I don’t think I’m a fan of MMO’s. I’ve been playing a Champion in the recently gone free Lord of the Rings online and I just hit level 15. I’ve been doing the same thing over and over since I started the game and I can’t see it becoming fun anytime soon. There are moments where I think I could be having fun. Every time I complete a quest and I get a new piece of gear or a weapon to equip myself with I find a sense of a accomplishment. I rather enjoy the instance based story quests as well… but for the most part I’m having the same problem I have with every other MMO that I’ve played. It’s boring.
I want to travel around and explore Middle Earth. I don’t want to kill 5 pigs so you can make some dumb shirt that I’m going to throw out or sell 20 minutes after I get it. What’s the point? I don’t want to have to travel for 10 minutes to kill someone only to be killed myself and have to make the same trek back. What’s the reward for this you say? A new pair of boots? Boots that are of lesser value than the ones I’m already wearing? Go to hell Mr. Dwarf. I don’t need no stinkin’ boots.
You know what I like about a lot of RPGs? The ability to immerse myself in that game’s world and fully enjoy it. You know what I can’t do in an MMO? What I like doing in other RPGs. If I’m fighting a group of Orcs to save a damsel in distress I don’t want to look over and see a group of Hobbits talking about the last time they ate at Taco Bell. It’s ridiculous. It’s this kind of crap that makes me realize why I like playing offline RPGs that have a bit of MMO feel to them. I love the Elder Scrolls games. Morrowind more so than Oblivion for a number of reasons. I love Dragon Age as well. Hell, I’d take the . / (Dot Hack) games over most real MMOs any day.
Maybe I’m doing it wrong though. I tend to try and play MMOs as a solo affair. Maybe I’d have more fun if I had a Fellowship to quest with like so many other people. Herein lies the problem with that: I am not a people person. I don’t want to stand about for however long it takes to say I’m looking for a fellowship, have people arrive to join said fellowship, travel to the quest, do the quest, not get the loot I wanted and then have everyone leave the fellowship with me standing on the side of the road needing to do the damn quest again. I need friends. I need people who actually want to play the game and stay in a fellowship with me for an extended period of time to do these tediously boring ass quests.
Or I could wait for Guild Wars 2 to come out and see if I hate that as well.
Enjoy your boring ass games MMO fan. I have a class IV roaming vapor to tether and slam into this trap.
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I agree with you on the most part. People talk about how fun a MMO is, but you know whats the problem with that? They are talking about post game, a point where you need to dedicate a mundane amount of time to get to.
MMOs need some innovation to be fun, and most of the MMOs i have played have been the same thing over and over again. Lets see if this genre can actually change for once.
I've had the same problem with MMO's. I have a lot of friends who play WoW, who assure me it's more fun at endgame. But if it's not fun putting all those hours in to hit the level cap, what's the point?
But there are a lot of MMO's coming out this fall. Here's hoping one of them will do something completely different.
Jumping on the bandwagon, here. I agree, there is so little substance to the MMO genres. I will post my impressions of FFXIV OpenB later, but it suffers from the same stuff as other games. Too slow to progress, uninteresting storylines, and it just sucks up too damn much time.
Conversely, I think there's a market and qualitative value to developing a multiplayer RPG that fixes all of those problems, but limits player numbers and customization. Dragonquest IX nearly accomplished this, had it included a bit more substance to the main narrative.
The things I like about Lord of the Rings Online apart from it being Lord of the Rings is the main story related quests. The instance based stuff. It's far more entertaining and rewarding to me when I feel like I'm pushing something forward. It's this exact reason that has me looking forward to Guild Wars II. They say they've put more focus on a personal character driven story and if they truly have I can see myself playing that game for a while. Old Republic makes similar promises and touts full voice acting. I want to give that a try as well. MMOs need to evolve.
...I miss owning a DS.
Hedinn is a fgt >:}
Very mature Teri.
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