#ncsoft

[lisaswinnensculpts]

Nightfang griffon sculpture, finally finished and currently in the painting stage.

Made out of polymer clay with glow in the dark clay for the eyes

The head is also fitted with a mini led light for extra glow

[horizon-forbidden-memes]

Horizon 3 is still top of my wish list but I will take any spin-off games they want to give us!

[aid-worker-sya]

let's pour one out for ANet for the first time ever finally managing to unify it's playerbase that is always fucking divided on literally everything on one single opinion: that Fashion Templates blows

[vgprintads]

'Lineage: The Blood Pledge'

[PC] [USA] [MAGAZINE, SPREAD] [2002]

"When Lord British [a.k.a, Richard Garriott] announced that he would rise again in a brand new endeavor, it was a "kind of hush" moment. His new company, Destination Games (Origin…Destination…get it?), has two Garriotts at its helm, Richard and his brother Robert. Also along for the ride is Starr Long, Garriott's longtime sidekick, and Korean developer NCSoft's founder and president, Jake Song. Garriott became aware of Song's massively multiplayer role-playing game Lineage: the Bloodpledge, which holds the largest subscriber base in the world with over two million active accounts. Lineage is Korea's most popular Internet game. A fantasy game of orcs and elves, it resembles Ultima Online and features battles for control over towns and castles, a magic system with over 50 spells, gambling events, dogs (yes, you can have pets), and a rather elaborate item creation system in which you use formulas to create items like bracers. Here's an example: "Kick/punch ent until it gives you 3 bark of ent. Hunt for 5 lumps of rough mithril in elven forest/cave. Trade 5 lumps of rough mithril for 100 lump of pure mithril from fairy. Kick/punch pan until it gives you pan's mane or it speaks. You need 20 of them. Talk to Archne and trade 20 pan's mane for 20 thread. Talk to Archne and trade 100 lumps of pure mithril and 20 threads into 20 mithril threads. Go to Nerupa and make it."

If you think there's an English translation problem in the above recipe, so did Garriott and company. In fact, the game's solid premise is rather lost to non-Asian folks who are unwilling to look beyond its Eastern presentation. Hence, Destination Games' first endeavor will be to "Westernize" Lineage and to partner with Song to help evolve his already-successful business model in hope of releasing the game worldwide. Counting on the success of this venture, Destination Games is in the process of creating its own second generation online game, currently called Tabula Rasa, or "blank slate." The game is two or so years down the road, but if Garriott's vision pans out, the dollar signs in his eyes will soon be in his company's pockets." ~Cindy Yans, Computer Games (August 2001, #191)

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Source: Computer Games, January 2002 (#134) || Video Game History Foundation

[sintorisky]

Lineage II: Cruma Tower

[rage-claw]

WildStar (2014)

stills from the arcterra introduction cutscene, and my favorite zone in the game.

[they-have-the-same-va]

Braham Eirsson from Guild Wars 2 shares a voice actor with Alphinaud Leveilleur in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.

Voiced by Sam Riegel

[ritheone]

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A song from another videogame which I used to play years prior, named Blade & Soul. I recall learning the melody by ear and forgetting it, only to rediscover it again.

Enjoy.