Who plays shadowbane? Lets discuss for old time sake











This post has been edited by aspire2oo6: Oct 5 2007, 03:30 AM

doesnt look interesting to me =.=

Someone who cant appreciate the classic. No offense but its true. Thread is about discussion the past in Asia Shadowbane but not to criticize the game's visual.

IMO, the old days in SB before it goes down is the raid to some Chinese Bane. I cant remember which guild i am in but it was a blast to play as a templar

Also another thing is going to the shopping centers and you have Chinese players ask you are you from china? no means KOS yes means they protect you

appreciation is 1 thing. how the game is visually presented is another thing.
i never state that bad graphic = lousy game, i did enjoyed Bulders Gate, Diablo & Diablo2 LoD until my chars were max cap. although they arent mmorpg but they are the granddaddy of all rpgs. hands down for these ultra classics

my max cap char in D2X, bad graphic but sweet gameplay:


mmorpg that i played for >a year & still playing: silkroad. all graphic option set to minimum to reduce lag, but the screenie still rox, imo, lol.
the white hair chick on the right is my lvl64 char.


freankly i didnt even have the interest to try shadowbane bacause there are too many classics out there, why not i choose a classic with nice graphic

btw, i did not criticized SB, i was just sharing my thought

This post has been edited by yamato: Oct 5 2007, 01:25 PM

The reason its not interesting to you its because you never played a real Teamwork game before .

You can run your town ,maintain town , declare war on a city/town . Random player killer . And there's as many char as WOW that u can do it randomly and how powerful your character is how you make it.

Now all korean game damn sien its either everyone look like you or they limit this limit that. Sb is different you can get additional skills or combo by eating something call runes .

So many korean game i played none beats this game overall. Korean game only looks nice thats all. Haha hit only no need use brain.

No offense. This game more about teamwork ive seen 5 people beat 10ppl.

Korean game le which side more people usually wins.

Maybe appearance cant beat la but gameplay only beats any of this korean game . Even the Races and classes shadowbane beats it edi




If anyone used to play Asia server or US server alot they will explain to you the feeling 3 people counter attack 10 people . Imagine when you win a real WAR .

Wars are set by players and if u lose the war you lose your town. Thats how challenging it is!

The best times are when we go against china . They come like 300 people the most we had was like 100 !! And believe it we won because of planning and teamwork

Yea its classic but until today beside EVE online no game beats shadowbane gameplay man. Miss those times

This post has been edited by aspire2oo6: Oct 5 2007, 04:39 PM

@yamato : ok forgive me. Misunderstood your reply

@aspire2oo6 : QFT.. modern MMO players prefers to solo than playing as a team. Theres good and bad to play as team and solo. Overall, solo gameplay solves many issues.

wah taiko, dont say like that la.
just discussion only, everyone give thier opinion about a game. theres no right & wrong its just all about games.

cheers

Forgive me too if anyone was offended. Just discussing by comparing.


True there's pros and cons in everything no right or wrong.

I prefer teamwork games.

This post has been edited by aspire2oo6: Oct 5 2007, 07:20 PM

wasai!!!! why every1 being so humble all in a sudden???
LOL

Sorry la i quite fed up with korean games edi u go everywhere all the high level looks like you. Most of this game u relied on your item le. No item sure useless but Shadowbane u can have all the lousy item but with teamwork u still can own ppl.


Most item can be craft from the shop but the % very low but at least there's a chance to get it

This post has been edited by aspire2oo6: Oct 5 2007, 07:22 PM

The day I got into SB was the day I got into a new job so it was a hard compromise to keep up between banes and rl commitments.My only wish for SB was that it'd include solo friendly contents along with the open ended PvP and GvG features.Ultimately (some may disagree) that had made SB a bit too niche for the rest of the MMO world citizens. Back in the day, the graphics factor was a bit understandable..we're talking totally massive fights and I don't think anyone can handle the sheer extravaganzas w/o resorting to a completely pimped out rig versus Screamyx's *ahem* QoS balancing circus.

