Ohh another great one I had occured a few days ago while playing WAR. Was in land of the dead at the xp exploit PQ and this dude kept trying to steal mine and my buddies mobs we were shooting with ballistas. After the 3rd time, we decided we werent going to kill them once he aggroed them, then we sat back and watched him die (by the way Alliance had LOTD so he got booted out, muhahahah). Good times.
It's really difficult to pick, honestly I could talk about my various experiences I really remember in MMOs for a good long while with my friends (who most were probably there and remember too).
I think my favorite memory would be from a Lineage II private server. Back in the day, for those who don't know, most private servers would end up being a small amount of players versus what we could consider the Polish or Brazillian zerg (differed on server). For some reason those players always grouped up together and formed a huge zerg, and would try and take over the server. Needless to say it was a ton of fun fighting up against them.
My favorite time was probably when I was in the Executioner grounds for some reason. I saw some guy from one of the PL (Polish) clans, so I attacked and killed him. He came back and brought another person. So I killed both of them. A few moments later he brought another person with him, so a total of 3 now. I decided to call one of my good friends there, and we beat them.
This whole process continued on until there were like 10+ Polish players from the large zerg there, and maybe 4 of us. Finally we called one of the well geared guys in our guild. The second he ran over there we saw all 10+ of those players SoE's pop up, it was hilarious.
I think another sort of odd memory I have is from Age of Conan. A terrible game, sure, but we had a pretty funny moment. Outside of Kheshetta on the road there was this large bush by a rock. We would all lay prone in that bush, wait for a person to ride by and then jump out and gank them. Sure, we could just stealth but where would be the fun in that? It was pretty funny at the time, and I'm sure the look on the persons face when he saw 4 or 5 dudes pop out of a bush was priceless XD. (More games need a /prone lol).
Really though, I have a ton of memories. Another good one was probably when me and my roomate (a rogue/hunter combo) fought this rogue/disc priest in the arena back in like S2. He had the warglaive, so the first time we lost the match. Before we finished though my roomate had put a hunters mark up on him. Well we go into our next match and when the gates open, bam! we saw the guy in plain sight. Apparently he didn't get rid of the hunters mark between games, so we saw him plain as day right off the bat, and managed to gank him fast enough before he realized what was going on XD.
DAoC: Organising a relic raid that got all 3 strength relics, prime time.
WoW:
Organising an event which led to us killing the bosses in all 4 Alliance cities in one night. This back when there were zero rewards for killing the bosses and it was tougher to get into the cities. We also crashed the server a couple of times that night.
The Great Ironforge Bank Robbery. Pure mischief: we invaded Ironforge then killed everything around their bank and stopped alliance from accessing their Auctioneers and bankers for about an hour before they wiped us. Some of us escaped through a portal in true bank robber fashion.
WAR:
Taking down two Order fort bosses within seconds of each other (For those that don't know Warhammer, that means running huge numbers of people in totally different zones and an extremely high degree of coordination and luck) which led to opening up the enemy city to be sieged of course.
March of the Magi. Video on YouTube if you fancy a look: 200 people logging on Magus characters into Inevitable City to send a message to Mythic and other MMO providers about quality of service.
Witnessing this in Asheron's Call was an unforgettable moment, for the mere fact that the most powerful monarchy on Darktide (and the most evil) was swearing allegiance to Bael'Zharon (the big demon looking guy in the picture who players fought to free).
Another moment I recall quite well is watching Martine (a story character) slaughter a bunch of people south of Zaikhal.
Pretty much any live story content that involved the live team interacting with the playerbase as story characters will remain vivid in any Asheron's Call player's mind.
I have some more specific stuff, but I feel it wouldn't be of any interest or value to those of you who play modern MMORPGs. They're all about legitimate challenge (rather than time consumption), exploration, and discovery.
Well, my first fond memory was when i first played flyff, it WAS a good game, WAS..........but anyways, when i got my first hoverboard on that game, it was super awesome! I was flying all over the place and fighting while i was on it, it was crazy! prior to that time i had been playing runescape, so like.........flyff was lightyears ahead of runescape, lol, that was soooooooo long ago tho, lol
EQ1 pretty much the whole first 3 years back in the days, non-stop content pumping action.
