I would have to say eq1, for some reason that game seemed endless .. the quests had meaning , raids were a blast even just summoning players there ... so please update soon kk
I'd actually enjoy if any pre-WoW MMO got a graphical upgrade.
Without the "aw, the graphics aren't up to today's standards" excuse, people would re-log into those games and discover how little fun it really was/is to play. Call it the "automatic rose-colored glasses nostalgia removal system".
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
It had everything, open PVP, great crafting, housing and naked dudes trying to rob you at the bank.
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I'd actually enjoy if any pre-WoW MMO got a graphical upgrade.
Without the "aw, the graphics aren't up to today's standards" excuse, people would re-log into those games and discover how little fun it really was/is to play. Call it the "automatic rose-colored glasses nostalgia removal system".
Except your totally wrong , anyway back on topic . My top 5 (hard to pick one)
The Ultima series deserves an up to date go over while maintaining certain elements of its core.
The thing that I always liked about Ultima, being one of the seminal rpg series, is that it always held that middle ground between strategy and action. Was easier to get into than your diablos but had more depth than anything BioWare, Looking Glass, Black Isle, Interplay etc could come up with. The largest problem with Ultima was, sad to say, Garriott and I think that now would be a great time for it.
Question: If you got to have your favorite MMO remade with superior graphics, which would it be and why?
Well it is a VERY easy call,however there is one problem,i also need the game to revert back to what made it a great game.That game is FFXI,it has the best class/combat structure of any game and also has the most in depth formulas for combat of any game.
It doesn't end there as it also does questing/missions the way i like it done and in a more realsitic fashion....NO XP.
They also have some very nice cutscenes which if using even better graphics would look amazing.
When talking graphics however,we are talking aobut changing the whole look of the game,player models would be redone,hi res textures ect ect.FFXI did an amazing job with animation and effects,everything looked spot on and realistic,imo a lot of effort was put into making this game right or at least better than other games.
If this game had access to better graphics then so much more would also open up to the game.Yes i know they had the chance to do this with FFXIV,but they didn't so this is why i would like to see FFXI redone properly.
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No contest... Runescape. Not that I wouldn't play it today because of its graphics, I totally would if I had the money(Stopped not too long ago). I grew up on that game and loved the skilling and quests so much. The system of questing in Runescape is what I would love to see in highly graphical games today. Starting and finishing a quest that has you running around crafting/killing/doing puzzles that will probably open up a set of things to craft, a new place to explore, new monsters to kill or even new armor to wear is exponentially much more fun than kill X of Y monsters for some experience. The quests arent just a grind to max level they are optional and double rewarding with experience in certain skills and unlocking new parts of the world, etc. It also has a huge solo value... you can go through a huge portion of the game by yourself. Of course, you could always join a clan and fight for those big baddies against other groups for massively expensive items or go PKing(not my style but possible). If Runescape looked like the shiny MMOs today i believe it would be ridiculously popular. No im not saying Runescape is THE BEST GAME EVARR, but it would be awesome to see it from a graphically enhanced perspective.
Anyone who doesn't answer "Ultima Online" or "UO" has to suspend their internet service and think about their mistake until the message really sinks in...
Anyone who doesn't answer "Ultima Online" or "UO" has to suspend their internet service and think about their mistake until the message really sinks in...
Well, at least i have the excuse that i came into the MMO scene too late to experience UO in its glory day.
Pre-CU SWG of course. But not for the graphics, rather for the crafting and economy. That being said pre-cu swg would not survive in today's market. It would need to have extensive pve (and for that matter pvp) content added to compete.
For me, for whatever game I left, I left for a reason and wouldn't come back regardless if it had better graphics. I love eye candy as much as the next gamer, but without good gameplay, deep mechanics, engaging combat system, active community, what have you, the graphics won't ever get me back to playing an old game that I left as the reason why I left the game still exists.
What would get me back is making a successor to that game with similar gameplay, but updated to account for the (so called, haha) evolution of the genre, improve the negatives, build on the positives, etc (yes that is subjective) - which I guess in a way include improved graphics.
I would love a re-make of Ultima Online and Anarchy Online in that order.
Anyone who doesn't answer "Ultima Online" or "UO" has to suspend their internet service and think about their mistake until the message really sinks in...
Lol, UO was great but not as great as many people remembers it. As time goes by we tend to forget the bad things and the longer since it was the more rose colored glasses do we get.
A buddy played SWG at launch, he constantly complained about it but now he say it was the perfect MMO and have forgotten all the bad parts.
