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• • I need a straight out, honest answer.

  • Well let me just say this.  There are two games that I've kept coming back to in my MMO history. 

     

    Ultima Online and World of Warcraft.

     

    Both I see as the best MMO's in the market.

     

    WoW will always be good for a casual person, especially me.  I hope you do come back, it has such a detailed world.  Fun art style too, like you stated.

  • Posted: 7/19/08 3:47 PM
    World of Warcraft
• • General: KoTOR MMO confirmed by Riccitiello

  • Do you hear that sound? 

     

    It's the sound of thousands of SWG vets heads exploding with pure joy. 

     

    EA, don't screw this up.  Let BioWare do what they do best.

  • Posted: 7/17/08 5:56 PM
    General Discussion
• • never again will a great mmorpg exist.

  • Few around here know me as a guy that loves old school Ultima Online.  Mainly because it's such a small portion of us around anymore.  When I play a MMO I usually, no wait, ALWAYS compare the game to UO.  I've pretty much tried ever game on the market.  Shame that I have not played old school SWG.  I started playing Ultima Online in the fall of 1999.  Sure, I was not there for the hardcore crowd, but I think I came in at a good time of the game.  My UO career lasted for quite some time, all the way until 2007.

     

    Anyways, with that put aside.  Sure quite a few of you will disagree but screw that.  World of Warcraft is one of the best MMO's I've played.  Not better than UO mind you, but up there with Asheron's Call and old school DAoC.  Sure it seems weird, since I'm came from a game that so hardcore that it scared people away to Everquest.  WoW gave players something that most games did not, we grew up.  It gave us time, it made us feel like we were put into a world of war (craft, lol) with conflict going on all around.  Sure alot of you think it ruined the genre, but in all honesty it showed what the genre of MMO can do.  It showed us a light so we do not accept unfinished game anymore.  Sure, WoW had it's issues at launch.  But anyone with a brain knows that WoW was polished when it came to MMO's.  It gives you a choice to group if you would like to simplify things, but if you want a bit of a challenge you can go solo.  I'll admit that at times I would like to do things on my own.  It's just the UO player in me, being able to defend myself etc. 

     

    There are always a first in everything, something there to introduce itself to everyone.  But you always need that one thing there that will take what has been and create anew with it.  World of Warcraft did this.  It took what the god fathers of MMO's did and picked the best from them all.  Blizzard is known to create games that appeal to people and polished games.  World of Warcraft only proved that Blizzard can make a MMO like this too.  Hell, I know so many non-gamers that started to play games just because of WoW, my girlfriend being one. 

     

    World of Warcraft was a necessity to this genre.  Without it I'm afraid this genre would be falling.  Instead we now have companies trying to do what WoW did.  It'll just take some time for a game to come and take what WoW has done best and evolve it into something else.  Agree with me or not, WoW is a success.  And remember, this is coming from an ex-UO player.  I know what hardcore is.  World of Warcraft is always welcomed with open arms.  I hope more games can take WoW's recipe and make a new entre out of it.

  • Posted: 7/14/08 7:48 PM
    General Discussion
• • What is a sandbox MMOG?

  • Ultima Online

     

    EVE Online

     

    old Star Wars Galaxies (in a sense).

     

    I still think UO had the best Sandbox experience.  They just throw you into the world, you can gain whatever you want.  A mage could wear plate armor, but with consenquences.  You could be a pure crafter and make money in the game, you didn't even have to fight.  A Mage could also use a sword just as good as a warrior, but of course you would have to sacrifice some elements.  There were no Auction Houses, it was Vendors.  You bought a vendor, put it at your house and had to advertise yourself to get people to realize what you sell.  If you were Grandmaster in 7 things, you could re-roll with the same character.  Didn't want Musicmanship?  Then just lower the skill and start raising in something else, like Alchemy, anatomy, Swordsmanship, etc...

     

    UO was a true Sandbox experience.  And is still a strong one today, even with all the bullcrap expansions.  There are no Sandbox games today, new ones that is.  EVE is old, UO is old, and SWG is basically World of Starwars.  Anymore, if you want a sandbox game your going to have to play one of these two games, but I guarantee you that you will enjoy yourself more than you think, even if they are old. 

     

    p.s. I remember one time in UO the GM's hosted an event that the players had a choice to play.  They had to defend a village and if they did not, then it would be over run by monsters, which it did and it then turned into a swamp.  No game has yet done something like this.

  • Posted: 7/13/08 9:19 AM
    General Discussion
• • ZOMG Mythic NOOEES!!!1111

  • Uh-Oh.  Someone has been a bad boy.  "Johnny!  Lick up that milk, NOW"

  • Posted: 7/13/08 9:13 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)