What MMORPG to start a fresh for 2013?
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There isn't one tbh.
Everything else is either:
- too much like wow (e.g. guild wars 2, rift)
- not fun (sometimes due to players, e.g. eve) (sometimes due to the game, e.g. swtor)
Everything else is either:
- too much like wow (e.g. guild wars 2, rift)
- not fun (sometimes due to players, e.g. eve) (sometimes due to the game, e.g. swtor)
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Take a break until Elder Scrolls Online comes out. Plenty of games coming out this year to fill in the gaps, Rome 2, GTA V, Rome 2, and that's about it.
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Depends what you are after really... single player story, questing and exploration, grouping and raid content, PVP, crafting?
I have been playing LOTRO for over 4 years now and still love the game. Their is a heap of content to play through and the F2P model means you can pick it up and put it down as you please. Playing completely free will be difficult but it has one of the better cash shops and other than quests packs their isnt much you will need to buy to progress through the whole game.
It is somewhat similair to WoW but classes are more interesting IMO and I like the landscape, design, and questing more. Some people who have joinned the game after playing WoW have loved it, others have hated it. It is certainly worth downloading the client though (through Steam if you like) as the starter areas and first 2 zones are completely free.
I have been playing LOTRO for over 4 years now and still love the game. Their is a heap of content to play through and the F2P model means you can pick it up and put it down as you please. Playing completely free will be difficult but it has one of the better cash shops and other than quests packs their isnt much you will need to buy to progress through the whole game.
It is somewhat similair to WoW but classes are more interesting IMO and I like the landscape, design, and questing more. Some people who have joinned the game after playing WoW have loved it, others have hated it. It is certainly worth downloading the client though (through Steam if you like) as the starter areas and first 2 zones are completely free.
I played a little on TERA which is going F2P shortly, it's actually pretty fun and the graphics are wonderful. I am unsure as to how much end-game content is there, but I can imagine it would be fun once in a guild/with a few friends (but the same goes for anything really, doesn't it?)
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If it is as good as it sounds, nobody will be playing anything else except loyal fanboys to other mmos.
The way of the world is disappointment so it probably wont, but as said earlier take a break and get the monotony of the existing crappy mmos out of your head and start fresh with something that may be absolutely amazing.
If it is as good as it sounds, nobody will be playing anything else except loyal fanboys to other mmos.
The way of the world is disappointment so it probably wont, but as said earlier take a break and get the monotony of the existing crappy mmos out of your head and start fresh with something that may be absolutely amazing.
If ESO is even 1/4 of what it is hyped up to be, I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
Hope the environment is beautiful/expansive, the "real time" combat decent, and that they use more than half a dozen voice actors for the npcs, and above all that it maintains a sense of "realism" (using that term very loosely)/coherence within the lore.
The uncluttered UI will be a welcome change from current mmos - more immersion, less spreadsheets/mental maths.
I hope the fees are low (or nonexistant
).
Hope the environment is beautiful/expansive, the "real time" combat decent, and that they use more than half a dozen voice actors for the npcs, and above all that it maintains a sense of "realism" (using that term very loosely)/coherence within the lore.
The uncluttered UI will be a welcome change from current mmos - more immersion, less spreadsheets/mental maths.
I hope the fees are low (or nonexistant
).
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If ESO is even 1/4 of what it is hyped up to be, I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
Hope the environment is beautiful/expansive, the "real time" combat decent, and that they use more than half a dozen voice actors for the npcs, and above all that it maintains a sense of "realism" (using that term very loosely)/coherence within the lore.
The uncluttered UI will be a welcome change from current mmos - more immersion, less spreadsheets/mental maths.
I hope the fees are low (or nonexistant
It's the first AAA MMO with actual combat which will be nice, and the megaserver technology must mean the world is going to be insanely huge, and Zenimax are a very large company so there are a lot of people working on it. It'll be subscription though, but you'll most likely get free gametime with the initial purchase and subsequent expansion packs, unlike other p2p models, I hope, anyway.