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I'd say luclin stunk because it was so damned different. First we got goblins, giants, dragons, imps and orcs and whatever. Basic fantasy lore stuff. Then we suddenly jump into a particularly crappy episode of Star Trek.

The lore also seemed like it was a bad fanfic. Like someone read about the Combine Empires and Shissar and then just said "oh wish these guys were still ingame... maybe they could all be chilling up in the moon!".

And the few zones outside nexus/bazaar that I actually glanced at were horrible. Large open cave zone A, large open cave zone B, large grassland A, large grassland B, large desert A, large desert B, etc etc. Oh and that Grief Benedictus zone that seemed to be nothing but a chain of identical rooms with completely random monsters in it. Put any of these next to places like Velketor's Labyrinth or ToFS and they look absolutely abysmal (altho velious had it's share of utter lameness, coughSkyshrinecough). Maybe it's just that I hate the newer graphics they introduced in luclin, be it the zones or the characters, which looked so much different from what we had before, like a whole different game.