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MMORPG.com's Best of 2017 Awards - General Awards
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MMORPG.com's Best of 2017 Awards - General Awards
It hasn’t been a great year for NEW games in the MMO genre. But it sure was a pretty great year for veteran MMOs. So while we look forward to the crop of big Indie releases in 2018 and 2019, let’s look back at 2017 and count our blessings for the games that keep on pumping out great content. These were voted on by all staff, single vote only, and no ties were allowed. Some were close, but a winner was chosen in each category! Here is MMORPG.com’s Best of 2017 Awards.
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Screw leveling games, give me something with "End game" at the beginning of the game.
It came in second.
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Ashes of Creation won’t be out next year, in fact according to posters only Pantheon from the most voted list will and maybe not even that. But maybe you know better?
FF is a solid choice for the MMORPG.
Most underrated MMO? Unusual category, as there is rarely smoke without fire.
Divinity, is it even a MMO hybrid? Strong game for what I think of as Team Multiplayers.
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I'll never understand the FFXIV craze, but to each their own with that one. Wildstar on the other hand, its failure after the ultra-hype (I bought in too) speaks volumes about the game.
Would agree on the Final Fashion XIV comment. The graphics are above average and the fights are pretty okay if you don't break down the 3 overlapping mechanics that they use for most fights (4 if you count falling off/pushed off). Everything else is barebones though, even the fashion element. But as you said, it seems the current generation is into this kind of thing. I'll say that it has a lot of potential though.
ESO and the Morrowind expansion, adding the Warden class.
GW2 PoF expansion that added mounts.
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Destiny 2 is not a hybrid MMO. There is nothing MMO about it! A 16 player online shooter is nowhere close to being massively multiplayer. Whilst I agree there is crossover appeal with the MMORPG crowd and I'm happy for you to cover such games, please don't contribute to dissolving the genre and misunderstanding of the term. You are supposed to be an authority on the genre so you should be able to distinguish between the technology (MMO - number of people in the same virtual environment) from the features (RPG - progression, loot, classes, dungeons, raids etc).
As to the actual awards.....meh. Only three were about MMOs.
Most Anticipated - Ashes of Creation. I really don't know much about it. It seems pretty sub-standard to me, just another indie sandbox, it just happened to raise marginally more money on kickstarter than other kickstarter MMOs. What are you most excited about? Only unique thing seems to be the AI driven political changes and town growth. Whilst that sounds good, it also sounds wildly unachievable on their budget.
Most Underrated - Wildstar. Strongly disagree, as would the overwhelming majority of people who ever played it. Apart from housing, Wildstar seemed to fail at every single thing they attempted. Such a disjointed mess of a game.
Best MMO - FFXIV. There were basically only two contenders for this, FFXIV and ESO. Nothing new this year, so only relying on oldies, most of which aren't getting much love. I'm surprised Stormblood beat Morrowind, but I guess there isn't much in it so doesn't matter which way it goes.
ashes of creations maybe will be not too bad,i can only hope!
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Agree with you on this. They just don't make good games anymore. Hell to me the SNES was pinnacle of RPG with epic games like Secret of Evermore, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, and the Lufia series.
Some games today are great but they just don't seem to come close to the passion that went into games of the past.
That or I'm just having nostalgia.
Destiny 2 is NOT a hybrid mmo, neither a quasi mmo, nor an mmofps or any other made-up terms its fans try to staple onto it. Even if the list... errr and in here I'd
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Try a MUD today at http://www.mudconnect.com/That could be applied to the last 10 years.
Why? They always go down well with a bunch of happy teddies like us.
I guess the golden age of MMORPGs is over and the market is only accessible to giant publishers.
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Best RPG: Persona 5
Best Open World RPG: Horizon Zero Dawn.
I'm 80+ hours into Horizon(first playthrough) and i don't want to play anything else. It is so good i can't put it down. NG+ is waiting for me for sure.
Note: can't wait to play Zelda, but i keep hearing from many people who praised it at launch that after many hours in it gets too repetitive due to not having much to do in that huge map. I'm not looking forward to that. Ubisoft games have that same problem. I'll probably get it on WiiU since i still dont have a switch.