Bored of WoW, now what?

Tombstone · 10 Jul 2010 at 12:27

Nor said:
Played most MMOs and nothing has come close to Ultima Online - UO of old without trammel/felucia. What I'd give to have that game, in its original guise, back again.

Along with the original playerbase which helped make it so special, before the ADHD crowd started playing MMOs.

Assassin_012 · 10 Jul 2010 at 13:10

HON is good...but need to pay....

AHarvey · 10 Jul 2010 at 13:14

Tombstone said:
As I've said before, UO had most of that and was the best MMO I've played to date. Sounds can be deceiving.

+1

Ultima online is the game that other mmorpgs should be basing themselves off, enough of the WoW clones, they suck ass!

rypt · 13 Jul 2010 at 12:14

Tombstone said:
Thats one of the oddities of the early MMOs. Take UO for example, UO felt less like a job than any of the newer MMOs I played. Even though it was essentially like all those points listed earlier.

Why? Well one simple reason, people then played at their own pace. Nobody cared if it took 12 months to max a skill, they just played the game and let the skill rise through use. People werent obsessed with getting maxxed as quickly as possible, people werent obsessed with being the first or quickest to do something. People werent obsessed with having the latest piece of loot. Somewhere along the line that changed in the MMO world, the people changed. They stopped playing the games for the enjoyment of them and started playing them for the achievement of them.

The games changed though, UO was more about PVP and trade, "questing" and so on was a bit lame, now the likes of WoW have all these quests, which give you rewards so you can show off your epeen. In UO days your epeen was how good you were at PVP

God, I miss UO

I haven't touched an MMORPG since I stopped playing UO as I haven't found anything as good.