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I started with a little known gem called 10six by sega. Played that from closed beta all the way through the shutting down of the servers. After that no MMOs untill wow consumed me.
I loved 10-six, played in the beta. I remember having to call Segasoft to get in the beta through a magazine I had back then.
Was fun building up things and scooting around on your little hoverboard.
UO, EQ, Asherons Call, DAOC, Anarchy Online, WoW, SWG, EQ2, Warhammer etc (plenty of other smaller ones or ones that didn't last long).
UO will always be my favorite and most found mmo. It holds the best memories for me I was just in my 2nd year of HS at the time, still using dial up, etc.
I often dislike mmo's these days. They all follow the EQ type of "theme park" formula. It boils down to a VERY simple lcarrot chase for items. You want to get that super duper uber purple item of awesomeness, to defeat that even bigger guy for that even better uber item, rinse and repeat. Combat isn't fun, it feels more lilke work and less like entertainment/joy.
I'm just tired of it, after EQ it's felt like EVERY basic AAA mmo has been the same game, just with a different skin wrapped over it and some slight tweaks or changes here and there, but the basic "Formula" is the same over and over and over and over and over.
With UO it was NOTHING like EQ, NOTHING. The entire point of UO was to give players a sandbox world, where YOU made your own fun. There were no "quests" with npc's standing around and giant ! over their heads leading you from a specific lv range quest through the theme park design of the entire world. Where you couldn't even explore out of your "lv" zone unless you wanted to DIE and DIE quickly.
In UO it was hands down the most sociable mmo I've played period. You had players that literally would make up their own events, with plenty of community support and people showing up to such things. You even had GM ran events. Then there were the big "game" events (Ie the undead attack on Trisnic and other cities).
The world of UO felt alive, things constantly changing, it was varied. you had skills and characters from your good blue players, to red pkers, to peple who didn't care, to crafters, etc. It felt like a living breathign world you were thrust into and just have fun. The game felt like an RPG should. You had a character and YOU made the choice of what to do, how to develop them, how to play, what YOU wanted to do. The game didn't lead you by the hand telling you to do this only or that "oh you want to be evillll? can't do that here, go play another rpg!"
It's sad that literally not ONE single mmo today is comparable to UO, not even UO itself. The game was butchered and is NOTHING like it was back in 98-2000. No other AAA backed game followed the UO style of gameplay, with it's skill based, sandbox o pne world that let players do as they please and develop their own characters. Now it's just carefully designed funneled worlds of strict lv zones tethered by quest chains to drive you down a pre determined pathway to get UBER LOOT over and over, not fun.
I can't even remember the last tiem in an MMORPG aside from some early SWG days where I saw people actually being social and doing random events/having fun. It's just "lets raid, raid raid, looking for pro raiders m-s 24/7."
Lineage II - Played for 4 months then got bored of the grind
Guild Wars - Love that game just waiting on GW2!
LOTRO - Been playing since BETA and have not looked back
i played lineage 2for about 4 yrs ;p
Oh ya? What server/time frame?
played on bartz until clan i was in disbanded ( uprising )
then came back for server transfer period played in enmity which i was leader of until we called quits for warhammer which was huge mistake
Looking forward to Bliz's new MMO
Confined to poking fun at WoW players, and serious consideration of taking up Guild Wars a couple of times but got confused by all the expansions it had.
Casualy play eve? That's like saying "I'm a casual genius.". Nevermind the 2 years it took me to read every volume of the encyclopedia to be able to enjoy this status.
I want to play eve but the learning curve scares the shit out of me. I'll stick with wow.
I'm surprised how many people here have played EQ1.
I've played a lot of MMORPG's since EQ1 and none have ever gripped my attention like that "evercrack." I spent way too much of my life on EQ1 back in the day (99-04) but I don''t regret it at all. If anything I fantasize about going back in time and doing it again.
No mmorpg has pulled me in like that. I don't know what it is. The difficulty? The lore? The overall feeling was just amazing.
I know the progression servers just opened up but it'll never be the same.
I miss it.
I'm surprised how many people here have played EQ1.
I've played a lot of MMORPG's since EQ1 and none have ever gripped my attention like that "evercrack." I spent way too much of my life on EQ1 back in the day (99-04) but I don''t regret it at all. If anything I fantasize about going back in time and doing it again.
No mmorpg has pulled me in like that. I don't know what it is. The difficulty? The lore? The overall feeling was just amazing.
I know the progression servers just opened up but it'll never be the same.
I miss it.