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TyranusPrime
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Greetings and salutations all.. Well, its been quite awhile since my last poll or question for the ol' MMORPG audience, so I have a new one for you.. Of all the MMO's you've played to date (including those still active or those no longer active), in your opinion which game(s) featured the....
1) Best Questing
2) Best Raids/Dungeons
3) Best Player-vs-Player
4) Best Social Environment
5) Best Housing (or equivalent)
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles
1) Best Questing
2) Best Raids/Dungeons
3) Best Player-vs-Player
4) Best Social Environment
5) Best Housing (or equivalent)
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles
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2) Best Raids/Dungeons: Vanilla WoW
3) Best Player-vs-Player: SWG or DAoC
4) Best Social Environment: SWG
5) Best Housing (or equivalent): SWG
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles: Crap shoot for me
2) Best Raids/Dungeons-WoW 2004-2007
3) Best Player-vs-Player-DAoC
4) Best Social Environment-SWG
5) Best Housing (or equivalent)-UO
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles-SWG
2) Best Raids/Dungeons : World of Warcraft
3) Best Player-vs-Player : Warhammer Online / Guild Wars 2
4) Best Social Environment : Star Wars Galaxies
5) Best Housing (or equivalent) : Star Wars Galaxies
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles : World of Warcraft / Final Fantasy XIV
2) Best Raids/Dungeons - WOW TBC
3) Best Player-vs-Player - Not Applicable
4) Best Social Environment - SMT: Imagine
5) Best Housing (or equivalent) - Runes of Magic
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles - WOW TBC
Had to look up the "SMT: Imagine" mention, since its one I hadn't even heard of..
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2) Best Raids/Dungeons-World Of Warcraft
3) Best Player-vs-Player-Dark Age Of Camelot
4) Best Social Environment-Lord Of The Rings Online
5) Best Housing (or equivalent)-Ultima Online
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles-World Of Warcraft/EQ2
1) Best Questing Elder scrolls online
2) Best Raids/Dungeons Everquest
3) Best Player-vs-Player Darkfall Online
4) Best Social Environment Everquest
5) Best Housing (or equivalent) Archeage
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles Archeage
2) Best Raids/Dungeons FFXI i guess and in a landslide because you can get that challenge in the open world not just dungeons.
3) Best Player-vs-Player Unreal Tournament and where it shall remain because rpg's do NOT offer good pvp and never will.
4) Best Social Environment Well it was FFFXI for about 5 years then it changed a lot for a few then it returned again,every otehr game i see chat is just annoying as heck.
5) Best Housing (or equivalent) EQ2
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles EQ2
I never lasted more than 30 minutes in Archeage to know how good it's systems are.
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2) Best Raids/Dungeons - WOW
3) Best Player-vs-Player - Elder Scrolls Online
4) Best Social Environment - tough not to name my 1st since real time online socializing was rare in those days. so... AC
5) Best Housing (or equivalent) - WOW Garrisons
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles - Archeage
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2) Best Raids/Dungeons EQ2
3) Best Player-vs-Player Warhammer
4) Best Social Environment UO
5) Best Housing (or equivalent) UO
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles EQ2
2) Best Raids/Dungeons- The Secret World
3) Best Player-vs-Player- Dark Age of Camelot
4) Best Social Environment- Star Wars Galaxies
5) Best Housing (or equivalent)- Star Wars Galaxies
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles- Darkfall (ships/naval combat)
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2) Best Raids/Dungeons - Final Fantasy XI Online
3) Best Player-vs-Player - Destiny
4) Best Social Environment - Final Fantasy XI Online
5) Best Housing (or equivalent) - Lord of the Rings Online
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles - Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
Best Graphics - Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
The most atmospheric questing I've ever come across. If the combat had been up to the same quality as the quests, then I would probably still be playing this game.
2) Best Raids/Dungeons - Age of Conan
The raids in this game are phenomenal. Every class has a role and a specific job. There's no aggro meters in AoC. No tank in the game can solo tank high level raids, so you have to be able to aggro swap. DPS'ers really have to walk a fine line between going all out and pulling back before a tank loses aggro. The raids are technical and every player has to pay attention. There's now WoW-esque AFK raiding in AoC.
