Tibia is 22 years old. Maybe it s time to restore her rightful place on the map of Polish gaming?

Tibia not only for a while could buy alcohol legally in almost all countries in the world, but it would be slow to start writing a master's thesis. He hit another year for one of the more well-known gaming brands in our country.

Tibia. Well, it's a brand, but more like a Big-frit frit than Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz. A game about fatal press in Poland. It is hardly surprising, since for years it has appeared in the media mainly in the context of such headlines as a drunken moron who kills a child playing Tibia or a crazy kid who throws a chair at his mother . The traditional media of the time when the Internet was still a Satan's child and the computer games of his daughters were doing the job in this aspect. That is, some 2004. Then our class freed our mothers, aunts and grandmothers, and the price of giving them social media in a broader perspective was relatively small.

Tibia lives longer, the more it gains in the eyes.

It looks roughly the same as in 2003, when I met her for the first time in my life. Undoubtedly, however, today you can tell her that she is holding up quite well for a 22-year-old. In 2004, they all turned their noses.

Unnecessarily. The main argument against Tibia was poor graphics. It was before the era of the popularity of indie games and the return to the archaic stylization of our dragons and knights. I admit to readers of Spider's Web. I'm very symbolic of this symbolic (well captured, right?). She fulfilled her role fantastically.

Tibia's bigger problem was her community.

A free game, working even on stronger calculators, had such an original knack for attracting absolute social lowlands. Again, Tibia's media attacked, while I discovered in a nearby Internet cafe that Zyzy and Siwy could write and read. Ba, I did not suspect them of being such outstanding specialists in the English medievalist vocabulary. The fact is, in Tibia, there were plenty of toxic players, challenges, thefts and pathological phenomena that often moved from the virtual world to school and backyard.

I had a couple of approaches. I do not recall ever rising above the twentieth level, so I probably did not even get to know real Tibia. But I really liked the world presented, full of ... secrets and secrets. Like the tempting fresh players Spike Sword, who according to legends - while I was playing - was to be reserved for players who reach the hundredth level of experience without going beyond the Rookgaard players created for beginners. There were more such secrets, secrets and doubts in Tibia. I wonder myself how much they were deliberately from the creators, and how much from the limitations of the engine. I compare Tibia with such incomparably better World of Warcraft, forced to the limits of decency. And I do not know if

A primitive and omnipotent engine at the same time. For although Tibia at times seemed like a game alive torn out of the RPG Makera, it offered incomparably greater opportunities. Also editing and configuration. Open Tibia Servers have led to a number of different modifications and modifications. Sam got on a very successful mod transferring the world of Tibia to the realities known from Dragon Ball. But, again, premeditation and energy was enough only to the next level of experience.

After the activity on YouTube, I am asking that Tibia is still finding its fans. And although, diplomatically speaking ... well, they are not channels about Universalis Europe, the game is still ridiculed. At least I conclude with a large number of fans, because I fired for a moment in order to make screenshots and I could not find everything completely. I think that on the occasion of the 22nd birthday, probably expecting even thirty , it's worth to start talking about Tibia as a non-pathological phenomenon inflated by existing media, and a normal game. What's more, games that are extremely important in Polish gaming culture.

Tibia is 22 years old. Maybe it's time to restore her rightful place on the map of Polish gaming?