I have only really enjoyed one guild. (Yes I am one of those horrid soloers more often than not.) But back when I first started on Everquest 1, I eventually joined a role playing guild (I loved RP due to past experience with Larp and Table Top Games.) The people were excellent. We stayed together for quite awhile, though eventually moved on. But not before I got to meet a fellow guildie at a local Ren Fest as it turned out we lived in the same area. I have logged back on (I am still part of that guild technically.) once in a blue moon but the crowd I hung out with are now long gone.
What a great topic for a forum thread! Nice one OP.
The moment that always comes to mind for me was starting my rogue out near Kelethin in EQ. I was killing bats grabbing wings and leveling up. I was in a room with the lights low and my headphones on. I had been at this for an hour or so, and had killed many bats. While I was doing this, I kept feeling something brush against my check. I simply brushed it away and continued to play, after the third or fourth time I took my attention away from the game for a second and looked around the room.
At that very moment a bat swooped out of the darkness and nearly ran into my face. I fell out of my chair and threw off my headphones and crawled toward the door of the room, luckily escaping the bat's repeated attempts to swoop in on me.
I closed the door behind me and ran downstairs to look for something to get the bat out of the room. A broom lay next to the wall, and my mission became clear. Armed with my broom I approached the door cautiously where the bat was sure to be lurking in some dark corner.
I opened to door to find the bat clinging to the back of my office chair. I yelled and charged the vile beast and beat it down with my broom, breaking the broom in the process. I then placed the bat in a bag, cleaned up the office chair, and took the remains out to the trash.
I sat back down in my chair to see my character dead, killed by bats.
Sadly I think my favorite moment in time with any game is that naive feeling of "Oh my God imagine the possibilities." I don't know if I just miss being naive or the belief that anything is in fact possible in this "new world."
The first "moment" for me that comes to mind though
EVE Online - I was part of and one of the founders of a corporation known as "Dopehead Industries" and I have so many good memories of the many good people we've had. However, when "decorations" came along, Dopeheads quickly made a "Dopehead Award" for doing something exceptionally goofy/dumb/stupid.
Well, we as a Corp had bought and researched a Raven Battleship blueprint original. We had just finished a bunch of copy jobs and I was in the process of listing the copies for sale on the local contract market...or so I thought. I had put the actual original up for sale for a pittance. Thankfully, one of our Alliance mates saw it and bought it but not before letting everyone in the Alliance and corp know. I gave him what I had in my wallet as a "thank you" and stopped panicking...finally. That same day I had my very first, shiny new award. "Dopehead Award - Given for achieving an extreme example of a "Dopehead Moment." Congrats Dopehead!
It's still on my character to this day, many years later...and I STILL catch flack for it on occasion.
Oh, another good time. Star Wars Galaxies right around the time they passed out the Holiday Holocrons. I found out that my Lizard dude (can't remember the actual race) Teras Kasi master had to become a pistoleer in order to advance along the path of force sensitivity. Mind you, I had geared up and set all of my stats and progression towards beating things up with my fists and I had gotten pretty good at it.
So I go on about my way trying to kill things with these infernal little hand guns that rather un-inspiringly make little "pew pew" noises. Well I manage to stumble into a Republic area and I am temp flagged for my Imperial backing. Yeah, along comes a Republic Wookie Comando who absolutely wipes the floor with me.
I make my way back to the city I was basing out of and head for the Cantina in order to heal my wounds and curse the Holocron Gods. I walk in, look up on stage and see my RL friend (Ranger/Rifleman and a good one at that) who had not said a word about this yet, dancing on the stage. I get a hurried private message... "Dude, I hate my holocron."
Two of them, reaching mainland in Tibia and exploring that dangerous world back in the day and then there was Lineage 2, playing with my clan and attending my first mass PVPs with some hundred players fighting, several sides, no factions or bullshit just game politics and hate, drama and tears bundled up with betrayal.
We had just bought our first computer with my wife and I and after fiddling with it for a few days, discovered this little game called Ultima Online. While my wife was installing the game, I browsed the game manual in wonder and excitement at how much stuff awaited us!
The very first time after going through the tutorial/safe zones and getting ported to Britannia for the first time and seeing so many people and wonderous things going on was a lasting moment.
The second moment was taking the keys to a 3 story tower in a swampy area that we purchased on Ebay because there were no housing lots left. Awesome!
