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Your most remembered MMO experience!!

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  • MadimorgaMadimorga Member UncommonPosts: 1,920

    Kind of depressing, because most of my memorable MMO moments are from AO, several years ago.  The only recent one I have is a screenshot and FRAPS video run I did in Earthrise.  Actually, it wasn't just one moment, or even one day.  I spent several days roaming around ooohing and aaaahing.  Filled up my hard drive with video clips, 30 seconds at a time.  Even after a couple weeks, I didn't run out of places I thought were screenshot worthy.  Whoever put the sand in the box had no clue what players like me think of when we think sandbox, but whoever was responsible for the scenery, and especially the lighting, is amazing.

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  • WizardryWizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332

    Took me about 15 seconds then i remembered my most memorable experience.ME and a few friends were taking the boat from Mhaura in FFXI for the first time on our treck to the Dunes to party.This was where we were told to go,so off we went.

    We hop on this cool looking ship and wait for the cutcene to launch the boat and off we were.As soon as the boat was moving we of course wanted to see the cool scenery as we  were sailing along in the water and to see what the boat looked like from up top.

    This is where the fun began ..lol

    I am the first one to go take a peek outside ...WHAP ! DEAD.I am like wtf,i didn't see anything and was dead in one hit.Then next friend follows...WHAP ...DEAD ..lmao.Soon all 5 of us were laying on the deck of the boat dead.Yep 5 noobs with no clue as to what just happened,then i see the culprit.

    The dreaded Sea Horror i think it was called an octupus looking creature that can fly.It was hovered over top of the door as we went outside and killed all of us,one hit each.When the boat landed some nice player that had Raise already gave us each a raise and we continued our journey to the Dunes vowing to one day get revenge on that sucker.

    We laughed about it for quite some time,we gave the old phrase "curiosity got the cat" a new meaning.Stick your head out that door to  take a peek will ye ?WHAP ..DEAD :P

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  • gainesvilleggainesvilleg Member CommonPosts: 1,053

    Multiplayer defining moments for me: I'm gonna take it old old school...

    1) Dialing into a game bulliten board to download free games, and noting that somebody else was dialed in at the same time. Cool! This was in the early/mid 1980's

    2) Connecting two PCs with RS232 cables to get a peer-to-peer dogfight game going in mid/late 1980's (forgot the name of it). Seeing my friends plane fly by me was very cool. We sucked though and never ended shooting anybody down.

    3) Getting a LAN based Doom game going in early 1990's with a group of friends. Probably the most mind-blowing gaming experience ever

    4) Trying out Meridian 59 and running across some random person and running away in fear LOL

    5) Seeing masses of people gathered in town in UO. First time gaming truly felt massive

    6) Running across tons of different people in Everquest. First time 3D gaming truly felt massive 

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  • waynejr2waynejr2 Member EpicPosts: 7,771

    Originally posted by ActionMMORPG

    That was back when the journey was more important than the endgame.  Good times indeed.

    I think we are in the minority on this point.

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  • KenFisherKenFisher Member UncommonPosts: 5,035

    Originally posted by waynejr2

    Originally posted by ActionMMORPG

    That was back when the journey was more important than the endgame.  Good times indeed.

    I think we are in the minority on this point.

    *sigh*  Agreed.  Oddly I'm finding some of the Asian games are doing well at journey gaming.  They take so long to level that people actually play the game rather than rush through it.  Brush up on the group dungeons a bit and it's almost old school.


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  • luckturtzluckturtz Member Posts: 422

    My launch day AoC I was gank by four high level people on White Sands a couple of times,I had to suck it up keep leveling.Couple of weeks later I saw one of the higher levels.They where not a higher level and they where alone.So i proceed to slaughter them over and over.I was so happy to get back at people who made first day misrable for no reason.Good times

  • TalinTalin Member UncommonPosts: 923

    My first few RVR experiences in Dark Age of Camelot. I remember the first battleground (lvl 10-20 maybe?) and taking over a keep. The first truly open world RVR was even more incredible, with armies from all three sides attacking, flanking, and all sorts of chaos. No game has captured large-scale PVP for me in the same way since.

  • SagasaintSagasaint Member UncommonPosts: 466

    completing my mage spellbook in UO, I was almost sheding tears of happiness

  • SkillCosbySkillCosby Member Posts: 684

    Age of Conan:

    I was able to register "Mini-Boss" as my guild name. There was this area in one of the n00bie dungeons where a real "boss" npc spawned. He was a rare spawn, but pretty well known. I would stand in his place with my "Mini-Boss" title (I was max level for the zone) - n00bs thought I was the NPC.

    When they would see me, they would stop...   I knew they were thinking about whether or not they should attack me. I would then sprint after them...   I hovered over n00bs like a lawn mower.  It was so funny.

  • TaroSBTaroSB Member UncommonPosts: 11

    Originally posted by Sagasaint

    completing my mage spellbook in UO, I was almost sheding tears of happiness

    That was a memorable day for me as well.

