› ›

Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!

Sign In Register

Quick Links

Which one MMO is most in depth?

UnojcUnojc Member Posts: 29
in LFGame
I ask because so many games are either small in land size, limited crafting, easy or on rails questing, to fast/easy leveling, etc.  So what game would be the most in depth?  I've never played EQ or SWG but I heard they were/are in depth.  Others like WoW and SWTOR are on rails too easy and not really in depth for example.  So what would it be?  I need a home!  

Comments

  • SpiiderSpiider Member RarePosts: 1,135

    EVE

    Wurm online

    Istaria

    SWG (emu)

    No fate but what we make, so make me a ham sandwich please.

  • ShakyMoShakyMo Member CommonPosts: 7,207
    Eve and uo
  • BLueBEarBLueBEar Member Posts: 242

    Originally posted by Unojc
    I ask because so many games are either small in land size, limited crafting, easy or on rails questing, to fast/easy leveling, etc.  So what game would be the most in depth?  I've never played EQ or SWG but I heard they were/are in depth.  Others like WoW and SWTOR are on rails too easy and not really in depth for example.  So what would it be?  I need a home!  


    Give Wurm Online a try. Huge land size, huge crafting, skill based not level based and of course free to to play with skill cap though.

    ________________________________

    Oh my got!!!
    i neber see a graphic of this before,
    i neber p2p any game before, but this game i must!
    ________________________________

  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,086
    You'll be asked to clarify what you really mean, because complexity is frequently mistaken for "depth"

    "True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde 

    "I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant

    Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm

    Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV

    Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™

    "This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon






  • actionreactionactionreaction Member Posts: 82
    Originally posted by Unojc
    I ask because so many games are either small in land size, limited crafting, easy or on rails questing, to fast/easy leveling, etc.  So what game would be the most in depth?  I've never played EQ or SWG but I heard they were/are in depth.  Others like WoW and SWTOR are on rails too easy and not really in depth for example.  So what would it be?  I need a home!  

    Asheron's Call/

    SWG-Pre CU not from lucas arts!!!

    /EVERQUEST OLD not from sony!!!

    /EVE Online/

    Wurm Online/

    UO

     

    Not to rehash what others have said.

     

    please read, side by side, and compare the size and content of the articles (GAMEPLAY/WORLD/DEVELOPMENT)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asheron%27s_Call  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft

    you will be very surprised !!

     

     

  • UnojcUnojc Member Posts: 29
    I have tried EVE, not my thing.  I am downloading Wurm now so I will check that out.  Thanks all for the suggestions.  Im just tired of the same ole type of mmo.
  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 10,024
    Wurm Online will test every ounce of tedium in your body, that is for sure.......
  • GrayGhost79GrayGhost79 Member UncommonPosts: 4,775
    Originally posted by ShakyMo
    Eve and uo

    I agree with ShakyMo on this. EvE and UO for me are by far the games with the most depth. 

  • flizzerflizzer Member RarePosts: 2,455

    Just because I can dig in the dirt for hours does that mean it has the most depth?  

    I remember looking at Wurm online and watching some videos of people digging and spending hours building structures.  There does not appear to be any story or questing of any sort. Yes, it is a sandbox but does not necessarily mean it has depth.

  • zoofrozoofro Member UncommonPosts: 6
    Originally posted by flizzer

    Just because I can dig in the dirt for hours does that mean it has the most depth?  

    I remember looking at Wurm online and watching some videos of people digging and spending hours building structures.  There does not appear to be any story or questing of any sort. Yes, it is a sandbox but does not necessarily mean it has depth.

    Amen to that. Looked up the game just from this thread and was baffled at how one would consider it 'deep'.

  • bcbullybcbully Member EpicPosts: 11,843
    EVE & Wushu
  • GiffenGiffen Member UncommonPosts: 276
    Originally posted by flizzer

    Just because I can dig in the dirt for hours does that mean it has the most depth?  

    I remember looking at Wurm online and watching some videos of people digging and spending hours building structures.  There does not appear to be any story or questing of any sort. Yes, it is a sandbox but does not necessarily mean it has depth.

    Um the hole point of a sandbox game is you are not spoon fed "content" by a dev...instead the players make the content by choosing for themselves how to advance, play, and live in the game world.

     

    A true sandbox shouldn't even have quests but instead have a world full of systems that reward and punish behavior so that players can determine their own path based on their tolerance for gradations of rewards vs risk.  A true sandbox tries to simulate a real world and lets the players live in it.

  • flizzerflizzer Member RarePosts: 2,455

    A "true" sandbox?   Then if this is so EQ Next will ultimately fail.  I expect an EX Next sandbox with questing and hoping for separate PvP servers.

    I also love to hear how  you can "create your own story" in a sandbox.  Here is a shovel! Now go dig in the dirt.   My story becomes a guy who is bored after digging in the dirt for hours apparently.

  • Jagsman32Jagsman32 Member Posts: 109
    When I think of depth I think of the game Space Station 13. Are there any MMOs that can capture that feeling of SS13? It is hard to explain it unless you have played it, but that game has extreme depth and is insanely fun. It is just unfortunately extremely dated in graphics and is very laggy.
  • sunshadow21sunshadow21 Member UncommonPosts: 357
    Originally posted by zoofro
    Originally posted by flizzer

    Just because I can dig in the dirt for hours does that mean it has the most depth?  

    I remember looking at Wurm online and watching some videos of people digging and spending hours building structures.  There does not appear to be any story or questing of any sort. Yes, it is a sandbox but does not necessarily mean it has depth.

    Amen to that. Looked up the game just from this thread and was baffled at how one would consider it 'deep'.

    Very simple. The act of digging may not in and of itself be that deep, but the level of permanent, visible interaction with the world not only in the act itself, but what you can create by doing it is very significant. Very few games, even among single player games, allow the player to shape the actual physical environment; for an MMO style game to allow it is very big, and underlines the sheer level of interactivity that Wurm Online allows the players to have with the world around them. I don't think I would put it quite up there with EVE, due to the limited combat and a few other limitations, like the complete lack of questing (even SWG had a rough mission/quest system for those that wanted to use it), but it is definitely deeper than most of the WoW-like clones out there today (WoW itself is a toss up).

  • BenediktBenedikt Member UncommonPosts: 1,406
    try AC2, EQ2 or Vanguard
  • MyownGodMyownGod Member UncommonPosts: 205
    Ultima Online all the way.
  • ElsaboltsElsabolts Member RarePosts: 3,476

    EQ2 and Vanguard both have F2p features or time frame check em out .

    image

    " Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Those Who  Would Threaten It "
                                            MAGA
  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 10,024
    Originally posted by BLueBEar

     

    Originally posted by Unojc
    I ask because so many games are either small in land size, limited crafting, easy or on rails questing, to fast/easy leveling, etc.  So what game would be the most in depth?  I've never played EQ or SWG but I heard they were/are in depth.  Others like WoW and SWTOR are on rails too easy and not really in depth for example.  So what would it be?  I need a home!  

     


    Give Wurm Online a try. Huge land size, huge crafting, skill based not level based and of course free to to play with skill cap though.

     Meh I dont see why so many think this game is so great...The graphics are awful, land was hard to find to build on (at least on the server I tried), and your skills go up so painfully slow that it becomes very tedious...To each their own though I guess.

  • herculeshercules Member UncommonPosts: 4,925
    Eq2
  • tedgartedgar Member Posts: 52
    i would have to say uoi play on free server for now till they come out with another game like the old uo and thieving system
Sign In or Register to comment.