Good MMO's these days?

[SS4]

I just stumbled uppon World of Tanks which is in beta, i checked a few trailers and some in game video and im trying it atm

took me less than 2 min to get my beta key ^^

 

[DarkStriker]

Depends a lot what you're into.

For PvP:
Ragnarok Online private servers.
Really can't be beat for a straight MMORPG PVP experience. The games PvP system is amazing. Character customization via stat builds, skill builds, and a crapton of equipment+cards makes for tons of variety. Though i'll say right now, you could have god-tier equips, and still lose in a fight if you don't have the skills to win against a more skilled opponent. It isn't WoW. You don't have spell rotations, and your equipment doesn't equal your skill. You need to actually be good at the game, and know what the hell you're doing before you can survive in PvP.
The game is fairly easy to learn, and very hard to master, due to the shear amount of knowledge you need to memorize.

Also there is a good variety in classes.
http://iro.ragnarokonline.com/game/jobintro.asp

Not really. The pvp is quite unbalanced on servers that have high rates+high levels. Simply go asura monk and find yourself a nice way to get a income and spam asura strike and watch the people get hit for like 100m dmg. In normal rates i usually just go with stalker stripping them off their weapons and amor and then starts raping them. Or simply go asura there too with a nice income and laugh as the prey falls down.

S4 League had permament items since the release until april or something i believe. I have like 4 permament item there before i left the game because of competely owning everyone. They most likely removed permament to gain more money and the heavy increase in amount of players. Of course people that had permament items before(Those top players) still have them perma owning everyone without worrying about the slightest thing as item will disappear from your inventory

 

[Hells Malice]

Not really. The pvp is quite unbalanced on servers that have high rates+high levels. Simply go asura monk and find yourself a nice way to get a income and spam asura strike and watch the people get hit for like 100m dmg. In normal rates i usually just go with stalker stripping them off their weapons and amor and then starts raping them. Or simply go asura there too with a nice income and laugh as the prey falls down.

Increased maxlevel/stat cap is for noobs.
Those servers are fun, but they certainly are unbalanced. Though an asura champ is utter shit and can't kill fucking anything but noobs.
Good thing there are a fair amount of great servers out there that support 99/70 with normal stat cap and no game-breaking custom items.

On normal rates Asura champs are also crap. To get high damage, they need high SP. To get high SP, you generally need to wear some pretty crappy gear. (crappy gear for anything but SP, that is)
If you're an Asura champ and you aren't heavy in the SP department, you wont kill anything but noobs. You also need a ton of dex, so you're pretty much useless at anything but Asura.
Champs are much better used if you actually use their other skills. Focusing on Asura is the calling sign of a noob.

Though everything is BALANCED on normal rates. Classes can all be beat if you play right. Any class can beat any class.
Yep, even high priests. I've seen pros do some beastly things with high priests.

Oh, and to specifically target your "and watch the people get hit for like 100m dmg".
On a high rate it's perfectly normal to see 999,999 damage on noobs (max damage cap on most HR, btw). However that 999,9999 can get turned to about 9.9k damage if you have proper gear, which on a HR is pathetically easy to get. With most classes having well over 30k on a HR, it's easy to survive Asura spam. Again, terrible skill to focus on unless you wanna noob-slay.

 

[DarkStriker]

Increased maxlevel/stat cap is for noobs.
Those servers are fun, but they certainly are unbalanced. Though an asura champ is utter shit and can't kill fucking anything but noobs.
Good thing there are a fair amount of great servers out there that support 99/70 with normal stat cap and no game-breaking custom items.

On normal rates Asura champs are also crap. To get high damage, they need high SP. To get high SP, you generally need to wear some pretty crappy gear. (crappy gear for anything but SP, that is)
If you're an Asura champ and you aren't heavy in the SP department, you wont kill anything but noobs. You also need a ton of dex, so you're pretty much useless at anything but Asura.
Champs are much better used if you actually use their other skills. Focusing on Asura is the calling sign of a noob.

Though everything is BALANCED on normal rates. Classes can all be beat if you play right. Any class can beat any class.
Yep, even high priests. I've seen pros do some beastly things with high priests.

