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sunnuntaina, maaliskuuta 19, 2006

DoFus report

Hello. I have played this game two or three days now. Although that's nowhere near enough to make an extensive analyzation of this multiplayer game, I feel my stay might get a bit short because of the upcoming Elder Scrolls: Oblivion game, and because... Well, just read on.

After I completed the "newbie tutorial", I was eager to try the combat system. I quickly got hang of it, and then I got my first PVP request! I didn't know you could PVP! I immediately clicked "Agree", almost sure that the oppenent is at least five levels higher than me. Turns out, he was only one level higher! In other words, lvl 3.

The match was exciting, and this cat character possessed some long range attack, and used it against my Scarcie or whatever that masochist character is called. I didn't have any long range attack, so he could've easily beaten me by just staying far away enough from my attacks and showering me with his long range attack. However, he didn't realize this until I had gotten close enough and then it was too late. Poor cat got his ass kicked by yours truly, who had serious problems to not to type some cheeky one-liner before his fatal strike.

I won! I actually won! I was eager to take rematch now that he knows my character's abilities, thus resulting a match I would most probably to lose but I couldn't find him anymore. Turns out the characters who lost a battle get warped somewhere else.

Oh well, I was very glad of my win and my virtual penis had grown by four inches. Next, I was going to kill a little blue bird. Pathetic, I know, but I was bored. As I was positioning my character, two other characters popped in. Three against one bird? Well, at least I'd be able to fight with team mates now, although I knew the bird couldn't provide much of a challenge.
The other team mate went after the bird, while the other said "hi". I was not in the mood for a chit chat now, so I didn't reply, instead moved my character. "hi" he said again, and this time he attacked me! I thought that maybe he thinks im a bot so I smacked back at him. "sorry" says he. (Note the subject's lack of intelligence to form proper, full sentences here.) Fine, I said. I let it pass. "thx" was the reply. Now, im not very good at netspeak, the language what the race of Homo Semi Sapiens seem to talk, but I supposed it meant "thanks".

Turns out that I was either wrong, showed him my weakness, replied in the wrong way or something, but he attacked me again. Perhaps I just had unknowingly confirmed a formal challenge. Or perhaps this was a mating ritual, afterall there was this other guy there. Maybe he saw me as a rival and attacked me to make an impression to the other guy. (They were both male characters, but we all know that homosexuality is quite common in this race of subhumans because of the lack of females.) Whatever was the case, we fought. During the fight he kept saying "hi noob" which I think means same as "babo kekeke~~!" which the Korean subhumans used in Lineage before killing the other person. However, the other guy who didn't seem to mind this all killed the bird before the other killed me so I got out of the battle "unharmed".

This all confused me very much, but so did the next PVP fight I was in. While I was checking my opponents HP, these three other fellows popped in, almost at the same time. So, four guys against one guy. Im not skinhead enough to think that as a fair fight, however the opponent stayed silent, so I proceeded to check the other players... Hmm, they were all around my level, except the bearded guy who's HP was somewhere over three hundred. Bah, whatever, I clicked "ready". The bearded fellow's turn was next. He stepped forward and instantly took the control saying that nobody should move, "just pass" he said. Confusing, but I pondered he was going to cast a spell which harmed only those who moved the in last round. One player though summoned a creature and moved it instead. "no summons! I thought I was prefktly clear abut it" the bearded guy shouted and scolded the player in very bad English, saying he was going to die now. However, at least he used full sentences and didn't use netspeak... Much. Still, my inner bell started ringing! You know this! You have read about it! YES! The bearded man must have Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder! (Ref: http://www.guidetopsychology.com/mpd.htm#2) OH NO! The poor man!

I was in shock too scared to think! I was actually playing with a person with serious mental issues! What can I say to him? Should I say anything? Im not a psychiatrist! However, it was my turn and I casted my protection spell, but didn't move. Apparently, I was partly right about the spell when the bearded guy casted it, only harming us who used their turn. The other guy who got from the spell thought differently, and used his turn to attack the bearded guy! "WHAT!?" the mental patient screamed. "WHAT!?" I screamed too in my mind! Don't you know that's exactly what NOT to do to a Obsessive Compulsive person!? He'll turn into a monster! "Now you're all going to die!" the bearded guy shouted, again in very bad english. Yup, I was right. He turned into a wacko. I used my turn to go futher to help the guy (not the bearded man), afterall the damage was already done... The lunatic's worldview was shattered and now he's trying to fix it with the only way he knows... By casting a massive kill-all spell on us, which did what it was meant to.

Now there was only the bearded guy and our opponent who had been wisely silent the whole time. Perhaps he was busy laughing his ass off. Most of the other my dead teammates logged off, not bothering to watch the fight. I, however, was too intrigued to do that. What if, although the possibility is near zero, our opponent wins? It'd totally destroy the poor man's illusion of reality and perhaps drive him to a suicide! Too bad it didn't happen. As suspected, the bearded man won. However, each time the opponent made damage to the bearded guy, he comforted the man by making smileys! That non-literal communication what ever the madman cannot take in the wrong way! Splendid! He sure knew how to deal with lunatics! I admire this man.

After that... Intriguing, yet depressing indicent I went to make some quests. The quests, basically were "kill that thing" or "bring me this" or both... How very orginal. Not. In any case, my mission was "bring 10 spider legs to this miner guy" So, that what I was doing. Camping and waiting for the spiders to pop in. That worked fine. Also, this time I was smart enough not to preposition my character and click the ready button as fast as I can to prevent unwanted Homo Semi-Sapiens popping in. Unfortunetly, one of them managed to get in, perhaps by accident... And proceeded to kill me. Too bad that I got the loot. That must've pissed him off.
I end my report here. Im not sure if I ever want to play this game again. Surely, humans suffering from mental diseases and the race of Homo Semi Sapiens can be quite interesting, but im not Dian Fossey, who lived 18 years with gorillas. Besides, wasn't she murdered?


 
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