mmo - fantasy masters

Back to mmos and I'm playing something which at first sounded like the dumbest thing ever, virtual trading card games. I chose to play this because most of the mmos I've played have been 3rd person action quest games, I've never played a virtual card game before (except pokemon).

I mean sure there are magic the gathering games and yugioh games but at least there are real cards. This is entirely online.

Fantasy masters is another mmo that originally started off in Korea that after a few years was translated for the westan market. It's not a very big game, the initial download was only 200mb so don't expect super 3d battles when summoning monsters. I did have i a little problem with the install that it took for
But you know what its not that bad it doesn't try to force ridiculous rules on you the art work on the cards are pretty good and it has a really good tutorial which means you can play from the get go.

There are a lot of downsides to this game though which I'm sad to say. First off the music. Dull dull dull its slow its very repetitive and it just seems rushed.
The graphics aren't much its a card game what do you want? It's got effects for attacks that's pretty much it. As I said before the art on the cards are done well and if it was an actual card game I would go out and start collecting like a maniac!
Gameplay is ok, again its a card game. It plays a lot like magic and pokemon only instead of mana or energy you use land to give your monsters power. It's really simple to play but its not something I've not seen before.

What sucks the most is that when you start up they give you a deck and you can't choose what you get, you don't even get a choice of 3 decks like in most tcgs and if you want to add more cards it will cost you. You earn sp after each game but you need that AND gp to get cards and gp don't come cheap. Another snag is the lack of players I've been on it for a few days now and have seen 3 players at most so I've mainly been playing against the computer but that gets boring quick.
Fantasy masters is an ok game its small so doesn't take much to play but don't expect to be facing off loads of players soon. Maybe more players will join but It's not that well advertised so maybe not.

instead of pictures i found a quick video on youtube:

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MMO - Digimon battle.

Oh god this game is bad! Digimon battle was originally an mmo from Korea and at the time I remember trying really hard to get this thing to work. But with the inability to read Korean and the massive download size of 350mb! I gave up.

Years later I find that it has finally been translated and available to play for free. And holy Shit was it worth it? No!!

The game is set during the 3rd series of the digimon anime (tamers) . So already this game is out of date. YOu get the choice of the 3 main characters with the ability to customize your appearance later on.
As you can tell by the screenshots. The graphics are poor. Considering this game came out in 2002 it looks like PSX graphics ok maybe a little smoother but not much!. Not somthing i would expect from bandai.

The battles work as you would expect from a digimon game. At the start you can pick between growlmon, terriamon and the bunny one I can't remember. You then wonder round the digital world and fight digimon in turn based battles with some of the worst music I've heard in years. The graphics throughout to game look incredibly dated at first I thought I was playing a fan made game.

Now I know that this game is pretty old and that I shouldn't expect it rt stand up to todays standards. But come on, even when this game was new it was crap. I really don't know why they even bothered to translate it. And if they went to all to trouble of doing that why not try and update the graphics? The sounds are annoying, the game is incredibly slow in places and trying capture new digimon is next to impossible. Should you ever want to torture yourself with this here is the link: http://digimonbattle.wemade.net/main/main.asp
The saddest thing is. This is the closest we are going to get to a pokemon mmo.

A new digimon mmo is in The works and is due to be released some time this year. From the look of it, it already looks a Hell of a lot better tin this piece of Shit. Avoid it.
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