What someone really should do is not just a remake with better graphics but taking all the good things while reinventing the bad ones... Remember when people built furniture around AFK people in the city to get them stuck.
Make a list of all the best features, then make a list of the not so great and take away them. If you say there was nothing bad then your brain is toying with you.
1. Dark Age of Camelot - a pile of gold just waiting for one person at EA/Mythic to wake up and invest in. Don't get your hopes up though True Believers, the corporate powers and endless pool of talent that brought you Warhammer Online <coughs> see Dark Age as a competitor that had to be consumed and then "released" under a rug. If you can't beat 'em, buy em out. Right?
2. Shadowbane (can I get a heck yes?). I'll take the culture/faction server - because it was Dark Age of Camelot with a major upgrade in a few good ways (and sadly not as good in others..but hey!). Also, the FFA server for the Darkfall/Mortal Online folks who realize they are playing in an empty sandbox.
3. Asheron's Call 3 (I know it's not relevant...but I had to toss it in).
Ultima Online for sure. Not a hard call as my top 5 favorite rpg's ever are Planescape, The Bards Tale 1 and 3 Ultimas. And I loved Ultima Online. Probably my favorite MMO. I just finished Ultima 4 (free to download) on dosbox and had a blast, dated and all.
I'd love to see the original Ultima games and games like Planescape, Fallout, Bard's Tale,Baldur's Gate, modernized like they did with the Monkey Island games.
What someone really should do is not just a remake with better graphics but taking all the good things while reinventing the bad ones... Remember when people built furniture around AFK people in the city to get them stuck.
And you still can't do that in any other game to date, I'll bet!
p.s. you could always just move the furniture.
Mine is UO as well and despite what some people might try and convince me otherwise, it's not because of nostalgia -- I guarnatee it. Though, the playerbase has changed a lot and I imagine that'd be the biggest taint to any game having a pure graphical remake.
Anyone who doesn't answer "Ultima Online" or "UO" has to suspend their internet service and think about their mistake until the message really sinks in...
Lol, UO was great but not as great as many people remembers it. As time goes by we tend to forget the bad things and the longer since it was the more rose colored glasses do we get.
A buddy played SWG at launch, he constantly complained about it but now he say it was the perfect MMO and have forgotten all the bad parts.
What someone really should do is not just a remake with better graphics but taking all the good things while reinventing the bad ones... Remember when people built furniture around AFK people in the city to get them stuck.
Make a list of all the best features, then make a list of the not so great and take away them. If you say there was nothing bad then your brain is toying with you.
True. I would want the basics of UO, but there were some bad issues indeed, so no 100% rollback. I don't think many would play that! ^^
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I would have to say eq1, for some reason that game seemed endless .. the quests had meaning , raids were a blast even just summoning players there ... so please update soon kk
I'd actually enjoy if any pre-WoW MMO got a graphical upgrade.
Without the "aw, the graphics aren't up to today's standards" excuse, people would re-log into those games and discover how little fun it really was/is to play. Call it the "automatic rose-colored glasses nostalgia removal system".
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
Gotta be Anarchy Online. I love the setting and coomplex gameplay but the graphics have not aged well at all.
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UO
It had everything, open PVP, great crafting, housing and naked dudes trying to rob you at the bank.
Except your totally wrong , anyway back on topic . My top 5 (hard to pick one)
EQoa
UO
Shadowbane
Asherons call
Daoc
Ultima Online.
The Ultima series deserves an up to date go over while maintaining certain elements of its core.
The thing that I always liked about Ultima, being one of the seminal rpg series, is that it always held that middle ground between strategy and action. Was easier to get into than your diablos but had more depth than anything BioWare, Looking Glass, Black Isle, Interplay etc could come up with. The largest problem with Ultima was, sad to say, Garriott and I think that now would be a great time for it.
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Well it is a VERY easy call,however there is one problem,i also need the game to revert back to what made it a great game.That game is FFXI,it has the best class/combat structure of any game and also has the most in depth formulas for combat of any game.
It doesn't end there as it also does questing/missions the way i like it done and in a more realsitic fashion....NO XP.
They also have some very nice cutscenes which if using even better graphics would look amazing.
When talking graphics however,we are talking aobut changing the whole look of the game,player models would be redone,hi res textures ect ect.FFXI did an amazing job with animation and effects,everything looked spot on and realistic,imo a lot of effort was put into making this game right or at least better than other games.
