Ok, someone give me a recommendation.

[Gilgamel]

Played EQ forever, played WoW for the first year or so. I've tried EQ2 and LOTRO. Just looking for something I can play 8-10 hours a week or more if it's really good. I'm getting tired of FPS and RTS, and I haven't found any RPGs worth playing. Anyone have any recommendations for a MMO that fits the bill?

G

[RiskyChris]

What are your aspirations? PvE, PvP content? Neither?

[jayrebb]

Hello, Gilgamel. Vanguard is shaping up nicely. If I keep evangelizing it on the forums, I believe I can get more people to try it. Its all about managing expectations as I have come to realize. The more time passes, I think about what should and should not have been done with Vanguard. We knew the release date was set in stone. Looking back on it I would have tried to avoid launching the same month as the Burning Crusade. It does not surprise me that you have tried out that "other" game only to retain a year played. Beer and peanuts I call it. We have plans rolled out to make the Vanguard of 2008, 2009, and 2010 each better than the last. Sea exploration, ship to ship combat, real-time RTS city building, and experimental choose-your-destiny adventuring. All done without the "help" of instancing. Not to mention the long dangerous caravan rides, where you can log back in with your party in the middle of a journey at any time.

[Faille]

The Abyss (1989)

[Saban]

Originally Posted by jayrebb

Hello, Gilgamel. Vanguard is shaping up nicely. If I keep evangelizing it on the forums, I believe I can get more people to try it. Its all about managing expectations as I have come to realize. The more time passes, I think about what should and should not have been done with Vanguard. We knew the release date was set in stone. Looking back on it I would have tried to avoid launching the same month as the Burning Crusade. It does not surprise me that you have tried out that "other" game only to retain a year played. Beer and peanuts I call it. We have plans rolled out to make the Vanguard of 2008, 2009, and 2010 each better than the last. Sea exploration, ship to ship combat, real-time RTS city building, and experimental choose-your-destiny adventuring. All done without the "help" of instancing. Not to mention the long dangerous caravan rides, where you can log back in with your party in the middle of a journey at any time.

this post confuses me, i cant tell if hes being serious or not.

[Havelock]

When was the last time you tried EQ2? I picked it up with RoK and I'm really enjoying the casual EQ2 life. Apparently the game has made great strides in the last year or so, so if you played it back in the old days, it may be worth a second look.

[Frax]

Originally Posted by Saban

this post confuses me, i cant tell if hes being serious or not.

I dunno, but it's funny either way!

[Gilgamel]

Originally Posted by Havelock

When was the last time you tried EQ2? I picked it up with RoK and I'm really enjoying the casual EQ2 life. Apparently the game has made great strides in the last year or so, so if you played it back in the old days, it may be worth a second look.

I played at release and got to the cap then gave it up. Just didn't like the style and I'd prefer to jump into a newer MMO not one where no one will be around the low level areas. I'd eventually like to partake in the endgame, whatever that may be, and I do enjoy PVP. Basically I've been waiting to see if AoC could be a game that I'd enjoy for a while, but it's taking forever so I'm looking for something else.

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[Havelock]

Originally Posted by Gilgamel

I played at release and got to the cap then gave it up. Just didn't like the style and I'd prefer to jump into a newer MMO not one where no one will be around the low level areas. I'd eventually like to partake in the endgame, whatever that may be, and I do enjoy PVP. Basically I've been waiting to see if AoC could be a game that I'd enjoy for a while, but it's taking forever so I'm looking for something else.

G

For what it's worth, there are a ton of lowbies running around GFay and Timorous Deep on Antonia Bayle - RoK seems to have acted as a bit of a relaunch. It might not be exactly what you want, but options seem pretty limited these days.

[Gilgamel]

Is there an EQ2 or Vanguard free trial floating around? I can't seem to find one for Vanguard, haven't checked for EQ.

[Saban]

EQ2 has a free trial for echoes of faydwer, but you can only get level 10 and its fairly limiting.

[Istros]

My recommendation would be...
if you're into PvE, play WoW;
if you're into PvP, play WoW.

I sometimes login just to be a dickhead with my alts on Barrens chat. WoW is a cultural experience, the rest are just games.

[Locithon]

Originally Posted by jayrebb

Hello, Gilgamel. Vanguard is shaping up nicely. If I keep evangelizing it on the forums, I believe I can get more people to try it. Its all about managing expectations as I have come to realize. The more time passes, I think about what should and should not have been done with Vanguard. We knew the release date was set in stone. Looking back on it I would have tried to avoid launching the same month as the Burning Crusade. It does not surprise me that you have tried out that "other" game only to retain a year played. Beer and peanuts I call it. We have plans rolled out to make the Vanguard of 2008, 2009, and 2010 each better than the last. Sea exploration, ship to ship combat, real-time RTS city building, and experimental choose-your-destiny adventuring. All done without the "help" of instancing. Not to mention the long dangerous caravan rides, where you can log back in with your party in the middle of a journey at any time.

Not bad, but your about 10 paragraphs short of a genuine brad post.

[Zehn - Vhex]

Originally Posted by Gilgamel

Played EQ forever, played WoW for the first year or so. I've tried EQ2 and LOTRO. Just looking for something I can play 8-10 hours a week or more if it's really good. I'm getting tired of FPS and RTS, and I haven't found any RPGs worth playing. Anyone have any recommendations for a MMO that fits the bill?

G

I've always felt the best games are the ones your friends are playing. So count all your friends playing each particular MMO and then put a shotgun to your head and pull the trigger when you realize you came up all zeros.

No seriously, if you can't pick an mmo, either you have no friends playing them or you lack any semblance of social graces, or you've got a 15 inch cock a supermodel girlfriend and have your own fanclub.

If you're just looking for a new game to try

Eve is good for about 2 weeks until that new game smell wears off and you realize that you've made about 1% progress to catch up in any reasonable sense.

FFxi is also nice for about a week or two just to experience the class system and to see what it is those crazy fucking japanese are up to.

Lineage2 on a 5x or 10x emu server is worth giving a try just for gratuitous elf breasts.

Tabula Rasa and Hellgate London are worth playing for the trial periods (if any) before you realize it's like Team Fortress 2 only your opponants are made up entirely of Terrel Owens fragile emotions and cry on national fucking TV...oh wait, where was I going? Oh yeah...

Guildwars/CoH/....fuck, just play every fucking MMO out there for about 1 to 2 weeks. Enough to experience a different viewpoint, but not long enough to grow to hate it. That's what I do. Then I log back into the game where I have the most friends...or at least people I can stand chatting with on a semi-nightly basis.

[Wodin]

Pick up TBC and do that content, assuming you've got an old level 60 rotting someplace.

Failing that, try POTBS - it's a weird sim/mmo hybrid with a vibrant economy, fairly modern graphics, and a lot of fun types of mechanics to play around with.