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Your fondest MMORPG memory?
Ritto
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I've been playing MMORPG's since the early days of SWG. (which was my first MMO)
And since then I've played a good amount of MMORPG's as a player I have fond memories from
almost every MMO i've played. -Excluding RF Online which in my oppinion was horrible
My fondest memory was grouping in the Mining outpost in dantooine (star wars galaxies)
The sence of community was really powerful back then.
So, lets hear your fondest mmorpg memory!
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My fondest memory is from Anarchy Online. When we managed to do a server first kill at the merc camp. And subsequent events from that.
"The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in."
I have a couple, actually.
First was finally getting my Grid Armor MK 4 in Anarchy Online waaaaayyyyy back in the day.
Second....and almost every other significant one....was from SWG. Probably the most vivid being the very first day I ever logged into the live game (long before a CU was even thought about), and experienced a living, breathing world....and was promply pwned by a nest of Savvorts.
I remember sitting on the step of my little house on Tat, watching the suns set, and being content to do just that.
Fuck you SOE, for taking it all away.
Probably walking through the Dark Portal and ending up at the Stair of Destiny when the Burning Crusade first came out. I was like "whoa!". Seeing this completely outlandish (no pun intended) world coupled with the Burning Legion fighting the combined forces of the Alliance & Horde was pretty cool.
Getting in a gigantic guild brawl ouside of Dion in Lineage 2. It was N/A launch, most of us were still 30-something in level. These guys were giving a few of us a hard time. So we just kept gathering guildies until most of us were there (the other guild did the same). Our leader, Evanyan, talked them into a field around back of the city, pulled the trigger, and we decimated them.
It was good times on vent...lol
Probably walking up to newbie log in Nek forest when i first started EQ and seeing it jampacked with people.
Ahh how i miss EQ.
EQ DaoC EQ2 WoW Vanguard AoC Waaagh and beyond
Two memories for me, one was kreyt pearl hunting in SWG when i was a newb while next to me were 5 jedi friends of mine and second Zul Gurub and AQ20 raiding in wow especially when we downed kurinax in the first try with a totaly uber newber guild we had made over night
My fondest memory is probably in SWG, my guild dancing on the steps of the enemy guild hall. The enemy guild was a group of former guild mates that broke off and formed a new guild, and declared war on us. After a long, hard fought battle, and their subsequent surrender, dancing on their guild hall steps was a great feeling, and a great memory. You can't really get something like that in an MMO these days.
Tried: LotR, CoH, AoC, WAR, Jumpgate Classic
Played: SWG, Guild Wars, WoW
Playing: Eve Online, Counter-strike
Loved: Star Wars Galaxies
Waiting for: Earthrise, Guild Wars 2, anything sandbox.
The first time I arrived in Jeuno in FFXI.
Having just ran through three deadly zones where any aggro would probably mean death I arrived exhausted in a heavily populated city teaming with life. Someone had clearly put the M in MMORPG.
Mine was probably a player run event in SWG, where each side(imps/rebels) were holding a prisoner in two houses acrossed a large area, and whichever side rescued the prisoner first won the event. After a long battle, I was one of the few who directly rescued the prisoner, and we won. I was an Imp. WOOT! This was also pre-CU.
the first week of SWG me and my friend were hunting outside of restuss. We see 1 man blaster fire getting closer and can hear massive stomping so we assume hes about to train an assload of mobs we run into the city and chill. Soon as we see what exactly he is running from we notice its just 1 mob. A giant full grown tortise was chasing this dude who was running like hell. the town who heard all of the stomping quickly rushed out to see wtf was going down. Instantly the whole town was shooting this thing including me. A bunch of low level no armor havin ass people lighting up the sky and this giant creature with pee shooters. As the thing fell to the ground we all cheered. Victory!
Everyone keeps describing SWG pre CU as so great that I wonder why it got changed? Unfortunately I never tried it.
I have more than one...
Ragnarok Online. Playing around Payon (the old map later it was changed and I didn't like that). Music, porings etc. =P
Guild Wars.. the day of the releas. Ascalon was such a gorgeous place to play. Another nice memory is when ANet released Factions and I was doing the first mission when you arrived with a character from Tyria. It was so different and hard. My goups failed so many times. I guess there was even a bug with it. This is my favourite mission now after so many years.
