Poll: A new MMO plz

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Klepa

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I don't think LoTRO would be your choice. You describe yourself as an achiever, with WoW's raid dungeons raided through and all. LoTRO is a lot more of a casual MMO, and I think you might quickly run out of stuff to do in it, like you have now with WoW. Roleplaying and fluff is a big part of the game, and has been given more attention than in a lot of other games.

WAR is a pvp heavy game, I've played it for nine months. Mythic sucks at class balance, and PvP is often dominated by a monotonous group setup of one trick ponies. None of the pvp instances even come close to WoW's. The heart of that game is open world pvp, which is a huge zerg fest. Some people like it, some people don't. Usually the side with more players wins, and it's not uncommon for servers to have Destruction dominating during the day, and Order wiping the floor with them, once people get home from work/school.

I've heard good stuff about Aion, and I might try it once I get more money. You shouldn't run out and buy it now though, as the developers put up waaaayyy too little servers, and they are now overcrowded, with long queue times. With long, I mean seven hours long.
Also, the game is still young, and none of us western folks really know what the endgame is going to be like.

Tread lightly.
 

Phenakist

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Nautical Honors Society said:
No MMORPG is better than WoW, sad, but true
You obviously haven't tried anything else, sad, but true, wake up and have your corn flakes buddy.

Guild Wars if you want balanced PvP fun, it's PvE is good but better known for it's PvP, oh and you will have an extra £10 a month to spend on other things aside from rental fees. :)

EvE if you want something you don't need to pay much attention to for more than about 5 mins at a time, and still feel like coughing up £10 a month.

I have been hearing good things about Aion and WAR seems to have some serious balancing issues, so Guild Wars, EvE or Aion :)
 

Lazzi

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I would say go and try Aion, the game might have potential.

Or stick with wow, its safe and its warm just like your spunk stained bed sheets!

No but serious, try Aion. If your bored with an MMO you way as well be any early adopter!
 

feather240

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Try Mabinogi. It has great art style and back-story, plus it's free. To get the full value out of the game you'll need to pay about $15 a month though. Great combat system that allows you to grind easily against weak enemies but still use strategy against stronger enemies. Re-birthing and age help get leveling moving again.
 

Robert0288

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My personal vote is for eve-online, as it breaks the mold of a typical WoW clone, and you can be PVP effective within a matter of hours against even the most experianced player. Though the learning curve is more of a cliff than anything. Also losses do have some consiquence.

There is also anoter new expansion comming out soon (domination) which will revamp the 0.0 space (kind of a lawless area that groups of players can claim) to make it more friendly to small groups.
 

haruvister

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You'll probably get bored and return to WoW, but I suggest you try LotRO before the others. It's the most polished of the alternatives and it has a similar epic scope to WoW, even if it's relatively lacking in the world-PVP department. Dare I say it, EVE will bore you so bad your eyes will bleed.

At the end of the day, WoW's the most complete MMO package until some brave developer upturns the board.
 

MaskedMori

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Eh, I've played only 2 MMO's WoW and Guild Wars. I found Guild wars to be very fun and intresting, I especially loved the level 20 cap because it makes the game less about grinding and more about skill and how smart you set up your skill set. It's stronger on the PvP than the PvE though. It also has a nice main storyline that was atleast intresting enough for me to play through it. *Shrug* You may not like it as much.
 

Chipperz

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OK, the ones I've played...

Warhammer Online - It's like World of Warcraft, but PvP and with a far superior community. Although it seems like a tiny thing, the ability to dye your armour is actually massive and almost made me leave Warcraft for good for it. Also, the characters look like they've seen combat, with missing eyes, burn marks and scars all over them, which is awesome. I quit because the developers effectively said that they didn't care about our suggestions because we weren't American, which makes them cunts.

Guild Wars - A cut down version of World of Warcraft you don't have to play for. The game revolves around it's stupidly large number of decently balanced skills rather than the pitifully small number of items, making it far more skill based, relying on combos and strategic skill selection. Sadly, this, combined with the astonishingly awful player base, means that I haven't seen the endgame content for the two that I got. I quit because the players were idiots - I understand you can get custimisable AI teammates in the new games, but I haven't gone back to try them out.

EVE Online - The accountants program of the stars, I played around for a bit, had no idea what I was doing, was shouted down as a noob by anyone I asked, and left after 48 hours, carried on a wave of confusion, boredom and bile. I quit because the players were arseholes and I don't trust anything that levels you while you're offline.

Now, onto ones that aren't on your list...

Age of Conan - It's a bit like World of Warcraft if you like tits and gore. It's been set up so you can play a naked chick all the way through to just before the endgame content. The fighting style is good but takes a lot of getting used to. I quit because, in a game based on Conan the Barbarian, the Barbarian class was the only one that sucked donkey balls, and I wasn't rerolling a pussy-ass Bear Shaman...

City of Heroes/Villains - A faster, more cinematic game than World of Warcraft, City of [X] is also the king of customisation. While it starts slow, by the time you're running around in an eight-man team, combining storms, fireballs and minigun fire while fighting extradimensional aliens, you're loving it. Players are mythical creatures, encountered once in a great while. The story I told about an eight-man team is actually a legend I read once in the forums. I still play this occasionally, but only when I don't want to be bothered by people.

