They had a cool game called Exarch which looked like Lineage II with power armor and guns. They were really pushing Shining Lore which was amazingly fun for me. You can get your hair done, and totally customize your character. I would have liked if it was a bit prettier and the game speed was faster, but oh well. I spent a good twenty minutes playing it before the game crashed. This game was really cool and it had a stage show with a crazy panda with a machine gun running around. I enjoyed this game a lot and would maybe play it. I also took a look at City Of Heroes which looks really fun. But NC next time you wanna put ladies in spandex to parade around, get ones that don’t have stretch marks ^^. This game looked cool cause of all the neat character customization, you could basically be anything, and the graphics were smooth and pretty.

When I looked at their XBOX game Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders, it was a lot like Dynasty Warriors. It was fun to be this really uber warrior in the middle of huge battles, but then when I had to do tactical stuff I was annoyed. I wish I could delegate all that stuff to the computer. That really brought the game down for me.

They had another game called Guild Wars, but I didn’t even play it because it looked horrible, but I’m sure it’s fun because many people were playing it. All in all when I asked about games, they seemed sort of knowledgeable. I didn’t like that I asked when a game would come out and they said they didn’t know, or maybe in 2004. Man, I want this game yesterday, said I!

I then tried to find Leilo and Capt. Sturm but was failing. The big scary bald guy was like we don’t have this Lineage 1 at e3. So I went up to this small cute blonde girl and said all professional like, “I’m from Lineage Compendium, one of the largest fan sites in America for NC, and I wondered if maybe I could talk to some of the staff that runs Lineage I and II?” She ran off but came back a little while saying she couldn’t find anyone, but to just hang around. So I started playing Lineage II, which is a lot like Lineage 1 without stats. Every 20 or so levels it seemed you specialized in your class or multi classed, like in old D & D. So, I was talking to one of the NC guys about the game and asked about leveling past 50 like in Lineage I but he was unsure. He said they might have an American beta in fall of 2003 however, which was exciting. The combat and such seemed VERY slow, but skills and stuff was cool. I got to ride a dragon, the big flying one, and it covered a lot of area and breathed fire on the enemies.

NC also had a lot of cosplay people walking around, there were people dressed like Lin 2 knights and panda’s and super heroes walking around and fighting and stuff. About this time I looked over and saw Leilo, from NC!

I was surprised that she recognized me. O.0 I woulda given her a smooch but I didn’t want to get thrown out of E3 just then. We talked about Lineage II, and she said besides the cool graphics, the Lineage I players will see many familiar items in Lineage II. I asked about making a guild without having a prince, and she admitted to saying you could, but not knowing how.

We chatted a bit more and I asked about LoA coming to Dep and Ken and she said they really really wanted to bring them. She says they are discussing it with NCKorea. I asked her if she would release the levels of players again, and she said she would like to very soon. She says that the people banned had made an estimated 40 million adena.

After that I talked to Capt Sturm, who is much shorter than I would have thought ^^. [CaptSturm wants to add that he's 5'11" -amer] He said that there will be many changes to LoA for knights soon. He said that he wants to add many weapons that do decent damage and have extremely high + to hit, to get knights away from Mail Breakers. He also mentioned maybe adding Swords that do good damage and have a chance to cast firestorm or meteor strike occasionally. He also says he is mostly an elf guy, with a level 44 elf on LoA ^^. He said a lot of the problem with is he has to keep up with Korean content updates and therefore has to drop whatever he’s doing if Korea makes an update. He says the programmers are good about adding changes and are very helpful to him.

He says they are trying very hard to bring LoA changes to Depardieu and Ken Rahuel. And to just wait, it will happen, maybe not right away, but it will! He also says that if he could he’d re add the damage bonus and leave out soft AC but he cannot until he gets more control over the servers. He says he is like the guy in the corner who says stuff and hopes the other people listen to him. He also said that we may be in for another Heine type event soon. And LoA should expect some new content within a week or two.