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Old Maplestory nostalgia?
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many like me are sick of Neotoykodude constantly spamming threads that deal with "old maple" if you check his name in old forum you will see that literally 99% of his threads are how "old maple was better" and "big bang was a scum that killed old maple."
I could go through and reply to every post of disagreement with nostalgia separately but I think I will simply reply to all of them at the same time. "If anybody would like to complain about my past deeds then I invite you to send me a private message and I would be glad to have a nice long discussion."
It is still a good point to be aware of though.
"Different denotes neither 'bad' nor 'good', but it certainly means not the same!" ~Cheshire Cat, Alice: Madness Returns
Just recently, GMS celebrated their 10 year anniversary in service. How many MMOs do you know of were unplugged before even reaching 5 years? Rather than dwelling upon previous previous versions, let's take a moment and reflect upon what made them so appealing to begin with and how would we even benefit from having the game mechanic resurfacing less than a decade later.
As a community, screaming a myriad of random requests here on the forums after every patch will only lead to conflicting information and underdeveloped content meant specifically for our region. Instead, let us work closely together (and honestly) with our community manager Michael; making sure MS continues evolving/thriving amidst the harshest competition that is the MMORPG market.
Let's all shoot for MS celebrating their 20th anniversary!
+1 for mentioning Alice in Wonderland
-1 because I can't see any parts that are nostalgic
While I want to like the post, the lack of nostalgia stops me from doing so.
i started to play this game way back in august 2007 and started being a warrior in scania before mardia and kradia were released but i despised it the only reason i chose that was because of the spear looking good, still i made a mistake when i reached level 30 cause i chose fighter for advancement and i stoped playing that character after that then i tried bowman in bera but it was soo slow and boring for me
i made a cleric in windia there was a lot of good people there yet everyone later left and i found depressing being there
after that i made a thief in kaini and since the nightlords had the "best class and expensive" status i made a bandit cause i loved the animations when you used savage blow or steal made it dex~less yet i changed my mind when the nautilus showed up
the day the pirate class was released i was soo happy i found it extremely similar maybe even a copy of the bandits but the fact that
they could use their fists instead of any weapon made me chose the class that in my ipinion was the most "badass class" ever
havent changed my mind since that day {13/11/08} after a few months of making new friends in demethos and reaching level 70 i could finally see the best skill in the game period...
i even took screenshots of it i could transform into a being made out of pure energy that moved faster and had more power in every skill
also any action you did like climbing a rope or using a chair had animations and diferent for each gender the female one had long hair that was soo aesthetically beautiful even tough you had a small time to enjoy that was worth it
at that point i had lost and found many people and experienced the slime party quest /the carnival in ludi and the party quest/maya house/also experienced the fear of being killed by crimson balrog/or the drakes in perion/i even went too far to mushroom shrine
{my fav place} to fight yakuza at level 30~40 in their hideout the music there its cool/
also back then each class was really usefull and diferent
like bowmans could help a lot with the crit buff and thiefs haste was usefull because no could run fast at all
meso was not soo easy to get clerics had a big role everywhere warriors had attack buff and max hp increase buff
if you saw a person with a zakum helmet back then everyone though hey look a "pro" and the others reaction was like
because back then you needed more than 2 hours of fight and really good players supporting each other to kill it good times
{now you press 1 button and normal zakum its dead literallly}
everything even the arrival of the young empress didnt changed much the game after aran awakening
the worst thing in my opinion to happend to me was~
The big bang its to this day the pivotal moment this game changed some say for the worse others say for the better in my opinion its was an
Hecatombe because i coulnd´t play the game at all, they updated the gamefiles to work with new machines but no one said anything about it
you now needed a "better" gpu with shader 2.0 compatibility thats why i couldn´t play the game for a few months
turns out it was a even worse than i thought when i found out that they removed transform from the game
that was the turning point that made me stop trying to play this game from december 2010 till sept 2012
2 years out of the game now with new machine i was sort of hesitant to play to be honest but wanted to feel the old maps music and other things aswell after 4 years i dont have many friends in here because most either dont need to hangout or are interested in other things
i know 5th job is comming and its not like its bad at all but its not something am hyped about yet hopefully people finds joy in it
the things that keep me here playing are mostly the music and that i still find fun things to do not just dayly bossing and farming stuff
my suggestion for all veterans still playing its just try to enjoy the game even the small details matter
Having said that, I think efforts from the past are equally (if not more) important then present or future ones. If a person spends a day going through different scenarios and testing then the recording of those results will be critical in making further progress the next time. If there were no record keeping then each day would be like starting over with a blank slate. Basically similar to playing an RPG where you can never save your game. So while I don't think either extreme is "always correct" I do know that nostalgia and things like it can be important
I don't think there is anything wrong with attempting to fine tune a product but I liked the version how it was, like 50 or 100 iterations ago. I thought Nexon had already nailed it. Maple still getting updates is nice but I cant predict when, if ever of how long its going to take for the modern game to strike a balance that would surpass Old MS. I enjoy watching it try to reach its development goals however so its all good. Just depends on what one thinks the goals should be.
Neither one is inferior in my opinion but Old MS better emphasized things that I care about. Kind of like different potential outcomes in a game or a battle, can represent different collections of personal preferences.
This is a fix zakum party to help the 12 people aquire each of their job skills
which drop from the demonic stone figure, the Zakum.
Dec 8, 2007
that was zakum its just one example of how things changed
now look at zakum now
Sep 7, 2016
this person wanted to...
could solo Zakum with an 8k-9k range and some Unripe Onyx Apples i found in FM for a few mil each.
its the first time i see someone dying on normal zakum after the chaoz zakum revamp ....
like i said early i think some changes are good but some are not for the better i guess yet...
i still love this game
This is a maplestory party with 2 autistic people
Sep 29, 2011
Its the first time I see someone in a majestic kangaroo outfit since the Macy's revamp
Like I said early I think some autism are good but some are not for the better I guess yet...
I still have schizophrenia
I don't upload anymore videos to youtube because I am on a different platform but ntl... Here is one of the videos
Oct 13th 2006
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5OsN6l84DPM
Along with this I have a ton of pictures, some lost on floppy discs (now that is old lol) which couldn't be recovered and some are uploaded to tinypic. One of these pictures is of one of my characters receiving a bandana from a quest.
Taken July 2012: July 2012 picture
Oooh, I remember Christmas slimes, when they put Christmas hats on them. So cute. I don't even remember if we had Halloween slimes, much less what they look like.
Christmas