I'll toss in my vote for City of Heroes/Villains. I love all the awesome animation, variety of fighting styles in groups, and the easy pick up and go gameplay. Now if only missions were only more interesting

You cant have objective opinions on these boards these days anymore, millions play wow so they always will win with topicson who is best ,and  that wow is best, nomatter how hard you try convince them there just to many of these wow fanbois:(

Lineage2 , had it all.

Vanguard before the xp crying began and before that lineage 2.

WoW has good gameplay and by that I mean controls and moving around.

Originally posted by Aguitha

 

Originally posted by DarkerFate

I'm going to have to say EvE, even though I don't play it anymore.

 

You got to be kidding.  That post is about the best gameplay and you choose EVE ?!?!  A game we're raising skill is about waiting for days in real life ?

Woah lad, your stirring up the hive. Eve is not centered around skills 100% like other MMORPGs it's more based around Economy or money. Battleship skills get you nowhere unelss you have the 100mill to buy the actual Battleship. Not to mention PVP is breathtaking. Your corp(guild), gets to own (REALLY OWN) constellations and star systems. There is constant war, looting, plundering and killing. Plus the geometry and math heavy combat system requires good piloting ,not just click a few buttons and auto attack.

depends what you define as gameplay I suppose. Is a rpg gameplay format less valid a gameplay format than a fps? Rpg gameplay-wise I enjoyed some mmorpgs more than others, fps gameplay-wise I'd say I enjoyed WoW battlegrounds(taboo point!!). Generally though, I do think I find better gameplay outside of mmorpgs, which I hope one day may perhaps mix. Planetside is a sort of a start but it was ultimately naff from my perspective.

I define gameplay like

Games like Frogger or Pac-Man have great gameplay , or Super Mario

Or how you can always say that Half-Life 2 is a great game , but in terms of pure gameplay Serious Sam just beats it in fun part.

So ... not deepnes, just pure fun factor -

Let say , if you fight one single group of mob - is this a boring but necesarry step - in otherwise great game

I think WoW has the best gameplay because in most mmo's you dont have the option of jumping.

at first WoW is boring but when u hit lvl 56 and get burning crusade it gets better and the pvp is better then

any other game I' ve played.

Pure fun, EvE still wins hands down for me.

Flying around a slow Battleship in a small Interceptor, and flying at about 600m/s - 1km/s(that'd be 3600 kmph) while avoiding the large turrets slow turning speed.  Of course, it'd take you forever to take a battleship down, but man... was it ever exciting.

The only reason I stopped playing EvE was because my friends stopped playing as much as they did, so my need for a community sought other games.  And there, CoH and WoW won me over.

Originally posted by DarkerFate

Pure fun, EvE still wins hands down for me.

Flying around a slow Battleship in a small Interceptor, and flying at about 600m/s - 1km/s(that'd be 3600 kmph) while avoiding the large turrets slow turning speed.  Of course, it'd take you forever to take a battleship down, but man... was it ever exciting.

The only reason I stopped playing EvE was because my friends stopped playing as much as they did, so my need for a community sought other games.  And there, CoH and WoW won me over.

But mate...dont you kind of use AUTOPILOT to fly around these targets?

Not trying to put you down.... just it is not really as active as it might sound

It doesn't have to be that easy, totally depends on what kind of battleship you're fighting, and if it's player controlled or NPC.

One of my most enjoyable moments in my 23 years of gaming history, would be the first time I lost my ship in EvE.  Exhilarating moment, to say the least.  I know it may not be what a lot of people are looking for,  But, if you lose your ship, that ship is gone.  And if you didn't insure it, so is most of the money you spent buying it.  Just talking about the game makes me want to go play it again.

after playing/trying  almost 75% of the mmorpgs on market....(beta and released) i have to say that i liked the 2years in  lineage2 most . it lasts until you know all and everything and have high end equip....then fun factor turns to 0 .

None.  Cant think of any MMO that Ive played or seen or heard about that actually had good gameplay.  Apparently, gameplay is one of the glaring flaws in MMOs.  Every class boils down to one simple formula, which you rinse and repeat forever.

I gotta go with WoW, although my playstyle is not compatible with the way the game works, of course that aside the gameplay is the best I have played, all I need now is a reason to play. Sadly for a soloist like myself progression is no longer possible & that defeats the purpose of logging in.

I guess when it comes down to it enjoyable gameplay is secondary to my need for an overall purpose in playing, for instance in WoW it was simply about grinding in order to increase my rate of grinding, I was not actually working towards anything & I was not enjoying myself in doing so which caused me to cancel my account.

I'm hoping WAR can recreate the enjoyment I once felt when playing WoW a sense that I can have a good time working towards a goal without having to compromise the way I like to play. Not to say the sheer enjoyment might convince me to do so Because I want to, not because it's the only way to reach a further stage in the game.

Sorry to go off-topic but to me a game could have the most amazing gameplay ever of course without a purpose to playing I would lose interest & likely experience a very limited ammount of enjoyment.

Gameplay is the key of a success MMO... despite other things...ok.

but i think any MMORPG fan out there look for a gameplay that actually glue them to the game... having the rush of leveling the character, better armor and weapons... things that make u go to sleep very late at night.

But nowadays the story is different, as for me... because any so-called "good game" out there i try, i found myself playing it and having that rush of leveling about a couple of hours... it´s always the same... u killed 20 monsters for a quest... u run half map to get to the NPC and then u level, when u still excited looking for the new stuff u are hammered pretty hard by another quest that askes you to hunt 30 monsters in a place that makes u run for another couple of minutes... and then u choose "exit game"

ok, enough boring stories... as for me, the better gameplay is yet to be found.. but since then i think WoW, silkroad, Thang, SWG, and a few more i found good gameplay... no, it´s not because of the game itself, it´s because the community in it that were cool, nice people and a nice guild makes almost any game out there look like gold.

Going on gameplay alone i would say WoW has the best,everything else i've tried just seems too stiff, and wouldn't even think of PvPing on other games i've tried just for that reason. Pretty surprized so many even mentioned WoW on here tho, Most topics asking a question if some one says the word WoW they get flamed..lol

Originally posted by socomplaya12

I think WoW has the best gameplay because in most mmo's you dont have the option of jumping.

at first WoW is boring but when u hit lvl 56 and get burning crusade it gets better and the pvp is better then

any other game I' ve played.

any game that starts at endgame is not a good game imo

the path getting there should be as good as the endgame.

EQ2 did this for me: it's fun to solo / group & once you get to the endgame you'll wanna raid and that's what's EQ2 is pretty good at as well.

I enjoyed CoH the most.  It starts out fun right from the beginning.  I've never enjoyed creating a character as much as I did in CoH.  I remember making my girlfriend her first character....she hit me.  It was funny to see her reaction to how ugly I made her character (she likes beautiful characters).  The versatility of the character creation was fun.  And then the combat was fun.  It was cool to be able to fly, especially when you first get the ability.  Slow flying and trying to catch the blimp...that was entertaining.

Originally posted by Flyte27

WoW can at least claim title to this IMO.  Regardless of what you might think about the graphics and linear gameplay the interfaces is top notch.  I've never played a game with a nicer interface and the movement/interaction is extremely smooth.

Aye, WoW is an extremely well polished turd. I guess the best way to describe WoW is; Its the best game in the genre, but if mmo devs were not such dumbasses, it would be the worst.