Your Top 10 MMOs
A really fun thread to read over at f13.net: Your Top 10 MMOs. The replies and reasons for why people rate games the way they do are pretty interesting. I only did my Top 5 because I couldn’t decide on the latter half, but here they are in order: Ultima Online, EverQuest, World of Warcraft, EverQuest II, EVE Online. My relatively brief reasons are in the thread, but basically: I gave precedence to the first two because they essentially created the genre, WoW and EQII got on there because they are both great, and EVE is on there because the dev team sticks to its guns and has something unique.
awesome thread. It is funny how when creating mine it in now way mimics how much time (or how much money) I invested into the game. It really just went from game hop to game hop based on availability and what had a strong community at the time.
I think I could do a top 10, and I might do so on there as well. I do find it hard to rank though, as I’ve played so many games in this genre and after all that, 3 of them stand out. From there, it’s like girlfriends from my college days. They were really fun and I really liked them, but they didn’t change my life. The top 3 are like serious relationships that changed the way I played or in the case of Everquest, the course of my life. Some day I’ll tell that story.
It’s funny how these lists pop up from time to time and a lot of the MMO blogs jump in the pool. I like that the opinions differ so much on the games, even where some of us are of a like mind on the mechanisms we like to see in-game.