Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what
it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience
because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in
the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you
playing an MMORPG?"
City of Heroes. I'd never really been into gaming until then apart from when i was a kid playing Sega Mastersystems and such. I bought CoH on an impulse at launch and was gobsmacked.
Vanguard, when you log into the game for the first time and start looking around and see the attention to detail as well as the whether changing , it is incredible. SWG would have been up there to a degree , if I hadn't been there on release day and been waiting an hour to take my first step , or getting stuck on server borders. Vanguard hands down had the most amazing scenery.
It was in SWG when I saw a Master CH come riding through coronet on a giant Carrion Spat with a Rancor amd a Kimo following him. I was amazed and quickly started to grind CH.
Vangaurd....everything awed me when i started that game....the trees, the sky, the crafting, diplomacy.
Playing: PO, EVE Waiting for: WoD Favourite MMOs: VG, EVE, FE and DDO Any person who expresses rage and loathing for an MMO is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Heh , I'm going back , wayyyy back. 1996 with Nexus The Kingdom of the winds , awesome community , awesome PvP , awesome PvE. Nexon knew how to make a hardcore grind MMO. Then a few later, Dark Ages by Nexon , which was alot like Nexus , abit better graphics ( Not by much , but just enough ) , same kick ass PvE / PvP
Afterwards , meh , WoW released , haven't played much then got to EVE-Online , only thing that keeps me playing EVE is that I can do whatever I want without anything happening , the worst that can happen is getting my ship popped followed by my pod.
But the Mid 90's to end 90's were the best years in the world of MMO. Some titles really captivated me and the 2D / 2.5D was awesome.
Funny how Maple Story has more active accounts then WoW by about 2x and Minecraft getting closer to the 3 mil active.
It just tells you how graphics never made a game and never will. A pity people are thick headed , otherwise we'd have some pretty amazing MMO's today.
So to re-awnser your question , it's a toss up between : Nexus : The Kingdom of the winds And Dark Ages , both by Nexon ( Not Kru ). I've never relived the same feeling with todays MMOs that I've experienced with those two games.
Age of Conan, first 10 minutes of early access (having alrerady awoken at 2am to find out launch was delayed then 4 am to find out launch was delayed again then just sat up another hour waiting before I finally logged on) the starting beach and jungle leading to tortage was amazing and the combat system was fantastic. Then I hit tortage proper & began questing, fully voiced quests and the beauty of whitesands and the brutality of combat.
Ahh good times... shame it was quickly downhill from there.
Vanguard and my first dungeon crawl, which incidentally was like two months ago.
Edit:Ok go on then seeing everyone else is listing all their cool moments:
DAoC and the first time I played in Thidranki, then the frontiers. EverQuest when I first played when Kunark came out, nuff said. Anarchy Online when I was running round the city, Rome district? Awesome immersion. EverQuest 2 on launch when I first entered Antonica.
Age of Conan - I was out killing some mobs and a guy 3 levels higher attacks me at like 3/4 HP with a mob on my ass. I turn around and rock him with some combos and end up pulling off a fatality; hack off both his arms, then his head, and I watch his blood squirting trunk of a body fall to the ground as I'm thinking "Take that you dirty bastard!!!" Good times.
DarkFall - 30 something guilds totalling about 300 people attacked our guild city. It was absolutely amazing to see an ocean of people gathering below spraying magic and arrows all around you. That was some amazing shit. Ohhh DarkFall you tease...
