Monthly Archives: January 2014

RF Online Mobile

RF Online Mobile is a sci-fi MMORPG based off the original RF Online. Join in the world in one of three factions, and choose from three classes to dominate the galaxy of Novus.

Features:

One-Touch Gaming: Mobile technology allows you to battle, complete quests, and more with just a single touch.

Extensive Content: Over 120 missions and 1,400 pieces of equipment await you as you progress on your journey.

Continuing the PvP Tradition: Your real adventure starts at max level when you join in real-time PvP, including daily Mine Wars.

A Trip Down Memory Lane While Taking Acid: RF Online Mobile

By Vincent Haoson (Ojogo)

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I would have to admit that RF Online was one of my go to games ever since it came out in our side of the world. I loved that RF Online introduced the concept of being able to pilot a truly robot avatar in the form of the Acretians. Seeing the game die just this year in our area felt like a punch in the gut, even if the game has started to become dated compared side by side with new games that have been coming out.

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With that said, I pretty much expected that RF Online Mobile would make me reminisce the good old days, back when Chip warring was my thing and taking down Mechs and summons left and right were satisfying sights to behold.
Sadly, upon playing RF Online Mobile, all I got was peels of disappointment and it felt that I was extremely short-changed.

 

Gameplay

One of the biggest areas RF Online Mobile took liberty with is the gameplay. The MMORPG aspect was torn to shreds and was replaced with a mobile game-sque system much akin to text based, mobile RPGs.

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Unlike its PC version, RF Online Mobile’s battle system is an “energy draining” enterprise where you get to “kill” NPCs 1v1. You can still earn experience points and level up much like any other RPG. So think of RF Online as Mafia Wars (remember when that game was popular?) skinned as RF Online.

You still have the option of choosing between the three races but the job classes are gone.

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Your character still has skills that he/she can use. However since the game isn’t a 3D MMORPG anymore, you are only allowed to equip learned and upgraded skills pre-battle and hope to whatever deity you put your faith on that it’ll connect during battle phase.
You can also still equip weapons and armaments on your character and even upgrade them too.

 

Features

CH Games Co. retained a lot of gameplay features that were exclusively for RF Online. However the problem is that a lot of them were stripped down to fit the game’s “different look” into the world of Novus.

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Player progression is done through the single player missions; on the other hand, multiplayer features are relegated into PvP, mine wars and just plain wars. The game tries its best to keep your attention by providing various avenues to make you come back into the game.

 

Chip wars has been changed to mine wars and is turned into a numbers/population game instead of what it was before, an all-out battle between the three races. However, instead of actually duking it out like in the MMORPG version, you are relegated in scrounging up players to help out in the battles. While it’s normally a given that most often than not, events like this are reliant on the player population, at least in the MMORPG version, you still have given that sliver of hope that you can win said wars, but in RF Online mobile, since it’s basically a numbers/stats game, you end up just giving up on even participating.

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PvP on the other hand, while is still present, is a boring foray into playing against other players. Wars meanwhile are no different, thus dashing more hopes for the game.

 

Verdict: Poor

Before I started playing RF Online Mobile, I expected it to be similar to Sega’s Demon Tribes. I hoped that the mobile version retained some semblance of ANY MMORPG elements since there have been various MMORPG games out on the mobile.

 

But no, I was welcomed by a stripped down RF Online experience. It’s insulting to my memory of RF Online, and in this day and age where you can bring RF Online, or at least some of it into the mobile platform. But nooooo, what I had to endure was a flash based game that’s all too similar to numerous half-baked mobile games out there.

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Seeing RF Online stripped down to this ugly game is painful and sad. RF Online Mobile kill the whole idea of playing RF Online in the mobile platform. If they just took the MMORPG medium and streamlined it to the mobile platform I won’t be this nasty with the game, but, since this is what it is now, I just can’t stop myself from hating the game.

 

Would I recommend this game? Well if you haven’t been reading at least the first three paragraphs of the conclusion, then I’d say no, not in a million years would I recommend RF Online Mobile to anyone (well except for my enemies since I’d like them to waste their time). Any person who has played and loved RF Online should not even start playing this game. Don’t even touch it, even with a ten foot pole. It’s that bad. I’d rather suggest you to find yourself a nice, stable private server if you don’t want to join the international servers (and that RF Online in your country is officially dead like ours).

 

There would’ve been better ways on how the game was treated, but it clearly wasn’t done here. So move along now and don’t look back at this game ever again.

Deadbreed – New hardcore MOBA hits Steam Greenlight

A group of Swedish game developer veterans (formerly known for their development of “Just Cause” from Avalanche Studios) has come together to make Deadbreed — a darker hardcore MOBA with unprecedented hero customizability and RPG gameplay features. This high-end next generation MOBA is the first release from the Swedish stealth startup. “I wanted to play a MOBA where I could totally customize how my hero looked and, more importantly played, but I couldn’t find one,” explains Stefan Ljungqvist, developer at the Stockholm based studio.

