The most similar?

I can see just one similarity: when talking about skills and all that Deck business, one can not but notice similarity between TSW and GW 1.

Otherwise it's pretty unique. Story is unique as is setting. World design is top notch as is quest design. Only weak part is the combat design. There are lots of subpar, duplicate or broken skills. Combat is really mediocre at best, but the rest of game is so stellar that it basically overrides the mediocrity of combat.

I'd say give it a shot. It's really good.

Hai there mmorpg.com administration :) I am back and ready to be banned for even more months now :)

For Real now:

I was wondering if you could help me with MMORPGs. Because I think that I have realised sth, but am not quite sure about that. Onto the question(s), shall we?

First of all, I was wondering if there were any true mmoRPGs left. Because after WoW/LoTRO/Aion/Rift/GW 2/TSW/... I am fed up with just MMOs. Now, I did actively RP in all of those games(well mostly), but that's beside the point. I want the choice, not the illusion of choice. I want to be a sheriff or a bartender or a stableboy. To have the ability to choose. MMOs of today are just hollow shells of what they used to be.

Second(I'll use metaphors so be prepared), why is it that MMOs(and most of the games) of today are not blank canvases like they used to be back in the day? Today you either get a canvas with a pattern which you get the chance of colouring however you wish(this is defined as freedom nowadays) or you just get connect the dots(just lol!). This is pretty similar to the point 1 and I sincerely hope that you understood that one.

Third, why aren't there more MMOs with active selections a la GW1/TSW? This is way more skillful than zillion of hotbars on the screen that is so common in WoW copy of yore.

Fourthly, I want semi action combat. Not full, but not WoW either. If you have to have action combat please do not make it reminiscent of Skyrim(or in other words:SPAAAMMM!!!). This is important part because that which you do the most in MMOs is the combat, so if I have to do it-at least make it fun. Of course, the choice of never actually killing a foe would be rad, but meh. They don't make such games anymore. Today it is either A or B(way back you could have both in the game and you chose what to do).

Other info that could be pertinent to this search is: modern graphics(really not into pre 2007 looks), western(as in not Korean-do not think about wyatt now :) ) design, easy to RP in, preferably Fantasy tho I don't care about that as much and crafting that is actually important. Oh and either b2p or freemium-I don't care about others(because one is with 1 and 1/2 leg in a grave{p2p} and the other is just obnoxious).

The more you know...;) Am curious about dem suggestions...

Thank you!

I know this may not be the place for this:

Have you tried Vanguard? It COULD be what you are looking for(old school, imagination provoking MMO).

Now my thoughts(one quick sentence):

GW 2 is Like Kim Kardashian-beautiful and all that, but eerily empty from inside. And you obviously need something else, something that makes you lost in Fantasy yes? To use person analogy-you need someone who's gonna talk about Warhammer with you and not Kim. Instead of something that is merely beautiful...

Right?

(I am in same position mate)

Making me realize that I prefer more meat to my MMO instead of pointless jumping around(combat in GW 2 sucks imo). Am currently on Vanguard(potentially the richest MMO out there) and will soon be in TSW. This would not happen without GW 2 as a middleman.

Making me stand for my characters. I will not play GW 2 until Engi, Necro and Ranger are updated/fixed.

Showing us how beatiful and expansive an MMO can be. Only Vanguard, LoTRO and TSW come even close.

P2P-yes or no?

This simple question will decide how retarded(or not) Zenimax Online truly is.