Review Submitted By: Killcrazy
Author Status: Player
Started on Ancient Anguish: 1997
Submission Date: Apr 10, 2007
TMC Listing: Ancient Anguish
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Killcrazy]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
I've been playing AA for over 10 years. I've played other muds but
few compare to it.
For the explorer sort, this mud packs quality into its areas like no
other mud. Pretty much everything can be touched, smelled, sniffed,
tasted, searched. The NPCs being made for the game keep getting
smarter. The classes are top-notch, it has the fewest bugs and typos
I've seen in any mud, and the players are extremely friendly and fun.
For the competitive sort, there are many top ten lists to compete on,
from killing to discovering new areas to being the best player at
trivia or poker or chess or flaghunting or any of the other myriad of
games available.
In the past year or so, AA has seen some pretty major improvements.
We have an entire new continent, with dozens more areas, higher level
monsters to go with our new levels (up to level 50 now!), some truely
epic creatures that are akin to WoW raid size. We have mining, we have
a new guild up north, new quests and miniquests, and best of all, a
new class.
The artificer class has finally hit AA. About 7 years in making,
worked on by a number of people, the class is one of the hugest,
complex and most compelling classes I have played in a MUD. You can
produce just about everything, specialising in one of two different
areas - spellforging, and spellcrafting. You can build mechanomagical
monstrosities, enchant wands that rain fire, or just make lots of
money forging different items for people.
I definitely recommend trying it. Some guilds are more newbie
friendly than others (don't jump right in bed with the war-mongering
Scythe clan!), but bears, knights and snowfolk are extremely friendly
to newbies. For those that have tried the game, come back and see
what's on offer now!
