Review Submitted By: Player X
Author Status: Player
Started on Kingdoms of the Lost: October 2004
Submission Date: Feb 4, 2005
TMC Listing: Kingdoms of the Lost
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Player X]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
The Good- Beautifully thought out and unique. The game itself is
awesome. You never run out of things to do in this mud. Whether you
are questing for a custom made weapon or armor, leveling, perfecting
spells and skills, ranking in religions or kingdoms, roleplaying for
the many benefits of rpxp, there's always something you can be doing.
And all of these things take a lot of time and patience.
The Bad- The game says I've put in over 180 hours into it, so I
really believe that I have a right to this opinion. Now, the problem
that I have with this otherwise perfect game is the social aspects of
it. I wouldn't say it's incredibly newbie friendly and unless you make
a scene when you first enter the game you'll likely go unnoticed.
The playerbase is not big. An average of 10 people are on, sometimes
more, sometimes less, but I'd say rarely more than 25. There's
something called 'prewipe' in this game and most of you know what
I'm talking about. Yeah this game had an older version and there was
a prewipe where everyone recreated. Now if you are 'prewipe' then
you're almost automaticaly cool and yeah, you'll have friends on the
mud. If you're not, then you seriously have to work hard to 'be cool
enough' to have friends here.
Now, the mud is great on its own, but who wants to play an online
game (with people from all over the world on the same game) when you
can't socialize?
So here's my final words : The game is GREAT. I just think they need
to work on the newbie friendliness, and overall friendliness. There is
an air of arrogance on this game, and yeah, the older players
definitely deserve respect. But this game is an RP game, and in an RP
game I just don't understand excluding those around you simply because
you think you are better.
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Comment Submitted By: Elromis Valen
Author Status: Player
Started on Kingdoms of the Lost: Dec 2004
Submission Date: Mar 27, 2005
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Elromis Valen] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
Well, I do agree this is a great game. I disagree with you in the
fact that you have to be an older player to be 'cool'. I have been
playing now for about 5 months and I really like to socialize with
everyone. For the most part everyone gets along great with each other.
Not to mention they are all very helpful if you ask.
What a lot of people don't know is that if your on here leveling,
practicing your spells, or you may be on another screen all together,
you may very well miss any questions on the question channel or the
ooc channel. Just ask again and someone will respond. I try to respond
even if I don't know, I try to just that. But yes, I do agree, great
game and Imm staff.
Elromis Valen
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Comment Submitted By: Ishiqaj
Author Status: Player
Started on Kingdoms of the Lost: Early 2004
Submission Date: Apr 2, 2005
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Ishiqaj] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
I agree with Elromis...I don't think the mud is cliquish. I mean
sure, alot of the old players are friends, but we're definitely not
friends to the exclusion of new players. I love meeting new players
and interacting with them, as so do all the other oldbies. If we are
'popular' at all, the reason is because, surprise, we're friendly.
We are friendly to everyone, new and old players alike.
Also, as Elromis said, if your question doesn't get answered right
away, it probably means that people are either busy, AFK, or
unannounced AFK; in doing a lot of things on the mud, like practicing
spells or levelling. There's so much spam that other lines of text
can be very easily missed. It has nothing to do with the fact that no
one likes to help new players (because that isn't true at ALL). I'm
always perfectly willing to help a new player if I can, and most other
players are too.
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