MMORPG - Favorite and why?

[Elandra]

My favorite would have to be Everquest.

I know, World of Warcraft's design is better and its user interface is amazing, but EQ was the first game that I spent hours upon hours playing. After we first installed it, my husband and I played it 36 hours straight, not realizing a day had passed us by. You do not have to say it, we realize we are geeks.

[Lirliel]

We'll I've only really got Guild Wars, which I don't play that often really. But it was a great game and I did play it eighteen hours straight.

[DarkestDreams]

I used to play MUME (MultiUser in Middle Earth) A LOT in uni..completely text based, but so much fun. Never really got into any 'proper' MMORPG..been wanting to code my own, though *slinks away to the geek corner*

[Lirliel]

Ahem, no discussion of abandonware here please.

-Lilac

[DarkestDreams]

*raises hand* pick me! pick me!

[Akioth]

How is it I've never tied Chess to Erotic thoughts...mmmm

[Lirliel]

Good pretty hard too.. Not that! Nasty buggah :P But I like the game, takes my mind off things..

[Elandra]

Erotic chess, now that would be interesting. *raises hand*

[Lirliel]

Just PM me your e-mails and I'll send it.

[Lilac]

Please refrain from discussing abandonware and the like here.

[Lirliel]

Sorry! *Goes to delete posts*

Nvm you already edited my post.

[slavetomydesire]

I like WoW. A LOT.... A LOT. :) elf girls are just so darn cute.

What's abandonware? never heard of it.

[DarkestDreams]

Abandonware is a type of software..when a company decides to no longer support the software in any kind of way (and it's over a certain amount of years old) it becomes abandoned..which means it's freely (And legally) available for download.

One example is Lemmings..i LURVE Lemmings! :D

[Lilac]

The law is murky about it.  I'm not a fan of all laws or legalist philosophy but dirty though we are I'd like us to stay clean, okay? ^_^

[thymoit]

Back on topic, favorite MMORPG and why...

I've played a lot of them.  I'm a casual MMORPG player.  I don't like kill-rinse-repeat over and over and over.  I want to see and explore new areas, complete quests, enjoy the world.  Not grind.

I've enjoyed the lowest levels of Everquest, Everquest II and World of Warcraft.  However, for all of those, as you advance, you need to find a large group of other people and be willing to spend hours in front of a computer screen - often killing the same things over and over and over.  Worse, you end up needing a guild where to complete any quest you have the help of someone much more powerful than you.  That's not being a hero!  That's being a sidekick.  >:(

So, of them all my favorite would be Dark Age of Camelot.  Why?  Best support for the casual gamer.   Strong storyline that starts low and continues all the way through to epic level.  You can solo a lot and the quests are usually broken down into a lot of steps that don't involve too much grind-grind-grind.

[Hunter]

I'm currently playing rappelz.  It's completely free, though it uses a point and click interface rather than the WASD controls.

[Bayushi]

I've played a bunch of MMO's. Some of them were fun for awhile, some annoyed the hell of me, and some were/are fun still.

Annoyed the hell out of me: Any version of EQ, Star Wars: Galaxies, and Final Fantasy XI. In all actuality, I played FFXI for a whole half hour before tossing it in the bin, since it had no return value. EQ.... well.... it's not called Evercrack for no reason, and there were WAY too many idiots roaming the landscape. SW:G has had so many technical difficulties and rollbacks that I'll never even install it on the PC again.

Fun for awhile: Guild Wars. For months, I played Guild Wars religiously, leveling and ascending two characters, a Monk/Elementalist(Fire), and a Warrior/Monk. I enjoyed the game, but saw so many shortfalls, such as the lack of interactivity in it's environment and the silly limit on how many abilities you could use at any one time. I can't even bring myself to reinstall it and the Factions expansion on this newer PC.

