In Eve, shortly after launch, my wife and I were in a corp -- we had just joined the very day a senior member looted everything from the corp and disappeared into nullsec space. He bought his way into a pirate corp with the loot from our corp. He didn't know my wife was... my wife, and he needed someone to gloat to about how brilliant he was. So she played "hot single girl IRL who needs a buddy to show her around this game because girls are too stupid to figure it out on their own..."
She joined his nullsec corp and helped set up an ambush so we could podkill the bastard. It wasn't much, didn't make up for what he took from us, but goddamn it was fun.
I can also roleplay the tower in a chess game and shout "is that a peasant at the horizon I see? I will smash it I will! Oh damn I broke one of my merlons!". -- maji
My favorite MMO moment was in EQ2 my guild took down the dragon to get our epic weps and shard titles. Ah the days of sitting on the dock holding out a weapon that few ever managed to get /sigh...
When I was a newbie ranger in my first mmo, EQ1, I approached a more advanced ranger to ask him about a quest. At first he was reluctant to talk to me, out of concern I might be a begger. But once he saw my question was legitimate, he gave me the information I needed and even helped me out with the quest. We became friends and for over a year we went everywhere together, having many cool adventures. That type of bonding in game is really awesome when it happens.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
The first open pvp battle between Rebels and Empire in SWG. It was a raid on our player city ( 50 on 50) , my heart was gonna beat out of my chest ! Damn SOE destroyed SWG ! But thats another thread.
Getting my Water Sprinkler of Nem Ahnk in EQ1... I was the third cleric in our guild to complete the quest... I will never forget the day ragefire popped for me.
Imagine camping a random spawn on a weeklong timer, in an non instanced dungeon with raid caliber trash mobs .... and EVERY cleric in a raiding guild on the WHOLE server itching to be there when it popped....
And that is AFTER having to clear two planes to complete other parts of the quest.
hellish quest... but the feeling of accomplishment after finishing has never been matched by any other gaming experience. In WoW I got benediction for my priest which was by comparison a cake walk.
Lol yeah, that was a nasty camp. I played a Monk for a while, and I camped Raster for a good 45 hours or so and never saw him once. I still hate that guy =P
My most cherished MMO memory, has to be my first Castle Seige on Lineage 2. Seeing two huge alliances battling it out for a castle, it was just an awesome time to be playing.
Most cherished MMO memory has to be the first time my guild downed Archimonde in WoW. Archimonde was something of a guild breaker back in Burning Crusade, and we had spent close to two months trying to get him down. I was raid leader at the time, and that fight had caused plenty of drama, I was starting to see the corpse run back to the fight in my dreams lol.
When we finally downed him vent erupted in screams! It was very satisfying, especially since that bumped my guild up to rank 5 on the server
Don't know if this is my most cherished, but back when rogues could stunlock well, I had a 54 rogue, and I stunocked a 70 warrior down to about 45% health before I lost control and he killed me in like 2 swings. All to the tune of welcome to the Jungle in STV.
I would have been cooler to actually kill him, but I was happy enough with it.
Heh I remember my first few days of EQ back in Feb 01.
I was in east commons fighting bears, and folks were talking about how proud they were to be a "twink".
I thought to myself, "Damn I dont go around bragging about how many girls I have had in my life, so why should I care if you like taking it up the rear."
I always chuckle when I think back to that moment, and realize what "twink" means in relation to MMORPGs. That my friends is being a nOOb. :P
Asking Devs to make AAA sandbox titles is like trying to get fine dining on a McDonalds dollar menu budget.
The first time I made the run from Halas to Faydwer to do Crushbone...on Vallon Zek (racial pvp). Crazy fights all around Qeynos, then the long run of the Karana's, then the always chaotic Highpass Hold, darkness of Kithicor Forest, then the Eastern and Western Commonlands with all the darkies lurking about. Then the ever crazy cyclops and sharks of the Ocean of Tears. The ankle biting shorties of the Butchblock Mountains and finally the elves of Greater Faydwer...
