upcoming MMO's of interest

[ThePrelate]

I'm dying to see Stargate MMO. It's the first SciFi title to really jazz me up.

the Firefly/Serenity MMO has some big potential, but from what I've seen of the platform I'm not sure it's going to not die a "Matrix" death.

I'm also interested in Star Trek, but I'm not sure it is going to be very good, sadly :(

Tabula Rosa has some potential, but I'm not impressed with any of NCSoft's titles other than CoX


I'm just curious who is anxious for other MMO titles.

[Glitch Girl]

Stargate sounds intriguing, as did Firefly.

This thread might do better in the Games forum though.

[UnfluffyBunny]

guild wars 2, nuff said
(on a simular note, the final chapter of GW1 comes out next friday ^_^)

[ThePrelate]

I never played GW1.. though a lot of friends did.

and my bad, I posted this in the wrong forum - if a Mod wants to move to Games? :D

[Sword]

Stargate MMO? I'm on board.

[BatWing]

"yes stargate, woot"
no, hated stargate always have, soldier front and gunz whoo!!!!!!!!!!! :cool:

[Kommando]

Yeah, I could see Ms K and me getting into the Stargate MMO.

[lugaru]

Im kind of holding out for the Marvel MMO.

I mean city of heroes is the only one I've ALMOST liked enough to suscribe, and with some changes and recognizable NPC's and villains it could really rock.

[TheMarvell]

the only MMO I've played is WoW, so naturally the next expansion pack they announced: Wrath of the Lich King.

[GhostMachine]

the only MMO I've played is WoW, so naturally the next expansion pack they announced: Wrath of the Lich King.

You couldn't pay me to go back to WoW....

[Lunarman]

OOOOH WoW is great, almost as good as GW.

And CoH fits somewhere in the middle..

[JeyNyce]

Right now I'm playing LOTR Online.  I had to give up City of Heroes because I can only afford 2 MMO and the second will be Marvel Universe when it comes out.

[Ajax]

Pirates of the Burning Sea looks interesting.

I was going to get Age of Conan but I'm burnt out on sword and sorcery.

[ThePrelate]

i love WoW, I just got sick of the players.. I'm sure some of you can understand that.

www.stargateworlds.com for the SG MMO - I'm madly in love with some of the SS. so beautiful!

I'm very curious how the marvel and dc mmo's turn out. undoubtedly I'll be on board for those as well.
COH will hold a place with me no matter how those two turn out.. Prelate is, after all, my creation.

[BlueBard]

Im kind of holding out for the Marvel MMO.

I mean city of heroes is the only one I've ALMOST liked enough to suscribe, and with some changes and recognizable NPC's and villains it could really rock.

It's entirely possible that, if it's good enough (ie. better than CoH), I might drop CoH in favor of a Marvel-flavored game.

[Pyroclasm]

I'm still happily playing WoW.  However, I'm eagerly anticipating the Marvel MMO.  I am hoping that it can surpass CoH.  If it can't then I won't bother with it.  CoH was ok for the while I was on, but it lost its luster very quickly for me.  Basically the only reason I kept my account for as long as I did was to use the character creator.

[TheMarvell]

I loved WoW for the time I played it, which was a little over a year. But I stopped for several reasons, the main one being the two friends who played it with me stopped playing (one basically fell off the face of the planet while playing the game, but I won't get into that). There was also the fact that I had other games of interest, and I had gotten to a point in the game that would require me to play 3+ hour instance runs and reputation grinds that weren't fun (like Shadow Labs. HATE that freaking instance). Oh, and there's also the fact my guild who I played with for most of the year I had the game disbanded without telling me to form a new "uber raid guild". Eff that. When the new expansion comes out I might check it out. Death Knight class sounds cool, but there's going to be SOOO many of them. I can see it now: "4 DeathKnights LF Healer, pst" >_<

[Verfall]

I've seen some rumor mongering recently that the next MMO from Blizzard could very well be a Diablo based one. Apparently there is a dev crew working on another Diablo, and with the success of WOW, and the fact Starcraft 2 was already announced, a lot of talk is being directed towards the MMO. Some of the stuff I read is that they want it to compete with Lineage in Korea, since anyone who played D2 on the Realms knows that Korea was there in force. A few people even think it can be the first American based MMO to break the 20 million subscriber mark, before even WOW.

Again, rumor mongering at it's finest.

[gdaybloke]

I'm potentially interested in the Warhammer MMO. I like the setting in the very least, and wasted many hours back in my university days painting the figurines.

[ubergreendragon]

To be honest since ive been playing fantasy mmorpgs for a long time i acually looking forward to the Lego Universe MMO game. Just cuz its lego and probably alot of fun.

[GhostMachine]

I quit WoW for a variety of reasons.

