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Remember my post like twelve days ago where I abused a crappy MMO, and said I’d have another one to review later? Yeah.
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First off, the game is called “Gothador.”
Go ahead, get it all out of your system.
The game is very serious about this. The programmers are not at all embarrassed by this name, and in fact seem feel that it lends a certain solemnity and gravitas to the gaming experience:
“As he begins the story you feel yourself drift off into a deep sleep. Thoughts of war, blood and death slip through your mind until you finally awaken.
This is Gothador; yet not.
Something terrible has happened here.”
Something terrible. Something… warlike, bloody, and death-intensive.
( Cut for length and completely gratuitous Final Fantasy VII joke. )
And now I will give you two quotes from Kingdom of Loathing to make the pain go away:
“You’re fighting a decent lumberjack
This lumberjack is only okay. I mean, you get a full day’s work out of him, and everything, but he has some strange habits.”
“You’re fighting a senile lihc
Some necromancers, in a desperate final bid for immortality, perform dire rituals to become lihces. This one did it by accident, while trying to make some breakfast.”
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