Rank your favorite/Worst MMO 1-5!

[GarfieldtheCat]

Best:
LOTRO

Worst
(technically) LOTRO

It's the only one i ever really played, so I guess it has to be the best and worst, right?

For the record, I really like it, so i would put it in the "best" column.

 

[pathos]

Best:
4 - Granado Espada/Sword of the New World (controlling 3 characters at once was different)

Ahh, that was one of the things I loved about the game. Getting to use 3 characters at a time. Made the game control very different from any other mmo I've played.

I also loved how many unique pc's you could quest.

The world design and story were pretty cool too. And the graphics were actually decent.

But the grind, oh, the grind. And, I only throught it was tough getting to level 100. Then trying to grind through expert and veteran? ungh

It really would have helped to have some traditional type quests with decent xp rewards to help ease that burden, rather than "kill 50 mobs for an xp card"

 

[El Guaraguao]

Worst - Warhammer Online

 

[CountZero]

WOW=EQ>>AOC

Those are the only three I've played for more than a few hours. The problem I have is now I don't have nearly the time (or even if I did I'm not sure I'd want to) to spend playing something hardcore and difficult like EQ was and all new games that aren't all time consuming are essentially wow clones, why bother playing a clone of a game I'm already invested in.

If it wasn't for the fact that MMOs are about the only game my fiancee will play I'd probably not bother at all. This also ties into the game needing to be easy to get into, and easy to be relatively good at.

 

[AstroManLuca]

BEST:
none

WORST:
all of them

I never played an MMO after I did about three hours on a friend's WoW account, though. It was stupid.

 

[ivan2]

best: WoW, pre-patched pre-everything SWG.
worst: everything else especially perfect world, magami or however that lame shit is called, ragnork.

 

[JoshGuru7]

I'm surprised to see how many people here played Asheron's Call. What server / main characters guys?

Morningthaw - Fade-To-Black

Frostfell / Darktide here.

 

[KIAman]

Best
1. AOC - Only quit because severe lack of population
2. UO - Only quit because it was really old
3. POTBS - Only quit because severe lack of population
4. Guild Wars - Loved arena pvp, one of the best team pvp games

Worst
1. Vanguard - Complete lack of pvp or balance or anything to do with pvp and WTF is up with diplomacy and crafting, 2 entire sub-games all by themselves
2. Wow - bleh, i hear hello kitty online has better pvp
3. DDO - Hey buddy, wanna do this same dungeon 100000 times?!? Bar-room pvp?!?!? This game ran out of content, fast.
4. Ragnarok Online - Absolutely suckage fail
5. Warhammer Online - Yay for imbalanced faction mirror classes

 

[Tristicus]

1. Age of Conan
2. Champions Online

Those are the only MMOs I've played and I like them both.

 

[Chapbass]

Best?

1) Gemstone 3
2) Magestorm
3) Everquest (sort of)
4) City of Heroes
5) Eve

Worst?
1) Vanguard
2) Asherons Call 2
3) Age of Conan
4) Lineage 2
5) WoW

The way I rate this is by how well the game was designed in perspective of it's release and how much fun I had with it at the time. For example, I think as of right now Everquest is a horrible game, but when it first came out it was amazing for what it was. It kept me playing endless long hours, missing sleep to barely make it to work, and dreaming about it up until Scars came out. That is not to say I didn't see its faults nor was colorblind to many glaring bad game play aspects. Now you couldn't get me to go back to play that game at all though.

I will say that at this time, no MMO I consider all that good right now. None of them on the market. Right now I'm barely playing Allods and Alganon just for something to do, but they aren't all that great. I am refusing from now on to give my good money to badly developed games. Now the free games I can handle for now such as Allods or Penumbruum and betas.

This post wins them all because of Gemstone 3.

Almost thought about re-activating a few days ago....

My best list:

GS3/4
WoW Original/BC
Guild Wars
Warhammer
SWG

Not going to make a worst as those are the only ones I really played, but SWG really burnt me bad. Never played the expansions, but the whole Droid engineer being completely broken, being able to master a class in ~2 hours of playtime, and creature handlers dominating everything in sight...

Oh yeah, and the fact that people ran forward and backward the same speed, so melee classes could never catch up. Awesome!

Anyway, Gemstone was and still is amazing. Now i want to play again...

 

[Via]

I'm surprised to see how many people here played Asheron's Call. What server / main characters guys?

Morningthaw - Fade-To-Black

My main guy was a Sho on Frostfell or Leafcull, I can never remember which.

Most of my characters and in-game friends were on that server, but I had some on different servers as well.

I waited until the last character I ever created to make one on Darktide. That was a trip - I got killed about 2.3 seconds into my Darktide career. I eventually logged off for the last time at level 25 or so after getting to know some pretty cool people there. Every minute on that server was intense.

AC was always more social for me than grinding or looting. I used to love just hanging out and talking to people from all over the world.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Favorite:
LoTRO
SWG (awesome pre-Jedi)

Worst:
No Idea.

 

[v8envy]

I've played most of the MMOs mentioned. Even liked Anarchy Online, Sword of the New World, Ragnarok Online and even Perfect World at one time or another.

The one I keep resubbing:

1. Eve

For both best and worst. No mandatory grind, just pure unadulterated griefing of people you don't even know. It has a certain magic to it.

 

[JoshGuru7]

AC was always more social for me than grinding or looting. I used to love just hanging out and talking to people from all over the world.

This is at least partly true of everybody's AC experience (and EQ experience) and one of the things that I think most newer MMO's lack. The bits of downtime that were very heavily social have been largely replaced by constant follow-the-waypoint questing to max level. Sure there's still social interaction in your guild chat and on vent, but it's mostly within a very small circle of existing friends.

The limiting of social interactions is the downside to the replacement of grinding/exploration with questing, since the risk of strangers screwing up a quest means you stick to known guildmates.

 

[Acanthus]

Best to Worst

1. Old DAOC (before TOA)
2. Warhammer Online (my current MMO, thoroughly enjoy it)
3. Everquest 2
4. Everquest
5. World of Warcraft
6. Eve Online
7. Planetside
8. Lineage 2
9. Vanguard
10. Shadowbane (they cant even get people to play it for free)
11. Horizons (now defunct)
12. Second Life
13. Project Offset

 

[Bashbelly]

1) DAOC: Loved getting healer to rr10 back when PAC was godly, then totally loving the other side of the fence with a female dwarf savage also to rr10 (goddamn that was hilarious).
2) WoW: Was a blast getting to 80 with my wife duoing. PVP sucked. The raid stuff was a turn off.
3) EQ1: played up until kunark expansion with my gimp paladin.