IRE Asks: Which IRE game has the best intro?

... through all of them except Lusiternia, and of them I like Imperian's the best.

I think Achaea's is the best. And all of them compared to other sites, like Aardwolf, are wonderful.

I remember the olddd trial of rebirth vaguely where newbies got journals too and such! I tried Lusternia once and one or two other IRE games and what I liked about Lusternias trial is it was to the point and sets you up for any RP environment as it is all about fate and destiny which applies to any new character starting out. What I like about Achaeas trial is that it is more fantasy-based with the flame and all the fundamentals are there. Yes the trial does stop a new player from being able to perform other tasks, but that is a good thing because then true new players are able to get a better grasp on things step by step. Being able to emote and such inbetween might just confuse them.

Imperian's was the most interesting. I felt like I was part of something exciting, fighting off a cataclysmic attack long in the past of a ruined present. Achaea's feels like a disconnected and irrelevant prelude.

The new websites are ugly and poorly laid out, so I'm not surprised people don't spend any time on them.

Only seen the Achaean one, but I think it contains everything you need, Achaea was my first mud ever, and after the intro I didn't feel completely lost anymore..

To answer the question, I like Lusternia's introduction.  Very engaging.

It is probably why I have so many alts heh

I really liked the prison escape.

Yay, Lusternia!

I enjoyed Achaea's Intro and the way it contains historical figures. I'll Have to try the other ones sometime.

honestly I didn't like achaea's and loved the others but I just have a deep history with achaea playing off and on for several years on different characters so I guess I'm just too used to achaea to make a change or get into the others

ewe intros.

I only did the intro for Lusternia and Achaea...I liked Lusternia's info better

Very dramatic (:

I want to see the old Achaean intro though if anyone can help me with that!

I've only ever seen the Lusternia one. Perhaps someday I'll do the others.

I miss Loom island. I've tried all of them aside from Midkemia, but so long ago I don't remember all the details. My favourite I think would be the one where you relieve the massacre of that one city:P You don;t have to leave right away, and you can stay and see what happens.

I still think lusternia is the best.  it introduces you to the 3 fate sisters.  they're the very base of the hole game.  they weave everything there. the tapestry of life.

I only play Achaea, but after having tried Lusternia once or twice in the past I must say it clearly has the best intro.  Rather good at that...

And I'd rate it a 3 or 4 out of 5.

How do you even count how long a visitor stayed on your site :o I tend to open links in background tabs and don't really see them immediately.

Always watching 0_0

I miss the old intro--the one I went through way back in 2001. It dropped newbies into the real Achaea. Confusing, sure, and subject to some disruption by more experienced players, but it hooked me, because even while I was having my hand held through the initial intro, I could see that the world I was about to join was much more complex.

I will have to try out the others to see but as Bluj said, our webpage is terrible and doesn't even load fully on my computer so some things I can't even access.  It was better the way that it used to be. It looks cheap and nasty at the minute. No offense to its creator.

I miss the old achaea intro. The one where you felt like the creepy knight dude.was.going to molest you, right before he got disembowled by a goblin.

Everyone started with a shortsword.

Delete autoclass please?

I always enjoyed Achaea's Loom Island back when they had that one. That's probably my favorite.  Honestly, MKO's is a bit more simple than Achaea's current one and I think it's probably better for new players.  I love MKO's, too.  I think Loom Island wins it for me. I've tried the other three. Lusty was cool, if I remember aright. Don't really remember Impy or Aetolia.

Out of all of them, I have to say I like the Lusternian intro the best. Very detailed, multiple tasks and the invasion at the end makes me want to go 'ACK! No I want to SAVE everybody!'

than 1 game

The others are too long I reakon, make it as short as possible. No need to cover any story or plot related stuff, just cover the basics and into the game.

Only game I've tried, though, in 10 years.

Midkemia has a good intro

Lusternia > MKO > Achaea > Aetolia > Imperian imo, from what I can remember of them (admittedly not a whole lot :P)

i've only played aetolia but i enjoyed the intro a lot. 

:)

though honestly fresh out of the intro in achaea in my mind was the hardest to adjust to

Midkemia's!

Big fan of Aetolia

i think all of the intro's could be shortened

-_-

I was not a huge fan of the Achaea intro, which is the only one I've done, but I think it gets the job done.

I do like Achaea better

It's not as exciting as Imperians or Aetolias intros, but I feel like Lusternia's intro introduces the main elements of the game better. Achaeas intro introduces the gameplay, but almost no history or rp info to give you the context for the early character choices you're making.

I think the intro is not all that important in and of itself, but I understand the point of your question.  For me, it was the interaction between helpful players and guides.  Most people play these games for the RP, so the earlier RP can be experienced in the intro the more likely you will have the type of player that sticks around.

Although I prefer Achaea, I like Imperian's opening a lot more than Achaea's.

Would you not play a game if you didn't like the intro?

I think they should redo Achaea's, even though I'd say it's the best, it's gotten pretty old.

I think I liked Aetolia's fast paced intro, we broke out! Whoo!

I've done Lusternia's and Achaea's, and Lusternia's is nice and straightforward then leads into Newton, which is an amazing area to learn the basics of questing.

