What are the best MMOs ever made?

Years / Decades:

70s , 80s , 90s , 00s , 10s , 2020

Genres:

2D Platformers, Bullet Hell / 2D Shooters, First Person Shooters, Flash, Horror, Indie, Metroidvania, Point and Click , Racing, Real Time Strategy, Roguelikes, RPGs (Turn Based), Simulation, Sports, Tabletop RPGs, Visual Novels

Welcome back. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [Action RPG, Board Game, Arcade Game, Third person shooter, Action, 4X (Civilization-like), 3D Platformer, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Text dungeon, Souls-like, Stealth, Rhythm, Survival, Sandbox, Shoot/beat 'em up, City Builder, Adventure, Puzzle, Fighting, MOBA, Turn Based Strategy, Real Time Tactics, Grand Strategy, Handheld, Walking simulator, Tower Defense, Miscellaneous, and Casual] as available genres. Let me know if I missed something, and I will try to get it added.

This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other consoles and genres will come in sporadic subsequent threads. Please contribute to previous threads if you missed them. This is meant to be an exhaustive list.

Expanding on your choice(s) is definitely a plus. Not everyone knows about or has played non-mainstream titles.

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I know it’s the easy answer but World of Warcraft holds a special place in my heart.
Yea, the gameplay is great and the graphics are timeless. All the things that make it a great game have been written and re-iterated since its launch.
The thing that makes it great to me, however, is the fact that I’ve been able to watch people grow up, live life, have kids and even pass away. It trips me out that I’ve had a window into seemingly random people’s live over the 10-15 years I’ve known them and they have looked into a window into my life as well. I’ve shook a few of these people’s hands and had a drink with others. I’ve been a room mate with another.
This is all because we found each other and formed a team to take on the Lich King. We then spent our time together to thwart Deathwing. We’re now raiding Castle Nathria years later.
It’s all abstract and some would say that it’s pointless to put so much emotional effort into it. Fuck em. This is a part of what makes up my being.
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Wildstar had the best combat, dungeon and raid design tho
- WoW and school were the only things I did for a good minute, so I feel this. I have since tried replaying it, and the magic is gone. Maybe it's the people leaving, maybe it's the combat and leveling system changing, IDK. All I know is that it isn't fun anymore.
  
  Totally get what you mean about the magic being gone. I don't particularly play the game for the combat or anything like that. It's always been about playing with and for the crew the last few years.

Club Penguin

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the kids, are indeed alright.

Runescape because it was the first of its type I played and came out at the perfect time for most of us. That's about it, it's extremely repetitive and way too time consuming for me to get back into it without feeling guilty. I like the music and wish there was a Dos2-like game in its setting.

idk but not WoW, anything but Warcraft. I love it with a passion but i wouldn't wish it on fucking anyone :agony-deep:
- I played for a summer than gave my accoubt to a buddy. He lost his job, quit school, and left his fiance.
  I try not to blame myself.
  
  If it hadn't been wow it would have been runescape or magic the gathering or larping or some shit. Its never the actual game itself, its what you need out of it (escapism, socialising, a timesink, escapism again) - and he would have found that somewhere eventually.

Final Fantasy XIV. It's entire history alone is amazing. A complete failure on all fronts, to becoming arguably the best FF game since FFX. Also the current story will end with the next expansion, so now is the best time to begin playing. There is so much content, and honestly, I've rarely had a bad experience with it's community.
- I’ve rarely had a bad experience with it’s community.
  try getting involved in Ultimate raiding

The early years of MMOs were wild. Everquest came out, tons were inspired from it, then WoW came out and so many 'WoW killers' were good games but didn't deliver. I think a big part of why MMOs have kind of fallen off (it's not that big a fall off in the grand scheme of things since gaming is so big) is the gacha and mobile spheres are much more profitable.

Everquest for PvE content, Shadowbane for large scale pvp and Ragnarok Online for small scale pvp.
- price gouging mastela fruit on alts during woe, my childhood
  
  Lmao 200+ people packed into the tiny corridor in the emporium room it was chaos but fun.

Best is a strong word, but two MMOs that had amazing ideas are Face of Mankind and Puzzle Pirates. FoM no longer exists, but it was an open world MMOFPS with economy and politics and all; there is a spiritual successor being developed called Mankind Reborn which will hopefully not have many of the same flaws.
Puzzle Pirates is a game (with economy and politics and all) where all labor is done in the form of puzzles. You'll have one to man the sails, one to load cannons, you have one for when you get into a sword fight, and there are even puzzles for economic stuff like blacksmithing and distilling. Your performance in the puzzle determines how effectively you are working, creating a real skill based game.
- I fucking loved puzzle pirates. It was definitely my first “real” computer game and I remember going on an 80-person 24-hour pillage back when there was just a single ocean.
  It’s still a great game, but it’s unfortunate—although very interesting—to see what the problems their rising then decreasing player base has caused. Namely, that there’s “too much” stuff for the number of players they have now.
  Plus, old heads can only care about blockades for so long before it just becomes a really half-hearted thing people don’t really put much effort in.
  I guess I’m just lamenting because, while the puzzles are fun to this day, the social/political aspects were really what made the game special.

Grenado Espanda. You control multiple characters at once. It's like a quasi-RTS during the dungeon raids.

Y'all ever play Elder Scrolls Online?
I think it's pretty fun and the writing mostly isn't complete dogshit (holy fuck Ebonheart Pact storyline, what happened?)
Looking forward to Gates of Oblivion this year.
- A few hundred hours.
  I just do all the voiced missions quit and resub about once every 2 years.

Guild Wars 2 is the only mmo i ever got to level cap with, great combat and all classes feel different
genshin impact is also fun if u count it as a mmo

I will never forget how compelling playing SWTOR's campaigns was. I've played a handful of MMO's and none of them have even come close to approaching the immersion and world-building that game accomplished. Then you hit max level and there was nothing. I got best in slot PVP gear in a couple weeks, got tired of stomping people, and quit shortly after.

I'm having a lot of fun with Foxhole, despite the often terrible community

Elite Dangerous because you can play it without ever running into another player if you don't want and the state of the galaxy changes depending on the actions of players in the MMO. Really cool concept implemented seamlessly.
- The Fuel Rats and other emergent groups are really cool in that game. I wish the design encouraged more stuff like than rather than almost being borderline internet-connected DRM. I get there's economy modelling and stuff but for single player I don't know if that ever actually comes up enough to be worth it.
  
  Yeah, the always online sucks. I guess that's pretty normal for an MMO, but Elite is weird with the optional single player that's also online

The correct answer is Shadowbane.

I always wanted to play asherons call. Was it any good? I always played everquest and remembered thinking it was better and geeling bad for not switching but I never had a real reason to think it.

Fusionfall :doomer:

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