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Looking for an adult MMO based on Exploration/Lore.
A_Good_Adventure
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Hi,
Looking for an (adult/mature community) MMO with a game world that has great lore/story, fun activities along the way and is an adventure from the very start. To me the journey is more important than reaching end-game (in a few days/weeks) this time around.
I was recommended Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, however I found out that it's closing down mid year. It's a bit odd that when I looked at their official page there was no sign of Vanguard closing down but a forum post in a News section.
Anyway, I'm going to keep looking... thanks if you've read this.
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http://youtu.be/XgOt3gTUSQU
(I mean LotRO ofc, there's no Hobbit mmo I guess)
"Looking for an (adult/mature community) MMO with a game world that has great lore/story, fun activities along the way and is an adventure from the very start. To me the journey is more important than reaching end-game (in a few days/weeks) this time around." <- screams LotRO to me in every aspect.
Vanguard is cool too, but yep, it's closing in June.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Eh4O5SQd4
Mature community, lots of content that wont keep you bored. I think the most populated is Argos server, so give it a try.
With US timezone I'd recommend the server Landroval. Though Brandywine has a bit larger population, Landroval is the US Rp server, so it's better suited if you want to focus on the journey and lore. Hopping into the Prancing Pony and finding a bunch of dwarves around one of the tables, discussing ores and gems... great memories. You can see random roleplay all around the world.
Also it's a great choice for "fun activities along the way", Landroval has lots of player-organised events, inlucding the biggest one, Weatherstock. http://weatherstock.guildlaunch.com/
Either Lord of the Rings online or you could try Elder Scrolls Online.
it has loads of lore and your game play is entirely based upon exploration (as far as pve goes)
The community is mixed.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
LOTRO, EQ, and EQ2 are the best fits.
LOTRO has a good story along with the lore, the EQ games arent so story driven but have a great world to explore
however both LOTRO and eq2 are pure themeparks, so you have the quest hub hopping. EQ has become a themepark, but there is no need to play it like one. Ask vets their favorite leveling spots and explore for yourself.
My recommendations:
LoTRO
TSW
SW:TOR
Exploration isn't really that common in MMOs anymore.
GW2 works, it have a lot of hidden stuff to find.
ESO works as well, but you wont level up by just exploring the same way there, you also needs to run questhubs. If that is fine then it is worth a look as well.
Both those games have fine lore.
Vanguard was a fun but somewhat buggy game, the problem with is what that it had so few players and that kinda takes away some of the points with a MMO.
TOR have a good story but very little exploration. EQ2 is huge with a lot of places you could explore but the story is so-so and the game havn't aged that well the last few years. Those 2 are F2P nowadays so it might be worth trying them.
The real question is if you like to play more solo or with other players. If you play a lot by yourself (PvE) then try ESO, if you want to constantly work with other players go for GW2. ESO have box price and monthly fees, GW2 have box price and a store with fashion skins if that helps anything.
Exploration gameplay was a lot more common in older games, most modern MMOs are pretty small sadly and offers little of it and just a few adds tons of stuff just because it is fun to explore the scenery...
SW:TOR and what Ive seen of TSW are dreadfully linear games. SW:TOR is pretty anti-exploration with everything confined to tight quarters. Not saying its a bad game, it just doesnt fit the OP. I wasnt impressed with the lore either. Story, absolutely but not the lore. Could have done much better with the IP.
Oddly enough, one of the best lore driven themeparks was actually WAR. If that game had stuck to its guns as PvE without switching gears to focus on PvP it might have been a success.
Omg no one has mentioned Archeage yet?
Just hold out for Archeage all the other recommendations pale in comparison.
A friend told me to try the Agent story in SWTOR, although I'm not sure what that actually entails I may try it while trying LotRO to see if I stick around.
As for The Secret World, I loved that game just until I completed Carpathian Fangs. I even bought a lifetime membership after playing just a few hours, and several thousand points even though you get them per month just to support the game and get some socials stuff faster. When the single player portion was done (including all issues out at the time), it just became a grind fest. I had no intention of sticking around for nightmares/scenarios/pvp/flappy, and the new mission pack, new ARG and upcoming Tokyo is not enough to bring me back since Mr Ragnar Tornquist left which was the reason I started playing that game in the first place.
