Mabinogi
I tried playing Mabinogi. It appears to be a social game. Appearance is customizable, but every time you change your skin tone or hairstyle, your clothes change randomly too, making it difficult to really tell the difference. I was blocky and my shirt was a radioactive gumdrop blue. I felt like a cartoon man in the real world. You can choose your character's age, from 10-17. Their target demographic, I assume. If you're over 18 they assume you'll be out smoking, joining the marines, or one of those other things we keep minors from doing. I played for half an hour and I'm not sure if I fought anything. The first quest I got was "get five chicken eggs and hand them to me". I'm used to games where they start you killing stuff right off the bat. I didn't even have to punch the chickens. Getting the eggs was kinda fun. Then I spent five minutes trying to turn the quest in and failing. Maybe I was supposed to punch the NPC.
You get skills by walking around and talking to people. There are about a dozen dialogue topics, and if you talk to people a lot, you get better stuff. I'm not sure if you can unlock skills by talking to the same person 100 times in one day or if you have to talk to them once a day over 100 days. I'm not sure which is worse, either
Everyone has the same generic topics. I'm supposed to keep track of which shopkeepers like talking about "skills" or "farmlands". If I wanted to spend weeks getting to know video game characters, I'd play Animal Crossing. That way I could at least choose what I say. The Pete/Pelly/Phyllis love triangle is more interesting anyhow.
You get skills by walking around and talking to people. There are about a dozen dialogue topics, and if you talk to people a lot, you get better stuff. I'm not sure if you can unlock skills by talking to the same person 100 times in one day or if you have to talk to them once a day over 100 days. I'm not sure which is worse, either
Everyone has the same generic topics. I'm supposed to keep track of which shopkeepers like talking about "skills" or "farmlands". If I wanted to spend weeks getting to know video game characters, I'd play Animal Crossing. That way I could at least choose what I say. The Pete/Pelly/Phyllis love triangle is more interesting anyhow.