When I started playing, my first character (well, first I didn't delete - I think I tried a couple of others out before settling on one) was a Night Elf Hunter. There weren't a ton of Hunters on the server at the time - I think there were more Rogues than just about any other class, actually - so I didn't have much problems getting groups. By the time I had reached about lvl 40, however, the server's Hunter population had quadrupled or more and a lot of them were fast levellers, so I had a ton of competition looking for groups. There were many nights where I finally got disgusted at lfg, and even the Call To Arms mod didn't help much, so I'd end up running another character.

Then the last two straws happened:

1. The leadership of the guild I was in kept telling me to finish the Onyxia key quests yet neither them or anyone else in my guild would offer to help me finish, despite me constantly telling them I was unable to find groups for it - it was easy if you needed to do Jailbreak, because there were groups doing that a lot, but I was two quests away from it and spent over 2 months just trying to get a group. The guild being absolutely useless at helping ticked me off bigtime.

2. The guild used dkp for raids, and the leaders had the advantage of having dkp charts, showing who had had dkp and how much they had. During a ZG raid, the rare tiger mount dropped. The leader, despite knowing there were a lot of people on the raid who couldn't even afford to buy an epic mount and having all the buyable epic mounts in the game, spent his dkp to get the mount knowing that he had more dkp than anyone in the raid who was interested in it, and that was that.

I should also mention that the guild leader once helped me and a few people out when we were going through part of Strath, and I found out after it was over that the reason he was there was because he was hoping for the Baron's mount to drop - I'm not sure if it actually does, but it was rumored to at the time and that was one of the reasons I was there, so there would have been serious hell to pay if it had dropped and he had taken it.

I quit WoW because I realized I was in a guild full of selfish jerks who wouldn't help out other members when we weren't raiding, and realized I probably wouldn't have been able to find a decent one to join. (There were other incidents where I couldn't get help when I needed it, despite me helping people out whenever I could)

Being stabbed in the back by the leader of a guild I had help found when we broke off from another guild to form our own after the way the other person had been treated in our previous guild didn't help, either......

[Metherian]

A Stargate MMO sounds ... interesting ... but I don't know if such a thing would have the 'pull' to attract a large fan base.  Sure, the tv show was an 'all right' show, but it's still on the cusp of obscurity to a lot of people (except sci-fi geeks like myself), and doesn't really have an eye-catching 'gimmick' (no evles, magic, or flashy heroes in spandex.)  The jury is still out on this one.

Warhammer online: Age of Reckoning (or WAR) looks interesting from a 'fluff' standpoint.  Games Workshop has all kinds of source material to draw from, as well as a 'built-in' fan base.  But, on the whole, the game--the in-game graphics and gameplay, that is--appear to be very similar to WoW and/or DAoC.  Sure, there are some minor differences, but that's just it:  they're minor.  I'd have to say the game "looks OK", but it's going to have to offer a lot more to entice MMO fans.  RvR is a great idea (worked well for DAoC), but it's gonna need more.

Age of Conan looks very promising, if only because the graphics engine and fundamental gameplay seem years ahead of the competition.  What other MMO allows you to behead, disembowel, or rip apart your enemy?  I'm really impressed with this game's animation and artwork, as well; top notch stuff.  Who knows if the gameplay will actually be any good, though.  We'll have to wait and see, I guess.

Marvel and DC Universe Online both may be the next big thing for MMO's.  It all depends on what the two comic 'giants' end up doing with their games.  Design is the 'key'.  If they design a 'grind' game, it will be a turn-off, no matter how good it looks.  In recent years, MMO players have become increasingly bored of hyped-up, 'grinding' games with 'crap' for content.  Which leads us to the next game ...

Tabula Rasa.  I'm currently checking out the Beta for this game.  Interesting concept.  Nice graphics and sounds.  Fun gameplay.  But ..... it's very reminiscent of SWG and/or City of Heroes in that it looks nice and plays well enough, but ultimately you're left wondering "well, is that it?"  Sure, the game hasn't been released yet, but I recall having the same response to CoH.  Again, 'grinding' games just won't 'cut it' in this MMO 'next gen' age.

With regard to past MMO's:

City of Heroes/Villains was a great idea, a long time ago, back when they had the original origins (similar to the old Marvel Universe RPG game).  When they started dumbing down the game and making everything EQ-like (so their mission developers wouldn't have to do any hard work), it was the beginning of the end for CoH in my opinion.  I've subscribed and unsubscribed to CoX off and on over the years, but I'm always left feeling deeply unsatisfied with the game.  So I quit, over and over and over.  Everything in the game is so damn cookie cutter.  Everyone has the same powers (if you want to be 'leet', or compete in PvP).  Most in-game costumes look like walking vomit (you have to wonder what some people are even thinking).  And, although the developers have made strides at providing better content, it still seems rather .... meh ... to me.  PvP in CoH is truly one of the most laughable things I have ever seen.  Again, design is the 'key'; Jack did a good job at providing backstory, but his ability to design the game with the future in mind was completely lacking.

