Asheron's Call - Darktide is the best PvP that I've ever played. The only thing that really killed it was the drop in server population due to newer releases.
There is still a tight knit community of players on Darktide though, and it is still great fun to play.
Next best, and the one that I'm currently playing is EvE online.
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Coincidentally Shadowbane's getting a FULL REBOOT (read here) this 25th of March. That should some how refresh some air for incoming newbies or interested players.
The OP forgot to put down 'Jumpgate'. That had the best PvP in my opinion. Imagine flying a ship manually in zero G's while you are trying to escape two player pirates and then firing missiles that didn't have any tracking and seeing them slam into one of them.. Well that was one experience. Pretty heart pounding stuff. EVE comes 2nd.
I have played every game on that list and theres only one game that stands out pvp wise
Ultima Online. No contest. If you dont choose pre trammel UO then you obviously never played it. It was the most insane/tense/heart pumping pvp in any mmorpg. If you got caught unready for battle you could end up losing a whole days work. As a pk on great lakes, i saw many many battles and every single one was completely different and insanely interesting. UO was so interactive, you could fight house to house, guild to guild, murderer to newbie, anything was fair game. And best of all skill mattered. Theres no button smashing and theres no cooldowns. Its all about smart play and out thinking the opponent. You had to hotkey usually over 100 keys in order to be a viable pvper. If you hit the wrong button in a fight, you were dead.
Its so sad that people will never get to try this pvp unless they go on a crappy private shard.
I think you would very much have enjoyed playing a Jedi in Star Wars Galaxies before Nov 2005.
In those days, you could be hunted by groups of player Bounty Hunters who spent a lot of time tricking themselves out with specialist equipment, food, spices and armour. If you were a low-level Jedi, your only option was to fight your way out of their traps and make it to a safe house or go off-planet. If, on the other hand, you had ground your way to being high level, you could fight them and, if you were good enough, beat them all. You never knew when players were going to take your bounty or when they were gfoing to ambush you. It was one of the most exciting, surprising adrenaline rushes I have ever experienced not just in online games but IRL. Only parajumping - in real life - beats it.
I wish i couldve had been a pre-nge jedi. Not to be alpha but to have the thrill of 5 red dots showing up on your map all the sudden.
Though we did just out right own 2 imps who were o-vert in a cantina sent a reb in to draw them out then when they got outside we all went o-vert(mabye 20-30 of us) man that was some funny shit.
Hold on Snow Leopard, imma let you finish, but Windows had one of the best operating systems of all time.
If the Powerball lottery was like Lotro, nobody would win for 2 years, and then everyone in Nebraska would win on the same day. And then Nebraska would get nerfed.-pinkwood lotro fourms
AMD 4800 2.4ghz-3GB RAM 533mhz-EVGA 9500GT 512mb-320gb HD
In Dark Age of Camelot, the sieges weren't consentual, and the keeps were scattered across the frontiers. So there were field battles, choke points, gank squads at bridges, it was nice.
I remember one instance AoC can't hope to reproduce. Each realm in DAoC had a set of relics, 2 for each realm. The more you had, better the bonuses. Albion had been doing surprisngly well lately, and had 4 of the 6. So the other two realms did what they liked to do best, team together and raid us.
Relic keeps in DAoC are BEEFY and nearly impossible to take down. But there are certain normal keeps that if you take those over, the relic keep would open its gates to you. So we had Mids coming from the south on boats taking out the Marsh castle and all that stuff, cutting off our teleport chain to the keeps that the Hibs were taking over from the north.
They were so fast and well coordinated that we couldn't prevent them from taking the last keep they needed to open the relic gates. So instead, there was a call to arms over every chat channel. I remember it now, about 300-400 players of all levels and gear gathering at the keep, setting up siege weapons on top of a hill. Then way off in the distance we could just barely see the Hibs coming from the south, bombarding started with the siege weapons. Then the hibs charged, in the middle of the battle, someone shouts "Mids to the south!" We are forced back into the keep where we make a stand and route both factions.
They try again a few hours later, manage to take the relics, but they have to get back to their realm. So Albion buys a fleet of ships and blockades the port back to Hibernia, in the middle of the sea battle the relic is lost to the ocean floor, not sure what happened after that.
WoW's PvP was pretty decent in some aspects at times before honor system. I had some good times in there. But the system was pretty hacked to say the least. If it wasn't, Blizzard wouldn't have had to mess with it every two seconds to try and improve on it. But even still, I did have some good times in there.
Like many others I was one of those that played WoW overkill. (Almost 3 1/2 years) I did play Eve a bit, the PvP system in that was pretty intense. That was a very hardcore, involving type of PvP. Very different from WoW. But that's the thing I think many of us, sadly... didn't experience much of PvP past the one or two main games we were introduced to at first.
