Originally posted by NeverLand7

I have to say, after all these years I am finally retired from this genre for good until someone makes an enjoyable, non-nightmare world to enjoy.

I would like to see exploring, community depth, personalizing your character avatar and creative gameplay mechanics that do not resort to violent mob hunting. Free Realms is onto a good start with some of their different options of gameplay but I think It could still use some more refinement.

Also a bright, light, wonderful, enchanted and colorful graphics style/ game environment is important to me too.

RL can be enough of a nightmare as is, I personally don't enjoy playing in worlds that are even worse. But to each their own.

It's as though recently I've had this sensitive epiphany. Violence, darkness, depressing things, evil and everything else in between is what makes life a drag and yet we're all sitting here paying huge money overtime to spend large amounts of time in worlds that are in fact almost more of a nightmare.

I hope we can all come to realize that we should live by things that really make us feel good and are full of real light. And have the content of the interior world of reality through technology embody these bright and loving ideas. I mean, nature and the natural earth is becoming minimized and a lot of what we create into reality today is based on our interior ideas.. Even our present state of the world today, Is in reality based off many ideas : housing, vehicle transportation, technology, media etc. These are merely figments of the imagination manifested into physical reality from a harmonized agreement through physical natural materials and imagination, whilst utiziling these materials to create it on the physical plane.

Your thoughts, feelings, ideas and comments are welcome.

I'd like see MMOs break away from the mob killing formula, and focus in other ways, like what you suggest.  Not so fond of the carebear theme, though.  I like dark and gritty, but wouldn't mind seeing the violence toned down to realistic levels, to make way for gameplay that's about something different.

A Tale in the Desert could be an amazing example, if it were a much bigger project, but as it is, it's kinda hard to get into.

I think Sovrath hits the nail with just being something of a kid again. I got to have something of a Tom Sawyer type early childhood myself (grew up on a small town in Mexicos Pacific) and those were really glorious years. Skipping school to try and build a boat, escaping from aggressive dogs, etc. The sad thing is kids this days will never know what that was like. And IMHO is worse for girls, i remeber how my baby sisters face would light up everytime i took her with my friends when we went climbing trees or rolling down steep streets with skateboards, shes only a year younger than me and it was well worth it getting yelled at for putting her in "danger" I can only imagine how many good pvpers we lost to brainwashing by strawberry shortcake and my little pony.

 OP, which games like this do you know of exist? I know of a few... but I'm curious as to if you've actually looked for those that are already available, aside from freerealms?

Originally posted by Lansid

 OP, which games like this do you know of exist? I know of a few... but I'm curious as to if you've actually looked for those that are already available, aside from freerealms?

Free Realms at the moment seems to be the closest thing to what I'm looking for. There's other games like ATITD, Heaven and Earth and ToonTown. I've also tried DOMO but It's too combat heavy.

The other games I've mentioned either their graphics style didn't appeal to me etc.

I'm curious as to what other games are currently out that you know of that you think I don't know about.

Please tell us about them. I've probably seen them but you never know.

 Ultima Online comes to mind, unless if they've changed the game. Um... there's The Endless Forest, which is innovative and unique.

There was also Sims Online, but there wasn't enough of a player base to support it. That's a start, anything wrong with those?

Originally posted by Lansid

 Ultima Online comes to mind, unless if they've changed the game. Um... there's The Endless Forest, which is innovative and unique.

There was also Sims Online, but there wasn't enough of a player base to support it. That's a start, anything wrong with those?

I played Ultima Online for a good bit a long time ago, probably around 8-10 years ago and It is definitely not what I'm looking for.

Endlesss Forest looks kind of neat but I think I would rather play around occasionaly in Free Realm.

Thanks for the suggestions though.