What MMO / RPG are you playing today??

hi everyone, im posting to see what everyone is playing these days. i currently play guild wars and final fantasy xi. im getting out of ffxi becuase it just looks soo dated and there are sooooo few people playing today that i cannot find a single person o join a party with anymore.

i kinda dislike how i HAVE to use henchmen in guild wars as there are not many people who are my level and few people want to party. so as of now im downloadind the WOW trial again. i just want to party with actual people.

i also enjoy the witcher ALOT, but alas its not a MMO. and im looking forward to dragon ages.

im asking what you guys are playing. thanks

I play Guild Wars. If you get Nightfall and/or Eye of the North, you will have access to heroes. They are MUCH better than henchmen. You pick their secondary profession (and can change it at will), all eight skills on their skill bar, equip them with weapons, runes, etc.
I also still occasionally play Diablo II (not online though), and the original Sacred. I recently installed Sacred 2, and believe I will enjoy that one a lot too. I've written a "first impressions" commentary in another thread.
I've never tried WoW, and won't because of what I've read about griefers; I have no patience for that. I'm really not all that keen on playing a game that requires a monthly subscription to play, or one where you cannot be successful unless you constantly spend real-world money to upgrade your character or his/her equipment.
I'm not twitchy enough for shooters, so, I'm also interested in reading about the other good fantasty action/[MMO]RPG games others are playing.

I was going to get Neverwinter Nights 2 and play with a buddy of mine, do you guys think it is worth it?

I agree with jtt283 on gettign the upgrades for guild wars. Worth while if you like the basic game but Its frustrating when MMO dont have many users to party up with.

WoW will always be a love or hate MMO. Yes you have to pay monthly but YOU WILL SAVE MONEY as most people i know that play spend very little on other games. Its not true that you need to spend real life money to get gold and the best gear because the best gear is only achieved through raiding which means you need to at least have some skill as the best items cannot be bought.

On the dowside you do need to put in a lot of time so if you want to be good be prepared to waste many hours however if you dont mind not having the best stuff then its still fun for casual gamers. You have to remember though that even though levelling can be dull at times the real game starts at level 80. Its HUGE so you will never get bored.

I have played quite a few other MMOs and would summerise that

WoW = best for hardcore playing. Can still be fun as casual as long as you do not mind missing out on the best gear.

Guild wars = great for casuals or hardcore gamers that do not mind playing with NPCs sometimes.

warhammer online = Wasnt bad for casual gamer but because of lack of people it isnt as fun as guild wars or wow as wow has enough people and guild wars can be played alone easily if needed.

EVE = a veteran MMO players game. Very technical! I played for a while but found it quite boring.

LOTR = I have heard good things but not played. Again i hear it suffers from lack of players.

Mount and Blade. This game is getting deeper as I go, I'm loving it.

Hi guys im new here...

Im currently playing Atlantica Online by nDoors Interactive, a turn-based MMORPG...

The battles are turn-based like old school RPGs which is a deviation from the cookie cutter WOW clones out in the market today...

and the beast thing about this game is its free lol!

Try to google this game up...

Sacred 2

probably just an ATI issue. I've had none using Nvidia.

Actually WoW is pretty casual, the whole WOTLK end game is clearable in 3 hours, with a decent guild. Blizzard designed with WOTLK to be casual, they are trying to show that mmo's can be casual and appeal to everyone. But yeah, wow shouldn't be called an mmo, theres no diffaculty anymore and everything is soooo spoon fed to you.

WoW...enjoying the content as a Holydin which i didnt see on my rogue for various reasons. Nothing else really attracts me tbh but its more to do with the amount of time i have invested into the game and i dont really want to go through all that again while there are still things to achieve in WoW

Grab the GW .iso's and burn em to a dvd

Either that or take up sport.

Navyfield. It's very addictive free game with nice graphics. You grind like in any other Korean MMO but instead of fantasy characters you build and grind a crew of a World War II ship or submarine. It's a real time tactical naval game based mainly on player's "twitch" skills: calculating torpedo firing solutions, gun ranges and angles, managing airplane squadrons, operating anti-air guns or anti-submarine weapons. The level and abilities of a sailor have effect on stuff like ship's speed and repair rate, spread of fired gun shells, reload time of torpedoes and guns, firepower of fighter airplanes and types of ships player can use. There are many types of sailors, ships, guns, torpedoes and airplanes. If you join one of the most influential fleets, you can participate in a special strategic event called "Harbor Assault" once a week. During the event one fleet defends their harbor and an invading fleet tries to take the harbor with landing forces.

WoW. Been playing since Open Beta... had the same main since release.

Just picked up Age of Conan the other day, heard it had improved a fair bit since it's launch last year. Haven't gotten far yet, but the graphics are amazing, especially cranked up all the way.

I'm waiting for Jumpgate before I really jump into a MMO. Thinking about trying out Runes of Magic.

MOUNT & BLADE FTW
its by far the best action rpg iv ever played

my pc - core 2 duo e6600 (2.4 ghz, 4mb cache, 1066fsb)
gigabyte intel g965 mobo
2 gb ddr2 800
asus radeon 4670 512mb ddr3
onboard sound


i'm playing the witcher : enhanced edition and rise of the argonauts. how the game mount and blade will be? i mean is it like rise of the argonauts ? and how well can i play it in my pc ?

left 4 dead is back after trying it out online but still feel like i need an MMO in my life.

Gonna download mount and blade and try tht i think

There is i think a multiplayer coming but for the moment just a single player.

Mount and blade, i would advise to try out with the demo which is the full game limited to level 7.

How well it runs on your system i can't sya but graphically it is not cutting edge focussing more on fairly large battlefields and combat. Howefer, it can still slow my sstem down to about 30fps in large battles. I have used a battlesize modifier to enable larger battles which are limited to 100 units at a time. I have a 110 or so people in my group and have set it to alolow up to 300 units which does hamper performance.

I think it does have some multi-threaded elements but not sure what.

What a surprise.

LOTR - just started good game
EVE online - some mining in a hulk and L4 missions
WW2OL - playing since November 2002

well you like party with other players right. its cool to have party in atlantica where you can have a long distance party and do the quest together. its really nice to have ldp thats what i do all the time so i can gain more exp plus the exp books.

Depends on what you like.

Like all addictive games, it has many good points and bad points, but you still keep playing.

Warhammer WAAAAGH!!

love the RvR and keep take/defence. and the classes are totally different then any other fantasy genre mmo

thats true about wow, when they release BC that was pretty much for hardcore raiders only, there was three places you could clear with pugs which was kara, gruuls and mag, after that you HAD to be in a hardcore raiding guild to get any further into the game, even at the start of bc kara was impossible for pugs, when wotlk was released people started pugging malygos after just a couple of weeks which obviously means blizzard wants to make it fair for everyone to get gear, not just the people who spend their life on wow, its good and bad, good because everyone has a chance to explore the game, bad because every man and his dog is going to have the gear which doesnt make it as big of an achievement for getting the gear

Left 4 Dead is all about online play man. Playing SP is like playing BF1942 SP.

But, Guild Wars, is that not still an "install as you play" game? I know you can load CD's which speeds things up but the online client is quite smart.