Haha as soon as i come home from school this is the first thing i look at and it always makes me smile, just to see so many people are kind and willing to help somebody else out. And in reply to my first post I didn't state the question solid enough, i was really looking for help...
My spark is dead someone relight it if you know what i mean, and well I've decided im going to stick to my kickboxing and halo3 for a little while and ill be back in a month or so to find a new game.
Also i would really appreciate replies on this question also.
My B"day is like 25 days among other things this would be a good chance to get my hands on a retail game ill buy it one day after because my GF promised me something and my friends said ill be a changed man afterwards so ill have a 24 hr cool off period, then see if i still wanna pursue my MMORPG "career".
Wow is the only one ive really checked out and it looks sweet but helpful game titles and hints would really help.
WoW Burning Crusade
I have never seen a better community in my life just an amazing game, plus the official website is like a fansite aswell....wow.
That was a very interesting and deep post but the fact of the matter is there is no replacement for mmorpg's but having to play another mmog. If you fuck up on a soccer field you have to deal with bad looks and unhelpful comments from team mates. In a game you say screw this turn it off or fix the problem. Life is too short to throw away things you love and if you love mmogs so much do not throw them away. Prioritize a bit i mean I'd throw away computer all together for my girl but for some other the situation might be different, find out how important MMORPG's are to you and figure out what # they are on your list. I don't plan on playing games forever but I'm still a kid trying to live my life and do thing a kid should be doing or better yet what i want to do. Do not live your life as a drone , live your life not somebody elses and don't listen to what anyone says except when you need to. One quote that has always kept my life on track. "One mans junk is another mans treasure, as life continues it may create several different paths. Many much different to others but all still have the same main road leading to your final destination..... death" Which practically means were all different but all the same, live your life the way you want to because eventually you end up in the same place as everybody else. Time you enjoyed wasting isn't wasted time =P Well theres my 2 cents in my own topic But back could i get a clear answer on a simple question. Give me some other MMORPG titles to play please.
I understand what your saying completely, there is no reason you should throw away something you love so much. However based on your original post it sounded like your love for MMORPGs was dying, and that was why I was making different suggestions. Unfortunatly a MMORPG is a MMORPG so to speak, they all use the same principals with the main differences being a focus of PvE or PvP, along with different art in the games. As to answer your original question heres the list of MMOs I would suggest.
I encourage you to give these games free trials a try (trials for WoW and FFXI can be found at most Gamestops for 2 dollars) However keep in mind that if you try them all out and still find your "gaming spark is dying" I would recomend you to try out other hobbies in a effort to find a new love to replace MMOs.
World of Warcraft - It is your standard PvE kill ten sheep, then kill ten orcs, then kill ten dragons type game. However unlike all the other games on the market WoW presents a level of polish unseen in a MMO, everything in the game works flawlessly and is well balanced for both solo and group play. Also is probably the ideal game for PvP at the moment due to massive battlegrounds that present fair and balanced combat, such as 10v10. None of the 5 on 1 ganking you find in most PvP games. As with all MMOs it is only as time consuming as you make it be, it does not take a magical hold of you like the media claims.
One note I will take is all MMOs in a sense encourage addictive behavior by using the same techniques as casinos do, giving you a set % chance for something to happen when you do a task. Leaving you with the feeling of "Maybe next time will be the time I get lucky". With some MMOs this chance can be as low as 5-10% for completing a task that took you ten hours to do. Yet you will always find people doing it over and over again thinking they will win the "lottery" next time. Of course when you do finally get lucky you are present another task with the same odds and time commitment, this type of thing is most used for "sets" of armor.
Eve - This one takes a bit of getting used to, my friend who saw me play it way back when joked that I was "Playing Microsoft Excel." Probably the game with the most polotics between players, unfortunatly the farther you advance in the game the more you run into people who have got bored of the gameplay and who's sole purpose is now to make your experince worse by killing you when you try to mine or do other tasks. You can only go so far in the game without entering a open PvP zone, and losing your ship means losing a few weeks of work in some cases. For this reason I would say it's quite a bit more hardcore then any other MMO on the market, but if you love polotics this is the game for you.
DDO - In my opinion rivals WoW in the level of polish in the game. Everything is instanced so in that sense it's alot like Guildwars, but with very deep character customization. The downside of DDO is it's very liner with only one starting zone. That means if you take a character to max level, and you get ready to take another character to max level, be prepared to repeat alot of the starting quests you did in the past. DDO is almost exclusivly a PvE game, but has less time commitment then any other MMO on the list.