*tear*
MMOs Played: I can no longer list them all in the 500 character limit.
I know one of my fonest memories was getting lost in the Ocean of Tears on the way to BB my first time. I had a few friends with me, we took a rowboat and went exploring on some islands - that is, until it sank and we lost our gnome to harsh seas. I loved the feeling that anything could happen; a seamonster might pop out and gobble down our boat or we'd locate lost pirate treasure on some remote island, but I also just enjoyed seeing the sights that made OoT feel exotic, huge, intimidating and perhaps a bit mystical.
The morning sun has vanquished the horrible night.
I have many worthy MMO memories, and a lot were from MUDs, but those would need a lot of prefacing. Here are a couple random things-
DAOC- I was only level 4, and decided to head to a big PvP brawl to see what it was like. It was an epic journey in and of itself, but the true greatness was the spectacle itself. Sure, I was one shotted, but I watched with my corpse cam for as long as I could, watching this massive amount of players which was nothing like anything I had ever seen before. Stealthers picked off casters, warriors charged up the middle, nukers rained asswhippings down upon my corpse, etc. It was magical.
Aion- Fresh in America, I had traded in my stealth tendencies to a front-line gladiator class. The server I was on was just about to have its first big brawl. I had worked my ass off to be the highest level of the class on the server (while maintaining a full-time job at a Nuke plant an hour away), I rushed into the Balaur (npc faction I think) keep with 100 players at my back to face an equally sized force of the opposite faction in the middle. Just watching the radar and the friendly/hostile blips move back and forth like a wave and realizing I was in the center, handing out some ho-slaps. That felt pretty damn cool.
Warhammer- Shortly before I had stopped playing, I was popping scenarios due to their efficiency for leveling. I believe the it was the lava map with the orb in the center. Destruction had the orb (as beatdowns from them were fairly common, at least on my server) and was turtled at their base, accumulating win. I flanked them with my Shadow Warrior while the rest of my team spawned and rushed to my position. Destruction began to taunt me with the orb and emotes as I stuck out of range while I waited for backup. In a rush of 'I'd rather die than take crap from these punks,' I ran into the middle of them all and popped the orb carrier into the lava. Too busy with their emotes and laughing at me, I ran through the entire force miraculously unscathed, grabbed the orb, and we won the game.
SWG- The entire game. Maybe not combat, which I always found pretty weak (personal opinion :P). Everything in this game was unique. Like experiencing something new and different in every facet. Waiting in the cantina, picking fights, med center heals, my first vehicle, my first house, spying on rebels for the imperials on early Bloodfin, crawling from Mos Eisley to Anchorhead in my boxers with several people following me, making friends, making enemies, shooting both, Money Inc. on Kauri...
You know, a great SWG memory is when a buddy irl and I started TK brawling in a house our PA was holed up in during a huge PvP battle. The PA leader was going ballistic, but we were solid and loyal players, and he couldn't really do anything other than mutter some disgruntled noises and sigh a lot while enemy forces closed in because we collapsed our sides defense. Though in retrospect, it was kind of a dick move on our part- completely derailing everyone but the PA leader while they took bets on us was too funny at the time.
WOW- Hitting STV for the first time. Before the Alliance flight path in the north. I stealthed all the way from duskwood to Booty Bay. Now that I think of it...that was horrible!!!
LOL I remember falling off the boat in EQ1 and mad cuz I had to swim the rest of the way till I became shark bait. lol
SWG - As an Imperial, I loved the first time my guild killed a Rebel when the poor guy got lost and found our camp. LOL
All my good MMO memories came from EQ1 as well, let's see:
Truly Epic: First time setting foot in VP, that was an epic night and by far nothing has compared since.
Most funny / annoying: Getting use to wood elf home. Littering the ground with 20 or so corpses as I learned camera angles :P
Most enjoyable: Guilds first breaking of ToV.. Completely undergeared, being the only guild on the server that was going + Kael we were killing drakes and my best friend and I were charged with the duty of off tanking the adds. He was a barb shamy and I was a barb war. Those moments still come up in phone conversations ... sniff.
