Pros: Low system requirements… hell, there was a single player Facebook version of the game at one point… free and it has lasted this long.Ĭons: Browser based 2D side scrolling MMORPG might be warning enough, right? 7 – Entopia Universe Why wouldn’t I put a 2D side scrolling MMORPG on the list? Another one of those “been around for freakin’ ever” titles that I have never tried. Pros: 7th century Chinese theme, a bit different, free to play, and has survived this long.Ĭons: PvP-centric, grindy to get you to pay, everything else on this list has survived even longer, and I might be thinking of a different game when it comes to where those old guild mates went. Token Asian MMORPG? There were some people in an old guild that went off to play it and reported having a decent time. Pros: It is one on the list that isn’t fantasy based and Funcom is talking about rolling a new server.Ĭons: The stories about it might be true and most MMORPGs are fantasy for a reason. #ULTIMA ONLINE FOREVER CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD MOVIE#The original MMO launch disaster movie and one of the early free to play titles by necessity. Am I ready for old school PvP? Also, as above, some of this money goes to EA, which does not please me. Pros: It was supposed to take the “suck” out of MMORPGs and also has some sort of free plan.Ĭons: It is really a realm vs. At that point I was living in a house with spotty internet at best so wasn’t keen to invest in it. I had some friends who left EverQuest back in the day and found it a pretty decent time. Might indirectly lead me into giving money to EA. Pros: Really getting to the old school thing, might be a free to play option soon.Ĭons: Isometric, third party camera view always seemed odd to me in screen shots. Hard to leave this one off the list seeing that it was the first of the big wave of popular titles in the MMORPG genre. Also, as it has been modernized so much that I wonder if I should go play the “old school” version of it. Pros: I have, in fact, tried it so know that I can get it running, create a character, and play.Ĭons: Was not in love with the camera and controls. But it is an old title, having launched back in 2001 1 – RuneScapeĪ re-tread from my last year’s list and a bit of a cheat since I have actually spent a few minutes playing this. Each game has some minor claim to fame in my mind, has come up occasionally, and is more than ten years old. So here is the list I am mulling over with some pros and cons as I see them from the outside. I will spend at least a month playing one of these titles seriously and blogging about it, because that it the point of the exercise to a certain extent, so that old timers can come by and mock my ignorance and tell me how things were back in the good old days and all of that. There are plenty of old MMORPGs still knocking around, classics of the genre, storied in their time, that I have never touched. I am going to, here at the start of the new year, buckle down and commit to playing a new MMO in 2018, but only one that is new to me. Let’s face it, there isn’t that much coming that both interests me AND is likely to ship in 2018. So this year I am going to eschew the looking forward aspect of my annual post. That was in part because most of the list didn’t ship, but also because I just reverted to the mean and played what I always play, which is WoW, EQII, and EVE. Last month I posted my review of my annual MMO outlook and found that I had played nothing on the list. Here we are again, a common refrain at the top of these annual posts, but what else have I got going for me? This will at least be the last of the annual posts for quite a while.
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