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How many of you went back to ole favorites while waiting for new stuff to be released?
zoey121
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Just wondering how many went back to ole favorites while waiting for the new stuff to be released?
Or if after landing beta go oh blah and back to old game?
Did you find your attitude about old game improve after some distance?
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I have done that quite often actually. Way back when, when EQ was the big thing, I would bounce back and forth from the new game to EQ when the new game got boring, or when EQ released an expansion. Each time I'd switch back to EQ it would be just as fun as the first time I played it.... for about a month, then it was same ol same ol.
I've tried going back to some other older games that I used to enjoy, like DAoC and UO, however so much has changed in them that they aren't the games I once played.
As of now though, I'm playing WoW, but I'm looking for something new. Something along the lines of old school EQ.
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After playing two years of City of Heroes/Villains, I went back to Dark Age of Camelot in June 2006 when I heard that EA-Mythic introduced Cathal Valley. It is a place for characters of lower Realm Rank and levels 44-49 can engage in Realm vs. Realm combat. Anything higher than that is the Big Boy RvR in the New Frontiers, and the characters of high Realm Rank will be happy to welcome-in the newbies there.
Dark Age of Camelot was my first MMORPG. I came from playing Starcraft, where there was a three-way war between the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. I was looking for a MMORPG that had a similar premise, and Dark Age of Camelot fit that just nicely, offering a three-way realm war between the Albions, Hibernians, and Migardians.
For the first few years, Dark Age of Camelot was fantastic. Each realm had over ten classes each to choose to play from. During evening primetime hours, there was plenty for Realm vs. Realm activity (mostly in Emain Macha zone). The three realms would fight over who would have the most keeps/castles and have access into Darkness Falls dungeon. In Shrouded Isles expansion, spellcrafting and alchemy was introduced, which helped compliment your character's equipement benefits. With Foundations expansion, you could have a house to stash your trophies and the rest of your belongings.
I left Dark Age of Camelot, months after Trials of Atlantis expansion was introduced. Other players left too. The Artifacts and Master Levels was too much to deal with. Players that spent countless hours to get those spent less players in Realm vs. Realm combat. To the players that got all the ToA stuff they wanted, they had a huge advantage over the casual players and characters of lower Realm Rank.
Thank goodness Dark Age of Camelot introduced Classic servers, in June 2005. It helped bring some life back, and players did not have to deal any of the Artifacts and Master Levels from the ToA expansion.
Well, i'm almost embarassed to tell this, but now that i've grown tired of Lineage II, and while i'm waiting for WAR (i just cant wait to be a Champion of Chaos, worshipping the almighty Khorne), i came back to........................ SWG
The thing is, those SOE morons are progressiveley re-introducing everything they've taken away with their NGE crap, so the game is now *almost* playable, it's now *almost* what it used to be... We got the autolock back, we got a "expertise" system to personalize a bit our characters, so, well, wait and see...
Anyway, the good thing about Lineage II is that it's a game you play on the very long run, so i might just come back to it when i grow tired of SWG again (all those Jedis running around everywhere is just plain stupid), and still waiting for WAR, Fallen Earth, or those pre-CU SWG emu servers
Actually I've been debating on a console system, I've tried most of the Mmo's with Lineage 1 and WoW spending the most time on. So maybe a console system to hold me off for a while,has to be a few games I would like. ( been wanting to try a racer type for a while but so many )
But still keeping my on Chronicles of Spellborn and Aion, One Mmo I havent really tried ( I did but sooo long ago ) was Final Fantasy maybe I can kill sometime on that for a while
Waiting on Guild Wars 2
I've been doing the City of Heros trial as well, Villan side on Freedom server. So far I enjoy playing the Brute and havent really seen a whole lot of players as of yet but the ones I did bump into were friendly and giving useful info on the game.
Has some nice eye candy and smooth controls, so I may play this for a while
Waiting on Guild Wars 2
I play coth a month or 2 then i pop in to lineage 2 play that for some time then back to wow
and after that tried some trials and betas like Autoassault ,Dungeons and Dragons
Tested going back to Anarchy Online but the interfaxe is to old and scabby so i usually starts crying when playing ao
Right now im iplaying some Guild Wars and Hero online but its so boring, so mostly its some mp games like dod and other.
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I'm always going back to new favorites, even as new stuff is released. That's part of what's so great about MMOGs in general...as long as the game survives, you still have your characters there waiting for you.
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There simply aren't any MMO's out there at the moment, that I find worth paying a monthly subscription for, or even worth playing.
You would'nt believe how many times I have gone back to one of my favorite (also the first MMO I ever played) MMO The Realm. 2d cartoony simplistic fun. I have had buddies pick on me for days on end for playing the game. Then they will play it once and blaw they are hooked too. Lol I have been paying 5 dollars a month for that game for 7 years or so now. Man I just realized I have spent 420 dollars on that game atleast. Haha good thread though made me get nostalgic.