FFXI or Lineage2 - I group these in the same area since they both require grinding beyond belief, I would stay clear of these unless you are ready to make a huge commitment to get to the point where the real game begins. FFXI being for PvE and L2 being for PvP. Both are great games, but as I said time commitment before fun is painful.
CoH - A MMO that really doesn't take itself to seriously, but if you like comic book heroes and want to design your own can be loads of fun. Very few MMOs where you can do stuff like fly, jump over buildings or go super speed. So has a nice novelty value, the downside though is at least early on you find yourself stopping purse-snatchers about a hundred times over, all of them having the same dialog.
Those are the MMOs that I have personally tried in the past and found to have redeeming qualities.
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My spark is dead someone relight it if you know what i mean, and well I've decided im going to stick to my kickboxing and halo3 for a little while and ill be back in a month or so to find a new game.
Also i would really appreciate replies on this question also.
My B"day is like 25 days among other things this would be a good chance to get my hands on a retail game ill buy it one day after because my GF promised me something and my friends said ill be a changed man afterwards so ill have a 24 hr cool off period, then see if i still wanna pursue my MMORPG "career".
Wow is the only one ive really checked out and it looks sweet but helpful game titles and hints would really help.
WoW Burning Crusade
I have never seen a better community in my life just an amazing game, plus the official website is like a fansite aswell....wow.
I understand what your saying completely, there is no reason you should throw away something you love so much. However based on your original post it sounded like your love for MMORPGs was dying, and that was why I was making different suggestions. Unfortunatly a MMORPG is a MMORPG so to speak, they all use the same principals with the main differences being a focus of PvE or PvP, along with different art in the games. As to answer your original question heres the list of MMOs I would suggest.
I encourage you to give these games free trials a try (trials for WoW and FFXI can be found at most Gamestops for 2 dollars) However keep in mind that if you try them all out and still find your "gaming spark is dying" I would recomend you to try out other hobbies in a effort to find a new love to replace MMOs.
World of Warcraft - It is your standard PvE kill ten sheep, then kill ten orcs, then kill ten dragons type game. However unlike all the other games on the market WoW presents a level of polish unseen in a MMO, everything in the game works flawlessly and is well balanced for both solo and group play. Also is probably the ideal game for PvP at the moment due to massive battlegrounds that present fair and balanced combat, such as 10v10. None of the 5 on 1 ganking you find in most PvP games. As with all MMOs it is only as time consuming as you make it be, it does not take a magical hold of you like the media claims.
One note I will take is all MMOs in a sense encourage addictive behavior by using the same techniques as casinos do, giving you a set % chance for something to happen when you do a task. Leaving you with the feeling of "Maybe next time will be the time I get lucky". With some MMOs this chance can be as low as 5-10% for completing a task that took you ten hours to do. Yet you will always find people doing it over and over again thinking they will win the "lottery" next time. Of course when you do finally get lucky you are present another task with the same odds and time commitment, this type of thing is most used for "sets" of armor.
Eve - This one takes a bit of getting used to, my friend who saw me play it way back when joked that I was "Playing Microsoft Excel." Probably the game with the most polotics between players, unfortunatly the farther you advance in the game the more you run into people who have got bored of the gameplay and who's sole purpose is now to make your experince worse by killing you when you try to mine or do other tasks. You can only go so far in the game without entering a open PvP zone, and losing your ship means losing a few weeks of work in some cases. For this reason I would say it's quite a bit more hardcore then any other MMO on the market, but if you love polotics this is the game for you.
DDO - In my opinion rivals WoW in the level of polish in the game. Everything is instanced so in that sense it's alot like Guildwars, but with very deep character customization. The downside of DDO is it's very liner with only one starting zone. That means if you take a character to max level, and you get ready to take another character to max level, be prepared to repeat alot of the starting quests you did in the past. DDO is almost exclusivly a PvE game, but has less time commitment then any other MMO on the list.
FFXI or Lineage2 - I group these in the same area since they both require grinding beyond belief, I would stay clear of these unless you are ready to make a huge commitment to get to the point where the real game begins. FFXI being for PvE and L2 being for PvP. Both are great games, but as I said time commitment before fun is painful.
CoH - A MMO that really doesn't take itself to seriously, but if you like comic book heroes and want to design your own can be loads of fun. Very few MMOs where you can do stuff like fly, jump over buildings or go super speed. So has a nice novelty value, the downside though is at least early on you find yourself stopping purse-snatchers about a hundred times over, all of them having the same dialog.
Those are the MMOs that I have personally tried in the past and found to have redeeming qualities.
Awesome and helpful post thanks heaps
I think Atomica is quite smart. Maybe he has to wait till there are cooler games.
Actually, games are fun only when you have a group of friends playing, at least it keeps people moltivated throughout the boring grinding experience.