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Any underrated MMORPGs out there?
Wicasa
Member UncommonPosts: 77
Finally played Neverwinter, all text is voice acted, some really beautiful scenes, joining up for dungeons was easy, action combat makes it unique, mounts feel real... Still play Warcraft, but nice to have something to switch between. Neverwinter (and Warcraft for that matter) don't get much love on this site, but I have yet to find better. Destiny 2 is first person only, ESO is colorless and charmless, FFXIV doesn't really let you play with your friends when the main story is so solo and mandatory... Any underrated MMORPGs out there that some of us may be missing out on?
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Tiller
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A Tale in the Desert if you like crafting and old school games. Or even Wurm Online. I don't play either of these games, but the people who do swear by it. Maybe give them a try.
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Phaserlight
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Vendetta Online is probably the best MMORPG you may not have heard of. I've been a member of that community for 14 years and most certainly will swear by the game. It's amazing. Sorely underrated and underpromoted, to be sure.
Try going to r/mmorpg; see r/vendettaonline on the sidebar? Nope, but it's certainly a classic.
Physics-based combat, too; you could say it has more in common with Quake than Ultima Online. This was more or less unheard of in the MMO space of 2004. Again, in 2011, being ported to mobile as a cross-platform MMO bringing both PC and mobile together in the same 3D realm, VO was well ahead of its time. Now the devs have their sights set on VR.
Its development history is nearly as interesting as the game itself. It's not a miracle, but it is a title acting (to borrow another's phrase) as a David in a world of Goliaths. You should absolutely, indubitably, and imperatively check it out.
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https://www.mmorpg.com/awards/mmorpgcoms-best-of-2017-awards-1000012345/page/2
Secondly, if you like doing things together rather than solo Guild War 2's public questing system similar to Warhammer Online if you played that might be enjoyable. Rather than your traditional solo fetch and kill x of this quests, events specific to each zone occur where players all contribute together and rewards are calculated upon that contribution at the end. Meanwhile, the open world bosses and post-launch content continue this trend of open world cooperative play.
21 year MMO veteran
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Lover of The Witcher & CD Projekt Red
Let's party like it is 1863!
I did enjoy the raids though and i had one of the higher tanks when i playes, i ended up leveling alts to max and then quit.
I just see no reason to play an mmo that has a little world and is a lobby game and does nothing different than any other mmo. The p2w doesnt bother me that much, just the fact that the game is shallow as fuck
Combat is excellent, but that is about it, i dis like pvp a bit as well.
Cryomatrix
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
EDIT: I checked. False. One wants to play GW2, one buys GW2. GW1 or not makes no difference.
Good friendly community, good music, many things to do and it's not Pay to Win
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
What surprises me is that there are often references to 'games' that 'we've probably never heard of' that may or may not be all that good, chances are if they were any good we would;
a. have heard of them
b. played them.
So if X game from the past is not doing all that well then its probably for a reason unrelated to whether or not people have actually heard of them
That said, there are definitely MMORPGs that are underrated if you are only interested in one specific thing. For example, SW:TOR is a steaming pile of shit, it's not even a proper MMORPG. The classes are boring, the combat shallow, the group mechanics non-existent, the PvP almost completely ignored, the PvE too easy, the crafting mostly pointless. It's just a thoroughly shit game.
Unless you only like story.
Then, and only then, could you consider SW:TOR underrated. SW:TORs story is supposedly better than other MMOs. I disagree, I thought SW:TORs story was also shit. I mean, the game got the most amount of praise when the XP events allowed you to skip 99% of the game and only do the class stories. But, lots of people rate SW:TORs stories highly.
The same is true for most of the recommendations in this thread. The games as a whole are probably overrated, but each does one or two specific things better than the rest and so if you care about those one or two things then they'll be worth a shot.
For me, I need the whole package.
I'm not quite ready to jump back in to space MMOs but when I do it will likely be with ED, mostly due to greater familiarity and has more press and hype than VO.
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TERA is still good, even if they've overly streamlined everything. It's a good side game as you can jump in and make some gains in a few minutes or get with your guild and play for hours.