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User Rating: 3.1 | A Tale in the Desert PC
Just got back from playing the game. I probably would have continued playing even at this moment but something strange happened.. but let me go back a bit. About a week ago, I'm flipping through Gamespot and trying to find something new to play. I stumble upon this game 'A Tale In The Desest 2' and it says 'FREE TRIAL!'. I'll give anything a shot even if it isn't in a genre that I typically enjoy. So, create a character. Play a few seconds and think to myself..'I don't like my name.. I'll make a new character.' Well, that is exactly what I do.. goodbye Ifahi(or whatever he was called) and hello PepperMD(mmm Dr Pepper mmm). As soon as I enter with the good doctor, a delightful fellow with a nifty 'mentor' tag on his name asks me if I am new. I reply in the affirmative. He then goes into great detail about every little step I should take and what I should do next and so forth. Considering the nature of the game(or at least how I had understood it to be), I felt that the fun was being removed and I expressed as much to the Mr Mentor. Mr Mentor then says one of the most irritating things ever, "Don't sass me noob". Well that took the cake as it were. I had assumed this game was about community. The only community I saw rivaled that of Diablo 2. Screw that. I exit the game and say 'good riddance'. Flash forward to today and the strange part. I say,' I bet that was just one bad apple. I'll give it another go.' So again, create a character. Play a few seconds and think to myself.. 'I don't like this character(deja vu, yea?).. I'll make a new character. So boom! Rosemont is gone and Isopropyl lives!! Best part? No sign of Mr Mentor. I am free to learn what I want and when I want. Many minutes pass and I'm just getting into flax production when I recieve a personal tell from what I assume is a Guide/GM. Guide/Gm wishes to know why I have two accounts. I mistakingly assume they are talking about the ill-fated Ifahi/PepperMD. Ono my friends Ono! You see.. every character is a seperate account. I respond with,' 2 characters = 2 accounts?' I was then informed I should read the rules of conduct.... like I'm psychic and would just KNOW wth the rules of conduct could even be found. Keep in mind THERE IS NO SIGNUP PAGE. You download the game and create a character and you are instantly playing. I wonder if the creators of this marvelous gem of a game ever played an online RPG. If so, do they not realize that almost all RPGs let you create more than one character? Guess not. So, I'm asked which account I wanted to keep. I said 'neither' and that is why you are reading this now. But enough of all that, you wan't to know my position on the actual game. Let us get to that: Gameplay - It was, well, interesting. For one thing.. there is nothing to kill. You spend your time trying to find what you can do... and what you CAN do is pretty much forage and craft. Yes my friends, foraging for components and then using the components to create even more components. If you enjoy extracting wood from trees and sand from the shore.. well God bless ya cuz that is what this game is all about. WOOHOO!!! Graphics - Oh man. I almost don't want to even think about it. The graphics were pretty bad. I know I know.. graphics aren't everything!! We love teh ADOM and whatnot!!! Whatever. The graphics of this world seem to be ripped from a bad PS1 title. I kid you not. Sound - Pretty much the only sound is you stomping in the sand. No music. No nothing. It's not all bad. I was interested enough to see how much crap I could collect and craft. I would still be collecting/crafting this moment if I wasn't snapped from my fugue by two people who had very different ways of getting the same result... the result of me never playing the POS again. If your selling point is how great the community is.. you may want to rethink that position.
