Comments on: MMORPGs I Really Want To Like

By: Twan

Twan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:37:34 +0000

I feel the same you did with WaR. I upgraded my PC to be able to play it on max settings but no longer play WaR so the PC blazes through everything~!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:49:42 +0000

I know what you mean. Sometimes I just want to grab the controls of my ship and fly it manually, especially when the thing flies straight into a bloody asteroid!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:46:35 +0000

I’m trying the 2 week re-evaluation period of AoC too. I love free play time! It’s great being able to try out games again before you have to pony up the cash for them. Apparently WAR I doing one too but I never received the email with the link for some reason.

I’m still really impressed with the graphics in AoC. Extremely impressed actually, especially now with DX10. It’s definitely a draw for me.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:44:23 +0000

I think the welcome back week is only for the US version of LotRO - can’t find any news about it on the Europe site Shame cause I would’ve checked it out.

By: Beej

Beej — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:01:39 +0000

I think WAR has a lot of potential, but that potential has to be realized in a closely-knit group which I can’t get there. I hope I can one day, but I doubt it. It does feel soulless, and I guess that’s why I want to have an established friend-base as I go in because making new contacts in-game seems rather…off.

I tried the LOTRO beta, but never past that. I can’t talk about it at all because I’m not qualified. It was funny looking WoW when I tried it; I didn’t like the graphics, either.

By: openedge1

openedge1 — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:00:37 +0000

Out of all 3 games listed, the only game that felt like it had life was Conan. The secret was interest in the story and the setting as Sharon and others have stated.

For the player who is use to the WoW mentality of click click click to accept quests and ignoring the reasoning or the why of the main adventure.. then of course it will feel empty.
Lets use the example of Aion stated above. There exists no reason to read any quest as they have nothing to do with anything but to kill 10 to 20 more mobs to get xp and money and maybe an item, and move on to the next quest to do the exact same thing.

There are real stories and real people in AoC, and we cut away to their story every time we accept a quest…and there we are as the adventurer in that story with them and being a part of that. From the woman who lost her son in the mountains and sits and waits for the spirits to bring him home. To the stories of the dragon who waits for one to master it..
If you want gear, xp and money, then play WoW, play Aion, but if you want a reason to go on, AoC offers that.

As to LOTRO, we know how this story goes and how it ends…so why play that again and for WAR? WHO NEEDS STORY…you have WAR.

We each have a reason to play these games, and I am sorry none affect you in this way…but for me, AoC was the most compelling even when buggy, as I feel like I am THERE in Hyboria.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:12:39 +0000

I went back to AoC this week, as part of the two week thing for returning subscribers, but I forgot how to play my old HoX, so I rerolled. I just got out of Tortage last night, and I’m eager to see if anything has changed beyond that. I’m a big Robert E. Howard fan, so I really want to like AoC.

I know what you mean about LOTRO. I *should* like it. It has everything I think I want in a game. I like the IP, the visuals are pretty, and there’s lots to do. But the whole game feels very lackluster to me. Combat lacks a sense of responsiveness. I never found a social community within LOTRO either, so I maybe that would have made a difference? It’s one of those games I tend to go back to every so often, and it’s the only MMO that my husband has ever expressed interest in playing.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:01:30 +0000

I also started “re-evaluating” AoC. I just left Tortage and I wonder if the feeling starts to suck me in.

I really like Robert E. Howard’s low fantasy world Hyboria, I am a huge fan. So I really try to love Age of Conan. The devs also tried to capture that feeling.

But somehow… I do not get immersed into the game that much. Despite the nice graphics. I even think they are lacking something, even at high resolution - Aion draws you into the game, even if you do not like this asian art direction at all, as I do.

So yeah - back to AoC, again trying to fall in love with it.

EVE is different - I would like it, but I am not content with the super casual playstyle method, and I do not have the time or will for the highend-corp megawars. It might also be that I am just too impatient for this game.

By: Sin

Sin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:36:32 +0000

I have to mirror your feelings about LotRO. I have a fellowship founders or whatever account; the lifetime subscription that was available first for pre-order then later at a higher cost. Even so, just over a month into the game’s release I basically finished and couldn’t find anything else compelling to keep me going. I should probably give it another try since, well, it literally wouldn’t cost anything, but… it still seems rather uninteresting.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:25:23 +0000

I desperately wanted to like EVE Online because the metagame/politics are so bloody fascinating. The actual play mechanics killed me though - I just can’t get behind the click-and-wait model like I’d need to. I guess I’m a bit too action driven for what they have going there.

The good thing is that I can still read about all the intrigue and backstabbing and bank implosions! =)