While I've done the Achaean intro so many times I could do it with my eyes closed (Yes I've had to try each class over the years), I do find it nice as intro's go. I should try the other games...hmmm..

I love the old woman who asks for your name. 

Achaea's Loom Island intro was interesting, way back when they used it. But I'm a die-hard Lusternian now (many alts). I'd say that Lusternia's intro has been watered down a lot.

achaea one is best, though should have a skip option somewhere

I enjoy that Midkemia Online's introductions are based on one's race. Adds a personal feel to each introduction. :)

Played them all, didn't like any of them. Really none of them immerse you in that games lore properly.

Although Achaea does feature characters from its mythos, it does not give any clue upon the historical background of the entire game (and you're condemned into reading the entire mythos instead). It basically teaches the player most essential commands like moving, tells, says, buying, and an introduction to brawling and preset emotes (which is woefully inadequate. They should have referred to HELP EMOTELIST at least).

Imperian's, however, improves upon this by placing the character into what may have been the intended roleplay atmosphere in the actual game: that of war, chaos, and terror. It also improves upon the teaching of most commands, and the entire atmosphere of the tutorial area looks more authentic and open than that of linear Ceylon in Achaea.

I might even have stayed in Imperian if not for the woefully small population I experienced when I first played it (which was around two years ago).

Achaea's website used to be more interesting, it certainly appealed to me and made me stay with its promises of dreams and legends.  Now it is rather boring and more like an advertisement for a comic strip than an invitation to play a fantasy game.  Therefore I'm not surprised that viewers from websites like StumbleUpon are not overly impressed and don't linger a bit longer to find its magic.

First impressions make it or break it.

I liked Achaea's intro and Lusternia was not bad.  Aetolia I didn't like and I haven't tried the others.

i'l say it again....Midkemia

Achaea

Seriously. They all suck

Don't know.

I think I've played all of them except MKO at this point... and Aetolia's is the only one that was really underwhelming, even though i thought it did a good job as a tutorial. I just don't think it did a good job at setting the mood, or defining the player as 'special' like th Portal of Fate or that fire thing in Achaea

Probably Achaea's intro, honestly. It gives you a reason why you're so damn special.

It also did so prior to Lusternia, so I have to vote for it, though I like Lusternia much more as a whole.

Lusternia. Honors lines!

...or at least, it was, back in the day.  The last time I went through the intro, and when my lady-friend went through it, it kept spamming with what to do next.  It was so bad that she had to scroll up, even with the speed turned all the way down, to finish reading what the npcs were saying.  This made the experience so stressful and frustrating for her that she ended up quiting the game before she ever even graduated the tour.

say lusternia

personally think MKO has the best, simply because of its originality. it's the only one that isn't the same for every character (unless achaea's has changed in the years since I've played it)

It varies depending on your character and explains all you need to know.

You choose your class in a coming-of-age ceremony adapted to suit whichever of the three cities you start from. You only realise you are different and special from the masses the first time you die and the Goddess of Death Lims-Kragma tells you she won't be sending you to the afterlife where all the others go. 

I liked Aetolia's intro, running from the guards and escaping in a boat but once you get started, it was very lonely. No one really helps you much. In Achaea the people were friendlier.

I think Achaea has the best intro, tried Aetolia and didn't care much for it

Achaea's.

Have unique intros

achaea's is fine, though I can't say I really have experience with the others

With all the cliche and lame facebook games and so forth out there hogging the spotlight. Why not make a link for DOWNLOAD on the website. Gamers like me first thing we go for anywhere on a game's webpage is the download button and if you don't got one then your a crappy facebook app we don't want to tinker with. Even www.runescape.com did something similar to spell out the difference. It could even be so little as a link to the play now button on the webpage with a fancy icon just so people can have a visible reminder hey that game I saw looked nice!

I liked Lusternia's more.

I've only done two and I have to say, Achaea's explained things better.

Only tried Achaea and Aetolia, but I liked Achaea's better.

I've only played Lusternia and Achaea.  Though, I vastly prefered the Lusternia one if we're going by atmosphere - the Achaea one was a bit more intuitive I think.

I guess there's a good reason to have an automated tutorial in a game with 100+ players online at any given time, but it'd probably be cool if Achaea's tour wasn't so impersonal and automated. I'd suggest something like a tour guide system, but that's kinda what houses seem to be for.

I think I like Midkemia's the most, or Imperian's. There is something about having to escape something

Achaean's new trial, but I've read a log of the old trial and it looked pretty sweet.

Aetolia's had me more amused than anything else. Imperian is best overall for getting people used to the game but Lusternia feels much more immersive.

Midkemia. It's quick, easy to follow, and changes to be RP appropriate depending on which race the player chooses.

achaea has the worst, probably.

way to get bound credits

I'd have to say I prefer the Aetolia one.

Achaea

People complain about it, but I still like Imperian's intro the best. None of the IRE games really have that great of an intro. Aetolia's is probably the worst, since it is an unrelated pirate adventure. Achaea likely has the most appropriate one, but Achaea is silly.

Achaea's. It's thorough and not too long. Some people complain that you can't just skip it, but there were too many newbs doing that and then they were completely lost on how to do things.