I member playing Star Trek Online and that’s still going today. Was definitely pretty cool how it worked but never got heavily into it.
Cept ultima online. Sandbox MMOs shoulda won instead of theme park and have the true spirit of what an MMO is supposed to be. Damn EQ and their flashy 3D graphics that tricked you all into letting the theme park MMO win.
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Asheron’s Call was fun to me.
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Far from forgotten but my first MMO that I started in '02 was Runescape. When classic runescape was just runescape. And I couldn’t be a member because, well, I was too young to work and no way my mom would pay a monthly sub to a game. She already thought I was playing too much as it was.
Free Realms Online!
It was kind of like a kid version of WoW. I LOVED it so much, I think because it just had a chill vibe about it. I missed it when it was shut down, ngl.
To be fair, NO ONE has forgotten CoH. I don’t think it will -ever- be forgotten, lol.
The only older MMO I really have any fond memories of is Knight Online. It’s still around. I think it’s still getting minor expansions or something? But it never kept itself up to date in the way WoW did. It still looks more or less like 2004 (it released then too)., and as far as I know it still plays mostly like it did then, in that you can spin around larger mobs really fast and they can’t spin fast enough to hit you. I liked the aesthetic, and the music was really nice for what it was. I’d legitimately be interested in what the game would look like if it were given the budget to make a sequel / reboot for the modern age.
I mean, I wouldn’t main it. It’s a PvP game first and foremost. You run out of quests to level with sometime in the mid 30s or something last I played and the cap is like 80 or 83 at this point.
But 16 year old me had a great time with it as one of my first MMOs before I could pay for a WoW sub. It was pretty solid fun until you hit those mid 30s and it turned into a boring grind. At least BDO has the crazy combat to keep that kind of grind fun.
EverQuest was mine. I couldnt do it again. The time commitment was insane. I ended up with like 1000 days of play time, a decade ago…
It had a story that didnt need retcons. It was just, a lot of fun.
Final Fantasy XIV has both…
My first MMO was The Realm by Sierra. Then DarkSun Online, Ultima Online, Everquest, Asheron’s Call, Anarchy Online, Neocron, Planetside, Shadowbane, Star Wars Galxies, Horizons, Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online etc… until today. I have lived thru it all. Seen it all.
Yeah, but instanced housing. Tons of MMOs have that these days.
Afaik, no MMORPG had open-world housing where you could just ride out into an empty area and plop your house down.
There were player-made cities and everything.
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I think Asheron’s Call had open world housing. It wasn’t just “anywhere” though, there were plots.
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i remember playing defiance and played it again after they re upgrade it and shut it down lol
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The housing districts are “instanced”, but each housing plot is a dedicated place in the district and you can walk up to anyone’s house.
You’re thinking of only “popular” ones; Wurm Online, Ultima Online, and even New World.
That sounds cool as hell man.
Ive always wanted an mmorpg to be majority player driven stuff. That in my mind would scratch an itch.
Only plots allowed in cities last time I played that game.
It was really special.
If your town got large enough, you could add a shuttleport for a good amount of money/supplies if you had an Artisan that could build them.
It’s like getting a flight point for your own town so you and anyone could directly travel there from major cities.
One in four that you responded to and even then you shifted the goalpost. Cheers.
I really meant “there was nothing else like it” because if there was, I’d know lol
Player housing in most MMOs is mostly the same, like an instanced house or neighborhood. FF14, SWTOR, New World.
Star Wars Galaxies was neither of those.
Everyone could see your house on the Naboo waterfront lol. (That’s where mine was.)
Like a poster said above its a shame theme park mmos are what won out in the end
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I loved that show and was so mad when I realized there was a game… one week before it shut down forever.
tell you the truth it was not that good or bad just a lot of what how did that killed me
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