    UO - Although about a week into UO(Pacific) was my fondest memory that actually helped forge my PvP playing style for years to come.  Running through the woods north of Covetous, being chased by PKs. I'm yelling "Don't kill me I'm a noob!", them, they heartlessly laughed at me then killed me taking all the wood I had been gathering...  The next day I joined an anti-PK guild, Knights of the Golden Order (KOGO).

    DAOC - Running out of the gates in Albion and getting one shotted.  I was about level 10 I think at the time.  I hated Lurikeens with a passion from that day forward.  Had to add the day we formed our guild in DAoC.  That was a great day for my small little guild.  Saving up the 10 gold (I think?) took us a good couple hours to get it together...

    AC - Getting killed over and over again outside the starter city on Darktide.  I just kept going, must have been a bit drunk.  

    EvE - Being part of my first OP in my Interceptor.  2nd getting jumped in a low sec .1 I think, and fighting off 5 pirates in HACs and FACs until my friends arrived.  I was flying a PvE setup Dominix.  I fought them off for about 10 minutes, until my backups showed.  

    BSGO - Just the other night I got jumped by a level 25 (me being 15) win or lose the fun part was the fight - 5 minues of intense banking and turning, using EWs when the cooldown was up.  Most fun I have had in a long time in an MMO.

  • PapamacPapamac Member UncommonPosts: 162

    My most memorable experiences in MMOs?

    1.  WoW - climbing the mountains behind Ironforge and finding my way into the Wetlands.  No invisible walls, no artificial boundaries.  It's still one of the reasons I hold WoW up as a standard by which all other games are measured.  (I was slaughtered by a group of high-level Murlocs once I finally got into the Wetlands, but that's another story.)

    2.  EQ2 - visiting my best friend's apartment, and discovering that he had a real flair for interior decorating.

    3.  Asheron's Call - running for my life from a huge group of monsters.  It felt like I ran for miles before I was finally able to ditch them.  A part of me still misses the "trains" from AC, even though they were used to grief people.

    4. WoW - making my way from the Night Elf starting area, at level 10, to Mulgore.  I was a hunter, and I was determined to find and train The Rake.  This was back when he was the best cat-pet available at that level.  There were no shortcuts like there are now.  I ran all the way, threading my way through high-level mobs.  Which, thankfully, didn't have the same aggro range or tenacity as the previously-mentioned AC mobs.

    There are many more examples I could summon from memory, but these are the ones that pop into my head first.

  • ReklawReklaw Member UncommonPosts: 6,495

    So far nothing has matched the MMORPG experiance for me what Star Wars Galaxies was (pre-cu) and even 8 months in 2007 have done for me.

    There are to many found memories I have from that game that just the overall gaming and community experiance was a blast for me.

  • ZzadZzad Member UncommonPosts: 1,401

    My best memories come from GUILD WARS.

    It was a blast for me! Played all campaigns and loved them all.

     

  • Rusty715Rusty715 Member Posts: 482

    Originally posted by Papamac

    My most memorable experiences in MMOs?

    1.  WoW - climbing the mountains behind Ironforge and finding my way into the Wetlands.  No invisible walls, no artificial boundaries.  It's still one of the reasons I hold WoW up as a standard by which all other games are measured.  (I was slaughtered by a group of high-level Murlocs once I finally got into the Wetlands, but that's another story.)

    Yes. The run from Loch Modan to Menithil harbor in vanilla WOW. I ran it with two people who are still friends today.  Taking the boat to Darkshore for the first time was very memorable as well.

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  • TorgrimTorgrim Member CommonPosts: 2,088

    My very first time logging into Ulitma Online and saw other players running around, for me it was a huge thing beacuse it was the first time I played a RPG in a MMO form.

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  • TylermaticTylermatic Member Posts: 4

    In WAR, transferring servers after level 34 and played my first scenario, seeing 100's of people at one time.

  • ExilorExilor Member Posts: 391

    The first time I saw another player in a Lineage II private server (at the time I didn't know what a private server exactly was), and how baffled I was at the thought that he was alive same as I. I don't know why I downloaded the game, and I'm sure I didn't even knew that these kind of games existed. The guy wanted me to heal him for some reason and I kept trying and trying but somehow it didn't work, I just healed myself over and over and it looked like I was teasing him. It turned out that my only healing spell was a self heal. In retrospective, that guy should also have known better than to ask a brand new human mystic to heal him. I also remember fondly the music of the starting areas which is great, like most of the soundtrack of the game.

    Later, when I was old enough to have a debit card and play on the official server, all the friends that I met that might be willing to come with me there had either started playing WoW or some other game and I wasn't confident enough on my mastery over the English language to make new friends without making a fool of myself so I didn't play past level 38 there.

  • LurvLurv Member UncommonPosts: 409

    Originally posted by Rusty715

    Originally posted by Papamac

    My most memorable experiences in MMOs?

    1.  WoW - climbing the mountains behind Ironforge and finding my way into the Wetlands.  No invisible walls, no artificial boundaries.  It's still one of the reasons I hold WoW up as a standard by which all other games are measured.  (I was slaughtered by a group of high-level Murlocs once I finally got into the Wetlands, but that's another story.)

