Sound of the Skies AMV gone? D:

I've no clue honestly... but I do know that it seems as if the male characters look like the more Generic western styled "tough/cool dude" while the girls are more lenient towards the anime cutesy style stuff? That's just how it appeared to me from the few videos I've watched.
(Of course the style was nowhere near as adorable as it was in the original, but oh well.) I really liked the way the swordsman class looked in the first RO2, it was... interesting.

I actually much prefer the old RO2 graphics. Yeah, I really liked the cutesy stuff, but the new look is horrible in my opinion. Because it looks just like everything else. If I hadn't been told the pics were for Ragnarok Online 2 redux, then I would have thought it to be any other generic MMO from Korea, and that's the TRUTH.

So I just read up on the new RO2, sounds pretty good to me. I like how a lot of the old features are going to be kept while changing it so the equipment system isn't so... shitty.

I also tried to play iRO again recently, but the installer won't work for my Windows 7... what a bummer. The renewal system was just implemented too.

I heard the composer of RO2 was the same person who did the musical score for Cow Boy Bebop. The graphics did look really cute to be honest. So it'll be a new game now, huh? Well, that's interesting. I look forward to seeing how it all turns out. (I heard about it almost six years ago after all!) (Actually seven)

Does it disappoint you at all that RO2 turned out to be a giant flop that got stuck in development hell?

Haha, it's fine that you don't have steam. I guess there's not much reason to have an account there if you don't like to play games on your computer. (Or many games at all in your case, I take it.)
There was one time when other people were social with me in Ragnarok Online... and I actually really enjoyed it. It's quite the surprising difference. However I've never had a big group of friends who play any MMO type game together, although the prospect does interest me to some extent. It sounds enjoyable anyway.
That's really too bad about dearly stars. Hopefully Im@s 2 for the consoles won't be nearly as disappointing.
Since you have a DS, have you ever played the rune factory Harvest Moon Games? They might not be your thing, but I personally enjoy them.

I like to build computers as sort of a side hobby, so my computer is pretty decent at the moment. (Not amazing though) So I take it that you don't have anything like a steam account if you don't play computer games?

Ahh, so it lacks a lot of the dating sims/ character development elements that make the original Im@s games interesting?
Believe me, I know how that is. Here's what I have to say about Ragnarok Online
I usually go in with just myself and exit with the same, it's pretty hard for me to make friends, especially in online games, but I do know that RO is the type of game that scales in enjoyment relative to the amount of people you can play it with. Yet most servers seem to suffer from the community for the most part, either the community is close knit and impossible to touch ground with, or really spread out and has like 5 different languages active at all times. Then even if you can find a good medium for that, you have to hope that the admins (because this is a private server) aren't going to screw things up horribly with ugly/overpowered custom items.
You just want to be a little social, yet everyone feels so creepy and distant.

I used to be really big into Ragnarok Online, but I was never really that good at it. It has been about 4 years since then. I played a knight/hunter but also really liked the Merchant classes as well.
I like Tales of Symphonia. (My avatar is Presea, though it's impossible to tell without knowing that prior to seeing the image. I want to play the console Idolm@ster.
I never got Dearly Stars to work. I've... never played GTA IV even though I have it.
Do you understand/speak Japanese?