Game Companies are Morons.
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I looked at Skyrim on YouTube. It has the best artwork
I've seen in an RPG.
Truthfully, I find myself getting slow and rather soft
for the dark grimness of D&D games (Warning! Violence,
Blood, Gore!), but not quite ready for G rating.
Still, I must know: Does Skyrim hold one's interest?
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An Old Bat's gotta know her limitations. ~Oonj
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I can't say enuf good stuff about LotRO.
Graphics: awesome.
Huge world: Low-slow me, I don't expect to ever see a third of it.
A wide variety of things to do both in the game & right next door to it.
Only 4 races to choose, but a fair range of classes.
I lied. They added a 5th race Beorning a couple years ago.
I ignore it as being unattractive & pointless.
Still, I took a couple of months off it to check out Blizzard's WoW.
Half of it; I only did the southern part. Cartoonish compared to LotRO,
& it never quite held my interest. But the worst of it was: Had to
stay in town or find lowland, watery green areas to play. Most of
the other landscape had enough red hues to give me a headache.
If you like grotesque, WoW has a fair share of it: One of the races
you can play is Zombie. ... The Panda is very nice, tho.
Lotro Lately: Problem: who the heck is running it now & supposed
to get paid? Turbine or Daybreak? I resent double billing.
... oooOO}{OOooo ...
The meaning of life. Now all I want is the funnest game.
Bein' olde & retired, play til my eyeballs glaze over.
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I'm glad one of them worked out for you. I thought LOTRO might suit you since it sounded like you enjoyed Everquest. I liked it too, though I made the mistake of trying to play the high level PvP area as a warg when I started out since I like wolves... And I'm bad at PvP. But it was still fun while I was into it.
Too bad about the double billing though. Not really sure what some good options for you might be now. I've been playing Guild Wars 2, no subscription cost there I think, and I really like how it progresses both a world story and a personal story. Maybe that might be a good option? Although that one is getting older now too, there might be newer ones.
Everquest next was canceled unfortunately. Elder Scrolls Online is still around as far as I know, that might be another high fantasy option. I've heard some things about Ark: Survival of the Fittest, it's almost like minecraft but with a lot of people interacting with each other and trying to tame dinosaurs. I hear wild stories about the server wide battles and communities from Eve Online, though that's more Sci-Fi. There's also always Skyrim. And Runescape is still around, that's another long runner but I guess they've found ways to keep it from getting stale even if the graphics are outdated.
Final Fantasy 14 Reborn is also a newer one I've played, very pretty, but I found aspects of it frustrating. It locks you into the starter areas and you can't really leave them until you're level twenty, and each area only has a few classes that start there. Aside from how the starting areas look (also very pretty), they're also almost carbon copies of each other story wise. And once you hit Level 20, the game forces you into Pick Up Groups to do anything, which I found awful. I just want to play the game, I don't want other people yelling at me about my DPS or heals because I'm new at it, or dropping me because they find out I'm new. I also don't really like the skimpy outfits, but at least they're skimpy on both genders, and I can see how that would appeal to some people.
And yeah, WoW's cartoony graphics. Back at the time we were discussing this they were still all right, but now they really have dated. And oh man, the storytelling is just bad. Really just awful, it's like an eleven year old writing fanfic. Suddenly villains, incredibly short sighted decisions just for the sake of keeping a weak factional conflict going, killing off or replacing the horde warchief every couple years for no particular reason.
Still play it though because I know friends on there, so I think my predictions in this thread bore out pretty well. Next expansion I think WoW will shut down though. They don't really have anywhere else to go, they've used up just about all the villains, and now Blizzard has Overwatch as their replacement money maker, they're going to want to focus on that and milk it dry while they get their next blockbuster in line.
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Byte, you're the one who convinced me to try LotRO.
And I've been meaning to thank you for it.
A high quality game.
All the RPGs I've tried have a grind to them: If you want
to level up, you will grind mobs; you will grind quests.
The game has to be great enuf that the grind doesn't get you down.
But it's MMO, right? You can talk to other players, join a
Kinship ... make friends. So, I do that, & I like it.
