Oberin
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Space for a new style of MMO?
As you may know if you've read my earlier posts, I'm basically a Second Lifer, but in the interests of research and writing for Massively, I've tried Runescape, Dofus, Oberin, Vendetta Online and World of Warcraft. You may also have noticed a number of first impressions posts but relatively little follow up.This isn't entirely an accident. All of the games have failed to attract and keep my attention. Second Life has not. Come the end of my free month, I'm not 99% certain I won't be subscribing to World of Warcraft because it's doing the same things as the other games.
First Impressions: Oberin
Oberin is a free to play, Mac only fantasy MMORPG with lots of character and quirks. It starts simply enough, you choose a character class from the six available: Cleric, Druid, Wizard, Fighter, Ranger and Rogue, assign up to 10 skill points, create a user name and password and log in.There are, however, some fun parts. Each class has some special skills that define your character level, some skills that are limited, sometimes to 0, and some special features. Fighters, for example, can't use spells, can't make potions, but get a skill that lets them do critical hits more often than any other class, and do more damage with equivalent weapons. Clerics can't use weapons and armour, but get a huge range of healing spells and ally buffs. Wizards tend to get more damaging spells. Rangers are the only bow users (although wizards get some ranged attacks too).