FF XI it was this year actually. One day someone helped me and gave me a fishing rod. The next day we met again and she asked me to join her guild. It was the best guild I have ever seen in mmo. I miss all those people so much. I would love to come back and see them again but can't right now =/
Ryzom when it was rereleased last year. The moment I arrived on the mainland. It was raining and the whole atmosphere was awesome. I downloaded Ryzom yesterday just to feel it again. I hope the magic will work this time too.
Edit.. I forgot about Lineage 2.. the first time I arrived to cruma tower. Just an awesome dungeon. One of the best I've ever seen.
Theres a few, but placing my small house outside the east brit bank was one that really sticks out. It was a terrific vendor location, and I made a killing selling armor, especially once the colored armor came into play.
I also used to have a blast defending player-towns (anti-pk), which also included seeing the opposition wearing armor, my alt created
Fondest memory.....1st of all was probably the first time I wielded the "Soulfire" on my pally way back in early EQ. That was a huge feat then.
Lots of memorable 8v8 daoc fights and Relic Keep battles, or just keep battles when it was maybe a group of 8 against 20-30 mids or hibs kocking at a keep door. Danged mythic with their "New Frontiers" ruining the game for me.
My first big DAOC RvR battle the never happened;0 I remember heading out there for the first time with maybe 30 other people, hearing news of a huge army of Mids heading to a gate. We waited for what seemed like an hour. People kept running out and scouting. NO one ever showed up. Logged off completely wondering what the big deal was=)
In WOW, the journey to the Badlands flight master without dying with a best friend. You had to go through some higher level Alliance zones just to get there, with massive agro and no mount at the time. Didn't know the zones at all, so no map really. Since it was on a PvP server back in the begining when people actually gave a sh%$^#t and defended their areas, it made it that much harder. Hiding from Aliance and getting into a few scuffles almost getting killed a few times. Great, great fun. Doing it without getting killed felt like an accomplishment. Of course we could've suicided, ran as ghosts and rezzed or begged for a Teleport....but that wasn't the point. Back in the begining, it meant something.
Also, killing Onyxia the first time. VERY, VERY cool.
For me, It was before everyone left EQ2, the game has so much potential, but noone (or just waaay too little people) is(are) willing to leave WoW to try a new game for more than a month. You could find friendly people everywhere, nothing was too hard, from group reqiring quests for any level to soloing. When (If ever T.T) is advertised on more than just internet sidebars and gets a little populace boost I will return. What major feature does wow have over eq2? I mean it had flying mounts first, has more races and classes and EPs.
i have never found a game or a community like SWG, looking back there's just way too many good times to even begin listing them all out.
/tiphat kettemoor
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My fave moment was the first time in Blackburrow in EQ watching swarms of players fighting gnolls everywhere and i was standing at the edge of the hole looking down and saw a gnoll on a bridge. I fired an arrow at it just to see what happened and he disappeared but nothing else. I started fighting a gnoll but could hear the distant sound of gnoll's barking getting louder and louder then after about 3-4 minutes about a million gnolls come screaming up to the top level charging right at me.
I knew at that point i was going to love that dungeon.
Seeing a griffin, actually feeling nervous, and everyone yelling run. The sound of the wings flapping and it screaming. This was in EQ1 before the Ruins of Kunark expansion.
No specific memories, but in general, I always enjoyed as a Ranger setting up a camp in the middle of nowhere in SWG and have randon toons drop by as they were out grinding. It was such a fun way to meet people.
Fondest MMORPG memory...
Well normally I would just say Asheron's Call for a general answer because no game has compared to the time I spent playing AC. However if I had to narrow it down to one memory...
It was the morning of the patch where they were introducing Diamond Golems, and the Diamond Shield. The patch notes had being up while the servers were being patched, and I was itching to log on and see a Diamond Golem before I had to go to work. Finally I logged on and saw the beautiful portal space, my character appeared out on the Obisidian plains, a sword/item/creature/life/melee d hybrid. I quickly buffed up with everything, I didn't know what I would be facing. Obviously Bludgeoning damage, but what spells were they going to cast, so all my protections went up one at a time, lightning, pierce, fire, frost, bludgeon, slash, then all my item spells to improve my items Armor rating vs Bludgoning, and finally my creature and weapon spells, strength, coord, endurance, melee d, sword skill, magic resistance, quickness, and finally Blood Drinker on all my main swords along with swift killer, Heart seaker, and Defender. Lets not forget the Shield, I quickly buff it up as well, and now I was finally ready to go out and find me a Diamond Golem, total cast time about 4 minutes.
