Nostalgia: AE's Success

Ugh-ness...

Since the day that my friends told me about the release of the much anticipated browser-based MMORPG that Artix Entertainment had worked painstakingly hard on--Adventure Quest Worlds--I couldn't help but to purposely--yes, purposely--neglect my other AE games accounts so I can play put my whole heart and soul onto my goal of reaching level 20 on it. And what do you know? I reached level 20. So, I now earned bragging rights ;). But soon things became incredibly boring with just me and 8 rank 10 classes. And waiting for a release each week was just so tiresome. So then I wondered what was happening at the other side of the Adventure Quest timeline. And before I knew it, I was riding my low-leveled Katana Mecha around Solonia, and after that, I went questing in Adventure Quest, plus, I even had enough time to kill to catch up on my Dragon Fable account.

I found it incredibly difficult to go and switch from an MMORPG, where anything can happen when you battle, to a turn-based RPG where you can actually calculate your way to defeating the ShadowScythe. First, I tried my hand at MechQuest. And I got so excited that I forgot to equp all of my heavy artillery; so I had lost to a mere Rusty Rat Mecha *lol*. But with that said, it went well, seeing as I did level up to 7. But after 3 hours of getting pummeled on and on by Master Twang at Energy Blade class, I thought I'd try something else.

And that's where DragonFable comes in. I read through the design notes, and saw that a lot had changed since just last January. Aside from Popsporcket and the blue mage, Warlic's, death, I hear that the clumsy Ash is about to start his own journey to becoming a hero, too. Good for him. So I went through all of the quests that I'd missed, plus the wars that happened. Now, here's the thing with DragonFable: you can't get into a Titan fight! For those of you who don't play DF, a Titan fight is when you summon your baby dragon's ultimate power to battle gargantuan sized monsters! Which would be cool...if it weren't for the fact that I am not in the possession of the sacred Dragon Amulet. But at least, I got to witness Warlic's awful death. And plus, I totally owned Xan's monster ;).

After I got tired of my worthless baby dragon in DF, I went back to long, long, long ago to the time when I first got hooked on to AE games. And that without the use of a time traveling telephone booth, which, by the way, was how Cysero got back to Battleon. Again, for those of you who don't play any AE game at all, the timeline goes as so: MechQuest(5,000 years before DragonFable), DragonFable(5 years before Adventure Quest), and Adventure Quest(Present). You see there was this reset thingy in MechQuest. Anyway, as I saw the login screen to my Adventure Quest account, my eyes widened with horror, as the last time that I'd logged in was 352 days ago *falls off chair*. And I remembered how difficult it was to log on back when AQW didn't exist yet. Darn! I hated that server cap, and I usually had to get up at 6 in the morning to log in. Yep, those were the days. So, yeah, I ended up fighting a few mutated leprechauns and an ugly old drakel, and then I got this super cool armor. And in the end, I ended up a level 35 mage *lol*. I've still got a long way to go.