You know what was a cool MMORPG?

crizlee

I miss Neocron. It was so complex, and it had lots of little features. I can't remember whats so bad about it other than low server populations.

nomadian

Did Neocron ever advertise itself? Because all through mmorpging I've never really heard much about Neocron apart from the odd comments

Darkchronic

Heh, I just bought a brand new and sealed Neocron 2 box on eBay. £3 including postage. 

MajorBiggs

yeah it advertised back in 2003 on this site. thats where i first learned about it actually

then last year it had the "No More Elves" campaign thing for Neocron 2.

i think neocron 2 is meh...but the old neocron..back when there were scary germans and french people..and loads of Black Dragon members that would meet in the Plaza 2 district........those were memories that will forever stay with me.

Unknown

Yep Neocron is a pretty cool game.  It still going but it only has about 100 people on each of its 2 servers at peak hours.  I'd say it has 2k total subs coutning German and English servers.

Its problems are that it is :
-buggy
-old graphics (released 2002, graphics on par with Deus Ex, well the whole game is very Deus Ex like)
-funky UI
-their "balancing"/and uber items pissed people off (as per usual in most MMOs except maybe Guild Wars)



But on the other hand it is the only real hybrid RPG/FPS and it has about 5 cool things for most other games 1 cool thing.  Its also the only Cyberpunk themed game.  Bouncing things off walls, flying planes, driving a two man tank with a gunner, clan controlled PvP outposts, interesting hybrid class/skill system, cool drug effects, a limb damage model, etc.


I would say its marketing was not so great.  Its made by some German company few have heard of.  It was fairly popular for its first year, maybe 50k subs.  I think if it had higher QA on certain implementation things it would have grown like Eve.  But as it is people just can't justify paying for it even when they like all the good stuff.  Just the cludgy UI brigns the consumer choice equation down.  A real shame.  That game has a lot of good stuff I wish other games had.