While giving the player complete freedom over character customization, which includes full control over character appearances, Sentinel battles where players can choose their endgame boss fight and extra features like PvP quests, Deadbreed sets itself from pack by offering a ton of unique features never before attempted in the genre.

“Talking to friends, I realized I wasn’t the only one wanting this, so we decided to make it. Also, this was our chance to make a darker themed MOBA for hardcore gamers like ourselves and bring in some additional RPG gameplay features.” The response from Deadbreed’s weeks old Steam Greenlight campaign and community feedback indicate that many gamers seem to agree. After a decade of making triple A action console games, it feels good to return to your roots,” continues Stefan, who also has a background as a pen-and-paper RPG and miniatures games designer. “It feels great to make monsters again!”

Deadbreed is currently accepting signups for its upcoming closed Beta and is available for PC. For more information, visit: http://www.deadbreed.com/

Deadbreed MOBA

Deadbreed is a fastpaced, hardcore Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) with RPG features. While having a darker, more horrific theme than most other MOBA titles, Deadbreed sets itself from pack by offering a ton of unique features never before attempted in the genre.

Features:

Unique heroes: Choose your hero from a wide range of night-, half- and daybreed. Each hero has its own unique set of special abilities and plays differently depending on the way you equip them!

Full-on character customizatione: Not only can you customize your character’s set of abilities, but also their appearance. No two heroes can ever look or play the same.

Open-ended gameplay: Along with traditional MOBA combat, maps have customizable options like Dungeons, side- and PvP-Quests.

Sentinel battles: A team chosen Sentinel becomes the endgame bossfight challenge. The outcome of each match change your status with the Sentinels and affect their power.

Digimon Masters Rings in the New Year

Joymax is welcoming everyone to the new year with a new addition to their worldwide MMO sensation, Digimon Masters. Alongside a huge cash shop sale, now is the perfect time to join, or return to, the biggest Digimon MMO in the world.

Baihumon

Introducing the holy beast, Baihumon! As one of the four Holy Beasts that protect the Digital World, this Ultimate digivolution guards the Western direction, while its siblings guard North, East, and South. Despite being the youngest of the four Beasts, it is by far the most powerful; its great power and immortality is attributed to the power of the DigiCore. Generally taking a stance of neutrality, it is slow to make friends. Its special move, the “Kongo Wave,” emits from its mouth and is strong enough to cause paralysis and forces metal to rust and often leads to death!

It’s the last few days of the Christmas Reinforced Mercenary DigiEgg! Tamers have until January 14th to grab these coveted eggs, which have a chance to hatch into Seedmon, DemiDevimon, Pawnchessmon White, Impmon, Ryuudamon, Dracomon Blue and Green, Veemon, Patamon, or Kudamon, all guaranteed to be level 4 or 5! Players can continue to turn in their New Year’s coins for this prize, or purchase them from the Digimon Masters cash shop.

Fans can find everything and anything about Digimon Masters Online on its official Facebook page, which has more than 372,000 likes from all over the world.

Join the conversation now at https://www.facebook.com/digimonmasters
Players can learn more about the game and download it for free at http://www.joymax.com

Dark Frenzy: Establish Your Name in Inferno Legend

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Gamebox’s downloadable MMORPG Inferno Legend has recently released a major update with the brand new feature of “Dark Tournament”. Dark Tournament is a new PvP feature that enables players to see their true strength comparing with others.

Free Mode & Class Mode
There are two different modes in Dark Tournament. In Class Mode, players will be divided in groups according to their class. And players of each class will be paired and fight in rounds. At the end of the tournament, each class will have an independent rank so that players can see how good they are among players of their class.

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Free Mode is even more competitive. It is like Class Mode but with players of all classes on the same platform. And at the end of it, there will be only one rank so that players can see their stance in their server.

Prayers & Outbursts
Like any competition, the preparation phase in Dark Competition is vital. Without knowing who their next opponent will be, players still have some options prepare for the upcoming battle. No matter who the opponent is, improving the strength of yourself will always bring you a better chance of winning. Besides the equipment enhancing and skill upgrading players are already familiar with, Dark Tournament provides extra options of prayer and outburst that immediately enhance the rating of players’ team.

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To use Prayer, players need to spend a certain amount of Gold. Prayers will give your team a rating boost throughout the entire tournament. And Outburst is free with a 30% rating boost for your team for the upcoming round. However, Outburst can only be used 3 times in a tournament, so it will be a very strategic decision in which rounds Outburst should be used for players to make depending on how far they expect their team would go into the tournament.

With this new Dark Tournament feature and the existing Arena function, Inferno Legend PvP system is pretty complete. Players now have multiple choices to challenge each other and see their standings in this game. This will certainly bring a strong sense of achievement.