All Posts by gedece

 In real world physics, ships wouldn't have top speed, they would have diminishing acceleration as speed gathers up, but the top speed doens't have a maximum, it merely has a limit it tends to. In this context, most space combat is useless, as running head to head is imposible, and turning aroud, deaccelerating and accelerating again behind your foe is ridiculous, as he would be out of any tracking device you have before you finish turning around. 

  What makes Goonzu good to play is that a lot of content is user driven (not generated, driven). Economy, politics, town owning, crafting, mount raising, supply gatherings, even some things as crazy as the time of day when the bonus xp for hunting or crafting is applied is decided by a player. 

This is what really sets it appart from other games, not the cute graphics. 

Well, I can understand ultracute graphics driving people away, but in no way it's embarrasing. I got half of my office hooked into it, and we are not afraid to be seen playing it (except by the boss)

I'm playing Goonzu nowdays, and I can say it runs almost on every machine. The game is fun, you can play a lot of different styles of games in it. It's one of those rare games that are simple to play, yet have enough deepth that makes them interesting to master.

Besides the player based economy there's also the social/political player driven system, with the position of Goonzu or Goonzu ministers of the game open to anyone that can have a successful run for them.

To answer one question, yes, the minigame is still there, some play it, some don't, I simply love it.

No, Dofus 2.0 is the new version of this game. Wafku comes from the same people, has similar classes but it's a different kind of beast. In wafku, for example, if you cut every tree of a kind it takes a LOT longer to grow back, it has a live ecosystem of sorts that thrives for balance instead of mass colletcion skills. Also it's not divided by maps, it's a single big map, so it requires a little more computer power to run.

Dofus it's the better game, no doubt about it. It makes a lot more sense and has a lot more depth.

They have different payment options for different parts of the world. I've subcribed using paypal, which enables me to use my credit card to do so, but recently in my country they added direct credit card options, so watch out for news for you.

I've seen Iops soloing, and they can deliver amazing quantities of damage, so they stay in combat shorter times than other characters. My main is a Osamodas, and it's really fun at soloing just because I'm never alone, I always have a lot of summons around doing most of the fight for me.

I'm playing dofus as well, and let me tell you, the surface really fools people to think it's a kid's game, but beneath the hood it's where it shines. you have to manually distribute your stats, as well as decide wich skills to power up. The equips not only give bonuses, but also some of them form sets, that when you equip more than one piece a set, give even more set bonuses. For paying members, the pets give even more bonuses, so you can end up with unique characters, that you can play the way you play, and not the way the programmers fixed them to be played.

And the combats, they are amazing, if you ever played the absolutely brilliant Final Fantasy Tactics on a PS1, you'll understand what a well thought turn based system can deliver in terms of strategy, character interaction and monster variety. I'm not saying it works exactly like FFT, because it has it's own pace and feel, but the depth it can give to a experienced player is simply amazing.