EVE - The first time I went into low sec and got jumped by a pirate... I was able to warp out but my heart nearly exploded in my chest. I remember thinking how amazing it was that it created that response in me.
my first real 3d mmo was SWGpreNGE i had no idea what to do so i just started wandering around. i sat down by a river with some trees and a player ran up and sat down to chat.
my next awed moment was Ryzom. literally a 'world tree', spells that you could create on your own. mektoubs and harvesting galore. its a beautiful world and one i wont forget.
after that i spose it would be the playable version of Vanguard, ie., 2 years out from release. i bought the collector's edition for like 10bucks on eBay and it simply blew me away. the vast open rich complex world, the scenery, the crafting, the diplomacy minigame.
the entire first run through Tortage in AoC. I was completely swept up in a story and lost in it....then i hit level 21.
i will admit that i am still waiting for FFXIV to become a bit more playable for me. but it awed me the first time i logged in, graphics on full bore and i thought, omg, they've done it, theyve made an mmo as great looking as an rpg. and i dont mean the cut scenes.
other than that i have played more mmo's than i care to count. most of them have been fun for a while, but the ones above were the real moments i remember.
"There are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing play." Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
Sadly enough, I haven't been awed in a very, very long time. Games are getting really, really dull every day. Just the same thing over and over, nothing new. I still remain hopeful, but for the time being I'm awfully bored.
Running through Tyria's Crystal Desert, I beheld a giant statue in the form of a warrior maiden in the distance, hundreds of feet away, almost as if it were a mirage. As I approached, the terrain caused me to lose sight of it, and then some time later I found that it had been toppled to the ground and the broken stone body now served as a bridge across a chasm. That was the last time I was awed by an MMO.
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the first time i ran from Qeynos to Freeport in EQ1 because no one knew what a teleport was much less had them
Asheron's Call when I finally got my Sword of Lost Light...even though I never really used it.
Never... FFXI was good but not awe inspiring.
Never
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
City of Heroes. I'd never really been into gaming until then apart from when i was a kid playing Sega Mastersystems and such. I bought CoH on an impulse at launch and was gobsmacked.
When SWG first came out, the graphics were great, I guess you could say I was "awed".
Vanguard, when you log into the game for the first time and start looking around and see the attention to detail as well as the whether changing , it is incredible. SWG would have been up there to a degree , if I hadn't been there on release day and been waiting an hour to take my first step , or getting stuck on server borders. Vanguard hands down had the most amazing scenery.
It was in SWG when I saw a Master CH come riding through coronet on a giant Carrion Spat with a Rancor amd a Kimo following him. I was amazed and quickly started to grind CH.
Vangaurd....everything awed me when i started that game....the trees, the sky, the crafting, diplomacy.
Playing: PO, EVE
Waiting for: WoD
Favourite MMOs: VG, EVE, FE and DDO
Any person who expresses rage and loathing for an MMO is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Heh , I'm going back , wayyyy back. 1996 with Nexus The Kingdom of the winds , awesome community , awesome PvP , awesome PvE. Nexon knew how to make a hardcore grind MMO. Then a few later, Dark Ages by Nexon , which was alot like Nexus , abit better graphics ( Not by much , but just enough ) , same kick ass PvE / PvP
Afterwards , meh , WoW released , haven't played much then got to EVE-Online , only thing that keeps me playing EVE is that I can do whatever I want without anything happening , the worst that can happen is getting my ship popped followed by my pod.
But the Mid 90's to end 90's were the best years in the world of MMO. Some titles really captivated me and the 2D / 2.5D was awesome.
Funny how Maple Story has more active accounts then WoW by about 2x and Minecraft getting closer to the 3 mil active.
It just tells you how graphics never made a game and never will. A pity people are thick headed , otherwise we'd have some pretty amazing MMO's today.
So to re-awnser your question , it's a toss up between : Nexus : The Kingdom of the winds And Dark Ages , both by Nexon ( Not Kru ). I've never relived the same feeling with todays MMOs that I've experienced with those two games.
Age of Conan, first 10 minutes of early access (having alrerady awoken at 2am to find out launch was delayed then 4 am to find out launch was delayed again then just sat up another hour waiting before I finally logged on) the starting beach and jungle leading to tortage was amazing and the combat system was fantastic. Then I hit tortage proper & began questing, fully voiced quests and the beauty of whitesands and the brutality of combat.