Champions Online - The reason noone plays City of Heroes any more. It currently has less content than some children's books, but it's character creator is amazing and it has a lot of potential. The Nemesis system is a stroke of genius, and there's rumours on the forum of adding "dependant" and "alter ego" systems into the game which might make the entire thing feel like you're playing in your very own superhero comic. The players are a bunch of elitist dickholes, and the addition of a Warcraft-style loot system has resulted in a game that involves grinding and pathetic whingers where heroes should stand.

Anarchy Online - Old and complicated but massive. This is what Warcraft will be like in a decade's time if the old school "hardcore" players have their way. It looks like it was built on the original Unreal engine, so don't go there if you're a graphics whore, but it's pretty cool, and player-owned cities are a nice touch. It's free and, if you really want to try a new MMO, it's worth a shot.

NeoSteam - I... Have no idea what happened while I was playing this. I think there was a plotline, but if nothing else, it's taught me that translations should be done by speakers native to the language. It's pretty much World of Warcraft with flintlock pistols. Unless you like cutesy, anime-style steampunk, avoid.

While I'm rambling about MMORPGs, my "Gamers Don't Know What's Good For Them" award goes to Auto Assault. It's a now-dead game about post-apocalyptic vehicle battles, and it was fucking spectacular - imagine Tabula Rasa in cars with unlimited ammo and no death penalty. And customisable cars. It took me a thousand posts to get this soapbox, and dammit they'll listen to me for a change!

EDIT - Oooh yeah, my opinion! Play Warcraft for a second alt, or pretty much anything on your list, until you get to max level again. When you get to max level, run out the month pissing around and then get Champions Online. The time you gave yourself should get in enough new content to make Champions Worthwhile until The Old Republic comes out - FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T GET THE OLD REPUBLIC ON RELEASE DAY!

tl;dr? Welcome to a text-based medium of communication.
 

Stormz

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Champions looks really good. I've been playing Requiem lately but that's a free to play so not likely to hold much interest for very long. Might want to check it out though. I also highly suggest Lord of the rings online, it's a really fun pve game with a very nice and helpful community.
 

Clashero

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Nautical Honors Society said:
No MMORPG is better than WoW, sad, but true
City of Heroes
Champions Online
Aion
Guild Wars (all four of them)

It sounds like you haven't tried any other MMOs.

I'll vote Guild Wars: almost perfectly balanced PvP, very original gameplay, interesting quests and challenging dungeons (Urgoz's Warren on Hard Mode is far harder than any WoW raid). Also, kickass armour design, gameplay based on skill and not time spent playing.
 

Mistermixmaster

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I'd vote for The Secret World, once that rolls out to the stores... if not then probably WAR (if you're into PvP)
 

Hitman 43

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I don't really play MMOs. Tried Tribal Wars once. I became quite bored of it after a few months. Gained ALOT of points though.
 

T-Bone24

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There's no "other" option. And the last one is just stupid.

Get whatever you want mate, you don't need complete strangers to decide for you.
 

Da_Schwartz

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City of Heros is still better then Champions online. Champions is very unbalanced and i dont understand what the hell they were doing in beta for all that time. I forsee MAJOR MAJOR nerfs in that game.. so pass. Maybe check out starwars...but if you want something different that doesn't involve castles, knights and orcs..then go City of Heros/Villians.

Or just start downloading free trials and make up your mind for yourself.
 

zaro27

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Champions Online is...utterly unrecommended. I was a beta tester, played for about 6 months in CBT. You'll start off feeling like a bit of a pussy, unless you choose Archery, and eventually become a one man killing machine, unless you choose Archery. If you take Archery, you're a dick that exploits a massively OP (soon to be UP) skill set. There are serious balance issues, so PVP is just a matter of buttfuckery by the players who were in Beta. As unbalanced as the game is now, it's far and away better than it was in Beta.

If you want a good game, I'd recommend Fallen Earth. It's surprisingly fun, or at least I enjoyed it. If I weren't waiting on TOR, I'd buy it.
 

Obrien Xp

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Valiance said:
I would need to know more about you, if you want a PvP-balanced game, a PvE-balanced game, an open-world PvP game, an instanced PvE game, etc...
What I would suggest:

With the quoted in mind, GW is good if your not looking for too big an investment and want to try something very different. Its a very different game focusing more on 8 skills in your skill bar and who else is in your party than what gear you have. Its instanced other than towns allowing you to roam without being ganked or have kill stealers. It doesn't cost alot, and is F2P so its not a bug investment. It is almost as old as WoW and is seeing the peak of its content, more will be released but nothing as major as an exansion anymore. Anet has moved on to GW2 but still has a team devoted to GW1 and they will continue to support and update it.

GW has more Arena/Gladitorial based PVP with some more larger scale pvp if you have factions, also GVG is very fun if you find a good pvp guild. PvE is quite interesting and I still haven't beaten it all, I prefer the pve personally but the pvp is definetly top-notch. Keep in mind that the PvE is progressed with missions (like scripted raids) and lvling to 20 isn't the objective, its the basic skills learning and tuning. Most of the game is designed for lvl 20 characters. If you do prefer pvp then you can make a pvp char that starts at lvl 20 and can unlock stuff to use through pvp participation. Your pve char will do things the usual way but they can enter pvp (You should be lvl 20 before you do so though).

GW2 is going to be the game that I'd highly suggest for any WoW player, though it may not be out for a year or 2 yet. Its a long shot.

Aion is more like WoW from what I hear, its fresh and takes the generally same game-play style that you'd be familiar with from WoW. (plus if you get the plat edition or w/e you can give me the code for the Aion wings emote in GW :)