PvP in MMORPG's (1 hardcore champion?)

Shai-Halud

I been playing mmorpgs for about 4 years, starting with Asheron's Call 1 to DAoC to AC2 back to DAoC and then to Lineage II.  I just quit lineage 2 cause i hated it and the pvp penalties were very lame and i hated the level grind and blandness of the avatars.

Asheron's Call 1 is without a doubt my favorite of the 4, simply because of it's Darktide server which had such awesome PvP, it was an emotional server and really made you hate and love people, everyone was on the run with their equipment.  I like this, this is my favorite type of PvP, and even people that don't like it can still enjoy the game, because of the carebear servers.

Asheron's Call 2 was almost as good except there was pretty much no penalty for being killed or nothing much gained other than to humor yourself when you killed others.  At least it had the choice of a full blown PvP server, which i don't understand why some games don't throw in there, because it is not ruining the game for anyone, it is only quenching some players thirst for hardcore PvP.

DAoC had the PvP server but I kinda missed that, and I am not going back to DAoC ever again probably, because i think the new expansions are terrible.

Lineage 2 does have drops and you can attack anyone anytime you want but the PvP penalties are just so damn extreme. They may prevent pure grieving but they also pretty much prevent any sort of PvP except for sieges.  Well IMO even if this game got a PvP server, the non-PvP mechanics still suck and the graphics are so bland.

World of Warcraft is my biggest look, because it is Blizzard and i'd imagine that Blizzard is one of those great gaming companies that would put out anything to please all players, like in diablo how they had the hardcore characters and such.  Even the regular Faction PvP server seems pretty cool, where you go to ex. as an Orc to the Lordareon and go and kill humans who are hunting in their homelands, not like DAoC where the PvP is enclosed into some cut off frontiers where killing someone has little or no impact.  But I think Blizzard would also create an all out FFA server to have more variety.

If you folks here know of any MMORPG's with the same type of PvP as Asheron's Call 1 (hardcore emotional PvP, not sieges)

 

Don't feel like previewing don't mind any spelling errors.

Shai-Halud

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Dryze

Dude, I need to make up my mind about what MMORPG to buy. Im leaning towards Asherons Call or FFXI, but I just cant make up my mind. Whats the good thing about Asherons call? (Sorry that this is kind of off topic but I need some advice)

Shai-Halud

Well i stopped playing Asheron's Call about 3 1/2 years ago, when i was playing and when i stopped playing it was great (why i stopped for DAoC ). I check the new data every once in a while and it looks pretty bad, the game is very very old might be tough to get in to. People seem to dislike it now that it passed it's prime years, but it used to be the greatest. Heh that isn't much help to you though

beanzilla

Well AC1 will get an expansion in 2005 upgrading the graphics and adding tons of new stuff. AC1 has alot to offer since its been around so long , sure AC is passed the good old days but with the expansion and advertising coming up maybe more good times will come. Im sure if you're into PvP you'd have plenty to fight on Darktide.