Topic Fed up of Fantasy MMORPG

MontyB · April 2nd, 2008

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Originally Posted by Bzzzz

i agree, they need somthin fresh

The problem is what can they do?
Lets face it from movies to books and games they are all based on a few plot lines that only really differ in setting:

Conan - Good guy fights adversity early on, gets stronger and eventually kills bad guys with sword.
Star Wars - Good guy fights adversity early on, gets stronger and eventually kills bad guys with light sabre.

The only game I am currently looking at seriously is Stargate Worlds but I really don't expect it to be anything out of the ordinary.

MontyB · April 6th, 2008

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Originally Posted by mmarsh

Is it just me? but I am so sick of the fantasy adventuring motif in MMORPG. Think about it. WOW, Guild Wars, Everquest I+II, Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Dungeons and Dragons Online, plus factor in Vanguard, Conan, LOTR MMORPG, Warhammer Online and a few other that will be released in 2007.

To many knowledge there are only City of Heroes/Villians, EVE Online, Auto Assault, SW Galaxies already out with Pirates of the Burning Sea and Star Trek coming out later. Many of those released are rubbish.

Like games based on WWII, Its just been done to death, unless its truly exceptional, its now Boring.

Cannot developers find a more original motif? The only only ones I find exciting are DDO (I like DnD, thats the only reason) Warhammer (because its not a adventuring MMORPG but one based on military campaigns. You are a soldier on the frontlines for the armies of Good or Evil) and Pirates (because I like 18th century naval stories).

Why not use Star Wars (Everybody says Galaxies is garbage), Warhammer 40000, the Mechwarrior universe.

End rant.

Any thoughts?

Well to be honest I played Star Wars Galaxies from release through to the first giant screw up of the combat upgrade (about 18 months) and I really enjoyed the game, I then quit the MMO scene altogether until about a month ago when the wife decided she wanted play SWG again apparently she is bored with Everquest 2.

From what I had heard the new game enhancements (NGE) had pretty much destroyed the game but I downloaded the free trial and started messing about and to be honest the game wasn't that bad sure the population was a lot lower than I remember it but it was still a lot of fun, I am very impressed with the space expansion (I absolutely loved the old Tie Fighter games) and the PvP and missions keep me occupied.

Oh and it still has the best crafting system in any game I have seen to date.