I hate MMORPGs (Kind of a rant)

Ravenwood · June 11, 2009, 06:34:25 AM

Now, I'll tell you, it's not through lack of trying.

I was a beta tester for Eve. I've played EQ. I've played WoW.

I found them all tediously boring and really, they all felt like second jobs, concidering the amount of time and dedication it took to actually get anywhere.

The closest thing to a MMORPG, but wasn't really an MMORPG that I actually liked was Hellgate: London. And as holds true, almost every game that I seem to really like ends geting bumped in the Butt somehow.

Hellgate shut down it's multiplayer servers back in January. It's dead and buried in North America because the company that owns the North American rights to it are being massive pricks and letting it die. Concidering that it's still alive and doing well in Asia.

Honestly, short of TF2 I don't think there's been any games in the past year that has even hinted at even a glimmer of hope for good multiplayer gaming for me.

I expect that Starcraft2 will bore the living shit out of me, just like SC1 did.

I'm kind of pinning all my hope on an outstanding Diablo3, but dog knows when that'll ever see the light of day.

Wula · June 11, 2009, 05:45:53 PM

Alot of games suck nowadays. And besides why waste $60 or spend monthly fees on second jobs that are virtual lives. When you could spend that $30-60 to buy yourself about 5-15 Single player experiences from Xbox/PS2/GC to the NES days?

So far I have purchased alot of games in bulk and I have accumulated so many games I enjoyed or wanna play for past systems that my newer systems are left in the dark. All I played on the 360 was dead rising. The Wii really has brawl to keep me from selling it. And well the PS3 has at least 4 games I enjoy playing on it :3

But I see me busting out older systems more often. Since I am tired of all the shovelware and motion sensing bullshit to last me 10 lifetimes. Sure I agree I don't hold hope for a better future in games. But at least when I try out a newer game with no expectations I got nothing to lose and everything to gain. Instead of buying into ridiculous hype. Like right now I am tearing apart Diablo 3 with the things they announced. But at the same time I really hope it proves me wrong >:/

Silvermink · June 11, 2009, 06:01:59 PM

I still enjoy WoW, but it's almost entirely because of the people I play with rather than the game itself.

Ravenwood · June 12, 2009, 12:23:20 AM

Quote from: Silvermink on June 11, 2009, 06:01:59 PM
I still enjoy WoW, but it's almost entirely because of the people I play with rather than the game itself.

Too bad that for virtually every guild that's actually worth being in, the first words out of their mouths are "What level are you and how good is your gear?"

If you can't manage to meet some high-ass standard, they tell you to piss up a rope. Understandable, since they may have a hundred people a month want to join. But for beginners, there's simply no chance of getting into anything worthwhile.

It's a further complication since they expect that everyoen that plays to be good. So if you'r einexperienced at it, they laugh at you instead of actually helping. From what I've personalyl seen, MMORPGS have the lowest level of general player empathy of any game I've ever played. They make Counterstike seem like a love-in by comparison.

Silvermink · June 12, 2009, 11:42:31 AM

Our guild definitely isn't like that. We just require that people who want to raid and aren't good be willing to work on getting better. If they don't raid, it's not really a big deal whether they're good or not.

Badinage · June 15, 2009, 08:33:37 PM

Yeah. I've mostly skipped over the whole MMORPG scene myself. My first was WoW which I played for 2 months near when it came out. I kept playing expecting it to stop being boring the higher I got, but it never did. It always felt like a chore to me.

This was exasperated by the fact that soon after I moved into a student apartment at my college with three friends. Thought we were going to have lots of fun all the but, but after the move they ONLY played WoW as the entirety of their lives. I think all three dropped out of college soon after that. My roomate could never go out with me to do stuff because he was always scheduled for Guild raids that he could never opt out of because the guild would stop inviting you to the good raids and other privileges if you didn't keep it up.

SL was different, I got into that seriously for years. But it dousnt count since I consider it a platform, not an RPG x3

Silvermink · June 16, 2009, 11:10:51 AM

SL is definitely not an RPG, no.

Some Guy · June 22, 2009, 02:03:38 AM

hmmm, Most MMO's i have hated, though i can honestly say most suck, i played Kal Online for 9 years since World server Alpha was around in testing, i have found this game more enjoyable to play.

HexV · September 03, 2009, 05:17:49 PM

I've played a LOT of MMOs in my time. The effort they take isn't what bothers me, it's how poor the gameplay in MMORPGS are. I mean, seriously, WHY THE HELL DO THEY STILL FOLLOW THE CLICK AND KILL FORMULA?! I swear, gameplay in MMOs would be so much better if they had more dynamic, real-time combat. Bonus points if they make monsters that require some kind of strategy to kill (Think Metroid Prime or Legend of Zelda. Though not MMOs, they kinda help my point, having monsters you can't kill with head-on attacks).

Though not gameplay, I'm getting really tired of the same theme over and over again. Fantasy or Sci Fi, nothing truly new or unique. You will ALWAYS see the goddamn conventional fantasy races, classes and feudal architecture. Personally, I'd like to see something down-right out of the ordinary. Something SERIOUSLY messed up, and some MMOs have done that, and I commend them for it. However, they fail me with the all-to-standard boring grind-fest gameplay. Yay.

Basically, I'm sick and tired of being stuck with Humans, Elves, Dwarves, yadda yadda yadda, etc. I want to see something else. I mean, developers are SUPPOSED to be CREATIVE, am I right? So why can't they make something that opposes the norm? Even if they have to stick to the conventional races, I'd still like to play something that's either not humanoid or not human-esque (I would KILL to play as a Goblin, or even a Unicorn).

Those are my biggest gripes with MMORPGS. It's not that they're not original (god only knows that's impossible these days, what with everything being done and all), it's that they make no apparent effort to be different or outstanding.

This bitch-fest brought to you in part by your epic, awesome and handsome HARE, HexV

Xen Garden · September 04, 2009, 04:19:35 PM

Online MMORPG games I've played and tried I hated. Well most of them. Runescape sucked. Dofus sucked. WoW sucked. And any other game I tried that was online sucked.

Any online games I ever enjoyed were things like Counterstrike, Team Fortress (Classic, for I am not good with an Xbox for #2 and this was long ago), and (Please don't kill me for this...) Maplestory.

I am not big on sitting in a chair for hours on end playing a game though. I usually get bored after an hour or 2. Then I usually go off and do something for a while before I return.

Vanilla Skunk · September 05, 2009, 12:02:47 AM

No death for you. Maplestory is probably one of the most unique of its kind, being MMO Side Scroller.

I played Maplestory for maybe five minutes, and then got a phone call from my temp agency to go to a job site, and completely forgot about it since.

hammy · September 12, 2009, 03:05:53 AM

ok guys

planetside is an mmofps, aim and shoot, lvl up unlocks new armour classes / guns. think of it like starting off just being able to play the soldier from tf2 but as you go on you can start playing the other classes; doesn't give you any advantage, just different ways to play.

Champions Online is an mmo action game about super heroes.

League of Legends, an mmo DotA game which is great

Fallen Earth, an mmo version of fallout.

battleswarm, one team plays it like an fps the other team plays it like an rts.

there are a LOT of good mmos out there that aren't your standard "Humans, Elves, Dwarves, yadda yadda yadda, etc."

Kithop · September 14, 2009, 01:01:14 PM

Quote from: hammy on September 12, 2009, 03:05:53 AM
planetside is an mmofps, aim and shoot, lvl up unlocks new armour classes / guns. think of it like starting off just being able to play the soldier from tf2 but as you go on you can start playing the other classes; doesn't give you any advantage, just different ways to play.

...and when I tried PlanetSide's trial thingie a few years ago, oh my god the lag... :O I'm not one to have a crappy computer or internet connection, and while the idea is brilliant (I love 64-person Battlefield: 1942 battles and huge sprawling vehicle maps like in Starseige: Tribes and Tribes 2), the execution is... meh. :/

einsman · December 12, 2009, 04:04:00 PM

I play D&D online myself. It's an MMORPG that's not really an MMORPG at all. Anyone can do quests solo, all the quests are fairly quick, the combat is like Diablo, and the best part?

NONE OF THOSE DAMN FETCH QUESTS! NONE!

Xen Garden · December 12, 2009, 04:49:16 PM

Quote from: Felix McKline on September 05, 2009, 12:02:47 AM
No death for you. Maplestory is probably one of the most unique of its kind, being MMO Side Scroller.

I played Maplestory for maybe five minutes, and then got a phone call from my temp agency to go to a job site, and completely forgot about it since.

Yeah I love Maplestory for being quite unique. It's the only reason I never got bored of it, even after 4+ years of playing it. But it's one of those MMOs where you can only be a human (Which I prefer anyways). Plus it's always kept fresh with new updates all the time.

I hate MMORPGs (Kind of a rant)

Wula