I was on my way to my lab on lok when i came around the corner of the guild hall and stood on top the mountain it was on. I then noticed the sunset and at that moment the music theme on lok kicked in. I sat there for a moment thinking how amazing it is to be here right now....We don't have rosey colored glasses,just amazing experiences.
Originally posted by grimgryphon The first time I saw Blackreach cave in Skyrim was the last time I ever remember a "moment" in an MMO.
Skyrim is not an mmo.
"You have some serious mental issues you may need to seek some help for. There are others who post things, but do not post them in the way you do. Out of every person who posts crazy shit in this forum, you have some of the craziest and scariest" -FarReach
We had just bought our first computer with my wife and I and after fiddling with it for a few days, discovered this little game called Ultima Online. While my wife was installing the game, I browsed the game manual in wonder and excitement at how much stuff awaited us!
The very first time after going through the tutorial/safe zones and getting ported to Britannia for the first time and seeing so many people and wonderous things going on was a lasting moment.
The second moment was taking the keys to a 3 story tower in a swampy area that we purchased on Ebay because there were no housing lots left. Awesome!
Oh man, that totally brought me back to when I too got my first small tower but I was able to place it myself near the swamp between the crossroads and Brit. The feeling of attempting to place the tower for the thousandth time and having it actually appear!!!
After many weeks of stumbling around the city and doing small time runner jobs that involved cleaning up the rat infested sewers I finally scrape up enough credits to afford some slightly better than shabby gear to save my worthless hide from minor injury. While ridding the subway through the Outzone Sector I wonder if I'm prepared for what awaits me. I could still barely put up much of a fight to the mutants in the back alleyways. With a loud rusty "creak" the blast doors open and I gaze into the far distance. There is a whole world out there beyond this megacity, Neocron.
Originally posted by Bamboozled What a great topic for a forum thread! Nice one OP.
The moment that always comes to mind for me was starting my rogue out near Kelethin in EQ. I was killing bats grabbing wings and leveling up. I was in a room with the lights low and my headphones on. I had been at this for an hour or so, and had killed many bats. While I was doing this, I kept feeling something brush against my check. I simply brushed it away and continued to play, after the third or fourth time I took my attention away from the game for a second and looked around the room.
At that very moment a bat swooped out of the darkness and nearly ran into my face. I fell out of my chair and threw off my headphones and crawled toward the door of the room, luckily escaping the bat's repeated attempts to swoop in on me.
I closed the door behind me and ran downstairs to look for something to get the bat out of the room. A broom lay next to the wall, and my mission became clear. Armed with my broom I approached the door cautiously where the bat was sure to be lurking in some dark corner.
I opened to door to find the bat clinging to the back of my office chair. I yelled and charged the vile beast and beat it down with my broom, breaking the broom in the process. I then placed the bat in a bag, cleaned up the office chair, and took the remains out to the trash.
I sat back down in my chair to see my character dead, killed by bats.
There are others...
Watching the sunset in Tir when I was logging out of Anarchy Online for the first time with a large smile on my face.
Transferring items between my characters in EQ by dropping a bag on the ground in some secret location and running to it with my other character half expecting to see someone else there picking it up.
So many great times...
So... All you got was a couple of bat wings? Any coppers? How about bat fur? Sounds like you may need to replace your weapon.
Great story, and I am glad you survived
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse. - FARGIN_WAR
Originally posted by Bamboozled What a great topic for a forum thread! Nice one OP.
The moment that always comes to mind for me was starting my rogue out near Kelethin in EQ. I was killing bats grabbing wings and leveling up. I was in a room with the lights low and my headphones on. I had been at this for an hour or so, and had killed many bats. While I was doing this, I kept feeling something brush against my check. I simply brushed it away and continued to play, after the third or fourth time I took my attention away from the game for a second and looked around the room.
At that very moment a bat swooped out of the darkness and nearly ran into my face. I fell out of my chair and threw off my headphones and crawled toward the door of the room, luckily escaping the bat's repeated attempts to swoop in on me.
I closed the door behind me and ran downstairs to look for something to get the bat out of the room. A broom lay next to the wall, and my mission became clear. Armed with my broom I approached the door cautiously where the bat was sure to be lurking in some dark corner.
I opened to door to find the bat clinging to the back of my office chair. I yelled and charged the vile beast and beat it down with my broom, breaking the broom in the process. I then placed the bat in a bag, cleaned up the office chair, and took the remains out to the trash.
