I’m still alive. I’m just a bit busy.
Do not worry I will do a big update soon.
Also, I’d like to announce that the Forgotten Journeys project is on stand by.
I figured it would be best if I do other Fan projects before going into this one.
Why? To gain experience. Forgotten Journeys is already hard enough with the FPS perspective I want to give it.
Yeah yeah, don’t worry. You people will like this next idea that I have planned. Just give me some time ><’
Hello my beloved fans and Anti-Destroth people of Granado Espada!
This Special Entry is about the wonderful event held by IAH Games to all those creative minds of Granado Espada.
The Christmas Event:
First of, let me begin by quoting the Event information:
Christmas In-Game Event: Naughty or Nice? Date: 24th to 26th December 2007 Time: 1700hrs to 2200hrs Server(s): All Date: 24th ~ 26th December 2007 Time: Cervantes 1700 – 1800 (GMT +8) Carracci 1800 – 1900 (GMT +8) Caravaggio 1900 – 2000 (GMT +8) Pachelbel 2000 – 2100 (GMT +8) Vivaldi 2100 – 2200 (GMT +8) Server(s): Cervantes, Carracci, Caravaggio, Pachelbel, Vivaldi Channel(s): 1 —————————————————————————————————————- Santa Claus is in town! It’s that time of the year again where Santa pays a visit to Granado Espada and he is on the lookout for who has been naughty or nice. Part 1: Make A Wish! Post your wishes on the forum and be as creative as possible in expressing why you want those wishes to come true! You can express these wishes creatively via fan art, poems, videos, comics, screenshots, real life photos or various humorous methods. You can submit up to a maximum of 3 wishes, either as 3 separate posts or all 3 wishes in one post. Please also leave your family name and server in your forum entry. Cervantes folks: Please submit your wishes here. Carracci folks: Please submit your wishes here. Caravaggio folks: Please submit your wishes here. Pachelbel folks: Please submit your wishes here. Vivaldi folks: Please submit your wishes here. Part 2: So… Have You Been Naughty Or Nice? Santa Claus will be visiting Granado Espada between 24th ~ 26th December 2007 to look for the folks who have impressed him on the forums. He will announce his presence to the entire world with holiday greetings. When he is about to grant wishes, he will appear in front of XXX family and broadcast to the entire world: “So… XXX Family, have you been naughty or nice?” If XXX family is online and not in AFK mode, XXX Family must then reply Santa Claus either through public chat or broadcast. Santa will then grant XXX Family one of his three wishes! Discuss this event here. * * * * * Event FAQ Q: Can everyone take part in this event? Yes, everyone can take part. Q: Do we need to register for the event? Yes, you will need to post your wishes on the forum. The cutoff date for posting wishes is 26 December 2007, Wednesday, 1600hrs (GMT+8). However, please try to post your wishes early. We hear that Santa likes early wishers to add to his ‘Nice’ list. Q: Do we need a Squad to take part in this event? No, this is an individual player event. Q: How many zones are related to this event? Everywhere and anywhere! Santa Claus will find a way to appear in front of you, regardless of where you are! Q: What are the available rewards? The sky’s the limit! You can wish for whatever you like ��” whether we grant those wishes is another thing. A little hint is to try to make those wishes realistic in order to get a higher chance of them being granted. (Wishing for infinity wishes or 1000000000000 Elite Level 100 equipment would probably piss Santa off and we won’t want that now, do we?) Other than in-game items, you can also wish for other miscellaneous things like spawning 100 rabbits at your favourite town or posting an interview with you on our official website. Q: How can I increase my chances of my wishes getting granted? Be creative in expressing your wishes! Be nice on the forums! Q: So what happens if I have been really naughty in Granado Espada and on the forums? I don’t know… but there is a rumor going around that Santa Claus’ evil twin, Santa The Cursed may be sending his minions to these naughty boys and girls! Disclaimer: Event Mechanics, Timings and/or FAQ are subject to change, depending on circumstances. ———– Reference: http://ge.iahgames.com/en/news/?aid=433&sec=1&ssec=4 ———————————————————As stated above, the event took place on the 24th, 25th and tomorrow the 26th.
Surprisingly enough player were VERY eager for the Event to start! And that counts me as well as I waked up 1 hour before (7:00am GMT-4) the event… only a 4 hour sleep.
The thread about this event and all the wishes can be found in this section
Link
Now for the Pachelbel Wishes thread, which is the only one I can talk about because I play there, can be found here.
