Hmmm...maybe some financially savvy company should go shopping and do some reboots, relaunches, revamps of these games that "could-have-been" great with the right dev team and support.

I for one, would love to see Auto Assault but with more dedication and passion thrown at it as well as Asheron's Call 2.

Microsoft did not close AC2, that was Turbine.  Turbine had already bought back AC and AC2, released an exp pak for it and I think 3-5 months later shut it down.

1. Earth and Beyond

2. Star Wars Galaxies *pending*

3. Eve*thrown out with the baby and bath water*

Well, the Betas for Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa were fun, but I quickly uninstalled both soon after I heard of their up-and-coming demise. I though TR could have been a great game, but AA still needed a lot of work.

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   Asheron's Call was not that good of a game in comparison to the original. ALl it had was better graphics, the gameplay was a step down from Asheron's Call. If Turbine had kept the general gameplay and character system of Asheron's Call, AC2 might not have sucked so bad.

I think Shadowbane deserves mention.

EVE online.

Ok just kidding, but makes you wonder.

I liked E&B alot, and enjoyed Auto Assault, and thought Tabula Rasa was good, but needed more content, all 3 of these games deserved more time or a move to the freemium model.

Thanks for the link to the E&B emulator Saarosen, going to check it out right now.

Wish

Dragon Empires

UO2

Thank you for adding Auto Assualt to that list... although I feel it should have been #1.

Was a great game. Was very sad to see it go.

     I still miss AC2. Ive never forgiven turbine for shutting it down and refuse to ever touch another of there games. It especially annoys me since AC2 had more players up till they pulled the plug than AC1 has now and they still have AC1 up with no sign of closing it down.

Yeah I loved Auto Assault. PVP has never really made me excited thou. I'm not saying PVP isn't good. It's usually I prefer PVE. That's what I liked about AA. But if AA had a good PVP part to go with a good PVE I probably would have tried it. Nothing like car carnage. Still I need to give PVP it's fair shot to see if I would end up liking it.

I remember seeing a big van or something in Auto Assault that was totalled named AAA.

I thought Tabula Rasa was a great game. I was shocked that most mmo players didn't get into it. What a waste.

On the other hand, I can think a few mmos that should have been cancelled, but unfortantely for the genre, they're still around. :)

Originally posted by joeballs

I thought Tabula Rasa was a great game. I was shocked that most mmo players didn't get into it. What a waste.

I enjoyed TR, too, but content was lacking, crafting was horrible, armor diversity was "meh", and so it was pretty much a full time shoot-em-up.

That can be fun, and tactically it was pretty interesting, but there's only so long you can stay amused with a combat, combat, and more combat game.

I remember getting interested in TR by the advertising for the game and then time passed and I was like did the game even come out yet and now in this article I hear it's been out and closed down already.

Tabula Rasa was always my fall back game and it still would be if it was around. Whenever I had a weekend off work I would call my friend up and have him resub and we would take a few bases on a random planet and fight wave after wave of enemies, sometimes hundreds. Just us two and a couple of straglers who decided to stay and fight the war.

It was an amazing game, if only they had developed the game as its later futuristic self from the start and then the game code might not have been so terrible. Seriously, did anyone ever see the game on low graphics? It looked like an N64 game and still lagged like hell.

I never had the graphics problem because ive had the same computer I built back in my senior year of high school, But the game could still be around today if NCsoft had allowed it.

In fact, right before the game ended they rolled out multiple epic patches including a Trip back to Earth and Mechs! They named epic gear after players, had great in game social events, and clan battles got things going PvP wise.

The game was a sci-fi roleplayers dream and it wasnt even a sandbox. I remember a giant base in the mountains where a spaceship would fly in through the roof and hover over a giant landing pad in the middle of the base. Me and my RP clan of Mercenaries made that our main RP spot and spend hours just talking with people, getting in duels with other clans, the game really did have something special.

Give me another decent original sci-fi game like Tabula Rasa, its not that much to ask is it?

The only people who liked AC2 were the brainwashed themepark can huggers who came over from other games. Real Asherson's Call fans stomacked it because they loved AC so much and hoped for so much more but gave up on it very eary on.

The reality of AC 2 is that is was a slap in the face to AC 1 players and was an attempt to jump on the EQ bandwagon by new MS/Turbine leadership which had nothing to do with the original game. AC2 was as much a sequal to AC as liver and onions is to apple pie.

Mentioning AC2 in the same breath as AC is an insult to humanity.

I am still very confused how ANYONE could fail with a MMO based on the Matrix... It practically writes it self... You don't even have to invent a reason to explain why there are game mechanics... The movies have done that for you.

Still that was one crappy game and SoE is in no way to blame for it's death... Blame WB for that if anything.

Originally posted by Robsolf

Originally posted by joeballs

I thought Tabula Rasa was a great game. I was shocked that most mmo players didn't get into it. What a waste.

I enjoyed TR, too, but content was lacking, crafting was horrible, armor diversity was "meh", and so it was pretty much a full time shoot-em-up.

That can be fun, and tactically it was pretty interesting, but there's only so long you can stay amused with a combat, combat, and more combat game.

I am not sure I agree.  I have watched Call of Duty: Black Ops remain the #1 game in sales for over a year and it is 110% combat (after you finish the somewhat-limited solo game).  I think it shows you CAN have a 100% combat game.

I played and miss all 5 of those in the list. EnB was definately the one I most missed though, enough for me to do some research not long ago where I came upon.... http://forum.enb-emulator.com/

The game is alive again and being worked on and supported through community contributions. It certainly seemed far more like eye-candy back in the day, but still a very enjoyable game. I think they even came up with some custom races not available with release version, but I have not tried them out.