I dislike this game. It was faintly amusing at first, but really, it's not that good.

The animation is not that bad and it's an interesting concept, but really the game provides me with little incentive to continue playing.

I COULD spend inordinate amounts of time mastering all of the classes, leveling my character into the stratosphere, and buying all of the powerful weapons and armor.

But the question here is why?

What does that net me? The ability to kill monsters faster instead of spending most of the battle in an endless "9 damage! 6 damage! 1 damage!" battle to gain a fraction of experience that doesn't bring me anywhere near progressing to the next level?

I don't play RPGs for their engrossing battle system. An RPG's battle system is generally fairly symplistic, and while it is indeed interesting to see new animations and get new spells, that alone is NOT enough to hold my interest.

Generally an RPG is played for its storyline, and the Adventure Quest storyline is so weak, fragmented and cliche it's simply not worth my effort. Seriously, I could be spending my time on something more productive, like writing my own story that trumps Adventure Quest's in every way.

If I'm going to be playing an online game, I'll play something that I enjoy playing, like Starcraft or Warcraft III. Hell, even Diablo II. I have those and they're all free, why waste time on Adventure Quest when they can do so much better? Especially since the server is never open and I have no real desire to pay to become a guardian.

If I REALLY wanted to play a game like that, I'd play Kingdom of Loathing. At least it's generally pretty consistently funny and I can actually log ON to it. Adventure Quest just falls flat in comparison.