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Emperor
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: New York
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Join Date: Aug 2013
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Can't really say I miss any of it and a lot of the stuff listed wouldn't be enjoyable to me at all now even if it were all readded or I had the chance to experience again probably the same for most people. I'd say the one thing I truly miss was being a young kid playing the game it was much more fun and enjoyable and provided more memories than I'll ever get now. Example: Went on my brothers FB and messaged some random graal kid trying to give myself street rep in 2010, and there was an instance in which I posted a screenshot of me in the jail room on my real facebook account trying to appear cool in real life. Pretty cringey now, but playing Graal as a little kid was so much funner and throwing myself in situations like that. My name was also Mr.Wolf for a few years in honour of a fury roleplayer who gifted me the + version by using his iTunes probably another thing I miss was the much nicer community back then, extremely toxic now. The admin KFC was also extremely nice, there was a time I was talking about being sad and he dragged me behind castle and randomly started chatting with me. GFX style as well hat wise I just prefer a lot of the older hats/themes, like if you compare the old Scuba hats that were sold in Swamp compared to the 4th of July and Rev ones sold now, the old ones just look nicer in my opinion. |
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Graalian
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Belle Isle
Posts: 4,481
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Glitching onto Nimda with the guild house trick and thinking whenever my game lagged it meant an admin was close to me and I would dip right away. Honor points were fun, forts when they first came out, when Snowtown was released and the 1000 hours needed to get into the resort was crazy. Playing in the GST once was really fun. I only get on Graal once in a while when I want to check in and see if any major improvements were made. It's pretty amazing how a game run entirely by volunteers is so successful. Everything that made me fall in love with the game has sort of lost its luster to me though so I don't like playing as much.
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the KattMan
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: United States
Posts: 4,204
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Maybe you are referring to the guild, but I remember the server Forkk made named after Nerv. Good times tbh. Favorite memories were playing my guild Hogwarts Castle and then later the guild SHRUB. It was a ton of fun to explore off the map and such too when you used to be able to glitch out of the boundaries. I remember it was a lot of fun being in jail (before they took out the ability to chat). Back when I was a lot younger, every Friday I would look forward to staying up till 3 AM playing on my iPod Touch. Really crazy to think I've been a part of this community for 7 or 8 years now. 3rd edit: Started writing this and it got longer and longer as I remembered more stuff. It went way off topic tbh. Maybe not a great read, but it was fun to think about all my memories with this game. I remember the first time I found Graal. I would always scroll through the app leaderboards on my iPod Touch when I got bored, and one time I found Graal and thought it looked cool cause it was like Zelda. I remember logging in and trying to find out how to do quests and stuff but obviously there were none at the time. I distinctly remember roleplaying as 'Merlin' the first few weeks I was playing. At the time I tried to make that little river cave (forget the name now) just south of Taylor Richaard's my "house." I would tell anybody in there to "get out of my house" or some obnoxious ****. Another thing that's kinda funny in retrospect is that I loved the game so I made my dad download and play it with me. He didn't really enjoy Graal, lol. After playing for a little while I tried to make a roleplay guild called Hogwarts Castle. I played as Albus Dumbledore and only recruited people who looked like Harry Potter characters. It was pretty fun for a while. When guild houses came out we would try to make my guild house look like Hogwarts, and when allies came out we made subguilds for each of the four houses. I met my oldest Graal friend (Kiwi/birdvomit) through that guild. Pretty sure he was Fred Weasley in the guild, and I guess for whatever reason we just kept talking after (still almost daily sometimes). Kind of crazy in retrospect. An Some time after I started playing as MattKan (a black cat for whatever reason) and joined other guilds like SHRUB. I was also pretty active in Nexus. I remember when LordOfPi13 became admin at 13 and everybody thought it was a big deal. Felt like hot **** trying to make levels for Nexus at the time. Had a lot of fun taking towers though. Probably a **** move in retrospect, but I remember trying to infiltrate other guilds like PULSE when they would temporarily recruit people for tower taking. Had a lot of fun trying to take towers with SHRUB in particular. As far as Graal PC goes, I got really really excited when I found out you could have your own server, so I forked over the money for my server Kravalstia. It was terrible. Right around the same time Forkk made the server Nerv. We were pretty competitive between our servers (his was a lot nicer) but it ended up being a lot of fun to participate on both. Eventually my server expired, but I met some cool people. I remember playing Unholy Nation a lot and that's how I met people like Rufus when he was Events Team Admin I think. For a while I think I had teh guild Rufus's Cat or something. Kinda cringeworthy to think about now, but it was fun. UN was a pretty fun server, kinda sucks that it's gone now. I also remember playing Valikorlia with Chaotic I think and trying to roleplay there. Ultimately though UN was the server I enjoyed the most. It was such a **** show, but it was fun, and the events were addictive. Other servers I "worked"... Everwind (I remember working with Ohk4y, now known as Alpho there) was a pretty crappy server with the Classic theme. I can't remember the guy's name who started with an R, but he had a server with a darker version of the Classic style. Think I messed around on Maloria for a while maybe. The big one was Stroseria which was definitely a poorly managed mess looking back. But all of those were fun, and I remember meeting a lot of cool people especially at Maloria (Aya, Storm come to mind). I remember feuding with Delteria when the *thing* was to try to be an iOS server. I was so immature in retrospect, but there's some good memories there too. Just remembered that at one point Dusty had been working on an idealized version of Classic. He posted everything to the forums (content, scripts, graphics, etc.) when he stopped working on it, and everybody thought it was the coolest ****. For like a week maybe some friends and I tried to continue that project (lol) on a server. I remember that Dusty was even kind of like what the ****. It's nice to see that all of the stuff he did kinda did come to fruition after all. Classic's pretty damn nice now, would have loved it even more had it been this nice when I actively played. As far as other iOS servers, I remember I felt super cool because I was in a google doc for Kingdoms iPhone ideas for a short time with Tigairius and his girlfriend. I was also Global News Team for a hot second before getting fired because Darlene gave me too many infractions on the forums. Otherwise I was brief staff on iEra before I got fired for **** talking the server in a Skype PM to someone. Then when Zone came out, a bunch of my friends were all PR staff or whatever and I got FOMO and asked someone to hire me there. Tried making a pretty intricate Toilet-themed (lol) minigame with Bigfoot there, but I never knew how to script so I couldn't get it to work. I lusted after being staff on iClassic back in the day. Exactly why it was good they never gave it to me lol. Minecraft and Graalians Minecraft in particular were probably a Graal 2.0 for me. Got me back into the community and made for all sorts of new memories there. Of course sometimes I still kick that **** around, but mostly for nostalgia... it's a lot more fun to play on Minecraft nowdays than it is to go on Classic and see that most of my friends have been inactive for hundreds of days. tldr; i was a graal stan for a large chunk of my childhood
Last edited by MattKan; 07-02-2017 at 02:10 AM.
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