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Filler game until this game releases?
Oscillate
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What would be a newer mmo worth playing while waiting for this? Haven't been playing mmos for a while, [mod edit]. Any suggestions?
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For me it is actually Singleplayer RPGs all the way.
After all current gen MMOs are like single RPGs anyways, real RPGs actually have a Story and usually more content as well.
Sad gaming world for us EQ lovers :-(
MMOs finally replaced social interaction, forced grouping and standing in a line while talking to eachother.
Now we have forced soloing, forced questing and everyone is the hero, without ever having to talk to anyone else. The evolution of multiplayer is here! We won,... right?
- Was playing Vanilla WoW, but the server did some changes that I didn't like, but should be fixed by spring.
- All my friends moved to GuildWars 2, but its feeling more like a pre school playground every time I come back. I guess they are going with the easy and not to offend anyone approach.
So nothing......I just hope Pantheon will be able to handle large populations when released !
I also hope Visionary Realms will re-invest their huge profits back into the game to make it even bigger. Since it will be the only mmo in the market.
Spare us your fanboi BS but if you must, at least wait till beta before you mindlessly declare it a success.
Why would you play a MMO that is all about long term investment if you are just moving on to another game,that makes no sense?
Play a single player game,Dishonored is amazing,only 11 bucks on Steam and can be played in a week or a couple weeks if wanting to replay it until your game comes out.
What else,i think "The Division" is out or will be shortly.
go play a Diablo "POE" type game,they are mindless killing to keep you interested for a couple weeks.
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I'm bored and tired of the same old format of modern MMO's; I haven't played a MMO for months. It's been enjoyable catching up with all the great single player titles I missed over the years due to being too focused on MMO's.
If you need to scratch that MMO itch, Blade and Soul launches within the next couple of weeks but unfortunately still sticks to the same follow the yellow brick road mentality.
My thoughts are that I'm going to Platinum Witcher 3 then probably move on to borderlands, or perhaps blood bourne. I would probably say just play single player games like others have said. Also one other stated Blade and Soul, you can give that a try since it is free to play. I'm going to do that as well, but don't see myself putting much effort into it or rather taking a really long time since I have other life commitments at the moment.
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Plenty of single player games to fill the void with.. Fallout 4, Divinity Original sin.. Wasteland 2, Pillars of eternity etc.. , or NWN2 player worlds are another option.
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[mod edit].I can honestly say none. All the mainstreams will quickly disappoint and any of the older classics that did have some merit have destroyed themselves (LoTRO, DDO, EQ2, EQ).
Last time I checked Asherons Call was still up an running, that may be an option, though I have no idea what state it is in.
Fact is, mainstream is crap, what old school games exist have become mainstream and all that is left is obscure emulators and such.
Maybe play some single player cRPGs? Underail was fully released recently and if you are a fallout 1/2 fan, it will certainly wet your whistle, but as for MMOs, no... all crap, garbage or just imitations.
That is why this game is so important. If it doesn't meet its goals, then the industry might as well not exist to people like me because... well... to be blunt, I wouldn't piss on the games today to save them.
That said, its combat system is horrid, its mainstreaming abuse and direction makes you want to shoot yourself. The nice thing though is that mainstreaming a game tends to make it stupidly easy to play via combat, so... if one is looking to just run through it quick and experience "the story", such dumbed down game play works well.
My suggestion to those who are interested, wait till they put the whole game pack on sale as putting too much money into this game is a pure gimmick and waste.
Sorry, these guys I warned early on in beta about their class/combat design (ie the need to follow the idiotic Trinity class focus) which completely invalidated any real means of their development system, but hey... the WoW crowd was yelling its lungs out then, and well... the allure and stupidity of wanting to appeal to that group led to a combat system that makes no sense, has the technical means of being complex, but is just a mundane chase of grinding points to assist redundant play. /facepalm
For me the only option is single player MMOs. I have 200 hours in Fallout 4 now. I played some Pillars of Eternity. Will probably continue jumping around until Pantheon.
Its funny, because since playing EQ originally, I lost most of my interest in spending much time in single players games. I'd play through the story and enjoy them, but never really wanted to go beyond because I just couldn't justify such a time investment in a single player world. Yet here I am, spending hundreds of hours in these games now because there just isn't an MMO I can stomach.
Might be playing it for a while.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
Project Gorgon however is my Asheron's Call to Pantheon's EQ so looking forward to it (AC was my game back when EQ was king). Waiting for Steam release so they get money and the game is polished a bit more which is what is delaying Steam release atm. February'ish last I heard.
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EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
I could understand under stand flying off the handle and this little flip out. I've been their myself when others overly hype a pre-release. The difference is, I'm acting as a free agent with no affiliation to the company.
In fact many of my statements are not accepted by VR. Difference being I can shoot from the hip with my opinions. VR needs to choose their words more carefully, I don't.
Many of my post and comments are over the top.....Do I know this ?.....I sure do, this is how I get things done in real life. I push issues that need addressing. In real life, some things need to be done. Many just talk about them, I make them happen for the greater good. Now that's in real life, I could give hundreds of examples but this isn't the place.
So you may ask what does this have to do with video games or Pantheon ?
Well, I picked this game. No one asked me to. I see promise in Pantheon in a totally destroyed mmo market. DISTROYED BY DEVELOPERS. Just read General Discussions on this web site. All of its posters in disarray trying to figure out went wrong.....I know, and yes its a fact DEVELOPERS !
It's all about developers main goal :
In Wildstar its about attracting little kids with silliness. In Pantheon it's about attracting mmo players, and we are many, very possible everyone.
i will also play D3 season 5 HC when it starts in a few days. been also playing some CSGO off and on and a bunch of single player games that i wont list here.