Nights in FFXI were pretty interesting. The ghosts and goblins always came out at night. Banshees, and skeletons, and other undead creatures of the night.

I remember being so scared whenever someone reported a banshee in the area. Those things were pure evil.

I am not an old fart, so I cannot really choose an MMO with the best night time experience. However, for me personally, I remember The Old Forest in LotRO at night, back when there was no map and the trees could kill you, a low level player, fairly easily. Navigation was confusing, like a maze; the music was haunting, the sound effects were creepy, and you knew death lingered around every corner.

I only went into that accursed place during the day. The Barrow-downs, which are connected to The Old Forest, had the same atmosphere, and I avoided them as well.

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EQ1 - Best night time

FFXIV - incredible transitions, dusk and dawns.

Someone mentioned FFXI, which I hadn't even considered.  EQ still takes the cake hands down, but FFXI would be second place for me.  Night on Qufim was one of the most intense parts of the leveling experience.  When the clock gets close, it's time to go to the tunnel or the tower (unless you're at the top end of the level spread for the zone).  I'll never forget the sound those bogies made when aggroing.

SWG had had the darkest night, pre-cu. Back in the day all you could see was whatever was lit up in your personal light area, a lot of times you had to navigate by the radar to avoid agro out in the wilds. On really dark nights on Dathomir you could barely make out the Nightsisters and their silhouettes shrouded by fog, only against the outline of the moon since it cast no real light.

People complained about how dark it got I guess so over the years they have made the planets way lighter, which really killed it for a lot of people who liked the dark.

Back in the early days of DAOC night time was really cool, and really dark.  Now a days they seemed to have cranked up the brightness, but in the beginning you actually needed your torch to see well and wearing all black armor was a great way to hide in the forests to surprise your oppoenent.

one game maybe not best night time mmo but i have to mention matrix online during halloween event. yeah its shut down but should be mentioned. that was dark lol

EQ, Kithacor Forest. Undead spawn at night time was awesome. Wish they would implement that more into mmos...

I would like to give credit to those who are actually posting about night times which are artistically beautiful.

Leave it to mmorpg.com to deduce that the best night times are only when you can't see two feet in front of you, so that the game is more challenging and immersive.

Originally posted by Xhieron

Someone mentioned FFXI, which I hadn't even considered.  EQ still takes the cake hands down, but FFXI would be second place for me.  Night on Qufim was one of the most intense parts of the leveling experience.  When the clock gets close, it's time to go to the tunnel or the tower (unless you're at the top end of the level spread for the zone).  I'll never forget the sound those bogies made when aggroing.

Ah yes i am a FFXI fan and i forgot about the Banshee nights.They really added that scare factor to the night and their scream yes was eerie.

I remember i had to wait until night to kill one for my first ever sub job quest,i did it on the Mhaura side instead of the usual Dunes.

Yes the Quifim bogeys were darn scary any kind of low hit pooints meant aggro from them as they smell blood.It was always a factor,come 18:00 on the clock better get worried and start to head for cover,not only the bogeys come out but the Undead Skeletons as well.

Darkfall :).

I only played it in beta, but night was REALLY night...Couldn't see anything unless the moonlight shined off the metal on your garb or the like. 

The AoC "night" thing was not so mmorpg-esk.

Originally posted by Reizlanzer

Everquest, Kithicor Forest... that is the only one. Actually pretty much trying to move anywhere at night as a lower level in EQ. I definitively recall camping at a zone line for the express purpose of waiting out night.

 Ohhh man I remember this..

as a lowbie running from Qeynos all the way to Freeport just to try and meet up with my friends(well,and for the challenge lol)

Kithicor was creepy at night!

For the main topic I would also say EQ1 was a good transition.Along with the erie night sounds that went along with it,really brought out the atmosphere of night time.

I also like Lotro's night for its sheer sky,the billions of stars make for a cool scene.

EQ2, LoTRO, and Fallen Earth, imo.....have the best night times.  Or rather just the best day cycles period.

Don't be decieved by the people who mentioned Age of Conan night time. In the starting zone it is as stupid as a shallow single player RPG. When you go night time you actually get transfered to a Solo Instance where everything suddenly is NIGHT TIME. So, night time is actually an instance that you decide whenever you want to enter it.

It's stupid.

LotRO...specifically Forochel.  The aura borealis is breath-taking.  The first time I saw it, I stood there several minutes just to watch.

Originally posted by just1opinion

EQ2, LoTRO, and Fallen Earth, imo.....have the best night times.  Or rather just the best day cycles period.

 Ahh yes Fallen Earth..

I remember playing during a night cycle where it was cloudy and there was lightning and thunder,but no rain..

that was a really cool and unique experience.

Originally posted by yewsef

Don't be decieved by the people who mentioned Age of Conan night time. In the starting zone it is as stupid as a shallow single player RPG. When you go night time you actually get transfered to a Solo Instance where everything suddenly is NIGHT TIME. So, night time is actually an instance that you decide whenever you want to enter it.

It's stupid.

dont be deceived by people who mention that age of conan only has night time during solo instance

Nights in EQ where a pain, but now so many years later all the things that irritated me back then have become epic memmories of EQ's immersion....

I'd say EQ's nights where most memmorable...

Originally posted by Lord.Bachus

Nights in EQ where a pain, but now so many years later all the things that irritated me back then have become epic memmories of EQ's immersion....

 

I'd say EQ's nights where most memmorable...

I'd have to agree with you there.   EQ's nights were extremely well done.