Greatest MMO Ever

Post by **Sylvus** » March 12, 2007, 11:27 am

Okay, I'm slowly going to begin un-stickying the nomination threads and making polls for them. Polls will run for 7 days. Which is the greatest MMO ever? And yeah, EQ is going to win, but whatever! I added some more choices that popped in my head anyway.

Niffoni · Post by **Niffoni** » March 13, 2007, 11:15 pm

I've never had as much fun in an MMO as I had in EQ2, and maybe the first month of WoW, but EQ1 deserves the nod for breaking the mold, and sucking me in for damn near 3 years.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » March 13, 2007, 11:36 pm

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noel · Post by **noel** » March 14, 2007, 12:10 am

I voted WoW. I think that everything EQ1 did, WoW did better or improved upon. I loved EQ1, and certainly it took up much more of my time than WoW, but I had to ask myself: Would I ever want something like that again? I've never played WoW to the high/raiding level, but I think the journey, the consistency of the lore, and basically every aspect of the game is better than Everquest.

The one thing that WoW doesn't have that was probably the best part of EQ1 is all of you guys.

Lalanae · Post by **Lalanae** » March 14, 2007, 12:20 am

noel wrote:The one thing that WoW doesn't have that was probably the best part of EQ1 is all of you guys.

Awwww... That's so sweet!

Although this group fought a hell of a lot more back then than now lol

noel · Post by **noel** » March 14, 2007, 12:43 am

It's true though. I think I realized about 3 years into EQ that I hadn't been playing the game for the game for a LONG time. It was so I could play with all the cool people I met from all over the US and the World.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » March 14, 2007, 2:10 am

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Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » March 14, 2007, 2:15 am

noel wrote:I voted WoW. I think that everything EQ1 did, WoW did better or improved upon. I loved EQ1, and certainly it took up much more of my time than WoW, but I had to ask myself: Would I ever want something like that again? I've never played WoW to the high/raiding level, but I think the journey, the consistency of the lore, and basically every aspect of the game is better than Everquest.

The one thing that WoW doesn't have that was probably the best part of EQ1 is all of you guys.

Do you remember much from WoW? I have what seems like an endless memories of things I can recall from EQ. It's like history book and combined with the memories of everyone else on VV would make for tale of epic proportions.

I've never played WoW but no other MMORPG that I have played has anything remotely close to the memories EQ provided both good and bad attached to it...I don't care if WoW or another game has slicker graphics, or faster frame rates, remembering the original EQ and each expansion as they were released, the various guilds (for most of us), countless individual boss mob fights, the details of the various zones...can still remember how to pull most of them and navigate them in my head. Think of Sol A and B...think you could remember how to get to Nagafen's Lair? Remember where the traps are in Lower Guk? EQ FanFaires, rattling off 100 player names from the game, and this message board to cap it all off make EQ leaps and bounds above any other MMORPG. Seven years later, people are still looking to organize get togethers.

A MMORPG's main variation from other games is that it's "massively multiplayer"...a social game, so that's what should carry the most weight in ranking them. How intense was the social activity of the game?

You could make an MMORPG that had graphics equal to Gears of War and I'd still pick EQ until an experience comes along that causes memories to stick like those from EQ.

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » March 14, 2007, 6:08 am

Niffoni wrote:I've never had as much fun in an MMO as I had in EQ2, and maybe the first month of WoW, but EQ1 deserves the nod for breaking the mold, and sucking me in for damn near 3 years.

And, of course, allowing you the opportunity to be in the same guild as me

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » March 14, 2007, 11:41 am

Yes, without EQ we wouldn't be here.

Or should i say, without the people that played EQ at that same timeperiod, we wouldn't be here.

What other game could have done such a task, gathered all of these people together?

Niffoni · Post by **Niffoni** » March 14, 2007, 5:58 pm

vn_Tanc wrote:
Niffoni wrote:I've never had as much fun in an MMO as I had in EQ2, and maybe the first month of WoW, but EQ1 deserves the nod for breaking the mold, and sucking me in for damn near 3 years.
And, of course, allowing you the opportunity to be in the same guild as me

It's been the highlight of my miserable existance!

MooZilla · Post by **MooZilla** » March 15, 2007, 10:33 pm

And the winner is...

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