Forumwarz
Monday, March 17, 2008 10:47
There are plenty of free web games around these days, but I dare say that none can match the cheek and humour of Forumwarz. Many of its mechanics merely replicate the familiar monster grinding for experience points and loot of traditional role-playing games, but everything else is hilariously different: instead of a generic fantasy world, you’re placed in a Bizarro version of the Internet with parody versions of familiar web services, Sentrillion for example, replaces Google, sTalk replaces instant messaging services like Skype and the game wiki is called appropriately enough the Spoilerpedia; instead of slaying monsters for xp, you’re given the job of pwning various Internet forums; and instead of slashing with swords or blasting with spells, the attacks in your repertoire have names like “ASCII Art Attack”, “Drool on Keyboard” and “Insult”.
At least these are the attacks that I learned as a troll. Other classes available are the Cam Whore and the Emo Kid. Anyone familiar with the dynamics of Internet forums should be familiar with these archetypes. To liven up your frequent attacks on forums, you also occasionally given the opportunity to perform some side missions including a gloriously retro text adventure minigame. The writing throughout the entire experience is fantastic and pokes fun at the full range of Internet culture though you might get tired of the admittedly simple combat pretty fast. If you make it a daily habit to visit one or more online forums, you owe it to yourself to at least check this awesome game out.
Deimos Tel`Arin says:
March 17th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
You’re evil! Now you got me hooked on this! Oh my precious time will be wasted away! Argh! O_O
wankongyew says:
March 17th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Well, you only have a fixed number of forum visits per day, so it won’t be too bad. In my case, I’ve hit in a brick wall since I can’t progress any further unless I just grind on low levels forums for a while to raise cash to pay off someone and I hate grinding.
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March 17th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
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