After spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.
It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.
Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.
Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.
Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.
Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.
This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.
If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.
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Parker said 4:01PM on 6-05-2007
The name leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Totally irrational, I know, but I think rebranding the product could cause a lot of people to give NN another chance. I don't think a browser called Netscape Navigator could be a success even if it came with a time machine -- people remember how bad it used to be.
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Josh B. said 7:59PM on 6-05-2007
"Firefox extension compatibility could make Navigator a very strong alternative once again after many years of lagging behind the crowd."
Really? Why? Seems like the only switchers this feature will entice would be Firefox users, who have no reason to switch, as they have a perfectly awesome browser currently.
If you are switching from a non-firefox browser to one that supports Firefox's feature of extensibility, what compelling reason would you have to choose NN9 over FF?
Oh. Right. URL correction.
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Scott Kaiser said 9:08PM on 6-05-2007
Yawn!
Waaaaay too late to the party. If Netscape ever wants to win browser users again, it must create an extremely innovative new browser with features the others don't have. Merely keeping up with the pack isn't enough.
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dhanraj said 2:34AM on 6-11-2007
hello
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