I'd say WoW BEFORE AQ40 came out, but I'll even stretch it to before Burning Crusade came out. Blizzard ruined WoW for me when that PoS came out. SADFACEx203
In Everquest. I started as a barbarian shaman. Making the trek through the Blackburrow cave without any light source was amazingly freaky.
Then when I was a high and mighty level 12 having my first set of banded armor made, I was so stoked.
Making the journey from Qeynos to Freeport. I seriously had no idea that so many players could occupy a single zone until we got to the Freeport Tunnel and I saw my first OOC spam. That was simply put, amazing.
At level 18 I was soloing in North karana outside the guard tower. I met a level 13 shaman. Her and I started talking and eventually were always hanging out. We have been married in real life now going on 9 years.
I know that these experiences are just nostalgia, but sometimes I wish they would make a new version of classic Everquest, same game, new engine and very upgraded everything. I would be a lifer to that game.
I was playing Dark age of Cemelot with my lower level merc on albion ....we got rather deep in there, up to the fairys. this was completely new ground for all of us....while we were getting a ton of exp, we were all super cautious trying not to catch any aggro on this crowded area full of purples
we just cleared out a room and decided to take a break.....we were all just sitting in the middle of the room,some of us afk. when all of a sudden out from the even deeper part of darkness falls came a minstrel, and he was /yell 'ing MIDGARD IS COMMING!! MIDGARD IS COMMING!! the group and i just sat there "......ummm" "whats goin on?" we decided to investigate down the ramp, there was nothing to be seen....just then MORE albion players started running up the ramp....almost like a stampeed. we all pretty much agreed, its time to leave.....having no idea how many there are or when they'll be close......we decide to book it....there was still 1 of our group members afk....we jumped around him as frantically as we could and kept the caps lock on, trying to get his attention....thats when the midgard came
we decided to leave him behind and turn on that sprint button and move up.....as we were racing up the ramps, at least 10-20 mid's tailing us...we started seeing the chat screen go crazy with /yell emotes letting everyone know where the mids currently are (is was my 1st pvp experience so you could imagine the confusion) all that was on my mind is to GTFO of there and fast......3 of the group members have attracted aggro from nearby monsters on the way, so they died and we had aggro because they did. eventually I, and the remainder of the group that wernt killed by mids or aggro, got to the top where we were greeted by an ARMY of lvl 50's....all carrying weapons with that (badass at the time) fire effect.....we were saved! Everyone started to push back on the mids....and we did so a couple levels until everyone wiped
it was my 1st mmo, so seeing just a clusterfuck of people and mobs just gave you that feeling of really being in a war....MAKE DAOC2!!
The best memory for me was playing SWG with my son. One night we were at Theed and the best PvPer on my server was smack talking my son after my son beat him handily in a duel...and of course I intervened. Keep in mind that this guy was pretty much unbeatable in duels/PvP. I sent a duel challenge to him and we dueled for 10 minutes and I finally beat him and issued a deathblow. He was irrate and the crowd went wild to see him get beat two times in a row...by father and son no doubt.
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In Eve, shortly after launch, my wife and I were in a corp -- we had just joined the very day a senior member looted everything from the corp and disappeared into nullsec space. He bought his way into a pirate corp with the loot from our corp. He didn't know my wife was... my wife, and he needed someone to gloat to about how brilliant he was. So she played "hot single girl IRL who needs a buddy to show her around this game because girls are too stupid to figure it out on their own..."
She joined his nullsec corp and helped set up an ambush so we could podkill the bastard. It wasn't much, didn't make up for what he took from us, but goddamn it was fun.
I can also roleplay the tower in a chess game and shout "is that a peasant at the horizon I see? I will smash it I will! Oh damn I broke one of my merlons!". -- maji
My favorite MMO moment was in EQ2 my guild took down the dragon to get our epic weps and shard titles. Ah the days of sitting on the dock holding out a weapon that few ever managed to get /sigh...
