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P2P = "more mature"? Um, does the phrase "Barrens chat" mean anything to you? You know, the monicker for the worst, most immature chat ever -- and it came from a P2P game, not an F2P game. I hit more immature, elitist snobbery and childishness in…
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I would love to get back into Vanguard -- the Vanguard that had a starting area for each race. That diversity meant endless replays with new characters and a constant sense of wonder. What SOE did was to destroy all of that. No longer can you c…
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How far we've come from the array of choices in Daggerfall, with families, many many guilds, and such... or Morrowind, with many guilds, vampire clans, and the families-as-guilds? So now we face the ongoing elimination of player choice in ESO: tw…
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"However, there are people like me who struggle to find the point in developing a game and labeling it an MMO when all that's being offered is the same thing that can be found in a single player RPG with a multiplayer feature." That's exactly the O…
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Think about old versus new this way, as well: starting areas. EQ1 launched with a huge # of starting areas, which meant that you could run more than one character (I refuse to use the terminology "alt") and not feel the "I just did this" sense. W…
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the old games were more interested in the RPG part (not walking around mucking up in a brit accent, systems that fed the "world" feel), the newer ones with a very few exceptions... not so much. Every time you hear someone say "you've gotta race thr…
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I disagree with the "your first mmo colors your experience". UO was my first. I moved on and tried EQ and AC and others. Overall, my favorite was AC (my third), though strangely the most memorable scenes are all coming out of EQ1 (running from Qu…
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Hmm. Or, you could log into a game like Vanguard, where I have yet to run into "WoW haters" -- mainly because we're all involved in the game we're playing, instead of taking the time to rant and rave. Or, for that matter, the bulk of the communi…
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WoW's combat the best? Um... IMHO, no. Not even close. Vanguard's class design and combat is far more interesting and involving. LOTRO has in its Warden alone a more interesting combat dynamic than anything in WoW. Original Star Wars (pre-s…
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Top five classes? Hm. 1) vanguard -- disciple. Hello, monk who heals well. Phenomenal, involving, well-animated. Best class of a great, underrated game. 2) (classless) -- AC1. Forget the "class templates" and go for the full design-your-…
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I don't so much hate WoW as simply find it a very boring MMO that lacks features i personally like having: 1) Crafting -- very shallow, no customization to speak of. every "big copper sword" made is the same. i've played games with better craft…
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Calling EQ2, with its much deeper crafting and support systems "like a worse WoW', isn't just insulting, it's counter-factual. Regardless of that, my vote, even if EQ2 or Vanguard had been included, would be AC1. Top three? AC1, EQ1, UO. Bo…
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Best: EQ1, AC1, Vanguard. People were always helpful (regardless of server), actively wanted to help, talked to each other instead of shouting at or cursing at each other. Flat-out, hands-down worst: World of Warcraft. There are bad apples ev…
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Ah, yes, eliminate questing. That's fine for MMOs. Now go away and let the rest of us play our mmoRPGs. Strange how "questing" is literally the fundamental staple of not only fantasy games but fantasy literature going back to ancient mythologies.…
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I have experienced lag, though not game-breaking lag. Most of it seems to occur at the invisible "zone line" between zones. The only lag that annoys me is the "when-leveling" lag -- you level up in combat, and the game freezes sometimes for 10, 20…
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Well, it may be controversial, but I'll say this: Vanguard, to me, is a far more worthwhile game than EQ (at this point). Sony should push them both, but in terms of depth, the amazing diplomacy sphere, phenomenal crafting (I'm staring at you, EQ2…
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I agree with the above, who said everyone can solo but the worst are the rogue and the warrior. For the first time in any MMORPG, I'm actually enjoying playing a Cleric -- he's not the squishy "healer-only" nonsense in other games, he's an armed-an…
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Would that they would work up an expansion and actually market the heck out of Vanguard. I've done what so many have done before: played UO, AC, EQ, EQ2, WoW, Shadowbane, and on and on. Vanguard, with its diplomacy sphere (which is absolutely am…
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Personally, I was hoping that they would make Mirkwood a new starter area for Elves, since it is the homeland for Legolas' Elvish folk. It always seemed like an ideal choice -- and since Elves got the shaft with their "oops, we didn't finish the zo…
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Wow, this is just about the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. I guess I should tell me brother, who got our grandfather's middle name, that his middle name, Charisi, is copyrighted to someone 5+ years ago! Of course, he's almost 30 years old, so…
