Review Submitted By: Zyrin
Author Status: Player
Started on Medievia: I don't remember.
Submission Date: May 23, 2005
TMC Listing: Medievia
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Zyrin]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Medievia is the final word when it comes to text based MMORPGS. Trust
me when I say graphical MMORPGs can't hold a candle to Medievia.
Medievia will appeal to hardcore, casual, and social gamers all while
keeping gameplay balanced for everyone without isolation. Here are
some things that have caught my eye that you may like to know.
IMMERSION: If that's what you're looking for you're going to get
it. The codebase is well done with bugs practically nonexistent.
Descriptions for areas/zones is excellent with repetition minimal and
creativity abundant. Might I add that quality is consistant throughout
the game, even in the player created 'clan towns'. Character naming
is regulated so you won't find people with stupid names wandering
about unlike commercial games. Server stability is also good; Crashes
and restarts do happen but the downtime is very small, usually back up
in less than a minute.
COMMUNITY: The playerbase is quite friendly for the most part. You
will find people willing to help newer players and social chatter is
common. What you won't find is roleplaying, which is a shame because
Medievia has the potential to have one of the best 'stages' for
roleplaying in my opinion. The staff doesn't seem interested in
trying to get any roleplaying activity going, however they don't
appear to frown apon it either. This in my opinion is the only serious
flaw of Medievia.
FEATURES: I'm not going to list a bunch of features because Medievia
has pretty much every feature needed to make a complete and good game.
Instead I'm going to describe stuff in Medievia you're not going to
find anywhere else. The wilderness is Medievia's strongest feature.
If you use the special font designed specificlly for Medievia you'll
be amazed at what the wilderness looks like. If one were to wander
around the wilderness before entering a text area you'd think you
were playing an old graphical game.. which for a text game is
brilliant! Not only that but it's huge, walking on foot to get to
areas would take far too long. But fear not.. dragon flight is
available for quick transportation. There are many more features
unique to Medievia and trying to describe any more would make this too
long, eitherway you won't be disappointed.
FINAL THOUGHTS: Two things I will bring up that will probably be of
concern to some players. One which I already said.. that which is lack
of any roleplaying. Medievia is free in almost every sense and casual
players need not worry but if you're a hardcore gamer and you want to
be competitive you're probably going to want to donate to Medievia
when you near the end-game. (Which is essentially pay-for-perks, but
not nearly as bad as it sounds because in the long run it's MUCH
cheaper than commerical MMORPGS.) Other than that.. Medievia has it
all. As I said above.. the final word when it comes to text based
MMORPGs. Now stop reading and go play!
