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N E O C R O N (it just came back and free)

Originally posted by Axehandle

After seeing many negative threads about worst Mmorpg's, terrible games, etc. it's time to turn that frown upside down and start a positive thread for once (shocking I know). 

 

So ladies and gentlemen please give your opinions on what was the best MMORPG you have ever played? 

Also give a few reasons why it's the best. Thanks.

 

I will start, I know it's not popular and today the version of it doesn't interest me but the best mmorpg I've ever played is WoW. I started at the start of bc and played until the start of cata. I loved the world, the quests, the dungeons, the raids even the arenas. Of course over time that changed and the game is something I don't recognize now but that's what drew me in and kept me playing for 3 1/2 years.

FFXI was the absolute best... But only in the first 3 years. Once the botters started getting out of hand the economics of the game went to hell. I loved camping NMs, getting together with LSs for O hat runs, lvling in groups (I prefer solo now though). It was my first mmorpg and no other game has had such an affect on me. 

WoW came close but it didnt take the number one spot for me.

Howbeit; when FFXIV came out I was hoping for the same but better and was completely dissappointed and canceled the game after the first 3 days... Sad. Lets see if ARR does well once it gets out on PS3 too.

Originally posted by Dzone

My favorite MMO that i clearly spent the most time on was FFXI

 

Started it way back in 2003 and played it for years all the way up till the Wotg expantion.

1. Took a long time to level, loved the pace of it.

2. Very luck based, lot of items had low drop rates and had to work for everything.

3. Lot of competition for NM's,

4. There was  a TON of endgame, so much to do when you hit lvl 75, and all Group based/ Allience based.

5. There was so many areas you got to explore and so much extra stuff you could do while you leveld, like bcnm's, escort mission's, campin NM's, farming, ect. always something to do.

6. Your job you choose had its role all the way through the game, if you played a whm you would heal and support, if you played a paliden you would tank, if you played a warrior you would tank or DD. So many roles, and the entire game was Group focused.

7. FFXI had a really great community, everyone needed help and wanted to help others, it just created so many bonds between ppl.

I really miss the old FFXI :( i literally played it maybe 4-5 years, every day loved every minute of it 

What server were you on?

   For me this one is easy: Everquest

     IT wasnt my first MMO but it was the one I knew was my home the first five minutes in the game....THrown into a world with no directions, no tutorials, no symobls over NPCs heads, and a rough brutal world just waiting for me to explore it......When I started there were very few max level players and it was such an accomplishment that it used to be broadcast whenever someone hit max level.....We had to work together with other players to survive and everyone had skills/abilities that were valuable.....No other game has captured what EQ did.....

SWG Early

DaOC (pre TOA and the buffbot craze)

AC1 (I'd play this again if they upgraded their GFX)

Vanguard

I'd have to say Ultima Online, but that's also partially biased by the fact that I already loved the single-player Ultima RPG series.  Still, Origin did a fantastic job of carrying over those "sandbox" elements from the Ultima series into a MMORPG environment, and it was almost perfectly executed.

I'd say a very close runner-up for "Best I ever played" would be Dark Age of Camelot.  I have many fond memories of my adventures in the realms of DAoC.

Originally posted by Axehandle

Originally posted by LordOfPit
Best MMO I ever played was City of Heroes / Villains.

I've read several posts stating the same thing. What was it about CoH that was so cool? I never played it but I've read the freedom for character creation was one of the best features I have a feeling it must have been deeper than that to get so much love.

it was fanbase and community,toon creation and design,fan base and community,pvp,fanbase and community,i played from issue1 to the end and never got bored.freedom server.....daddy dee over 50 fifties,Man i miss that game

Originally posted by anthonypena
warhammer, and age of conan

Is AoC f2p now?

Ive always been curious how good that games but the doom and gloom crowd turned me away.

WoW has kept me entertained off and on for 8 years, so definitely the best in my mind. I'm taking a break currently, but I expect I'll be back AGAIN in the next couple months sometime. I don't think any MMO will ever give me such prolonged entertainment ever again, and the only other games I played extensively were Asheron's Call for three years, DAoC for a year, and FFXI for a year.

Nowadays, I'm lucky if I don't get bored in two weeks with every new MMO. :(

Originally posted by Axehandle

Originally posted by anthonypena
warhammer, and age of conan

Is AoC f2p now?

 

Ive always been curious how good that games but the doom and gloom crowd turned me away.

Yah its Free to play now.  IMO if you've never tried it..it is worth taking a look.

lol doom and gloom crowd.

 Why would you listen to anyone in these forums...were all a bunch of idiots  lol

Originally posted by apocoluster

Originally posted by Axehandle

Originally posted by anthonypena
warhammer, and age of conan

Is AoC f2p now?

 

Ive always been curious how good that games but the doom and gloom crowd turned me away.

Yah its Free to play now.  IMO if you've never tried it..it is worth taking a look.

 

lol doom and gloom crowd.

 Why would you listen to anyone in these forums...were all a bunch of idiots  lol

It's not just these particular forums I distinctly remember when the game launched virtually all well know mmorpg forums had peopleshitting on it for the amount of bugs it was released with.

Originally posted by jayndsun

SWG Early

DaOC (pre TOA and the buffbot craze)

AC1 (I'd play this again if they upgraded their GFX)

Vanguard

 

This same list, plusWoW and  Planetside 1.   :)

I loved SWG before they ruined it.

My first MMO was EQ1 and I loved it until lvl cap and LFG made me quit

CoX was one of the funnest me and my wife played

I like SWTOR but they wasted so much time and money on the "story telling"

Best overall game for me?  Eve Online

My favorite game i've played (there's a difference!) ? Probably Eq1, maybe FF11 though.

Originally posted by Theocritus

   For me this one is easy: Everquest

     IT wasnt my first MMO but it was the one I knew was my home the first five minutes in the game....THrown into a world with no directions, no tutorials, no symobls over NPCs heads, and a rough brutal world just waiting for me to explore it......When I started there were very few max level players and it was such an accomplishment that it used to be broadcast whenever someone hit max level.....We had to work together with other players to survive and everyone had skills/abilities that were valuable.....No other game has captured what EQ did.....

Have to say this.  Damn, that sounds like fun!

Eq1 - the only game that I've been playing for 13 years and still like it

daoc (vanilla) - was buggy and unbalanced but also the best large scale RvR combat period

ac1 - skill system and freedom 

Vanguard - loved the world and classes, true successor to eq1

AoC (vanilla) - the original combat system was the best I've seen in any game period

Wow (vanilla) - fun and smooth engine

Rift - best flexibility on class system, cool dynamic invasions, I liked the zone design, also storm legion is one of the best expansions period 

tsw - skill system and awesome lore and setting

GW2 - one of the prettiest games period

uo - good  sandbox

shadowbane - city building alliances, sieges

Ps1 - large scale action battles with actual strategy (sorry ps2 is a letdown for me)

CoX/CoV - best character creation, loved the movement skills