It was a fantastic experience though, and very atmospheric, but it's going to end up running out of content unless you want to grind. It doesn't matter how much they will milk/slice/partition Tokyo and how many mission packs they will throw at you it will still quickly run out of content and become a grinding game in the end. This is of course a matter of choice. I simply don't want to buy into spending time trying new ways to min-max builds, to me that's a waste of human life. There are a better things to do, of course this is just an opinion, and it's definitely worth the box price and playing through at least the single player part.
Thanks I've had my eye on EQ2 for a while tbh. EQ1 may be a bit to old-school for me.Still in beta by the looks of it.
Age of Conan has great lore and also have quite a decent community well at least it did when i played last.. it had a rocky start but its very good now.. plus free to play.
I found the combat, the world, the main story and the quests to be pretty fun..
Funny no one has even mentioned Age of Conan. Very adult game and actually a great game it is. It is free to play now and the community is not at all bad like it used to be in the past. Check it out. I think you will be amazed if you haven't played it recently!
www.ageofconan.com/media
I love AoC and recommend it a lot (just check my posts
) but in this case I went with LotRO because OP wrote "Looking for an (adult/mature community) MMO with a game world that has great lore/story" plus in the title mentioned exploration.
AoC is adult-themed (sort of), but the community varies. It has a great lore, a nice story and writing with ties to the books, but still, LoTR is more widely known (I personally have all the Howard works next to Tolkien on my shelf, both are great). And for exploration, LotRO is much better. AoC have better graphics, and some awesome zones (Conall's valley and Thunder River for example), but it's still instances right after each other, opposed to LotRO's seamless wandering around.
So I think it was a better pick for OP, but sure, if having the time, AoC also worth to check it, even more so if you like the Conan books.
edit: and with having a TSW account it's easy, just a simple download. Btw, "....Mr Ragnar Tornquist left which was the reason I started playing that game in the first place." but at least he can work with full focus on Dreamfall Chapters
Maybe the best writer/designer today, great fella.
Well I feel stupid. Totally forgot Age of Conan. Downloading that too. Will decide between LotRO, SW:TOR and AoC.
Thank you to everyone, I got more than I bargained for!
There is no such thing, really.
You could try GW2 - it's fun for exploring, but it's a very crappy MMORPG in terms of being an MMORPG (soloists sharing space isn't an MMORPG). The interesting takes on classes, leveling, zone-based questing and all that kind of lose their neato-ness after 80 levels of repeating the same stuff in 20 different zones til you vomit. Still worth doing and experiencing if you haven't, even if like most real MMORPG players you end up with zero desire to fully cap or stick around.
I would personally recommend The Secret World just because it has the best content and stories of any MMORPG to date, in my opinion. Instead of one big story arch it's more like chapters or short stories, with lots of deep side quest stories woven in. And while there is an overall vibe of supernatural it's not so much about game-wise lore as it is about many very deep stories loosely tied together. If an MMORPG *must* have solo idiot mode questing then TSW's is by far the best for diversity, depth, story, and for actually being challenging a great deal of the time - it's a far cry from the generic hand holding for children you find in most MMORPGs these days. TSW also has by far the best instances ever done in MMORPGs - 6 fun an interesting bosses per (more interesting in elite endgame mode) and little to no trash - and each instance has a story too that's conveyed thru the scenery and boss fights without a ton of tedium and trash.
It's unfortunate that for as much about TSW that is good, there is still Funcom at the helm, which is like having a ship with no captain, no rudder, no clue. I don't see how they even managed to make the game considering how inept they are. Therefore it's a great game to play thru, and if you're into endgame they do that really well too (and this is where the ineptness comes in because they didn't continue on with extending endgame and instead slowly putzed around with adding solo episodic content that takes months to develop and hours to obliterate - somehow they're too stupid to realize that the people who played all the time are those doing endgame and that the soloists would just show up every two months for a few hours to destroy whatever crappy solo content they added). So ultimately you can only play it so long because everything is so distinct, endgame is too short, and then you're just done either way.
And with TSW at least the content has a more mature feel to it. It's one of the few MMORPGs that deviates from fantasy where it really works and feels good, IMO. Most MMORPGs that deviate away from fantasy just end up feeling off and not quite right.
Premium MMORPGs do not feature built-in cheating via cash for gold pay 2 win. PLAY to win or don't play.
Note sure you read my earlier reply thanks for the lengthy TSW reply though.