Flyff New Items @ 20PhP

September 13, 2008

 

Once again, Flyff makes my day (err… night). After me missing the whole Looter Pets promo, I thought that was the end of it for me. But now, here we are. Yes… Here we are… [cue evil laugh]

 

For more info, go here: Original Post at Flyff Forums.

 

Oh and be advised, this Wednesday, Sept. 17, Levelupgames Philippines is going to have a maintenance run which would make the My Level Up!, My Level Up! Support and the Direct TopUp pages inaccessible from 10 AM to 12PM.

 

Read it all here: LU! Maintenance Advisory (Sept 17)

On Purists vs Hardcore

 

Purists vs Hardcore

By: GM Tristan

 

As strange and as unbelievable as this may sound, I’ve had my share of the traditional pen-and-paper RPGs. The first thing that comes to my mind, the first memory that reappears in my head, when someone says traditional pen-and-paper RPG(s) is DnD. For those out there who doesn’t know what DnD is, it’s Dungeons and Dragons. 

 

DnD was pretty big as a traditional sit-down game some decades ago, although I’m not sure of its current state. It’s not the only game of its type my friends and I played. We also tried our hands on our version of Mazes and Monsters, a spoof of DnD as made popular by the Dexter Cartoon Series on Cartoon Network. That was probably one of the most tiresome games we’ve played so far, excluding a game of “Moro-moro” with girls back in high school.

 

As far as I can remember, the first MMORPG that made me a fan was Ragnarok and even before that point in time, I had already stopped toying around with the pen and paper type of RPG. I got my own Playstation before Ragnarok and even before that, the SNES and the Gameboy family (The Light version and the Color version among others…) were already taking more of my non-school time.

 

I guess you could say what drew me out of the whole traditional picture was the fact that the world around me was evolving. There have been a lot of games that were a lot easier to start and end, that were more visually appealing, that were more involving and portable than the former. So even before I became aware of Ragnarok and its kind of gaming, I had already fallen out of love with DnD. 

 

Another point where pen and paper gaming would lose to MMORPG nowadays, In my opinion, is the fact that not everyone will agree with the Game Master. That leads to chaos, confusion and chasing each other out the house for a heated game of basketball. 

 

Its really a no-contest since the two aren’t even of the same level really. I mean, I still love playing Game Master (God Modding, anyone) with my younger cousins (oh no, that doesn’t read right) because it lights my creative wick up but I detest playing it in the long run since we all have short attention spans and my cousins tend to fail at following rules. I love MMORPGs because I get to meet different people, whatever the distance, and there’s a sense of “another world” there but, like GM Tristan coined, it can take too much of your time without you even knowing about it.

 

In the end, pen and paper is played less nowadays compared to MMORPGs mainly because its not as advertised as the latter. When it comes to time, both are at par with game time dependent on the player’s interest with the game. With expenses? Rule books for the pen and paper and game time (for cafe players) or specs (for those with PCs) are essentially on a draw. My friends and I didn’t have much trouble with starting DnD since I (always the Game Master) always plan ahead (like three days) before the weekend games.

Artinsite Magazine’s The Covers Project Update

 

 

Well, the Artinsite Magazine’s The Covers Project is going to end this Monday. That was according to their website.

 

I was one of the thousands of artists who made a cover just for the historical event. At the sound of “The Philippines’ first arts appreciation magazine”, they got me.

 

My cover concept was”Literature meets Photography”. I incorporated my two favorite forms of art into one cover but I’m still skeptical about its value. I did send it though so that counts for something. All this excitement is going to kill me and to think they’re going to publish those covers, along with the launching of the official website, in January. Pretty long time for some rush eh?

 

In any case, I’m also willing to contribute, hopefully I get paid in the process, some of my yet published poems and short stories. In Layman’s terms, I’m going to sell exclusive literature that are yet to see the light. If anything, it’s going to open doors for me and that’s about the real point of this guy’s life. *points to self*

 

For more information on the magazine, absorb all you can here: Artinsite Magazine’s Temporary Site.

Genesis

From the title, it’s now pretty obvious that I can be a bit dramatic when it comes to my writing but it’s partially justified since this is my first official post in this new blog. 

I was thinking of making a much better first post but from the headache, mostly due to more insomnia, that I’m still harboring up to now, that’s not gonna happen. So before I have my head burst into gooey crimson, I’m going to have to end this senseless rant.

But there’s going to be a major edit, be sure of that.