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Whats the Best RPG's
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21-09-2009 11:08pm#1
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That's a tough one as there's so many online RPG's that its ridiculous. I'm sure there's more experienced gamers on here that will give you better information, but I'll try my best.
There's several things you're going to have to take into account: The game itself and it's features, longevity and community.
The game is obviously quite important. I don't think there's any MMO's that are like AOE, so in that regard I think you may have to stick with...well...AOE.
With longevity, you have to keep in mind if the game will still be about next year. There's nothing worse than putting time, effort and money into a game just to see it get closed down.
And the community is important, because you'll most likely want help with certain quests as well as to generally make friends with people. Some MMO's have very childish communities and some have very elitist ones.
World of Warcraft is the best known and best developed MMO. It's got a huge player base and is fairly well polished. But it's not to everyone's taste (I personally hate it). I found that there's a fair amount of grinding (repeatedly having to kill monsters to get your experience high enough to get to the next level). As it's the best selling MMO, it's going to be around for a long time. But I always found the community in general to be a bunch of assholes. You can find people and guilds who are great fun to play with, and because they've been around for so long they'll know all about the game and help you when they can, but you'll be swamped with condescending c*nts too. That was one of the things that put me off it.
I've played Lord Of The Rings Online and it's one of my favourite. It's based on the books and not the movies, but you'll recognise a lot of elements form the movies too. It's a This game is mainly Player Vs Environment though, which put a lot of people off. There is Player Vs Player elements to it, but it's not the main focus of the game. It seems to be doing fairly well for itself now. I've heard that it's the only MMO whose player base is actually growing. And there's a load of additional content in the works (to follow Frodo's journey with the Ring). I found the community to be really helpful, although sometimes they take things too serious and I found myself being given out to by guys simply because I clicked the wrong button when doing group attacks (but I should also mention that I'm rubbish at these games! ).
Age of Conan was a very promising MMO. I felt it could of been one of the best, but it was released in a terrible state and was barely playable for most people. I think the graphics are amongst the best you'll see in an MMO, the gameplay, while similar to the WoW style you'll see in most MMO's had various elements that made it stand out and made it a little more strategic than simply clicking you're most powerful attack over and over again. I don't know how long this game will last though, as it was off to a rocky start and I don't think it'll ever get back the same amount of numbers. I played it at the beginning and went back to it a while later and found aspects of it to be very polished. There's still some problems , but for the most part it's playing pretty well. The community is probably one of the best you'll find as they are people who've stuck with the game from the beginning and really go out of their way to help others. As soon as you leave the starting area of the game, you'll be bombarded with requests to join guilds to boost their numbers, so finding people is easy enough.
City Of Heroes (and City of Villains) is pretty much the same as the WoW games except it's about superheroes. It's great fun and has a great community, but I found the game to be fairly slow. The creators of it have recently come out with Champions Online which I'm playing at the moment and love. It's more action orientated, but there isn't an amazing amount of things to do it it. The creators say they will be adding new content and areas every two or three months, so we'll see how that goes. There's also not a lot of teamwork involved. It kind of plays like a single-player game that happens to have a load of other people running around it. But if you need help, there's plenty of people willing to give it, just don't expect them to hang around after.
So thse are the MMO's I've played, and my opinions of them. As I said, others will be able to go into better detail and also talk about other MMO's that are out, or are coming out.0 -
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