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What MMO's (and why) do you play?
Strezz
Member Posts: 45
Hi...
What MMO's are you currently playing, and why?
Im playing Lotr Online and City of Heroes/villains at the moment... Lotr Online because it's new, well balanced, and visual very stunning, and CoH/V because it's so freakin' hilarious being both good and bad, while wearing spandex... (I know; I got issues!)
Well... to go a little deeper, i find the Lotr Online to be all that i wanted in a Fantasy MMO... it got the lore, the "belivable" monsters and bad guys, and on top of it all, the whole "Let's copy everything that works from other MMO's" have me caught as a satisfied customer!
CoH/V is the first MMO i really got hooked on... i have WoW also, but im only playing it for a month or two at a time, and then im fed up... also got RF Online, D&D: Stormreach and Guild Wars, but they just never got to me, like CoH/V or Lotr does/did...
ok, let's have it: what are you playing, and why?
What MMO's are you currently playing, and why?
Im playing Lotr Online and City of Heroes/villains at the moment... Lotr Online because it's new, well balanced, and visual very stunning, and CoH/V because it's so freakin' hilarious being both good and bad, while wearing spandex... (I know; I got issues!)
Well... to go a little deeper, i find the Lotr Online to be all that i wanted in a Fantasy MMO... it got the lore, the "belivable" monsters and bad guys, and on top of it all, the whole "Let's copy everything that works from other MMO's" have me caught as a satisfied customer!
CoH/V is the first MMO i really got hooked on... i have WoW also, but im only playing it for a month or two at a time, and then im fed up... also got RF Online, D&D: Stormreach and Guild Wars, but they just never got to me, like CoH/V or Lotr does/did...
ok, let's have it: what are you playing, and why?
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Voyage century. . . Eve online
Still waiting on a game that gave me the staisfaction the SWG did pre-cu and pre nge.
I can enjoy a sci-fi setting too but it must be bug free and the servers must be stable.
Your asking for the perfect setting.. Good luck on finding that....!
Let me know if you get lucky 
troydavid: what's the big deal about EVE Online??? I've only tried the 7 day trial some while back, and i didnt get it....?? make me see the light!
love the variety and the fact that I can switch up what I 'm doing in the game with out having to start a new character.
In America I have bad teeth. If I lived in England my teeth would be perfect.
"Granted thinking for yourself could be considered a timesink of shorter or longer duration depending on how smart..or how dumb you are."
WoW player here love the gear detail and how they really try hard to adapt it to gamers needs/wants may be cartoony but makes up for it with gameplay.
As well as Lotro im playin as well and is good graphics and grouping, but still needs time to develope. ..... hopefully.
Still the best sandbox game i found
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7300033012
EVE-Online. Tried others (WoW, LoTR, Lineage I and II, RFO and a myriad of F2P MMOs) but nothing could compare.
For starters - yes the game takes bloody long to start. Most vet myself included will tell a noob - "train your learning skills up 5/5/4"
and now that you mention it i never really took it as being a long time but by the calculations it's apx 2 months of barely playing so yea,
not much fun. Albeit you could forgo the learning skills until later on but that's another story.
Now, why eve? yes it did get some rather nasty publicity as of late (bloody Goons - for those who dont know, a lousy group that usually migrate from game to game bringing absolutely nothing but generally horrid attitude and lackluster humor that only seems
funny in junior high school.) and yes the game is really hard at times and boring too. But when the going gets going its an explosive
orgasmic experience which nothing else can compare to. Going pvp in 0.0 which doesnt belong to you armed with only your ship and
your wit and perhaps 1 or 2 wingman, getting a few kills, disrupting the enemies' activities only to have a swarm of defense pilots rush
to your location guns blazing is just amazing. Then comes the unlikely event that you do escape in which case you have a whole game
of manhunt going where its literally a race to safe space bypassing countless attempts by the defense fleet to stop you.
I've had one such occasion where my flight of 5-6 ships managed to outflank the fleet chasing us thus allowing us to pick off 1 or 2 stragglers before having to run for our lives as the fleet returned to help (a bit too late i might add) the battleships they had left behind. I
must say that was an intense hour or 2.
