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Poll: Is your favorite MMO the first one that you played?
Playerh8er
Member Posts: 62
If yes, do you ever think another game will take its place?
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Now, twenty-two years old, seven years after Everquest I have not found the same gittyness nor excitement. I may have the same hype-ish feelings, or maybe even sometimes the same rush I got when I thought about the stuff I could do.. but low and behold, I find myself getting bored with MMORPGs within the first few days or weeks of playing them these days. Nothing has come out since. I want that feeling back. I'm not in it for the cool, intimidating equipment. I'm in it to lose my senses and actually delve into a world much more mysterious than our own.
I need to either: A) start designing game worlds for a company or
EDIT ---- BTW, great poll.
Serious death penalties makes every close call an adrenaline rush, and every minor achievement a major victory. This alternative rule-set should be in all MMORPGs.
Wow, more than 50% say yes. First impressions are everything, even in the virtual realm, interestingly enough.
eq was mine as well, the world and lore pulled me in maybe to much it was a hardcore game and I out to much of myself into it. I never will again because I realized there was so much I was missing out on and so much more to life then some escape to reality all the time?
Yea its good once and a while but not that much, if your not happy with yourself or life in general it is understandable so I guees a part of me felt this way back then. But anyone can choose how to feel and view life or themselves. I do think there will be a game I will love and enjoy, but never again I could get that exact same feeling because there is so much outside of the games to enjoy.
The newness of MMOs have worn off me. I expect stories and journeys in my RPG games. MMO are just a place for kids to hang out, nowadays.
NGE Refugee.
There's some good info from a study done on this in a paper by Bartle.
http://www.itu.dk/op/papers/bartle.pdf
Per the study, most veteran players judge all virtual worlds as a reflection of the one they first got into.
I can't help but do the same, though I don't neccesarily think my first one was the best.
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Just like a first love/infatuation.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/125264
But my first MMO was Everquest(well... technically Castle Infinity). The first MMO I actually enjoyed fully was DAoC. And LOTRO is the only thing that has come close since.
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psyconius Cthulhu
Gothika Studios
YES, my first mmo was UO...
However my current mmo is DAoC and it's tons of fun as well.
"Kono yo ni aku ga aru to sureba sore wa hito no kokoro da."
No it isn't my favorite at this time. My favorites are EVE and LOTRO.
my first mmorpg was Asherons call 2 - as i must say it was a great time and lot of fun either;
so my best experience i had so far was with World of Warcraft!!
And yes, I'm sure there will be one day some game that give me the same feeling ( for one or the other )
Trying hard to become human as it should be.
Na, my first was The Legend of Mir (beta) and The Myth of Soma, mainly because I saw them on Game Network TV.
They blew me away when I was younger, but they were 2D and kind of basic, so it was only a matter of time really.
My favourtie now is Planetside and also pre-cu SWG, they are what I measure new games by since if it isn't as fun, then what's the point.
The MMO concept was all I fell in love with. Level & quest grinders just bore me really quick now.
I could answer EQ was my first and favorite MMO because i spent 4 years there and had tons of extremely cool and fun times. But WoW was much better in every single way regarding game mechanics and technology and i had fun playing it for 9 months on and off, but the community was too immature - i'm 25 yo now, and those little 15-20 kiddies were simply not my cup of tea.
Now, the prospect of starting at level 1, gaining exp, collecting loot and eventually raiding doesn't cut it anymore for me. I just have a "been there, done that" feeling now when it comes to MMOGs : there is no point doing that, therefore if it's not extremely fun, i'll no be part of it.
I think most developpers got it right, as most of upcoming MMOGs are massively PvP, and less about raiding/itemizing - i'd venture to say that Vanguard is an anomaly in that aspect as well, as in so many others.
My addiction History:
>> EQ1 2000-2004 - Shaman/Bard/Wizard/Monk - nolife raid-whore
>> WoW 2004-2009 + Cataclysm for 2 months - hardcore casual
>> Current status : done with MMO, too old for that crap.
My first MMO was Planetside, poss the best mmo ive ever played, just abit outdated now.
As for MMORPG's... well, u played one u played em all really, AoC may be the first break away from this... shall have to wait n see though