“Knoram is home to more than fifty thousand characters, representing more than one million levels gained. Thats a lot of dead wildlife.”
Are you tired of those other massively-multiplayer-online-role-playing games? You know, the ones where you have to actually choose a direction and click on a target and occasionally type. How annoying! Tired of complex keyboard commands? This one only has one: ALT-F4 to Quit. Wouldn’t it be better if you could just sit there and just watch the experience and character development roll right in? Well, consider yourself power-levelled, my little friends, because ProgressQuest is about to become your newest addiction.
Or maybe not. Actually, it is a brilliant instance of shareware-as-satire. And to prove that practically anything can have a following, it has its own collective of player-run guilds, as well as some remarkably embellished stories of in-game experience. Take the tale of this questing Panda Man…
“Now Im thinking hooking up with a succubus should be cake with my new pants, but everytime I try to talk to one of em, some loser tries to cut in on my action and I have to brain em with my +7 Steely Vicious Poleax. While all of the quartz giant crystals and yeti furs are good for my bank account, its not getting me any closer to getting laid or finishing my quest.”
Priceless.
