AUTHOR: Geek Woman | PUBLISHED: Dec. 19, 2007
Enjoyment:
It drew me into its dark clutches for 60 days. I spent more time working on this game in a shorter period of time than any other that I have reviewed yet. In the first month I was playing for 10 - 12 hours a day. Although by the last two weeks I went down to about 20 hours a week. It got to me. The desire to build up a strong character that could deal with the harshness of the dark elven environs was all consuming.
I found a server that was mellow. I didn't have any problems with being attacked. There were people using bots or something to kill off large areas of creatures. Sometimes when I played in the morning the hillsides would be sparkling with gold. I'd check to see that no one was looking and pilfer as much of the ill gotten gain as I could. That brought a guilty pleasure.
Overall Impression:
Lineage 2 continues to be an unfolding saga of strange contrasts. There are mismatched creatures in widely differing artstyles. The races look oddly brought together as if anime met the Drow. It is darkly appealing. The gameplay is diabolically hard, frequent penalties punish the players and yet one goes back for more. At night you dream of those long featureless expanses, running back and forth over and over again. It could be because the player is thinking "what the heck is going on?" even for several months into the game.
Marketing Efforts Towards Women:
No visible effort has been made to attract a female market here. The character designs could have been intended to spoof the character styles of other games. The dwarves and the event creatures are exaggerated in an over blown cute that seems to parody. If the slim and sensual looks of the other characters are not for you then that is there as an alternative.
Here again promiscuous outfits are no favor to women who are playing the game. Some of the outfits are plainly over-the-top sexual. You have to keep in mind that these are not human women though, they are dark elves who have a completely different set of values than earth females of our time and place. If they are anything like the Drow that they resemble so much then they are unrepentant torturers and murderers. These macabre, baneful and beautiful characters would interest some women. There is a pale gothy appeal to them. There are more males playing as them though.
It drew me into its dark clutches for 60 days. I spent more time working on this game in a shorter period of time than any other that I have reviewed yet. In the first month I was playing for 10 - 12 hours a day. Although by the last two weeks I went down to about 20 hours a week. It got to me. The desire to build up a strong character that could deal with the harshness of the dark elven environs was all consuming.
I found a server that was mellow. I didn't have any problems with being attacked. There were people using bots or something to kill off large areas of creatures. Sometimes when I played in the morning the hillsides would be sparkling with gold. I'd check to see that no one was looking and pilfer as much of the ill gotten gain as I could. That brought a guilty pleasure.
Overall Impression:
Lineage 2 continues to be an unfolding saga of strange contrasts. There are mismatched creatures in widely differing artstyles. The races look oddly brought together as if anime met the Drow. It is darkly appealing. The gameplay is diabolically hard, frequent penalties punish the players and yet one goes back for more. At night you dream of those long featureless expanses, running back and forth over and over again. It could be because the player is thinking "what the heck is going on?" even for several months into the game.
Marketing Efforts Towards Women:
No visible effort has been made to attract a female market here. The character designs could have been intended to spoof the character styles of other games. The dwarves and the event creatures are exaggerated in an over blown cute that seems to parody. If the slim and sensual looks of the other characters are not for you then that is there as an alternative.
Here again promiscuous outfits are no favor to women who are playing the game. Some of the outfits are plainly over-the-top sexual. You have to keep in mind that these are not human women though, they are dark elves who have a completely different set of values than earth females of our time and place. If they are anything like the Drow that they resemble so much then they are unrepentant torturers and murderers. These macabre, baneful and beautiful characters would interest some women. There is a pale gothy appeal to them. There are more males playing as them though.
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