General Discussion

I've tried all the mmorpgs out there and the last time I liked one was back in 2003 when games like SWG and Planetside were good and showed potential. So because I've been hooked in I feel like I need a new home and have been searching for a online world to live and comit to ever since. However the problem is that everything that has come out since just hasn't been any good. I mean WOW got sooo many things right like the combat was great and they actually made the classes fun to play, which most mmorpgs don't do like WAR's boring classes.

So I've gone through the whole list on mmorpg and hate them all so I then go back to ones I've tried before because I'm like "they migth have changed" and what a suprise.... no they still suck. I say to myself "WOW sucks and battlegrounds ruined it but maybe WotLK changed it" and I moan about not being able to digitally purchase it the next min because I just need something to play and that was my only hope left for 2008. I played WAR in the beta and it sucked balls and I knew it wouldn't be any good after launch but I bought it anyways and got 10 mins into it and thought to myself "I've done this all in WOW and it was much better there.... do I really want to go through this again?" and just quit lol.

They're all bland and they're all clones of eachother which are a system I don't like and most of them have combat that feels very off. Like I said WOW has the best combat because it just has amazing feedback with fun clases who have fun spells and it just works. Then go to games like WAR and the combat is just off and 99% of mmorpgs out there suffer from the same thing. It doesn't matter how good the rest of the game is, if theres one thing wrong with it then you just can't overlook it.

GRRR I'm now downloading Lotro again even though I played it the other month and couldn't stand the character models, animations and combat. Yet I'm still going to play it for 5 mins and then move onto the next one lol.

:'( Just gimme a time machine to go back to the Cities patch of SWG because that was an amazing time.

Try getting a dog.

I hear this over and over again. The problem is that the honeymoon phase ocurrs when we are most easily impressed. Like a first kiss. Our expectations rise with our experieinces, but technology cannot possibly keep up. Actually the concepts of technology can keep up but the manufacturing of technology slows the process way down.

I do think some of  the developers with the highly hyped games are now some of the kids who cut their teeth on MMORPGs and "get it" that we need a new generation of content.

Take Aion (due for release next Spring)  for example, with the promise of intense one-on-one Aerial combat and the introdcution of what they call PvPvE. I think we gamers are about to be served some heady stuff in the next year or two, and I for one can hardly wait!  

Only solution:  find some other hobbies...lol.  I am serious though.  If MMOs were my main hooby I'd be bored out of my mind right now.  Fortunately though, I have plenty of other things that I love to do, so I can afford to just slink around the shadows, waiting for some one to start releasing good MMOs. 

I just want something new that works because the whole class/level based system just doesn't do it for me really. I mean why do I have to spend weeks of my life grinding to end level to play the fun part of the game? Why not just give me a level 70 character? I don't want to solo through a whole game because all my friends are higher level than me.

Also I hate how alot of my new friends I met at college play on different servers but we have to pay money to be able to play the game with eachother, it's like I can't be bothered to start again so we end up not playing the game at all.

Give us free server transfers!

buy gears of war 2 (and a 360 if you have to) its pretty much one of the greatest games of all time.... ever

I hear the first kiss thery over and over again. It's not the case now. New MMOS are crap.

You might give Vanguard a try they have a 2 week trial i believe

my first mmo was Diablo 1 and i played that till diablo 2 came out then i was hardpressed to find a game till WoW now everything else looks like a pile of crap, i do like wow though but i mean.. i know itll be more of the same everyday which is why im debating on getting the expac -.-

If you've gone through every game on the MMORPG.com list I suggest starting a review site/blog of what you think of each of them and finding facts to support your thoughts. You could help out a lot of people who are lost and looking for a game.

If you are comparing every game to whatever your favorite is you will never be happy. Learn to accept the uniqueness of each game. I'm not saying every game out this is good, but I am saying not every game is a clone or as bland as you think.

Also there is no reason for you to grind for weeks in order to reach the "fun part" of the game. How about taking the time to enjoy your journey. If you say it's because you want to play with your friends then I suggest making new friends along the way. Expand your horizons and go outside of your comfort bubble now and then. You're missing out on a lot of fun rushing to the end. Slow down and take some time to explore what the developers were trying to accomplish in a game.