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Can anyone help me remember an old MMORPG?
Cuddleheart
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So, about every few years I try to look around and see if I can find the title of the game via MMO lists on various sites. I have had zero luck. It's definitely not where it should be time-wise on the list on this site - if it's there at all. Any help would be appreciated. This is what I remember...
- I bought this in-box at a brick and mortar game store in the Washington DC area.
- I bought it somewhere around maybe between UO - Third Dawn and Istaria. Sooo 2000-2003ish?
- It was sci-fi space in nature.
- It was low polygon.
- You would play as various alien species I think.
- You started in a hanger or space station.
- There were very active GMs because they actively found me and asked if I needed help.
I bought this and played a few days of the free month and never touched it again. I doubt it was particularly good. However, the not knowing wtf was has bothered me for a long time.
- I bought this in-box at a brick and mortar game store in the Washington DC area.
- I bought it somewhere around maybe between UO - Third Dawn and Istaria. Sooo 2000-2003ish?
- It was sci-fi space in nature.
- It was low polygon.
- You would play as various alien species I think.
- You started in a hanger or space station.
- There were very active GMs because they actively found me and asked if I needed help.
I bought this and played a few days of the free month and never touched it again. I doubt it was particularly good. However, the not knowing wtf was has bothered me for a long time.
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Great game than and Great game today .. maybe time to revisit again, usually play it every year for 2-3 months
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I was not interested in that genre yet because they all looked pretty bad to me, it was 2003 FFXI that finally got me into playing one steady.
I have gone back to try AO a couple times out of sheer boredom but never stuck with it more than maybe 2 weeks.
When comes to game design there are loads of little things I look at when I enter a game and they need to be done well for me to stick around.
Anyhow,I can see the intrigue with AO back before FFXi came out and maybe still since it is more of a pew pew game than a Fantasy game so different genres.
One thing i have NEVER liked is when the GEAR makes the player,i NEED to have combat in MY control and not just automated by my gear.
My long winded point if you haven't figured it out is that i would not mock anyone for liking AO at that time because it was one of the better games for about 3=4 more years.
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This was something else. This is why it's bothering me. My brain reserves WAY too much storage for useless video game and Saved By the Bell trivia for me to not be able to figure this out.
Every time I get the itch to hunt, I end up feeling like I did in the 90's when I was trying to convince my friends that I really DID have a game called Samurai Zombie Nation and it really WAS a game about being a decapitated head that flies around blowing stuff up.
Anyhow thanks for your help so far!
*edit* It's not PS1 either. At best, I would say it had graphics that were around Asheron's Call caliber.
*edit edit* If it helps narrow it down, as far as I can tell, it's not listed here.
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Phantasy Star Online Ver. 2 Announced for PC
link: https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/09/12/phantasy-star-online-ver-2-announced-for-pcEdit. Endless Ages could be it too. It had first person combat too however.
/Cheers,
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Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
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It was third person, I think. Don't remember the exact control scheme but pretty sure it wasn't a shooter>.<
Not Tabula Rasa. Not Faces of Mankind.
I thought for a minute it MIGHT be Earth and Beyond, but I'm pretty sure it's not.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_games
Adjust the dates and check the list.
There's a dedicated reddit for discovering forgotten games: TipofMyJoyStick: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/
Can you describe the aliens/players?
Are you sure it was an MMO? Were there other players running around?
You might be right about Endless Ages.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer