(Continued from Part 1: Where's my next MMO: The Begining)
Oh and what a sweet teet it was. I remember running around in the Elwynn Forest as a noob just being amazed at how it blew away all those free Korean mmorpg’s. My char was a human paladin, which at the time wasn’t a terrible character to roll. As I progressed through the game, I began to realize that WoW is an extremely easy game to play. Pretty much anyone could just pick it up and start playing with little knowledge of mmo’s. When I got to lvl 60, I raided, I worked on my mining and blacksmithing skills so I could craft some sweet weapons and armor. WoW had so much to offer an mmo noob like me, and I suckled the crap out it. I worked hard for that purple epic gear and like a no wiper crap, I loved every minute of it.
It was when the first expansion came out World Of Warcraft Expansion: Burning Crusade that I started losing interest in WoW (as I think many others did). The first npc I talked to in this new world handed me a piece of armor that was apparently a piece of crap, but was ten times better than my epic gear I had just worked for months to get. I began to realize all these little things about the World… of Warcraft that irked me: the 4,000 twelve year old hunters, the difficulty to form a decent group (not full of twelve year old hunters) to go into dungeons, and the fact that they nerfed the crap out of my paladin. It was nearly impossible to get into a party, no one wanted me, and so my pally turned into a little emo kid and began cutting himself in the dark deep corners of the burning crusades.
After a few months or so all I was doing was playing in arena matches. I tried starting a few alts, and then like Kal Online, I found myself logging in just to talk with people in my guild, except this time I was paying $15 a month. Even though it was a great game, I threw in the towel and have yet to login to the World of Warcraft again.
My WoW days were over, so I began the search for a new mmorpg. It was around the same time Phantasy Star Universe was released. I saw something new and different in this game and decided I would try it out. The fighting system was pretty cool, and you had your own little ‘room’ you could keep all of the crap you collected in. Since it was written more for consoles, you fought by making combo’s using the arrow keys to perform certain skills. It held my attention for about 2 months, then my A.D.D. kicked in and I gave up making excuses for me to keep playing it.
(Character creation done right)
For awhile after that I just sank my teeth into some tasty and dependable fps and the luxury of steam. I still had a yearning for the mmorpg style of gaming boiling in my blood, like a dog humping the shit out of a stuffed animal, he always goes back for more. A little game called Atlantica Online came to my rescue this time. This game seemed pretty promising. It was the first free mmorpg since Kal Online that I had played for a few hours without immediately uninstalling it. It offered a fresh view into mmo’s. With a whole slew of new features, and I loved the fact that I controlled up to 9 characters at once.
A few days later I had IM’ed all of my previous mmorpg buddies, and we were back in it, wandering new lands. I was a happy little gamer, and had my craving satisfied for the next few weeks. Soon for reasons described in MBAngels post The Sucking of Atlantica Online I got tired of Atlantica Online and left.
I went back to the warm embrace of fps’s, rts’s and the ease of steam, playing some tf2 just to kill time. Enjoying not having to screw around with downloading client updates, not having to worry about making the game worth how much it’s costing me to play, not having to spend five hours in a raid, only to fail. Now I’m sitting, silently, waiting as the vaporware gleams past my eyes, like a ninja in a silver jump suit with massive diarrhea.
Stay tuned for Part 3: Where’s my next MMO: What does the future hold?
Read Part 1: Where's my next MMO: The Begining
Thanks for the suggestions. I tried aion over the weekend during their open beta, don't get me wrong, it's a decent game. But do I really want to invest $50 and $15 a month for more of the same? For me that answer is no. While I liked the leveling up of skills individual, and the chaining of skills was cool too, it just felt like every other mmo I've ever played. Plus within 5 minutes I was getting ks'ed. Then some 12 year old was asking for a duel for 3 min straight, I finally accepted and then let him kill me, he told me I sucked and ran off calling me a fag.
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