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    Graphics-
    The Graphic is rather unique as it is one of the few good looking cell shaded games.
    The performance it 100% and it looks glorious on max sometimes it seems like team fortress two in graphics.
    The Bloom feature is also nice and the dynamic shadow is very detailed.
    However a complaint would be that the graphics option menu isnt very good and some of the monsters look a bit too similar.
    The weapons and armour is also nice too as it is mysteriously cool and reminds us all of our favorate anime characters in a way.
    TThe robes however may be cool yet it covers up a bit too much of the inside armor.
    Gameplay-
    Words alone cannot describe this game however I will try.
    My favorate feature would probably be the music composing which is completely free or its better put you can make you own music or convert songs into the music you can play ingame.
    You can also craft items such as armor and weapons however it is a painstaking task and requires utmost attention.
    You can also fish farm and cook but like before itsa painstaking task but its worth the work.
    Dungeons and questing is also fun as you earn a nice amount of items and money from each quest.
    However item prices do bother me as a simple armor cost 30k which is alot but most people seem to have no problem farming for it.
    But with every good side there is a negative as the game requires cash items for you to advance through and get items which make certain jobs not so extremely hard.
    Now to the "Classes" or "Jobs" of this game.
    It is a free job style gameplay and you are what skills you choose although it is hard it is also rewarding as you can be a hybrid with no issue.
    Also that you have to get cash/prenium items to atchually make a clan which I find horrible as people go for the free not the free which is a lie to get you to pay.
    Music-
    Nothing new unless you are a musician which most people are.The music is gorgeous if you have the basic intelligence to play a instrument by copy and paste text and clicking the play.However if you Don't know how im afraid your ears will be very sore.
    The sound effects are nice however and matches a cartoony cell shaded game like mabinogi yet lack a how I say smexeh.
    Learning Curve-
    Medium ish if you listine to the tutorial fairy or good at dabbling with stuff.
    Community-
    Pretty good as most people were nice and quiet,however sometimes things get out of hand as I hung out with some crazy people while playing my music.Apparently a good amount of otaku play this game as most of the song i heard being played was from BLEACH or Death Note.
    Most people are friendly and helpful and the trading is nice too as music lyrics are top bid in terms of wanted.
    Yet the only downside as stated before is that you must pay in order to make a guild or clan which I find a outrageous demand.
    Partying system and everything dephends on teamwork as it is a classfree game and you are who you choose to be.
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    The graphics was what made me quit right when I start fearing that ******** would be right around the corner.

    Oh btw, Mabinogi=cell shaded graphics of an annoying artstyle
    Tf2=old style American 1950s cartoons with realistic shaders such as phong and specular.

    Tf2 is not cell shaded, god that annoys me.

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    So far i'm really loving it because it has a very good community. Its open, UO or asheron call -eks skill system is refreshing, aswell as the combat. The only thing i find strange is how many people are rolling kids >.> i like a giant to 80% of the people in game.

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    Mmmm Arri down there is probably right xD (post just after mine.)

    M' yea Arri's right :S

    Stops aging at 25, the bonus for being a child (10 years old) is that our character will age for 7 more years than if you would have started at 17 years old. (when your character gets older he gains ability points so it is a good thing I guess))

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    Quote Originally Posted by DarkAztaroth View Post
    That is mostly because your character can die because he's too old so people prefer to start young ^^
    No


    Most people start at 10 because in the long run you'll have more AP, and more time to work on your character.

    There is no "death of old age" in this :P

    I think the age system stops counting around 25 anyway (no visual difference)

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    You know what's wierd?
    You can actually get fat in this game which I did not know lol.
    It actually shows to :|...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DoubleDouble View Post
    True im getting sick of these pedo games with "cute" little children prancing around in their undwear wielding swords the size of cars. But yea that just me.
    This from the guy with an avatar of a minor exposing her breasts.

    Plus,swords are realy small.

    The best thing about this game is I look like Altair from Asssassin's Creed.Hell yeah.

    Quote Originally Posted by Pandemonium View Post
    Actually it isn't. I thought it was at first also, but then I bought you and it's 1-H.
    Nah,correction here.

    There's two versions of the bastard sword-1H and 2H.

    I'm more of a dual sword man myself but that feature isn't ingame yet so...I'm going with a longsword.

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    by the way nice site.

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    That's a very good review.

    Though the music feature is one of its strong points I get mixed feeling when I hear themes from Anime, TV Shows or VGs. It actually becomes quickly monotonous for me and sometimes I wonder why I bother. Luckily, and unluckily for those who like such a feature as moi, You can turn the bard music off.

    I'm not sure about the community. At times they can be very friendly but it's usually quiet. When a game has the community to casually chat about life, Mabinogi is capable, then it's a very good community (IMO). I'm not sure how to explain it but even the chat system they have deteers me and maybe many to chat at all. You wrote something but you wern't in chat... BAM! A load of UI chunks on your screen and with little knowledge of how they got there. Sometimes I wished they'd adopt the work of RO which keeps the letters and numbers on your keyboard strictly for that. Hold down Ctrl +[A letter] and out pops a UI window.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beshino View Post
    You know what's wierd?
    You can actually get fat in this game which I did not know lol.
    It actually shows to :|...
    Oh this reminds me of something funny that happened!