A big problem I have with CoH is that your character has no depth, starting with their Origin.  Origins mean nothing in the game.  As such, there are no differences between heroes even at the most fundamental level.  There are no gadgeteeers.  No magic users.  No mutants.  No elite trained humans.  Sure, there are some descriptions, and "fluff" you can throw in your power slots, but your origin has no bearing on the game whatsoever (even with recent expansions). 

Also, the 'crafting system' seems incredibly lame.  Apparently, everyone in the CoH/CoV universe is Reed Richards.  The game really just breaks the suspension of disbelief for me on every level, because it doesn't resemble traditional comic books in any way: it's more like a 'comic book like' universe filled with refugees from Everquest running around in spandex.  They really needed to concentrate on adding better things to the CoX (origins that matter, new power sets, etc.) instead of spending so much time "creating" CoV ... which rips off and copies so much from CoH, you have to wonder if the devs have any imagination at all.  It's been how long since CoH was released ... and they're still rehashing old powersets and animations, and cookie cutter missions, and ... and?  I'm always amused by how they talk about their "free issues", as though they're doing pepole a favor.  WoW has been out for less time, and certainly had more content from the start, has better updates, built-in PvP that's actually fun, etc.

I'm currently playing WoW ... that is, when I'm feeling up to it.  WoW is a good, solid game, but it can be so damn repetitive it makes you want to drill a hole in your head with a power drill at times.  I've quit a few times, as well, but always came back to play with RL friends, a group of about 100 or so 30-something 'geeks' escaping from the daily grind.  I'm still waiting for a sci-fi/comic book themed MMO that's worth a damn.

Star Wars Galaxies?   LoLololOlolOloL .... now, that's a game that just needs to be burned to the ground and buried, never to be spoken of again.

DAoC was good ... while it lasted.  It just got bulldozed by the WoW juggernaught, largely due to its lack of updates and their aging graphics engine, etc.

LoTR Online:  Never played it.   The music writing features sound interesting, though.  This is one game I may try some day.

D&D Online and Vanguard:  No interest whatsoever.  Unless the games offer something innovative (ok, the diplomacy cards sound interesting, but fleeting at best), what's the point?

Eve Online:  I tested the Beta.  Reminded me of Earth and Beyond, just more "Gigeresque" and less charming.  I didn't find it fun at all, which is unfortunate, because that experience has scarred me from trying a recent version of the game.  Oh well .. maybe some day, when I'm bored.

[bearded]

very good reviews.  thank you.

but you do have to admit, the visual of character creation for coh is the best of any game ever, so far.  if only ppl could take advantage of it.  most characters look like someone blindly hit the random button several times.

[Metherian]

but you do have to admit, the visual of character creation for coh is the best of any game ever, so far.  if only ppl could take advantage of it.  most characters look like someone blindly hit the random button several times.

Oh, definitely! ... CoH/CoV has a great tool for creating your character's "look".  And even the in-game graphics and 'zones' still hold up well to today's standards.  From a raw 'playability' standpoint, the game is rock solid: minimal latency, few crashes, awesome patching/update process, etc.

I just have a love-hate relationship with the game.  In fact, lately I've been thinking about re-subbing, at least for a little while, because I'm bored with most other MMO's.  :D  I just wish it had more 'depth'.  /shrug

[captainspud]

I've seen some rumor mongering recently that the next MMO from Blizzard could very well be a Diablo based one. Apparently there is a dev crew working on another Diablo, and with the success of WOW, and the fact Starcraft 2 was already announced, a lot of talk is being directed towards the MMO. Some of the stuff I read is that they want it to compete with Lineage in Korea, since anyone who played D2 on the Realms knows that Korea was there in force. A few people even think it can be the first American based MMO to break the 20 million subscriber mark, before even WOW.

Again, rumor mongering at it's finest.

I don't think this will happen. WoW already directly translates every Diablo class except Necros. What Druids do in D2 is what Druids do in WoW. EXACTLY the same powers and strategies.

So, they've already pillaged the D2 mechanics once, I can't see there being enough to do it again without merely cloning their previous efforts, something I'm sure Bliz won't do.

In response to Ghosty-- you keep saying that "nothing could bring you back to WoW", but it sounds like 100% of the reason you left was a small group of unpleasant players. It's not a fault with the game, it's that you were in a bad guild. I was in a guild that sucked, so I... quit. Ta-da, problem solved. Found another guild, and now everything's worked out.

[Ares_God_of_War]

I miss the old SWG. I hear that Bioware is making a KotoR MMO but thats still just a rumor. I will be getting WotLK. I have the same gripes that others have about WoW in pretty much every MMO I have ever played. But SWG still holds a fondess for me since it was my first and even for SOE majory F-ing it up I still have fond memories. I think the biggest dissapointment is the potential it had and the things they got right that really just made it heartbreaking. WoW I have always loved that universe since the first Warcraft and even though I really just do stuff with my GF I still have fun.

[TheMarvell]

I heard of Bioware's KotoR MMO rumor, but now I think more people are saying this is false, and that Bioware's up and coming MMO is actually a game they briefly announced a couple years ago called Dragon Age.