Asherons Call 1999 - 2008

but in early 2002 time was when it was at its best. so many storys and memorys in that game. and every single month there was a content update it was so fun logging in on patch day and running around  the world trying to find the new content.

and still the best pvp i have played in any MMO.

Definitely DAoC, 2002-2004ish. Basically Classic and Shrouded Isles.

You would spend hours grinding in groups with your realmmates to hit 50, but if something in the frontier was going down, you'd drop what you were doing and head out there. You'd apply all those hours you spent grinding on RvR that actually felt meaningful because you had pride for your realm. Relic raids, keep takes, PvP in DF, all felt epic.

It would take months, if not years, to maximize a character's full potential in those days. When that happened, you had a bunch of other classes within your own realm to reroll, not to mention an entirely different faction. There was almost no cross over between different faction's leveling areas (excluding leveling in the frontiers and DF) and even then each faction had their respective areas. I have not found a game that nailed the gameplay cycle down as solidly as DAoC did. The grind to 50 made RvR feel even more worthwhile and the RvR was epic enough to make you push through the grind. Not only once, but multiple times.

PvE: Everquest. Enormous world with hundreds of things to do and explore. Played it for years. Plenty of places I never made it to or finished to this day.

PvP: Dark Age of Camelot. Best PvP, community, and siege system to date as far as i'm concerned.

Originally posted by tank017

Everquest and Asheron's Call back in 1999

 

You made your own quests,your own journeys.

 

it took years before the games became boring...

 

not 1 month.

^^^^agree

My two favorite mmo's listed above.

daoc before toa

wow before wotlk (fun but not as much as daoc)

also diablo 2 before lod (not sure if I actually had fun but it was addicting like a hard drug)

why do expansions have to ruin everything?

City of Heroes, the first few months after launch. Playing with all the costume possibilities and powers for the first time was nothing short of amazing.

A close second place would go to the pre-BC era of Vanilla WoW.

Originally posted by fernetek

Soooo random topic! Which MMORPG and time period on said MMORPG did you most enjoy (enjoyment being your subjective opinion, obviously)?

 

One of the most fun times I've ever had was on a World of Warcraft, more specifically when getting the achievment of killing all of the enemy faction's leaders. Although I found the rest of the game a bit boring and repetitive (espcially raids), I had oodles of fun organizing huge armies of players for PvP battles.

 

 

 

Everquest 1999.  Took me like 9 months to get to 50 playing regularly.  The mmo world seemed new, fresh.  No one was getting to 50 in two weeks.  It was about the journey. 

-briz

Originally posted by wr036

Definitely DAoC, 2002-2004ish. Basically Classic and Shrouded Isles.

 

You would spend hours grinding in groups with your realmmates to hit 50, but if something in the frontier was going down, you'd drop what you were doing and head out there. You'd apply all those hours you spent grinding on RvR that actually felt meaningful because you had pride for your realm. Relic raids, keep takes, PvP in DF, all felt epic.

 

It would take months, if not years, to maximize a character's full potential in those days. When that happened, you had a bunch of other classes within your own realm to reroll, not to mention an entirely different faction. There was almost no cross over between different faction's leveling areas (excluding leveling in the frontiers and DF) and even then each faction had their respective areas. I have not found a game that nailed the gameplay cycle down as solidly as DAoC did. The grind to 50 made RvR feel even more worthwhile and the RvR was epic enough to make you push through the grind. Not only once, but multiple times.

Absolutely agree.  Would not call it grinding though because grinding is not fun and leveling in DAoC definetly was.  And after you hit 50 then the real fun began in the frontier.  Those Zergs!  The whole RvR concept was really genius.  So much so that it has been unequalled anywhere.  When you got tired of RvR you just rolled a new character from the many classes available and start over or......................you could leave Midgard and go roll a character in Albion or Hibernia.  In any case, when you went to another realm you were in a brand new game, with new armor, new weapons, new skills, new dungeons.  DAoC was a true classic.

It is my understanding that the Elder Scrolls Online is being developed by the same genius who invented RvR.  I am anxiously awaiting THAT release!!! :)

Originally posted by Vladamyre
Dark Age of Camelot, the classic game and Shrouded Isles. Running my 8 man team was the most fun in any game I've ever played. Playing a hib on Lancelot was also a blast. Albs outnumbered both hibs and mids combined on that server. Hitting realm rank 8 on my hero, which was a beast class to play then. There hasn't been a game to come even remotely close to the rvr on DAoC. Guild Wars 2 comes close to it, but its still not the same. Its a damn shame that new frontiers and trials of atlantis ruined the game.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel my friend.  The guy who set up RvR in DAoC is the lead developer for Elder Scrolls Online., with the same RvR Concept.  IMO a stroke of genius on their end, to hire the best of the best.  Can't wait :)

Originally posted by Rheanon

Originally posted by Vladamyre
Dark Age of Camelot, the classic game and Shrouded Isles. Running my 8 man team was the most fun in any game I've ever played. Playing a hib on Lancelot was also a blast. Albs outnumbered both hibs and mids combined on that server. Hitting realm rank 8 on my hero, which was a beast class to play then. There hasn't been a game to come even remotely close to the rvr on DAoC. Guild Wars 2 comes close to it, but its still not the same. Its a damn shame that new frontiers and trials of atlantis ruined the game.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel my friend.  The guy who set up RvR in DAoC is the lead developer for Elder Scrolls Online., with the same RvR Concept.  IMO a stroke of genius on their end, to hire the best of the best.  Can't wait :)

I might check that out, but I'd rather the guy to just buy back DAoC from shitty EA and make part 2.

EverQuest in 2001-2004 and City of Heroes in 2004-2008.