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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: kingmanic12 on October 09, 2006, 06:07:10 pm
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I maid this to talk about other MMORPG's besides WoW!
I used to play Runescape...a no donwload MMORPG until i got so board i quite playing for months until i found Planeshift. This game is Much funner adn mroe challenging.
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Runescape was so depressing i barely lasted a week ;D
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It was so ugly I never finished the tutorial.
I played a lot of T4C over the years but it seems to be dying a slow and wretched death while the new owners wring every last nickel out of it. Vircom who developed it was bought out a few years ago and development pretty much stopped. There were from time to time free servers but doesn't seem to be anymore.
I played Anarchy Online for most of the winter but it has a tiered system whereby you can play the original game for free or pay a subscription and get access to all the expansions. It was kind of interesting -- an SF game but became tedious in the middle levels. Probably much better once you have paid.
I also played Project Entropia another SF game but it was only sort of free. everything cost game money and everything had high maintenance. You can officially buy game money at $10game to $1real.
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Well now everything online costs money or you jsut get a few days free trial...i played runescape for years mainly because my friends. i also failed a grade because i constantly played it. :( >:( it was so addicting...like electronic crack...cinda like cards are paper crack! i quit since i got so board.
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Ferentus was a great game until after one month when i couldnt log on after discovering it wasnt actually free, they failed to mention that on the main site
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Ryzom owns you all >:|
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I have to agree with Karyuu, Ryzom owns all those MMO's, especially runescape ;)
It's a strange MMO though, most of the quests and content is created by it's own users. Especially since that new built-in scenario editor was released. You can just add a world, add npc's, add quests and open up your creation to other players.
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Who or what is Ryzom? I have never heard of it or them.
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Rubies of Eventide isn't too bad. It's not a finished game, but it's farther along than PS, and free as well. It lacks RP somewhat, though.
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Ferentus was a great game until after one month when i couldnt log on after discovering it wasnt actually free, they failed to mention that on the main site
They talked about p2p for a long time, even in the user agreement. You needed to do some reading. =P
But I quit playing it since I found out. It isn't even good enough to be p2p
Does anyone know how good Guild Wars is? I'm planning on getting it, just want to see what everyone else thinks.
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Yes...Guild Wars is a very good game...the problem is i spent 50 bucks on the game and only got 15 days of free trial and it costs per month so i dont play it...But it is a GREAT game.
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Yes...Guild Wars is a very good game...the problem is i spent 50 bucks on the game and only got 15 days of free trial and it costs per month so i dont play it...But it is a GREAT game.
What I always heard that there's no monthly fee...
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Lets face it if your looking for a good rroleplay game PS is the best ;)
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well i played when it first came out so i may be wrong by now!
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GuildWars has always been free. They make money primarily through "expansion packs" like the new Factions. For me it's strictly a hack-and-slash game though, so I turn to it whenever I feel like smashing things on a screen. It's a very pretty game, definitely, but the world isn't as unique and rich as Ryzom's (www.ryzom.com). That one requires a monthly fee, but they do have an "endless trial" in the newbie land. It's a very nice way of testing the waters - but it's quite demanding on your system.
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I've played Tibia, Runescape, and Pristontale.
They all sucked.
For blowing things up, I just play multiplayer first person shooters. If you just want to kill things, why bother with levelling?
There's also Subspace Continuum which I first played in the mid 90's and is still around today. It's an online multiplayer arcade game which is really really addictive. It's definately worth checking out if the phrase "head to head comet busters" interests you.
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Strange topic name, since there aren't two categories like World of Warcraft, and... the others. In my opinion WoW is an average MMORPG, with a community formed mostly from 15 y.o. kids. Mehh. Ohh, and the last South Park episode about it was pretty nice. And true hahahah.
:innocent:
As for a very good MMORPG, I strongly recommand EVE Online. Great game, great community, great everything. I play it for about two years now, and even if it needs that monthly fee, it worths it. I think I've made a topic about it some time ago, my question is still "up to date", anyone playing it?
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I think NWN2 will be better than the most. Never bothered playing other MMORPGs besides PS, since I kinda like it. For wacking fun I play FPSs as well, and from time to time warcraft III the best online game ever.
And as far as WoW is considered... Blizzard doesn't make average games. Well, it did for Genesis, but let's forget that.
There's a reason why South Park made a parody out of it. There's a reason why 15 y.o. are thrilled about it. You don't see other MMORPGs being such a topic. In fact, were it not for the monthly fee I would be probably be playing WoW right now :P.
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Currently playing Project Entropia (now "Entropia Universe"). I've played Runescape, Rubies of Eventide, Anarchy Online and all those jiggy wiggy games no one knew about until ½ a year ago when mmorpg's actually became popular;)
I've played WoW and some other game. I can't remember what it's called. Plateskip?Panesip? Ah, probably nothing important ;)
I've sniffed on Ryzom but I haven't really given it enough tim to try it out, been in Eve. Was a bit younger when I tested it so I got bored quick :)
Le'see...Dransik, popped up in my head, was supposed to be an ambitious project. Wonder how it's going. I've played Tibia, it's become worse and I got tired of always hiring my friend as a body guard :l
Sangwa, Wow is a great game. The mediocrity of the build fits everyone which makes and made it popular. Blizzard's given us a game which fits every soul, you don't have to be good at anything to be good at it, just have the right gear and the right skills.
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Strange topic name, since there aren't two categories like World of Warcraft, and... the others. In my opinion WoW is an average MMORPG, with a community formed mostly from 15 y.o. kids. Mehh. Ohh, and the last South Park episode about it was pretty nice. And true hahahah.
This happens to be lies, just depends where you look - infact, im the youngest in my WoW guild, well im not... but i am at the same time (tricky huh?).
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I see four people owning Guild Wars, we should start a Planeshift guild in there :P
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Ya they would immediatly delete that...well if WoW is all free then i guess ill update with expansions and try playing again :lol:
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"They" wouldn't delete anything in GW, because they don't have the rules we do :] WoW is not free, it requires a monthly fee. It's GuildWars that's free to play online.
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Sangwa, Wow is a great game. The mediocrity of the build fits everyone which makes and made it popular. Blizzard's given us a game which fits every soul, you don't have to be good at anything to be good at it, just have the right gear and the right skills.
this is not true, you can totally tell when some dutch dickhead is in your group.... or an 'isreal' for that matter. there's a certain mindset to some of the rolls, and sometimes people with even great gear are crap... they just get whisked throught 40mans sitting in pre-established raid guilds doing nothing.
Ya they would immediatly delete that...well if WoW is all free then i guess ill update with expansions and try playing again :lol:
and, im sorry - but where did you find your basis for these conclusions?
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My friend [Josh] Tried that ounce and they deleted the file...thats how i got the info!
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Deleted the "file"? Weren't we talking about a PlaneShift guild in GW? (http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/7641/confusewk1.gif)
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Interesting, ryzom says the trial has no time limit, no xp limit, yet it's a trial. And 1.8 GB's, don't look like no trial :P
Is it gonna be like that one R something game. Trial people get one city, payers get an entire world of fun. If it is, then I'll forget it. If it isn't, then damn I'm in. Looks kewl.
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Like I said, the Ryzom trial is of the newbie lands :] You have no limit there - but to get to the mainland, you have to pay up. This is the one game I so very badly want to find a free server for >.> The community is really one of the best I've seen, too.
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Well... The Blitzers (http://gw.theblitzers.org/) already have a presence in GuildWars. My GW character is rather low on the level-o-meter, but it's rather stress-relieving to go and kill things once in a while with it ;] Unfortunately my guild is mostly asians except for the one person that recruited me... so I never see them >.>
WoW is fun but I may have to cancel my account... I don't feel like I have enough time to play it to justify the price :\
/me looks at other games mentioned
I played project entropia \o not for very long though. I found Ryzom through Nevrax when I was looking for "open source MMORPG" (which is also how I found PlaneShift). I'm not sure how many people know, but their framework for saga of ryzom is opensource (http://www.nevrax.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=NeL). Cool stuff.
josePhoenix
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Guildwars all the way, nothing can replace that for me :D still probably the biggest addict out there :P
ohw and Incensio also exists in there for a very long time allready with almost no people from PS in there :O ( Aldarion, Sep, Faldrok and myself are about the only ones left from the PS time )
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mrr, you make me install Guild Wars again.