These days I'd only nudge here and there in the Test server and even so, it's admirable to see that SB's still doing OK with all 6 servers running and with NO real revenue streams other than the in-game ads.

SBG (Stray Bullet Games) got their teeth cut when Ubi dissolved the original Wolfpack team, then having contracted the job out to them to run things nowadays in SB and no one can say that it's an easy thing.By the way you guys can check the right-most link in my siggy for SBG's upcoming MMO project.That should rock a lot of marbles hopefully.

OMG ASPIRE you still alive?

Hahahha SB ftw.
HP Lovecraft here.

We fought those chinese B@s****s until we could fight no more. And when we attacked them on chinese new year.... =p

Memories man memories. Wtf* you put up so many photo's none of me? Even Fionne's character is there.

Cheers

sigh... Shadowbane... still one of my favourites.
If they redid the graphics but maintained the game mechanics, it'll be one of the best MMORPGs out there.

Levelling is easy. No need to grind like nobody's business. You'd get into the meat of the game which is PvP in no time. Open PvP system that's great (IMHO). A range of classes, really enjoyed playing my R6 scout which could be invisible when it came to battles and wars as well as my Confessor and Mage Assassin. Playing 'SimCity' in my towns was kinda fun as well.

Waking up at wee hours in the morning to help defend against a horde of enemies sieging allied towns. I believe the Chinese outnumbered us 5-1 those days.

It's not a game for the weak and cry babies though. You can practically kill anyone (vice versa) on sight. If you die, your equipment damages and you basically drop everything in your inventory... imagine dropping all your gold and phat lewt after farming for 4 hours.

I miss hunting for commander runes
I miss crafting elven amour
I miss maintaining my own wall-never had my own city though
I miss attacking with my bow warrior and healing with my dwarf priest
I miss being power leveled by the druids which chatting with other leechers underneath the ruins.
I miss driving to Virtual Arena in the middle of the night to fight wars and defend our tree.
I miss the gang who owned CN until the very end...

There is really NOTHING quite as good.

This post has been edited by elise_MOL: Oct 26 2007, 12:15 AM

I also miss the only MMORPG that has flying spells.

In the early days, have 2 channeler fly and float on some buggy spot and powerlevel ourselves using macro while my scout sits in a safe place invisible for the whole night.

Till the BIG HEAD GM (Literally) comes and kicks my channeler friends out. hehe... think the didn't see me hidden nearby.

HAHAHAAHAHA

Omg all the good memories =)

I remember someone calling me at 3 am, "Eh we under attack wei."

I remember changing into Avatar in the middle of a major CN town in one of our(KAOS) 'surprise' attacks on them andflying up. Straight away 10 guys fireball me. Then Pop's said, "Good lar u fly. They aiming at you means not shooting us.

I remember fighting until my boots broke. =((( no more +20% running speed dragon plate.

I remember 40 man defending against 70, 100 and even 150 CN people at times.

I remember shouting oppai and tetek alot =)

I remember doing psychological warfare on the Hongkies who betrayed us in the middle of our fight with CN.

I remember when KAOS main fell. =((

I remember a lot of good people at VA who taught me how to make really big dwarfs =p.

I remember mamak sessions after wars and the roti bombay =p

Shadowbane forever.

is it still FREE to play in the NA servers?

Yes....!!!

anyone playing?
kinda hard to get in now cos the alliance quite big...!!

I just downloaded it last night. It took less than 8 hours for 891mb. The game is now Free To Play on all servers and is supported through in-game advertising. So gamers are not required to pay subscription or purchase in-game items to keep the game going. They have also be patching the game quite frequently so I've been told that the feel is very different. If you use Vista then you'd be happy to know that it seems to work fine as i am using vista as well.

The blokes from Kaos are still playing so we could probably join them. What was your previous nick? Or were you previously from Kaos?

If you have facebook, there is actually a Shadowbane group on it. So if you decide that Kaos is not for you then that's probably a good place to start.

And btw, i would avoid the Redemption as i heard it's been over run by CNs.

This post has been edited by elise_MOL: Oct 29 2007, 10:40 AM