Pondering Points: Searching For That One Game
Saturday 15 November 2008 @ 1:30 am | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano 7 Comments
For quite some time I’ve been looking for a new MMO, one that I can play with a group of friends, has good party play systems so its not mainly just grinding alongside others and is preferably free, as some of my friends are too cheap to pay. But it seems that try as I might I cant seem to find the right MMO, not like in the past, and now I’m starting to think I never will.
I used to play MMOs for the long run, my last serious guild was on the last paid beta of Ragnarok Online, this was quite some time ago already. Back then things were great, I had a good group of about 8 people with whom I played. All of us committed to our characters and we had a blast. Its not like that anymore.
Nowadays it seems every new MMO that rears its head becomes the one, the one that will be like before, the one everyone will play and have a blast for some months, maybe years. In the end, though, it turns out being a mediocre experience that lasts from a couple of days to a couple of weeks before everyone gets bored and leaves.
Maybe my friends are what’s wrong? Maybe there are no games that click with us. Maybe its because we try out mostly free ones and hey, you get what you pay for, right? Maybe so, but I’m starting to think there’s something more to this than just what’s out there. I think there’s something going on here, in my own head.
I’m starting to think I’m not really looking for a new great MMO, maybe what I want is merely to relive the good memories I had, and the search for a new MMO is just the excuse to remember. I think I should look to my grandfather to understand this. I remember how he used to tell the tales of his youth, not really wanting to be a young struggling farmer again, but to relive his adventures by telling the tale of how it used to be, how its not the same now, how it all used to be so much better.
Could it be all I want is a fix of nostalgia? I’m certainly not old enough to start reminiscing about the past, am I? No, I bet there’s a good MMO out there, just waiting to click with me and my friends and bring us those good times. Like before, yes, when things used to be so much better.
**Has nostalgia as a gamer or in anime become an issue for you? Do you find yourself looking for a game or anime than you know will never live up to your standards? Discuss in the comments**
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You never will. Grinding is something wich for MMO games are known for. Party systems at least from the 2 online games i played (DoFuS and Granado Espada) and the ones i have seen (Final Fantasy online and Silk Road) none of them has an actually serious party system. And yes, even the most amazingly well done thing out there (be it MMO games, boardgames, tabletop RPG’s, egg chucking, practical joke making, convention touring, anything that involves 4 people or more) becomes boring when all that is left is just ONE chump. Two chumps are almost good, three is getting better and four is all you need to start. All the online games i have quited are because the peeps that got me in the game left 1 week later, i made my thing for a month or three, and when no one knows you, no one comes along in one of those multiplayer quests, you get alienated and no-one wants to make you company in it (and if it does, they will feel rather awkward in company. The best it can happen is that you actually make a friend out of the quest)
Did i mention that time also plays a BIG PART in everybody leaving the experience altogether? I left most of these games as well because i arrived at 9pm from work or going around with ladyfriends (seriously) and i was way too tired to either play right or even care at all. We all just have our own different clicking-finger that craves for another thing altogether.
Nahu, didn’t you like Secret of the Solstice?
I thought you had, but knowing how much you loved Ragnarok I guess you just can’t play a watered-down version of a game you came to like so much.
For years I’ve been trying to get good MMO, a friend invitend me to EVE Online (eve-online.com) and while the learning curve is quite big, after 4 month I’ve come to like the game. As every MMO you can grind your way, but it also has another activities that you may like. Hope this helps… it’s my first post after all you guys have a Great Site!!!!
I think I know what you’re talking about. Within my group of friends, we used to all play one MMO, Maple Story (sad, I know. =/), but as we grew older our group sorta just fell apart. Over the years, I’ve looked around a lot for a great MMO, but I guess the “perfect MMO” just doesn’t exist anymore, at least for me, and it’s getting harder and harder to get friends to start playing as well. At least the nostalgia hasn’t kicked in yet for anime, because I just started watching anime recently (relatively, less than a year).
Face it, man… you’ll end up playing WoW with me sooner or later, so you might as well succumb now.
Yeah, Nahu. I was in the same position you were in. It was killing me. Then, December of last year, two of my friends at school purchased WoW and played on the server of a third guy we knew. I bought the game shortly after that, and now we are all refer a friend linked, and have been having a blast. No more Mabinogi, Flyff, or Hello Kitty online for me!
The last MMO I played was Knight Online. I think the real problem nowadays, only speaking about me, is that it is no longer reasonable for me to commit the time necessary to level.
Gone are the days of endless grinding killing pigs and swamp rats to be replaced with a 9-5 job and a steady relationship. While I can’t honestly say I want the old days back. Now it’s about finding anytime with friends where we all aren’t busy to game.
I think I will always be a gamer, but my tastes have changed. Like what DDN does with the TF2, if you wanted to get a war party going we should find a new MMO.