But I don't join groups to raid dungeons or any other challenge.
Why not? My connection's too slow; I'm olde & slow to the point
of clumsy. ... So I just solo along, do my grinds and chat a bit.
... oooOO}{OOooo ...
The meaning of life: Have some work you like & have some fun you like.
Make friends, too.
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I'm glad you're enjoying it O. I have made it a point to stay far, far away from MMO's myself. The idea of a game that never ends is not a good idea at all for me. I remember hearing an interview of Ben Stein back in the day calling EverQuest "EverCrack" and said that it was destroying his son's life. A bit melodramatic, maybe, but I could see me losing myself in an online world like that.
I don't play any games online besides the occasional match of Spades. If I want to play a two player shooter or something I meet up with my brother on occasion and play some good old Goldeneye. Sure, it's about 20 years old now, but there's something pretty awesome about playing it split screen on his 70" TV.
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Yesss.
Guessing, it may have been 2005 when I started in on EverQuest ...
It was the baddest, funnest game I'd ever tried. EverCrack was a
good nickname.
Prior to that, I'd spent some time playing The Realm online, which
may still be going... but very plain & simply done compared to EQ.
It was also tiny; you could explore the whole map in less than a week.
And before the Realm, several, stand alone, play at home, box games:
Wizardry I, Ultima I, A Bard's Tale, etc. I was hooked early on RPGs.
I gave EQ another go for a couple of months last winter. It was dated,
faded; sadly, the thrill was all gone.
... oooOO}{OOooo ...
I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.
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The olde, original, earthly regions of EQ ... nice to visit,
but too slow to play there. To play now, I'd have to base my
Toons on the moon, & explore all new territories. I guess.
EQ is owned by Sony Online Entertainment. I'm not sure
who's managing the subscriptions now.
Lord of the Rings online. Best game I ever saw; absolutely
amazing in its quality!! That's where I'd like to be. Created
by Turbine.
Managing the subscriptions now: Standing Stone Games.
Price went from $29/quarter to $15/month. Plus they always
double-billed me. Cheaters!
I think now I want no MMO. RPG, stand alone, play at home. I've
been reading reviews, & intend to see them on YouTube. My
new game will have to be an olde one, since my OS is now obsolete.
Simulations, by their nature, are stand alone at home ... mostly.
... oooOO}{OOooo ...
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My kid doesn't care much for video games, like me...but she loves to play Slime Rancher which is on Steam.
It sounded stupid to me and I blew it off for a couple months, but it's really relaxing and fun. There are people on there that recommended it to other people with depression, and I'd have to agree. One of the few just enjoyable games I've ever seen. No stress, just collecting and exploring, and finding hidden treasures. No killing, no timers.
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My 1st MO-RPG (Multi-player Online Role Playing Game) was the Realm. 1997,
Sierra Entertainment ... guess I found it in 1999. Small, primitive. It's primarily
a chat room.
My next game was EverQuest, then Lord of the Rings online; somewhen along
the line, I played Worlds of WarCraft.
Pretty often, I saw a notice that my game was On Steam. I never knew what
that meant; so I visited the Steam site just now ... I still don't know what it
means. Except it looks like you can play just about any online game there.
It is a subscription site, yes?
... oooOO}{OOooo ...
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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
It is a subscription site, yes?
We downloaded Steam when Firefly Online was going to be produced and then they had legal problems.
You just sign up for an account, and then if you want to purchase a game you can feed it a credit card or you can buy Steam gift cards and input code, and then just buy and download. Slime Rancher was $20 when we bought it. We also bought and played ABZU in about a day (controls are somewhat difficult to master, but the storyline was fun and the graphics were pretty good). And we have the game of Life from there too.
There are also free games to play.
Kiddo plays School of Dragons MMORPG (free, and you earn gems just for logging on every day) where you can farm animals and produce, buy dragon eggs and hatch, raise, pick names, change colors, and fly them. They have battles every even hour (and then when the time changes it's every odd hour) where you go and attack an invading ship and win prizes.
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