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The Daily Quest: What's Your Best MMO Memory? - MMORPG.com News
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The Daily Quest: What's Your Best MMO Memory? - MMORPG.com News
As the end of any year rolls around, most of us reflect on all that has happened to us in the last 365 days and oftentimes cast our minds back even further. Today's daily quest is a similar opportunity for us all to look back on our MMO days of yore to those times that meant the most to us when in game. Be it funny or frightening, epic or epic fail, moving or inexplicable, these collected stories are the stuff of legends.
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I had been telling my tabletop friends about the possibilities of online gaming but it was still new and they didn't really see the potential.
So I joined a persistent NWN server, created a Rogue and set out to explore this new world. I got into a few fights with rats, broke into a couple of houses and stole some gold, all the while sneaking and 'being' a thief.
In one of the houses I break into I suddenly hear a voice challenging me as to what I was doing. I got back into sneak mode and tried to leave but the door had been locked. I couldn't tell where the voice was coming from and they kept asking what I was doing. Not knowing what to say I explained I was exploring and just looking around. The voice then proceeded to describe the last hour of my time playing the game, which houses I had broken into and how many chests I had stolen from.
Both the chartacter and myself were honestly scared. I was powerless to get out of this house, had no idea who was talking to me and was worried I was in big trouble.
And then a figure walked out of the shadows and the guy looked badass, then made me an offer. I could leave the house with everything I had stolen but I would have to join the local thieves guild. He explained the rules of the guild, such as giving 25% of all takings to the guild, only being able to steal from certain area's of the city etc. Agree or never leave.
And that is how I joined the local thieves guild. No big arrows, no NPC's, no artificial mechanisms. Just 2 people RP'ing a situation in a virtual world.
Needless to say the MMO's that came out since never really lived up to that initial first introduction to online games and MMORPG's.
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Cleric ftw, best healer class ever.
- Albert Einstein
I started as an Elf and the scenery was absolutely breath taking. I went into the first ruins which is not far past the first town and the battle was just epic for a beginner. More than I expected. I was really hooked on the game from the get-go.
I eventually was helped out by a great Australian Kin and after a fall out with their leader I found a new home with Avatars of Lost Light. They were the first ones to show me raiding. I loved it.
I'm more like GrumpyHobbit above or angerbeaver, best memories are clearly the RP ones. NWN was great in this, but since the title asks for an MMO one... I'd say either my first Weatherstock * (after the server move, when Eu players could get on Landy - without a separate, US-based account I mean), or the Visible Dark in TSW. (already covered them via threads in the LotRO and TSW section, and I'm lazy anyways, so I can spare some bytes
Actually I couldn't pick 1 best, there are a lot in both games, but especially on Laurelin...
And if it's not RP but purely gameplay instead, I'd say the first visit in Tortage, easily the best starter area in games, it was awesome. Just as awesome as the nosedive the quality took after you'd left the town at level 20
* edit: actually, I'd correct that for Weatherstock V in 2013, that was the bestest of all
I managed to get off just enough heals that the boss died before our tank ran out of hp.
It was just Uldaman, and I didn't get anything special, but I don't think any well-planned and executed raid victory has tasted as sweet as making that decision to gamble our group's ability to rez in case of wipe for those couple of extra heals I was able to throw, and then succeeding in that gamble.
But I also had a really, really good time in WAR when it first came out, that game had so much potential that was (very sadly) wasted...
But before that, UO... always have a special place in my heart for UO.
Specifically, farming something (Liches I think?) in some dungeon with a buddy. Going fishing and treasure hunting, the faction warfare, or RP'ing on Siege Perilous.
1st:)When we downed Raggy(3rd guild in Bloodhoof) after 25 days of tries) epic moments, moments of joy, fullfeeling satisfying game was WOW back then! Illidian was epic aswell.
Still consider TBC the tottal perfection, u had the hardcore raids but if u were a more casual player u could easily form pugs for Grruul and magtheridon(that still required decent skill and gear)
2:) nothing beats barren chat,STaying there with random people making friends-getting raided by alliance(asking for high level friends help--not too many had alts back then)
3)Made some fantastic friends, there was actually a couple from UK that helped me level all the way from 10-45(not the easiest thing to level upw ith rogure back then haha),it wasnt easy back then haha they saw me struggle and we leveled together more than 20 days, we were in the same guild for 3-4 years, then they changed servers.We still speak! Now they got 2 beautifull little kids and we are all 11 years older
Wildstar - Downing System Daemons, Ohmna, and Kuralak
The Atmosphere and the feeling of accomplishment for downing these will always be my top experiences.