Oh, and to specifically target your "and watch the people get hit for like 100m dmg".
On a high rate it's perfectly normal to see 999,999 damage on noobs (max damage cap on most HR, btw). However that 999,9999 can get turned to about 9.9k damage if you have proper gear, which on a HR is pathetically easy to get. With most classes having well over 30k on a HR, it's easy to survive Asura spam. Again, terrible skill to focus on unless you wanna noob-slay.

Doesn't change the fact that many noobs still plays private server. I forgot the imba ASPD part on high ones. About the Asura. Im usally with a bard all the times so i still have my evil grin and i prefer War of Emperiums. Never said my main was an Asura monk. Just enjoy using it 1 hitting the crap of other people. And your not going a combo monk on high rated ones. You wont have the reaction for it unless your button smashing. Agreed on the normal rates>high rates. And yet again i play more as a stalker as it is more to my playstyle of watching people losing their armor and then get raped by lots of damage. (Im never alone in War of Emperium *Evil grin).

Not playing it anymore but is a nice for a change when i get bored of other games.

 

[FencingFoxFTW]

what about DOMO and Tales of Pirates?

 

[DarkStriker]

what about DOMO and Tales of Pirates?

Tales of Pirates - Grind grind grind

DOMO - Grind grind grind though i loved the storyline parts

Lets just say the games mentioned so far exceels way better than these 2 games

 

[SS4]

Tales of pirates...I was playing the previous/different version Pirate King Online

I really like this thread lol I've learn of a few new MMO and i can relate to lots of what ppl are saying since I played most of those games ^^

BTW... If u guys want some more idea for MMO check out one of these 2 sites which are full of info.

http://www.onrpg.com/

http://www.morpg.com/

 

[Deleted User]

Quote from a nerd

Runescape! I Play Runescape! We Love Runescape! Be on my Runescape! We can Runescape together!

*Normal people: Kill me now.*

 

[prowler]

I forgot to mention this but, Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst.
Go now. It's waiting.

 

[heavyknight]

For LaTale - about the quest thing,
http://ggftw.com/forum/latale-quest-guides...vel-sorted.html
http://ggftw.com/forum/latale-quest-guides...uest-guide.html
Level 80 for one advancement isn't much, either. There's another one by 140, and then there's a sub of that other job.

About S4 - the only real issues there are the growing amounts of idiots. It's as bad as MapleStory sometimes. Otherwise, lag hurts.

I'd also throw in Land of Chaos Online/LOCO, it's basically an MMORPG/MMORTS mixture, though 'leavers' make the game suck, hardcore. They need to implement something to combat that.

Also with Prowler on PSOBB. Fun game.

 

[KuRensan]

I just started playing Grand Fantasia and I really like it. It's an Aeria Games MMO, so the graphics are decent, but I really love its gameplay. Read up (and possibly download).

http://grandfantasia.aeriagames.com/

the game looks fun ( I was looking for a new MMO)
I really looks like where I was looking for. I hope The gameplay is fun too

 

[xxteargodxx]

RuneScape is a fun MMO, plenty of people play it. There is a free game and an option to subscribe monthly to get updates as a member. Can't gurantee the community will be good its mostly full of immature childish preteens. Though it is a fun game (I think so).

 

[Hells Malice]

I just started playing Grand Fantasia and I really like it. It's an Aeria Games MMO, so the graphics are decent, but I really love its gameplay. Read up (and possibly download).

http://grandfantasia.aeriagames.com/

the game looks fun ( I was looking for a new MMO)
I really looks like where I was looking for. I hope The gameplay is fun too

Grand Fantasia is a MAJOR grind, with unbalanced PvP.
It is fun though, me and several people started up a guild and played it for quite a while.
But once you get to the higher levels it's just impossibly bad grind, and PvP is incredibly unbalanced.

 

[Deleted User]

Shattered Galaxies was incredibly fun. Emphasis on *was* game is completely stagnant, with a dying US population in the 200's. Possibly lower now, not worth the time anymore...