Mine must be from Anarchy Online, so many many memories, the raids on Omni 1, finding a Yalmaha in mission loot and all the people.
FE before they added a cash shop.
Let's play Fallen Earth (blind, 300 episodes)
Let's play Guild Wars 2 (blind, 45 episodes)
When I was a newbie ranger in my first mmo, EQ1, I approached a more advanced ranger to ask him about a quest. At first he was reluctant to talk to me, out of concern I might be a begger. But once he saw my question was legitimate, he gave me the information I needed and even helped me out with the quest. We became friends and for over a year we went everywhere together, having many cool adventures. That type of bonding in game is really awesome when it happens.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
The first open pvp battle between Rebels and Empire in SWG. It was a raid on our player city ( 50 on 50) , my heart was gonna beat out of my chest ! Damn SOE destroyed SWG ! But thats another thread.
Lol yeah, that was a nasty camp. I played a Monk for a while, and I camped Raster for a good 45 hours or so and never saw him once. I still hate that guy =P
Virtual Reality
zomg... getting that first Yalm and... FLIGHT!!!!!!!!!!11
so many memories from AO... entering the grid first time
getting enough skill to use the fixer shop
putting in first implants
figuring out i can blitz missions
finding odd creatures out in the middle of nowhere...
neut4life...
first party at Reet's with a real DJ and dancing...
"Id rather work on something with great potential than on fulfilling a promise of mediocrity."
- Raph Koster
Tried: AO,EQ,EQ2,DAoC,SWG,AA,SB,HZ,CoX,PS,GA,TR,IV,GnH,EVE, PP,DnL,WAR,MxO,SWG,FE,VG,AoC,DDO,LoTRO,Rift,TOR,Aion,Tera,TSW,GW2,DCUO,CO,STO
Favourites: AO,SWG,EVE,TR,LoTRO,TSW,EQ2, Firefall
Currently Playing: ESO
My most cherished MMO memory, has to be my first Castle Seige on Lineage 2. Seeing two huge alliances battling it out for a castle, it was just an awesome time to be playing.
Most cherished MMO memory has to be the first time my guild downed Archimonde in WoW. Archimonde was something of a guild breaker back in Burning Crusade, and we had spent close to two months trying to get him down. I was raid leader at the time, and that fight had caused plenty of drama, I was starting to see the corpse run back to the fight in my dreams lol.
When we finally downed him vent erupted in screams! It was very satisfying, especially since that bumped my guild up to rank 5 on the server
Don't know if this is my most cherished, but back when rogues could stunlock well, I had a 54 rogue, and I stunocked a 70 warrior down to about 45% health before I lost control and he killed me in like 2 swings. All to the tune of welcome to the Jungle in STV.
I would have been cooler to actually kill him, but I was happy enough with it.
My Thoughts on Content Locust
Heh I remember my first few days of EQ back in Feb 01.
I was in east commons fighting bears, and folks were talking about how proud they were to be a "twink".
I thought to myself, "Damn I dont go around bragging about how many girls I have had in my life, so why should I care if you like taking it up the rear."
I always chuckle when I think back to that moment, and realize what "twink" means in relation to MMORPGs. That my friends is being a nOOb. :P
Asking Devs to make AAA sandbox titles is like trying to get fine dining on a McDonalds dollar menu budget.
My first MMO ever and exploring it in UO. MMO's have never been the same since.
Making a Grandmaster Blacksmith and buying a house in UO
Running from Qeynos to Freeport for the first time at a low lvl without dying. EQ1. Oh I miss the Karanas.
Getting my first mount in WOW and loving the Hunter class.
Being a superhero in CoH.
Proud MMORPG.com member since March 2004! Make PvE GREAT Again!
