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Ok, name three "best of" features in MMOs you've played.
DKLond
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What MMO had the best of the following three features, in your opinion:
1. Best combat system
2. Best world design
3. Best endgame and longterm motivation
1. Best combat system
2. Best world design
3. Best endgame and longterm motivation
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I agree that WW2 in space would never be a thing - but real life isn't necessarily the most entertaining example
But interesting answers.
Can't say I agree with any of them, but that's neither here nor there.
1. Best combat system
--> yawn
2. Best world design
--> yawn
3. Best endgame and longterm motivation
--> Eve Online (always something to strive for)
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
SWG (original)
2. Best world design
GW2
3. Best endgame and longterm motivation
Everquest 1
I feel like I answered a post just like this once. I'll bet if I answered it a few more times my answers would be different.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
1) Combat.
Really, This is kinda hard, because some games have really solid combat systems that will not work in other games.
With that said, I think DDO really hit a sweet spot with Combat, where you could tab target to pick a target, but ranged attacks like a bow, followed a line from your where you started the attack.
What this means is that even if you targeted someone, a player could just side step an arrow, or ray spell like Frost Lance, or Cometfal, which will hit the point they are triggered at as opposed to following a target.
But spells like Fear or Finger of Death which are target locked, will follow the target as they makes sense for them. given how those spells work.
This also applies for Melee, you will hit what you are facing, so tab targeting only provides an advantage if there is more than one mob in front of you, like a pack of them, and you wanted to single one out one to focus your hits on.
In that front, DDO was really ahead of its time for combat, with games like GW2 and ESO just now catching up to that concept.
2) Best World Design.
Alright, this is like REALLY hard, because there are a lot of games with a LOT of beautiful worlds in them. ESO, GW2, even EQ are all gorgeous world games, and I won't take that from them.
But, as far as a world that you can interact with, I have to Trove had the best world design, with randomly generated voxel worlds, an entire landscape that you could revise, destroy, or do whatever you wanted with. It totally changed the way I looked at how a world could be made and designed.
While it was Voxel, so it was not as organic and flowing as other game worlds, it was still an amazing way to have a world designed for you.
In that front, I think Trove really set a stage for a fully interactive world map, that leaves me wishing that I could do that kind of thing in other games.
3) Best End Game.
Depends on what you want.
Honestly, for me personally, I thought GW2 core had the best end game system of any game, where the quest was for Cosmetics not just stats. They screwed it up all over the place with HoT.
But their core game was set up so that the whole game was End Game, which was really a amazing design idea. With their Level Scaling, allowing max level players to run world bosses across all zones, with the main quest being cosmetics, and even their legendary items be more about just experiencing the whole of the game then needing to be some kind of epic skilled player, or doing the "hard content". This was such a trend breaker from games of the past, and I have never seen an end game that was just "enjoy the whole of the game", till GW2, and.. given how bad they screwed things up with HoT, I don't foresee that happening again.
But yah. GW2 Core.
Thank you for your contributions so far!
1) How much money do you make?
2) How long is your d....
3) What size bra does your wife or GF wear?
These were just asking about your favorite game mechanics...
Let's see, I'll go with
1) DAOC
2) FO76
3) EVE
Oh, no way am I answering any of those other questions, too personal.
Cheers
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2) Uncharted Waters Online. It's not a beautiful game that you'll want to save screenshots of. But there is a lot of cool stuff to find, and I probably spent more time just exploring the world there than in all of the other games I've ever played added together.
3) Guild Wars 1. You're at the level cap. You've got perfect gear. Now go play the game and have fun, without having to constantly worry about whether what you're doing will level you fast enough. And with hard mode, there's a ton of stuff to do, not just looping one stupid thing endlessly.
Best world design - Guild Wars 2 for its exploration, dynamic content, and wide variety of unique environments (it even managed to make deserts interesting).
Best endgame - Guild Wars 1 because your options are near endless everything is endgame. Everything.