repeat.

Didn't we rehash this a few months ago?   :oh_i_see:

The guild system was a huge pyramid scheme, and they had an XP-passup thing that was eventually exploited which let people level insanely fast as the XP passup would actually multiply greater than the initial XP earned as it went up the chain with the right skills on the right people in the right order.

Yeah, that part could be completely ignored and the game wouldn't lose a damned thing.

You could be a monarch...but could you be a MMOGUL?!?

NJ DoucheBag?

And i wish that would slow down, one of the chicks is uber hawt.

Use Irfan View, then extract the frames.

Yep, that's The Gator (http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/2007/09/gator.html). 

Yes, but that was somebody else's thread, so it didn't give the person who made this thread any attention.

Items with magic drop frequently, and items can have multiple Life spells, in addition to creature/items spells.

So with the right gear, you really don't have to buff.  If you do buff, it lasts 1hr -> 2 hrs later, and you can cast an item protection on all your stuff with 1 spell.

I normally just toss on Acid Bane, Bludgeon Bane or Fire Bane based on the dungeon.  All the Life protects (all 8) are covered with items.  All the weapons I use have built in buffs.

Uh, isn't that Jessica Rose (http://www.google.com/search?q="jessica+rose")?

Also, stop talking about AC in this thread. You're legitimising the worst thread ever.

Wait, there was more to AC than standing next to a wall and drain life on Lugians?

Sure there was! You could head into OHN and get surrounded by Olthoi, spending the next few hours killing them over and over.

That's called a guido.

And I failed to see the post's date. Sad.

I'm from New Jersey. :awesome_for_real: