I would say Eve was the most recent for me, about 3 years ago. Why was it "Whoa! This is fun!" for me? Probably because it was a very different MMO than what I had grown accustomed to in the previous 5-6 years (sci-fi vs. fantasy). It was kind of harsh, it was foreign, it was fun! The fun stuck with me for a good 18 months, too, before I called it quits.
Prior to that it was Shadowbane. I got into it just a couple weeks after release and had a blast right from level 1. Leveling up on the noobie island was great fun, exploring new places with a new game engine, hoping that I didn't die since even on the noobie island your inventory (but not equipment) dropped when you died, playing with new classes and powers, etc. Then in the mid levels (30s-40s) back then, leveling in PUGs around the NPC cities was scary stuff... nation/guild raiding parties patrolled the monster-infested areas, lone thieves much higher level than you were out for easy gold but were still killable by a party of lowbies, etc. And then at highest levels, siege warfare was oh, SO much fun! =D
Unfortunately SB didn't stick around with that original glory for more than a few months, at least IMO. There was something different and, again imo, more fun about it, in the early days when the servers weren't strictly populated with fanatical PvPers who all travel together in vent and with specifically designed groups of certain classes and races. The population, the betrayals, the destruction and capture of cities, etc. Great stuff!
Every day in EVE. With all the countless swords and spells helped by healers games out there, EVE stands out by being different and quality. I have played every MMO out there barring the anime based ones because I dont want to become a retard, and they all boil down to clones of themselves, except for EVE.
Honestly it was AoC right after launch on the server with Murder Herd. I was an Acolyte and I was hunting in the desert when 3 equal level Murder Herd's came and demanded that I leave their Island. They talked down to me so I charged the leader and killed him before the other two took me down. I then stalked them for almost an hour waiting for the perfect moment. I was a Herald of Xotli and I knew I could get them if I had them in close range. The time came and I charged. I murdered all three of them and crept off into the dunes. The leader of the group messaged me and said, 'Nice man, nice' and then for the next couple of weeks we fought numerous times. AoC was a lot of fun until level 50-60. I am still ticked at Funcom for not finishing the game, but I got my 50$ worth.
He he. I remember those. They were great fun. I remember going to Dathomir with a huge group five days after launch. I wasn't even Master Marksman yet. Though there were twenty of us, we couldn't take on one Rancor - though we could, just about take on a Bolma or two. On the way back, the entire party was scattered by an attack by one Nightsister Slave and had to crawl back to the Science Outpost in the dark and the rain.
Halfway back to safety, a lightning stike illuminated a single figure standing on a hill not too far from my crawling toon - it was a Nightsister Witch. It made me jump out of my skin.
Of course, today a thousand fanbois will tell us were were wrong to enjoy this.
What's the last MMORPG you played, where you went "Wow! This is fun!". Was it your first MMORPG, and not since then? Was it recently, or hasn't been for a couple of years? I played a lot of MMORPGs, and then was pretty disappointed with everything that came out. The last time I loaded up a game, and really had fun and wasn't feeling sorry I'd bought the box was City of Heroes. It wasn't deep enough to keep my attention for a very long time, but from the minute I logged on I thought this is fun! The world was cool, the powers were cool, it was a real sense of accomplishment to get our movement power (you start out more or less walking until you get flight, or super jump, or teleport or something like that). Lately, it's been more disappointments. Vanguard, nope. Wanted to like it, just wasn't fun. WAR, to much quest grinding and instancing especiially when I thought I'd purchased an RVR open world game. Anyway, what's the last MMORPG you played that was really fun?
mm i got to say i taught about this a while and even if i played wow longer ,if im honest with myself ,its guild wars
3 reason good pve good story and very insane pvp that i love a lot
so thats the biggest factor
for me to run to aion its ncsoft 1 succes you can call luck
but when you got l1,l2,guild wars,then faction etc all success ,ncsoft is among the legend in term of game quality
they are always close to wow,were better then everquest and wow for a long streak,
so in my mind even tho its just 20 lvl in guild wars its very entertaining in story and pvp
pvp is the best ,i dont know if pro still play guild wars but for 2 years it was the hardest compettion to win
strategie was so insanelly evolved you couldnt just arrive with say a paladin and hope to win
every team mate was taugh very carefully for their use ,some fight you wouldnt need necro
its one of the reason ncsoft had to put out a pvp boxset would take too long to grind each skill that way in a week you could putup a very good team build for a specific badass team ,witch would often surprise you with a completelly different build
yep good old guild wars dam i miss those insane pvp fight
oh well only 3 month till aion is out .so we ll play run of magic till september
Guild Wars. Most likely because I've been playing only that game for a long time now. Before that it was probably the character creation system in CoH/CoV, never found the game very fun but the character creation was just really good.
The last MMO game I played where I felt really immersed and said to myself, "This game is awesome" was World of Warcraft. Though it was before Burning Crusade that I felt that way. EQ was my first MMO, and I did feel the same way about that game when I first started playing it. I was a big D&D fan, but rarely got to play because none of my friends were really into it, so EQ was a way for me to do that any time of day. WoW just really improved upon most of what I liked about or what was missing from EQ, so that was a big step for me.
Since WoW, I have tried Shadowbane (actually before WoW), EQ2, Guild Wars, Warhammer, AoC, Fury, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Auto Assault, and a few other F2P games whose names have been burned from memory. None of those made me feel as immersed, or that I was having a really good time, which disappoints me to no end. Sometimes I have felt that maybe it is just me that has changed, but to be honest, there are many FPS and Single Player games I have played recently where I do feel the wow factor, so I know it's not gone, but I feel that MMOs in general have just gone down the wrong path. Maybe it's the new crowd that's playing them and that developers are catering to. I guess I really can't complain. The companys are just trying to make money. Perhaps someday things will change and a really fantastic MMO will come out that actually tries to bring players together instead of dividing them through loot rewards and unlocks.
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
Guild Wars, nothing beats a good ole Sorrow's Furnace runs for green items and Thunderhead Keep missions back in the good ole Prophecies days.
My thoughts exactly. Loved the Underworld Ranger Trapper groups going down for ectos, FoW Warrior/Monk chest runs, Icy Dragon Sword farm, and the GvG was incredible.
SWG, until this morning, when logging in I found my account, had been knocked back to trial status, magically.
Which ironically, is what has ended the love affair I have had with most of the games Ive played. Not the actual game, but the hiccups, and seemingly unstoppable ability of , gaming company's, to foul up something somewhere, leaving me logging in to, either a major nerf, missing toons, missing loot, double billing, etc etc etc.
I guess thats it, bugs have killed my love of favorite games, well except LOTROL, it is only fun for a couple weeks at a time, when ever new content comes. Play the new content, see everything, then delete it to free up some space.
Knights Online, the best thing about non-instances world is this, you can take a look from far at the most powerful mob in the wolrd, and together with my friends we tell oursleves " Someday we will be powerful enough to take it down"... Nice...
Haha! Thanks for reminding me of that gem. God I loved that game, even with all the turks and hackers. It was awesome
truly, not to forget to mention the war between races i think it was always on weekend couple of times , good old " kill your enemy last man standing wins style " and get rewarded . word : works!
The only MMO's I have played which I went 'wow this is fun' were:
Multiplayer Battletech 3025 (cancelled due to licensing issues between EA and Micro$oft over the Battletech license)
Ultima Online
PlanetSide
Other than that I can't think of a single MMO that I've felt like "WOW! This is fun!" when I played it. Pretty much every other MMO I've stuck with for more than 30 days or so has been 'fun' but not 'wow this is fun'. Even EVE Online isn't really a 'wow... this is fun' kind of game.
I keep trying new releases when they offer trials or open betas or free to play in hopes of finding an MMO that actually has that 'wow' factor (no I don't mean world of warcraft) but so far I've not found one.
Don't get me wrong. I have played quite a few MMO's which I've enjoyed... but ones where I went 'wow this is fun!'? Just those 3.
"A ship-of-war is the best ambassador." - Oliver Cromwell
Wizard 101. For a kiddie game, it is awfully fun. Before that it was World of Warcraft before the obsessive focus on raiding, but even then, traditional MMO paradigms were really starting to irritate me. As a whole, the genre sucks. When a serious AAA MMO comes out that doesn't force me to raid in order to enjoy end game loot progression and isn't turned into some kind of twisted social / economic experiement, then I'll find the fun again.
Everything else that I have played since EverQuest, appealed to my addiction, not my sense of fun.
With PvE raiding, it has never been a question of being "good enough". I play games to have fun, not to be a simpering toady sitting through hour after hour of mind numbing boredom and fawning over a guild master in the hopes that he will condescend to reward me with shiny bits of loot. But in games where those people get the highest progression, anyone who doesn't do that will just be a moving target for them and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay money for the privilege. - Neanderthal
Surprisingly enough for me, lately I've been wow'd by Aion. I had no intentions of even trying the game, but since I have, I can't seem to get enough of it.
_________________________________ JonMichael
Currently: AION, an MMO Beta under NDA Played: WAR, LOTRO, Hellgate: London, CoX, GW, SotNW, DAOC, EQ2, SWG, WoW, AO, Horizons, Second Life, There, TSO Beta'd: There, Second Life, EQ2, DAOC:LotM, LOTRO, Tabula Rasa, Gods and Heroes, Hellgate: London, Requiem:Bloodymare, AoC, WAR, DDO, Fallen Earth
last game that I enjoyed was AION Beta, really nice polished game. Very linear, but before that I had been playing Darkfall - so I enjoyed not having to think as much.
Darkfall I have to say is by far the best game I have played in a very, very long time. The only issue is that I am a family man and to get the best from Darkfall you need to be prepared to pay 4-8 hours per day. Sieges take 6 hours+ and are where all the best fun is to be had. Grinding skills takes forever, but has a nice sense of achievement attached to it - so it's worth the effort IMO.
Only issue is that for a casual player, your going to struggle a bit, someone who can only play a hour or so at the time is going to find things hard and a massive grind. But, if MMO's are your main pastime, you would love it.
My first love was FFXI, so naturally I am drawn to AION and the new FF next year.
EQ and DAoC....the group/solo mob ballance was perfect....what ever happened to groups fighting higher lvl mobs instead of these impossible to solo mobs? these games all had plenty of solo content and the reason to group was so you could fight higher lvl mob, not fight 4-6 dot mobs. All the mobs in these games had a chance to drop nice gear, not just the uber mobs. what ever happened to that style of play?
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I would say Eve was the most recent for me, about 3 years ago. Why was it "Whoa! This is fun!" for me? Probably because it was a very different MMO than what I had grown accustomed to in the previous 5-6 years (sci-fi vs. fantasy). It was kind of harsh, it was foreign, it was fun! The fun stuck with me for a good 18 months, too, before I called it quits.
Prior to that it was Shadowbane. I got into it just a couple weeks after release and had a blast right from level 1. Leveling up on the noobie island was great fun, exploring new places with a new game engine, hoping that I didn't die since even on the noobie island your inventory (but not equipment) dropped when you died, playing with new classes and powers, etc. Then in the mid levels (30s-40s) back then, leveling in PUGs around the NPC cities was scary stuff... nation/guild raiding parties patrolled the monster-infested areas, lone thieves much higher level than you were out for easy gold but were still killable by a party of lowbies, etc. And then at highest levels, siege warfare was oh, SO much fun! =D
Unfortunately SB didn't stick around with that original glory for more than a few months, at least IMO. There was something different and, again imo, more fun about it, in the early days when the servers weren't strictly populated with fanatical PvPers who all travel together in vent and with specifically designed groups of certain classes and races. The population, the betrayals, the destruction and capture of cities, etc. Great stuff!
Before that? My first. EverQuest.
I'll have to give this a big QFE, not sure if it was the community or the game itself but no other game has been as engaging.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
The last MMORPG you played where you went, Wow! This is fun!
Eve. No really.
It has almost everything I could want. I dont play it as much as I'd like because it is so time consuming.
City of Heroes was another one I kept coming back to because of the wow factor.
Every day in EVE. With all the countless swords and spells helped by healers games out there, EVE stands out by being different and quality. I have played every MMO out there barring the anime based ones because I dont want to become a retard, and they all boil down to clones of themselves, except for EVE.
EvE once I got into Piracy.
Playing: EvE, Ryzom
Honestly it was AoC right after launch on the server with Murder Herd. I was an Acolyte and I was hunting in the desert when 3 equal level Murder Herd's came and demanded that I leave their Island. They talked down to me so I charged the leader and killed him before the other two took me down. I then stalked them for almost an hour waiting for the perfect moment. I was a Herald of Xotli and I knew I could get them if I had them in close range. The time came and I charged. I murdered all three of them and crept off into the dunes. The leader of the group messaged me and said, 'Nice man, nice' and then for the next couple of weeks we fought numerous times. AoC was a lot of fun until level 50-60. I am still ticked at Funcom for not finishing the game, but I got my 50$ worth.
He he. I remember those. They were great fun. I remember going to Dathomir with a huge group five days after launch. I wasn't even Master Marksman yet. Though there were twenty of us, we couldn't take on one Rancor - though we could, just about take on a Bolma or two. On the way back, the entire party was scattered by an attack by one Nightsister Slave and had to crawl back to the Science Outpost in the dark and the rain.
Halfway back to safety, a lightning stike illuminated a single figure standing on a hill not too far from my crawling toon - it was a Nightsister Witch. It made me jump out of my skin.
Of course, today a thousand fanbois will tell us were were wrong to enjoy this.
Warhammer.... for a month.
"God, please help us sinful children of Ivalice.."
AoC.
Then I left Tortage.
I still weep when I think about what could have been.
mm i got to say i taught about this a while and even if i played wow longer ,if im honest with myself ,its guild wars
3 reason good pve good story and very insane pvp that i love a lot
so thats the biggest factor
for me to run to aion its ncsoft 1 succes you can call luck
but when you got l1,l2,guild wars,then faction etc all success ,ncsoft is among the legend in term of game quality
they are always close to wow,were better then everquest and wow for a long streak,
so in my mind even tho its just 20 lvl in guild wars its very entertaining in story and pvp
pvp is the best ,i dont know if pro still play guild wars but for 2 years it was the hardest compettion to win
strategie was so insanelly evolved you couldnt just arrive with say a paladin and hope to win
every team mate was taugh very carefully for their use ,some fight you wouldnt need necro
its one of the reason ncsoft had to put out a pvp boxset would take too long to grind each skill that way in a week you could putup a very good team build for a specific badass team ,witch would often surprise you with a completelly different build
yep good old guild wars dam i miss those insane pvp fight
oh well only 3 month till aion is out .so we ll play run of magic till september
Say what you will, it was AOC. It gets a bad rap but it was visually amazing at launch and the gameplay has gotten better and better. FLAME ON!
Guild Wars. Most likely because I've been playing only that game for a long time now. Before that it was probably the character creation system in CoH/CoV, never found the game very fun but the character creation was just really good.
The last MMO game I played where I felt really immersed and said to myself, "This game is awesome" was World of Warcraft. Though it was before Burning Crusade that I felt that way. EQ was my first MMO, and I did feel the same way about that game when I first started playing it. I was a big D&D fan, but rarely got to play because none of my friends were really into it, so EQ was a way for me to do that any time of day. WoW just really improved upon most of what I liked about or what was missing from EQ, so that was a big step for me.
Since WoW, I have tried Shadowbane (actually before WoW), EQ2, Guild Wars, Warhammer, AoC, Fury, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Auto Assault, and a few other F2P games whose names have been burned from memory. None of those made me feel as immersed, or that I was having a really good time, which disappoints me to no end. Sometimes I have felt that maybe it is just me that has changed, but to be honest, there are many FPS and Single Player games I have played recently where I do feel the wow factor, so I know it's not gone, but I feel that MMOs in general have just gone down the wrong path. Maybe it's the new crowd that's playing them and that developers are catering to. I guess I really can't complain. The companys are just trying to make money. Perhaps someday things will change and a really fantastic MMO will come out that actually tries to bring players together instead of dividing them through loot rewards and unlocks.
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
My thoughts exactly. Loved the Underworld Ranger Trapper groups going down for ectos, FoW Warrior/Monk chest runs, Icy Dragon Sword farm, and the GvG was incredible.
Neocron, never has so much roleplay fun as i did in that game, and before that UO
SWG, until this morning, when logging in I found my account, had been knocked back to trial status, magically.