    Yes. The run from Loch Modan to Menithil harbor in vanilla WOW. I ran it with two people who are still friends today.  Taking the boat to Darkshore for the first time was very memorable as well.

    Lol. "Mountain hacking".  One good spot was somewheer between Ellwyn Forest and Redridge and the other was at the entrance area of Loch Modan. Even though it wasn't actually part of the game, it set a standard for me as well.  Climbing up into one of the highest areas of them game and seeing this uninhabited undeveloped area being separated by two different terrains merged in a zig zag like fashion, made the game so.....open for me.  I LOVED exploring in that game. Zones weren't instanced. Just running from Loch Modan into the Wetlands for the first time was epic enough. WoW just had an immersive world that virtually had no boundaries. There was almost always something to do aside from questing. I wasn't in a rush to level that much either. I think there was so much to take in from the beggining that I wanted to explore it all. There are some good MMOs, but I haven't had that feeling since WoW. But these days, devs don't really pay attention to environmental immersion like Blizzard did. Although I'm sure a lot of coding that they did was unintentional, however they gave us this huge open environment for us all to run around. Not to mention that you had MULTIPLE starting zones. You could take so many quest paths of progression in that game. Rolling alts never got old.

    I tried jumping off this bridge in Aion last week and it was like I was hitting a brick wall. NC decided that I had to stay on a predestined path.........jerks.

    Anyways.

    Oh SNAP!!! The mailbox in Goldshire!!!!!! I remember going there for the first time and seeing tons of people trying to jump up there and onto the roof from the mailbox. Did that for like a half an hour.

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  • AdamantineAdamantine Member RarePosts: 5,094

    Killing Akanda.

    It was little known to me at that time, but it was the only time I would actually manage to kill Akande.

     

    P.s.: Err sorry I'm sleepy or something.

    Akande is a mob in Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.

    It is located in Old Targonor, Northwest Thestra.

    You need to kill that one at least once to get a special flying mount (Griffon).

    Now everybody gets their flying mount from a different source, though (final reward from Pantheon of the Ancients, East Qalia Level 55 Dungeon).

     

  • johanan12johanan12 Member Posts: 49

    Ragnarok is the best MMORPG Game ive ever played and know i want to play still!! I also saw a new ragnarok game that is only launched in korea and its not chibi no more but still ragnarok and better..

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  • illorionillorion Member Posts: 467

    It was when me and a few friends had first start playing Wow. 

    We were all like 36 i think three of us questing in the badlands. I was an Enh Shammy and my friends where a mage and a priest. We came across another group of three alliance players around the same level and as soon as they saw us they came after us. So we kicked there ass and it was my first real experience with pvp in the game besides getting ganked questing the barrens. I remember how awesome it felt to working together healing each other and backing each other up as we tore them up. I was hooked after that all they way up to the lich king xpack. All good things had to come to an end eventually and the game lost its charm after a few years..... but man good times.... good times

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  • chakalakachakalaka Member UncommonPosts: 291

    I have to say I'll never forget capturing elite skills in GW and the Underworld runs but most of all... I'll never forget reaching the Hall of Heroes in Guild Wars and having a freaking epic battle for the top prize. Then I did it over and over.

  • AnanamooseAnanamoose Member Posts: 118

    I remember when I first started playing Everquest 1 and I was pretty low level.  I was hanging  out in ButcherBlock Mountains waiting for an LDON which were really popular when I started playing (came late to the game, always wish I had played sooner but probably wouldn't have passed high school if I had hehe).  Anyway, this was one of the first years they had Fabled mobs and for some reason they had one near  enough to the camp that it would often get trained on us.  Well I died several times and I think even delevled (remember that? glad they did away with that!) and got so frustrated I shouted out in /ooc or /shout (I forget which) that I hated the stupid Fabled mobs or something like that.  Someone took pity on me and rezzed all my corpses.  All my corpses were conveniently there since I was bound there and kept going in a death loop with the damn Fabled.  Well after that, I bound myself somewhere else lol.  It was my first lesson in being careful where I bind myself.

     

    Other than that, I have many fond memories of raiding with my guild and how tight knit we were.  I still talk to a few of them to this day.  I really miss them.  That was one of my best guild experiences.

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  • LurvLurv Member UncommonPosts: 409

    I remember at some point I was harrasing this one dude with my Alliance male toon (as they have the silliest dance John Travolta style) and kept getting behind him while he was in the bank. I would do the party boy dance behind him and he would move a couple feet over. So I would move a couple of feet over right back behind him. Eventually after 5 or 6 times, he told me that he was going to murder my ass and ran off with me in pursuit. A couple of hours later I found him in AH and continued my ventures in making his life miserable. I DID at one point have this all on video.

    Getting too old for this $&17!

  • GroovyFlowerGroovyFlower Member Posts: 1,245

    Doing a DEIMOS RUN in LOFT dungeon, EAST GEVOTH outpost-DERETH in Asheron's call 2 for first time was awesome. Later also EIDELON RUN  in AC2 was great.

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