Fun Still: World of Warcraft(Live and The Burning Crusade Beta)... I have a Level 60 Human Rogue, and since the most recent content patch, have become a player-killing machine. Sadly, for now, at Level 60 there is not much left to do but try and get better gear. I will admit that the strategizing and cooperation with guildmates/raid-members is a lot of fun to me. I raid 3-4 nights a week when I'm not sick(been sick a LOT lately. :(). When the Burning Crusade expansion leaves Beta and goes live, I will happily rest with the fact that I will know a good bit already about the new content, and will be able to level again. I intend to level from 60 to 70 as quickly as I can, given the needs of sleep, food, and restroom breaks. Once I am there, I will happily rest for a short time then get involved once again in my guild and raids.

Oddly enough, when I was still playing Guild Wars, I was refusing to even TRY World of Warcraft. I thought the idea of PAYING to play, even though I had already forked out the cost of the game itself was absurd. In the end, I could blow the $15 required per month in a half hour at a coin-op arcade. So..... $15 per month honestly goes a long way. Especially when you play the game as much as I do.

[King_Furby]

I have tried many MMO's but there have been few i have enjoyed. I played PlanetSide for awhile and loved it during the six month trial period. But it was just not good enough to pay for and i was not going to pay $25 a month for it. Then I played maplestory for awhile but it really did not have much in the form of enjoyment..it was just not polished enough. After that i looked at several other MMO's but found nothing i wanted to play.

This brings me to my favorite MMO, which i now just totally love. I first found it from a website that listed over 100 free and pay for MMO's. This MMO i found had released a free no credit card required 15day trail so i was like heck i'll try it. It was only $12 bucks a month after the 15days and durning those 15 days i got hooked so i started to pay for it. I have started my second month now and still enjoy it just as much.

This game i am talking about is Ragnarok Online. It has many classes, and each class branches off into two different class paths. There is the classic wizzard, theif, swordmen, archer classes but also adds a merchant and a class that is for total support..a healer of sorts. This game lets you fight many monsters..its not just one monster over and over and over. There are many different monsters to kill, a very solid party system, quests all that good stuff. It's worth a look i do encourage you to at least try it. Here is a link to learn more about it if anyone wants to check it out http://iro.ragnarokonline.com/

[Mika]

I could list many but right now my addition is KOL or Kingdom of Loathing.
I love it number one because its free. YAY! Number two because I understand all the corny jokes and items that they are making fun of like phonics down...*snickers* I'm a final fantasy nut but anyways itd fun, free, kewl jokes and kerl t-shirts to get ab all that jazz......I'm sure I'll find a new addiction but right now KOL is my drug of choice since I don't want to shell out money for another addiction since Im about to graduate college.

[HairyHeretic]

I'm currently playing City of Heroes / Villians (mostly my villians) and Planetside, though I suppose its not quite an -RPG. I'm keeping an eye on Warhammer Online and the Stargate one that are due out next year (I think). There's also a Star Trek one in the works, but I've not been paying as much attention to it.

[King_Furby]

Alot of MMO fans are excited about Stargate Worlds, even thought it will probably be scratched just like the last stargate game which was going to be  a FPS. But if Stargate Worlds does actually get released i would go out and play it pretty much no matter what. It would be nice to play a stargate game especially when stargate sg-1 will no longer be making new episodes

[HairyHeretic]

SG-1 won't, but apparently the OK has been given for a new SG series.

[DancerTamara]

I play in Sociolotron.  It's an adult MMORPG.  Sex, politics, survival, crime...The graphics are crude but it's a lot of fun.

[Tawny]

Myself, I am addicted to WoW.  I play it most  everyday.  I usually log several hours a night during the week, and quite a few more on weekends, at least when the weather is not too nice.  GF works for a nursery, so unless she is exhausted from too much work under the sun, she likes to be outside on the weekends. 

[Dai]

And another Minority Vote for COH/V (mostly H side here)

Though I can't play right now, due to government internet and such, but I run the clan Brotherhood of Brujah on Protector

[Leigh]

I am totally addicted to COH/COV mostly COH.   I am co-leader to Brotherhood of the Brujah SG on Protector.  I also play Kingdom of Loathing and occasionaly Wow

[Akasha]

I have to say Guild Wars since it was the first mmorpg I played, and I still enjoy it almost a year and a half later. Mind you it begins to get a little boring sometimes, until they nerf something else, or add a new campaign.

