Welcome to Yakuza Comic / History

Welcome to my blog! I'm known as Daz, owner/admin of the forum, Yakuza Forum (check it out at http://yakuza.dazuba.com/forum). I'll be posting up comics from the game, Maplestory (or Maple Story), here. Maplestory's basically a side-scrolling 2-D MMORPG that's relatively popular. They have many different versions (google it :P) for people of all locations. The currency is the Mesos, which is used for trading and buying/selling services/products. Maplestory is generally a pretty fun game where you choose classes to be. I may post guides up here occasionally for classes or quests, but it'll mostly be the comics and just general blogging.

Just in case any of you were wondering, here's a little bit of my history of Maplestory:


Somewhere around the time of Beta MS - I decided to sign up with a few friends and started a Mage. I got it up to level 30 and had a little bit of trouble deciding with a class to choose...eventually I chose cleric, simply because I enjoyed helping out my friends and the money benefits as well. This cleric got up to roughly level 55ish before I just got bored and couldn't stand the zombie lupins anymore (Went to the Shumi jump quest to kill wraiths occasionally...but thought it wasn't worth it since 9 out of 10 times, AFTER the jump quest, someone would be already there at the wraiths). I started a thief, who became a throwing-star rogue. I was pretty poor, so things went slowly and around the time I was level 29, some friends convinced me to try jMS, the japanese version of Maplestory.

They told me that jMS had MANY things that beta Maplestory didn't have. It had 3rd job, cash shop, and tons of new areas. I was pretty tempted so I gave it a try...and got hooked. It was a tenth as crowded as beta MS (I played on Sumomo, which JUST came out). Made a Chief Bandit that eventually reached level 86, a Hermit that ended up around 113, and a Cleric that was around 65. I bought cash items using 'meru' which was what the japanese called the currency. After my hermit, I decided to take a break for a while until 4th job came out for jMS but even when it came out, I just never found the time to return.

So eventually I moved on to different MMORPGs. I played Guild Wars for a pretty long time (was in a top 100 guild for quite a while before creating my own...less successful top 500 guild).

Oh and to play these games, the computer that I'm using is an HP Pavillion zd8000...kind of an older model but it gets the job done. Graphics card is ATI Radeon Mobility X600, Hard Drive is at 100GB 7200RPM, 2GB of RAM, and it's a 17" Screen.