The first time I made the run from Halas to Faydwer to do Crushbone...on Vallon Zek (racial pvp). Crazy fights all around Qeynos, then the long run of the Karana's, then the always chaotic Highpass Hold, darkness of Kithicor Forest, then the Eastern and Western Commonlands with all the darkies lurking about. Then the ever crazy cyclops and sharks of the Ocean of Tears. The ankle biting shorties of the Butchblock Mountains and finally the elves of Greater Faydwer...
*tear*
MMOs Played: I can no longer list them all in the 500 character limit.
I know one of my fonest memories was getting lost in the Ocean of Tears on the way to BB my first time. I had a few friends with me, we took a rowboat and went exploring on some islands - that is, until it sank and we lost our gnome to harsh seas. I loved the feeling that anything could happen; a seamonster might pop out and gobble down our boat or we'd locate lost pirate treasure on some remote island, but I also just enjoyed seeing the sights that made OoT feel exotic, huge, intimidating and perhaps a bit mystical.
The morning sun has vanquished the horrible night.
LOL I remember falling off the boat in EQ1 and mad cuz I had to swim the rest of the way till I became shark bait. lol
SWG - As an Imperial, I loved the first time my guild killed a Rebel when the poor guy got lost and found our camp. LOL
Proud MMORPG.com member since March 2004! Make PvE GREAT Again!
I have many worthy MMO memories, and a lot were from MUDs, but those would need a lot of prefacing. Here are a couple random things-
DAOC- I was only level 4, and decided to head to a big PvP brawl to see what it was like. It was an epic journey in and of itself, but the true greatness was the spectacle itself. Sure, I was one shotted, but I watched with my corpse cam for as long as I could, watching this massive amount of players which was nothing like anything I had ever seen before. Stealthers picked off casters, warriors charged up the middle, nukers rained asswhippings down upon my corpse, etc. It was magical.
Aion- Fresh in America, I had traded in my stealth tendencies to a front-line gladiator class. The server I was on was just about to have its first big brawl. I had worked my ass off to be the highest level of the class on the server (while maintaining a full-time job at a Nuke plant an hour away), I rushed into the Balaur (npc faction I think) keep with 100 players at my back to face an equally sized force of the opposite faction in the middle. Just watching the radar and the friendly/hostile blips move back and forth like a wave and realizing I was in the center, handing out some ho-slaps. That felt pretty damn cool.
Warhammer- Shortly before I had stopped playing, I was popping scenarios due to their efficiency for leveling. I believe the it was the lava map with the orb in the center. Destruction had the orb (as beatdowns from them were fairly common, at least on my server) and was turtled at their base, accumulating win. I flanked them with my Shadow Warrior while the rest of my team spawned and rushed to my position. Destruction began to taunt me with the orb and emotes as I stuck out of range while I waited for backup. In a rush of 'I'd rather die than take crap from these punks,' I ran into the middle of them all and popped the orb carrier into the lava. Too busy with their emotes and laughing at me, I ran through the entire force miraculously unscathed, grabbed the orb, and we won the game.
SWG- The entire game. Maybe not combat, which I always found pretty weak (personal opinion :P). Everything in this game was unique. Like experiencing something new and different in every facet. Waiting in the cantina, picking fights, med center heals, my first vehicle, my first house, spying on rebels for the imperials on early Bloodfin, crawling from Mos Eisley to Anchorhead in my boxers with several people following me, making friends, making enemies, shooting both, Money Inc. on Kauri...
You know, a great SWG memory is when a buddy irl and I started TK brawling in a house our PA was holed up in during a huge PvP battle. The PA leader was going ballistic, but we were solid and loyal players, and he couldn't really do anything other than mutter some disgruntled noises and sigh a lot while enemy forces closed in because we collapsed our sides defense. Though in retrospect, it was kind of a dick move on our part- completely derailing everyone but the PA leader while they took bets on us was too funny at the time.
WOW- Hitting STV for the first time. Before the Alliance flight path in the north. I stealthed all the way from duskwood to Booty Bay. Now that I think of it...that was horrible!!!