I sat back down in my chair to see my character dead, killed by bats.
There are others...
Watching the sunset in Tir when I was logging out of Anarchy Online for the first time with a large smile on my face.
Transferring items between my characters in EQ by dropping a bag on the ground in some secret location and running to it with my other character half expecting to see someone else there picking it up.
So many great times...
So... All you got was a couple of bat wings? Any coppers? How about bat fur? Sounds like you may need to replace your weapon.
Great story, and I am glad you survived
Seriously one of my favorites in this thread! Awesome story
Excellent thread Alasti. Most threads on these forums leave me questioning why I play these games. Thanks for starting a thread that reminded me of the answer to that question.
My own favourite moments in an MMO were also my first. I spent most of that time repeatedly falling to my death from the platforms of Kelethin, being chased through the dark by giant glowing wasps or being trampled by trains of orcs charging out of Crushbone. It was confusing, humiliating, hilarious and utterly magical because I had absolutely no idea what the limitations of the game were.
My first time logging into Ultima Online circa 1998. The realization that all those other toons running around were actually people was a heady experience given the context of the times. It truly felt like the Wild West.
I've got another one: the first time I had a mission tree I designed pushed into production in Vendetta Online; logging on and then seeing players discuss it in chat, and later in the forums. It's hard to describe the feeling, but it was similar to the way I felt on prom night.
I've enjoyed reading other people's responses in this thread, so far.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Authored 139 missions in VendettaOnline and 6 tracks in Distance
Best memory was definately from Everquest....My guild and I were grabbing the pieces to my staff of the wheel for ice comet and I was on the last piece at erud's crossing. I brought my ranger friend because we had heard tales of the shark we had him on tracking but the water was pitch black. I had an idea where the rod was from a friends description and we were well on the way. The ranger was giving constant updates on the proximity of the shark and we managed to find the rod. As I go to grab it, the ranger says "I think he's close" I didn't even have time to reply GOT IT! when the shark killed the ranger, then the cleric and finally i got us ported out. After a corpse run and a good laugh I got the staff and ice comet. Good times.
Optimizing PC games for consoles is kinda like outfitting your car for a bike trail.
Originally posted by Brueskie My first time logging into Ultima Online circa 1998. The realization that all those other toons running around were actually people was a heady experience given the context of the times. It truly felt like the Wild West.
TOTALLY agree!! One of mine as well! My father simply could NOT believe that all those people running around were actual people from around the country/world. It was even hard for me to believe it either
Did anyone ever play "See who could walk from one end of Kelethin to the other" (in the trees obviously) with a level 1 toon while they were drunk? Remember when the screen actually got Hell-of fuzzy and you would get "tunnel-vision'? My guild did this several times....Fun times!!
Originally posted by Brueskie My first time logging into Ultima Online circa 1998. The realization that all those other toons running around were actually people was a heady experience given the context of the times. It truly felt like the Wild West.
Similarly for me with EQ. All those people were real people! And from many varying countries, too. My jaw hit the floor when one of my guildmates said he was from Denmark! I was flabbergasted (His English was better than most of our (American) own )
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse. - FARGIN_WAR
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Love it, life imitates game!
Sadly I think my favorite moment in time with any game is that naive feeling of "Oh my God imagine the possibilities." I don't know if I just miss being naive or the belief that anything is in fact possible in this "new world."
The first "moment" for me that comes to mind though
EVE Online - I was part of and one of the founders of a corporation known as "Dopehead Industries" and I have so many good memories of the many good people we've had. However, when "decorations" came along, Dopeheads quickly made a "Dopehead Award" for doing something exceptionally goofy/dumb/stupid.
Well, we as a Corp had bought and researched a Raven Battleship blueprint original. We had just finished a bunch of copy jobs and I was in the process of listing the copies for sale on the local contract market...or so I thought. I had put the actual original up for sale for a pittance. Thankfully, one of our Alliance mates saw it and bought it but not before letting everyone in the Alliance and corp know. I gave him what I had in my wallet as a "thank you" and stopped panicking...finally. That same day I had my very first, shiny new award. "Dopehead Award - Given for achieving an extreme example of a "Dopehead Moment." Congrats Dopehead!
It's still on my character to this day, many years later...and I STILL catch flack for it on occasion.
