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Your most realistic mmo moment
Amathe
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Game immersion is something I value, although I realize not everyone does. Personally, I like to feel like I am actually "in" the game world.
The closest I every came to that was one evening playing City of Heroes. My mission took me into an underground sewer system, where there were lots of flies buzzing around that you could see and hear. As I started venturing into a tunnel, in real life an actual insect landed on the back of my neck. Wow, did I jump out of my shoes.
Have any of the mmos you played ever, at least for a little while, seemed real enough that you felt you were actually in the game world? If not, which one came closest?
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
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Not sure if this counts, but as it were, this was the most immersed Ive been in an MMO
Anarchy Online. When it was first released, for me this was "my MMO". There were a lot of things AO brought into the MMO genre and dynamic weather was one of them. It never seemed to be the same weather effect, the lightning was sometimes different, the clouds. Sometimes it was more violent than other times.
I was in a zone called "The Longest Road" and I started seeing some weather in the distance. i had just decided to call it a night and was returning to Athen to log out. The whole time the weather was coming from behind me and eventually caught up to me quite a ways out from the city. The closer it got, the more violent it got. It was my first experience in such a violent storm in the game, wind was blowing particled like crazy and there was lightning striking the ground right before me. All around I was envoloped into this storm that didnt pass until I had enter west athen and actually lingered in the city for a while.
so, even though the storm was extremely un-realistic and very sci-fi.. as a new MMO gamer this was probably the most immersion Ive ever experienced in an MMO. Come to think of it, not sure If ive experienced anything quite like this since.
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That definitely counts! And you raise a really good point, which is what ever happened to game weather effects? These days you are lucky if they just have night and day. I used to love when it rained in EQ.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
It doesn't make the game worthwhile to play in itself but Star Trek Online has the occasional land zone with a pretty realistic dust storm. How far you can see and the detail you see varies from second to second just like a real dust storm.
My guild building our little city on a little island in SWG. Scouting around, doing missions, working together. You really got lost in the struggles to collect resources and credits and building relationships. Pvp fights and hearing about things through the grape vine.
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The only game that I felt like I was there is Everquest. And that was because everything was in first person. I haven't had that feeling since.
I think the only game which ever made me feel like that was also EQ but I played it in 3rd person view. I don't know if I could pick out a specific thing but when I think about it it's some of the little things which come to mind. Like fishing off the dock while waiting for the ship or just resting on a hillside somewhere listening to the ambient sounds.
To be fair though, I know that this is because it was my first mmorpg. It was a lot easier to get sucked in back then.
I remember those sewers. Lots of crazy doctors and reanimated cadavers, right? It was fun.
For me, I'd have to say The Old Forest in LotRO. Yes, yes, I know it used to be more "hardcore" because you didn't have a map of the place, and the trees in there used to be elites who would eat your scrawny level 17 butt for breakfast, but it's still disorienting, creepy, and ominous nowadays. You're wandering, lost (the map helps but it's still confusing, especially at night), you're avoiding rabid, feral animals, and then suddenly you find a happy, sunlit house with a dancing, jumping man called Tom Bombadil. His house has my favorite music in all of LotRO.