I love the Nerdspeak term "hardcore", pertaining as it does to something as trivial a computer game - it must make them feel all manly and uber.  :D

My 3 friends and I tried Rift and while it's an OK game none of us was overly impressed.  It just seemed more of the same old MMO stuff we've seen in the last 5 or 6 years, but you may as well give it a try and see for yourself. 

One of the most annoying things when we played was that while Rifts opening up sounds great, it gets to be a pain in the arse when one opens up near you while you're questing.  Virtually no-one bothers to turn up and help kill the influx of mobs and then close the the Rift, so that means your questing in that area is often screwed completely.

Originally posted by rojo6934

Aika is a nice F2P game and has 5 factions PvP  with up to 1k vs 1k battles

I was interested enough to want to try that out, but once I launched the game it updated, then kept crashing on the loading screen where the background is a sort of red tile effect with a line of gold showing loading progress.  It looked like it was disconnecting my Internet connection every time it crashed, and then the game exited itself somehow.  I deleted it, unplayed, after a couple of days of this.  :(

Originally posted by AlBQuirky

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Originally posted by Vesavius
Misty Thicket.
Loved that little zone,with all the halflings running around after wasps, and the Rivervale theme tune still makes me smile.

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Same here!

Yes, I liked Misty Thicket, too.

Neriak Forest in EQ1... boy, that was a very scary place in the days of no ingame maps and very dangerous corpse runs.

Originally posted by mark2123

With millions of blogs being created every week, there must be so much choice - but does anyone read them

Why would I bother to read the views of someone else about a computer game?  I couldn't give a rat's ass what they think. 

It does indeed seem a rather childish rant.  He sounds even older and crabbier than I am.

We ALL welcome newbies on our own terms, and we all regret the immaturity and lack of sophistication in a large proportion of players in the online games we enjoy.  However, we generally accept what cannot be changed and get over it rather than pointlessly froth over it.  A bit like what we do in real life, actually.

Originally posted by MMOExposed
What's the best way to make a MMO game Hard, in your opinion?

hey the community here say MMO are becoming too easy, and dumb down. So how we make these games Hard?

All defenitions of "hard" as it relates to computer games are relative. 

Originally posted by Joliust

There is something other than game design that keeps you playing. That is who you play with. Having people in the game you have fun talking to playing with, etc really makes everything better.

Very true, but i got tired of sifting through the myriads of semi-educated, inarticulate, socially challenged inadequates to find that 1% of intelligent, witty and team-oriented players.  Nowadays I never bother any more.  Life is literally too short for that crap.

Originally posted by Cuathon

So I am not the only one to who thought OP was massively sexist?

Nope.  It sounds like a "Get in the kitchen, biatch, cook me a meal, then clean and garden while I do man stuff" type of game world.

Never in an MMO - if I don't see people face-to-face they aren't ever going to be a real friend.  A fleeting acquaintance at best.  However, I played tabletop RPGs with several people who are still my best friends 30+ years on.

Originally posted by MMOExposed

But you refuse to play Asian MMO because of the slow level grind.

Lol, wrong.  I won't play them because of their incredible shallowness and because "the grind" in Asian games means a never-ending treadmill of  killing hundreds and hundreds of mobs per level.  They're games for the brain-dead.

I assume you mean a fantasy MMO as opposed to sci-fi, post-holocaust or historical?  I LIKE magic in fantasy MMOs.  It's part and parcel of Fantasy.

Too old a game, too late to go F2P.  I mght have been interested in going back, a few years ago, but not now.  Much as I loved the game, when I used up some free days from Sony I was shocked at how dated and clunky it was - I mean I knew it was an old game, but it really hasn't aged well at all.  It wouldnd even be worth downloading the bloatware.

I hope it makes it to release, because after the melange of blandness and tedium that is STO I really need a decent space sim.

Originally posted by Wolfenpride

I do if I take interest in something they have I guess, but that isn't very often. If the game has personal Bio's those are fun to read.

I don't check gear as a requirement for grouping/raiding though.

God, there are people that actually write bio's AND people who read them?  /boggle

In 12 years of playing MMOs - and I've played LOTS - I've never given a crap about anyone's gear.  I've never looked at anyone's gear and prefer games that disallow looking completely or have the option to stop people looking at mine.

Originally posted by Vegetto
Thing with EvE now is you can do stuff pretty much off the bat, but the more complex things are ruled by the vets and the game is designed so that the serfs are ruled by an elite few.

That's the way it should be.  Using your terminology, serfs deserve all they get if they stay a serf, but nobody is making them stay a serf.  You claw your way out of it.  Eve isn't a warm, fuzzy "everyone is a winner" type of MMO which is why a lot of supposedly 'hardcore' (such an amusing term) MMO players just can't handle it.  They may be an uber-raider in lesser MMOs but they can't handle Eve and that's just one of the reasons I like the game.

Originally posted by Meltdown

He needed to stop killing Star Wars himself, nevemind the critics. Just leave well enough alone...

That says it all, really.

Faecesbook_(tm)?  So what - how many are subscribers?  How many like it or dislike it?

Basically any thing or topic can attract the attention of the lemming-like nutjobs that allow Faecesbook_(tm) to dominate their lives.