/v/ - Video Games

>>14441218

MMORPGs are shit games that were only popular back then because they were technically impressive. Putting thousands of people in a same server severely limits gameplay and until we can get shit like proper real time combat that isn't a targeting fest or simply dumbed down gameplay in general to accommodate for the huge player size, MMOs will always be shit.

Asheron's Call Emulator

Turbine publicly made comments to release the server to the public so we could run custom/private servers. Warner Brothers reneged. WB shutdown Pea's PhatAC server emulator (allegedly because he used leaked assets to avoid reverse-engineering). ACE is open-source and does not use leaked data to assist its development.

-Can explore the world as it was when WB turned off the servers.

-Open source.

-Combat not functioning (yet).

-Quests not fully functional (yet).

When it gets to the point combat works I intend on hosting a pvp-only (I was an officer in the Blood guild on Darktide) for us. I've made minor contributions on the github.

Project Gorgon is going beta and coming to steam in a month

it is a good time to play once again with /v/ and check out all the improvements and new content.

>>14441957

I can't wait to start up the animal PC racism again.

Remember, Spiders are cool and make for good sub-classed Necromancers and Mentalists since they have loads of trap and assassination moves, Lycans are fucking wolves so they're cool only if because they're non-commital to the animal class, and all Cows and Pigs must be cured. If you see a Deer player, kill him if he doesn't accept a cure potion to undo his curse, for he is the worst kind of freak and must be bullied excessively.

All farm animal PCs and Deer are second class citizens and must be shat upon and treated as the vermin they are.

Spider PCs are actually cool, though, since their class actually meshes with the shit that isn't locked and they don't need Words of Power to talk to Serbule NPCs.

If you're going to be a cursed animal class, focus entirely on magic since all weapon techniques get locked when you're cursed. Deer are summoners, Cows are tanks, Pigs are support and item finding, and Spiders are rouges with loads of utility and lockdown.

Lycans are DPS, and you don't have to commit to being a wolf, but the game will lock you into that form during a full moon, so prepare

Animal Classes are meant to be a harder way to play the game, so you have to set up and quest as a human first because you'll get locked out of loads of shit if you get cursed.

All cursed forms are a bit expensive to get out of, so don't drink any Juices until you're sure.

>>14442195

no shit

>>14441957

im playing right now. there's no questlines yet, its mostly just grinding for skills, and there will be a full inventory reset at the end of the year, but your skills will stay.

hit me up in game fam, pic related.

>>14441218

MMORPG is the poor mans game. Of mind soul body and wallet. Play a real game, play RTS.

>be me

>be first from my village to play runescape in 2000~,

>play for a good 3 years, get bullied at school for it, all the bullies start playing it

>master this shit for time investment, go back to real games

>crank it out again in college around 08-09~ for retarded costumes and fuck shit up during pre drinks

>master a game twice

>2013 comes by, re-release osrs

>master that shit (legit a couple of 99s this time with perfect run through playing with mates and family in a communistesque style of from each according to his meme to that of his ability

heres the retarded part but its what maxed me out for like the 4th time in the shittest game possible

>be wcing master god, larp like fuck coming from a grandmaster background in rts over these peasent mmo'ers.

>qt pi presents herself outside my bank

>wtfisthis.bbq

>50-50 whether its some fat 400lb guy named frank from his m0ms basement

>proceed to chat up, eventually get social network info, proceed to skype dates

>mfw presently surprised its a cute as fuck skinny little girl

>tells me shes 18, get naked on cam and shit for each other, e-dates, online couple for a good month+ shitposting

>fastforward 5 years

>pieces of teh puzzle.cometogether

>turns out she was a 12 year old daughter of an FBI agent that has been in my virtual world for at least a decade

>mfw should of saved all the nudes from cam

>mfw borderline pedo shit, genuinely fell in love for this retard

>tells me she went to a party and kissed some dude with a beard (also comes out shes massively autistic and this was possibly a LARP)

>proceed to psychologically abuse her for being goofstepped like this for a good 3 years until I'm bored and she'll no longer respond/bite

>go full retard

>no more mates are playing anyway,

>melt down the 200M i made in skilling in osrs

>stake it all vs someone with a pure dualing account thats got 5+ combat levels on me

>lose everything (This was last year)

havent signed in since

fuck that game

was this a good greentext?

best MMO i ever played was age of empires online (think age of empires + warcraft gear), but they took it down after a couple years, i played for 6 months and was rank 7 global with a 10th of the games of anyone else, think there might be a private server going now, could get in on that, else i wouldnt bother MMOs are retarded trash, they are either shit or you dont know if they'll be gone tomorrow.

I have a MMO just for (you)

Its your favorite game of TES, but ONLINE

>>14445220

Shores of hazeron.

I hate most MMOs because they always have some elements of WoW. Not this one.

This game is like "Lets make a first person sim city in space, and give it multiplayer".

It's super fun and you basically make a race of aliens and go from stone age to space age, while trying to build more cities and colonies to expand your empire.

Positives:

-Unlike anything I've ever played

-No loading times between planet to space to another solar system

-Custom building and ship design system

-micromanagy and makes you feel like a god-emperor

Negatives:

-ten bucks a month. It used to be free

-Moving to subscription killed most of the community

-the game is ugly as fuck

-random wildlife abominations attack you out of nowhere.

