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Good Old Exploration
Xelloss265
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Was wondering if anyone out there has played a game similar to Asheron's Call, Everquest, or Ragnarok. You remember them right? The good old games where you could walk in any given direction and find something interesting or worth-while. The ones where you could travel around avoiding high level mobs while defeating new and mysterious ones your level on a whole-nother continent. The ones where finding a safe area to camp in being just as exciting as the actual combat.
These games seem to be dead 
I still remember taking my newbie mage into the depths of Befallen in Everquest.
Traveling with a friend through the endless fields of Ragnarok.
And taking shelter in an abandoned house in the middle of no-where in Asheron's Call.
What I ask is what game can appease my sense of adventure in this dawn of a new gaming age? With the new and beautiful graphics of modern day hardware I am finding myself more and more confined to linear quests and dungeons. Arrows show me where the "hidden village" is and fields are more like fishbowls. Enemies are bland and use different color schemes to distinguish themselves while items are only different because of a "+1" added to the end of its name. Where Might I find a game with the thrill and exuberance of games long gone?
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Only 2 games im aware of that the devs encourage to explore in are fallen earth and vanguard.
I looked into Fallen Earth and haven't been able to find 1 good review about it. It was a good thought but I can't drop that kind of money on a gamel ike that. As for Vanguard...
I played that game when it launched. The first few levels were great, started my own greifer hunting guild and it was all good for a while. Once I got to 20 I felt the tedium roll in. Then later on it was turned over to Sony which played its hand in dropping the dev team and turning it into another SWG.
I was hoping for something more expansive that I could really sink my teeth into. I know a lot of people hate EQ and hate EQ2 even more, but I found them both really fun (EQ2 was fun after they fixed everything up, it was junk at launch). For their time they had decent graphics and expansive worlds to explore. LoTRO was also great but when people started going back to WOW it became unfun as grouping was all the rave in that game. AoC was pretty good at first too, but suffered the same defeat all MMORPG suffer only months after launch. In the end I was just hoping for something I could make some memories on. Sadly most of my best childhood memories were of Asheron's Call and EQ. Now-a-days I have trouble convincing myself to drop 20$ on a MMORPG, nevermind 50$.
I was talking to my friend the other day about this very same thing.
Back in the day it was fun and exciting fighting your way through an area, to get to another area to find a camp to test your teams skills at.
In the games now you simply take some sort of travel form (portal, cut scene, teleport, super speed, etc.), kill the 10 required whatzamahoozits, then bug back out real quick without thought to just do it all with 10 other whatzamahoozits in some other location easily traveled to.
I'm not saying I enjoy spending 20 minutes running to some location, but I do enjoy spending 20 minutes battling my way to some location.
And whatever happened to "camping" an area that required skill and teamwork to fight at? There's no more camping to fight things because it's simply fun to pit your skills against an area or camp. Again, all we do now is run into a spot, kill what we need and run back out in order to run into another spot and back out real quick.
And I'm not talking about grind. Grinding is when you kill something over and over and over and over because you HAVE to in order to "beat" the game. I'm talking about people that actually enjoy a challenge seeking out challenging encounters because it's FUN!
What else can I say: Amen.
will monitor this as I am looking for that too. Was so nice to run through the obsidian plains, being debuffed with huge trains behind you hoping to find the Frag to get MAYBE, a Shard.
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Vanguard and Darkfall, and now, to an extent, Fallen Earth are the only ones left.
REAL MMOs without instacing are very hard to come by.
Darkfall Travelogues!
Haven & Hearth has this in bucketloads! At the moment, especially, since lots of the new world is unmapped, and everyone needs routes for high quality resources and mines.
http://www.havenandhearth.com
The Best New Sandbox Game Out There.
You can hook up electrodes that zap you balls everytime you try to look up a map online, problem solved =D
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Im playing Vanguard atm, and exploring is mostly what i do. Amazing game
Ryzom is fun to explore. Wonderful crafting system as well.