im fat lazy and slow , i dont want to run around for freaking ever from quest to quest . even if it is just a ass load of virtual running.
but the worst ive played wasnt a P2P and it started out the best game i ever played .
Last Chaos from Ariea games
it was a from the door grinder , there was no game in the world that could come near the ammount of grind needed to play that LC took. A person could ez jump in the game and run up to max level in no time flat , but with out the 8 months of hard grind with it , they had a toon that wasnt worth crap and would be 1 hit killed in even lvl pvp combat .
The player base at the time was awsome , we were all grinders . it wasnt a massive player base but there was a rock steady 5k players that logged in daily " most game owners would give there left nut for a steady 5k player base"
Around 3 years in Ariea figured if they dumb the game down and remove 75% of the grind they would grow a larger player base, and they did for a few month , but they lost the rock that kept them standing . And the games never recovered .
A grinder game made for the ubber grinder , thats had the grind removed ..... what is it then?
Rift could have been an awesome game if the developers had continued with the tweaking they did in the betas instead of switching to the drunken and blind swinging of the nerf and buff bats. Seven months of that was all I could take and I left. It's funny to look over at the forums there to see that they have continued that and near future patches continue it... a shame really.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
I have seen several best game threads.. what is the worst you have actually played?
For me: it was WoW.. not because of the actual game but because of the community. My opinion folks not bashing the game, many like it - I do not.
What was your worst MMO played?
Either Final Fantasy Online title. But yeah. WoW isn't that great now. But there was nothing better and it was in its prime in the early Vanilla BC days. So if you've played after that from WOTLK and Cata, then I can see how your experience was duped.
There are a few active MMOs that are pretty much dead with devs who are only keeping it open because they don't have much else going along in developement elsewhere or some other reason. And you have the fans that are in denial or, like old people, decide to stick with the old wear your pants above your hip to your belly and just don't wanna get with the now. SWG from what I understand is still up and running. I left that game years ago. And compared to what we have now, an old MMO like that just has nothing interesting going for it. WoW though compared to any other MMO running just as long or close is still the lesser of the evils. In fact I just reactivated my account back up since December of last year. I'm actually enjoying it. But my vote is SWG. I hope someone burns their servers to the ground.
Rift could have been an awesome game if the developers had continued with the tweaking they did in the betas instead of switching to the drunken and blind swinging of the nerf and buff bats. Seven months of that was all I could take and I left. It's funny to look over at the forums there to see that they have continued that and near future patches continue it... a shame really.
EVE? I guess tastes differ cause I liked it. It frustrates the heck out of me and makes me bad to be around in real life but I like the game(don't play it anymore - I like my current set of friends).
EVE isn't bad if you like PvP. I don't. In fact, I detest it with a passion. Therefore, EVE isn't for me.
I've played too many awful MMOs to even mention here, in a frantic attempt to find something solid to play over the years (trying EQII right now, and it's actually not half bad), but the game I was most disappointed with was definitely Aion. To enjoy a game's early levels only to find out that the game sucks after lvl 25 is perhaps the worst feeling I've experienced with MMOs, apart from all the screaming kiddies on WoW raids...
Speaking of WoW, Cata sucked too and was the reason I stopped playing, but I never went into it thinking it would be great, so Aion still tops my list for feeling like one big lie wrapped in shiny graphics.
I bought this game thinking it would be a better version of Darkfall...and boy was I wrong lol. It was basically like a game that was not even half developed.
Ouch, should have tried the open beta :P. MO would have to be my third worst experience, with the first still being vanguard simply because it wasn't exactly an indie project. I'm just glad I'm not seeing a whole lot of people mentioning Dark & light which means not a whole lot of people were taken for that scam.
Yeah I definitely should have. MO was my dumbass moment. I was completely blinded by the hype and my own desire for another UO that I wasn't thinking. Oh well...you live you learn .
