Dungeons & Dragons (Dungeons and Dragons Online) is one of the most cherished Role Playing Games of all time. From the dreadful Beholders to the Majestic dragons, who could ever resist the first Role Playing Game that bedazzled the world of gaming? Although Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson managed to hook people with such a display of imagination, could a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) version have the same effect? DDO Platinum has been a around longer than the World of Warcraft and Warhammer universes, giving birth to numerous spin-offs of Tolkien-based characters that appealed to a wide variety of gamers.

The series became overly popular in the gaming meta and is still cherished even up to this point, spawning an array of different stories and clone scenarios like Forgotten Realms and DDO Gold . The question is, can an old gaming benchmark do well against its established competitors in their own turf?

Immersion
When I first came into the world of Dungeons & Dragons Online (DDO Gold), I can’t help but be overwhelmed with how well they projected the Storytelling game in the visual plane. It’s a very good-looking game in my opinion. The graphics aren’t really that of the nextgen era, but the game did achieve its well-deserved visuals.

Disappointment starts
After installing the game, the first thing I saw the game’s lack of races. DDO Gold had always been about racial superiority, with special abilities and tactics that are exclusive to each kin. During the character creation interface, I was given the choice to pick between: Humans, Elf, Halfling, Dwarf, Drow and Warforged. I was quite disappointed at how much the game lacked races. If I remember correctly, the original RPG had Half-orcs and Half-elves at our disposal as well. Drows AKA Dark Elves are more or less the banes of the DDO Platinum, and much like the legendary Drizzt do’Urden are supposed to be rather antagonistic. Drows also serve as the secret characters in the game, meaning you have to perform certain conditions in order to use them. Warforged-----I am not familiar with. They are basically an array of Tree people and are pretty new in the series. One good part however, is that the game did retain each races’ specialty. This means that each race still has their very own exclusive skills to show.