I’m sure a lot of you are very sick of this question. Like me, you’ve probably remained on the hunt for that perfect mmo experience for 10+ years. I’m not sure if there’s anything else for me to find I haven’t looked into, but I still really want to hear from the lemmy community on this. I’m not just looking for reccomendations for me, but also just wanting to know what you like. I’m expecting this to go about the same as the reddit threads asking the same thing, but I think the conversation is still worth having!
As for what I like, I was a classic runescape player before moving onto guid wars 2, but my all time favorite is dungeons and dragons online. I value character expression above almost everything else, and ddo is pretty good about giving you the same freedoms you would have in pen and paper did. Despite its shortcomings, this alone is why I keep going back to ddo over things like gw2 or elder scrolls online. With eso, and most others, I feel like my character is the same as everyone else’s. Ddo makes my roll as a Rouge or cleric feel much more rewarding, and I still feel like I’m playing an individual custom character.
Honorable mentions would go to Black desert online for its amazing graphics and game play, and Albion online for being one of the most unique and interesting mmo experiences I’ve had in a while.
I don’t think there is currently anything out that will be 100% what I like, but anything new to explore is welcome. Of course the goal here isn’t really to find anything new, I just want to hear your thoughts on some of your favorites.
I’m bad with acronyms so I would appreciate it if you said the games real name at least once. Throw whatever you want at me even if it’s way off topic. Upcoming or in development games are fine too!
Commenting to add that I do currently have lost ark, phantasy star new genesis, and rift installed, while nothing has grabbed me yet, i am looking forward to playing a bit more of them.
Oh, and the terrible digimon mmo. Maybe I’ll like it this time.
DayZ managed to suck me in for a good 1800 hours. I made the switch to Linux full time so the anti-cheat stuff for DayZ did not work, so i have not been back in a good while. I am unsure as to the state of the world there.
What I liked about it is its openness and freedom to do what you like. you start with nothing and build your character as you wander about. most RP happens when interacting with people; some are being themselves, others invent interesting characters, and some are just D-bags.
Last MMO I enjoyed was New World. It has its issues but it can be enjoyable if you take your time with it. No idea how’s the expansion as I didn’t feel like it warrants the price tag but once it’s discounted I’m back in!
Otherwise I tried most of the big ones and nothing really holds me as it used to anymore. I hope something new comes around that’d grab me again but unfortunately nothing on the horizon particularly excites me. Blue Protocol seems nice, but I don’t watch it too closely. Sure looks pretty though.
New world seems like it’s really turning itself around. I’ll pick it up eventually, it looks like it has some awesome potential.
I just want the mmo experience books and anime promised me. Someone isekai me.