While I’d dabbled in online games in the past in the form of competitve experiences such as Quake 3, which I will eternally suck at, Ragnarok Online was my first true online game. I played the Thai version and luckily there wasn’t that much reading to be done in the game as Oui was my very reluctant translator.
The entire game is about grinding from the get-go and looking back I wonder how in the hell I ever found it entertaining. It might have been the cartoon graphics that are done in the 2.5D style but it was the first game that both Oui and I played online, though we only had the one account.
Like many games of that generation it has PvP features that you can’t opt out of. The way PvP worked in this game is that if you flag you can attack anyone whether they are flagged or not. It’s a player experience that griefers love but the majority of other people hate and you never see it these days except in older games that are still hanging on thanks to a few dedicated players.
We only played it for about two months because we tired of the grinding and constantly being killed by other players quickly, but it was our first taste of what was to come.
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