What MMORPG would you actually play?

xpoist haha, I was going to bring up Quake games as a point of comparison. I've more or less quit, but I have played them... let's just say a lot. I could never devote the same time to a MMORPG. I'm stll not exactly sure why.

that is insane!

From the sounds of it all I think I would only play one which wasn't based in a world with dragons, magic and wizards and stuff like that.

how about a 'zombie' world mmorpg?

Except it's just a MO, rather than MMO.

I've alway been amazed that there's no (official) GTA multiplayer.

Geek Militancy: GRAAAAAAAAAR!!!

i'm playing Oblivion right now, and i'm doing my best to play in character where possible. my orc is a thief/mage type character, and within the boundaries of a single player game, i'm trying to stay in character as much as possible. he's happy to steal, but won't kill NPCs to rob them; in my mind, he's not a killer. he doesn't have a heart of gold, but he's not a thug. he's all for helping people, but only for a reward. i'll turn down quests with no obvious rewards. if i were playing a paladin type character, i'd play differently.

i find it hard not to give my characters some degree of character, even when playing alone.

1.1 What is EVE Online?

EVE is a massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) set in a science-fiction based, persistent world. Players take the role of spaceship pilots seeking fame, fortune, and adventure in a huge, complex, exciting, and sometimes hostile galaxy.

It has really pretty graphics too. And a big world map.

I'd play a post-apocalyptic/post-nuclear war/post governmental breakdown United States MMORPG. Model the world around real cities, completely bombed out. The casual gamer can just log in and just contribute to the chaos, the devoted gamer can become a warlord. Who hasn't fantasized about a living in a total anarchic breakdown of civilization? It sounds fun.

Also I like the idea of zombies mentioned earlier. Throw in some zombies too. It'd be like "Night of the Comet" - the Game!

The wizards and dragons thing is a bit stale at this point.

if it's like elite, i'll give it a try maybe. are there fees?

In a sense, I'm envisioning a game that isn't so much sci-fi fantasy environment as it is an urban fantasy enviroment full of completely insane chaotic interactions. I don't really see character building and leveling up being a big part of it. Really it should be an MMO game that I can log into for a couple of hours and it's a complete chaotic free for all. Just be part of the insane madness. That's fun in my opinion. n00bs and online jerks would kind of add to gameplay based around chaotic elements rather than detract. And if I get hooked, then the persistence of the world becomes an interesting part of the game play. But the biggest hurdle in getting me interested in any kind of mmorpg is the tedious process of slogging through the begining to get to anything interesting (which is why I don't actually play an mmorpgs).

Make it fun in the first 5 minutes. Make it fun for n00bs. Make it as much fun to lose as it is to win, just make it more interesting to win. The players will take care of everything else after that.

yeah, you guys are pretty much talking about a fallout one.

I don't think Fallout is exactly what I'm imagining. Seems too far future sci-fi and no mention of zombies that I could see. No zombies, no credibility. I'm sure it's a great game though.

I seriously think you should check out the fallout games. it's very much taken from a 1961/cold war vibe(after china & the US go at it over oil & uranium), only extended a bit. Ron Perlman does the narration! Half the design of the game is from Mad Max! Why do you think the guy wanders around with a dog?

http://www.travel.ag.ru/fallout/f1/images/heads/harold.gif

What about an entire city of post-radiation zombies? and good ol' Harold here, cantakerous ol' coot.

http://www.gildia.pl/schron/fallout/fallout2/grafiki_tektow/harold/*w/200/

He's still in the 2nd game, only with a tree on his head.

seriously, i can't understate how much i like this game.

okay, except for maybe all the christmas decorations that Guild Wars did.

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/1694/gw24hs.jpg

http://www.gamershell.com/pc/guild_wars/screenshots.html

This question is essentially the same as asking "what kind of messageboard would you post to?" and the answer for me is the graphically crippled one with a bunch of dorky overeducated blue staters talking about food and racism on it.

Vicious PvP, for a start.

What happened to the Bethesda doing Fallout 3 thing?

they finally got Oblivian out the door, so now they're working on this one. they had a teaser poster up at E3 last year, probably more iwll be out this year.

