This week I
happened upon something that I found so exciting that it’s captured all my
attention and it is scooping up all of my free time. Naturally, that means you
get to hear about it now. It’s called... The Chronicles of Elyria.
The
Chronicles of Elyria is a new Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game that
won’t even come out until next yet – and here I am, waiting for it as I haven’t
waited since the days of waiting for the new Harry Potter books to come out.
And I’m not the only one! There’s a huge community waiting out there, some of
whom have been desperately waiting for this game since 2016 or earlier. That’s
how awesome this game is!
So, let me
tell you a bit about the Chronicles of Elyria. To start off with, I suppose I
should tell you how I found it. It was through an online add I saw for the
game. Normally I ignore adds, but this one caught my attention – informing me
that this was a game where creatures could be hunted to extinction. This was
such an intriguing notion that I clicked – and was dragged down the rabbit
hole.
Now, for
those of you who don’t know about MMORPGs, basically they are video games with
large worlds where you can interact and play with other people. However, aside
from that, they’re an awful lot like any other video game – there are real people
around, but you don’t have to
interact with them. Everything you need is still provided by the Non-Player
Characters, and you have a set of quests that you do – and if you get stuck,
you just have to look up a guide to figure out how to get unstuck.
With CoE,
everything is different. For starters, you don’t get sent on quests by NPCs
waiting around to send you on a mission – when you create you character, an
A.I. generates a storyline unique to your character that will appear randomly
in the game, with larger events only occurring if you do something in the game
that triggers them – such as stealing for the first time, or travelling to a
specific town. Rather than chasing around after stories, your story follows you.
And that’s
not all! The kingdoms and towns in the game are primarily run by the players –
that’s right, you can climb through the ranks and become a king, bringing whole
new levels to the game – shifting from being and adventuring game to a resource
management game if you so choose. This, coupled with the resources in the world
being finite (they’re usually unlimited), including species being able to go
extinct, makes for an incredibly in-depth survival game.
But, wait,
there’s more. Apart from all the wondrous gameplay elements that are too
numerous to mention, one incredible aspect of the game is that your character actually
ages and dies. That’s right – not only are the resources finite, but so is your
time. A character lives for roughly one real-world year, then dies – but their
soul lives on. You can then create another character, who inherits skills
through the soul, and who might even be part of your own family (yes, you can
have families and kids).
And, the
final and most interesting element is that, to maintain the continuity of the
game – keeping everyone aging at the same rate and whatnot – when you log out
of the game, the A.I. takes over your character and it keeps playing! You leave
instructions, and your character continues on in your absence – perhaps saving
you tons of time training skills, or performing other tasks.
There is so
much more to tell about this game, but those – at least for me – are the key
highlights. The community waiting for the launch is also wonderful, friendly,
and welcoming – at least, the one I joined up with is. I was welcomed so warmly
when I joined that even I – antisocial though I am – am actually interacting
with them. I’ve even contributed to the Lore they are creating – which, it is
worth noting, the awesome game developers are incorporating into the game.
So, if any
of that interests you, go check out the Chronicles of Elyria! If you poke
around and decide to join the community, I strongly encourage you to consider
the Duchy known as the Conclave of Aritaur located in the Kingdom of Vornair on
the NA-East server. If I see you mentioning that I sent you, I may even be able
to get you welcomed into the county I joined.
And if you
know me in person, I strongly encourage you to send me a message if you plan to
sign up on the Chronicles of Elyria website; I can give you my friend code,
which will not only earn me points, but it will tell the game we’re friends so
it can try to place us relatively close together in the game world – otherwise we
might have literal hours to walk if we want to play together. If we can even
find each other.
That’s it.
Now, go! Become madly obsessed with Elyria that you might share in my torment
as we await its release date!
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