MMO Launch Spotlight: A Lengthy List of New MMOs to Try This Weekend | MMORPG.com

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MMO Launch Spotlight: A Lengthy List of New MMOs to Try This Weekend | MMORPG.com

This week, there's a slew of new MMOs just waiting for your attention, including a High School Teacher project, and a game we definitely DO NOT recommend.

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strawhat0981

I dont know man, they kinda all look bad to me.

StevenWeber

strawhat0981 said:

I dont know man, they kinda all look bad to me.

Happy Posting!

Terazon

Kind words is a great little game, I am going to try 2

deniter

After looking at the screenshots i had to double check if this was some necro post from 2004. This isn't exactly the future of gaming i had in mind when i first played Doom in 1993.

Warlyx

u guys forgot scars of honor demo this weekeend

richrem1

These all look like garbage, except the Medieval one; and I have to ask: "Aren't people sick of that genre yet?" I prefer high fantasy + scifi, and it's hard to find a good game (besides FFXIV) fitting those genres. Most of those are probably in early alpha, another phone game, and just some retro style which I don't care for. It's been years, and it seems no one can make a MMORPG that is worth anyone's time anymore.

Scot

deniter said:

After looking at the screenshots i had to double check if this was some necro post from 2004. This isn't exactly the future of gaming i had in mind when i first played Doom in 1993.

There was a time when every year the graphics got better and every couple of years the games had more depth, more content and so on. I do miss those days.

maskedweasel

I feel like we're just going to see a lot more of these kind of games. That we're even seeing some form of "launch" for new MMOs every week is kind of a red flag to begin with. Most of these are early access. 

But talk about genre saturation. We used to have just a few big MMOs now we have enough for a list a week? 

With the indie dev scene taking off and the number of devs getting canned in the industry, and the growing use of AI in development, I just imagine the big studios that are fracturing are just going to bring a rise of a smaller games like we're seeing now, and the saturation is just going to get a lot worse.

Hefaistos

AAAA Games ofc.

ValdemarJ

I'll keep an ear open for progress on Crestfallen, but the rest don't even bump my interest meter.

Hopefully it's more of a smaller population multiplayer with self-hosting options rather than a "real mmo".

Asm0deus

I will pass on these. I have the crestfallen demo installed played it for like 6 hours and meh..the combat is friggin horrid..

its need lots of work on that front. The building needs some work, I amde a modest cabin and cant complete the roof for some reason, the ends can be closed up but not the middle?

Other than that it seems interesting, I say this assuming we just have a small, small part of the world available though. I did like how some of the ore nodes really stood out at night compared to day time, its how I spotted a frost ore node far, far off in the distance from my cabin. That said I don't have much high hopes for it as it doesn't seem to be getting any traction and seems to be a very small "team" working on this.

G3Nexis

Scot said:

deniter said:

After looking at the screenshots i had to double check if this was some necro post from 2004. This isn't exactly the future of gaming i had in mind when i first played Doom in 1993.

There was a time when every year the graphics got better and every couple of years the games had more depth, more content and so on. I do miss those days.

We must be living in different time lines or something... as graphics of games have gotten better / more realistic the content of those games have gotten worse... Sure there are a few outliers but I can't recall a game in the last 10 years that has had far better graphics while also having better or more in depth content than its previous versions or previous games of that genre with worse graphics...

MMOs have just plain out gotten significantly worse as their graphics have gotten better... Most FPS games like CoD / Battlefield have gotten drastically worse as time has gone on... PoE and Diablo 2 are the best ARPGs out there while their more graphically better counter parts lack any kind of content... I can probably count on 1 hand the number of games that have gotten better from a content standpoint as their graphics have gotten better.

Scot

G3Nexis said:

Scot said:

deniter said:

After looking at the screenshots i had to double check if this was some necro post from 2004. This isn't exactly the future of gaming i had in mind when i first played Doom in 1993.

There was a time when every year the graphics got better and every couple of years the games had more depth, more content and so on. I do miss those days.

We must be living in different time lines or something... as graphics of games have gotten better / more realistic the content of those games have gotten worse... Sure there are a few outliers but I can't recall a game in the last 10 years that has had far better graphics while also having better or more in depth content than its previous versions or previous games of that genre with worse graphics...

MMOs have just plain out gotten significantly worse as their graphics have gotten better... Most FPS games like CoD / Battlefield have gotten drastically worse as time has gone on... PoE and Diablo 2 are the best ARPGs out there while their more graphically better counter parts lack any kind of content... I can probably count on 1 hand the number of games that have gotten better from a content standpoint as their graphics have gotten better.

I agree with you because that time I am referring to when the graphics got better every year and games had more depth ended in the mid noughties.

That was partly technical, you can only push a silicon chip so far and partly due to design decisions like excessive front loading just to name one. So I am talking twenty years ago.

Even back then players could see the tension that existed between making games look ever better and putting in more depth and more gameplay. What takes priority? Graphics is the biggest resource hogger and what seems to have happened is that over the years developers have nailed themselves to the mast of keeping the graphics top notch and so content and new gameplay has suffered.

Maybe with the advent of AI taking on some of that graphics burden we will see things swing round. But I am not holding my breath, for example the industry moved away from needing dedicated a team of writers in MMORPG's in the noughties, are they going to bring them back, I doubt it.