In search of the great interactive MMORPG

[TheWall]

I played UO pre Trammel. It was the best of the best for my money and for no other reason then the players could interact with eachother and the environment in so many ways. It made the world feel real and dangerous. Success meant so much more then it has in any other MMO I have played. I don't want to play an emulated server or anything like that.

I'm just curious if there are any games out there now that come close to the fun that was UO.

[schild]

Here we go again.

[TheWall]

I don't get it. But then I don't know what catass means either.

[Nyght]

Perhaps we should just join the world of missing persons.

[Nebu]

I don't get it.

1. This topic has been replayed more than "Dancing Queen".

2. It's easy to look back on the past with rose-colored glasses.  It's often referred to as "romanticizing the past".

[Yegolev]

Someone go get the Myopic Turdburglar.  I'll let him give you the advice I gave him: sub to Horizons.

Schild: nice pic!

A serious suggestion to TheWall: sub to EVE.

[Rasix]

Hmmmmm.. so many pre-canned responses and so little time. 

You're obviously just looking to gank people, you dirty little PK griefer.  So, take Yegolev advice and try EVE; they've got open PVP.  Just bring a book for the travel times.

[Fargull]

Would U Atleast do a post search with UO as the focus.

Damn Schild, I actually laughed at the picture.

[Venkman]

I played UO pre Trammel. It was the best of the best for my money and for no other reason then the players could interact with eachother and the environment in so many ways. It made the world feel real and dangerous. Success meant so much more then it has in any other MMO I have played. I don't want to play an emulated server or anything like that.

I'm just curious if there are any games out there now that come close to the fun that was UO.

What have you been playing since 1999? It'll help drive you to a new game to understand what you've been playing since.

[TheWall]

I don't need to search on UO because I don't want to discuss or find out about UO. I just want to know if any games have a similar play style.

I've played SWG, DAOC, COH and WOW. COH didn't last more than my first travel power. SWG didn't last more than my free month. DAOC I played for two years before the TOA stuff set the post 50 bar to high. I have just ebayed my WoW account.

I'm looking for something new that is as close to the fun as I once had in UO. Of course I am looking at the past with rose colored glasses. I'm sorry for the nostalgia.

I'll look into EVE. I don't know much about it. I'm to casual a player to ever become a mega PK or griefer. I just want to play in a world that is dangerous and interactive. And yes, if I kill you, I want to take your stuff.  :-D

[Yegolev]

Saerching on "UO" will just save everyone here some typing effort.  Except me.

In the spirit of the olden days, I'll SirBruce this... with a smile, of course:

I'll look into EVE.

You should.  It's better than UO.

I don't know much about it.

Me too, and that's after going through the four-hour tutorial twice and playing with established people.

I'm to casual a player to ever become a mega PK or griefer.

Even casuals can grief in EVE.  You do need to learn the ropes first, otherwise one of the first words you will learn is CONCORDOKKEN.

I just want to play in a world that is dangerous and interactive.

How much more interactive do you want outside blowing up people and mining asteroids?

And yes, if I kill you, I want to take your stuff.  :-D

Welcome to your new obsession.

[Signe]

I THINK Schild was trying to say, "same as it ever was".  I could be wrong but it would be just like him.  He likes to go all gray and blurry around the edges.

[schild]

What else would I have been trying to say?

[Signe]

I was only trying to be kind to poor TheWall.  He seemed to be confused. 

[Righ]

What else would I have been trying to say?

Take me to the river?

[schild]

What else would I have been trying to say?

Take me to the river?

Heh.

[Issele]

Eve does look good. I plan to give it a go here soon:  http://www.gamespot.com/news/6143833.html

[tar]

What else would I have been trying to say?

First thing that came to mind was 'Road to Nowhere'

[Alkiera]

Eve does look good. I plan to give it a go here soon:  http://www.gamespot.com/news/6143833.html

I just picked this up the other day and I have to admit I wasn't impressed. I thought it was overly compicated and really aimless in comparison to some other MMOs available which I have recently played (CoV, WoW, etc.) and after playing a few hours on my first day I pretty much thought I had made a huge mistake but I came back the next day and tried it again and gave it a bit more time and it has really grown on me in the last few days. I love playing it now and I've even got a couple of friends trying it too. The best part is you can play it windowed! So I can play and read Gamespot at the same time hehe.

Emphasis mine.  Egads, man.  Like, the best part of a stationary bike is that you don't need both hands, so you can excercise and play russian roulette at the same time...  A practice I highly recommend to the author of that comment.

Alkiera

[Venkman]

Are the universal chat channels still dominated by what books people are reading while they travel? 

[Murgos]

Are the universal chat channels still dominated by what books people are reading while they travel? 

Dunno, I stay in the f13 channel.

I don't actually think travel is all that slow, jumping across 10 systems in EVE is no slower than going from say Freeport to Qeynos in EQ2, with griffons - I have had very little reason to travel farther than that yet but I r still nub.  The problem is that it can be entirely 'hands-off' and non-interactive.  You set up a route, turn on the auto-pilot and then there is nothing to do but catch 5 minutes of whatever show happens to be on the tube, unless you are cutting a corner through contested space.  If you are doing some crazy trade route across 150 systems (EVE is HUEG) all through > .5 space then yes, I would bring a book.

My answer to that is 'resist the urge to catass'.  Yes, huge volume trading looks like you can make 100's of millions of ISK with little or no risk, just a MASSIVE time investment, however you are abandoning your soul to the spreadsheet.

The final thing I have to say is that EVE is a slow paced game - don't expect anything else.  It is perfect for casual gamers though.  One or two sessions for 2 or three hours a week is plenty but there is also an enormous depth there if you want to devote more time to it than that.

Though some appearance customization would be nice.

edit: Also, as laughably as it sounds, EQ2 is making great stides as well.

[HaemishM]

I don't get it. But then I don't know what catass means either.

It means...

Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.

[schild]

It brings a tear to my eye that this thread made it past the second post.

[Furiously]

It brings a tear to my eye

great - now I'll have steve winwood stuck in my head.

[schild]

It brings a tear to my eye

great - now I'll have steve winwood stuck in my head.

That's entirely and completely your fault.

[Nebu]

great - now I'll have steve winwood stuck in my head.

Better Steve than this.

[Murgos]

It brings a tear to my eye that this thread made it past the second post.

If you had grief linked the goat instead of some sly joke I am sure it would have died right there.

Probably would have been the appropriate way to deal with the subject anyway, what did that WUA thread get up to?  30 pages?  If the guy can't be assed out to look at a thread that goes into that kind of detail on the subject he's asking about (even when he is told that the subject exists) then he probably deserved a little bit of the goatse, or rainbow tub girl...

[schild]

Speaking of tub girl, my birthday is next week.

[Murgos]

Speaking of tub girl, my birthday is next week.

It better not be friday.

[schild]

Speaking of tub girl, my birthday is next week.

It better not be friday.

Yours better not be wednesday.

[Alkiera]

Speaking of tub girl, my birthday is next week.

It better not be friday.

Yours better not be wednesday.

Mine is two weeks from yesterday.

Alkiera

[Murgos]

Speaking of tub girl, my birthday is next week.

It better not be friday.

Yours better not be wednesday.

No, it's friday. 

[WindupAtheist]

UO forevar?

No seriously, play EVE I guess?  I don't know much about it, but it's pretty much the only game around that's any different from the DAoC/WoW/Whatever that you've already played.  I still play UO, but then I'm a carebear.  So yeah, EVE or STFU and play graphical Diku like everyone else.

[Morfiend]

What else would I have been trying to say?

I love you?

[tazelbain]

Buzz words like interactive bug me.