Watched friends play them. That was sufficient to keep me away from MMOs for years....
Yeah, I know what you mean.
I had a friend who was an Ultima fanatic who begged me to play (this was a few months after it released) and so I rolled a toon. After repeatedly getting ganked without getting to see a single monster, I told my friend that he, "could take his game and shove it!" I never played it again.
EQ. At first I hated this game without even playing it. How? Again, different friend, I had a buddy who lived and breathed the game. I watched him play. He would fight a mob for 30 seconds, and then sit. He would sit for up to 3 minutes so he could fight one mob and sit again. He would pan his camera and all you could see was a field of people sitting. I dubbed EQ boring and refused to play.
AC. This game looked pretty cool to me. Again, I had a friend who wanted me to play. I got the game and the damn game would not work on my machine no matter what I did. That was my 3rd strike on MMO's, not that this last problem was AC's fault at all.
It wasn't until SWG (Pre-NGE) that I actually was inspired and had fun. The game that really helped to cement my enjoyment of MMO's was WoW. I liked WoW, which did lead to me playing Lineage and L2, EQ (a second try) and so on. I still didn't like EQ on the second try.
It's not like I was a stranger to games, being pong was my first, and I have played 90% of all Sci-fi/fantasy based games released (Consol, PC, or arcade), but the original MMO's just left me flat. They were simply to group dependent, greifer infested and downtime ridden to be fun to me.
After gettin my feet wet on SWG and WoW, I revisited EQ and Ultima and played those off and on for a bout a year. They were cool, but seemed to lack something to me. I guess I am NOT a HARD CORE MMO player.... lol
I played EQ for a few months. Not sure the exact amount of time, but it was several months at least. Can't say I particularly enjoyed it, but I had a nerdy friend that I worked with, that was into AD&D and he basically nagged me until I agreed to try it.
Don't understand the appeal of those older games...they struck me as tedious garbage for obsessive types of people that were into that sort of thing.
Katsma is Lithuanian for 'he who drinks used douche fluid'.
Stayed away from uo as i found all single player ultima games to be incredibly boring.
First mmo was eq beta. Played for a few years. Quite ahead of it's time when it first came out.
Did AC beta and release while still playing eq. Gave up on that as I got sick of killing the same 3 mobs (of different difficulty) over and over...If that game didn't find a niche in it's pvp server, I doubt it'd have been nearly as popular.
I played all three"classic" games you mentioned in your poll. However I feel this gives no more credence to my opinion of mmorpgs than any one else, including those who cut their teeth on some of the newer generation of games.
It's kind of funny how the first Big Three represented all styles of MMO gameplay.. You had UO - The Sandbox EQ - The Themepark AC - The Hybrid Yet it's unfortunate that only one of those types really caught on.
UO- the sandbox? Glad you know net geek terminology and not games or I would be worried about UO being called a sandbox game.
Played UO for years pre-trammel. Had a lot of fun killing people like the ones bitching here about ganking. Thanks for getting us trammel with your whiny forum posts.
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Yeah, I know what you mean.
I had a friend who was an Ultima fanatic who begged me to play (this was a few months after it released) and so I rolled a toon. After repeatedly getting ganked without getting to see a single monster, I told my friend that he, "could take his game and shove it!" I never played it again.
EQ. At first I hated this game without even playing it. How? Again, different friend, I had a buddy who lived and breathed the game. I watched him play. He would fight a mob for 30 seconds, and then sit. He would sit for up to 3 minutes so he could fight one mob and sit again. He would pan his camera and all you could see was a field of people sitting. I dubbed EQ boring and refused to play.
AC. This game looked pretty cool to me. Again, I had a friend who wanted me to play. I got the game and the damn game would not work on my machine no matter what I did. That was my 3rd strike on MMO's, not that this last problem was AC's fault at all.
It wasn't until SWG (Pre-NGE) that I actually was inspired and had fun. The game that really helped to cement my enjoyment of MMO's was WoW. I liked WoW, which did lead to me playing Lineage and L2, EQ (a second try) and so on. I still didn't like EQ on the second try.
It's not like I was a stranger to games, being pong was my first, and I have played 90% of all Sci-fi/fantasy based games released (Consol, PC, or arcade), but the original MMO's just left me flat. They were simply to group dependent, greifer infested and downtime ridden to be fun to me.
After gettin my feet wet on SWG and WoW, I revisited EQ and Ultima and played those off and on for a bout a year. They were cool, but seemed to lack something to me. I guess I am NOT a HARD CORE MMO player.... lol
So it looks like about 9% of the people that replied are retarded and probably don't even know it....
I played EQ for a few months. Not sure the exact amount of time, but it was several months at least. Can't say I particularly enjoyed it, but I had a nerdy friend that I worked with, that was into AD&D and he basically nagged me until I agreed to try it.
Don't understand the appeal of those older games...they struck me as tedious garbage for obsessive types of people that were into that sort of thing.
Katsma is Lithuanian for 'he who drinks used douche fluid'.
I miss UO very much. I didn't play UO on the official servers, I actually was playing on a Private Shard, with a DnD ruleset and mandatory RP.
AC was my first in 2003. Excellent game and the clans/guilds meant SOMETHING in that game. I played 4+ yrs on the Harvestgain server.
/waves to any Harvestgain folks!
Issianna - level 242 BattleMage w/melee+magic maxed:)
P.S.Sure do miss jumping into a mob of Tuskers and dropping a dozen with 5 Ring Spells! And the loot system was godly!! Those were the days:)
Stayed away from uo as i found all single player ultima games to be incredibly boring.
First mmo was eq beta. Played for a few years. Quite ahead of it's time when it first came out.
Did AC beta and release while still playing eq. Gave up on that as I got sick of killing the same 3 mobs (of different difficulty) over and over...If that game didn't find a niche in it's pvp server, I doubt it'd have been nearly as popular.
Yeah, played UO 97-06 (BEST GAME EVER)
Played EQ for a year or so and same with AC.
- SatcH
I played all three"classic" games you mentioned in your poll. However I feel this gives no more credence to my opinion of mmorpgs than any one else, including those who cut their teeth on some of the newer generation of games.
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UO- the sandbox? Glad you know net geek terminology and not games or I would be worried about UO being called a sandbox game.
Played UO for years pre-trammel. Had a lot of fun killing people like the ones bitching here about ganking. Thanks for getting us trammel with your whiny forum posts.
EQ1, nope.
AC, don't remember.. too much rope smoked.
Played EQ for about 5 years. Played AC for a little while. Never played UO.
my 1st MMO was Nexia which i believe is in the same generation as UO
and i played UO for 1 week, i was very new to MMO at that time and my internet was not capable of handling MMO at that time
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