I also had a great time in AC1 Darktide server, back when this FFA PvP server had anti vs pk factions, land control mattered, your reputation mattered greatly, and it was just a wild ride leveling up and fights everywhere everynight.
Then DAOC released and the first 2 years of DAOC was an absolute blast. It was the first Realm vs Realm game with siege gameplay, and it was seriously awesome. It was unique and fun.
I also had a good time in WoW, the first 1.5 years before expansions. First time killing Ragnaros with my guild was really special, over 40 people screamed at once on vent. That was something. PvP was also fun back when gear wasn't as big of an issue.
Those are my fondest MMORPG memories. I've had a good time in many other games, but the above 4 I'll never forget.
The saying goes that you always remember your first serious kiss. Well, I can apply this to my first MMO, which was Asheron's Call 1, ten years ago. Despite my having played many MMOs since AC1, I still have fond memories of it. It is (for me) still the only MMO I've encountered where the game world was entirely open - a vast land that I could explore from coastline to coastline. See those mountains in the far distance? I could run to them and climb them. The loot system was Monty Haul (although much of it was junk) but the loot was so vast and varied that killing hordes of mobs for loot never got old. And when crafting was introduced later, I could craft weapons/armor/potions that were truly different from other player's crafted equipment (in terms of stats) and not cookie-cutter. It all depended on how much risk the crafter was willing to take. Even though AC1 was the poor cousin of the other big MMOs from ten years ago (Ultima Online, Everquest) it's still around today.
FF XI. My friends and I had just started the game right as it came out in the US, so none of us had subjobs or any of the unlockable classes.
We were in the dunes for the first time, and we ended up grouping with this Bard, and the second she started playing on her little instrument, and the health regen buff animation covered the group in all these colours I was hooked. I knew then I had to be a bard. I was in love.
Later when I was actually a bard, I have great memories of every group I was in feeling like you were being power leveled, with the awesome bard buffs, although I will admit I felt like a yoyo running back and fourth, but I always felt pride in giving evreyone their perfect buffs, I made many friends, everyone loves a kitty buffer =^.^=
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Ohh another great one I had occured a few days ago while playing WAR. Was in land of the dead at the xp exploit PQ and this dude kept trying to steal mine and my buddies mobs we were shooting with ballistas. After the 3rd time, we decided we werent going to kill them once he aggroed them, then we sat back and watched him die (by the way Alliance had LOTD so he got booted out, muhahahah). Good times.
It's really difficult to pick, honestly I could talk about my various experiences I really remember in MMOs for a good long while with my friends (who most were probably there and remember too).
I think my favorite memory would be from a Lineage II private server. Back in the day, for those who don't know, most private servers would end up being a small amount of players versus what we could consider the Polish or Brazillian zerg (differed on server). For some reason those players always grouped up together and formed a huge zerg, and would try and take over the server. Needless to say it was a ton of fun fighting up against them.
My favorite time was probably when I was in the Executioner grounds for some reason. I saw some guy from one of the PL (Polish) clans, so I attacked and killed him. He came back and brought another person. So I killed both of them. A few moments later he brought another person with him, so a total of 3 now. I decided to call one of my good friends there, and we beat them.
This whole process continued on until there were like 10+ Polish players from the large zerg there, and maybe 4 of us. Finally we called one of the well geared guys in our guild. The second he ran over there we saw all 10+ of those players SoE's pop up, it was hilarious.
I think another sort of odd memory I have is from Age of Conan. A terrible game, sure, but we had a pretty funny moment. Outside of Kheshetta on the road there was this large bush by a rock. We would all lay prone in that bush, wait for a person to ride by and then jump out and gank them. Sure, we could just stealth but where would be the fun in that? It was pretty funny at the time, and I'm sure the look on the persons face when he saw 4 or 5 dudes pop out of a bush was priceless XD. (More games need a /prone lol).
Really though, I have a ton of memories. Another good one was probably when me and my roomate (a rogue/hunter combo) fought this rogue/disc priest in the arena back in like S2. He had the warglaive, so the first time we lost the match. Before we finished though my roomate had put a hunters mark up on him. Well we go into our next match and when the gates open, bam! we saw the guy in plain sight. Apparently he didn't get rid of the hunters mark between games, so we saw him plain as day right off the bat, and managed to gank him fast enough before he realized what was going on XD.