 

[Deleted User]

I've played Starcraft II and a friend's house and that's a pretty awesome game. If you know a lot of people on Battle.net then I'm sure it'll be more fun. The on;y problem is how expensive the game is but at least you don;t have to pay for multiplayer like you do in WoW or EVE or some of the other MMOs. Note: it's an MMORTS and not an MMORPG but I'm sure anyone who plays MMORPGs will enjoy it unless they absolutely hate RTS games.

 

[Hells Malice]

Starcraft isn't even an MMORTS.
It's an RTS with multiplayer.
EDIT: Actually, it probably technically based solely on the fact that it's hosted by blizzard...making the online multiplayer massive. But otherwise it isn't technically defined as an MMO.

 

[Blebleman]

Shattered Galaxies was incredibly fun. Emphasis on *was* game is completely stagnant, with a dying US population in the 200's. Possibly lower now, not worth the time anymore...

Hahaha! And I thought I was the only crazy person to have played that!

 

[GutsMan.EXE]

In my opinion (and knowledge of mmos i know) wait a couple of months because:
1) WoW sucks at the moment but will become a lot better/ funner when Catalysm comes out
2) If Catalysm sucks/ You want to try something else then SWTOR is your best bet (Star Wars: The Old Republic) it just looks fricking awesome.
Whilst writing this i completely forgot the other mmos i was gonig to mention but i'm sure i'll remember soon if not those 2!

 

[SylvWolf]

I post in these MMO threads occasionally, so I'll just go with what I've played most recently.

Dungeon Fighter Online (Nexon) - This was mentioned earlier in the thread, but I'd also like to recommend it. The graphics are in awesome 16-bit (feels like a SNES/GEN game to me), the music's pretty good, and the gameplay is great. It's rather difficult, but I think that adds to the fun. One of the only negatives is that you can't buy pots from NPCs, but you can get around that with a little farming. The cash shop is great too. There's no item upgrade stuff or EXP increases, it's all fashion items (necessary at times for some stats) and a few other things. You'll probably need to spend a little money at some point, if only for Safe upgrades (the default one is awful). However, the first upgrade only costs $0.60, and it's enough. Overall great game; I played it before and just recently went back to it.

Aika Online (gPotato) - Very PvP based game. You'll blow through the PvE stuff within a month and a half for sure. I saw people capped a week after the OB launched. It's quite fun, and is pretty balanced, but I think the most common complaint is that it gets boring after you cap. Eventually all you're doing is sitting waiting for raids to happen, which kinda sucks.

Heroes of Three Kingdoms (Perfect World Entertainment) - If you like Three Kingdoms based games, you'll love this. The graphics are alright, the music is passable, and the gameplay is pretty standard MMO stuff. There are tons of quests to do, and you'll most likely never run out of stuff to do. The leveling is really easy, and you can get about a level a day from just doing daily quests (taking less than an hour). Fun if you like this kinda thing.

Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online (Aeria) - It's SMT, so you know it's quality. The battle system is slower and more in-depth than most MMOs and as others have mentioned, the demon stuff is pretty fun. This has been mentioned a lot already, so I don't think I need to say anymore.

Vindictus (Nexon) - It's only in CB right now, but damn does it have potential. Some of the best graphics I've ever seen in a F2P, and the battle system is tight and stylish. I might get really into this once OB starts.

Those would be my suggestions right now. Some games to look forward to:

Forsaken World (PWE)
Dragon Nest (too lazy to look up publisher)

Also, as some general advice: keep an eye on games from the bigger publishers. Nexon, Aeria, gPotato, and PWE are the ones that I know. From my experience, they're more likely to keep their games updated and keep events running than the smaller companies.

 

[Hells Malice]

Dungeon Fighter Online is great.
Really liked that game.

Heroes of Three Kingdoms is...bad. If you like the theme from games like Dynasty Warriors, then yeah it might be fun...but ultimately it's a very, very bland MMO.

Vindictus...fuck.
I watched the MMOhut review of it and I really shouldn't have. Now I need to kill someone and steal their closed beta account. I've been wanting to play the game ever since the first gameplay trailer surfaced >_>
Murder is worth it to play the game early though. Craaap.
It'll be amazing, until Blade and Soul kicks its ass anyways (though it sure is taking its sweet time doing so).