Something go-based would probably do it - I'd like whatever setting it ended up being to act as some kind of inherent tool-filter, if I'm gonna play something 60 hours a week I'd rather it be with semi-decent humans.

Food for thought. Although if you have friends on there it'll be a lot like living in a neighborhood where you are an outsider.

btw, tombot, i had this scary dream where there was a zombie infestation in new york and i was running trying to find somewhere to hide, and found a group of people making a fortress in one of those ian schrager hotels, and you were the leader of the group and had a huge triple barrelled shotgun like a trident that you made yourself.

-- TOMBOT (with@music), December 1st, 2005 6:01 PM.

There's my answer. I would definitely play that.

ZOMBIE INVASION FLASH SIMULATION

http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~japangaming/dreamcast/puzzlebobble41.jpg

Someone's been playing too much Dragon Quest?

I would totally play the zombie game, you could have different bands of survivors, compounds, etc. But could you play as a zombie?

The dinosaur blacked out from hyperventilation.

i think you just wrote the first bubble bobble fanfic ever!

hahahah Warning: Not suitable for younger readers. Rated T for possibly frightening sequences and a parody of drug abuse.

But like others have said, many of the kind of people that play MMORPGs is a bit offputting. I'm really not into effectively having an IRC chat session in the middle of a game I'm trying to play. It'd be nice if there was some way players could converse in an MMO space in realtime without the chat window (can they do that now with headsets and mics? I played WoW for literally 20 mins and got bored, so maybe some games do this already).

I really want to get into a Mmorpg. Has there been anything decent released since this thread discussion?

Tried Eve but it's dull dull dull.

Are there actually any original idea ones? and not ones that my work colleague has just recommended which all just look like Halo multi player games.

i can't bring myself to play WoW

^^^^ probably a wise decision

neither can i. I watched someone play it the other day he was fighting some big dragon with some other guys, it went on for ages and just looked fucking yawn.

It's awful to watch but fun to play.

The Age of Conan one isn't out yet, but it looks interesting. Sam ewith the Warhammer Online one.

You may also like Guild Wars-- not reall grindy, and free to play month-to-month (but there are a few expansion packs out).

however if there was something like eve but more elite-y i'd probably sell my kidneys

(this is basically my pro sci-fi anti-fantasy prejudice at work)

i can totally understand that prejudice, i love SF and am not big on fantasy... sadly all of the good sci-fi games aren't out yet. if they even end up to be good. yes i am talking aobut star trek online.

can someone help me shut up my work colleague who is persistantly telling me that there are no other good mmorpg's because WoW has '10 million players' and games companies don't want to release new games that nobody will play

ie he's telling me that nobody plays anything other than WoW, his favourite line "WoW has killed off everything!"

I think I may kill him before the day is out.

Tell us what loot he drops.

yes i am talking aobut star trek online. - RIP

games companies don't want to release new games that nobody will play - true

haha well, yes, i meant companies 'believe' nobody is playing anything other than WoW and so aren't producing new games.

btw he means all games and not just mmorpgs

no i read something somewhere earlier today that was all about no one thinks WoW can be beaten so they won't bother but i forget where it was...i think it was about activision

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/28/wanna-take-on-world-of-warcraft-got-a-billion-dollars/

someone needs to make a mmorpg ala grand theft auto, ditch the swords and magic for guns and more guns. this is one of my secret plans to become rich but I lack all the attributes to make it happen :(

^^ would play!!

Darkfall is a game that I have my eyes on. Hopefully it won't become vaporware. It's already been pushed back 6 or so years. Anyways here's the link http://www.darkfallonline.com/. The thing that is intriguing about this game is that it's supposed to have everything people want in a mmorpg (except great graphics).

someone needs to make a mmorpg ala grand theft auto, ditch the swords and magic for guns and more guns. this is one of my secret plans to become rich but I lack all the attributes to make it happen :(

-- bnw, Friday, February 29, 2008 12:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

DOODZ ITS HAPPENING AND ITS CALLED APB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APB_%28video_game%29

APB (All Points Bulletin) is an upcoming massively multiplayer online video game for both Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360, based in urban sprawls and featuring two sides, Enforcement and the Criminals. Players may join either the Enforcers or the Criminals, and form sub-groups in these. The game design is lead by David Jones, creator of the original Grand Theft Auto and Crackdown, and is being developed by Realtime Worlds and published by Webzen.