I started running around the Obisidian plains one of the more dangerous areas in the world of Dereth when I spotted, a Tusker group...nope, oh there a golem group...no those are Obsidian Golems, finally a white dot, I started to move closer, and sure enough 1 loan Diamond golem slumbering in pieces in the distance. I stopped and pulled out my wand that was only ment to draw attention, and I cast a frost bolt at the slumbering beast. I waited as the bolt floated to the target and finally connecting, the pieces of white on the ground started to raise up and form into the familiar design of a golem. I pulled out my shield and normal sword to start with, most golems can take slashes all day and not die so I set my bar to quick pierce, and waited. The golem launched a spell at me and I figured I would let it hit me and I would see the damage it could do, since I could tell it was a force bolt. It hit me and the damage was significant but nothing I couldn't handle, I healed quick but I noticed something. This Diamond Golem was running up to me VERY quick. Combat stance time, and lets get at it.
Of course I was on the quickest attack possible and so I was piercing this Diamond golem hitting for 3-4 points of damage. Wow tough, and he hit like a frieght train, but being the good little Melee fighter I was I stood toe to toe with this creature. The Battle raged on and on, some people had noticed this battle that felt epic to me at the time and come to watch but not help, no one had killed one of these on our server to my knowledge yet, and all these people about 5 of them were watching me attack this thing. After an epic 8 minutes of fighting and healing, the diamond golem finally crumbled at my feet. I got a congrats from the people around me and I opened the body for looting, and found some random items but no Diamond Shield. DAMN YOU VILE RANDOM LOOT!!!!! LOL, it wasn't till later I found out that it was the diamond lord that dropped the Shield but I was still happy, I was one of the first to defeat this creature.
No games to this date have ever matched that intensity or that epic feeling...how I miss it.
I met people that way that I'm still friends with to this day.
Sad that we don't game together anymore, because our game is a pile of steaming shit now.
Finally getting enough money to buy a tower deed in UO..There was an odd looking place that i new a tower would fit in for months. I finally got the tower deed and claimed my territory. Ther seemed to be a lot of very skilled Reds (PK'er) on my serevr so money was hard for me to come by.
My fondest memory comes from WoW back in the day when my guild was the first on the server to take down Rag! I had never felt so good from a video game before! Really felt like an accomplishment. Ive never really ridden that high since.
I was in the Council of Mages faction. We raided Moonglow (a city in UO) and met a stiff resistance. The raid got separated and most raiders either got killed or retreated. I got held back because of fighting and wasn't able to retreat with the main force.
So here I am, the only surviving CoM member in a town filled with angry enemy players who are patrolling around, looking for stragglers. Thankfully, I had maxed out my Hide and Stealth skills so I was able to slowly make it to the gate and eventually get away.
What made the whole ordeal more exciting and heart pounding was how Stealth and death worked in UO. For those unfamiliar with Stealth, you could only take about 10 steps before having to rest as after 10 steps, there was a high chance of Stealth failing. Besides the fact that Stealth could randomly fail on its own, if I remember correctly. Death also worked differently in UO as when you died, you dropped everything on your character and became a ghost, after which you had to run to a healer, resurrect and run back to your corpse, which was probably already looted. It took me a good 30 minutes to make it out of town and waiting for the enemy faction to stop patrolling the gate. I managed not to die and actually killed one guy who made a mistake of patrolling alone.
The other time was in Planetside when we were pinned in a tower by a tank and some aircraft. I was an infiltrator with advanced hacking so I snuck out of the tower and hacked the tank, took control of the weapon and killed the dumbfounded driver who couldn't figure out why the tank he was just in was firing at him.
The other time was in WoW as I was leveling my undead mage. I was level 20 something and got ambushed by a level 60 night elf hunter. However, I was able to cast Polymorph on him right before I died and turned him into a sheep. While he was still polymorphed, he got killed by a horde gank squad.
I have a lot of fun memories from MMOs and most have to deal with old school games. However, as newer and newer MMOs get released, I find that I have less and less memorable moments.