3) Best Player-vs-Player - EVE Online
No PVP in any other game comes close. You have to train the skills, you have to plan out your ship fittings, you have to use your ship correctly based on how it's fit. Every single PVP battle comes down to, quite literally, hundreds of variables that help shape the outcome. The more variables you can control, or are aware of, the better of a PVP'er you will be.
4) Best Social Environment - EVE Online
Again, no contest. EVE is built around the social structure. It's the cornerstone of the game. If you don't have friends, you don't have anything. Corporations, Alliances, Coalitions, Factions, NRDS, NPSI, NBSI, Pirate, Anti-Pirate, Spy, Scammer and dozens of other social structures that determine player interactions. I can't imagine another game having the same depth of social interaction.
5) Best Housing (or equivalent) - LOTRO / Age of Conan
Anyone who doesn't think LOTRO has the best player housing, never played LOTRO and never owned a home.
I had to put Age of Conan here as well. The guild cities in Age of Conan are absolutely wonderful. Everyone in the guild has to lend a hand in order to finish a city. It takes thousands of man hours of harvesting wood, stone and other materials to build the structures. Those materials have to be handed over to an architect, without which nothing can be built. As your city grows it attracts NPC's that come to live in your city, some give you quests, some sell very specific vanity items.
As your guild members quest and raid the city earns renown which attracts even more NPC's. It's a very deep and involved process where every member of the guild can be proud of their collective efforts.
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles - WoW
No other game has the sheer variety of mounts that WoW has. If you like the art style, then there's a mount that's perfect for you.
2) I have no experience with this.
3) Neverwinter. It actually feels skill-based.
4) Probably guild wars 2?
5) never had any.
6) never had any.
1) Best Questing : Guildwars 1/expansions
2) Best Raids/Dungeons : Vanilla WoW
3) Best Player-vs-Player : Planetside/Planetside 2
4) Best Social Environment : Tossup between Starwars Galaxies and Final Fantasy XI
5) Best Housing (or equivalent) : Starwars Galaxies
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles : Planetside for vehicles, Wildstar for mounts.
Older World of Warcraft. Many of their quests were class related. (Hunters' pets, Druid forms, Mage spells, etc.) Also, many of them had me laughing and enjoying myself. (The crazy Troll Druid, Lunk and his spider venom, the Gnome vs Goblin bar fight, ect.)
2) Best Raids/Dungeons
EverQuest for Dungeons. They were sprinkled throughout Norrath, not just an "end game" activity. They also "felt" like dungeons. Not a "Raider", so no opinion no that part.
3) Best Player-vs-Player
Not a PvP'er, so no opinion.
4) Best Social Environment
EverQuest, again. Though their emotes were not the best, they were open ended and very flexible. "/bow $T" and your player would bow to whatever/whoever they had targeted. Guild Wars (original) takes the prize for dances, though. 2 dances for each profession (male and female version).
An honorable mention goes to City of Heroes/Villains. The community was what made that game one of the most sociable MMORPGS I have yet to play.
5) Best Housing (or equivalent)
I have yet to play an MMORPG that had an "acceptable" housing feature for me. I have heard (but did not play) SW:G had good housing, as did UO.
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles
I'll have to go with WoW, again. The sheer variety is why I picked them. Motorcycles, horses (of many varieties), huge cats, dinosaurs, griffons, manticores, bats, planes, and so many more.
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2) Best Raids/Dungeons: LOTRO (Shadow of Angmar/Mines of Moria stuff)
3) Best Player-vs-Player: ESO
4) Best Social Environment: LOTRO
5) Best Housing (or equivalent): N/A (Not Arsed about housing.) SWG If I had to pick one.
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles: LOTRO (Not into over the top mounts, only horses in LOTRO which I like).
Surprised you didn't include Best Crafting, for me it would be SWG.
1) Best Questing: Fallen Earth
2) Best Raids/Dungeons: WoW
3) Best Player-vs-Player: WAR
4) Best Social Environment: Rift
5) Best Housing (or equivalent): DCUO
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles: WoW
2) Best Raids/Dungeons - Age of Conan
3) Best Player-vs-Player - No game really stands out enough to warrant a prize :pleased:
4) Best Social Environment - Early Age of Conan RP-PvP server
5) Best Housing (or equivalent) - Don't really care about housing
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles - Fallen Earth - building my own motorcycle felt like a great achievement and riding it around the huge world was awesome!