Link
As you can see many people posted wishlist with barely any creativity thinking that the event wasn’t going to take place or that it was going to be something sucky. When they first saw the winners on the 24th they began to rush to put more stuff.
I call this “Rushed Creativity” which is not bad, but it shows how far you canpush or barely push your brain to do something.
Now about the winners … about those I remember – Not in Order.
On the 24th of December:
- Oversizedmeat
- Arconis
- *cough* Normanizeich *cough*
- Illumino
- Icarus
- Vlack
- Yatsushiro
- MuZu
- MaximunImpacT
- TImebomB
- And a few others I don’t remember
Winners on the 25th of December: No Idea… I went to bed at 5am and woke up at 12pm… so the event finished a looong time ago.
Now my personal opinion about the event:
In my opinion the event was nice, though I see some people complaining in forums for the 25th event not being well done, but the 24th event was neat. It is nice to give players, especially the poor ones such as me, the opportunity to get something of high value to survive in these upper levels. But one thing bothered me though. People simply don’t read instructions, and I thought I never read them, but most players of Granado Espada sure beat me to it as many people simply posted their wishlists.
This is what Hrin Posted after all those wishlist stuff: Link
Now, there were certain things that I didn’t liked, but I’m not complaining… much, and I’d like answer of why it was like that.
First of, my wishes and many wishes of many people.
I wished for a LeNoir armor for the Wizard and the Elementalist (female), and sunglasses… but those don’t matter. But after I wished for LeNoir, I got something totally different from it. I got LeBlanc for Elementalist (female).
Arconis had the same problem. She asked for LeBlanc for fighter and/or Scout and she got for Elementalist.
I have to say I am not completely pleased about it, but hey, it is a freaking hard to get armor! So… yeah I think I am kinda happy with it even though it is not what I wished for. But I do hope for the next event that is similar to this, the GMs really get to know the stuff in-game.
But overall, the event was nice… from my perspective.
Any message for the winners? Eh… Good Job I guess…
For those unlucky people? Hm… read instructions. And even if Hrin ignores your questions (like mine), ask other people.
Now… EVENT PICTURES!! WEEEEEE!!!
….FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!
(merry christmas in Spanish)
Version 2.4 is out and I’ve seen lots of mixed reviews around.
Some like it, others don’t.
You see what IAH gave us here is the 2.4 thing but with some areas restricted until early 2008.
Sounds fair, I wouldn’t be able to eat a whole dish of food in an instant. So IAH decided to release the beach stuff first.
Bahia Island.
Its nice… looks nice… but I was expecting more stuff out of it.
More maps inside Bahia and more mini-games and longer mini-games.
But aside from that is okay… but something hurt me real bad.
….
NO PERMANENT BIKINIS IN PREMIUM SHOP!!
….
AAAAAAAAAAHH!! I WANT PERMANENT BIKINIS!!!
The current bikinis last 30 days and with stats. I want bikinis because I don’t plan on wearing such thing in Auch… Reboldeoux or something like that!
The AFK area is not what I was expecting because there are mobs from lvl 50~65 all together, and I thought it was like “lvl 50 area and a lvl60 area”
The human cannon and vertical jump are nice. But I loved more the human cannon. I LOLed every time it shoot me into the air. Everyone near me was also shoot into the air roflmao.
The rest of the things is nice… except that they removed Channel 3 and the game is a lot heavier now. My computer crashes a lot in towns and well… I think IMC should take better care of game’s requirements.
That’s all for now because I am in a big hurry and I gotta go!
Hello folks. First of all I’d like to say sorry for being lazy and not working on the Forgotten Journeys project like I stated before. There are several reasons, though not significant but they really ruin my artistic mood.
the first one is the fact that I’ve been working like a mule lately, my hands in a bad state and 1 of them has an injury =_=”
Don’t ask how.
The second one is the fact that I got to return to the university to fix some classes that I haven’t been able to select during the course selection period. This will be done on the 19th and 20th of December.
Last but not least, is the fact that I’ve been rushing to get my Brunie, Adelina and useless Emilia to level 100 but it seems soooo hard to get to level 92… =_=”
Now with the new content being added to sGE I think it will delay my project because I’ll be playing during this period like mad before classes starts.
… I know I know, but c’mon give me some time to play decently! I’m sick of taking classes you know 
I swear the movie won’t pass from 2008 ^_^
Here I am!
