Favorite PvE: WoW - what can i say, there's something about those raid dungeons that speaks to the inner dungeon crawler in me
Favorite PvP: EVE - i can still remember the first time a punisher tried to gank me in low sec (and got pummeled, take a hint bob, when someone is both jamming and target painting you, you better start running )
Favorite Story: WoW - some of those quest chains are epic (and i'm not talking just the raid level events)
Most Anticipated: WAR
Favorite New Game: PSU - for touching a soft spot i have for the series, but that's about the only reason i even bothered voting on that category.
Favorite Game: WoW - it speaks to the PVE nerd in me...
2007 will hopefully see much better for new titles then this year
I am really interested in seeing who wins for most anticipated. There are a lot of really hyped games coming out in 2007. I'm definitely looking forward to WAR, but then there are games like AoC, PoTBS, StarTrek Online, and Vanguard. As things go these days, most MMOs fail to deliver on what's promised, but I'm hoping that at least one of the above games can really be awesome.
Originally posted by jrgambit In my opinion this survey need a no choice / not applicable option.
For example, I did not have a favorite release in 2006, and i think i got around voting for one of the choices by going to the next page, but still, the option not to vote is needed.
Otherwise, I look forward to the results.
Agreed. I was disappointed that the poll didn't include a non-committal or outright 'negative' option in the poll. While I didn't play all the new games in '06, I played a good many of them and none were particularly good. Some had nice features in one way or another but none were worthy of a vote. A not making a vote is not the same as a vote of 'There were no good games in this category this year.' Enough people voting an option like that might make some of the game companies add features or think harder in the future. (Probably not but we can always hope.) Also, what happened to the 'Worst of...' categories? There are several that fit there and voters might like to see numbers on those as well. Something of a catharsis for those who have been stung by poor games over the past year.
Originally posted by LuggLD EVE wins best PVP. There is NO other game I've played where you actually get adrenaline pumping because you're afraid you might lose your 100mil ship as you exit warp into an unknown number of enemies... and the joy, oh the joy of obliterating them, looting their wrecks, or better yet: ransoming them
Nonconsensual PVP 4tw!
Sounds fun, but does a newbie stand a chance in Eve?
Originally posted by Arcona Originally posted by LuggLD EVE wins best PVP. There is NO other game I've played where you actually get adrenaline pumping because you're afraid you might lose your 100mil ship as you exit warp into an unknown number of enemies... and the joy, oh the joy of obliterating them, looting their wrecks, or better yet: ransoming them
Nonconsensual PVP 4tw!
Sounds fun, but does a newbie stand a chance in Eve?
Eve is probably the only MMO where newbies stand a chance against older players. Eve isnt all about skills, its about teamwork, tactics and chance. Try it.
Most anticipated - If you put a gun to my head I would say Vanguard. I have given up all hope on MMOs for the next few years. They really need to become games instead of grinds.
Fave new game of 06 - Nothing. I didn't buy one MMO. They all turned out horrible.
Fave Game - Don't have one. I haven't been subscribed to a MMO since June. They are all horrible grinds.
Favorite Graphics: Eve Online is keeps amazing me when i c the movies and ingame shots
Favorite PvE: World of Warcraft since it is actually the biggest pve game that exists to me but then again it's quite limited >.<
Favorite PvP: Eve Online again since it's full pvp and the risk of losing everything is high in a battle
Favorite Story: The Saga of Ryzom since i loved the thing where you needed to discover the world to advance the story and now with ryzom ring it's quite nice for self-made stories
Most Anticipated: The Chronicles of Spellborn since i love the new features and the combination of everything but we'll c how it goes
Favorite New Game: Well the only game that left a nice impression was auto assault, it was something new, something refreshing, but not enough to make me pay for it
Favorite Game: Well i think i'll have to say EVE Online, the graphics are nice, the community is helpful and the developers listen to the players. also they're evolving the world constantly with new features.
Originally posted by Lepidus Originally posted by badirontree Graphics: EVE Online - Kali will be out in a month = all competition will be eliminated in this category.
Revelations I (Kali I) will not include the graphics upgrades.... and the award is for 2006, not what's coming in 07!! False!
Revelations will include GFX updates. Every ship and object gets decent dx9c skin. It's not the well known vista gfx update, you might have mixed up with that.
In other words, revelations will introduce new gfx so eve gets new gfx still during 2006.