how about star wars galaxies? i'm not really a star wars fan but would tolerate it for some pseudo-elite goodness

no good MMORPGS exist at the moment. wait until warhammer online if anything. or play some other online games like chess or some online sports game/racing game.

team fortress 2 :D

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LEGO UNIVERSE MMO

I think eventually the grind element is going to be deprecated from most of these designs and things will start moving towards the linden labs sandbox model, assuming the market grows at all.

b-b-but it's not out yet :(

I'm actually downloading Star wars galaxies now, just to test it like

btw, the official website of that APB game - http://www.apb.com/ boasts some tremendous looking character artwork.

The stuff that came out on APB the other week looked pretty interesting - and Crackdown was one of the most fun games I played last year. It did seem like the game was a really REALLY long ways off though?

p.s. I've never played an MMO before

that oficial apb character artwork is really boob. i mean uh breasts. good. i meant good.

What i don't like about that game is that your character class is apparent to other players by the ornateness of your outfit. That is like the gheyest thing I've ever heard.

Google Earth - the MMO!

I got a coworker who's got practically his whole family on WoW now. his wife has like 4 characters she slowly levels, his son rotates through a few alts, he himself does who knows what. NERD BREEDERZ

inspiring or depressing?

yes

I don't know, depends on yr general opinion of DA FYOOTCHA I guess. he's one of the smartest people working here.

and to his credit he doesn't go chattering about raidz in the office. he does try to share xkcd funnies with me from time to time but ehhhh

re the Zombie mmorpg situation. Has anyone every heard of Exanimus?

It's supposed to be exactly what some people have been describing up thread, but it's still in development. And appears to have been for a couple of years. On their website there doesn't seem to be 'evidence' of any game yet, ie no screenshots as such.

The forums are a hoot with name calling and zombie fanboy arguments.

I highly suspect it's a farce and nothing here is being developed at all.

especially after reading some of the interviews reveals they're a bit full of shit:

"We intend to create our own zombies and zombie world, so people won't go 'oh thats from x other zombie fiction'"

"The game will feature zombie pits for zombies to fight it out in and people will be thrown into, these will be based in the outlanders zones where survivors wish to refrain from living in the main community"

Hmmm, Land of the Dead by any chance?

(plus, zombie pits were a shit idea to begin with)

http://www.massively.com/2009/01/02/the-death-of-lively-and-some-lessons-about-complexity/#continued

actually you know what that belongs in the eukaryote thread

admit it, you'd play a "Left Behind" mmorpg, wouldnt you

With some imagination and creative leeway, this could actually be awesome. The thing is, the developers of the game would have to make it possible for the legions of satan's army to win.

wow horrible thread

fallout mmo wouldn't work just like a left behind mmo wouldn't work; the desolate environment and sense of being one of a handful of lone survivors goes out the window when the game is MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER

The kind of MMOG I would play would be one that wasn't chock-full of disturbingly socially retarded date rapist men and 13-year-olds whose parents don't give a shit what their kids are up to as long as it isn't noisy or requires any effort on the parents' part beyond paying a monthly bill. You would essentially have to invent a MMOG that was designed to attract people who do not currently have the time or interest to play a MMOG, while simultaneously driving off a large number of the people who currently do.

This question is essentially the same as asking "what kind of messageboard would you post to?" and the answer for me is the graphically crippled one with a bunch of dorky overeducated blue staters talking about food and racism on it.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:56 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the cold truth is that u have way more in common with a lot of the WoW crowd than u would like 2 think thomas bot~

lol scratch that when i saw 'left behind' i thought left 4 dead and imagined zombie apocalypse mmo, soz

fallout mmo wouldn't work just like a left behind mmo wouldn't work; the desolate environment and sense of being one of a handful of lone survivors

Hold the phone. I've only seen bits of pieces of the Left Behind series (they used to play 30 minute segments of them in Sunday School for us when they couldn't think of anything more to say about the lord). I don't picture the Left Behind world as being "desolate" at all. How many Christians are there in the world, around 1.5-2.0 billion or so? Even if all of them were saved, that would still leave 5 billion people or so on Earth. And of course, a good portion of the Christians who didn't love the lord enough would be "Left Behind" a la Kirk Cameron (and would make up one of the game's factions).

