We went to Simei for lunch on Thursday. After lunch, we were wandering aimlessly, and being the IT geeks that we are, we just ambled on into Challenger. Everything was “as usual” in Challenger. Speakers, mice, thumbdrives etc. Nothing unusual, except….
…except that they’re handing out free DVDs for an online game called Cabal Online. Now, Cabal Online isn’t a new MMO. That much I know. I just haven’t really gotten around to playing it.The thing is, my colleague at work has recently been smitten by the Cabal bug and he’s been raving about it at work. Also, Cabal Online seems to be launching a South East Asian server soon, so that’s why they’re handing out the free DVDs.
Strangely, when I play Cabal Online, I have a very strong feeling that I’ve been here before. After awhile I realised why – Because I had played Guild Wars before, and the graphics here look very familiar. They are in the same style as in Guild Wars, slightly cartoonish. Normally I’d hate anything manga-like. Guild Wars was an exception, I thought. The manga-ness isn’t too pervasive and I can overlook it, mostly.
Well, seeing as this is the Southeast Asian version of Cabal Online, we see a lot of localised speech in the chat. Singlish is very pervasive, for example. I even saw a guy running around belonging to a guild called “Singapore”.
Thus far I haven’t made any new friends yet. Basically I have been running around completing quests that can be considered “tutorial quests”, ie they make you do things to explain how you level up, how you equip stuff etc.