Originally posted by Mcgreag I am a bit concerned that you listed last years winners next to the vote for this year. Seems to me that it might have a biasing effect, people who don't know what to vote might vote for last years winner. This concerns me too, not just that last years winners are listed, but there are instructions on each catagory, basically saying please don't vote for EVe again. Sorry but EVe still rules! I did, give best graphics and storyline to Guild Wars though. Sorry Eve but the shadowing, water effects, ect.. in GW is the best I have seen in any mmo, and GW actually does have a story although I never pay attention.
Originally posted by jannu79 Originally posted by Lepidus Originally posted by badirontree Graphics: EVE Online - Kali will be out in a month = all competition will be eliminated in this category.
Revelations I (Kali I) will not include the graphics upgrades.... and the award is for 2006, not what's coming in 07!! False!
Revelations will include GFX updates. Every ship and object gets decent dx9c skin. It's not the well known vista gfx update, you might have mixed up with that.
In other words, revelations will introduce new gfx so eve gets new gfx still during 2006. jannu79, You are wrong on this. Revelations is coming in 3 chapters. The first chapter will NOT have the graphics update. The second chapter will but won't be released probably until February or March.
Originally posted by Cerion I am still disappointed that Guild Wars receives cosideration for its 'expansion' packs. I know you have some arbitrary definition in place, but I think your definition needs to be refined. With their expansions taking up the ranking, and now infiltrating the yearly readers choice awards, your ranking systems are loosing credibility in my book.
Guild Wars Factions and Guild Wars Nightfall are stand-alone games that happen to work together with the original Guild Wars Prophecies. The fact that all the campaigns work together does not take away from the fact that they stand on their own as separate games. One can own and enjoy any one, two, or all three, together or independently. This, in my opinion, is an extraordinary accomplishment in the MMORPG field. The Guild Wars games are incredibly accessible yet have a depth of story and tactical PvP that is unrivaled - so they all merit "consideration", as you put it. The fact that Factions AND Nightfall were both produced in 2006 is only to NCSoft's credit.
Nice commercial. I could care less what Guild Wars offers. Though I used GW as an example, my point isn't about that product specifically, but that MMORPG.com should refine their definition of a unique MMO property. It should include two points: 1) The MMO world not only is stand alone, but that it cannot interface with the other MMO worlds of that company. 2). The MMO world of the product is in fact a different virtual world than the other MMO products of the company, a difference represented by place or timeframe.
I want to be able to see what games people are enjoying. The ranking system helps with that. I would not have given Ryzom a second thought except for the Ranking it receives here on MMORPG.com. GW and other games threaten this exposure by exploiting a loop-hole in MMORPG.com's definition, no matter how unintentional that may be. The day GW, or any MMO for that matter, places 5 or 6 MMOs in the top Rankings, pushing out other titles is the day I stop relying on MMORPG.com for my MMO news.
_____________________________ Currently Playing: LOTRO; DDO Played: AC2, AO, Auto Assault, CoX, DAoC, DDO, Earth&Beyond, EQ1, EQ2, EVE, Fallen Earth, Jumpgate, Roma Victor, Second Life, SWG, V:SoH, WoW, World War II Online.
Games I'm watching: Infinity: The Quest for Earth, Force of Arms.
Was a tough choice, but EVE got my vote by a narrow margin, for the age of the game the graphics blast away even most newcomers and the whole graphics engine is getting a serious upgrade soon.
Best PvE
Without a doubt. World of Warcraft. They managed to create something highly addictive for the masses.
Best PvP
Unchallegend. EVE Online. PvP means something here, your actions matter and leave a permanent mark on the game enviroment. you can actually conquer places and win or lose bigtime, instead of just grinding a map for pvp points until the next reset. Death can be costly.
Best Quests, Community, live event team and overall RP:
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach. A mediocre MMO in all , but if they have one strong point going for them it's this. On the part of quests, roleplay, story they leave all others i know well behind in the dust.
Best Newcomer:
No vote. didn't like any of them, 2006 was a meager year. None of the newbies could rival the already existing games.
Most Anticipated:
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. the sequal to Dark Age of Camelot, a Realm vs Realm pvp game in my favourite setting. already signed up for the beta months ago.
Best Overall MMO:
Again like last year, EVE Online. Grind xp, get better gear so you can grind for more xp so you can get even better gear until you finally hit the level cap and all you can do is stand there in your shiny armor and pick your nose. Thats the general pattern of the MMO games. EVE is different . Endgame is the game, it starts right after the tutorial and is never ending. you can play for years and still have things left to do, places left to go and worlds left to conquer. It's also unique in the time based offline skilltraining, you dont have to grind, you dont have to powergame 23/7 to become top brass.
