Mythos - one of the D3 murderers

As I said in the previous post I'm a big fan of hack and slash games. I accidentally saw this ad in one of my friends blog. I immediately downloaded it and started playing. It's D2 style exactly type of game. Well it looks like Torchlight(in terms of cartoonish style), but it's different, it's more addicting. It has a few predone maps as far as I know, but also a dungeon generator, and I must say dungeons are pretty beautiful and detailed, though small for now(maybe because I'm still a low level). There are four races and three classes. It doesn't matter what race you are.

Satyr

Cyclops

Human

Gremlin

Well, that was hard, positioning the pictures. The three classes are Bloodletter(which I chose for my hero and which resembles the barb), Gadgeteer(ranger) and Pyromancer(mage). I must say, graphics are pretty cool, mild and good looking. They are not overdone or anything, not too much effects, not too much shadows, almost perfect, I'll give them 8.5/10. Check them. It's max everything, only without AA.

Note: it's a screenshot from the game, but it's with lowered
quality, maybe the game lowers it when capturing, dunno.
The quality is better ingame, believe me ^_^

Sound on the other side isn't that good, it's not bad, but there are some noises that are annoying, and after hearing them for the tenth time my head almost exploded, I turned the sound off. I'll give it 6/10. As for the gameplay. It's REPETITIVE to the max, GRIND GRIND GRIND GRIND, QUESTS and shit. Though it's VERY repetitive I like it, just can't play it all day, like when I was a little younger. It gets on my nerves at some time. As for the other part of the gameplay it has many things that make it interesting to play. It's the normal skill-tree-level-up-grinder. It has item generators with prefixes and suffixes, WoW quest system, yeah that's what I don't like, I prefer raw grinding mobs, instead of quest system, but well...meh. It has an interesting crafting system. Everybody can craft all of the items, but has a skilltree and choses for himself what items to craft, you can dissolve every equipable item into materials, epic items, bounded items, everything. Check this shit:

The skill tree. When I first saw the skill tree it looked like WoW's talent tree, but then after closely looking I found out that's actually a skill tree, rather than a talent tree. It has more skills, than passives, like in D2. Also you have to UNLOCK the tiers, before skilling this. Like in Titan Quest(a fail to this genre imo).

Well, what can I say more, I LIKE it, I play it, though not very much, just much. If you enjoyed some of the following games you should play this one - D2, Torchlight, Titan Quest, Mu online. That's from me'h for now.

Mu Online.. private servers and general MMOs

Prestory:(even if you don't read it you'll be fine with the other part :0)Well, my obsession with games started in the year 98 when I was still playing home consoles like NES(yeah in Bulgaria we started having consoles like from 95 onward). In 2000 I started going to one of the local cafes, yes we had a lot of pc cafes, and no they weren't for adults only. I was 7 when I started going to the pc cafe and we had like a console cafe of somekind, its purpose was to play games in it, and you had to pay by the hour. I was going to both, playing sp games on playstation and multiplayer games on pcs. Then started my addiction with Counter-Strike and Diablo 2. The whole summer I got up at 7 a.m. and stayed in the pc cafe until 5 p.m. then went to play games and stay outside and such. Enough with the whole shit. The purpose was to tell you my addiction to D2 type of games - the hack and slash games. To tell you the truth, to the present I've tried maybe every MMO that has come out, and most of them sucked. I want to point out something, I play ONLY games that I like. Additionaly I play games that are cycling, what I mean is I play games that repeat themselves. Like FPSes, Dota, D2, yayada.

Anyway, I don't fully remember, but was it like 2004 when I started playing MU, seriously, I don't remember. This WAS my game, we started first with servers close to the original, where you gain xp slow and shit. Those were not interesting, WE WANTED POWER(I mean the regulars at the pc cafe). I don't if you've played this game, but let me explain. Your agi increases attack speed(like in WC3). In most private servers you have max agi of 65k, which means that your hero becomes IMBALANCEDLY FAST. It feels like you're playing with Goku from DBZ. It's a simple game, with sets, you know when you want to have the perfect hero, like in D2 when you want the shako with max ed. Or max ed ethereal titans. It's the same, you always go for +13 items, the best options, luck and other options and stuff. You want the best weapon, the best wings and such. You want to be perfect. There are WINGS. Wings? You say they suck, well not if they are on your hero :) They make your hero look cooler, stronger. This cycling(yeah I call it cycling because you cycle through the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again...) game is one of my favorite of all time. Though I many times quit and started playing again I still love it. Actually I play it now, on a private Bulgarian server - it's called AngelsMu, not that I want to popularize it or something(not that I can with my current followers XD), I just play there, yeah it's got bugs(though they are minimal), but it has new sets, armors and weapons, the new hero, it's not laggy, it's...good, I like it. Check it out if you're interested:

ps. A new hack and slash MMO is out - Mythos - tomorrow I'll review it, after a night of playing it.

Portal 2

Ok, many blogs post about this, I just, just can't be left behind. I'm A loooong time big fan of Valve games, especially the HL saga. HL,HL:OF,HL2,HL2:Ep2, all epic games, well there were some sequels like Blue shift and Ep1 that were not as epic. In 2006 or something I fairly don't remember very well, I uhm found this game Narbacular drop, it was EPIC, EPIC, just EPIC. Then when I found out that Valve and the ND team were making a game based on Narbacular Drop and it was crossed with the HL saga, I was like WUB WUB WUB(dr. zoidberg style). Played Portal, was just you know what, epic. (sorry, when talking about my favorite game series I just can't stop writing epic, it's just epic, sorry). The cake is a lie, yes, we spammed that phrase through school so many times. Now Portal 2. Epic game as well, song not as good as the first one, but the standarts were too high anyway. Coop - too short for me. I'm just waiting for the sdk to come, I have some EPIC map ideas. Btw: don't know if anyone noticed, but when u are playing in 19xx chapters you actually are at the Borealis dry dock:

You can see the life preserver signed Borealis at the bottom left corner.

So, the new mc update is out, I officially like it!

I like the new update so much, I mean, the rain is FANTASTIC. It really changes the atmosphere, the new tracks also make gold needed again, which is another plus. I hope minecraft never stops getting updated.

So, hi, I decided to create a blog about my mc server, nice, a?

A month ago I opened a server for my friends and me to play. Now it started to get very big, check the cartograph map: http://i52.tinypic.com/alhhm9.png but it's pretty big so it may need some time to load.