-very hard to learn at first

>Sell me on an MMORPG

Ok I like to shill I like for free.

>How much fun is it?

For me it's very fun.

>Why is it fun?

Flexible combat system encouraging you to play all the classes to mix and match their passive and active skills and weapons.

>What have you done that has made it fun for you?

Fought giant bosses, customized cool transforming mechs, rode and flew around a fuck huge beautiful map, made myself so fucking invincible even the super bosses are easy fights for me.

>What's the community like?

No idea.

>How stable is the ingame economy?

What economy? At some point you just stop needing money and fuel and just grind for enemy drops make affixes/mods.

>Are the devs greedy Jews in the most obtuse way

Yes, that's why I pirated it and just hacked in all online-only content.

>>14445220

You sire seem like a trustworthy man, I will upvote your comment and also endorse the great game that is TES: Online!

>>14445654

It's Xenoblade X.

I'm sorry anon.

FF14 is pretty good, but

<$15 a month sub

<like 70% of the playerbase is inexplicably retarded and can't get good dps

<roleplaying faggots everywhere in town

<pvp is a garbage fire

On the other hand some of the melee DPS jobs can get pretty crazy with rotations and the level of execution in general, and I even found tanking as enjoyable as it was in GW1. There's also a shitload of other content in the game including crafting/gathering and a couple decent minigames like chocobo racing and some tower defense thing where you use your minipets.

I also play Guild Wars 2 got lured in by nostalgia 2 years after launch and the new expansion is surprisingly decent, though the rest of the game is shit and I don't have very many good things to say about it aside from there's no sub fee and it's relatively easy to pick up and play after you've been away for a while (unlike FF14 where I usually need to do some de-rusting with my combat rotations and get caught up with the gear treadmill when I come back to it).

Alright. Lineage 2 Classic shill anon here.

Lineage 2 Classic is an official rerelease (with some changes from the original) of old-Lineage, that is, a server hosted before NCSoft fucked the game up with attempts to get the WoW audience.

It's a very 'hardcore' Korean grinder with what many consider to have the best mass-PvP dynamic in MMO history, and one of the best class ecosystems in MMOs where approximately ninety percent of classes have a valued role and dynamic to add to the game. Castle sieges every 2 weeks to determine rulership over certain regions on the map, 1v1 Olympiad tournaments every weekend to compete for your class' top spot with benefits if you win, 9v9 party based skirmishes with rival clans, etc…

It's not a game to play if you can't devote autistic amounts of time to grind, but if you enjoy community-based MMOs where parties are required to progress after a certain point, and don't mind PvE as a vehicle to take you to large-scale PvP engagements, it might be the MMO for you.

It's not without its flaws which I can cover in more detail, and there are some hurdles for NA players to overcome if you're a burger, but if you or anyone else is interested I can elaborate more. My main is fairly well off on the server and I can assist newfags with equipment/a duo to start out with.

I like elite dangerous

>How much fun is it?

I hope you like spaceships

>Why is it fun?

space-trucking, piracy, whatever you want

>What have you done that has made it fun for you?

autisticly customize and micro-manage my small fleet of starships for thier specific rolls, get my name put on star systems that no-one has ever been to

>What's the community like?

forum dads, cool RP guys, soulless gankers

>How stable is the ingame economy?

trade is a huge deal, economy is very well fleshed-out. you could become a gigantic space jew if you so desired.

>Are the devs greedy Jews

probably. base game + a single expansion pass is all you need. all paid DLC is cosmetic.

>>14445336

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeee

I WANT TO PLAY SHORES OF HAZEROOOOOOOOOOOOOON THAT PIECE OF SHIT PUT A PAYWALL ON A FUCKING GAME THAT STRUGGLES TO MAINTAIN ITSELF THAT ONLY 5 AUTISTS PAY TO PLAY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I have a friend I used to work with who used to be into a decent variety of video games. Even bought a copy of Xenogears, Legend of Dragoon, and Legend of Legaia off of him back in the day. I got him into playing PSO on the NGC since he heard good things about the Dreamcast version, and I brought my DC into work one night to let him try it out. We used to run a bunch of games on the Xbox 360, and was always recommending titles back and forth.

Haven't really talked to him in years though, and all he ever plays is free-to-play MMO garbage on the Xbox One. He has an old potato PC but he refuses to game on it or update. He won't get a PS4 for the occasional decent nip title. He just plays NWN/STO/ESO/DCUO on the Xbox. What few titles he plays otherwise are some of the worst cancer in gaming. ME:A, The Division, Destiny 2, DA:I, SW:BF2, etc.

What the fuck happened? Near as I can tell, he's always been the kind of autist who loves grinding - and classic JRPGs were just a stand-in for the concentrated autismo juice of MMO/modern shooter grinds. Now, it's like a drug, and it doesn't even matter what the game is. Just so long as gives him his grinding fix.

The poor bastard.

Meanwhile, I got a copy of Black Desert Online a year back and haven't even bothered getting out of the starting village. Logged in out of curiosity a months ago, and my character was stuck in place and I had to quit.

Noone mentioning Crowfall yet?

It's the best upcoming MMO.

Shame it's gonna take at least a year till it's gonna be finished. It's way too good to waste your time playing it in early access.