of a RANGER and a Shadow Dragon

I'm a gamer...

define: a single BACHELOR who plays computer games... a lot.

Its a role that I fit into, not an encompassing lifestyle or a character trait.
Thankfully.
I have a social life... I think I do?!?
Thanks for asking...

Anyway... I'm a huge fan of RPGS.

I love Final Fantasy VII.
I love Final Fantasy VIII.
I love Final Fantasy IX.
I love Final Fantasy X.
I love Final Fantasy X-2.

You can probably guess I love Squaresoft and their the Final Fantasy Series...

I love Wild Arms 3.
I love Shin Megami Tensei: Nocture.
I love Final Fantasy Tactics.
I love Disgaea: Hour of Darkness.
I love The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind.

and I'll probably love The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
when it is finally released... heh!

Currently Playing Fable: the Lost Chapters.
It finally got released for the PC. Yea!

I just love the fantasy and the roleplay.
But what really gets me is the power leveling to get your characters godly.
I always try for the level cap and the final ultimate set of equipment.
Nerdy yea?
And, btw, nerd was a term coined by Dr Seuss in the book To the Zoo.



MMORPG
Massive Multiplayer Online RPG
*gasp* even the acronym is massive... heh!
I've played a fair few.

Ragnarok Online (or RO) was just so cute.
I spent many nights up with YuMing and Brian? killing Sohee and whatnot~
That was fun... YuMing almost lost his job and I often went to work on Mondays sleepy.
And when I got my falcon as Hunter... wow!

Later on, I got hooked on Risk Your Life (RYL) with Bernard.
This was a game where Akhans (read as Orcs) fought Humans.
I know that it has a wierd name, but it had a good combat system.
And, you could buy in-game-money with real-world-money... HAHA!
So, the world was really abused...

I loved Final Fantasy Online.
I have played a few hours at it with Bernard and Kelvin.
But, I never owned an account.
I've just borrowed my friends' characters and watched over their shoulders.
This game is just too huge and time consuming.

The best online RPG that I took part in has got to be UO
Ultima Online... yea!
This would then be the story of a Ranger and the Shadow Dragon.
The ranger had weapons of great power like the Devastating Crossbow of the Void.
And the crazy time we (Bernard, Kelvin and I) had finding pieces for the Plate Armour of the Water Elemental.
I played that ages ago on a private server, UO with their own additions.

Shoutouts goes to Osiris, FouLu, Gembel and whoever else of Guild ~XTC~ !!!

I spent many great days and sleepless nights hunting ostards.
And fishing off the top of my small tower to level my useless skill.
Then it was off making fish steaks and then cooking said fish steaks on top of my guilds tower.
Then there was the combat with this crazy PK (read as player killer) who used this PowerPlayer class.
FouLu and Necro had a grand time trying to rescue most of us weaker guild members.

I remember playing as the Ranger class.
A LVL4 Ranger with high skill levels in taming and archery.

I remember taming a red dragon for the very first time.
FouLu had lent me a whole suit of Grandmaster items of Taming.
I had a pretty high skill level of about 120~ish in taming itself and a lot of luck.
The party got slaughtered the first time, but we persisted...
Then we succeeded in taming a few of these grand dragons.
They could talk... had some really sarcastic comments.

The guild kept one caged inside on the first floor of the guild tower.
HAHA! Got a fair few of my guild members killed while they were AFK (read as away from computer)
Then someone got an admin to come and kill my poor dragon...

We also tried taming a Golden Dragon once.
But, ultimately failed 'cause they were just too fast.

MMORPGs are really great.
But I gave it up and vowed never again...
Simply because MMORPGs really is a lifestyle unto it's own.