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I'm looking for a new MMO
busbydaniel
Member Posts: 38
in LFGame
Hi all, I am after some help.
I have played SWG, WOW, WAR, Conan and LOTRO.
I am currently playing WOW and to be honest, I'm tired and am looking for a new MMO.
Here is what I am looking for and would appreciate any comments and recommendations:
- Either a fantasy or pirate game, no sci-fi.
- No instances - they annoy me and I hate being taken out of the gaming world.
- Preferably PVP orientated. But I am easy either way.
- Excellent player housing - no instances, I want to be able to place my house anywhere and do what I want with it. Must be able to setup vendors.
- Excellent crafting - No basic crafting like WOW etc. I want different quality resources, items etc. No two items will be the same.
- Complete sandbox.
- Player driven world, player events effect everything around you.
I have heard Darkfall is the one to watch but is not out yet, is Vanguard worth a try?
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You'll get conflicting opinions on Vanguard. Why don't you try it yourself and find out?
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im to lazy too use grammar or punctuation good
you know theres a whole forum for people looking for games to play?
Not a single MMO comes close to having all that you want together, but of whats available Vanguard does come pretty close! Give it a try, there is a 14-day trial:
Isle of Dawn
Actually my bad, Ultima Online is exactly that....but don't get on the official servers. Go jump on one of the free shards...they are much more populated and running well on older versions of the game which are much better than the crap EA did to it after Garriot left...
I'd recommend Lineage 2
-its fantasy
-absolutely no instances or loading screens at all
-completely PvP driven world/mechanics
-theres clan housing with a vendor and some bonuses, no customization, and owning them is very competitive since theres a limited number
-crafting is kind of tedious and involves thousands of materials, i wouldnt recommend it. You can also make crafting vendor shops, where you charge a price for someone to craft something if they haev the recipe and all materials...however only 1 race (dwarves can craft)
-its a player driven world in the sense that for example to get a subclass (once you hit lvl 75, you can do a quest and choose a second class that you can switch between, you have to level that class up, and you get all its skills, even though you look like a different race/class.) you have to do a long quest and stab an epic raid boss to get his blood. However that boss also drops epic loot, so all the best clans will want to kill it, and if you are their enemy, they will want to kill you and prevent you from donig the quest. The whole game is based off clan vs clan conflicts like that, from castle sieging, to raid bosses, even up to completing quests and simple PvE. However if you don't get in a good clan that can participate in things like this on a regular basis, and have the ability to win, you'll most likely have a terrible experience as people will just be killing you left right and centre, and you'll just end up doing PvE and not realizing these things are going on non-stop on your server.
Vanguard = PvE option
Darkfall = PvP option
Try the Isle of Dawn for Vanguard to see if you like it, and Darkfall, in theory, comes out later this month.
try out Runes of Magic, it doesn't have the housing feature where u can place it anywhere in the world, but it does have an instanced house. The game is pretty good...
braap
A Tale in the Desert fits your description quite well, though it might not be what you're looking for.
To go point by point:
*It's definitiely not sci-fi, though one might call it more historical than fantasy.
*There are no instances whatsoever, in any sense of the word. No instanced housing, no instanced dungeons, no separate servers, nothing. It's all one open world.
*Opinions will differ on whether the game is PvP or PvE, with newer players tending to describe it as PvE and more veteran players sometimes claiming that the game is nothing but PvP. Really, though, it generates the vicious enough PvP to make full loot like Darkfall look positively carebear by comparison. Players even having the ability to ban other players. Yes, ban, as in, if you want to play again, create a new account and start over. It doesn't happen often, but the theoretical possibility of it constrains behavior somewhat.
*Yes, it has player housing, and a more sophisticated version of it than most games with player housing. You build your camp in the open world and everyone else can see it. A handful of items are decorative, but most of the structures you can build in your camp are functional. If you build a charcoal hearth, for example, you can produce charcoal in your camp. Whether or not you let other players use the buildings in your camp is up to you, and can be set independently for various buildings, or set to allow people in your guild use it, but not the general public.
*The game has far and away the deepest, most complex crafting system of any MMORPG in existence--and nothing else under development in the forseeable future is even trying to come close. Here I mean the crafting processes themselves, as distinguished from trading as emphasized more in Puzzle Pirates or EVE.
*It's a sandbox game in more senses than you mean by that. It's a sandbox in the usual sense that you can pick and choose what you want to do and what you don't. It's also a sandbox in the sense that most of the map is covered in sand; the game does take place in a desert, after all. In addition to normal sand, red sand and white sand are commodities with important crafting uses.
*It's far more player driven than anything else I've seen. There aren't any NPCs. A handful of buildings where you learn skills fill the roles that NPCs might in other games. Things happen because players make them happen, and some players will even leave their mark on the game long after they quit.
So why might it not be what you're looking for? There's no combat, at all. No monsters to kill, no healer/tank/damage dealer triumvirate, no insipid aggro systems to manipulate, no epic loot drops from raid bosses, none of that. Well, once there was combat for a day as an April Fools' Day joke.
The fourth telling started recently, making this a good time to jump into the game if you're interested.
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