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Agent327

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Been playing this a lot lately. shayia features 4 main races subdivided in 2 sides, Light and Fury, and lost of maps to explore and quest in; PVP is also a feature in this MMORPG. Multiplaying can be done in Parties or via Guilds. It can be played for free quite easily, although there's lots of goodies you can buy if you want to.

Some in-fame impressions can be found here: http://shaiya.aeriagames.com/media/screenshots

Take a look - I found it to be quite addictive. (More so than Wold of Warcraft, where I stumbled onto a few quite annoying bugs when walking around in a neighbouring city. After consistently CTDing I gave up on it...)
 
All I'm getting is it's Korean and that's not good. Not really what I was looking for with this thread.
 
Looks terrible.

Post reads like some awful attempt at viral marketing.
 
JEELEN said:
All I'm getting is it's Korean and that's not good. Not really what I was looking for with this thread.
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It is yet another of the hundreds of cloned mmorpgs spewed out of east asian "game studios" that are more or less the same generic rehash of well, pretty much everything they do. The only real differences between them might, on the surface, be the story and setting, but even those boil down to the same shallow quests almost every mmorpg has. Every god damn week I get an e-mail from Fileplanet asking me to join the beta for a new east asian mmorpg that looks and sounds more or less the same as every god damn previous one.

The only mmorpg I'm interested in playing is Guild Wars, which isn't perfect but its still pretty decent, and while it was published by the Korean NCSOFT its developer is American.
 
Well, sorry to hear that... Personally I just stumbled across this as an ad on a game site (StrategyInformer maybe?) and instantly got hooked. The graphics are rather good and the quests get difficult quite soon - unless you're playing at easy setting, which bars you from going beyond level 30. Besides the two sides of Ligth and Fury you have to choose a type of character, like Warrior/Archer/Priest (the names may differ depending on the race chosen).

Other than that (I'm taking your word for it that the game is Korean) I noticed some odd mistakes in English and the odd bug/error (you can get stuck at certain terrain features, but you can always respawn in a nearby city). I'm not sure if for the experienced RPG player this is recycled old tripe, to paraphrase your words, but the game hasn't been around that long and I expect it can only get better. Me, I'm pretty new to RPG (on- or off-line) and I found it fun to play and rather challenging.

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Thank you GVBN.;) I'm not quite sure how to get in-game screensies or else I would have posted some...

Darth_Pugwash said:
Looks terrible.

Post reads like some awful attempt at viral marketing.
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:hmm: I assure you that's not my intention at all; I haven't noticed any fansite for this, so I thought I'd start a little one here. That's all really.
 
It's a Korean game? If I wanted to grind away on a computer all day, I'd go to work!
 
JEELEN said:
Well, sorry to hear that... Personally I just stumbled across this as an ad on a game site (StrategyInformer maybe?) and instantly got hooked. The graphics are rather good and the quests get difficult quite soon - unless you're playing at easy setting, which bars you from going beyond level 30. Besides the two sides of Ligth and Fury you have to choose a type of character, like Warrior/Archer/Priest (the names may differ depending on the race chosen).

Other than that (I'm taking your word for it that the game is Korean) I noticed some odd mistakes in English and the odd bug/error (you can get stuck at certain terrain features, but you can always respawn in a nearby city). I'm not sure if for the experienced RPG player this is recycled old tripe, to paraphrase your words, but the game hasn't been around that long and I expect it can only get better. Me, I'm pretty new to RPG (on- or off-line) and I found it fun to play and rather challenging.

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Thank you GVBN.;) I'm not quite sure how to get in-game screensies or else I would have posted some...
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GVBN was being sarcastic. The graphics, while not awful are not great either.

And wow, THREE CLASSES? HOLY SMILEY FACES!

There is a thousand other games more or less exactly the same as this one. And none of them are very good.
 
Actually, I don't particularly like your sarcasm; if you're so upset about shaiya, I suggest you start an anti-shaiya thread? I don't know about Korean games, but this one isn't slow at all and if I thouht otherwise, I'd certainly say so. (That goes for leonel too.) Have nice day anyway.
 
Upset about shayia? Not really, more wishing you were playing something better. Even though it likely sounds like it, I'm not condemning you for playing it, if you want to play go ahead and have fun.
 
I played Atlantic Online for a week.
I played Shaiya, well I spent longer time installing and downloaing then playing.
I was waiting for my friend to come around, but he couldn't so I stopped playing.

Atlantica I played just because they had real cities. So I played un until I could see Moscow and Petersburg, I saw them....
all my goals complete and I never reaturned. :/
 
Atlantica on-line I couldn't make heads or tails of; initial 'monsters' didn't really put up a fight (which they do in shaiya, and increasingly so), so I didn't find it very challenging. Shaiya has 4 servers, some of which are quite busy at times (depending on the time of day you're on-line) and you can interact with other players in-game or in chat mode - which seems to be happening all the time, although I do not pay much attention to that side of the game, as I'm more interested in levelling up my characters.
 
Yeah, I've seen their site - the other ones are just kiddy stuff. This one isn't. (Guess there aren't many shaiya players on this site... That's too bad.)
 
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