Wow was absolutely nothing special. It never ceases to amaze me that people actually stayed in that game to do the same 5 dungeons over and over until the next expansion, to do the next 5 dungeons over and over.. etc.
Asheron's Call was amazing until macros and cheating ruined it.. but man has the genre gone backwards since...
With regards to WoW I ask myself the same question when I finally left WoW after nearly a year of playing and played Lineage 2 and then EQ2 I was gutted I never found one of those games first but numbers don'y lie it seems.
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My first MMO (If you do not count the MMO precursor Kingdom of Drakkar) is UO beta and i thought .. what a terrible game. The ganging is horrible. Clicking a rock to up skill is boring, and the combat system was not that interesting.
Pretty much every mainstream MMO since WOW has replicated the WOW experience for me. New lands, new mobs, new skills... and then about level 30 happens and everything thereafter is a stagnant rehash of the level 20-30 content and experience but with longer grind.
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein "Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
WoW specifically? Yes, without a doubt. For about seven years after WoWs release nearly everything gave me the feeling WoW gave me. They all felt like safe and easy MMO emulators, as WoW did, instead of truly feeling like the more freeform, dangerous and challenging MMOs I'd previously grown to love.
However, if you mean that passion you felt when you first fell in love with MMOs, yeah it absolutely can be replicated...
Freakin' LOL. best post i've read in a long time, im gonna hang it on my Wall of Greatnessness
...That feeling you got when you played WOW for the first time? Do you think any of the eagerly expected new MMORPG's
I hope not. I hated it. I have to admit it was my first mmo and it wasn't a good impression at all. I quit after two days of playing. If not for some friends pestering me to play again 6 months later then I most likely would have never touched an mmo again.
Well my first true MMO was EQ and that game did give me that feeling until Luclin when it started to go downhill at a rapid pace and fell off a cliff face with Plans of Power. My next game to give me that feeling was Lineage II as it was radically different than EQ in almost every way. I did play WoW for over a year but it didn't really give me that feeling as it seemed like a watered down version of stuff I had played before. Then I played EVE Online for a while and the feeling resurfaced again as it too was a radical departure from what I was used too.
Every other game, and there have been many dozens, I've played in the last 8 years hasn't lasted too long as they all gave me the same feeling WoW did magnified by a factor of ten. I guess what I'm getting at is to get "That Feeling" again the game has to be a radical change from what you've already played. With all of the straight up "Themepark Clones" that have released in the last 8 years or so finding a game that is truly different isn't that easy. The games on the horizon do give me hope that the industry has finally realized that making the same game over and over with a pretty new paint job isn't going to cut it anymore. We shall have to wait and see however.
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With regards to WoW I ask myself the same question when I finally left WoW after nearly a year of playing and played Lineage 2 and then EQ2 I was gutted I never found one of those games first but numbers don'y lie it seems.
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I hope not.
My first MMO (If you do not count the MMO precursor Kingdom of Drakkar) is UO beta and i thought .. what a terrible game. The ganging is horrible. Clicking a rock to up skill is boring, and the combat system was not that interesting.
WoW is like cocaine to me. Millions of people use it daily, and can't get off it, but i still look at it and go, "Why the f*** would you do that?"
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Pretty much every mainstream MMO since WOW has replicated the WOW experience for me. New lands, new mobs, new skills... and then about level 30 happens and everything thereafter is a stagnant rehash of the level 20-30 content and experience but with longer grind.
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
"Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
Freakin' LOL. best post i've read in a long time, im gonna hang it on my Wall of Greatnessness
I hope not. I hated it. I have to admit it was my first mmo and it wasn't a good impression at all. I quit after two days of playing. If not for some friends pestering me to play again 6 months later then I most likely would have never touched an mmo again.
Well my first true MMO was EQ and that game did give me that feeling until Luclin when it started to go downhill at a rapid pace and fell off a cliff face with Plans of Power. My next game to give me that feeling was Lineage II as it was radically different than EQ in almost every way. I did play WoW for over a year but it didn't really give me that feeling as it seemed like a watered down version of stuff I had played before. Then I played EVE Online for a while and the feeling resurfaced again as it too was a radical departure from what I was used too.
Every other game, and there have been many dozens, I've played in the last 8 years hasn't lasted too long as they all gave me the same feeling WoW did magnified by a factor of ten. I guess what I'm getting at is to get "That Feeling" again the game has to be a radical change from what you've already played. With all of the straight up "Themepark Clones" that have released in the last 8 years or so finding a game that is truly different isn't that easy. The games on the horizon do give me hope that the industry has finally realized that making the same game over and over with a pretty new paint job isn't going to cut it anymore. We shall have to wait and see however.
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I don't think anything will ever replicate my first MMO experience (UO) until GW2 adds housing and mounts (if they ever do - not likely)