Skyheart
Cadet
Hello everyone.
I've been following Hero's Journey for quite a while, and finally decided to take the plunge and join the community. I suppose I'll introduce myself.
I've been playing video games since I was a kid, and I'm sort of an old-schooler in that respect. Super Nintendo is still my favorite system because the RPGs had wonderful stories and didn't rely on new-fangled graphics to make money. I've played quite a few MMORPGs: Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, Ragnarök Online, Horizons: Empire of Istaria, Final Fantasy XI, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, and even a bunch of the cheapo free ones like Graal (a looooong time ago), Priston Tale, Conquer, Dofus, and (most recently) Rappelz. I was heavily involved in a role-playing guild for Horizons (until the game came out and we realized how bad it was), and have started a few small guilds in other games as well. The sad thing is that, eventually, all of these games grew stale. There's always something missing.
And this is where Hero's Journey comes in. Upon discovering it, I realized that it has all the things I was looking for in those other games: Characters that look the way you want from the very beginning, and that will stay that way until you want to change them. A story-based experience that is constantly evolving. A game where role-playing is not only encouraged, but rewarded. Personal quests. Enemies that scale to your level if you want to solo. In short, a fully-realized, creative fantasy world. The best part? Even my wife, who is hardly a gamer at all (I've only gotten her into simple, free MMORGPs), is interested in playing this game. My excitement is palpable.
Apart from the whole gaming thing, I'm a 23 year old graduate student who's always been a major fantasy nerd (ok, I've never been LARPing, but I have friends that do!). I'm both a logophile (lover of words) and a bibliophile (lover of books), which is part of why a game like HJ appeals to me so much. I like the outdoors. I have a hamster.
That pretty much covers it.
I've been following Hero's Journey for quite a while, and finally decided to take the plunge and join the community. I suppose I'll introduce myself.
I've been playing video games since I was a kid, and I'm sort of an old-schooler in that respect. Super Nintendo is still my favorite system because the RPGs had wonderful stories and didn't rely on new-fangled graphics to make money. I've played quite a few MMORPGs: Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, Ragnarök Online, Horizons: Empire of Istaria, Final Fantasy XI, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, and even a bunch of the cheapo free ones like Graal (a looooong time ago), Priston Tale, Conquer, Dofus, and (most recently) Rappelz. I was heavily involved in a role-playing guild for Horizons (until the game came out and we realized how bad it was), and have started a few small guilds in other games as well. The sad thing is that, eventually, all of these games grew stale. There's always something missing.
And this is where Hero's Journey comes in. Upon discovering it, I realized that it has all the things I was looking for in those other games: Characters that look the way you want from the very beginning, and that will stay that way until you want to change them. A story-based experience that is constantly evolving. A game where role-playing is not only encouraged, but rewarded. Personal quests. Enemies that scale to your level if you want to solo. In short, a fully-realized, creative fantasy world. The best part? Even my wife, who is hardly a gamer at all (I've only gotten her into simple, free MMORGPs), is interested in playing this game. My excitement is palpable.
Apart from the whole gaming thing, I'm a 23 year old graduate student who's always been a major fantasy nerd (ok, I've never been LARPing, but I have friends that do!). I'm both a logophile (lover of words) and a bibliophile (lover of books), which is part of why a game like HJ appeals to me so much. I like the outdoors. I have a hamster.
That pretty much covers it.