Ahh good times... shame it was quickly downhill from there.
The last time I was awed:
Vanguard and my first dungeon crawl, which incidentally was like two months ago.
Edit:Ok go on then seeing everyone else is listing all their cool moments:
DAoC and the first time I played in Thidranki, then the frontiers.
EverQuest when I first played when Kunark came out, nuff said.
Anarchy Online when I was running round the city, Rome district? Awesome immersion.
EverQuest 2 on launch when I first entered Antonica.
Age of Conan - I was out killing some mobs and a guy 3 levels higher attacks me at like 3/4 HP with a mob on my ass. I turn around and rock him with some combos and end up pulling off a fatality; hack off both his arms, then his head, and I watch his blood squirting trunk of a body fall to the ground as I'm thinking "Take that you dirty bastard!!!" Good times.
DarkFall - 30 something guilds totalling about 300 people attacked our guild city. It was absolutely amazing to see an ocean of people gathering below spraying magic and arrows all around you. That was some amazing shit. Ohhh DarkFall you tease...
EVE - The first time I went into low sec and got jumped by a pirate... I was able to warp out but my heart nearly exploded in my chest. I remember thinking how amazing it was that it created that response in me.
Eve Online; The first time I run into a gate camp in BWF-ZZ(lol, even remember the system) in a Rokh Battleship, it went pop...
The moment I 'got' EVE Online.
I greatly enjoyed my first experience in World of Warcraft. Haven't found the same reaction since. ξ
hello kitty island adventure.
i awwwed a few times.
guildwars definitely guildwars....first time i went on was like wow
Everquest awed me, but that was the first MMO ever and of course I would be awed.
I would say FFXI awed me pretty good, the graphics and such, it was great.
I am entitled to my opinions, misspellings, and grammatical errors.
...in 1996/1997 when I was playing Airwarrior and UO.
several moments:
my first real 3d mmo was SWGpreNGE i had no idea what to do so i just started wandering around. i sat down by a river with some trees and a player ran up and sat down to chat.
my next awed moment was Ryzom. literally a 'world tree', spells that you could create on your own. mektoubs and harvesting galore. its a beautiful world and one i wont forget.
after that i spose it would be the playable version of Vanguard, ie., 2 years out from release. i bought the collector's edition for like 10bucks on eBay and it simply blew me away. the vast open rich complex world, the scenery, the crafting, the diplomacy minigame.
the entire first run through Tortage in AoC. I was completely swept up in a story and lost in it....then i hit level 21.
i will admit that i am still waiting for FFXIV to become a bit more playable for me. but it awed me the first time i logged in, graphics on full bore and i thought, omg, they've done it, theyve made an mmo as great looking as an rpg. and i dont mean the cut scenes.
other than that i have played more mmo's than i care to count. most of them have been fun for a while, but the ones above were the real moments i remember.
"There are at least two kinds of games.
One could be called finite, the other infinite.
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning,
an infinite game for the purpose of continuing play."
Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse
the LAST time I was "awed" by an MMORPG was during one of the FREAKIN' MASSIVE sieges in Darkfall, back in the single-server glory days.
Never seen a PVP battle like that before, doubt I will for years to come again. It was carnage, chaos, and brutality on a legendary scale.
Sadly enough, I haven't been awed in a very, very long time. Games are getting really, really dull every day. Just the same thing over and over, nothing new. I still remain hopeful, but for the time being I'm awfully bored.
I was awed the first time I got to fly through Deepholm (Cataclysm zone).
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
Running through Tyria's Crystal Desert, I beheld a giant statue in the form of a warrior maiden in the distance, hundreds of feet away, almost as if it were a mirage. As I approached, the terrain caused me to lose sight of it, and then some time later I found that it had been toppled to the ground and the broken stone body now served as a bridge across a chasm. That was the last time I was awed by an MMO.