Any New MMPORPGs Worth Playing (excludes WoW and GWars) - Page 2

Biggest mistake they made with EQ2 was trying to make it so different from EQ1. People liked EQ1. That's why they played it for so long, despite its problems. Raiding was fun. Small raids just don't capture the same feeling as some of the EQ1 encounters where you had to coordinate several groups to down a Mob.

Anyway, I still have an active account but I'm trying to learn spanish. That'll never happen if i get back in to MMO's despite how tempting it sometimes is. MMOs are like heroin for me. Once I start playing them i get sucked-in to the competitiveness of them. I can't stand being a lowbie because i've always played with the best guilds and hate playing with unskilled players.

Yeah, I loved City of Heroes because of the community. You could run around and just muck around with a great group of high-level players. I really, really try to like WoW (and have had a subscription since release) but it's so tedious and the community is terrible. People treat it as if it's a job, not a game.

That's what happens when you make everything soloable. I barely played WoW, but my impression of it was that you soloed to 60 and then started raiding.

My favorite thing about gaming is the immersion. In Zelda, for instance, I like walking around the villages immersing myself in the personalities more than I do playing through dungeons. I never thought this was a weird perspective until I started going on gaming related message boards where people were having conversation about turn-based RPG attacks and the like. I'm like, "Who wants to talk about this shit?" I'm a fiend for art design and escapism.

And with that in mind, that's why WoW is so irksome. It's so linear, there is little to no exploration, there's absolutely no community within the game (I'm not talking about RPers, but people who just play the game intended without Ventrilo and raid schedules), immature X-Box Live-esque kids calling people...various names, it has a pukey pseudo-cartoony aesthetic, etc., etc. Yet, I still have a subscription. It's one of those things I feel I need to force myself to like, which is unfortunate.

jon that's pretty common sentiment about WoW among players and haters alike, especially those that are jaded against treadmill progression from past experiences. I'm going to bootcamp my Mac soon and I might start up EQ2, i'll let you guys know how it goes.

Why did I click here?? I don't need to go back down this road in life.

For most of my time in college my roomates and I spent hours and hours and hours on end playing Final Fantasy Online and then switched to World of Warcraft.

I was a bit more fond of WoW because I'm a bastard and got kicked out of nearly every group I was ever in playing FF and past level 30 you really can't play solo as a Beastmaster; but, as a Hunter in WoW you can go it alone for a long long time.

Now I'm watching the World of Warcraft South Park episode.

The last time i played EQ2 was when they released the expansion with the Fae. A lot had already changed since the first time I played. I think they've got a lot of great systems in place. It's a very well designed game with quite a lot of content. I think it could be fun with the right group of players.

The frustrating thing for me was that I couldn't find anyone I really wanted to play with. I'm used to playing with highly skilled and focused players, but I'd be looking to play 15-20hrs a week at most. They tend to play a minimum of 40. I'm also the opposite of jon. When I logon, I want to grind or do something productive so that I can get to the high-level content, because that's where other like-minded players are. For me it's all about raiding in a pve game or pking in a pvp game.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time to play with my old guildies anymore, and it's a bit painful to play with lesser players or pick-up groups. No matter how little or how much I play, I like to feel that I'm being productive with the time. I'm very much an optimizer when it comes to XPing. If I think a group is capable of getting 10000xp/hour, it'll annoy me if we're only getting 5000 because they suck.

How many hours do you guys see yourselves playing per week? I could be tempted to play something if a few of us agreed to stay within leveling distance. I tend to outlevel people, but if I played now and we set leveling restrictions each week we could all stay around the same level and group as often as possible. Leveling discrepancies don't matter as much in EQ2 because of the mentoring system.

I would refuse to play anything wow-like so that would exclude lotro. EQ2 would be my preference. I'd much prefer to play a hardcore mmo and take my time working through it. I find it more engaging and more rewarding.

Anyone interested in an SF guild? I still have a char in EQ2 and could maybe mentor a couple of you. We could pick complementary classes. I call tank!

gqgeek thats not a bad idea