This was my Game, LOVED my Dark/Regen scrapper!
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Of the many, many mmos Iâve dabbled in, I miss Wildstar the most. That game had such an amazing vibe. Rift also gets an honorable mention.
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Maple StoryâŠI know cutie game but it was my start with online gamingâŠthen played A Tale in the Desert 3, neat MMO game that you didnât go out killing stuff or have a mount eitherâŠthe Tale is still going to this dayâŠits all set in old Egypt âŠyou maintained compounds aka housesâŠand bldgs you could buildâŠyou have tests to do âŠyou could fish and mine and cookâŠthen there was a chance to be come a Demi God which allowed you to have a say over players in the game if they were causing issues with others in gameâŠquite interesting interactive game.
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Everquest, Asheronâs Call, Dark Age of Camelot, Lord of the Rings Online, Everquest II, Asheronâs Call 2, Rift, Horizons: Empire of Istaria, and City of Heroes. Of those, I do still play LotRO a few months a year.
I used to call myself an MMO Veteran. But that was completely ruined by WoW, which I played pretty much nonstop until this year. Iâve started completely over a few times (deleting accounts through Blizz which means 0% of recovery) and that has really kept the game fresh for me.
Sometimes I watch Josh Strife Hayesâ YT channel where he does this series called Worst MMO Ever. Iâve been in such a WoW bubble that I had no idea hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of other MMOs have been released, and it seems most are absolute shyte.
Now I just call myself a WoW Player, itâs the main game Iâll always play in some fashion on top of whatever other hobbies I have. And I donât miss the old days. Corpses runs, no visible cloaks, no mounts, no transmitting, how did we ever manage?!
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you rlly thought you did somethin
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Shadowbane.
Player created cities and economies dynmic worldand *as in game world could change depending on events or player actions. open world pvp. A few months playing that is why I always chuckle at people griping about wow pvp. Aslo why I donât really bother with pvp in MMOs anymore.
Made a small ingame fortune as a part of a mercenary âguildâ that hired out as caravan escorts/guard.
The one I miss the most is Everquest. As much as I complained about it at the time. It was my first MMO and I was a part of some great guilds. Itâs where I started doing the high end raid stuff. But most of all, I miss the Heretics. The last guild I was in and the one most like a family. 5 years together, then WoW came out and we all migrated. Bu tit was never really the same. And I have no idea where they are now.
I greatly miss Wild Star. It was made by some of the original wow team.
Shame it was horribly managed. It had a lot of potential.
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EverQuest Online Adventures. A PS2 exclusive MMO that I played in the early 2000s. It had so many unique features.
Like lycanthropy. You could get lycanthropy from all sorts of beasts, and then do a quest if you wanted a were form. Any class could get it and it was like a second class/talent tree sort of. My Dark Elf Shadowknight had alligator lycanthropy. A weregator. After doing some quests and spending some points I could shift to a half gator form or full gator form. They also had wererats, werebears, werewolves ofc, I canât remember all of them. There was also a werehunter class! You could do a quest line to become a werehunter instead and get bonus abilities and stats for fighting lycanthropes.
And that was just one of the many awesome customization options in that game. They also had a thing where at max level each class had two âhero classâ options that would give you some new stat boosts and abilities. Also ech race had a hero class. So you could choose to pick a hero class from your base class or hero class for your race. So many cool options on such an old MMO.
Loved that game. Has anyone else played it?
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I had a buddy who was all about Ultima Online.
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Holy crap I havenât heard about that in ages
Ultima Online was my old favorite and my first MMO. They are finally going to launch Ultima Online: New Legacy, their first real new installment in years. Iâm definitely going to give it a try and see what itâs all about. If it werenât for this MMO, I probably would never play WoW.
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Ultima Online and Asheronâs Call.
WoW is what would be described as a âcookie cutterâ MMO during my days on those games. Building your own class as opposed to picking from several class templates was fun.
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I have played them all for the most part.
Everquest up through the Planes of Power expansion was the tops for me. The community was fantastic. The feel of the game was amazing. It just felt vast, and dangerous and engaging. Playing felt like an adventure.
Dark Age of Camelot was another fun one in its prime. But, the PvE was lacking a bit.
Wildstar had so much potential, but it was squandered.
Everquest though⊠I still play P1999 a bit. And while it was better through the Rose tinted glasses, the nostalgia still hits super hard when I play.
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Never played everquest but i have seen bits of it from the internet and if i more into mmos at the time i think i would have really enjoyed it.
Rifts and wildstsar came and died while i was on my mmo hiatus, I had a guild at the time that really burned me out, tney went from casual to trying to be more hardcore.
Comically I went and almost downloaded Rifts because I thought it was the Rifts rpg.
CoH/CoV, LOTRO, Rift, Champions Online, and many more.
I really liked Aion years ago. (Before the massive changes as well). I was surprised how hard it failed considering it seemed fun to me, but that is how things go I suppose.
Another one that fits into the old category is Runescape. Which I feel still holds together very well even today. It was my first mmo, and the fact that it was not focused on combat was a pretty novel idea to me. Runescape has combat of course, but I would never consider that the focus of the game. For this I think old school and Rs3 are both good, Rs3 just tried to be more like wow, which was not really what it excelled at.
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Age of Empires and then Age of Kings, these 2 games got me into online gaming.
I spent an embarrassing amount of time in Ragnarok Online. Played a priest and loved the War of Emperium. Porings still make me smile.
Also loved the clan wars in Lineage II and sometimes miss my elf. Some of the music from that game still hits me in the feels.
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I forget the name, but there was an MMORPG under development that was all about having ârealismâ.
- Permadeath
- No /whisper or /tell function, you had to be standing next to somebody to communicate
- Everyone standing nearby heard everything you said, too
- No mail
etc.
Game was cancelled during development. Go figure.
Lineage II was once upon a time my go to MMO. Now itâs mostly dead and the graphics are so dated it looks like crap.