What do you think are the worst games of 2009?

I would give that award to WoW. 

6 years in a row, Blizzard rocks.

Originally posted by Ginkeq

I would give that award to WoW. 

6 years in a row, Blizzard rocks.

p much this.  Darkfall is pretty awful too, so is Mortal Online, pretty much every MMORPG out there right now is shit.

 Evony. Nuff said.

Just about every mmo failed this year with people retrying them in hope they somehow become good overnight. That is just my opinion though because failure and success in mmos is in the eye of the beholder. :) Lets not kid ourselves though, there was nothing that made mmo gamers go crazy over.

It would be harder to say which was the best, most of the games had an awful buggy release and even the rest was rather uninteresting. 2 good titles seems to much to ask for but 1 shouldn't really be, lets hope next year will be better.

I still have the optimistic hope that Guildwars 2 will release to next X-mas :D 

I hate Enony..

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Just about every mmo failed this year with people retrying them in hope they somehow become good overnight. That is just my opinion though because failure and success in mmos is in the eye of the beholder. :) Lets not kid ourselves though, there was nothing that made mmo gamers go crazy over.

Not one MMO launched in 2009 was worth the initial investment nor a subscription.

People have the choice between Wow, Eve, Lotro. And these games were launched in 2004, 2003 and 2007.

Painful.

Originally posted by camp11111

Not one MMO launched in 2009 was worth the initial investment nor a subscription.

People have the choice between Wow, Eve, Lotro. And these games were launched in 2004, 2003 and 2007.

Painful.

Even though I don't care for the game myself I would add EQ2 to that list.  Outside of that I agree with you.  Which is really sad to say but '09 was a rather dismal year for mmorpgs far as I'm concerned.

Originally posted by Wickedjelly

Originally posted by camp11111

Not one MMO launched in 2009 was worth the initial investment nor a subscription.

People have the choice between Wow, Eve, Lotro. And these games were launched in 2004, 2003 and 2007.

Painful.

 

Even though I don't care for the game myself I would add EQ2 to that list.  Outside of that I agree with you.  Which is really sad to say but '09 was a rather dismal year for mmorpgs far as I'm concerned.

Hmm.  I happen to enjoy Fallen Earth very, very much and it was released just a few months ago.  It's fresh, different, and fun.

 worst game i've played this year was Alganon. 

Biggest disappointment I played this year would be Aion hands down, but by no means the worst game. 

Originally posted by Justarius1

Hmm.  I happen to enjoy Fallen Earth very, very much and it was released just a few months ago.  It's fresh, different, and fun.

Eh, I wasn't real impressed with the game.  I enjoyed how it takes place in a different theme and some things really stood out to me such as the crafting but I found the combat in that game to be horribly sluggish to the point it affected my enjoyment of the game.

One thing I will say though is considering it's a small company they seem to be doing an outstanding job of working on issues in the game and the level of customer service they had going while I played was outstanding.  It was a welcome change actually seeing gms interacting with people inside the game, which in most titles any more you don't see much.  Far as customer service goes there are some much larger companies that could learn a thing or two from them least in my opinion.

Overall though the combat was so bad in the game I couldn't get into the game as I would have liked nor could I recommend it to anyone.  The game does have potential though at least.

 My pick is Champions Online.  I don't understand how Cryptic Studios, that made CoH could actually go backwards and not include the features that made CoH special.  Big disappointment in my book.

But then again, they were bought out by Atari so it shouldn't be a surprise.

Biggest disappointment for me was Wrath of the Lich King. After the Burning Crusade it felt like they were milking the cow for 10 more levels. The areas were forgettable and just not as exciting. I started a new character and got him to level 52. Every old area I went through was deserted, after 52 levels I ran across only a handful of other people. I guess this is from the leveling system and zone level requirements. The world felt empty, now they are talking about another expansion to try to get people back into the old areas. With the XP increase on quests after 20 you can casually breeze past many of the old instances without even noticing. Once you reach 80 its either raiding, pvp, gold grinding, rep grinding, and/or achievement grinding and waiting until the next expansion comes out.

I'm enjoying LOTRO again, skirmishes were a nice addition for my PVE centric gaming.

With that said I've also enjoyed Allods beta!

With my family jumping into Aion, I've started enjoying that  game again.

My least favorite experiences of the year were Karos and Alganon. Karos was stereotypical MMORPG clone of the Korean variety, it felt A LOT like Shaiya to me, and was buggy to boot!

As for Alganon I just felt it was uninspiring, I would log in and run a few quests and just couldn't get myself to continue. I wouldn't say it was a feeling of 'been here done even though that' it's true that the quests weren't anything different than any other MMORPG, but I'd likely run similar quests in Aion or LOTRO and keep playing, there's just something about Alganon that doesn't 'catch' me, and I can't find words for what it is.  Sadly, of the two, I played Karos longer than I played Alganon.... to me that says a lot.

My best experience wasn't even an MMORPG, it was Dragon Age.

2009 was not a year I tried many different MMO's.

The worst game in 2009 for me was definately Fallen Earth. What a waste of money. Utter garbage.

Originally posted by chrisel

2009 was not a year I tried many different MMO's.

The worst game in 2009 for me was definately Fallen Earth. What a waste of money. Utter garbage.

Wow, this just proves how one persons garbage is another persons treasure.  I really thought Fallen Earth was a fresh take on the genre and a pretty inspired MMO, but I realize everyone has differing tastes.

My vote for worst game of 2009 is Alganon hands down.  The game is horribly broken core gameplay wise and was no where near ready for release.

Originally posted by Wickedjelly

Originally posted by Justarius1

Hmm.  I happen to enjoy Fallen Earth very, very much and it was released just a few months ago.  It's fresh, different, and fun.

 

Eh, I wasn't real impressed with the game.  I enjoyed how it takes place in a different theme and some things really stood out to me such as the crafting but I found the combat in that game to be horribly sluggish to the point it affected my enjoyment of the game.

One thing I will say though is considering it's a small company they seem to be doing an outstanding job of working on issues in the game and the level of customer service they had going while I played was outstanding.  It was a welcome change actually seeing gms interacting with people inside the game, which in most titles any more you don't see much.  Far as customer service goes there are some much larger companies that could learn a thing or two from them least in my opinion.

Overall though the combat was so bad in the game I couldn't get into the game as I would have liked nor could I recommend it to anyone.  The game does have potential though at least.

 

Combat "sluggish" -?  I don't find it to be so at all.  I find the combat rather fast and furious.  Perhaps it was your system or your settings?

Originally posted by chrisel

2009 was not a year I tried many different MMO's.

The worst game in 2009 for me was definately Fallen Earth. What a waste of money. Utter garbage.

Hmm, interesting.  Fallen Earth has received several "Game of the Year" awards, a great review from the editors and users of this site, and it's personally my current favorite MMO.  I love it.  One man's trash is another man's treasure, indeed.  Out of curiosity, what did you dislike about the gameplay?

The worst game I played this year was a game called World of Warcraft. Bleeech. Don't even bother with it, all hype no game. (ZING!) - JOKE