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Sooo in July of 2007 I was cruising around the Kari entrance of Providence in a Vagabond looking for people to shoot. This was long before damn near every solar system in Providence had a player built station and some little tiny ratter alliance had moved into there calling themselves Slammer's Republic.
So there's this guy living out there named Tammahawk, and this guy's got a big ole mouf on him. He's always taunting me when I fly through local with "I'm too fast for you, you'll never catch me ratting" and other shit like that.
So I jump into a system named Shintaht and lo-and-behold there's Mr. Tammahawk. I do a quick scan and I don't see any ships on scan, so I randomly warp to the ice belt (back when those existed). As I'm landing in the ice belt I'm watching my overview and he's landing at exactly the same time.
Turns out that when I jumped in and warped to the belt he was already in warp to that belt in a much slower battleship and I beat him to the belt. So I proceeded to lock him down and blow him up. He raged and raged for days. Every time I saw him after that I would repost a few lines of his smack talk about how I would never catch him.
Age of Conan
So this one's a bit devious, but I'll never forget it nonetheless. About two years ago when Age of Conan started doing the monthly World Boss events, there was one boss that spawned near Vistrix's lair. The fastest way to get to the boss spawn in that zone was to spawn at Vistrix lair and then cross this one tiny, little bridge with no rails and a large chasm below it.
So what I was doing was sitting on my tiger mount right in the middle of the bridge, except off to the side a bit so it looks like you can get around me. What most people don't realize, however, is that the model of the tiger mount is actually bigger than visible parts. So when you think you have room to get around you really don't, you're hitting a curved invisible wall.
I shunted hundreds and hundreds of people to their deaths off of that bridge. Me and my guild were laughing so hard we were tearing up. I had to lay on the floor for a bit cause my stomach was hurting so bad.
So some ragehards petitioned me to the GM and the GM shows up and asks me what I'm doing and I say "I'm just chilling on this bridge that the developers put in the game with no rails on it" He says "Players are complaining that you're griefing them into dying" So then I say "These players have a crouch button, right? The button that you can push and walk through other players." He says "Yes, all players have it." and I says to him "Well then maybe it's their own fault that they're falling to their deaths". He says "Fair enough, have a good night". Best GM EVER.
One that compares to the above is when i farmed reputation for Wintersaber Trainers to exalted and got the frostsaber mount in late vanilla before all the nerfing.
"If I offended you, you needed it" -Corey Taylor
EQ - The countless hours spent camping for certain things. (FBSS, GEB, SMR, etc)
DAOC - First time I took a relic then prevented that same relic from being stolen. Mid for the win. Albs and Hibs can suck it.
FFXI - The first time I beat Maat.
SWG - Mastering Bio Engineering then later dabbling with TKM.
WoW - Downing Rag for the first time. The crazy day long pvp fights outside Tarren Mill.
FFXIV - Clearing Titan HM for first time on Paladin for Relic weapon.
Aion - Ambushing an Elyos party in Abyss only to find out it was a trap with 3 to 1 odds, and winning.
RF Online - The first time I was chosen as a Vice Archon for Bellato.
SWTOR - Clearing NiM for each raid up to S&V.
AoC - The crazy pvp fights outside Tortage
Tera - The crazy pvp near Lumber towns bridge when people decided to camp non-founders.
Edit: DAOC deserves another mention. The first time I hit Darkness Falls.
In War - Victory.
In Peace - Vigilance.
In Death - Sacrifice.
True, it's not as obvious grief as like when peeps stood on narrow bridges mounted, and actively kicking off players, but it's still definitely on the razor's (or the tiny little bridge's) edge
AoC's fall damage can be pretty harsh, more realistic than other games... except with water, in Thunder River you can jump off from the top of Prison - if you manage to land in the river, of course.
Player cities started with small borders, and the border would expand as the city signed more residents. Residents could vote in/out mayors. If you found a small city close to expansion, you and your guild could plop down a couple dozen homes just outside of the border so when it expanded the houses would become a part of the city and you could register and vote in your own mayor to seize control of the city.
No games done today give you this kind of feeling anymore they all feel dull and easymode.