A new game for me

Bjelar

I play MMOs for a couple of hours every night instead of watching TV.

I am too old to enjoy cartoonish charachters, or flirty 8-year-old baby girl warriors with two handed swords (creepy).

What I want is some realism, and complexity. I want the journey to last for 5-10 years at least. 

I have stuck to AoC since 2008, but Funcom`s budget for AoC is not giving me reason to be optimistic about that game`s future.

I need a new game, but I can not seem to find any. GW2 was great for two weeks, but then I realized that Anet had just copied their tiny content to the clipboard, and then pasted it 200 times to create a "huge world" for us to play in. There is no way I can play GW2 for years. FFXIV featured 8-year-old flirty girl warriors, and I`m 30 years too old for that.

Age of Wushu looked good too at first, but the auto-run feature... what can I say, I can`t live without it and I can`t live with it. I also want to decide for myself if I wish to PvP or not, and some games do not allow for that.

TSW is a gem, it is the perfect game for me. The problem is it finishes. After the story line is completed it is "game over". I have to wait for 3 months for th next "issue" to release, and then spend two days playing through it.

I found myself going back to AoC again, and ...wow.

It is so much better than any of the games I played to find a replacement for it. But there is not going to be more content released for AoC. No expansions. The game is ever so slowly dying, and I will need a replacement at some point.

EQN could perhaps be it, but I simply don`t know anything about it. TESO looks perhaps promising as well, but again, there is not enough info out there yet.

 

Any billionare out there who`d be so kind as to invest a few 100 millions and make AoC 2 happen?  

jfoytek

If your wanting realism and complexity I suggest you try,

 

Wurm Online

 

 

aspekx

you might have to consider what many of us have been doing lately: single player rpg's. games like Skyrim and the like, until something better does come along.

 

im enjoying the games i 'flirt' with but i also realize that a long haul game (more than 5 years) may not be likely any time soon.

Bjelar

Originally posted by aspekx

you might have to consider what many of us have been doing lately: single player rpg's. games like Skyrim and the like, until something better does come along.

 

im enjoying the games i 'flirt' with but i also realize that a long haul game (more than 5 years) may not be likely any time soon.

 

I have played Skyrim, but it is only fun at low levels, while you can still die. After lvl 50 or so you just bulldoze through everything unless you gimp yourself on purpose. They need som real challenges for lvl 50+ in that game.

But it is fun, and certainly worth a play through.

Kazuhiro

Originally posted by Bjelar

Originally posted by aspekx

you might have to consider what many of us have been doing lately: single player rpg's. games like Skyrim and the like, until something better does come along.

 

im enjoying the games i 'flirt' with but i also realize that a long haul game (more than 5 years) may not be likely any time soon.

 

I have played Skyrim, but it is only fun at low levels, while you can still die. After lvl 50 or so you just bulldoze through everything unless you gimp yourself on purpose. They need som real challenges for lvl 50+ in that game.

But it is fun, and certainly worth a play through.

There are some overhaul/semi-total conversions for it that give skyrim what you want. One that ramps up the challenge and adds a few dozen new mechanics (Timed blocking, etc) is Skyrim Redone, sadly it's been abandoned by it's creator so it's quite buggy and unfinished. This one I loved, and used till the bugs drove me away.

Then there is Requiem, which makes the game absurdly difficult, bordering on impossible at times in the expansion content. It makes dark souls look like easy mode. Also adds a lot of realism like gold having weight and stamina being more important than even health. I really wanted to love this one, sadly it makes the game frustratingly difficult. And I'm someone who enjoyed battletoads and I wanna be the guy. That should tell you just how absurd the difficulty is by default.

bexinh

Story of my life.... you're not alone brother

Quizzical

If you want complexity, a long journey, and some amount of realism, then you're not likely to do better than Uncharted Waters Online.  Koei makes things more complicated seemingly for the sake of making things more complicated.  I once typed up the nuances of how to refill your vigor (loosely, mana), and it ran about 20 paragraphs.  Everything in the entire game is complicated like that, and it will take a ton of time to play through everything because there is so much there.  Especially now that it's an AAA game eight years after the original release with constant development that whole time.

Of course, if there was an unstated assumption that you want the game to mostly be about combat, then UWO isn't the game for you.

Ender4

You could try Ryzom. The graphics may turn you off but the character system allows for a lot more complexity than most games. It is free to try and then you have to pay a monthly fee if you enjoy it enough to get past mid level.

Bjelar

Thanks for the tips everyone, but I`m unlikely to leave "my" game for an even older one

jfoytek

Nothing against Ryzom but its second rate version of Wurm in basically everyway.....

Quizzical

Originally posted by Bjelar
Thanks for the tips everyone, but I`m unlikely to leave "my" game for an even older one

If you have peculiar tastes, and are unwilling to consider any games outside of a small subset (recent launches) that don't fit your tastes, then of course you're not going to find the game you're looking for.

Ridelynn

Based on your preferences I would have said AoC/TSW as well - I thought it was funny you had already mentioned those two.

Aside from those, I would say Eve Online.

The genre is different, it is a futuristic space game, but it is more or less right up your alley (if you can get in past the really steep learning curve). It has real adult themes, created by real people. There are storylines, you can choose to follow them, or choose to ignore them, the game isn't locked into them but they are there if you choose. It is cutthroat. It has real depth and complexity. There are several various ways to play the game (mining, crafting, trading, shipping, pirating, missions, escorts, etc).

You can decide not to PvP if you stay in high-sec space, and you will be mostly safe - but your never 100% safe (which is part of the drama, your never safe in space). Eve is older AoC, but it's been continually growing since it's release, slowly but surely, and has received regular updates (and appears to continue to do so).

The fighting game is extremely mathematical. There's a good bit of strategy to it mainly before the fight happens, as in what your ship's loadout is. It's a unique game, some people love it, some hate it, but it seems like it may be something you might be interested in.