Now i'm not advocating that such occasions are common, on the contrary these occasions are quite hard to come by and you will lose quite a few ships trying to get such a high. On that note, losing really means losing. Unlike WoW where you get ganked and say 'oh ****' but then you only have to wait 10-20 minutes and you're back to where you started. In EVE, you lose say a Heavy Assault Ship
(think, +++ sword or something) and you've lost quite a lot of time. The ultimate grind. Work hard for 2-3 days, lose it all in 2 hours. I've
personally lost well over a month's worth of work in just under 5 minutes. Sadist maybe but i love it. It really makes you feel like you've accomplished something (achieved a new rank in no0bness maybe but its still an achievement).
well, i'm sure you guys can guess i love the game, hell i've been playing since November 2003. That by itself must mean something (i actually started playing the game way before when it was still in Alpha stage). Overall, i'd recommend the game to anyone with a bit of patience as it will take a while to really do much for the average player (i'd say 3 months minimum but i've heard of people getting right into alliance work within days of their subbing). Oh one more note - Alliance warfare can be so boring. This isnt Lineage where castle siege take 10-30 minutes. The EVE equivalent of a castle (Outpost/POS) take hours if not days to take down with a decently clad fleet (i'm talking of at least 40-100 men fleet) so yea, that can get boring really fast. But as I said, nothing compares to the thrill of the hunt in EVE.
I wrote a lot, thank you for reading it all and yes you can say "he's crazy"
Do i loose any features by only playing the trial, or is it a full package?
Darkfall Travelogues!
Ragnarok online and Americas army *mmofps if you count that*
Ragnarok because my friends play it, its cute, pvp is fun, and uh I guess originality.
Off and on lotro, im a founder so accounts pretty much free for me to play when I please.
Depth, Class System, its ENORMOUS World, varied content - solo and group. Graphics are awesome. Very fun opportunities to explore the world by air, sea, or land. Honestly, has the potential to become the best MMO in history. To discuss depth, you have class depth, you have race depth, world depth, and some Quest depth. It is a deep game, very advanced. Very worth playing.
EQ II
Great community. I really like it and might be falling in love. Very solo friendly, new player friendly. It has an excellent mentor system. Works just brilliantly. Tons of Quests and has an EQ 1 feel without all the EQ 1 bs (corpse runs, forced zerg raiding, etc.) It might very well be the best MMO on the market right now, but I need more experience with it.
SEE NEW PLAYER 1st IMPRESSIONS: www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/136298
EQ 1
Very rarely for when I need my EQ 1 injection. I have tons of old friends that play; I am working on getting them to RETURN to Vanguard and try EQ 2.
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WoW and fast food = commercial successes.
I neither play WoW nor eat fast food.
Tried since then some couple of trials and f2p games and well none of em can grasp my attention.
So atm i'm not playing anything except betatesting some scifi game ;p and holding my breath for stargate worlds, age of conan and pirates of the burning sea.
The amount of bad information about Vanguard on this web page is endless. The release of Vanguard was terrible. However, the game has recovered from it and continues to recover. It is a great game, imho. Very fun. A lot to do. I think if SOE continues to work as aggressively as they are, it can become the best MMO in history. The world is so enormous, so much lore, such diversity and things that people could get very creative with it.
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WoW and fast food = commercial successes.
I neither play WoW nor eat fast food.
EQ2 for me until Warhammer online comes out , or if get into the beta which i doubt because of my old graphic card 5900FX , eq2 is really very good now and i'm enjoying it alot , my ratonga necro is level 52 and there's loads i have still to see in the game.
plus as others have mentioned EQ2 has a great community on the server i'm on at least which is Runnyeye .
i tryed Lotro for a week but i cancelled and i wish i had not wasted the 30 pounds the box cost me , you live and learn i guess
, i found the game to have a very immature community constant swearing in /OOC and ninja looting/mining mob tapping all the time from wannabee legolas elves is also very annoying.
the monster play is bugged to hell and back ,which is a shame as thats the main reason i bought the game in the first place , oh plus the code for cloak of the peace-keeper that i was meant to get with the box would not work , all in all a very bad experience from lotro and i won't be returning.