If this game had access to better graphics then so much more would also open up to the game.Yes i know they had the chance to do this with FFXIV,but they didn't so this is why i would like to see FFXI redone properly.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
No contest... Runescape. Not that I wouldn't play it today because of its graphics, I totally would if I had the money(Stopped not too long ago). I grew up on that game and loved the skilling and quests so much. The system of questing in Runescape is what I would love to see in highly graphical games today. Starting and finishing a quest that has you running around crafting/killing/doing puzzles that will probably open up a set of things to craft, a new place to explore, new monsters to kill or even new armor to wear is exponentially much more fun than kill X of Y monsters for some experience. The quests arent just a grind to max level they are optional and double rewarding with experience in certain skills and unlocking new parts of the world, etc. It also has a huge solo value... you can go through a huge portion of the game by yourself. Of course, you could always join a clan and fight for those big baddies against other groups for massively expensive items or go PKing(not my style but possible). If Runescape looked like the shiny MMOs today i believe it would be ridiculously popular. No im not saying Runescape is THE BEST GAME EVARR, but it would be awesome to see it from a graphically enhanced perspective.
UO.
Shadowbane.
Anyone who doesn't answer "Ultima Online" or "UO" has to suspend their internet service and think about their mistake until the message really sinks in...
Well, at least i have the excuse that i came into the MMO scene too late to experience UO in its glory day.
UO
SWG pre all the crapovers, and server stability addressed as well as other things haha...
Just making something look nice doesn't mean its not full of crap inside
Pre-CU SWG of course. But not for the graphics, rather for the crafting and economy. That being said pre-cu swg would not survive in today's market. It would need to have extensive pve (and for that matter pvp) content added to compete.
For me, for whatever game I left, I left for a reason and wouldn't come back regardless if it had better graphics. I love eye candy as much as the next gamer, but without good gameplay, deep mechanics, engaging combat system, active community, what have you, the graphics won't ever get me back to playing an old game that I left as the reason why I left the game still exists.
What would get me back is making a successor to that game with similar gameplay, but updated to account for the (so called, haha) evolution of the genre, improve the negatives, build on the positives, etc (yes that is subjective) - which I guess in a way include improved graphics.
I would love a re-make of Ultima Online and Anarchy Online in that order.
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ULTIMA ONLINE (post Trammel pls, no hardcore PK heh)
Everyone else is only 2nd best.
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Shadowbane, the dated graphics and bugs were what kept this great game down.
*Insert Game* meets FrostBite2, profit.
Lol, UO was great but not as great as many people remembers it. As time goes by we tend to forget the bad things and the longer since it was the more rose colored glasses do we get.
A buddy played SWG at launch, he constantly complained about it but now he say it was the perfect MMO and have forgotten all the bad parts.
What someone really should do is not just a remake with better graphics but taking all the good things while reinventing the bad ones... Remember when people built furniture around AFK people in the city to get them stuck.
Make a list of all the best features, then make a list of the not so great and take away them. If you say there was nothing bad then your brain is toying with you.
1. Dark Age of Camelot - a pile of gold just waiting for one person at EA/Mythic to wake up and invest in. Don't get your hopes up though True Believers, the corporate powers and endless pool of talent that brought you Warhammer Online <coughs> see Dark Age as a competitor that had to be consumed and then "released" under a rug. If you can't beat 'em, buy em out. Right?
2. Shadowbane (can I get a heck yes?). I'll take the culture/faction server - because it was Dark Age of Camelot with a major upgrade in a few good ways (and sadly not as good in others..but hey!). Also, the FFA server for the Darkfall/Mortal Online folks who realize they are playing in an empty sandbox.
3. Asheron's Call 3 (I know it's not relevant...but I had to toss it in).
Ultima Online for sure. Not a hard call as my top 5 favorite rpg's ever are Planescape, The Bards Tale 1 and 3 Ultimas. And I loved Ultima Online. Probably my favorite MMO. I just finished Ultima 4 (free to download) on dosbox and had a blast, dated and all.
I'd love to see the original Ultima games and games like Planescape, Fallout, Bard's Tale,Baldur's Gate, modernized like they did with the Monkey Island games.
SWG pre-cu, SWG > UO IMO.
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Asherons Call for sure
And you still can't do that in any other game to date, I'll bet!
p.s. you could always just move the furniture.
Mine is UO as well and despite what some people might try and convince me otherwise, it's not because of nostalgia -- I guarnatee it. Though, the playerbase has changed a lot and I imagine that'd be the biggest taint to any game having a pure graphical remake.
True. I would want the basics of UO, but there were some bad issues indeed, so no 100% rollback. I don't think many would play that! ^^
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