The extra little festivals are always fun too. ^^

[KeyOfTwilight]

I play WoW extensively.  For those of you who understand this, I am a lvl. 70 Night Elf Hunter on The Scryers server, almost all blues with two greens, two purples, and my tier 4 shoulder piece.  My guild runs Karazhan weekly, as well as Gruul's Lair every sunday.  So yeah, Im geeking it out.

[Swedish Steel]

Blergh. Wow is the suck. I still enjoy CoH/CoV now and then though, I like a game I can play casually.

[KeyOfTwilight]

The best game ever for MMOs was actually FFXI, and if it had been easier to level, and had not been overrun by gold farmers, it would beat WoW any day.

[HairyHeretic]

I gave WoW a try on a friends account, and while I can see the quality of it, it just never really hooked me as it seems to have done so many others.

A lot of my Guild seem to be heavily involved with hobbit fondling on that Lord of the Rings Online though  ;D

[Bayushi]

I play WoW extensively.  For those of you who understand this, I am a lvl. 70 Night Elf Hunter on The Scryers server, almost all blues with two greens, two purples, and my tier 4 shoulder piece.  My guild runs Karazhan weekly, as well as Gruul's Lair every sunday.  So yeah, Im geeking it out.

Good to see that I'm not the ONLY one geeking it out.  :P

My Human Rogue is Level 70, having transferred from the Mannoroth(pvp) realm to the Twisting Nether(rp-pvp) realm on 4 July. While on Mannoroth, however, I was in a raid guild. I'm 3/4 epic(with Tier 4 gloves), as we ran three seperate Karazhan raid groups each week, with one Gruul's Lair group also. We had been planning to get into The Eye, but I'd had enough of the BS from the Guild Leader and some other people there on Mannoroth.

So I grabbed me up a paid character transfer, and moved to Twisting Nether. I'm in a brand new, slowly growing guild, pvp'ing my ass off.

I play in Sociolotron.  It's an adult MMORPG.  Sex, politics, survival, crime...The graphics are crude but it's a lot of fun.

I'm giving Sociolotron a try.... it's kinda lame, but not too bad, really. It's nice for adult characters to actually be able to act like adults, for once. Ah well, such are the pitfalls of living in a world run by religious fundamentalists.  >:(

[KeyOfTwilight]

Usually you shouldnt be starting The eye before you do Magtheridon @_@;

[Stevej101]

Strictly Guild Wars here, I really don't like the "pay $50 for my game and then more for the server use"  I'm into the third expansion now and am looking forward to both the 4th and GW2 coming soon.

Flyte Tyme is a character name if anyone here is interested in playing with me...I mean Guild Wars...really.  :D

[Lanzlo]

WoW addict here. I've been with it almost since the beginning, and I still enjoy it. I'm mainly Alliance on the Silverhand server (70 NE Rogue, 59 Draenei Shaman, 48 Human Warrior. Sometimes break out my 41 Human Paladin, but not often.) Not much into PvP (mainly because I suck at it. :P)

Tried EQ for a bit, and got frustrated that, at the higher levels, you couldn't do anything without finding a group. Done some with CoH/V (both sides) and it became an "Eh..." situation. I may return, given enough incentive.

[Bayushi]

Strictly Guild Wars here, I really don't like the "pay $50 for my game and then more for the server use"

I used to be just like you. Strictly Guild Wars. Then I realized that I could easily spend $15 in a half hour at a coin-op arcade, where $15 lasts an entire month with WoW.

It's also my opinion that with the constant addition of new content, free from expansions, the monthly fee is justified. It's pretty bad when an end-game guild clears the brand new uber-raid dungeon within weeks of it being released.... so they have to keep up with the demand/need of new content, for the 'hard-core' players.

In addition to all that, I honestly think Guild Wars needs major revamping. From my experience(which was just through Factions), the inability to solo anything was.... frustrating. WHY do I have to have a group for EVERYTHING?

