City of Heroes. Didn't care much for MMOs before playing it. Haven't found anything as excellent since. Stayed subbed for six years. The player base was just great.
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I wish I could have picked both Everquest and City of Heroes. Everquest ,it had everything that I loved in an MMORPG the people,the systems, the fear ,the triumph and the fun.
EQ2. i know it was out only a few months before WOW but that still makes it pre - WOW
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L2 swg was cool but running around overt hoping someone would flag or except your duel request made for mediocre pvp most the time with the exception of large battles. in lineage 2 you could lock down hunting grounds from your enemies, interupt personal events going on in castles(even though i hated nfc funny shit), it even was the kind of game that made you want to farm up alts just to run and find your enemies then switch and gank them.
Tough but CoH got so much right; sad memory standing the square on the day that WoW launched with people wondering where "everyone" was.
In don't really think of CoH (and L1) as "pre-WoW" but rather as contemporary. I tend to pigeon hole things into:
"originals" - e.g. UO, EQ, AC, AO;
then "second wave" - e.g. DAoC, SWG, Shadowbane and then
beyond 2004 - CoH, L1, WoW, GW1 etc.
Probably needs a new era now with the launch of the likes of Destiny, The Division, maybe even TESO - megaserver games which - as a result - are "different" to what went before, especially if they are b2p. Both facilitate a "drop in and play whenever with someone" dynamic rather than a "log in every day and play with the same group of people". (You can of course play with the same people
I consider Coh pre-wow because it release before wow. That is pre enough for me.
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what
it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you
playing an MMORPG?"
Damn hard choice to be honest. I'd roughly slap 3-4 together as nearly equal choices if simple because some simply offered such a unique experience and variety that 1 of those couldn't offer alone.
Damn hard choice to be honest. I'd roughly slap 3-4 together as nearly equal choices if simple because some simply offered such a unique experience and variety that 1 of those couldn't offer alone.
I wish we could have had 3 or 4 votes just to see what the results would be. I would have added DAOC and EQ.
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what
it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you
playing an MMORPG?"
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what
it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you
playing an MMORPG?"
I only played CoH and The Sims Online before WoW. TSO was my absolute favorite MMO and where I met the person who introduced me to WoW when it released. I really miss TSO
DAOC without competition for me. I just wish they didn't add expansions because that is when the game started to have gamebreaking balance problems with some classes and items. Even though I liked the expansions besides that.
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I consider Coh pre-wow because it release before wow. That is pre enough for me.
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
You stay sassy!
I wish we could have had 3 or 4 votes just to see what the results would be. I would have added DAOC and EQ.
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
The good kind of 3-way.
And now for something completely different.
Epic Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAigCvelkhQ&list=PLo9FRw1AkDuQLEz7Gvvaz3ideB2NpFtT1
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos?&sort=-downloads&page=1
Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
Lineage 1 is the first "massively" multiplayer online "PK/PvP/Castle Siege" game.
You don't even have Meridian59 there, the first multiplayer online "role-playing" game (not massively).
Yes Mid is forever. Oh wait you said Alb, oh well some people need to play in the other realms so we Mids will kick your ass.
Raquelis in various games
Played: Everything
Playing: Nioh 2, Civ6
Wants: The World
Anticipating: Everquest Next Crowfall, Pantheon, Elden Ring
Current game: Pillars of Eternity
Played: UO, AC, Eve, Fallen Earth, Aion, GW, GW2
Tried: WOW, Rift, SWTOR, ESO
Future: Camelot Unchained? Crowfall? Bless?