DAoC. It was my first mmo. I left a piece of myself there in Albion, outside Caer Gothwaite. Sort of wish I never played the damn game. It just torments me that I can never recapture the mystery and excitement I felt then. Lineage 2 was a close seco…
I'm not surprised. Think I quit around two months in. I had quite a bit of fun playing with my brother, but something just felt terribly off with the game. It wasn't the same experience. Someone mentioned under the hood changes, and this is exactly …
I would propose as a metric the nostalgia it leaves in those who played it. The mmorpg's that were best still haunt those who played them. Very strong impressions of moments still remain with me from my favorite mmorpgs. I suppose nostalgia would be…
I think the notion of a max level is inherently bad in and of itself. Caps should be removed, and the grind should merely become absurd to progress at this higher end of the range. Didn't Lineage 2 have something like this? Can't remember.
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I have no hope for the future. Pantheon looks impressive, but I don't think it will escape this zeitgeist that seems to have infected everything. I need an mmo with a huge grind, a clear anti-solo prejudice, no instances, no fast travel. I've been c…
I returned to DAoC recently with the recent f2p offering, and I have to say I quite like Campacetin(sp?) Forest. Massive open forest, a bit misty, and back in the day you had no map to navigate. I remembered it fondly from my childhood. To be honest…
Of the mmo's I have played, I also feel that DAoC was the best in this regard. It really had the best of all worlds. If you wanted ffa pvp, you also had that in the form of the Mordred server. PvP is inherently parasitic, and ffa pvp is simply too p…