I guess i"ve gotten really lucky the last MMO I bought that I was at all pissed about was VG, even though I was in beta for it, which I've been lucky enough to get in just about every Beta since then I was interested in, and some I wasn't or didn't even sign up for, which was weird.
One of those being SGW (Stargate worlds) I think that's what it was called anyway. Got in F&F testing for that for some odd reason, always wondered if Tiggs (Old SWg community rep) had something to do with that. As I had no clue the game even existed, as well as had never heard of a single other name on the team at the time. Still boggles my mind to this day lol.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Of course this thread has been more a personal venting to games that have one time or another pissed someone off.
Of the many suggestions for worst games still alive, i see a lot of game such as lotro, which is a more story based lore game..someone whos not into that isnt going to like it, and then games like AoC, which had epic failure launches a whole lot of hate because of that, but is currently a very solid game for what it is...a good combat system and pretty scenery (some like the quests too i guess).
Games like this are not terrible games, for me a game like lotro doesnt fit what im looking for in the slightest bit, while a game like AoC did fit what i was looking for at for the duration i played it...did i stay 10 years...no...but i thoroly enjoyed my time playing.
That said, even a game like Rift, which i despised and because of it i may never set foot in a themepark again (even GW2 or SWOR) That mechanic is done for me. however lets all be realistic, even a game whe despise mechanically/theme/community doesnt make the game bad. It makes it a poor fit for what your looking for.
When i think terrible games alive today i think some of those F2P games that have been neglected since launch but are still running (there are many) i dont think of a well made game that doesnt fit my personality or have a community i cant relate to.
I could suggest a few nominations given my recent life as a sandboxer, granted there are MANY fubar indy sandboxes our right now, i give them the benefit of being newer games with lesser resources to fix. If i try out Xyson and Earthrise in 5 years and they are still buggy and have the basics in an alhpa state then ill nominate those games as future contenders for this "award"
As for current games id have to nominate Forsaken World (repeatable quest grinder with a cash shop) or Runes of Magic (why grind one character once when you can grind one character twice!) Also my last "why not" run into runes of magic, a game thats been around for a long time, had me waist deep in a dungeon floor, mad mobs where they could attack me but they were out of sight for me (poor pathing?) on top of that the grind to compete without spending $60 a month (granted you pay towards endgame) makes it my nominee.
I would say Rift was my least favorite MMO with every Cryptic game I've tried coming in second. As for Rift I don't hate all WoW like games, but this was beyond derivative.
From what I've read and the videos I've seen I'm sure Mortal Online would win the prize if I had actually ever tried it.
Would probably be some F2P, but they are hardly games after all, more in line with doing the dishes or mopping the floor.
As for the MMOs I would say LoTRo, because the universe created by Tolkien is so great and the game created based on its lore nothing like it. You have a reponsibility to handle a great asset well when it's been handed to you, and Turbine did no such thing. It has been pointed out before, the constant threat present in Lord of the Rings is nowhere to be found in LoTRo. I have never been so by myself in any MMO ever and the mobs are so dispersed in this game they give you a hard time to ever feel in trouble.
Aion is not a great game, but the lore NCSoft had created was made by themselves and therefore little damage was done. LoTRo is an example of betrayel against a great common heritage, executed by Turbine.
EVE? I guess tastes differ cause I liked it. It frustrates the heck out of me and makes me bad to be around in real life but I like the game(don't play it anymore - I like my current set of friends).
EVE isn't bad if you like PvP. I don't. In fact, I detest it with a passion. Therefore, EVE isn't for me.
In looking at your signature, er... I would have never expected that statement from you.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
The biggest disappointment was Earthrise. I expected a sandbox, I got a shooter with grind tacked on. Beautiful gameworld, though, so I don't actually feel I got ripped off. I filled up my 300+ gig harddrive getting screenshots and video clips while happily wandering around getting killed by everything and everyone in the game. However, it was an MMO I was hoping I could spend several years playing, and it turned out to be a game I uninstalled a few weeks later. I'm still sad about it.