The main problem wouldn't come from a lack of characters to populate the world. Instead, it would be about balance. There would be two relatively small factions (the "Left Behind" not-good-enough-Christians and the soldiers of Heaven, angels, archangels, cute hummingbirds and god) and one gigantic third faction (Billions of nonchristians who decide not to ally themselves with Kirk Cameron, along with satan's angels and beasts with multiple heads). To make up for the imbalance, the Christian factions would have to be compensated with advantageous abilities, while the evil faction would be reduced down to Zerg-like Zombie status. That's fine, except that no one would want to play as a really weak class in a MMORPG.

Membership in the 144,000 elite group of the 12 tribes of Israel, which would grant forehead tattoo options and special heavenly singing abilities, would be an extra $7.77 a month.

lol scratch that when i saw 'left behind' i thought left 4 dead and imagined zombie apocalypse mmo, soz

― Fursona (real life tauren ^_^) (cankles), Saturday, January 3, 2009 1:14 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oops, soz on this end too!

http://www.darkfallonline.com/ this game has a release date. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkfall

Interplay's already got a Fallout MMO in the works under the "mysterious" working title of Project V13. Some of the original Fallout devs are involved.

Yeah, they kept the rights to that during the 5 years that Interplay shat itself was was down to basically the head guy muttering about how one day they'd bring back the game as an MMO. I think even the Penny Arcade guys made fun of him at one point.

Lemme see if I can find it

was was -> and was

yeah i know and it's a horrible idea i hope they all die of GRIDS

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040702h.jpg

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040714h.jpg

hah

too many potential wow killers seem to think better/more realistic graphics will win people over. it's all about gameplay and ease of entry.

I think Darkfall is supposed to be the biggest mmorpg to date in terms of features and no more grinding. The only real predecessor to it is Ultima Online which is sort of dated...

darkfall appears to have one of its six races tailor-made for furries. not a good look.

haha otm

http://www.legendsofzork.com/

Designed to provide gamers with a casual MMO game they can play on their laptop, desktop or Apple iPhone (in school, work or on the bus), there’s nothing to download, just go to www.legendsofzork.com

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/02/05/internet-spaceships-super-drama/

http://www.czechmyjugs.com/WOW.jpg

did anyone play urban dead, the browser-based turn-based MMO game that was around a couple years back? it's still up but i imagine the balance is now shot:

http://www.urbandead.com/

i think my favorite detail was being unable to start as a zombie when it launched: you had to begin as a regular character and get bitten and jump off a building or something

i tried it and didn't think much of it

ditto

dr mmorpgius

Can someone explain that WOW cover for me, because I don't get it unless it means that WOW stinks.

flushing money down the drain

Oh right.

So glad I've never tried that game!

back when i was playing it actually saved me money, cuz that was a lot of nights spent @ home instead of out drinkin etc

on a related note: http://universe.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx

uh oh. I guess 5M+ copies of FO:NV sold already helped this out.

http://www.ripten.com/2010/10/22/fallout-online-plans-to-launch-in-the-second-half-of-2012/

i still want my pirate game

or a huge world war ii mmorpg

I'll believe the fallout mmo when I see it. Interplay is not known for having their shit together in anay reasonable way for more than a decade.

I been playing Star Trek Online since it went F2P and I am actually kind of having... FUN?

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OP: I'd play a persistent 20s-30s era gangster/noir set in Chicago or similar, with potential roleplay as gangster, moll, henchmen, detective, beatcop, feds, smugglers, gambler, property speculator, meat packer, civil rights activist, pimp, prostitute, etc etc etc. The prized gangster role only has rewards if they can enlist smugglers, pimps, casino operators, and run successful casinos etc.

Sort of a noir Second Life, with Tommy guns.

Persistent, like EVE online, so a single server handles the worldwide player population, and changes they make to the world endure.

No leveling, you're only as powerful as your social network, and the resources they can bring to the fray.

It'll never get made, the interest in pulp-era drama was never great, and L.A. Noire was a commercial failure.