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Jaded MMO Playing Hoping for Hidden Gem

TsukieUTsukieU Member Posts: 559
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Ok, so far I've beta tested many of the MMOs out there and I've paid to play many more.

Almost none of them seemed to have captured the enjoyment I recall from Ultima Online.

 

I really enjoyed the possibilities, it was completely player driven.  Not just sorta player driven like Darkfall and such.  If you wanted to do something, it was up to the community to make it happen.  And heck if all else failed everyone just piled into the Abyss server for a good old slap and tickle.

 

I wanted to enjoy LOTRO, but the community that everyone raves about, I just did not see.  It felt like you weren't an established member of this mythical community, you did not exist.  I tried everything to get into it, I even wrote a few songs for a band that plays outside of the inn.

 

I wanted to enjoy WoW, but...oh who am I kidding, I did love WoW.  Up until the first expansion anyway.  Then it just felt too big for it's own britches.  Commence with the rotten fruit if you do feel so inclined.

 

I played CoH and I loved how it was entirely possible for 6 people who had no prior contact and were all level ranges, could get together and do something productive and sometimes even fun!  However, a je ne sais quois always seemed to prevent me from staying longer than a month at a time every few months.

 

In AoC I enjoyed how there was so much potential.  The world was beautiful, (and the characters too, on an unrealistic scale) the PVP was fun and accessable as was the end game PVE.  However it eventually fell into problems with the expanison.  Now it is like every other MMO out there, the top end content is for only 4% of the game population and the PVP is inaccessable without the gear from the top end content.  There are alternatives of course, but they involve putting 1000+ hours of grinding in.

 

Champions Online, well...I will say that the guilty pleasure of this game is the character creator.  You can make anything at all you imagine.  As to the game itself, it's pretty mediocre.  Not terribly boring, but not exciting either.  II don't have much bad to say about this game, but nothing good either.

 

Eve Online.  Eh.  I didn't really enjoy the game on any level.  The idea of the complete openess intrigued me, but there was just no personal connection to it.  It felt like I was playing a calculator.

 

I could keep going on, but those are the MMO's of note that I can think of off the top of my head.

 

Thank you all in advance for your responses.

 

 

 

Mne eto nado kak zuby v zadnitse.

Comments

  • rieberryrieberry Member Posts: 14

    I just responded to something vaguely like this, so I'll just repaste it below.  Nearly everything you listed has really great graphics though, and I know WURM is much more simplistic. Also, it might be a little too nontraditional for you. I don't know.

     

    And in defense of LOTRO's community, I offer this.

     

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    Have you looked into WURM online? I haven't played it myself yet, but I have read a lot about it, and it sounds like it might the sandbox type of environment you're looking for.

    It's initially free to play, although eventually you pay a small one-time amount to move out of a beginning area.

    http://www.wurmonline.com/

     

    I have seen a few MMO Reviewers who have played countless MMOS  (and seem kind of burned out on the norms, while still in love with the genre) list it as a favorite.

     

    Here are some reviews that are a few months old:

    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/03/24/pitchfork-media-a-portrait-of-wurm-online/

    http://www.massively.com/2010/04/20/free-for-all-a-look-at-wurm-online/ (and http://www.massively.com/2010/06/01/free-for-all-my-top-five-f2p-games/)

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  • TsukieUTsukieU Member Posts: 559

    Wurm Online is a great concept, really.  But I just can't get past the abysmal graphics and optimization.  The graphics are horrible even by Ultima Online standards, and the game lags on my machine like no one's business and I can run AoC on high graphics.

     

    As to LOTRO's community, as I said before...it may be there, but it made no efforts to include me in it.

    Mne eto nado kak zuby v zadnitse.

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