Videos games WILL ruin your life. This is fact.
-= this will be a fairly lengthy post so be prepared =-
Well recently I have taken to playing an mmo after feeling left out in my IT group discussions of my team mates about the various games they pwn at, instead of talking about our upcoming assignment. But then it prompted me to start scouring the internet for some mmo that I might be interested in for a prolonged period of time. I like Warcraft, but a bit more hesitant towards playing WoW since I don't really want to the pay the monthly fee. And this led me to DoMO.
Del or Kura or whoever was with me that night in FamilyMart (*sigh* the memories) when I bought a bunch of computer games that were ridiculously cheap. In the end, I haven't played any of them, even though they came with subscriptions and all until about the start of this year, but it was too outdated and didn't work. But then I found an English version of the one I was most interested in and dropped by their website:
http://domo.aeriagames.com/ (DoMO: Dream of Mirror Online)
The thing that caught my eye are the graphics. The characters are cute, with an easy-on-the-eyes background, lots of lighting, almost perfect! It's really annoying in games where it's too dark to see anything and you have to squint at the screen all the time. I'll admit, some aspects of the game are fairly dodgy, but since it's my first mmo, I don't really have much basis for comparison.
The download was 1GB, and so I got my friend to download it for me, which would be a bit easier on my connection. Installation and various patches took an hour+, but finally, it was ready. My first dilemma: choosing a character. Below are the two characters I was tossing up between for quite a while:
In the end I chose the Shura (left) over the Sylph (right) and named it Aoneko (blue cat). Btw, although you can't see it from this angle, she has a tail XD and it swishes~
*ahem* In this game, there are many jobs, and you can level them all up. I hold about 3 jobs atm. Fighting is ok, as you level up you gain more skills and improve others. I didn't find out about them until a week into the game though, and wondered where everyone pulled those crazy attacks from. It was pretty fun exploring the city until I exhausted all the quests in it, then wah-lah! You can go outside the city. To about 10 different places. And so on and so forth.
But the point I'm trying to make is this.
Meet KaeL, my DoMO lover:
In DoMO, you can create formalised relationships with other players; friends, student/teacher and lovers. As you level up your relationship with them, you get extra attacks and other goodies. And it's also more fun to play with someone else. The downside is it makes you keep on playing....which brings me back to my first point: video games will ruin your life. Everynight since I stay up til 3-4am playing DoMO. Getting addicted to mmos are a BIG mistake. Never ever do it.
An extremely good thing about DoMO is that it's free. The catch being you have to buy extras from their website with real money. Excluding items dropped in the game, but stuff like clothing and special items. I've held back from buying stuff cos I know if I start buying anything I'll go crazy and buy everything. Recently, the prettiest pair of blue wings I've ever seen has started hitting into the market, but (un)fortunately, it's not for sale. But here's a picture anyway:
The ninja suits you saw the second picture was a freebie.
One last point to mention. You can have pets which are all jolly expensive, but we both managed to get our hands on one:
Mine looks a bit like a stupefied cat-bear thing now with bat wings, but it'll look better when it levels up.
Hmm, this post has been a while. Anyway, that's about it from me. I'm trying to cut down on it, but with the holidays coming up and all................
Hope everyone is good and looking forward to the winter holidays!!! ^______^
(One last picture, involving a glitch where you can run through other characters)