SWG - Tending a harvester on Dantooine and got a visit from "The Old Man"
All my good MMO memories came from EQ1 as well, let's see:
Truly Epic: First time setting foot in VP, that was an epic night and by far nothing has compared since.
Most funny / annoying: Getting use to wood elf home. Littering the ground with 20 or so corpses as I learned camera angles :P
Most enjoyable: Guilds first breaking of ToV.. Completely undergeared, being the only guild on the server that was going + Kael we were killing drakes and my best friend and I were charged with the duty of off tanking the adds. He was a barb shamy and I was a barb war. Those moments still come up in phone conversations ... sniff.
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~V
I'd say WoW BEFORE AQ40 came out, but I'll even stretch it to before Burning Crusade came out. Blizzard ruined WoW for me when that PoS came out. SADFACEx203
In Everquest. I started as a barbarian shaman. Making the trek through the Blackburrow cave without any light source was amazingly freaky.
Then when I was a high and mighty level 12 having my first set of banded armor made, I was so stoked.
Making the journey from Qeynos to Freeport. I seriously had no idea that so many players could occupy a single zone until we got to the Freeport Tunnel and I saw my first OOC spam. That was simply put, amazing.
At level 18 I was soloing in North karana outside the guard tower. I met a level 13 shaman. Her and I started talking and eventually were always hanging out. We have been married in real life now going on 9 years.
I know that these experiences are just nostalgia, but sometimes I wish they would make a new version of classic Everquest, same game, new engine and very upgraded everything. I would be a lifer to that game.
I was playing Dark age of Cemelot with my lower level merc on albion ....we got rather deep in there, up to the fairys. this was completely new ground for all of us....while we were getting a ton of exp, we were all super cautious trying not to catch any aggro on this crowded area full of purples
we just cleared out a room and decided to take a break.....we were all just sitting in the middle of the room,some of us afk. when all of a sudden out from the even deeper part of darkness falls came a minstrel, and he was /yell 'ing MIDGARD IS COMMING!! MIDGARD IS COMMING!! the group and i just sat there "......ummm" "whats goin on?" we decided to investigate down the ramp, there was nothing to be seen....just then MORE albion players started running up the ramp....almost like a stampeed. we all pretty much agreed, its time to leave.....having no idea how many there are or when they'll be close......we decide to book it....there was still 1 of our group members afk....we jumped around him as frantically as we could and kept the caps lock on, trying to get his attention....thats when the midgard came
we decided to leave him behind and turn on that sprint button and move up.....as we were racing up the ramps, at least 10-20 mid's tailing us...we started seeing the chat screen go crazy with /yell emotes letting everyone know where the mids currently are (is was my 1st pvp experience so you could imagine the confusion) all that was on my mind is to GTFO of there and fast......3 of the group members have attracted aggro from nearby monsters on the way, so they died and we had aggro because they did. eventually I, and the remainder of the group that wernt killed by mids or aggro, got to the top where we were greeted by an ARMY of lvl 50's....all carrying weapons with that (badass at the time) fire effect.....we were saved! Everyone started to push back on the mids....and we did so a couple levels until everyone wiped
it was my 1st mmo, so seeing just a clusterfuck of people and mobs just gave you that feeling of really being in a war....MAKE DAOC2!!
_The Sauce Man
The best memory for me was playing SWG with my son. One night we were at Theed and the best PvPer on my server was smack talking my son after my son beat him handily in a duel...and of course I intervened. Keep in mind that this guy was pretty much unbeatable in duels/PvP. I sent a duel challenge to him and we dueled for 10 minutes and I finally beat him and issued a deathblow. He was irrate and the crowd went wild to see him get beat two times in a row...by father and son no doubt.
I love how everyone has good memorys on games that still exist. You people obviously dont know what you want.
Err, huh? I can't even tell if this is relevant or coherent. It certainly isn't a cherished memory. Is my reading comprehension horrible or what?