Tibia online as a F2P user.
Me and some classmates played it for months but unless you paid, it really was grinding: the videogame.
The game even starts you on a special island where you have to reach a certain level before you can go to the actual game world. Getting out of there alone was probably 30 hours of killing rats and skeletons.... all of it with a combat system that at that point involved no skills or player input beyond moving and casting an occasional healing spell, it also had little to no combat animations.
Despite all of that I have nothing but fond memories of it lol
Damn it. There it is, almost a deal breaker. I'll look more into this before deciding my purchase. Thanks.
This pretty much.any leveling up in FF and jrpgs becomes such a chore, the same music, the same enemies, walking in circles over and over and over again. Its such a bad mechanic just to increase playtime. Dont know why I keep loving and playing the genre though, its one of my favorites xD
Let's see.
Baal runs.
Dustia camping.
<Insert Open World Game Here> collect everything. No exceptions.
<Insert WoW Mount Dungeon/Raid Here> runs.
Ivara and Harrow farming.
Tibia online as a F2P user.
Me and some classmates played it for months but unless you paid, it really was grinding: the videogame.
The game even starts you on a special island where you have to reach a certain level before you can go to the actual game world. Getting out of there alone was probably 30 hours of killing rats and skeletons.... all of it with a combat system that at that point involved no skills or player input beyond moving and casting an occasional healing spell, it also had little to no combat animations.
Despite all of that I have nothing but fond memories of it lol
Diddy X said:Tibia player since 2004, that game was something else, ever since the beginning it looked bad and it still looks not much better gameplay wise tho it was king, that PVP was top tier, until they introduced the aimbot it took me like 2 years back in 2005 to reach level 100 with an Elite Knight, now you do that in a month I quit in 2008~ I've played a couple times since then, now, with all the new additions it looks like a very decent game.
Hahaha it warms my heart to see someone recognizing Tibia. At it's peak everyone in my country (poland) seemed to play this, I still log in to see what have changed from time to time on my Sorcerer (160lvl~). Man it's such an outdated game but I've got lots of great memories playing it with friends and brother together. My brother too was grinding to 50+ lvl killing minos and orcs on rookgaard, tedious as fuck but he liked it add to it Open Tibia Servers with war modes and those were happiest days ever hahaha.
Haha yeah they kinda fuckedup pvp with aimbot, but imo it was inevitable with the way ppl leveled up and were fast as fuck you wouldn't hit them ever with sd without aimbot I loved watching guild wars videos from 7.6~ times.
Plenty of venezuelans too (atleast on a server where I used to play before merge, vinera). And yes I've watched pewdiepie videos about it, some of these stories were hillarious. I've been victim of carlin/bright sword trick too one day ;(Maybe, at the time the top level was 250~, Eternal oblivion if I'm not mistaken, he was fast but nothing crazy, now we have like 100 level 1000 (one thousand) I think I have never seen one of those run but they gotta be really fast so aimbot wouldn't quite work nowadays.
I remember around 2005-2010 was Tibia's peak, I guess everyone played it or atleast knew about the game at Poland, Brazil, Sweden (Pewdiepie played it) Mexico and other countries.
Plenty of venezuelans too (atleast on a server where I used to play before merge, vinera). And yes I've watched pewdiepie videos about it, some of these stories were hillarious. I've been victim of carlin/bright sword trick too one day ;(
Someone wants to buy bright sword from you? You just went trade with > window pop up > wait a few seconds > cancel trade - "Oops. Missclick". Do it again few times. Guy who is trying to buy it gets impatient after few cancels. Next time you trade with him carlin sword instead of bright which looked almost identical and was WAYYY cheaper. Trade again, this time fast accept. Boom. You just sold carlin sword worth 200gold to some noob for 30k gold ;Pwhat trick is that exactly? we can have something interesting here...
Someone wants to buy bright sword from you? You just went trade with > window pop up > wait a few seconds > cancel trade - "Oops. Missclick". Do it again few times. Guy who is trying to buy it gets impatient after few cancels. Next time you trade with him carlin sword instead of bright which looked almost identical and was WAYYY cheaper. Trade again, this time fast accept. Boom. You just sold carlin sword worth 200gold to some noob for 30k gold ;P
FFXI is nuts. Everything is a grind. Even walking is a grind since everything is so far away and your character is very slow. Even on the trial it seemed crazy for me.
Never played Everquest.
I'll never forget my first time as a level 10 trying to get to Bastok from Sandoria. It was like planning a road trip. Making sure I had my gear, reraise earring to mitigate the inevitable death by some bats, a ghoul or some stupid gobbie. Traversing the Dunes for the first time was one of the most mundane yet somehow exciting activities in the game and it was what initially made me fall in love with FFXI. The risk was real. You die, you lose xp and could even delevel, erasing hours of work, forcing you to wear old gear. If you got caught by a mob you couldn't defeat, you had to pray you had enough life to make it to the next zone as that mob would follow you to the ends of the earth...err Vanadiel.
they don't make MMO's like this anymore and it's a damn shame. Even FFXIV has opted for a more WOWish formula. Fuck WOW.
Farming Adamantite Ore in Terokkar Forest during the early days of TBC to sell in stacks to fund epic flying on my main. It was actually really relaxing, flying around a set route and listening to music for hours on end. I think it took three solid weeks of farming to get enough gold to buy the training and mount.