Haven't seen an MMORPG thread, so why not start one? ^ ^ (Please tell me if there's an existing thread though)
I recently started TERA and Aion Online, but before that I played Aura Kingdom and a little bit of WoW (although I didn't get very far at all).
So yeah guys, discuss! ^ v ^
Ohhh no, I'm gonna ramble--
I got super burnt out on MMOs recently but my partner and I are the types to ALWAYS have one going. He just DL'd Secret World last night and is going to give it a try before I pick it up and play alongside him. Funny thing is, people always expect that I'm gonna be the stereotypical ~healer girlfriend~ but he's literally always the healer while I tank or DPS. I refuse to heal. It's stressful for me and it's also not a stereotype I'm comfortable fulfilling.
Before that... Rift. I still, to this day, love Rift and it will always have a special place in my heart even though I never log in anymore. Trion's staff lost touch with their community when the Storm Legion expansion was being worked on and released. Storm Legion itself... honestly, it wasn't great. It was incomplete when they pushed it out and my particular class dev (I mained a warrior) was terrible at testing specs so everyone who mained a warrior either had to do some weird gimmicky spec just to get by, or sit on the sidelines and wait. I did the latter until said dev was replaced, but by then I had already lost a lot of interest in the game due to being unable to play effectively. Also, guild drama, ew.
But I keep getting all these emails about the latest expansion that takes everybody to the Plane of Water and I'm SO PUMPED because of the lore and just, ughhhhh it'd be such a huge download but it's so hard for me to resist it... even though I know none of my friends play it anymore and it'd just be me wandering around on my lonesome... I still want to see it! That, and the warrior dev put in a healing thing that warriors can do which I'm SUPER curious about.
Ultimately Rift ruined me for other MMOs. No other class system will ever compare. It's difficult for me to explain - easier to just go to their website and look at it, but still something you have to actually play with to fully wrap your head around - but all the other MMOs make me feel like I'm so stifled and limited in my class choice now. Trion probably did that on purpose to keep us coming back
And hey, it's working on me, so they got THAT right at least. Goddd how I love that class system. You get to play exactly how you want to, and unless you're raiding with a serious guild, nobody's breathing down your neck about whether it's perfect or not - it's all about making it work for YOU personally. Love love love it.
Apart from that there's Elder Scrolls Online, which I'm excited to jump back into once it's free to play again. But that's something I played largely on my own as well. Let's see what else... played Ragnarok Online for an embarrassing amount of time, and waiting for Tree Of Savior (RO's spiritual successor) to be released in English which is equally embarrassing. I played Tera briefly but found the UI customization severely lacking, to the point where I couldn't keep playing it (I use my TV as a monitor so I NEED to be able to change stuff around without blocking up my screen - text size especially).
I've played damn near every f2p mmo out there for at least a little while but still, I'm a Rift gal at heart and I'm gonna give Secret World a try. What I REALLY want to poke my head into though is Destiny. That looks like some good stuff right there.
) but unfortunately I kinda had to stop because most of the quests I had were too much for me alone and I had no friends there, so... and it's a pvp game and I don't like pvp very much. But other than that, the music is superb and it has a wonderful atmosphere and landscapes etc. The abonnement thing is a big handicap for free players, though, because lots of basic actions are restricted to the people who have the abonnement. Paying for extra items, okay. Paying for basic interactions - no :c