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Original LotRO was heavily group based with strong storylines backed up with decent gameplay. By far the best questing in any MMO I've played. Sadly, they very quickly started making it all solo and dumbing it down. From the first expansion onwards, the questing all sucked.
2) Best Raids/Dungeons - LotRO
This is mainly because the combat mechanics in LotRO were much more in depth and technical than most MMOs. All raids were highly tactical with loads of possibilities and very finely balanced. Clearing the Rift (8 boss raid, patched in about 5 months after release) is far and away the best raiding experience I've had in an MMO. This was backed up by a great selection of single group dungeons with a good variety of mechanics, lengths and difficulty.
3) Best Player-vs-Player - SWG
With the templating system, buffs and imbalance, PvP in SWG was all over the place. However, once you'd made the decision to build a PvP template, it became immensely fun. Fights would last for hours, there was serious faction pride driving everyone to fight harder, great teamwork. What really made it, though, were player bases. Being able to enter an enemy guilds city and attack them and their base was great! I remember one player/dev event where the devs spawned in 2 AT-AT walkers in an imperial city (KDS) so pretty much the whole server flagged themselves for pvp and went to join the fun. Broke the server ofc, but it was fun!
4) Best Social Environment - SWG
This was a close one with LotRO. SWG edged it with player cities, cantinas and leveling groups. So much time in SWG was spent in groups, having a good laugh together. The built in downtime (travel / cantinas) encouraged socialising too. LotRO offers more tools for socialising and had a really nice community, but ultimately you spend too much time solo.
5) Best Housing (or equivalent) - SWG
Player cities, free placement of items, vendors, guild halls.....nuff said!
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles - WAR
I've not played an MMO with good mounts or vehicles, but I did love my Black Orcs boar in WAR.
Best Questing
Earth and Beyond Online - Humor, diversity, and NPCs that have personality. Also, early on, there were branching quest lines, meaning that your decisions determined what part of the story you took part in.
Best Raids/Dungeons
Asheron's Call - There are seemingly endless dungeons for questors, mob grinders, item collectors, lore hounds, and even PVPers.
EVE Online - While they aren't 'dungeons' exactly, exploring and finding remote sites and hidden challenges is half the fun of EVE's equivalent of dungeons.
Best Player-vs-Player
EVE Online / Puzzle Pirates - both games let me scale the level of risk I want to take and offer rewards scaled to those risks. I like that because sometimes I want to tread lightly and other times I want to see howmuch I'm actually willing to lay on the line for my crazy ideas.
Shadowbane - Some of the best city sieging, roaming PVP, scouting missions and large scale warfare I've experienced in MMOs.
Best Social Environment
Ultima Online / LOTRO - Many of the people I currently keep in touch with, and a good number of people that I work with, I met in these games.
Best Housing (or equivalent)
Ultima Online - The closest I have seen to it was SWG, although ArcheAge gives it a run for its money in features. I would have chosen ArcheAge, but it's an amazing territory ownership system that is crapped on by a horrible business model.
Best Mounts/Vehicles
Vendetta Online - This may seem like it's from way out in left field, but manning a turret on a multiplayer ship and fighting another group of players in a similar ship is FUN. It's arcade-y fun. It's Star Wars-y/BattlestarGalactica-y fun. The ships have multiple hitpoint areas, so you're actually gunning for specific areas of the ship while the pilot tries to maneuver to the best vantage angle and... you gotta gotta gotta try it.
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1) Best Questing - TSW, not just the writing and mechanics, but the quest structure design as well
2) Best Raids/Dungeons - AoC
3) Best Player-vs-Player - who cares? :awesome: I'd say CS 1.6
4) Best Social Environment - LotRO or TSW
5) Best Housing (or equivalent) - either Rift's Dimesnions, or Wildstar's plots (but I agree with @h0urg1ass, AoC's guild cities are fun)
6) Best Mounts/Vehicles - Auto Assault :awesome: ok, just kidding, STO or Dragon's Prophet. Which are all alike, I think I like when the "mounts" are the core element of the character's build... If it's just mounts, then LotRO and the dozens of other steeds, goats, hobby horse...