DAoC: Organising a relic raid that got all 3 strength relics, prime time.
WoW:
Organising an event which led to us killing the bosses in all 4 Alliance cities in one night. This back when there were zero rewards for killing the bosses and it was tougher to get into the cities. We also crashed the server a couple of times that night.
The Great Ironforge Bank Robbery. Pure mischief: we invaded Ironforge then killed everything around their bank and stopped alliance from accessing their Auctioneers and bankers for about an hour before they wiped us. Some of us escaped through a portal in true bank robber fashion.
WAR:
Taking down two Order fort bosses within seconds of each other (For those that don't know Warhammer, that means running huge numbers of people in totally different zones and an extremely high degree of coordination and luck) which led to opening up the enemy city to be sieged of course.
March of the Magi. Video on YouTube if you fancy a look: 200 people logging on Magus characters into Inevitable City to send a message to Mythic and other MMO providers about quality of service.
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Witnessing this in Asheron's Call was an unforgettable moment, for the mere fact that the most powerful monarchy on Darktide (and the most evil) was swearing allegiance to Bael'Zharon (the big demon looking guy in the picture who players fought to free).
Another moment I recall quite well is watching Martine (a story character) slaughter a bunch of people south of Zaikhal.
Pretty much any live story content that involved the live team interacting with the playerbase as story characters will remain vivid in any Asheron's Call player's mind.
I have some more specific stuff, but I feel it wouldn't be of any interest or value to those of you who play modern MMORPGs. They're all about legitimate challenge (rather than time consumption), exploration, and discovery.
Well, my first fond memory was when i first played flyff, it WAS a good game, WAS..........but anyways, when i got my first hoverboard on that game, it was super awesome! I was flying all over the place and fighting while i was on it, it was crazy! prior to that time i had been playing runescape, so like.........flyff was lightyears ahead of runescape, lol, that was soooooooo long ago tho, lol
EQ1 pretty much the whole first 3 years back in the days, non-stop content pumping action.
I also had a great time in AC1 Darktide server, back when this FFA PvP server had anti vs pk factions, land control mattered, your reputation mattered greatly, and it was just a wild ride leveling up and fights everywhere everynight.
Then DAOC released and the first 2 years of DAOC was an absolute blast. It was the first Realm vs Realm game with siege gameplay, and it was seriously awesome. It was unique and fun.
I also had a good time in WoW, the first 1.5 years before expansions. First time killing Ragnaros with my guild was really special, over 40 people screamed at once on vent. That was something. PvP was also fun back when gear wasn't as big of an issue.
Those are my fondest MMORPG memories. I've had a good time in many other games, but the above 4 I'll never forget.
EQ1-AC1-DAOC-FFXI-L2-EQ2-WoW-DDO-GW-LoTR-VG-WAR-GW2-ESO
The saying goes that you always remember your first serious kiss. Well, I can apply this to my first MMO, which was Asheron's Call 1, ten years ago. Despite my having played many MMOs since AC1, I still have fond memories of it. It is (for me) still the only MMO I've encountered where the game world was entirely open - a vast land that I could explore from coastline to coastline. See those mountains in the far distance? I could run to them and climb them. The loot system was Monty Haul (although much of it was junk) but the loot was so vast and varied that killing hordes of mobs for loot never got old. And when crafting was introduced later, I could craft weapons/armor/potions that were truly different from other player's crafted equipment (in terms of stats) and not cookie-cutter. It all depended on how much risk the crafter was willing to take. Even though AC1 was the poor cousin of the other big MMOs from ten years ago (Ultima Online, Everquest) it's still around today.
FF XI. My friends and I had just started the game right as it came out in the US, so none of us had subjobs or any of the unlockable classes.
We were in the dunes for the first time, and we ended up grouping with this Bard, and the second she started playing on her little instrument, and the health regen buff animation covered the group in all these colours I was hooked. I knew then I had to be a bard. I was in love.
Later when I was actually a bard, I have great memories of every group I was in feeling like you were being power leveled, with the awesome bard buffs, although I will admit I felt like a yoyo running back and fourth, but I always felt pride in giving evreyone their perfect buffs, I made many friends, everyone loves a kitty buffer =^.^=