From the free to play crowd, I've uninstalled so many mere hours (or even moments) after installing that I can't keep track of them all. The graphics of quite a few are so terrible I feared damge to my eyesight if I didn't uninstall.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
FF14 for a pay to play. Free to play is free so what do you really expect.
“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”
I have seen several best game threads.. what is the worst you have actually played?
For me: it was WoW.. not because of the actual game but because of the community. My opinion folks not bashing the game, many like it - I do not.
What was your worst MMO played?
If I was counting F2P MMO's which I shouldnt because they are all universally terrible it would be Alganon. But since I dont usually count non AAA MMO's as a real game my answer would be: Toss up between Age of Conan or Rift. AoC for its myriad of bugs and horrible carpal tunnel inducing combat and Rift for its extremely shallow gameplay and even shallower world. Literally could run across the entire zone in less then 30 mins. Rifts only redeeming quality was its Character customization but it was horridly broken with grossly Overpowered classes (Pyromancer, Bards and Warden/Justicar clerics) and worthless underpowered ones ( Warrior callings in general while leveling up since they were the only class to not have reliable self heals but the Paragons, Warlords and Assasins primary builds for sheer awfulness).
My favorite and all around BEST MMO I ever played was Asherons Call followed closely by WoW vanilla and WotLK (loved the DK class and its mechanics and hero status, something I think WoW should of added every expansion)
Playing: GW2 Waiting on: TESO Next Flop: Planetside 2 Best MMO of all time: Asheron's Call - The first company to recreate AC will be the next greatest MMO.
Horizons. Not only because of how terrible the final product was, but also because of the fact that it started out as an incredibly ambitious product, and after changing developers several times, turned out nothing like what it was supposed to be.
The biggest disappointment was Earthrise. I expected a sandbox, I got a shooter with grind tacked on. Beautiful gameworld, though, so I don't actually feel I got ripped off. I filled up my 300+ gig harddrive getting screenshots and video clips while happily wandering around getting killed by everything and everyone in the game. However, it was an MMO I was hoping I could spend several years playing, and it turned out to be a game I uninstalled a few weeks later. I'm still sad about it.
From the free to play crowd, I've uninstalled so many mere hours (or even moments) after installing that I can't keep track of them all. The graphics of quite a few are so terrible I feared damge to my eyesight if I didn't uninstall.
Same here. Earthrise was the game I did look forward to for two years. What I got was a game that I couldnt even play with my high end rig*
*No crossfire/Trifire support and how do you play a modern game in 2560x1600 with a singel gpu?
Eve online and +1500 steam games in the back cataloge makes me a stressed out gamer.
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P2P would be LoTRo for me.
im fat lazy and slow , i dont want to run around for freaking ever from quest to quest . even if it is just a ass load of virtual running.
but the worst ive played wasnt a P2P and it started out the best game i ever played .
Last Chaos from Ariea games
it was a from the door grinder , there was no game in the world that could come near the ammount of grind needed to play that LC took. A person could ez jump in the game and run up to max level in no time flat , but with out the 8 months of hard grind with it , they had a toon that wasnt worth crap and would be 1 hit killed in even lvl pvp combat .
The player base at the time was awsome , we were all grinders . it wasnt a massive player base but there was a rock steady 5k players that logged in daily " most game owners would give there left nut for a steady 5k player base"
Around 3 years in Ariea figured if they dumb the game down and remove 75% of the grind they would grow a larger player base, and they did for a few month , but they lost the rock that kept them standing . And the games never recovered .
A grinder game made for the ubber grinder , thats had the grind removed ..... what is it then?
Rift could have been an awesome game if the developers had continued with the tweaking they did in the betas instead of switching to the drunken and blind swinging of the nerf and buff bats. Seven months of that was all I could take and I left. It's funny to look over at the forums there to see that they have continued that and near future patches continue it... a shame really.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
Explorer: 87%, Killer: 67%, Achiever: 27%, Socializer: 20%
Either Final Fantasy Online title. But yeah. WoW isn't that great now. But there was nothing better and it was in its prime in the early Vanilla BC days. So if you've played after that from WOTLK and Cata, then I can see how your experience was duped.
