Asian MMO, meet world
Massively multiplayer mayhem!
Ha! Thought I’d start with a “Welcome to this blog” spiel, huh? Well, I figured it was time to break from the norm and get right down to business.
In a way, the statement rings true for MMOtaku, b5media’s latest video games channel blog, written by yours truly, Joel Tan. Why? Because it’s just what players expect of massively multiplayer online role-playing games from Asia, especially those running in the Philippines, where mayhem is a way of life.
Before we go into more details about the blog, let me rant a little bit about myself. I am the product of almost three decades of gaming addiction. No! Don’t run to the gaming police with that story! Hear me out first.
I started my love affair with video games when I was just eight years old, first on the archaic Apple IIc (Ha! Bet you haven’t heard of that) with Basic language games that eventually graduated to those you play on today’s mobile phones, a couple of arcade-type games like Hard Hat Mac, Digger and Lode Runner, and hardcore strategy games such as Taipan.
Sadly, my nightly tryst with the ol’ Apple ended when a mouse decided to move in, literally. So I dumped its white carcass and amber screen, and jumped on the growing console bandwagon started by (what else?) the Atari. Unfortunately, the console’s joystick and that small red button that came with it became old, very fast, despite the appeal of preventing aliens from crushing my little spaceship on Space Invaders.
Almost two decades later, after jumping from console (the Nintendo Family Computer) to PC (role-playing games like SSI/TSR classics Pool of Radiance and Champions of Krynn), I finally settled on my current passion, MMORPGs. It was simple flirting at first. OzWorld, the very first MMO in the Philippines introduced by Level Up! Games, was simply not for my adventurous side. Fortunately, Ragnarok Online came into my life and turned everything upside down.
After trying quite a number of Asian-made MMORPGs (Tantra, MU Online, PristonTale, Khan, Silkroad, Fly For Fun, and Granado Espada), I finally settled on Perfect World, which tugged, and continues to tug, on my gaming heartstrings despite being bashed as nothing but a World of Warcraft clone.
Yes, it has been a hectic and tedious 20 or so years of gaming for me, but I’m not about to slow down. There are still, what, more than a dozen MMO titles out there waiting for my grubby hands—and MMOtaku is just the ticket I need to take the ride of my video game-crazy life.
So what are you waiting for? Join me as I unravel Asian MMO mysteries deeper than those offered by the Sith. Meantime, sit back and relax beside b5media video games channel editor Michael Leaño as I open another can of gaming goodness.
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