To report you all that the thing has been going slow, but for various reasons such as Final Exams ^_^
But do not be worried! Just now I was experimenting with Windows Movie Maker and all that stuff and I now have a Clear Idea of what I want to do.
It will take lots of time since it will be made frame-per-frame, but this way it is easier for me to organize.
Also, I found some purrrrrrrrfect music for it, you people will ask me for it!
Here is what I have planned so far.
Steps 1 by 1:
1) Capture ( Screenshots, lots of them. Perhaps a video too to test it out…)
2) make frames with desired effects and animations in photoshop (This is the longest step)
3) Gif em up (This is to get the desired timing, Windows Movie Maker doesn’t allow stuff faster than 0.25 secs. That is slow. )
4) Import to Movie Maker and add audio
5) Test
6) Laugh at my errors and be proud of my first work.
7) Publish
8 ) You criticize…. positively.
See? Seems simple enough! I can begin next week to capture the first frames and so on… but for now I can because I still have 1 Final Exam left.
Till then…
–Normanizeich Family
–Pachelbel Server
Parody-
Post by Hirin:
” Hello dear gamers, we like to announce you that Granades Espaditas is F2P and we’re ripping off your pockets. YEEHA Games thanks all its costumers for giving us your money so that we could pay our debt with INC, our Granades Espaditas developer and its president, Hakku-Kimy. “
“Words by Hakku-Kimy: “
“”Yes yes, we think its good to rape your pockets and send goodie good messages to the community. That way we brainwash them just like we did with Hirin. Also I wanted to make GE a free-to-play game, giving a similar lame excuse like K2 Network did with Sword of the Old World.”"
“”I see the future full of freeloaders not giving anything to the game and that makes me happy, because we will still leech from those loyal players blind enough to keep giving us their money, hahaha.”"
“With these words from the president of INC, YEEHA Games have agreed, after not-careful and listening only to the large amount of freeloaders, that it will be F2P for the whole world’s enjoyment! And don’t worry about vis inflation, bots will fix that right away!”
“No need to worry about those remaining days if you topped up! We have a great deal for you blind-loyal player of Grandes Espaditas! For each day remaining in your account you will get 1 GPoint! Isn’t it amazing!? You could buy the whole premiun shop if you wanted to! Though we have several requests to increase the amount of GP, we won’t because we literally don’t care about you, only about our pockets as a company.”
“New accounts after the F2P Day onwards will recieve FREE 500 Gpoints! This way you can spam accounts, buy tons of boosters and screw the game more than it already is! All that for free!!”
“Also we’re giving away a pioneer package for those who topped up at least once!! The package will have:
-1 Hirin Potion
-1 Lame Fillers
-1 Combat Manual, “expert” for 2 days
-1 Tactic Manual, “expert” for 1 day
Isn’t this great!? It is the best deal we have for all of you!! Not only we rip your pockets but we also give you lame products in return!!”
“We, here at YEEHA Games, hope that we can steal more of your money, and keep playing this game like dogs”
“The sincerest, most loved Company and Community Non-manager”
“YEEHA Games and Hirin”
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Felt good to write this stuff. You can actually see how I feel after this.
The Forgotten Journeys project is on hold now for I dunno when… since this thing really crushed by hopes to keep going on it.
Let us hope for the best in the future and see good stuff…if there is any.
-Comments are welcome-
Ladies and Gentlemen there has been a quick change of plans here, but this doesn’t mean it is over before it has even started.
The changes will be quite… ummm simple for me to do.
Reason: I realized that what I wanted to do requires a whole team to do the whole story into a video.
Let’s put it like this… A noob at everything, doing a job of people with middle-to-lots of experience.
It wasn’t something I was going to be able to do.
Still… What I have planned now is the following:
–trailers…
“What?”
Yes, Trailers. Listening to my music motivated me to do the right thing for a 1-man team.
A trailer following, of course, the story. But it wont be a crappy trailer…hopefully. I plan to do something good, even if it takes me 1 whole year to do.
Listening to my music = ideas flowing like mad… and I bet these trailers I plan to do will be freaking good.
Will keep you all updated.
–Normanizeich Family
–Pachelbel Server
Link 1
Nice article.
Here is my opinion.
Many players (Singaporeans, Filipinos, Americans, Latinos,etc..) have quit the game because they simply dont understand that GE is still a young game.
The game came out in what year…? 2006?