There are a few active MMOs that are pretty much dead with devs who are only keeping it open because they don't have much else going along in developement elsewhere or some other reason. And you have the fans that are in denial or, like old people, decide to stick with the old wear your pants above your hip to your belly and just don't wanna get with the now. SWG from what I understand is still up and running. I left that game years ago. And compared to what we have now, an old MMO like that just has nothing interesting going for it. WoW though compared to any other MMO running just as long or close is still the lesser of the evils. In fact I just reactivated my account back up since December of last year. I'm actually enjoying it. But my vote is SWG. I hope someone burns their servers to the ground.
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got to agree with that it amazed me
Lotro.
Most of all MMO right now are bad, except WoW.
FFXIV hands down.
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The previous statement is true
I'd say any MMO-related forum is the absolute worst MMO.
EVE isn't bad if you like PvP. I don't. In fact, I detest it with a passion. Therefore, EVE isn't for me.
Played: UO, EQ, WoW, DDO, SWG, AO, CoH, EvE, TR, AoC, GW, GA, Aion, Allods, lots more
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I've played too many awful MMOs to even mention here, in a frantic attempt to find something solid to play over the years (trying EQII right now, and it's actually not half bad), but the game I was most disappointed with was definitely Aion. To enjoy a game's early levels only to find out that the game sucks after lvl 25 is perhaps the worst feeling I've experienced with MMOs, apart from all the screaming kiddies on WoW raids...
Speaking of WoW, Cata sucked too and was the reason I stopped playing, but I never went into it thinking it would be great, so Aion still tops my list for feeling like one big lie wrapped in shiny graphics.
I'm wondering if it was because it was boring or because you pretty much have to put your life on hold in order to play the stupid thing.
*please tier 372 axe drop, please please please please*
doesn't drop
OH WELL, I'LL GET IT NEXT WEEK! (no you won't)
I guess i"ve gotten really lucky the last MMO I bought that I was at all pissed about was VG, even though I was in beta for it, which I've been lucky enough to get in just about every Beta since then I was interested in, and some I wasn't or didn't even sign up for, which was weird.
One of those being SGW (Stargate worlds) I think that's what it was called anyway. Got in F&F testing for that for some odd reason, always wondered if Tiggs (Old SWg community rep) had something to do with that. As I had no clue the game even existed, as well as had never heard of a single other name on the team at the time. Still boggles my mind to this day lol.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Of course this thread has been more a personal venting to games that have one time or another pissed someone off.
Of the many suggestions for worst games still alive, i see a lot of game such as lotro, which is a more story based lore game..someone whos not into that isnt going to like it, and then games like AoC, which had epic failure launches a whole lot of hate because of that, but is currently a very solid game for what it is...a good combat system and pretty scenery (some like the quests too i guess).
Games like this are not terrible games, for me a game like lotro doesnt fit what im looking for in the slightest bit, while a game like AoC did fit what i was looking for at for the duration i played it...did i stay 10 years...no...but i thoroly enjoyed my time playing.
That said, even a game like Rift, which i despised and because of it i may never set foot in a themepark again (even GW2 or SWOR) That mechanic is done for me. however lets all be realistic, even a game whe despise mechanically/theme/community doesnt make the game bad. It makes it a poor fit for what your looking for.
When i think terrible games alive today i think some of those F2P games that have been neglected since launch but are still running (there are many) i dont think of a well made game that doesnt fit my personality or have a community i cant relate to.
