Nexon Announces Mabinogi
Nexon America has announced the launch of its new free-to-play MMO Mabinogi, with a closed beta service beginning January 30th. The game features 3D, cel-shaded, anime-style graphics and a fantasy world based in Celtic and Welsh mythology. In addition to traditional MMO features -- quests, battles and monsters -- Nexon says Mabinogi is differentiated by offering players a "life" experience, featuring jobs like cooking and farming. Players can also marry and share the daily duties.
There's also a UGC element here -- Mabinogi's music program allows users to write and share music in MIDI formatted files. The 3D visuals are a departure from Nexon's 2D MapleStory, and also unlike MapleStory, the fighting system's more traditional, based on a stats and abilities system, rather than MapleStory's sidescrolling action play.
Mabinogi’s time is standardized, and users get time-based bonus incentives the longer they play. Avatars also age on a weekly basis, growing taller as they grow to the age of 21, and gain in abilities up to the age of 25. Avatars' diets also affect their appearance.
President and CEO John H. Chi commented, "Playing Mabinogi is about more than just fighting and normal MMO fare. This is a chance for gamers to live a fantasy life in a place where communities build mutual beliefs of family, friendship and hard work.”
Comments
Cool I guess
Posted by: Md | April 19, 2008 11:41 AM
hi, i coudn't find contact info on the website, so I'm using this. I have a few sudgestions that my friends and I think the game should have, somthing to make it more fun.
1: when you're creating a person, it would be fun to have an option to have cat ears. Possibly a hair option, or an option to put next to the eye colors so you can have ears with endless hair stlyes.
2: A bird would be a GREAT pet. It could have a flying option during defense, like the panda has a dance when the master plays the lute.
last but not least: something funny to have like the "taste of heaven" when you eat something 5 star is an optional "fat camp". something where you pay "1000 gold" to Ranald and you go through a cut scene where you enter the fat camp. Then there could be things like you battle other people, you wear ridiculous uniforms, and pass about 10 or 20 different tests until your sent back with the option to leave or to just pass and leave the camp.
Leaving, you lose no weight.
Thank you for taking your time to read this,I hope I didn't waste your time : )
Posted by: salena | August 12, 2008 6:26 PM