Originally posted by piquet Favorite Game: Everquest 2 - To be honest I haven't found the perfect substitute for DAoC. I played DAoC for 2 years straight in 2 different guilds, and left when my 2nd guild died for Everquest 2 followed by WoW. I got bored of WoW after hitting 60 and found myself trying out several other games (AO, Ryzom, EVE Online, DDO, Coh/CoV, RF Online, Horizons, Auto Assault, GW and SWG). I haven't found the substitute for DAoC yet, but I find that Everquest 2 is the game I keep coming back to. I hope STO will give me what I'm looking for.
Sorry, but I cannot help but ask based on the above post: why not pick DAoC then if you cannot find a game to replace it?
I experienced twice that all my friends left for other games (mainly WoW), and it was a strong demotivating factor for me. I did meet up with a few of them in WoW and we had great fun for a few months, but I simply got bored very quickly with the endgame content.
Believe me, I tried picking up DAoC again, but the european servers are pretty empty. It's just not the same game anymore. I left DAoC about 2 years ago, and even back then there weren't too many players online except for weekends.
I Just took a quick look at http://www.camelot-europe.de - only 45 players online on my server (Prydwen), and if you divide that in roughly 3 even groups, that's really not a lot for such a huge world. I don't know how the game is doing in the US, but here it's pretty much dead.
Originally posted by jrgambit In my opinion this survey need a no choice / not applicable option. For example, I did not have a favorite release in 2006, and i think i got around voting for one of the choices by going to the next page, but still, the option not to vote is needed.Otherwise, I look forward to the results.
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2007 will hopefully see much better for new titles then this year
MMORPG addict since 1995.
Graphics - GW (maybe they have invisible walls and low resolution textures but the art.. everything is just breathtaking)
PVE - I had a problem with this. I like GW:Nighfalls pve but it's not the best. I didn't play many mmos this year so i couldn't compare them with GW.
PVP - GW.. this is the only game where 50% of my time in game I spend watching gvg.
Story - Again GW b/c it has storyline and GW:NF's story is quite interesting imo.
Most anticipated - Aion
Fave new game of 06 - Again GW oO
Fave Game - I guess you know which I chose.. GW. Since i play this game i can't find a place in other mmos.. everything is so slooooow.
Agreed. I was disappointed that the poll didn't include a
non-committal or outright 'negative' option in the poll. While I didn't play
all the new games in '06, I played a good many of them and none were particularly
good. Some had nice features in one way or another but none were worthy of a
vote. A not making a vote is not the same as a vote of 'There were no
good games in this category this year.' Enough people voting an option like that might make
some of the game companies add features or think harder in the future.
(Probably not but we can always hope.) Also, what happened to the 'Worst of...'
categories? There are several that fit there and voters might like to see
numbers on those as well. Something of a catharsis for those who have been
stung by poor games over the past year.
PvE: EQ1
PvP: Battlefield Europe, Eve sucks at this
best game: Dark and Light
most anticipated: Potbs
Sounds fun, but does a newbie stand a chance in Eve?
found this trailer
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=17767
Sounds fun, but does a newbie stand a chance in Eve?
Eve is probably the only MMO where newbies stand a chance against older players. Eve isnt all about skills, its about teamwork, tactics and chance. Try it.
No "All to WoW!" Button?
Graphics - EQ2
PVE - EQ1
PVP - Daoc
Story - huh? what mmo has a story?
Most anticipated - If you put a gun to my head I would say Vanguard. I have given up all hope on MMOs for the next few years. They really need to become games instead of grinds.
Fave new game of 06 - Nothing. I didn't buy one MMO. They all turned out horrible.
Fave Game - Don't have one. I haven't been subscribed to a MMO since June. They are all horrible grinds.
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False!
Revelations will include GFX updates. Every ship and object gets decent dx9c skin. It's not the well known vista gfx update, you might have mixed up with that.
In other words, revelations will introduce new gfx so eve gets new gfx still during 2006.
I'd also like to see a Worst of... or a Biggest Letdown... catagory. In that group, DDO wins hands down.
I am a bit concerned that you listed last years winners next to the vote for this year. Seems to me that it might have a biasing effect, people who don't know what to vote might vote for last years winner.
This concerns me too, not just that last years winners are listed, but there are instructions on each catagory, basically saying please don't vote for EVe again.
Sorry but EVe still rules!
