General Discussion

1. Ultima Online

2. EverQuest

3. Dark Age of Camelot

4. Asheron's Call

5. Vanguard

1.  Asheron's Call 1

2.  Dark Age of Camelot

3.  Lord of The Rings Online

4.  World of Warcraft

5.  City of Heroes

Originally posted by depain

1) Star Wars Galaxies (Before Jedi)

2) EverQuest II (PvP)

3) Age of Conan (Good for a casual player)

4) The rest are all the same....

5) The rest are all the same...

Uh... have you played any MMOs? Or are you one of those new blood people who assume everything is WoW? If anything Age of Conan should be off your list, cause its just a WoW clone with a new skin.

1-EVE

2-L2

3-COX

4-..............

5-..............

1) SWG (preCU)

2) WoW

3) EQ2

4) FFXI

5) CoH

1.  World of Warcraft

2.  Everquest

3.  DAoC

4.  CoX

5.  LotRO

Honorable Mention:  Eve (The first four months were great, but it soon got boring)

Originally posted by Kyntor

1.  World of Warcraft

2.  Everquest

3.  DAoC

4.  CoX

5.  LotRO

Honorable Mention:  Eve (The first four months were great, but it soon got boring)

 

I agree with that list. I would put Asherons Call in the honorable mentions list  with Eve.

1)  LotRO.  I admit it's a derivative game, but if you're a Tolkien/LotR fan you should be playing this game.  It trumps every other game I've played when it comes to PVE, lore, and story driven content.  PVP ho's need not apply tho...but very little imbalance because of this.  Great community.  Great developer that listens and releases new content regularly.  mmorpg.com ratings reflect this.  It's user rating is heads and shoulders above all the other games listed.  But for the most part it's ignored because it doesn't have a heavy pvp aspect.

2)  EVE.  Deep.  Complex.  Daunting...but not for everyone.  I wish it had and exploration options where you could do missions down on planets with an actual avatar.  Man, if it had that...it might be the greatest mmo ever.

3)  EQ2.  pwned by it's own timing, and underestimating the WoW Addiction.

4)  SWG.  You know what happened there.  Good -->  bad.

5) WoW.  In the beginning, great.  Highly polished, easy to market, runs on a fricken 8088.  But...now it's literally earned it's nickname of World of Gearcraft.  It went from a exploration/lore based game, to a fricken gear progression game.  The developers lost their way, but they don't care because they have a captured audience of brainwashed lemmings paying them every month.  Responsible for making mmos mainstream.  This is both good and bad.

1. DAoC

2. Vanguard

3. WAR

4. EQ

5. EQ2

Originally posted by Thradar

1)  LotRO.  I admit it's a derivative game, but if you're a Tolkien/LotR fan you should be playing this game.  It trumps every other game I've played when it comes to PVE, lore, and story driven content.  PVP ho's need not apply tho...but very little imbalance because of this.  Great community.  Great developer that listens and releases new content regularly.  mmorpg.com ratings reflect this.  It's user rating is heads and shoulders above all the other games listed.  But for the most part it's ignored because it doesn't have a heavy pvp aspect.

2)  EVE.  Deep.  Complex.  Daunting...but not for everyone.  I wish it had and exploration options where you could do missions down on planets with an actual avatar.  Man, if it had that...it might be the greatest mmo ever.

3)  EQ2.  pwned by it's own timing, and underestimating the WoW Addiction.

4)  SWG.  You know what happened there.  Good -->  bad.

5) WoW.  In the beginning, great.  Highly polished, easy to market, runs on a fricken 8088.  But...now it's literally earned it's nickname of World of Gearcraft.  It went from a exploration/lore based game, to a fricken gear progression game.  The developers lost their way, but they don't care because they have a captured audience of brainwashed lemmings paying them every month.  Responsible for making mmos mainstream.  This is both good and bad.

Though my list looks a bit different, I like your list and the reasonings behind the listings. Good show.