mmorpg's your thought please

[zen_master]

I have played a few of them in the beta stages or on free trials because i am a tight fisted old hand at the grindstone. and overall i thought they good but the apeal wore off after a couple of days and was left to go back to Counter Strike, which i am desperate to stop playing but am left with no other alternatives. anyhow a was wondering what you thoughts are on the genre.

[KingBison]

Well, its the genre of choice right now. The big titles right now are Star Wars Galaxies, Dark Ages of Camelot, Everquest, and City of Heroes. There seems to be many promising titles coming out in the future, Including EQII, Middle-earth online, and World of Warcraft.

MMO's are strange because you really have to have friends playing to do good fast. If you play alone and dont make any online friends, you can be pretty screwed.

[zen_master]

Yeah i know, thats i tend to stick with counter strike because i know alot of people on there. The only mmorpg i want to play at the moment is City of heroes but i am going to wait until after my exams till a play another mmorpg.

[Razorback]

I have played MMO's for many years. I started with Air Warrior in the early 90s and then WarBirds until around 1999. You had to pay $2 an hour to play them, back then. I returned to MMO's with EQ and I still play it every now and then, though I am close to retiring.

I played SWG for about 6 months before I just could not take the grief in that game. That is one thing about EQ, it is damn easy and fun to play when you can find people to play with (at higher levels only a few classes can actually solo for experience points).

City of Heroes is very cool but I will probably wait to join it, if I do at all. I am kind of growing away from MMORPGs. They take up too much time.

[Efexeye]

Diablo II was good. There is a good free MMORPG that is essentially just a chat interface called " Well of Souls (http://www.synthetic-reality.com/wosDownload.htm) ". EA games has a good one that I helped beta test called Earth and Beyond. I think you can actually buy it for free, then you just pay for playtime, but it's kinda expensive- like 30 bucks a month, I think, although you get a discount if you buy multiple months at a time. Marvel has a MMORPG coming out, and there is also one coming out based on the Matrix. Worlds of Warcraft is probably your best bet though, and Everquest II will, of course, rock. I'm just scared to play it because I've read horror stories of people losing their jobs and their spouses over EQ I.

[Razorback]

Diablo II is not a MMO. The important M in there is "Massive." /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

[Efexeye]

What makes it not an MMO? I've played with several hundred people on the same server. For that matter, is WarBirds a roleplaying game? Because then you too, sir, have made an error....

[Razorback]

I never said WarBirds was a roleplaying game. I said MMO, not MMORPG.

Several hundred in Diablo II? Never seen that.

[Efexeye]

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[Razorback]

Oh yeah?

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[Threadkiller]

I played Everquest for PC and for PS2 and got sick of them both. I have resolved to stay away from any game that involves 'grinding'. Basically a game that benefits players who can play for long periods of time. You end up with too many of the wrong kind of people dominating the higher levels.

I just got done with the trial period of the upcoming Guild Wars . This is a game you buy and then don't have to pay to play. It's a bit like Diablo only with a team oriented PVP focus. I think it's a great idea and might actually buy it. They gurantee no grinding and that a skilled low level player could beat an unskilled high level player.

And of course, I still play the ever cheesy Puzzle Pirates which is $10 a month to play but free to download. This game only rewards you for skill at puzzle games and skill at the social/political games.

[Razorback]

Guild Wars is cool. Probably one of the few non-pay-to-play games that is similar to XP grinding without the annoying grinding and LFG (looking for group). Guild Wars makes it so damn easy to find groups and to distribute loot.

However, I have no plans to buy it. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

[Omaru]

Did anyone ever get to play Ragnarok? I kept tryint to download the beta, but the link never worked for me when the server was still free. Always looked like an okay game to play. I'm waiting to see if I get to be a beta tester for Final Fantasy XI the euro version.