Is There an MMORPG You Wish You Could Play Again for the First Time? | One Good Roll | MMORPG.com

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Is There an MMORPG You Wish You Could Play Again for the First Time? | One Good Roll | MMORPG.com

Do you remember the feeling you had the first time you found "that" MMORPG? In this week's One Good Roll Steven asks, "If you could go back and replay an MMORPG with fresh eyes, which one would it be?"

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ashiru_1978

I wish I can forget all my memories of every MMORPG (templates, rules, everything) and play Vanilla WoW for the first time.

DrSatan

EVE. When only a few thousand people played and it wasn't the trainwreck it became.

Maybe Anarchy Online. Or Firefall.

Hard to forget Everquest (the low hanging 'retro' fruit that it is), and playing over dialup on a CRT monitor that must of weighed 40lb. I was a nord barbarian and my life consisted of gnolls and overland trains of polerbears... so many lost backpacks.

Slapshot1188

DAoC. The Once and Future King.

Nebless

"there are times that I want to come back to them with fresh eyes," Well if that's the case I can't think of any of them i.e. starting out NOW fresh on an existing game. As the joy all comes from how the game was back THEN.

Using the Back Then standard I'd say Pirates of the Burning Sea as it was great in the beginning.

Scot

DAOC for me too!

Noorac

Asheron's Call

maskedweasel

Wow, Asherons Call, Pirates of the Burning Sea. Some of you guys go deep. I forget some of these games even existed. It's pretty cool people remember these games.

Chaserz

The MMO that put the genre on the map: EverQuest.

noxaeternus

Everquest if I could get back in touch with the old crew.

kitarad

The thing is you can play a lot of games like they were when they first launched but that does not mean that you can get the same experience. That is what I miss, I can go play Everquest on P99 but I am never going to feel or get the people I played with back. Need a time machine for that.

I cannot just go play any game again because when I do I inevitably compare it to how it was when I first played it and the experience never matches up to that. I know what I'm talking about is impossible but this is the reason 'for the first time' is not possible.

Theocritus

Everquest was great because you were just dropped into the world...You had to find your own way....No ! or ? or anything else, not even a map....Even they eventually ruined the experience by creating a tutorial and Crescent Reach pretty much ruined the new player experience by giving the players an easy path to at least level 40....It removed alot of the great places like Blackburrow, Crushbone, and Unrest to name a few....Instead of being unique, EQ revamped its game to be like everyone else....Too bad.

Grym

I don't play MMOs anymore, only CRPGs. I started with Everquest and loved it right up until I didn't. WoW honestly never did it for me, too cartoony. I really enjoyed Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, but it was doomed from the start due to the horrible initial launch. City of Heroes was awesome, but the endgame never really materialized. Last MMO I played was Elder Scrolls Online. Enjoyed for awhile with my wife, but became bored with it after about 6 months.

So, for me, the answer is no. No desire to revisit (fresh view or otherwise) any MMO.

lingceapuck

Cabal Online episode 2

Brume

Without any doubt, Everquest. The incredible journey of Alfonse my Halfling rogue in Rivervale.

user298

I don't want to replay any of old MMOs, even if I can forget everything about them. Each MMO I've played had many noticeable flaws and limitations and I'd rather not waste time on re-experiencing same feeling of disappointment after re-discovering those flaws and limitations and would instead prefer to play something newer which will hopefully not have many of those flaws and limitations.

Mendel

I still play EQ1, so I guess I'd have to say EQ1 along with many others.  I never got much opportunity with many of the other games, just enough to realize they didn't really stack up.  Everquest has changed so much, but it's still pretty good if you adapt to the stuff that helps you, and ignore the stuff that doesn't.

Blazer6992

SWG

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Silverel

EQ1 was probably the greatest sense of awe coming into a game fresh. For the time it felt like a massive expansive world with infinite potential. Sad how that feeling fades when you learn the ins and outs and bugs and strategies.

Warhammer Online was great fun at launch for all the public quests being populated and progressed, although bugs and stability issues ran off the players looking for a wow-killer. Still the best for massive MMO PvP, more as a result of said stability coming much much later.

FFXIV was terrible at launch by all accounts, but these days a fresh start, no peeking at strats, led only by the community around you, is an excellent experience. Easily 100+ hours of top tier main story that will make you feel things.

RolanStorm

Come on, just send me back to 1995 with memory of what happened. One MMORPG to choose? Nah. I want them all.

koldmiser

DAoC. Morgan Le Fay Shadow Knights forever!

Vidahr

Asheron's Call or Ultima Online.

DigDuggy

Shadowbane

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lddiamond

FFXI.

With modern day graphic engine, but with vanilla launch.