I could suggest a few nominations given my recent life as a sandboxer, granted there are MANY fubar indy sandboxes our right now, i give them the benefit of being newer games with lesser resources to fix. If i try out Xyson and Earthrise in 5 years and they are still buggy and have the basics in an alhpa state then ill nominate those games as future contenders for this "award"
As for current games id have to nominate Forsaken World (repeatable quest grinder with a cash shop) or Runes of Magic (why grind one character once when you can grind one character twice!) Also my last "why not" run into runes of magic, a game thats been around for a long time, had me waist deep in a dungeon floor, mad mobs where they could attack me but they were out of sight for me (poor pathing?) on top of that the grind to compete without spending $60 a month (granted you pay towards endgame) makes it my nominee.
TLDR: Runes of Magic
I would say Rift was my least favorite MMO with every Cryptic game I've tried coming in second. As for Rift I don't hate all WoW like games, but this was beyond derivative.
From what I've read and the videos I've seen I'm sure Mortal Online would win the prize if I had actually ever tried it.
Would probably be some F2P, but they are hardly games after all, more in line with doing the dishes or mopping the floor.
As for the MMOs I would say LoTRo, because the universe created by Tolkien is so great and the game created based on its lore nothing like it. You have a reponsibility to handle a great asset well when it's been handed to you, and Turbine did no such thing. It has been pointed out before, the constant threat present in Lord of the Rings is nowhere to be found in LoTRo. I have never been so by myself in any MMO ever and the mobs are so dispersed in this game they give you a hard time to ever feel in trouble.
Aion is not a great game, but the lore NCSoft had created was made by themselves and therefore little damage was done. LoTRo is an example of betrayel against a great common heritage, executed by Turbine.
Awful, awful, LoTRo!!
In looking at your signature, er... I would have never expected that statement from you.
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
Explorer: 87%, Killer: 67%, Achiever: 27%, Socializer: 20%
Please tell me you're joking..........
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Everything made by Cryptic. Those guys need to be band from making MMOs...
Not sure how they went from CoH to CO/STO...
I miss the MMORPG genre. Will a developer ever make one again?
Explorer: 87%, Killer: 67%, Achiever: 27%, Socializer: 20%
The biggest disappointment was Earthrise. I expected a sandbox, I got a shooter with grind tacked on. Beautiful gameworld, though, so I don't actually feel I got ripped off. I filled up my 300+ gig harddrive getting screenshots and video clips while happily wandering around getting killed by everything and everyone in the game. However, it was an MMO I was hoping I could spend several years playing, and it turned out to be a game I uninstalled a few weeks later. I'm still sad about it.
From the free to play crowd, I've uninstalled so many mere hours (or even moments) after installing that I can't keep track of them all. The graphics of quite a few are so terrible I feared damge to my eyesight if I didn't uninstall.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
~Albert Einstein
FF14 for a pay to play. Free to play is free so what do you really expect.
--John Ruskin
If I was counting F2P MMO's which I shouldnt because they are all universally terrible it would be Alganon. But since I dont usually count non AAA MMO's as a real game my answer would be: Toss up between Age of Conan or Rift. AoC for its myriad of bugs and horrible carpal tunnel inducing combat and Rift for its extremely shallow gameplay and even shallower world. Literally could run across the entire zone in less then 30 mins. Rifts only redeeming quality was its Character customization but it was horridly broken with grossly Overpowered classes (Pyromancer, Bards and Warden/Justicar clerics) and worthless underpowered ones ( Warrior callings in general while leveling up since they were the only class to not have reliable self heals but the Paragons, Warlords and Assasins primary builds for sheer awfulness).
My favorite and all around BEST MMO I ever played was Asherons Call followed closely by WoW vanilla and WotLK (loved the DK class and its mechanics and hero status, something I think WoW should of added every expansion)
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Playing: GW2
Waiting on: TESO
Next Flop: Planetside 2
Best MMO of all time: Asheron's Call - The first company to recreate AC will be the next greatest MMO.
Lol! Agreed.^^^
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Horizions broke my heart lol.
Same here. Earthrise was the game I did look forward to for two years. What I got was a game that I couldnt even play with my high end rig*
*No crossfire/Trifire support and how do you play a modern game in 2560x1600 with a singel gpu?