Oh, another good time. Star Wars Galaxies right around the time they passed out the Holiday Holocrons. I found out that my Lizard dude (can't remember the actual race) Teras Kasi master had to become a pistoleer in order to advance along the path of force sensitivity. Mind you, I had geared up and set all of my stats and progression towards beating things up with my fists and I had gotten pretty good at it.
So I go on about my way trying to kill things with these infernal little hand guns that rather un-inspiringly make little "pew pew" noises. Well I manage to stumble into a Republic area and I am temp flagged for my Imperial backing. Yeah, along comes a Republic Wookie Comando who absolutely wipes the floor with me.
I make my way back to the city I was basing out of and head for the Cantina in order to heal my wounds and curse the Holocron Gods. I walk in, look up on stage and see my RL friend (Ranger/Rifleman and a good one at that) who had not said a word about this yet, dancing on the stage. I get a hurried private message... "Dude, I hate my holocron."
I almost peed myself laughing.
We had just bought our first computer with my wife and I and after fiddling with it for a few days, discovered this little game called Ultima Online. While my wife was installing the game, I browsed the game manual in wonder and excitement at how much stuff awaited us!
The very first time after going through the tutorial/safe zones and getting ported to Britannia for the first time and seeing so many people and wonderous things going on was a lasting moment.
The second moment was taking the keys to a 3 story tower in a swampy area that we purchased on Ebay because there were no housing lots left. Awesome!
Hard to say. My best moments were from SWG (pre-cu), AO, EQ, and EVE.
I guess getting Jedi because I didn't know what I did to get it at the time.
Skyrim is not an mmo.
"You have some serious mental issues you may need to seek some help for. There are others who post things, but do not post them in the way you do. Out of every person who posts crazy shit in this forum, you have some of the craziest and scariest" -FarReach
/signed
Oh man, that totally brought me back to when I too got my first small tower but I was able to place it myself near the swamp between the crossroads and Brit. The feeling of attempting to place the tower for the thousandth time and having it actually appear!!!
Best thread ever.
No kidding.
/facepalm
For SURE!! Definitely one of my MANY
After many weeks of stumbling around the city and doing small time runner jobs that involved cleaning up the rat infested sewers I finally scrape up enough credits to afford some slightly better than shabby gear to save my worthless hide from minor injury. While ridding the subway through the Outzone Sector I wonder if I'm prepared for what awaits me. I could still barely put up much of a fight to the mutants in the back alleyways. With a loud rusty "creak" the blast doors open and I gaze into the far distance. There is a whole world out there beyond this megacity, Neocron.
Great story, and I am glad you survived
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
Seriously one of my favorites in this thread! Awesome story
LoL
that was one of those moments i got tears in my eyes... Sad panda times
Best MMO experiences : EQ(PvE), DAoC(PvP), WoW(total package) LOTRO (worldfeel) GW2 (Artstyle and animations and worlddesign) SWTOR (Story immersion) TSW (story) ESO (character advancement)
Excellent thread Alasti. Most threads on these forums leave me questioning why I play these games. Thanks for starting a thread that reminded me of the answer to that question.
My own favourite moments in an MMO were also my first. I spent most of that time repeatedly falling to my death from the platforms of Kelethin, being chased through the dark by giant glowing wasps or being trampled by trains of orcs charging out of Crushbone. It was confusing, humiliating, hilarious and utterly magical because I had absolutely no idea what the limitations of the game were.
I've got another one: the first time I had a mission tree I designed pushed into production in Vendetta Online; logging on and then seeing players discuss it in chat, and later in the forums. It's hard to describe the feeling, but it was similar to the way I felt on prom night.
I've enjoyed reading other people's responses in this thread, so far.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
Optimizing PC games for consoles is kinda like outfitting your car for a bike trail.
EQ Beta:
Stumbling around Greater Feydark with all the lights in the office turned off (I played at work since no internet at home).
I eventually learned about this thing called gamma.
Good times.
-WL
Werewolf Online(R) - Lead Developer
TOTALLY agree!! One of mine as well! My father simply could NOT believe that all those people running around were actual people from around the country/world. It was even hard for me to believe it either
Did anyone ever play "See who could walk from one end of Kelethin to the other" (in the trees obviously) with a level 1 toon while they were drunk? Remember when the screen actually got Hell-of fuzzy and you would get "tunnel-vision'? My guild did this several times....Fun times!!
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR