MMORPG's

[Elyssia001]

i was just wondering, those of you who are here for horizon's, what other MMORPG's have you played?

[Kadin]

Well lets see here

AC 1 and 2 ( 2 wasn’t worth the effort)

Ac1 was great until it just got to be the same old "wait for the patch to come out and get this months new uber loot while avoiding kill stealing archers"

DAOC
Again fun game. but eventually it was "Dark age of camp allot" basically the game's PvP aspect ruined the entire rest of it. All you did was camped gold for player crafted armor and went on 6 hour long raids for a chance a winning uber loot to get into RvR. In RvR most battles were over in under 60 seconds.

Class balance and realm point farming killed the fun in that game.

NwN. I didn’t care for this game much at all to be honest. I did however love the module writing interface. So I wrote and ran more then I played in this one. I guess is not a "real" MMORPG but close enough . I still write modules for my friends to run, god forbid they ever learn C

[Wyndde]

Lessee ...

NeverWinter Nights (on AOL) - Although I don't suppose this really counts, it was one of the first online game I played. It was basically the old SSI Gold Box Dungeons and Dragons style game.

Meridian 59 - Great game, horid graphics ... at least compared to what we have now.

Everquest - Although bashed about alot, this was and is a great game as far as content. There is a TON of stuff to do in EQ, unfortunately most of it involves camping (sitting in the same spot for hours or even days and trying to get a certain spawn or item).

AC1 and AC2 - AC1 was actually kind of fun. The heirarchy system was an interesting spin on the guild system of other games. They also had a monthly patch that changed things in the game to a specific theme. This was a very neat idea that did little to actually make the game better or worse, but was fun anyway. AC2 on the other hand was so boring I didn't last the free month. :/

Anarchy Online - This was a great concept. A sci fi setting that promised a new mission (quest) system that was innovative and amazing graphics. AO is also the "How to" guide if you want to destroy your customer base by ignoring them (and the beta testers as well) and patching with what could only be patches that were untested. This game was the most disappointing to me personally. I fought through the first few WEEKS of bugs and link deaths and made it through what we all believed was the worst of it. Then the patch from hades hit and after 3 days of not being able to play and no information from Funcom I quit and haven't looked back.

Dark Age of Camelot - DAoC was a great premise in that the end-game was not really an xp hunt, but a Realm vs. Realm (or player vs. player) war. Unfortunately, Mythic did little to balance the RvR game in the beginning and is still having problems with that class balance. Casters generally have little to do in RvR since they are easy to kill and are thusly killed almost immediately in combat by stealthers. Certain weapons, skills, and/or abilities have made a few classes too powerful. Of course, Mythic then comes back and changes those classes (nerfing), which tends to make folks mad. However, the xp side of Camelot, along with the best tradeskill paths and housing have made DAoC popular and a pretty good game.

Neverwinter Nights (Atari) - Great game, although technically not a real MMORPG as it misses on the "Massively" part of that. However, it is a GREAT game for a dm and party that emulates pen and paper D&D better than any other game I can think of at the moment.

I think that's all of them, I'm probably missing one or two, but these were the most significant ones that I played. The best part of all of them were the friends made and kept from game to game. Currently I have friends in all of these games and am recruiting them to join me in Horizons.

Wyndde

[tripleb]

EQ was really my first and I stuck with it for several years, despite my primary being a dark-elf rogue who actually put points into int :P (Silly me I was trying to RP). I actually had rubacite I looted and did the Drez camp for my j-boots. It was really the high end of the game that turned me away, when I couldn't get into anything fun unless I logged on for four plus hours, but I think EQ did have many good qualities in general.

[PointlesS]

dunno if this counts...but planetside and also everquest...I got into everquest a little but after the 500th orc I killed in the exact same place I just got so bored and gave up...

[remainz]

10six from closed beta until the bitter end ...Legacy Online, highly addictive very political and unfortunately lacks a serious amount of excitement but its alot of game to play

[Darkhowl]

hum - yserbis on the long gone INN network - NWN /aol , M59 / look for my name on the back cover , UO , EQ , Realm ( still play , its old but hey its cheap ) , AC , AO , DAoC , NWN (reborn ) , SB , SWG , Fighting Legends ( loved that game one of the best , played beta and continued after it went gold , bad marketing it bit the dust , too bad )
Best of the bunch ? First NWN

[finrod]

The Fourth Coming seldom played , closed soon , free MMORPG in isometric view ( diablo , BG2 for example ) , quite fun
Dark Age of Camelot actualy playing , quite fun , too " informatized " ( numbers and irealistics math everywhere in a non really hidden way ) , too much " RoXXor " , too many ppl who forget it's a game and thinks they " are the uBBer destructor who rocks everything ", recently i've turned to Roleplay ( and it DOES exists in daoc ) ,and it's much funnier that way ! it permits you ( among many other) not to care to be extra powerful , and ignore the boasters and all.
Nothing else to do than kil mobs to xp to kill mobs and so on until lvl 50 ( except if you roleplay ) then go kill ennemies to gain rp ( realm points ) and so on...

[Elyssia001]

wow! i got more response than i expected in only one day!

DAOC has a lot of good things going for it, but after 20 months i've done everything and had my fill in rvr. (realm vs realm) RvR has gotten especially boring since i play mainly healers (cleric, druid, healer) and with buff bots on the loose, i've been kicked out of my job by dumbbards and such. "oops, sorry, we're full. each of us has an uberbot in the group, so no room for a player healer!"

Even with an expansion coming up, it will still be more of the same. organizing a 100+ member raid to go kill in the uber dungeon, then after 4 hours, sit around and hope you win the lotto for the loot you want. Though the specialty quests or "trials" as they are putting them are promising. I hope horizons intagrates something along those lines. they may have already, and i missed it in thier website.

[Tokamatta]

Hiya,

I guess I have a long list compared to some, so Here it is :
Mage Storm
Legends of Kesmai
EverQuest
Ashrens Call
The 4th Coming
Lineage
Shadowbane
Most of the games I've played had good points and bad points ( examples no real content in SB, Evercamping in EQ and so on) . I have had fun in all of them in one way or another. I am just waiting for Horizons now.

Tokamatta

[Kambria]

Ultima Online - was one of the lucky people who got into it early, enjoyed it till it became popular, then made the tough decision to quit when the lag problems went on, and on.... and onnnn... laughed about the lawsuit.

Baldur's Gate I and II online, Diablo II and 1st expansion online, NWN and 1st expansion online. (not massive as such, but lots of people on the servers at once.) - These were good, very interesting... got boring fairly quickly. Some had duping problems (cheating) others had a fair percentage of newbies that made me think people didn't play them long. NWN was interesting at times, very frustrating at times, and downright dull at times.

Tribes and Tribes II - again not massive, but potentially lots of players on at once. LOVE ROCKET PACKS! This is Quake/Unreal in a huge area, without all the dumb jump-pad gimmicks. Very mod-able, but frustrating to get a team to work together. BUT, when a team worked together it was amazing!

Dark Age of Camalot - I played for several months, but it got very routine. Too much playing with the balance, PvP was frustrating cause there really was no incentive to work together. (Other than staying with the healers so you wouldn't die fairly quick, but stealthers took out healers so fast that the group was constantly going back to the gate to re-group.)

Asheron's Call II - This game kept my attention for about 4 months or so now. I'm finally worn out after 2 characters at level 50, and about 3 characters around level 30. A couple days ago I had just made the decision to create a new character, and then realized that I was very tired of levelling past 30. The quests were all repeats of lower level ones, at least the quests that did your character any good, and the extra skills just weren't worth all the time that levelling took. So, now I'm just about to give my peerless crafting tools to some friends and take myself out. Probably will keep on going for a bit though, helping the newbies in the guild for a couple months until Horizons comes out (unless I get in the beta...

[Elyssia001]

think the dev read these and take into account our complaints about other mmorpgs? Maybe they coudl learn something about what a few of us see as +'s and -'s in other mmorpgs. that'd be neat.

[skyla]

in the beginning ultima online changing to the fourth coming (yet playing t4c cause of the people i like). here i have to look at finrod, 'cause i know the name. is he the same one?

i tested daoc. pvp and the bunch of unaged kids destroys it. still i have an account in daoc i use it very rare in the moment. same at neocron. a good idea, but too much kids with bad behaviours.

[finrod]

no i wasn't finrod in T4C , sry if u were expecting a friend

the name was already taken for i began playing a few weeks ( very few , sth like 2 weeks ) before they closed the servers but the few of it I saw was good

[Elayus]

Here's a list, in no particular order:

-Ac1
-Ac2
-Eq, and some of the expansions of course
-Meridian 59
-The Realm (first graphical MMORPG ever, was great fun at the time)
-Shadowbane
-Fourth Coming (really fun, especially for pking)
-Dark Ages (not of Camelot. This was an isometric anime-style mmorpg)
-Ragnarok Online (very fun korean MMORPG)


And of those, I betatested:

-Ac1
-Ac2
-Ragnarok


Which brings me to the question:

Lemme in horizons beta PWEASE!?

[Elyssia001]

ha ha! i see so many of you with so much more experiance in mmorpgs and beta testing than i do, and it makes me so happy to know that this is all random!!

Go Atari!!!

i don't mean to sound mean or anything, i'm a very nice gal, you just have to understand how happy i am that i have equal chance as everyone else does.

[Snick]

This is getting moved down the line a bit, but i think its still relevant to me anyways...if nothing else, it gets a bump to the top ;-)

lets see.....

AC1 - i LOVED this game, was badass in my opnion...but then they started making everything waaaay to easy for whiners....like Pyreal not weigh anything....and...sadly...i WAS an archer...one of those uber caster archers ;-) when the ymade making arrows really easy...i quit.....was jsut no challenge to the game anymore....

AC2- beta tested this....sucked ***, so i didnt bother with it when the yreleased it

EQ- played this my freshman year in college....i blame it for some of my bad grades ;-) got tired of hte camping tho...like many did...and so it joined my collection of games on the shelf

do Diablo and Diablo 2 count? diablo was my first online rpg ever.....really not sure how i had time for it in high school....but i did.....

Shadowbane- nice idea....but i didnt last through the first month....got my char to 60 and quit....was on Death server...in the Lokri alliance if anyone played there ;-)

Star Wars Galaxies- thought it would be cool...laser guns and stuff....but i just couldnt stand it after 2 weeks.....

Dark Ages of Camelot- this was my baby, played it between trying all these new games.....and always went back to her in the end...i WAS going to get the expansion....but lets face it....expansion to game i kno well, all of its +'s and -'s......or this new game i been dying to play as it is? heh, will be seeing you all in Horizon's, hopefully

oh yes, had to say something more bout daoc....all the class balancing and such....if you REALLY knew how to play ur char there were no unbalancing....and casters dying quickly....its rather hard to kill them when they travel with a grp....and nowadays....they mostly AE nukers anyhow....toasts the crap out of any Meleer that wants to take a stab at em....ok...one again there's my 2 cp

[Elyssia001]

i think a lot of people loved daoc in the begining.. then it became like a bad relationship.

you stay with it because you remember when you got so much enjoyment out of it,

you want to leave because they've changed everything that made the game worth playing.

you leave to try other games, but they're not as good as daoc was in the begining.

so those of us like that have put all our hope into horizons as the answer to our out of the bad relationship.

[Snick]

you make us sound so depressing

[Elyssia001]

well its true.


btw, isn't my little dragon cute? i drew him myself =D

[Snick]

aye cute dragon, just wait till i get my avatar tho....buahahahahaha

[Pyros]

I haven't played any MMOs, because at the moment, I feel none of them have got the concept right to the point that whenever I play, it's a new and changing world, not the same old "kill a giant rat to level up" fest it is now. I have beta tested a lot of MMOs though.

[Ringwraith]

Well I've seriously played:

Everquest: Sucked at first, but then I got into a Guild and it became incredibly fun, but the camping gameplay and lack of decent tradeskills turned me off after awhile.

Star Wars Galaxies: Had alot going for it, but in the end, this game may never get back on its feet. Horrible bugs from Beta still persist, the combat classes are out of whack, making melee useless in PvP and alot of PvE combat as well, many of the tradeskills are broken and useless now that everyone has a house and few new players are streaming in, and content is severly lacking. Im still playing it, but am looking for a new game, right now it looks like either Horizons or FFXI.

Ive alos Betad

AC2, SWG, Neocron, and Earth and Beyond.

[Dalsa]

Ooo ya beat me to it! I was going to post the same question today! Well, heres what I've played of the years.

Anarchy Online, I've played this game from beta, I still have an active account, though, since the realise of the expansion pack "Shadow Lands" I've been playing less, for anyone thats interested I have afew chars all 150+ one 201 ^_^ Anyone from AO will understand.

EverQueue in line, I played this one for a month.. then, sadly so say I moved on, this game just didn't do it for me, looked pretty however.

Graal, *Hides his face* I was a LAT on a Graal server for a year, oh wow those were the days, anyone thats played Graal will probably know what a LAT is, what a job

Faldon, low budget game made by a guy in a box room no doubt, knock up google search for it some time, makes for good light hearted gaming while your main game is down.

I've touched on afew of the other games too, I think at some stage I've played all the major RPG's, only game I'm yet to play is SWG, and, I don't think I ever will

[Dartje]

Thought i gave my list too

Baldur's gate: This was the first rpg i became hooked on (even in multiplayer). VERY solid story, very nice graphics (i loved the backgrounds) and a great way of personalizing your own character.

Anarchy Online: My first MMORPG i've played. I liked it (<-- wierd hmm ? ). I'm a sci-fi fan so this game was very much to my likeing. After about 6 months of full time leveling of my doctor i tried to do a solo mission and failed miserably (i could do them easily when i was about lvl20 ). That was i think the beginning of the end at AO for me. Played a few other character but couldn't bear myself to go killing monster again and again and again and again...

Baldur's Gate 2: Rejoice! The sequel of my most favorite singleplay rpg was here! I played it and didn't liked it... i missed the freedom i had in Baldur's gate... Sure.. you can leave the city to about 4 places but its all very linear. Quited the game before i finished it.

Dark Age of Camelot: Now this was a very strange thing... I just tripped over a url on irc for the daoc european beta. I downloaded the thing and was hooked.... Amazing graphics (for mmorpgs standard that is...), solid gameplay, high level content (rvr) and the Realm vs Realm was a very nice idea and well built. I hated the level threadmill and loved the rvr part of daoc. The game was killed for me by: buffbots (i was a healer), twinks (who has the highest resists will win the battle) and the leveling threadmill.

Never Winter Nights: I was very sceptical about this game but eventually bought it and played it... Didn't liked it at first, but a few months later i reinstalled it and kept playing... Again a very solid story, still some freedom (what i missed in bg2), and the graphics... I loved the online part too but never could get the hang of it from the diffrent modules...

Asheron Calls 2: This game couldn't grab my attention... Empty HUGHE cities (all ruins, you couldn't enter the buildings) with only 1 or 2 npc in them. Boring gameplay, boring terrain... i was bored within a month

Earth & Beyond: Wierd game! But nice for a few months (if your bored as me ). Played it for several months and it was enjoyable, but couldn't quite grab me like daoc (or horizons now). I do hope that this MMORPG will get better, it has hughe potential.

Beta'd:
Neocron: funny game, but not my style.
Star Wars - Galaxies: devs killed the game in beta3
Dark Age of Camelot - Euro version: I loved this game...
Eve: Couldn't log in or it was too damn laggy... couldn't test ****...
Earth & Beyond: Only open beta a day before launch
Horizons: I SO WANNA JOIN THIS BETA! plz ?

** EDIT ** added AC2, Eve, E&B

[Speedtospare]

Greetings all. First post. I ahve played almost every MMORPG since a friend got me hooked on Ever crack. I generally like the medievil style game (knights, wizards and dragons baby) I am not much for the techo futureistic stle like anarchy online.

[funkmaster]

I guess I should give my list a go which like everyone else is in no real order:

Diablo I & II and expansion( for almost 4 years) And yes like everyone else said, not really an MMORPG but it had the amount of players and the realms..

Lineage II
Asheron's Call 2
Anarchy Online
Mu Online (Currently trying this one out)
Horizons (he he )
Blackmoon Chronicles
Planetside(Only for a little, this one sucked imho)
NWN (I guess I will count it as others are)

[Azzikai]

Of the strictly multi-player variety:

Various MUDs. Played and helped build...I preferred the building part really. There were only 3 MUDs that I truly enjoyed playing, all still going strong from what I can tell.

Diablo/Diablo II - Meh, okay games for what they are I suppose.

Everquest - Warts and all, still one of my favorite games. The game itself is vastly different from what it was. The only constant is that, in the end, it's the communities of the servers that make or break the gaming experience. There is so much that is right about this game and so much that is wrong, very hard to explain. Look at it this way, a lot of people complain incessantly about EQ yet still play. That says something and hopefully future game developers are listening.

DAoC - Played this from release day until 3 months later when I just got bored. I know the game has changed since but what a dull and uninteresting world it started out as.

Kiaz...

[Sweetwater]

My husband is to blame for me getting into these. I had played with OLD games on my OLD computer for a long time (talking Zork I, II, III and some of the old Commodore games, hee hee).

My husband started getting some of the newer games on our newer computer. Then my husband got EQ when it came out, and after watching him play day after day... he tells me to start a character. He still regrets that :P

I finally had to quit EQ cause the high end game was stressful and eating away at family time (not for the casual player at all!!).

I did beta testing for Anarchy, but that was so bugged at the end of beta I knew it wasn't going to be worth buying (had such a filled notebook of bugs that I had submitted...yikes!).

I also beta tested for SWG (and unfortunately already had it preordered, which I will never do for a game again). I had high expectations for this one and it did not deliver. I still have an active character, but it will be cancelled soon I think because I am tired of paying to submit some of the same problems & bugs that had been submitted in beta with several new ones thrown in!!

I am more interested in the tradeskills end of the games, so I am looking into some of the newer mmorpgs coming out. Horizons does look promising.

[Elyssia001]

=) woohoo! goos to know there will be another REAL lady in the game =)