    We were around a campfire and everyone kept sharing food,so we'd get phat.Suddenly this huge fat person came and started sitting and getting up repeatedly,while naked.

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    Yours look like that Altair ? mine just look like an idiot http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/c...desnapshot.jpg

    yes his little smawl sword is a bastard sword >.< from that angle it look even smaller T_T

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darc View Post
    Oh this reminds me of something funny that happened!

    We were around a campfire and everyone kept sharing food,so we'd get phat.Suddenly this huge fat person came and started sitting and getting up repeatedly,while naked.
    Words could not describe how creeped out I would be if that happened to me but this face sums it up pretty well .

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    Omg this game sucks so bad..

    graphics are crap..compared to other free games
    Music is okay..not the best
    gameplay is horrible, when i wanna go somewhere in other games and i click, the CHARACTER GETS THERE WITHOUT GETTING STUCK, THEY ACTUALLY GO AROUND OBJECTS,

    IN THIS GAME THEY DUMBASS JUST KEEPS RUNNING INTO A WALL!!!

    This is like Runscape but with a glow effect,

    RUNSCAPE IS HORRIBLE, SO THIS GAME IS HORRIBLE!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by GameDevil View Post
    Omg this game sucks so bad..

    graphics are crap..compared to other free games
    Music is okay..not the best
    gameplay is horrible, when i wanna go somewhere in other games and i click, the CHARACTER GETS THERE WITHOUT GETTING STUCK, THEY ACTUALLY GO AROUND OBJECTS,

    IN THIS GAME THEY DUMBASS JUST KEEPS RUNNING INTO A WALL!!!

    This is like Runscape but with a glow effect,

    RUNSCAPE IS HORRIBLE, SO THIS GAME IS HORRIBLE!!
    Lol, so just because it doesn't have pathfinding, it sucks?

    I'm really inclined to flaming you right now.

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    oh gawd, i love the game but the pathfinding is just terrible lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zensaber View Post
    So far i'm really loving it because it has a very good community. Its open, UO or asheron call -eks skill system is refreshing, aswell as the combat. The only thing i find strange is how many people are rolling kids >.> i like a giant to 80% of the people in game.
    It's because any idiot would know that the stats when you are 10 build up as you go along, I don't play and I know that, so people who roll a 10 year old will have more high ranked skills and better stats then a person who rolls a 17 year old.

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    You also dont stay 10 forever. I just turned 11 in the game and got that nice 5 ap.

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    Yea i didn't realize that till after i made my character, i'm just to lazy to reroll.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GameDevil View Post
    Omg this game sucks so bad..

    graphics are crap..compared to other free games
    Music is okay..not the best
    gameplay is horrible, when i wanna go somewhere in other games and i click, the CHARACTER GETS THERE WITHOUT GETTING STUCK, THEY ACTUALLY GO AROUND OBJECTS,

    IN THIS GAME THEY DUMBASS JUST KEEPS RUNNING INTO A WALL!!!

    This is like Runscape but with a glow effect,

    RUNSCAPE IS HORRIBLE, SO THIS GAME IS HORRIBLE!!


    Poor, poor misguided soul do you know nothing about debating? You are not supposed to raise your voice or attack aesthetics as aesthetics are purely self opinionated and not valid arguments. I hate Mabinogi as mush as the next guy but, please, I beg of you, stop making us all look like idiots, please?

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    runescape isn't half bad if you take into consideration that its in a browser.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zensaber View Post
    runescape isn't half bad if you take into consideration that its in a browser.

    Not meaning anything mean but thats like saying Meth isn't bad if you take into consideration that it's made in an unsanitary car garage.

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    hrm, good point, i think you may have somthing there. I would have compared it to food. Runescape is like somthing you cook in the microwave, it may not be good but its avaliable fast, while the good games are like a meal you spend the time to cook.

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    Rabbit Valley - Where a cute little rabbit lures you to your death by the vaettir tree
    DON'T FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT

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    Quote Originally Posted by neothaka View Post
    no offense, but ONRPG reviews are always biased to extremes. Either it's a genuine masterpiece or it's a downright abomination of hell.

    The graphics in Mabinogi are everything but "beautiful" imo. Unique? i've seen them in 20 other korean games before. Lotro has amazing graphics, but Mabinogi is basically nothing better than f.e. Domo (imo Domo looks better). The jaggness is too visible, there is nothing extraordinary about the scenery and soforth ...

    the gameplay might stand out in comparison to other games in the "genre", but still, it's nothing to write home about.
    true ther alot of korean games "cell shaded" that look way better aka Domo and some other . i prefer Runescape over that ... good graphics will be LOTRO and Age of conan that good graphic .

    graphics are important for gameplay immersion and realism . dont say its not important to a game it is...

    to what i hear in AoC you will see the scratches in your character while a combat and it might make you injured or something , that Realism !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by beshino View Post
    You know what's wierd?
    You can actually get fat in this game which I did not know lol.
    It actually shows to :|...
    Better exercise fatty
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