MMO Holy Wars

[bigtimecow]

Originally Posted by Emu

I haven't played WoW (except once for an hour at a friend's house), but from what I understand, the game has departed so much from the original Warcraft storyline as to become completely gay. That and they have no single player mode, which I hate.

ya know what?

fuck you

[ziggytrix]

Originally Posted by Chojin

Dark Ages costs way too much for what it is - an old, typical 2D MMO with bad graphics even for 1998 or whenever the hell it came out. Basically Ragnarok with shitty graphics.

I had a big rant about this until I realized you were talking about a different game.

There's this MMO called Dark Age of Camelot, which has amazing graphics, due to the fact that they've scrapped 2 graphics engines in the long time it's been out. In fact, the biggest graphics complaint I have with the game is unless you have a brand new video card, 2GB RAM, and a hoss processor, you have to turn every setting to minimal or log in with a client using one of the old graphics engines.

It's PvP, IMO, has the best endgame of any MMO I've played (the mid-level battlegrounds aren't bad either, but sadly aren't populated til about level 20, which can be a tough level to achieve not knowing anything about the game or having any help). PvP is based on picking one of three homeland factions when you start. Each faction has different races and classes to pick from, and a PvP-safe homeland to start in. After running through a series of tutorial quests you can jump right into a (absolutely desolate - due to how easy it is to get to about level 20) lowbie battleground. The battlegrounds will prepare you for the endgame, which is a frontier of three continents with a connecting island. Each continent has several keeps which you fight with the other realms for control, and relics that you can capture to give your entire realm a bonus.

As for cost, if you go to ebgames.com you can get the base game with the first three non-free expansions and the two free ones in a box for 20 bux. The monthly rate on it is 15 bucks like any other MMO if you don't pay for multiple months at a time, but it's old enough that there are some free euro servers (running a few patches out of date, but who cares) if you know where to look.

I've played WoW, Dark Age of Camelot, Anarchy Online (free version only - tho I'm considering upgrading to a paying account just to check it out), Guild Wars, and Ragnarok (for a week - lol), and honestly, DAoC has had the best PvP of any of MMO I've played.

[Emu]

the fuck is everybody picking on me for i like single player modes. besides, it can be an MMORPG and have a single player too

[Misdemonar]

No you can't, it makes hacking easier, That's one of the reasons you can't bring you're diablo 2 character into Battle.net. (Yes I know that isn't a MMO). Trainers I think, cannot commuincate online, so they have no way to change the char's stats, exp,gold, ect.

[Emu]

Then keep the single player characters local and the multiplayer remote. Like...Diablo II.

[Misdemonar]

Well, most pepole probaley wouldn't play it then and it'd be a waste of time and money and programming.EDIT: Also games like WoW, have avery team-based dungeons which require pepole to go with. And raids too for endgame.

[executioneer]

i think the whole "required teamwork" bit is part of the reason why i don't enjoy mmorpgs very much

[ziggytrix]

Single-player mode is easy. You just go to a non-PvP server and turn off all the chat channels.

The MM means Massively Multiplayer, so technically, Guild Wars and other small-scale multiplayer games are off-topic, and single player games are REALLY off-topic.

I've never heard of a MMO with a single-player mode. Emu, it sounds like your complaint is more with the concept of MMOs than specifically with WoW.

[Emu]

Pretty much. I prefer to stick with a small group of people that I know. Carry on.

[AChimp]

I THINK IT'S JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE ANTI-SOCIAL

[Emu]

I JUST LIKE HAVING ALL THE TREASURE FOR MYSELF

[the_dudefather]

become a ninja then

[ziggytrix]

Actually most MMOs have solo type classes. Stealthers or whatever. WoW did an exceedingly good job of allowing any class to be able to do things solo, while bringing something unique to a team. Try fighting an even level monster with a healer type character in any other MMO and let me know how it goes...

[ArrowX]

Or you can play huxley. And shoot a dosen monsters in the face with a minigun. Then hop in your Clans APC and drive through hordes of monsters.


This game is giving me wet dreams
http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/7...57/vids_1.html

[red8ge]

the kids at my school are so gay
the mmos they play are runescape, maple story, and some fucktard game called soldat(some 2d shooting game from what i can understand)and me and my friend are the only one's that have real mmo's

[Marc Summers]

maple story is mediocre at best, the other two just make me eject bile

[xbxDaniel]

When I first saw runescape, I thought it was some high school kid's first tech project or something.

[ArrowX]

Soldat was fun about 2 years ago. Maple story started out promising. But it pretty much degraded into about 200 retards standing in the outskirts of towns selling stuff and lagging out the game.

[Juttin]

Originally Posted by ABSeNCe

It's true that RPG isn't in the subject, but MMO is. So either way, you're retarded. Might as well strike up a convo about Doom 3, or Splinter Cell while you're at it

Well,that game kinda is meant for online play,and it's multiplayer,and alot of people play it, so it's totally-fucking-justified

[xbxDaniel]

I think the massive part isn't fufilled there. Splinter Cell online has like 4 people in one game at a time.

[Chojin]

Originally Posted by DamnthatDavid

And if graphics are all you look for in a game, then you truely are decending into the mind of a faggoty fan boy. Graphics are important, but so is gameplay, enjoyability etc. etc.

You're looking for an excuse to dismiss me, which ironically saves you a 'faggoty fan boy' seat on the home team. I never said that an MMO having bad graphics makes it inherently bad. In a post about comparing MMOs, I DARED to compared their graphics as well. I'm really sorry if I hurt your feelings; Is there something else I should avoid talking about? I can probably dance around talking about the economy if that would help.

[Chojin]

Originally Posted by the_dudefather

its not hip and underground enough for you to enjoy it eh? :P

but an MMORPG that a lot of people play is a plus, especialy when you can chat to gamers in real life about it. conversations tend to go like this tho:

me: do you play WoW?
them: yeah on the defias derver, got a lv60 druid and lv55 mage, what do you have?
me: im play on earthen ring, got a lv40 orc warrior and a lv60 human paladin...
them: WHAT DID YOU SAY??
(get beaten by paladin haters)

That sounds wonderful. That aside, Guild Wars is a perfect example of why quantity of players does not result in quality of gameplay.

Anyway I just find it distasteful when both Penny Arcade and SA can't bear to shut up about the game. Additionally, it's more or less a given that any overbearing dork has an account. It's not something I want to be a part of, like any other internet fad.

[Emu]

I'm looking forward to NWN2, though that's not EXACTLY a MMORPG.

[DamnthatDavid]

In a post about comparing MMOs, I DARED to compared their graphics as well. I'm really sorry if I hurt your feelings;

You didn't hurt my feelings sir. What you did was give me the impression that you care for only graphical capabilities.
I might of misread what your true point is/was/whatever. It still came off that you where judging only by graphics. You also seemed to be finding whatever reason you could not to give WoW a try. I want to try CoH, for I can not yet judge it to the other games I have played. (beta or otherwise) I have never been a drooling fanboy.

[ABSeNCe]

Originally Posted by juttin

Well,that game kinda is meant for online play,and it's multiplayer,and alot of people play it, so it's totally-fucking-justified

MMO = Massively Multiplayer Online. This means hundreds or thousands of players in one big world. RE: Outbreak allowed what? 4 people per game? 8 tops? It doesn't make a game MMO just because a lot of people play it. You obviously don't have the knowledge to function in this thread.