Compare to Lineage 2 that has more than 5 years around, using an old game engine that makes the game load and run extremely slow but has tons of material to offer.
It is obvious L2 has more stuff than GE due to the time it has been around. People cannot see that. They want everything thrown to their computers now, mini games, lots of quests, expansions, etc… without realizing the time it takes to make an MMO grow.
Now there is also the p2p issue. Look, I am from Puerto Rico (GMT -4). I am half the world away from Singapore and still play the game and I an investing in it. I even bought a 1 year load and I am planning on making a big investment when 2.4 launches.
Many people say GE is not worth p2p. I used to think like that, but after I saw the big difference between the horrible SotNW and sGE, I decided to invest in what I like, after all, the price is extremely cheap compared to other MMORPGs around. GE is worth p2p in my opinion, and eventually the game will grow more adding more stuff to it.
“I’m not paying because its expensivezzzzz” – random pinoy.
I’m sorry I am aiming this one directly to pinoys but from my point of view they are the ones who’ve been whining more about the p2p issue than the others. Let’s see… They have money to pay 24/7 of gaming at cybercafe + starbucks coffee but dont have money to pay freaking small ammount of money for game time + GP. Come on!!!
geez…
(This does not apply to all people. I’m basing this observation on the people I’ve seen on the server I play on)
Another issue, the IAH games non responsive team. Well it is understandable if they are rushing 2.4 launch. But you know what? I’ve followed the rules of the site, used the ticket system (except for bots) and they have given me a nice service.
Something I’ve noticed in this community is that they are not tolerant in the sense that they want everything in the instant. (If you’re wondering about my impression about most of the GE community, I believe it is obvious.)
This also pops up another question. How can Hrin stay calm, in a good mood and happy with a community like this? But lets leave that for another time 
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Yes, I know IAH games said something about the bot issue. Bot issues are not going to end, never, but they can be controlled. I’ve barely found 5 bots in these last 2 weeks in Pachelbel, which is amazing.
Another Issue… “No more noobs around!”
Well there won’t be new players if the people keeps saying “ZOMG the game iz badz0r!! Dont play itzzz!!”
You see, part of the advertising is made by the company, but also is made by the players. If you don’t help to spread the game, then how do you want it to stay alive? Stop whining people (referring to whiners), if you want this game to not be dead, do something about it. I am doing something for it, 1 person at a time. He is lvl 14 training at AQM and the older experiencied players only say “pfft” to him. Wow… what a nice welcome. Love how the community welcomes new players (pachelbel server)
/sarcasm_off
Anyway… nough ranting from me
So, overall, I don’t plan to give up on this game yet. I like the style of the game though I’d like to see a bit more, but then again the game is young. We might have screwed economies in our servers but that will eventually be “balanced” … sooner or later. I plan to keep investing in this game for a long time to come and to bring people to it as well like I’ve been trying to do lately. Hopefully this game will continue on for years to come.
–Normanizeich Family
–Pachelbel Server
(Oh btw, I love how random people simply insult me. Won’t say nationality for the sake of the good people out there but really… I love my comunity.)
/sarcasm_off
Intro :
The following is just an intro to the story. The rest of this will be made with pictures and animations (gifs, but probably movies) only.
In this first Chapter I was testing my ability to make animations, which it seems to be pretty good for a noob work.
As I said above, the next will, perhaps, have some stuff to read but the story will be mostly visual (as in images) and not like this one posted here.
This also means the animation will take me a few weeks depending on how busy I am and thus won’t be able to update the stuff frequently. Hehehe… But I think you will all enjoy what I have planned.
Also, most of the pictures will be replaced by links, for the sake of the 56k’ers.
Brunie the Gunslinger: Forgotten Journeys
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“Miss Brunie Etienne?” – The mailman asked.
“Yes, that’s me”
“You’ve got mail” – The mailman said while giving her a mysterious letter.
“Thank you”
“Have a nice day” – The Mailman said as he left to continue doing his job.
As I opened this letter I felt a strange sensation all over my body.
“My dear daughter, here I write my last words to you, which I hope for you to read with attention. While adventuring to many places, fascinating and dangerous, I came across the ———–. Thought at first everything seemed normal, me and my team of pioneers got ambushed by these undead monsters. As I write this, my surviving squad mates are searching for a place to put this letter so that any other pioneer who comes here be able to send this to you. It seems that something terrible is happening here inside ——- and I am sure it involves Vespanola. Brunie I know you are a strong girl… but do not trust Vespanolans, and if you can, try to …. I got to go, they’re coming. I love you Brunie, you’ve always made me proud.”
