Good News! I just saved a bunch of money on my car-I mean, ohmigod, MapleStory anime!
22 August 2007
I’ll admit, I was a Maple addict for a while. Trained non-stop through winter break to get from level 60 to level 70 on my chief bandit. I play GMS, Windia. I’m currently level 73, around 30 something percent and no will or inclination to start playing again. I’ve been playing MapleStory for just a bit too long. I’ve had so many friends quit on me and I’ve made so many new ones that fifty buddylist slots seemed criminal. Oddly enough, I know a level 130 something hybrid dragon knight that’s been playing with me every since Kerning Party Quest days, and that was a couple of years ago. Party Quests were my true calling. Days before the advent of auto-clicker, days when you actually needed to click like hell to get into a party quest, you’d find no better party leader than me. And I’m not just boasting, I’ll get you into a party quest, guaranteed. Sometimes, I really miss MapleStory. Alright, I’ll shut up about my gaming obsessions.
The point is: for God knows what reason, they’ve adapted MapleStory into an anime. Even more alarming, MapleStory is airing in Gurren Lagann’s time slot. There’s a fine difference, in my humble opinion, between Gurren Lagann (epic shonen adventure too epic to ever end) and MapleStory (free 2D side-scrolling, MMORPG from Korea)! The madness, the sheer lunacy! I gawked and called all of my real life Maple friends, or, my classmates and we all gawked, for a very long time.
And, apparently, there’s going to be a MapleStory trading card game released in the US. There’s already a DS version of Maple out, now there’s a TCG and an anime. Life sure got complicated in the three months that I quit playing. I use to spend days, weeks, months, every single living moment incessantly talking about Maple. Training, trading, auctions, prices, scrolling, everything. After a while, you realize that most Maple players are rude, inconsiderate adolescents (I had a rant on a Maple forum about that). Daily gameplay consisted of grinding nonstop (and it’s not on the dance floor), dying occasionally (you loose 5% experience, mages and warriors have it worse, 10%), rinse and repeat. Global MapleStory, bluntly, sucks. Hackers made it impossible for GMS to have any good features. Fourth job, at level 120, isn’t out on GMS because of hackers. They’re hackers, but they’re just a bunch of kids downloading hacks. Having god mode does not make you God.
Making MapleStory into an anime just rubs me the wrong way. I don’t understand why I find the idea so unpalatable, it’s just weird. It’s airing in October, alongside Haruhi season two and a multitude of other shows I’m not too excited about. Twenty six episodes of mushroom killing, twenty six episodes of mushroom killing, lovely.
You have got to be kidding me. O_O
@Briar – I wish I were…T_T
Wow, this brings back memories of my incredulity at the anime based on Ragnarok Online. I suppose they’ll hack out some (lame) storyline vaguely based on Maple; cue all sorts of ridiculous, but dramatic fights.
@Owen S – It’s disappointing, because that’s exactly what’ll happen. I’m debating whether or not I should watch it. Do I really want to deal with a lame storyline and dramatic fights…?
I hate to burst your bubble but there’s no Haruhi season 2 in October 😛
Also Ragnarok Online is highly superior to maple story…also while I played MS for about 2 weeks my wrist began to hurt, and I faced a flurry of ksing 10 year olds everytime I was on. This was in 2004 so maybe the game/community improved but I didn’t stick around long enough to find out.
I’ll prolly watch this out of curiosity, but personally I’d rather see an anime made for RO2 ;D
@Hinano – Burst my bubble? You just saved my bubble! I dread another season of Haruhi. Going to avoid it like the plague.
I’ve never played Ragnaro because, well, it’s not free! Heh, money makes the world go around and rpgs better. A “flurry of ksing 10 year olds” is gist of Maple, nothing more, nothing less. And I assure you, nothing has changed in the Maple community. If anything, it’s gotten worse.
From the looks of it, an RO2 anime might not be such a bad idea, no matter how skeptical I am of game based shows.
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Uh…
NO MORE HACKERS (Well not alot of em, there are only hackers in places no1 EVER goes to.)
Just letting ya know hackers hardly even exist now.
KtnxBye
@Miedan – That just proves life hates me…all the hackers are gone after I quit…