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What Game Most Drew You In?
Amathe
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By that I mean, you log in and, after what seem like only a few minutes, hours and hours have flown by.
For me that was original EQ. I could log in at breakfast, then look up and be surprised it was dark outside.
For me that was original EQ. I could log in at breakfast, then look up and be surprised it was dark outside.
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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Several hours many times. One time like 8 straight hours until the sun came up. the group would not give up on a hard dungeon, even leaving and coming back. We had to spiral down the rock cave fighting in off rooms along the way until the bottom with pools of water and dripping condensation.
I had the feeling of being water logged as if I were swimming or floating in the ocean.
Games that drew me in:
World of Warcraft
D&D Online
Vanguard
Later Everquest 2, but had to play it several times before liking the qurkey nature of how it was designed.......Lots of strange design decisions.
Honestly looking at this list, nothing else more than 30 days. but many on and off throughout the years.
A lot of that was just my MMOVirginity, but I had fun and frustration and everything in between
- Al
Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
The reason was i am a competitor at heart,played sports my entire life and this game would make me look bad lol.
I love the challenge of looking terrible and trying to prove i could overcome the odds.When i played i still only had 56k,imagine a 56k player versus DSL ,it is like lol.I was always frustrated until i watched the best player in the world play on 56k,i was like WOW ..just WOW is he good and smart.He could beat DSL players with 56k very impressive to say the least.
I watched and learned and played a lot,hours would fly by until i hit a level where i could compete with anyone.So this game with all of it's design just lured me right in,i had to learn everything about pvp to be any good,every single skill known to mankind had to be used,yes memory,listening for sounds etc etc.
Even now a days i watch some Unreal and it blows me away,players are so frigging good i would get smashed.The reason i lost interest in shooter games is they are too much about spam and fast killing.I enjoyed the more strategic ideas behind shooters more so than the point and click aspect.
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“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
EQ. That just sucked me in, they joking call EQ, Ever Crack and I was a crack whore as far as this game went.
DDO: This game felt like the everything that an MMO should have strived to be to start with, a MMO built on the AD&D rules. That beautiful fusion of AD&D with the MMO World, it was what I had always been looking for in an MMO, and quote well done, I could not but help to fall in love with this one.
GW2: Not sure why this hooked me so hard, just, it was just this game that I enjoyed playing, and would casually play for hours on end, just.... gonna be honest, a whole lot of nothing, and loving it.
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I'm not sure that today's new MMORPGer can get that same feeling because of the solo-ability and lack of social interaction that modern games provide, plus the selfishness that that fosters.
The earlier games have a huge advantage because of the player interactions, separating them from SP games.
My answer, tainted by the above perhaps more so than any other, is UO.
The "social experiment" goes on even today. There's never been a conclusion to it. It's gone from very bad in one way (UO and rampant PKing) to very bad in another way (Modern MMOs and the solo-ism game play, "just forget about it" attitude towards social interaction).
A middle ground between there, in that journey, is probably very debatable and I don't think I want to get into that.
But the sweet spot was never found.
Once upon a time....
Always something do to, always somebody doing something, often doing things in a group.
Eve Online, my first pvp mmo was huge.
Darkfall Onine was close due to it's open world fantasy first person view pvp.
When we finally broke the addition, it was like waking up from a daze..
As a ranger I thought maybe for the first time in my life, that I wanted to try some kind of role playing, and so I was disappointed shortly after, been given a quest to kill one or more wolves, and I killed the first wolves I saw, and it wasn't the right ones iirc (wrong area).