MMO with the Best Maping system

faldlou

What MMO has the best mapping system, I hate wandering for hours looking for a NPC or object  to complete a quest.

QSatu

Atlantica Online.. good maps and auto-move function..

Guild Wars has little arrow pointing in which direction you have to go si it's reallyeasy to find nps etc. besides you can press crt to see all npcs names in towns.. then click on one and you move to him..

Reklaw

Originally posted by faldlou


What MMO has the best mapping system, I hate wandering for hours looking for a NPC or object  to complete a quest.

 

Maybe a strange question but could you point to me which MMORPG don't have maps, I like to know, cause in all honesty I dislike MAPS as they ruin the fun of exploring.

And the wandering for hours is totally not needed with games in this genre cause with games in this genre you are able to meet other people that also might play the same game, then you have the option (if the game provides it) to goto to a official forum or simply socialize with others within the game to get some help. Again for me this makes maps not needed as to me to get more involved with the games community does more to me when playing a MMORPG then looking at some map to get somewhere. I am also the type of person that when I would for example meet you ingame and you where looking for something I knew where it was I either would explain how you can get there or in some cases even escort you to that location, but hey I know thats just me and I also know I am a niche type of old school gamer. 

Thats the thing I use to love with games in this genre and that is to get lost somewhere in that world, (and NOPE I can not play 24/7 I'd be happy to be able to atleast be able to play  about 2 hours a week ), which get you connected with the games community,  something that with most recent MMORPG's there is hardly anything to explore or even communicate as everything is pinpointed for you on some map or radar. No exploring, no pleasant or unpleasant surprises because you discovered a new location that wasn't marked or pinpointed on your map, these day's were just being spoon fed to where to go......sorry not my style, especially not within this genre, we already have tons of games that hold our hand and I always thought MMORPG's where not that simple, but hey the masses speak and developers have listened to THEM.

So for me a MMORPG with the best mapping system would be a MMORPG that has no maps but just uses realistic roadsigns and well written quests, I don't mind a common world map, but those  "YOU ARE HERE AND NEED TO GO THERE with a big arrow or pointer should not be with MMORPG's at least not for me as like I said it makes people lazy and quickly bored as what is the fun to walk from pointer to pointer or auto walk somewhere, then what would be the use to actually even play a game in this genre.

Now before someone might misunderstand me I do not totally dislike MAPS but I do dislike MAPS that pinpoint you to everywhere, discovery-maps are fine, with this I mean maps that will be greyed out and when you enter a section of the map it will be revealed.

 So sorry I couldn't answer your question in this topic, but felt the need to atleast explain why i feel this way about maps.