I did, give best graphics and storyline to Guild Wars though. Sorry Eve but the shadowing, water effects, ect.. in GW is the best I have seen in any mmo, and GW actually does have a story although I never pay attention.
3 votes go to EVE. Best PvP, Best Graphics and Best All Time!
fyi: 2006 sucked for good MMOs. Not a single thing worth mentioning. Dungeon & Dragons was good for about 5 weeks at best.
Star Trek Online most anticipated!!
False!
Revelations will include GFX updates. Every ship and object gets decent dx9c skin. It's not the well known vista gfx update, you might have mixed up with that.
In other words, revelations will introduce new gfx so eve gets new gfx still during 2006.
jannu79, You are wrong on this. Revelations is coming in 3 chapters. The first chapter will NOT have the graphics update. The second chapter will but won't be released probably until February or March.
Nice commercial. I could care less what Guild Wars offers. Though I used GW as an example, my point isn't about that product specifically, but that MMORPG.com should refine their definition of a unique MMO property. It should include two points: 1) The MMO world not only is stand alone, but that it cannot interface with the other MMO worlds of that company. 2). The MMO world of the product is in fact a different virtual world than the other MMO products of the company, a difference represented by place or timeframe.
I want to be able to see what games people are enjoying. The ranking system helps with that. I would not have given Ryzom a second thought except for the Ranking it receives here on MMORPG.com. GW and other games threaten this exposure by exploiting a loop-hole in MMORPG.com's definition, no matter how unintentional that may be. The day GW, or any MMO for that matter, places 5 or 6 MMOs in the top Rankings, pushing out other titles is the day I stop relying on MMORPG.com for my MMO news.
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Currently Playing: LOTRO; DDO
Played: AC2, AO, Auto Assault, CoX, DAoC, DDO, Earth&Beyond, EQ1, EQ2, EVE, Fallen Earth, Jumpgate, Roma Victor, Second Life, SWG, V:SoH, WoW, World War II Online.
Games I'm watching: Infinity: The Quest for Earth, Force of Arms.
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best Graphics:
Was a tough choice, but EVE got my vote by a narrow margin, for the age of the game the graphics blast away even most newcomers and the whole graphics engine is getting a serious upgrade soon.
Best PvE
Without a doubt. World of Warcraft. They managed to create something highly addictive for the masses.
Best PvP
Unchallegend. EVE Online. PvP means something here, your actions matter and leave a permanent mark on the game enviroment. you can actually conquer places and win or lose bigtime, instead of just grinding a map for pvp points until the next reset. Death can be costly.
Best Quests, Community, live event team and overall RP:
Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach. A mediocre MMO in all , but if they have one strong point going for them it's this. On the part of quests, roleplay, story they leave all others i know well behind in the dust.
Best Newcomer:
No vote. didn't like any of them, 2006 was a meager year. None of the newbies could rival the already existing games.
Most Anticipated:
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. the sequal to Dark Age of Camelot, a Realm vs Realm pvp game in my favourite setting. already signed up for the beta months ago.
Best Overall MMO:
Again like last year, EVE Online. Grind xp, get better gear so you can grind for more xp so you can get even better gear until you finally hit the level cap and all you can do is stand there in your shiny armor and pick your nose. Thats the general pattern of the MMO games. EVE is different . Endgame is the game, it starts right after the tutorial and is never ending. you can play for years and still have things left to do, places left to go and worlds left to conquer. It's also unique in the time based offline skilltraining, you dont have to grind, you dont have to powergame 23/7 to become top brass.
I sleep with a pillow under my gun.
I experienced twice that all my friends left for other games (mainly WoW), and it was a strong demotivating factor for me. I did meet up with a few of them in WoW and we had great fun for a few months, but I simply got bored very quickly with the endgame content.
Believe me, I tried picking up DAoC again, but the european servers are pretty empty. It's just not the same game anymore. I left DAoC about 2 years ago, and even back then there weren't too many players online except for weekends.
I Just took a quick look at http://www.camelot-europe.de - only 45 players online on my server (Prydwen), and if you divide that in roughly 3 even groups, that's really not a lot for such a huge world. I don't know how the game is doing in the US, but here it's pretty much dead.
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Best PvE
Without a doubt. World of Warcraft. They managed to create something highly addictive for the masses.
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sadly wow is for the addled masses, because its highly addictive doesnt make it good. but hey, thats just my opinion.
can you smell that?!!...............there is nothing quite like it.....................the smell of troll in the morning............i love that smell.
Same here. None of those games deserved to win.