#HALT
PRESS VID FRIST, GE BARRACKS(Lodge/Character Select Screen) AMBIANCE MUSIC
According to kGEβs FB
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IMCβs first mmorpg will celebrate its 10th year anniversary this March 10, 2016. Coincidentally March 2016 the rumored launch month of iToS as well.
For now lets forget the obvious pay-2-win trainwreck GE has become and hope ToS doesnt follow the same path as its predecessor.
Looking back in 2006 or 07 depending on region, IMC launched their first ever mmorpg as a company.
Now unlike most mmo which take into medieval fantasy or scifi fantasy as setting IMC choose 16-17th century world of exploration as their timeline. The pretext follow the discovery of a new continent (North America) named Granado Espada. Pioneers (the players) from Orpressia Continent (Europe) set forth to the new continent for new opportunity and exploration. Though the one that colonized GE (NA) is Vesponola (Spain) after (Bristia) Britain lost a war with them. Anyways the story went forth with the βsecretβ american revolution war as a Faction War.
Where you either side of a bishoenen George Washington, leader of Republicans, or Oppai Princess , leader of the Royalist.
I stop playing a few years ago already but the story right now is that Bristia (Britian) is planning to fight back on Vesponola (Spain) but some church conspiracy in Armonia (Vatican) is looming so all revolutions must be set aside until then. Well there is alot of Evil Cult-Dark characters and Priestesses and Saints and a Paladin and even an Angel character in the recent updates.
Comparing all the MMO in 2006-2007, thus GE was visually and auditory-ly amazing back then it was also pay-2-play at launch. Not to mention you control 3 characters which was its selling point. Controls were RTS style combat due to controlling 3 characters. Yah the RTS style combat was both appreciated and criticized. You did need to micro-manage each of the 3 character 5 stances to rotate skills, buffs and counters.
There was a plan to update it graphics but it seem it didnt got pushed through.
Also GE will remind oldschool console rpg players of Chrono Cross or any other old school RPG as you need to collect and unlock ALOT of characters to progress through the story. And you need to level up those story characters at the high level content will make them a burden for your main characters in story quests.
And finally we got ToS Art Director Maggi as one of GE prominent artist, though she goes by the name Maggis Harem then.
There are GE reference/easter eggs items and NPCs in ToS refer to this thread.