Heh, hence why I play the ultimate loner class, in WoW. The Rogue is a great solo'ing class, other than that it has no armor to speak of, no healing capacity, no Area-of-Effect abilities, etc.

*shrug* Nothing's perfect, I guess.

[King_Furby]

Planetside was mine untill i got really into Halo Custom Edition for PC. I got like a 6 month trial for Planetside as a free offer when they were trying to recruit a larger player base. Yes you could not get the best weapons or vehicles and had to really specialize to be a good player on the demo. It was the full game you were just restricted by level and some equipment. But it was like $25 bucks a month and i could not justify the expense. But during the free trial i still had fun as it was a giant war zone and no single person really could shine. With over 200 people on a single map fighting things got crazy. Dropships, tanks, snipers all sorts of things would be in one battle. It was my fav MMORPG because 1 it was massive, 2 it was sci-fi, 3 it was a first person shooter as well as an MMORPG and 4 i was decent at it.

i was mad when my trial ran out and i could not afford the monthly fee. but it was constantly updated as with most MMO's. it had every feature of any other major MMO. But Planetside just never really got as famous as guild wars and other MMO, but it's a great game.

[ZK]

As for MMORPGs, I've played a -LOT- of them, as a player and as a beta tester. But only a few I actually stayed in.

So far, the only "MMORPG" more like "MMOSimulation" is Second Life, primarily for the fact that I make actual real money in it as profit.

[Swedish Steel]

I liked Planetside too, but couldn't justify the expense either.

[HairyHeretic]

I still play Planetside, though I've not been on in a while, due to wanting to level up my villians a bit in CoV.

I tend to go for dedicated sniper and support merits. Got about 2700 sniper kills at last count, and that was just from when they strated tracking kills for merits.  :D

[ZK]

I need to play in a game somewhere too...any suggestions?

[HairyHeretic]

What kind of game you looking for? -RPG or -FPS? Free or paid? Sci fi, Fantasy, Modern, or something else entirely?

[ZK]

RPG, no FPS. I like FPS games but I'd never Pay to Play one. As for setting, anything goes.

List away and I'll tell you if I played it or not.

[HairyHeretic]

Only ones I can give you personal views on are WoW, CoH/CoV, D&D Online and Dark Age of Camelot.

I've played WoW on a friends account, and its not bad, but I spent most of my time soloing. I never really got involved with either PvP or Guilds. The game is certainly nice, but it didn't hook me the way it has a lot of others.

D&D Online: Graphics are lovely. Gameplay is pure D&D3 rules, and therein lies part of the problem. The rules when used with a pen and paper group work because you have a DM who can work around player insanity. In the computer, you have few choices, and no way of thinking outside the box.

I also disliked that it forced me to group in order to do some adventures. Within about 2 days I hit a scenario that I simply could not solo, and that kinda did it for me. Also, having dungeons reset if you are outside them for longer than a certain period of time was extremely frustrating.

DAoC I had heard a lot of good things about, and wanted to like, but unfortunately it never really hooked me either. I found part of the quest system frustrating, because I couldn't find a trainer to allow me to choose an advanced career.

I should point out, both of these were just the free trials.

City of Heroes/Villians I like, and have been playing since beta. I am involved with what I consider good supergroups so that does make a difference. The costume editor has an amazing range of choices, and regular infusions of new content also make this, IMO, one of the better games out there.

I came across an ad for this one

http://www.metin-2.com/index.php

which looks like it might be fun, but haven't got round to checking it out yet.

http://www.mmorpg.com is probably a good one stop site for you to get an idea of the best stuff thats out there.

I have friends playing both Star Wars and Lord of the Rings Online as well, the latter quite popular with my Planetside outfit.

[Seereous]

I play Final Fantasy XI online. 

I don't care that it sometimes takes forever to level.  I like the challenge and I can lose myself in the game for hours sometimes.  I also like the wide variety of jobs that you can play as.  If you get tired of one job, it's cool, just switch to another.

[ZK]

Irony has it, I've played all the games that were listed [all but that free one]. Some Alpha & Beta, other Beta and Full.

Heh, am I sure I am not Korean?