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Top 5 MMO today/future
jaosnu
Member Posts: 5
I was jsut wondering.......whats the top 5 mmo out there today? opinionated question. Im trying to get a list based on Gameplay/Community and Graphics.
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1:Lineage 2
2:Guild Wars?
3:WoW
4:DAoC?
5:I dunno...
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The mmorpg.com rating says:
1. Guildwars
2. EVE Online
3. World of Warcraft
4. City of Heroes
5. The Saga of Ryzom
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Here's my opinion:
1. Everquest II
2. World of Warcraft
3. Everquest
4. Dark Age of Camelot
5. Ultima Online
Star Wars Galaxies has always been a favorite of mine, but I can't put it on my top 5 list because of certain issues I have with the game that prevents me from playing it. Every game in my top 5 I played for at least a year, a few I played for over 2 year, and I loved them.
City of Heroes was a fun mmorpg, but lacked depth. For a comic fan, it is a good mmorpg.
For the best graphics, Everquest II is best. For best Gameplay, World of Warcraft is best. For bests community, I'd have to say that Everquest II on my server is great, but Dark Age of Camelot on the couple of servers I was on was very good. Not in my list is Saga of Ryzom which has an excellent community, too.
Some mmorpgs I tried and didn't care for are Horizons, Lineage II, Eve Online, Asheron's Call and Asheron's Call 2, and Final Fantasy XI. FFXI was actually a fun mmorpg, it reminded me of Everquest, but there was one thing about the game that turned me off, and that was the need to be in groups all the time after level 10 or so. This would not be a bad thing for me since I love to group, but finding a group often took way too long.
Mmorpg's I am most looking forward to:
Dark & Light
Hero's Journey
Fallen Earth
I am currently subscribed to Everquest II and World of Warcraft, playing both about evenly. I also have a two week trial of Saga of Ryzom active. I thought I would try it out again after I quit in the beginning due to technical difficulties with the game.
Community?
1. EQ1
2. AC1.
3. EQ2.
4. Horizons (still haven't heard one stupid "I pWND! jooz" crap yet, and that goes far)
5. DAoC
Worst community?
1. WoW
2. GuildWars
None of the rest come close to the sheer volume of idiocy that comes from these two games. Yes, that's an opinion -- I loathe the moronic behavior and constant chattering of folks who think "pWNd jooz" makes them look cool and therefore they need to repeat it sixteen times and jump around other people eighty-three times.
Definition for best community: games where people actually HELP each other and where higher-levels actually help new players.
Definition for worst community: games where high levels specifically taunt, ridicule, and through their horrendous behavior discourage new players (WoW, you're the worst on that one).
Graphics:
1. EQ2. Hands down, there's no more detailed, realistic look. Yet, it lacks some basics that make things look "different" -- no armor dye, limited armor material/styles, so you really look like every other "x" (your race/class here).
Sort of hard to define from here. WoW is either excellent or crap, depending on whether you like the glazed-anime style they chose. I like Horizons, with its vast differences in equipment and colorations (and the player's ability to alter and create vast mixtures of those things), and good-looking terrain models and such. Lineage II looks good. AC1 is an example of an old design that is still, strangely (and this really is purely subjective), effective. Of all these games, AC1 is the one I'd love to see exactly ported into a new graphic engine -- without changing the gameplay at all. EQ1 comes next on that wish-list.
Gameplay:
1. WoW -- if easy gameplay with a very low learning threshold makes the "best gameplay", WoW has it hands-down. Everything is handed to you -- big ? over people's heads, so you don't have to think for yourself and talk to everyone, you can just talk to the ? people, for instance. It's an effective combo, such that I wish, fervently, that someone ELSE would have made WoW so that we could have had their flow and interface design with a world like AC1 or EQ1, where geography changes and evolves with time, seasons change, rain and snow fall and pile up, NPCs die and are replaced, etc.
2. AC1 -- these are all subjective. I think AC1's combat is vastly more INVOLVING of the PLAYER than all the others. Got a shield? You, the player, have to turn yourself in combat to keep the shield facing your opponents, or the shield's modifier doesn't count -- realistic, smooth, fun. Most all of the rest just add the shield's "presence" into your generic armor-class rating. Yawn. You, the player, set the strength and height of your swings, and your opponents are rated so that some creatures are weaker at certain places on their bodies -- again, You, the Player, make those decisions, and having to make them means you're more involved in the action and in learning which style is effective against which creatures. This makes combat MUCH more effective and interesting and dynamic, and since combat is ultimately the mainstay of any MMORPG, it definitely counts. Vast, deep lore and a changing environment mean the actual "roleplaying" is far deeper than others. On the downside, it's old, and there are decided drawbacks to the interface... and, my personal pet peeve, no quest journal even today. Tons of individual pieces of paper you have to keep up with if you want to pile up quests to do.
It depends on what you value in gameplay. Horizons has a weak adventuring side but a phenomenal and deep crafting system that lets you mix and match colors, a vast array of materials, and enchantments/etc. while you're building things -- and, most shocking of all, a player can actually build his own HOUSE (NOT an instance), or team with other players to build houses, bridges, etc. If they'd improve the questing side, this game would move way up in my top-game list. Right now, the crafting is so awesome, I'd call it the model for others (especially in the non-instanced build-your-own-house, build bridges, and have them fully realised in the game world part).
Anyway. Enough for now.
if ur talking about top 5 best overall quality games then it would have to go
EvE
DAoC
AC1
EQ
and my personal fav altho it wont be around for long
: AC2
(say what u will about the game itself , but it has by far the best community i have ever seen and prolly ever will see )
1- City of Heroes
2- Everquest
3- Horizons
4 & 5 have not been awarded as the competitor offer nothing I find appealing that is not already been offered in those 3. DAoC would be nice if the PvP thing was an offer, rather then an obligation, despite my heavy dislike, WoW offer it and almost win the 4th position...but not worthy enough IMO.
For the community alone I would say CoH still come first. Horizons community outmatch EQ community by now, yet pre-Kunark EQ community was a great and nice community, with honor and friendship, lamerzs were suffering consequences for lames actions back then.
CoH is simply amazing, even with 5 huges mistakes called Issue 1,2,3,4 & 5, the game rock the competitors off. The solo content is great, the storyline is fun, the puns are many (Crey = Sony if you didnt get it). Grouping is unequalled...but...the Hamidon is ruining the party
EQ is a classic, nothing to add, you love and hate it all at once.
Horizons is on a hardcore curve, the UI is not friendly, many things to refined, but great from a quick glance.
DAoC, FFXI, WoW all fails to convince me to recommend them, so I am not putting them in my list, despite having buy the game, I rather recommend you to go try The Bard's Tale or something then those 3. The others MMOs where not able to convince me to try them, if they cant even manage to convince me to try them, I aint going to say that maybe they are nice, they obviously lack in their appeal. EQ2 is an exception, it is an extremely nice game that I buy, but if you are not a community oriented person (like a woman of 50+), the game might be a little to guild oriented for you.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
I personally dont think Guild Wars should be on any of those lists... When I played it, it just made me want to play any other mmorpg I could.. Even Diablo, I thought was better then that game but thats just my opinion.
1. UO
2. WoW
3. AC/AC2
4. EQ
5. EQ2