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Ive given up.
I have been looking for an mmorpg for quite some time now. I guess I will state first that I started MMOs back in 1999 with EverQuest 1, ive pretty much logged into an mmorpg every day since. Ive played pretty much everything you can list off.
Games I have played in the recent years :
Warhammer, got a few characters to level cap and the progression system at the end turned me away. I hated grinding scenarios only to lose over and over again and slowly get gear. This was due to a list of reasons I won't go into.
WoW. Started in Vanilla, pretty much raised my characters levels to cap each exapnsion, only to be dissapointed with Wotlk and Cata's casual end game. Boring and easy.
AoC. At first I loved this game, but after getting to level 50 ish, I was tired of playing alone, and only 2 or 3 people being in my level cap willing to group. The games solo value is just too dry imo.
Aion. The grind was boring. Now being an EQ1 player, I dont mind a grind. But atleast in EQ1 you had quite a few zones you could grind in, ontop of a few dungeons in your level bracket. Aion did not provide this at all. It was beyond linear.
DAoC. What can I say, its glory days are over. As much as I want to return. I know its just not plausable.
EQII. I have played this game into the ground. Simply put, im bored of it now. It was a very entertaining and great run. But nothing very exciting or new has happend for it as of late. It feels like they're just milking money from the family type guilds who just enjoy playing something with each other instead of those who truly care about quality content.
I could keep typing on and on. And remember, this is just my opinion. A lot of things could of changed since I have played these mmos.
In the past few weeks I have been playing EQEmu servers. Sadly theyre actually pretty good, the story lines and quests the fans make are actually tasteful and well thought out. I enjoy them, but again I am tired of playing alone, as there are usually only 2-300 people on a server. And most of them at end-game content. But I am also getting tired of turn-based combat systems in games ive already played so much. I dont mind turn-based combat but I try to avoid it when I can.
That being said, I have tried vindictus and as fun as it may be, its extremely repetitive.
At this point im looking for any mmorpg, any private server, anything. I am not a fan of point and click, or RTS. I like fighting/killing. If anyone knows of anything underground, indy, etc. Please make it known.
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When are you releasing the biography?
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My past is fairly close to yours.
I started in '98 with UO. Then onto EQ1.
I've experienced the same things you have, with the exception of EQ2. I could not stand it. But, that's preference only.
Currently, I'm on Eve. At first, I found the game seriously boring. But, my brother and his friends found it very fun.
I decided to read up on it a bit more and I was overwhelmed with how much there was to do.
Give it a shot. Read up on it first. Look at all the possibilities. It's very open. And you have so much more fun in a good corp.
That was my first mistake. I was not in a corp.
Anyhow, just my 2 cents...
Good luck.
It's not about fighting, it's about balance. It's not about enlightenment, it's about balance. It's not about balance.
Sorry, I did not mean to be rude (I did), but that was a lot of info.
Well I hope something comes along for you soon OP!
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All my opinions are just that..opinions. If you like my opinions..coolness.If you dont like my opinion....I really dont care.
Playing: ESO, WOT, Smite, and Marvel Heroes
Games
STOR will be a waste of time for you, its a wow-clone with more voice acting and focus on singleplayer content... A "to pass time until the next decent game comes along" game, so if you can skip it.
Skyrim will pass time much better so long as you dont require the MMO interactions with others.
Guildwars 2 looks to be a new angle at the MMO which is long over due, I wasnt a fan of the original due to it feeling so liner but they promise great things such as scalable content so gaming masters can be challenged in the same game casual gamers will enjoy, yet the harder content you put yourself agaisnt the better rewards. Dynamic questing and 3x relm pvp are all promising aspects. Unfortunatly GW2 isnt coming out until at least next year.
If your a hack and slash fan Diablo 3 will be comming out early next year and offers somthing for the small gaming groups for a change, which again I feel is needed.
Causes of "issues"
First, a great deal of these new games are not trying to recreate the weel but rather they are trying to emulate. WoW has caught the attention of other big names in the digital goods world EA being the biggest thus far and SWTOR is the first real punt from the traditional gaming industry at trying to emulate the successes of blizzard.
Even games companies like CCP with their flagship EvE online have started to morph their niche products into more mainstream and thus more profitable game. This recently has seen them lose alot of its original player base that feel the game has become easier, more casual and less like the original title which apealed to them. The CEO of CCP apologied recently for this, claiming to get back to what the title should be about because without a core niche community their is no real draw to the game anymore.
We see this in other titles also, an example would be BF3. No longer is an FPS about point and shoot with an array of diffrent weapons, the game now not only has to compeat with rival games of its own genre but its targeting gamers of ALL genre. You have to have persistant world elements to keep the MMORPG'ers happy, level up them weapons but then that takes away choice of arms because your always going to have 1 option... the best gun you have unlocked for your level. The list goes on but you get my point.
Gaming has become too corperate, the focus is no longer on "what is our niche" but "what else do we need to add to increase our overall market share". Standard business practice gone too far to the point where every game you pick is is the same bland "tick all the boxes" titles with the same controls, achivements, storylines and production values.
Gone are the days of anything that made a game worth dedicating ALL your free time to. MOD tools are becoming less and less avalible not because the games are now too complicated but because they dont want FREE MODS for the player to download they want you to have to pay for DLC's to expand the life of a game. Also Games are increasingly less community friendly with less tools to communicate and socialize with. Now the only games with real community bases are acient or MMORPG with subs, pay for the priverliage.
To conclude, "Casual Gaming" is killing the gaming scene for alot of us who started 5-10 years back. Its not the gamers fault themselves its the way the games are developed to be picked up and dropped so you puchase No.2 No.3 No.4 of the sequal games in the following years, console have helped them do this to a great extent, with all the restrictions and forced limitations imposed on the consoles. I could rant for days, most of you will not be reading this far, anyone that is I salute you.
Long wall of text is long.
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What sort of games are you looking for? You'd be surprised at how fun and good the 'not so known' games and oldies can still be, especially if you've never experienced the kind of games before. Take Ace Online for example, a fun and a fast paced Flight Simulator type-game with guns, aliens and babes. It's old but I -just- started playing it and it's pretty addicting!
Sadly it sounds like even though the OP has been a long time gamer, he's never given text games a try - I think everyone should try an MMO text game atleast once. I have a level 99 character in Achaea that can turn into a dragon, and PvP with dragon skills. And I can still wield my Priest mace while I'm a dragon, the priest mace that I customized to have a balzaadeen demon skull
Fiesta online isnt so bad "if" you can over look the cutiesy crap thats thrown up all over the dam place. may take you a few days to find a player base in your age range . but then its all butter . its a minor PVP "PVP only in select areas" majority PVE game . Not so heavy handed in the cash shop area unless your planing to play heavy PVP. if nothing else it will pass your time till the next ALL NEW MMORPG pops up that proves to be pure crap the following day.