* Annah goes to find his Guild Wars package *
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i've never understood how people can sit GW and WoW next to each other and not just faint at the sight of WoW... especially at a time like this with TBC on the horizon...
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Drey, I understand you like WoW. But face the reality, others don't. Everyone with his own opinion about the game. And as for me, yeah, I simply don't like the concept of the game. It's pure crap, beginning from the management of the servers (pvp server? x server? y server? c'mon!) and finishing with the community.
Oh well, it is Warcraft, and oh yeah, Blizzard sure got money from it. Good for them. This doesn't mean we should all play it.
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Drey, don't put the games next to eachother, you can't compare them no matter how you try cuz GW isn't an MMORPG but an MCORPG which makes a big difference.
and the models in guildwars look better, they have lingerie and stuff which WoW lacks.
I play both but i hate WoW for one simple reason, whenever i want to play the server is either down, has an immence queue, is having updates or idiots around you that start to annoy you.
In guildwars you have your own mission area so a LVL 20 can't run infront of your face and riun your quest all the time by killing all the monster you have to kill or by killing the one person you have to talk to all the time, IMO a friendlier play environment with lots of things to keep you occupied for a long ammount of time ( Try getting all pieces of obsidian armor ;) )
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Drey, don't put the games next to eachother, you can't compare them no matter how you try cuz GW isn't an MMORPG but an MCORPG which makes a big difference.
and the models in guildwars look better, they have lingerie and stuff which WoW lacks.
one of my biggest things going against Gw has always been that i think it looks [bleep] :p
(and yes i have played it)
I play both but i hate WoW for one simple reason, whenever i want to play the server is either down, has an immence queue, is having updates or idiots around you that start to annoy you.
never really had any of that myself, except for the odd wednessday. but yeah, blizz do need to learn to server. since the 'upgrades' though its got better, only real problem was the horde alliance imbalance - cross realm pvp has fixed that though.
and annah, the others suck. :O as for the community, look in the right places and its good.
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this is not true, you can totally tell when some dutch dickhead is in your group.... or an 'isreal' for that matter.
Excuse me?
Do you even know what you're saying?
Racist.
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He's just Drey. And now now, don't get so angry, blood tends to flow very fast then.
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And uhh, he just pointed, in his own way, the differences between different nationalities. Nothing wrong with that.
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this is not true, you can totally tell when some dutch dickhead is in your group.... or an 'isreal' for that matter.
Excuse me?
Do you even know what you're saying?
Racist.
sorry, re-reading i see how that comes across >.> didnt meant any offense... but if you played WoW in stormrage-eu you'd know what i mean.
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Okay, it's all right :flowers:
I'll just stick with Planeshift ;)
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Now i have to agree on the dutch people, they are in general tards in the game(s) same goes for germans and russians.
Somehow they are all to lazy to talk english and then when something goes wrong they blame you ( in near unperfected english ).
No not on a discrimination spree here it's just what my findings where, i'd rather PVP with the koreans since they in general don't mess-up and they are very clear how to do what.
And wasn't this a thread on games BESIDES WoW instead of how (uber) cool WoW is... (not pointing to drey at all :P )
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Well the reason i took a LOONg break from PS is a MMORPG called Shadowbane . At first i was not really sure about it , since there seemed to be no RP at all , but then again the game provides a system where players can build buildings , towns , rule kingdoms , hire NPC`s for all sorts of purposes (indirect crafting if you want , as you controll the crafting functions of ..say the elven heavy armor smith you hired to the lvl where you can "tell" him to craft a "xy heavy breastplate of xy" . That will in terms cost money and resources ...a lot of resource types in game but that`s a different story) , then there is the part of sieges , player run guilds or nations (multiple guilds can unite to form a ation) can lay siege and raze or conquer enemy towns . Basicaly the game provides a lot of RTS elements from a MMORPG perspective...
well...enough allready...one last thing , it`s free ..
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I have played WoW, City of Heroes (CoH) and Siebenwind so far.
City of Heroes is a great game were you play a Super-Heroe, but it is not free and gets a little bit repetitive after a while.
