Originally posted by Konfess
I played most every game on this list. And looking at the graphics of Planetside 2, I must vote for SWG with the same game playas Pre-CU/NGE and graphics of PS2. I think that would be an awesome game.

You like PS2? Im in the beta and not very impressed. Graphics are nice but doesnt the game feel bland with no character story/developement? feels just like BF3 but with less going on.

Originally posted by ZigZags

Originally posted by Konfess
I played most every game on this list. And looking at the graphics of Planetside 2, I must vote for SWG with the same game playas Pre-CU/NGE and graphics of PS2. I think that would be an awesome game.

You like PS2? Im in the beta and not very impressed. Graphics are nice but doesnt the game feel bland with no character story/developement? feels just like BF3 but with less going on.

Still beta, you're there to test.

Pretty much the same as other AC fans- no Asheron's Call, no vote.

2nd choice would be a tie between UO and SWG, but I feel strongly enough not to skew the results that way with a vote for 2nd place.

Everquest Next will be made on Forge Light, and as a beta tester of Planetside 2, I must say that engine is extremely impressive, we may see a first person sworder, as the engine supports it, with hundreds versus hundreds supported as an FPS game. Not to mention SOE president Smedley has announced that EQ Next will be "PVP Focused".

Still, I voted for Shadowbane.

Originally posted by Neherun

Everquest Next will be made on Forge Light, and as a beta tester of Planetside 2, I must say that engine is extremely impressive, we may see a first person sworder, as the engine supports it, with hundreds versus hundreds supported as an FPS game. Not to mention SOE president Smedley has announced that EQ Next will be "PVP Focused".

 

Still, I voted for Shadowbane.

 

Well we already have Darkfall, which can accomplish the same feat.

Smed did say on Reddit that EQNext would return to player driven content/socializing and communities. Let's hope.

Precu SWG.  There's a lot of crappy games out there that don't even deserve to be taking up bandwidth and this game is shut down.  It's sad.  It deserved to be rolled back to precu, not killed off completely forever.

I had a lot of good memories in SWG.  I'll never be able to get them back, but nostalgia demands I cast my vote.

UO should stay legendary the way it was.

Voted for Anarchy Online. We need more Sci-Fi that isn't riding the two big franchises to death.

I doubt any of those games would make a good comeback.

It's no longer the days of big worlds, inmersion, group playing and challenge. No, it's the days of minigames, soloing all the way to cap, epics with your box of cheerios, tiny worlds and cash shops.

Originally posted by gordiflu

I doubt any of those games would make a good comeback.

It's no longer the days of big worlds, inmersion, group playing and challenge. No, it's the days of minigames, soloing all the way to cap, epics with your box of cheerios, tiny worlds and cash shops.

 

You say that, but has there been a single successful WoW clone? No. They've all been merging servers within months of launch. That never happened to these golden age MMOs.

Originally posted by Badaboom

You do not want to go there.  The bastardization of a remake of your favorite game would make you cry.

 

 

Sadly this ^

A game of yesterday released today would not be what you would hope for it to be. I mean just look at The Elder Scrolls Online, see what they did to that? The Suits are in charge now days. 

---

Originally posted by TobiasGrey

---

Originally posted by gordiflu I doubt any of those games would make a good comeback. It's no longer the days of big worlds, immersion, group playing and challenge. No, it's the days of minigames, soloing all the way to cap, epics with your box of cheerios, tiny worlds and cash shops.  

---

You say that, but has there been a single successful WoW clone? No. They've all been merging servers within months of launch. That never happened to these golden age MMOs.

---

The Golden Age of MMOs also had a much, much smaller playerbase than what's available today; on top of that even players that played those original games likely have different social circumstances than they did at that time keeping them from playing the more time-intensive games.

I still currently play one of the poll titles on an emulated server (as its live version has changed into something much poorer IMO) and while I think there is room in the genre for something like the more classic MMOs I don't think there'd ever be enough financial support to see any of them to fruition.

Only a small number of MMO players read the forums and even fewer post on them so of those forum posters that desire a return to older mechanics are likely an infinitesimal portion of the overall MMO playerbase. They'd all need to contribute an inordinate amount of money to see anything like this actually occur; fun forum topic though.

SWG pre cu  were some of my best times {next to Ac1}  I ever had.

If SWG pre cu was out there, i would sub 19.99 easy.  

Dont make me go there with $OE ......Ive put that hate to rest...

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRG.....Im ok  im ok...SOE twitch ..Docs got me on good Drugs.