Seriously can't wait to see what the PvP system is like in AoC. ;]
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Asheron's Call - Darktide is the best PvP that I've ever played. The only thing that really killed it was the drop in server population due to newer releases.
There is still a tight knit community of players on Darktide though, and it is still great fun to play.
Next best, and the one that I'm currently playing is EvE online.
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
surisingly RuneScape PvP
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In memory of Laura "Taera" Genender. Passed away on Aug/13/08 - Rest In Peace; you will not be forgotten
RF online beta towards the end was fun as hell pvp
Voyage Century
UO pre trammel anyone whos ays otherwise never played it. And yes it did have a point.
shadowbane and DaoC ..
Both different but awesome
AC1 Darktide 99-01
closely followed by UO, pre-tram.
Then in a distant 3rd...EVE.
The OP forgot to put down 'Jumpgate'. That had the best PvP in my opinion. Imagine flying a ship manually in zero G's while you are trying to escape two player pirates and then firing missiles that didn't have any tracking and seeing them slam into one of them.. Well that was one experience. Pretty heart pounding stuff. EVE comes 2nd.
Period.Had to been there for the battles between bestine and nachorhead.
In those days, you could be hunted by groups of player Bounty Hunters who spent a lot of time tricking themselves out with specialist equipment, food, spices and armour. If you were a low-level Jedi, your only option was to fight your way out of their traps and make it to a safe house or go off-planet. If, on the other hand, you had ground your way to being high level, you could fight them and, if you were good enough, beat them all. You never knew when players were going to take your bounty or when they were gfoing to ambush you. It was one of the most exciting, surprising adrenaline rushes I have ever experienced not just in online games but IRL. Only parajumping - in real life - beats it.
I wish i couldve had been a pre-nge jedi. Not to be alpha but to have the thrill of 5 red dots showing up on your map all the sudden.
Though we did just out right own 2 imps who were o-vert in a cantina sent a reb in to draw them out then when they got outside we all went o-vert(mabye 20-30 of us) man that was some funny shit.
Hold on Snow Leopard, imma let you finish, but Windows had one of the best operating systems of all time.
If the Powerball lottery was like Lotro, nobody would win for 2 years, and then everyone in Nebraska would win on the same day.
And then Nebraska would get nerfed.-pinkwood lotro fourms
AMD 4800 2.4ghz-3GB RAM 533mhz-EVGA 9500GT 512mb-320gb HD
In Dark Age of Camelot, the sieges weren't consentual, and the keeps were scattered across the frontiers. So there were field battles, choke points, gank squads at bridges, it was nice.
I remember one instance AoC can't hope to reproduce. Each realm in DAoC had a set of relics, 2 for each realm. The more you had, better the bonuses. Albion had been doing surprisngly well lately, and had 4 of the 6. So the other two realms did what they liked to do best, team together and raid us.
Relic keeps in DAoC are BEEFY and nearly impossible to take down. But there are certain normal keeps that if you take those over, the relic keep would open its gates to you. So we had Mids coming from the south on boats taking out the Marsh castle and all that stuff, cutting off our teleport chain to the keeps that the Hibs were taking over from the north.
They were so fast and well coordinated that we couldn't prevent them from taking the last keep they needed to open the relic gates. So instead, there was a call to arms over every chat channel. I remember it now, about 300-400 players of all levels and gear gathering at the keep, setting up siege weapons on top of a hill. Then way off in the distance we could just barely see the Hibs coming from the south, bombarding started with the siege weapons. Then the hibs charged, in the middle of the battle, someone shouts "Mids to the south!" We are forced back into the keep where we make a stand and route both factions.
They try again a few hours later, manage to take the relics, but they have to get back to their realm. So Albion buys a fleet of ships and blockades the port back to Hibernia, in the middle of the sea battle the relic is lost to the ocean floor, not sure what happened after that.
No game can compare. Really.
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AC wasn't a PVP MMO... it had a server with a PVP ruleset but by design it was a carebear game that had a PVP server, just like EQ1.
Thats why there is only PvP mmo´s on the list!.
WoW's PvP was pretty decent in some aspects at times before honor system. I had some good times in there. But the system was pretty hacked to say the least. If it wasn't, Blizzard wouldn't have had to mess with it every two seconds to try and improve on it. But even still, I did have some good times in there.
Like many others I was one of those that played WoW overkill. (Almost 3 1/2 years
) I did play Eve a bit, the PvP system in that was pretty intense. That was a very hardcore, involving type of PvP. Very different from WoW. But that's the thing I think many of us, sadly... didn't experience much of PvP past the one or two main games we were introduced to at first.
Seriously can't wait to see what the PvP system is like in AoC. ;]