Open Beta: Knight Online

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I gave Knight Online a try last night. Other than the fact you get loot from every monster you kill, I didn't perceive a great deal of difference between the two. Of the differences I noticed, I find the graphics nicer in Lineage 2. I do like having more kinds and levels of loot type things in KO but it is made necessary by the expense and quantities of items that are needed. The loot I found was rarely something useful to my character (good mage) and, because the shops rip you so badly when selling the unused loot, you have to make a lot of kills to get properly equipped, and to get your skills and attributes to serviceable levels. I will probably play both some as long as they are in free beta, but I'm pretty sure I won't subscribe to either.

As to what I finally figured out, it is why I don't care for MMORPGs, or at least the two that I have tried - MM. :blink: Yeah, I know, it doesn't make sense. The selling point of these is supposed to be the MM but it just doesn't cut it for me. I have a hard enough time reading and understanding people in real life - I don't need to deal with other people through unexpressive avatars and try to figure out what they want. More often than not, if I try to help out someone who appears to be in trouble, I get chastised in some emoticon fashion. If I get into something over my head, when I bring the problem into others view, most players, rather than attempting to help, turn into jackals waiting for the kill hoping that something might spill onto the ground to be picked up. I would find much more enjoyment in these if there was the option to turn off the MM and let me believe it is just me and the NPCs and monsters in these worlds.

I guess I will always be a big fan of solo dungeon crawls. I need to find a game that gives me the atmosphere of the original Diablo with current graphics and several thousand times the floor space to explore.