-The signature was left incomplete-
I had no words to describe my feelings. My dad, which I’ve been searching for a year now, is locked inside somewhere. But who knows if he is still alive? Well there is no time to waste. I must go now to rescue my dad…and find out why did the name of the place got erased and where is my dad.
With no Hesitation I looked for my dad’s gun, a Claude Baudez Nique which was still in perfect condition. Next I went off to look for him.
As I was heading to the exit of Cite de Reboldoeux I noticed a weird looking woman with black wings. She was wearing a strange maid costume, clearly not the ones I’ve seen around here. As soon as she spotted me she ran away.
-Link 1
-Link 2
–Outside
Outside of the city I looked to all directions and didn’t saw her. Like if she vanished in thin air.
I thought about my dad’s previous adventures and the suspicious Maid girl and I decided to head off to Al Quelt Moreza, where I might find some clues about where did my dad ended up.
-Link 3
After walking for quite some time and collecting bullets I am now at Al Quelt Moreza forest.
-Link 4
Strangely, the beasts don’t seem to be aggressive at all. And there seems to be something at the ground. I followed it but after a while I lost it.
I continued on my way towards Al Quelt Moreza Nartex but at the entrance to the temple I got ambushed by the monsters and had to use my gun.
-Link 5
I cleared the area and rushed inside before more monsters came…
-Link 6
And here I am… inside… and now it is time to look for clues.
To be continued…
In another way.
Today, November 22, 2007 was Thanksgiving Day for the US and Puerto Rico.
The day when family gets together and pray to God for the good stuff and bad stuff that has happened to their lives, and more importantly, thanks for having a big ass turkey at the table.
Ahh the beautiful family, Eating together and having a nice time together. Sweet isn’t it?
Well in Puerto Rico Thanksgiving Day has been changed to “El Día del Pavo” (The Day of the Turkey), But I call it “Pavo Day” (Spanglish for “Turkey Day”) because this is the day when:
- We have no classes
- We have no work
- WE FREAKING EAT TURKEY!! EAT EAT!! EAT LIKE BEASTS!!! WE EAT TILL OUR STOMACH CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!
- We have leftovers of this day for one week, so we don’t have to cook during the following 7 days.
-Oh, and tomorrow we call it “sh*t day” because is the day we… PUSH!! WE PUSH THAT TURKEY OUT!! ALL DAY LONG IN THE TOILET PUSHING THE TURKEY OUT!!! UUUUUUUUGHHAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
*SPLASH!!!*
Phew…
But what we Puertorricans love more is the fact that our Christmas start today, till January 15 or something. Puerto Rico is known around the world to have the longest Christmas and for that, we freaking rock… In that sense that is.
Anyway, I hope that whoever is reading this now had a nice ‘Pavo Day’ and if you didn’t had one… I hope you had a good day
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Ok now on to the Granado Espada stuff.
Today I woke up early to start working with Chapter 1 of Brunie The Gunslinger: Forgotten Journeys.
Though it is not what I was expecting to do, I took this Chapter one as a test for my animation skills.
You will see the results when I post it.
But I had lots of trouble while doing it. Because of ‘Pavo Day’ I had many chores to do at home and had to look for my grandma and aunt at her house, help mom in the kitchen, etc… But aside from the annoyance I had a pretty good time. Also, we had a foreigner guest. A woman from Honduras.
When mom told me of her a few days ago I was thinking of a girl as ugly as those girl from Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela, Ecuador, etc… that currently study at the university I am and have taken over the Math Department… and as ugly as the women seen on TV from those same areas. (NO OFFENSE INTENDED – I AM REFERRING TO THOSE I SEE HERE AND ON TV SHOWS)
But when my brother came along with his wife and the foreigner girl from Honduras, I saw her and… wow… shes hot.
From that specific moment forward I changed my mind about everything I had thought before and that those ugly ones I’ve seen before are the minority of a larger population that might have tons of potentially hot women. Not to mention that she also knew lots of English, not like those I see on TV that don’t know crap of English.
mmmmm… awesome.
I think this was another factor that motivated me to do today’s chapter stuff in just one day hehehe…
HAPPY PAVO DAY!!!!
-Normanizeich
-Pachelbel Server