Siebenwind is a german UO-freeshard with a unique map/story/etc. It is a heavy-rp game and really fun if you like to rp (you have to write at least one A4 page background-story for your char for him to be approved)
I think WoW needs no further comments in this thread ;-)
Btw. dorbian: I am german and I hate generalizations... :-p
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and I hate generalizations... :-p
Yeah, the way someone plays a game and/or speaks English is dependant on his character and education, and not on their nationality. If you say that "All German, Dutch and Russian people are n00bs, then something is very, very wrong with you. Get a proper education yourself.
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I know Dorbian didn't just call me atard, now did he... cause that would be really bad. I know he didn't call half my friends... no wait... He couldn't have called them tards? That would be ethically irresponsible, and downright wrong. I just know he didn't. No one in his right mind would call half of all the people in here tards, unless he can run really fast. I just know he didn't, cause that would be seriously... retarded.
/me goes on saying that to himself in order to remain calm........... coffee........ beer..... yes, whiskey.
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Ban him Proglin, I know you want to :P
And Dorbian, I know many Dutch people who spell English better than you.
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where did i say i was a spell master, and i haven't said that all dutch german and russian players are like that, remove the word all and it's what i typed.
Now if you would read the next sentence, it would say that all those people ( the people i'm talking about ) have the same kind of issues which is in most cases a lack of proper communication, in games with a PVP or Coop ellement proper communication is a pre ( and i'm not talking about bad spellers but people not able to use the english language properly at all ).
In my experience these people where either: German, Russian or Dutch, so you could say i would be generalizing but i'm not someone that would generalize, i'd be someone that doesn't tell the entire background story because i think others will understand the background story.
If i would generalize i would probably be allready dead concidering the collegues and friends i have so stop the BS about generalizing allready
i'm dutch myself so i would be mocking myself also and i also said this wasn't meant as a discrimination spree ( somehow i knew people would always take it the wrong way by not reading everything T_T )
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Seriously, haven't heard of Shadowbane. Might check it out, right now i'm wasting my time fragging some Snablesnot and Cornundacauda(Oh, xorpg, ye holy grail of losing tensions and cash). If it's free then why waste time :D
/me runs to the gates of Shadowbane
Update: It's not free :(
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Oh yes, memories, memories!
* Annah hides dorbian *
No more dorbian, go away evil spawns, go away!
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Oh, by the way, I'm playing Guild Wars too now, anyone else ready for an endless adventure?
;)
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Endless adventures you say?
I might just check it out ;)
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"There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch."
austin powers goldmember rocks :p
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Yeah, Austin Power's dad says that, but he's the only one allowed to do so ;)
There are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch.
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I don't know, I'm on a MAC, and before I Was on a MAC my computer was too crappy to play MMORPGS except for Materia Magica if that counts lol.
Now, I guess PLane Shift because it works on MAC and it's FREE :D.
I'd pay for it!
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Woohoo Mac :)
Ohw annah, my nick in Guildwars is Dorbian The Nom so if you ever want company give a shout, i'd might just help :P
and... what's wrong with evil, i remember the Cabal and stuff when there was a huge flame ware going on... indeed, memories :)
i might overreacted a bit yeah, but that's me :P having a pissed of mood is the way i was born, why do you think i'm subscribing for that dating service ;) nobody can love me :P.
and i'm not intolerant of other people's cultures and just because i was born in holland doesn't make me dutch o.O my heart lies with the marsians, they rule :]
And to stay OT, i'm currently looking at MxO ( they say it's kinda cool ) and there is this other MMORPG which came out recently which looked cool but can't remember the name anymore :O
BTW Findarto, diablo II also works on a mac and looking at the prices it's as good as free ;)
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Yeah, Austin Power's dad says that, but he's the only one allowed to do so ;)
There are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch.
/me slaps all the makingfunofdutch people from his dutch friends
And as a sidenote, yay for the danish (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7382497743921358869)
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Dorbian: Age of Conan, perhaps? Oo
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;D shadowbane Is free , just register an account you`ll see ...trust me , site isnt` updated yet
https://secure.ubi.com/billing/default.aspx