Which ironically, is what has ended the love affair I have had with most of the games Ive played. Not the actual game, but the hiccups, and seemingly unstoppable ability of , gaming company's, to foul up something somewhere, leaving me logging in to, either a major nerf, missing toons, missing loot, double billing, etc etc etc.
I guess thats it, bugs have killed my love of favorite games, well except LOTROL, it is only fun for a couple weeks at a time, when ever new content comes. Play the new content, see everything, then delete it to free up some space.
Haha! Thanks for reminding me of that gem. God I loved that game, even with all the turks and hackers. It was awesome
truly, not to forget to mention the war between races i think it was always on weekend couple of times , good old " kill your enemy last man standing wins style " and get rewarded . word : works!
The only MMO's I have played which I went 'wow this is fun' were:
Other than that I can't think of a single MMO that I've felt like "WOW! This is fun!" when I played it. Pretty much every other MMO I've stuck with for more than 30 days or so has been 'fun' but not 'wow this is fun'. Even EVE Online isn't really a 'wow... this is fun' kind of game.
I keep trying new releases when they offer trials or open betas or free to play in hopes of finding an MMO that actually has that 'wow' factor (no I don't mean world of warcraft) but so far I've not found one.
Don't get me wrong. I have played quite a few MMO's which I've enjoyed... but ones where I went 'wow this is fun!'? Just those 3.
"A ship-of-war is the best ambassador." - Oliver Cromwell
For me the most wow moments I'd be going with Planetside by a long way and SWG a second. For most recent it would probably be AoC.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
My first PQ in Warhammer. At first people were completeing them, and being able to take down a giant at level 5 was truly awesome.
Wizard 101. For a kiddie game, it is awfully fun. Before that it was World of Warcraft before the obsessive focus on raiding, but even then, traditional MMO paradigms were really starting to irritate me. As a whole, the genre sucks. When a serious AAA MMO comes out that doesn't force me to raid in order to enjoy end game loot progression and isn't turned into some kind of twisted social / economic experiement, then I'll find the fun again.
Everything else that I have played since EverQuest, appealed to my addiction, not my sense of fun.
With PvE raiding, it has never been a question of being "good enough". I play games to have fun, not to be a simpering toady sitting through hour after hour of mind numbing boredom and fawning over a guild master in the hopes that he will condescend to reward me with shiny bits of loot. But in games where those people get the highest progression, anyone who doesn't do that will just be a moving target for them and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay money for the privilege. - Neanderthal
Ultima Online and Everquest. That was almost 10 years ago.
Surprisingly enough for me, lately I've been wow'd by Aion. I had no intentions of even trying the game, but since I have, I can't seem to get enough of it.
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JonMichael
Currently: AION, an MMO Beta under NDA
Played: WAR, LOTRO, Hellgate: London, CoX, GW, SotNW, DAOC, EQ2, SWG, WoW, AO, Horizons, Second Life, There, TSO
Beta'd: There, Second Life, EQ2, DAOC:LotM, LOTRO, Tabula Rasa, Gods and Heroes, Hellgate: London, Requiem:Bloodymare, AoC, WAR, DDO, Fallen Earth
last game that I enjoyed was AION Beta, really nice polished game. Very linear, but before that I had been playing Darkfall - so I enjoyed not having to think as much.
Darkfall I have to say is by far the best game I have played in a very, very long time. The only issue is that I am a family man and to get the best from Darkfall you need to be prepared to pay 4-8 hours per day. Sieges take 6 hours+ and are where all the best fun is to be had. Grinding skills takes forever, but has a nice sense of achievement attached to it - so it's worth the effort IMO.
Only issue is that for a casual player, your going to struggle a bit, someone who can only play a hour or so at the time is going to find things hard and a massive grind. But, if MMO's are your main pastime, you would love it.
My first love was FFXI, so naturally I am drawn to AION and the new FF next year.
EQ and DAoC....the group/solo mob ballance was perfect....what ever happened to groups fighting higher lvl mobs instead of these impossible to solo mobs? these games all had plenty of solo content and the reason to group was so you could fight higher lvl mob, not fight 4-6 dot mobs. All the mobs in these games had a chance to drop nice gear, not just the uber mobs. what ever happened to that style of play?