All Posts by ND2K5

jianfei wrote:
I swam for almost an hour and didn't know what to do. a piece of trash

What I like about AO is that it filters out all the player types that i dislike playing with...

Want to build a town, raise a army of other players and go invade other player towns with your army, id have to recommend shadowbane.

Want trade skills and a player driven economy, set up a shop and sell stuff to people, Star Wars galaxies.

Dont like to level up and be able to show your individual gaming skill, Planetside.

Want a unique virtual world where you can do just about anything, Second Life.

AO and SWG are probably the only games with real gameplay changes, not just content updates. Since if you played em all, you probably wouldnt care if the latest expansion added 20 more classes that is just like all the other classes but just does stuff a bit differently. The real expansion are the gameplay expansions that add new gameplay, not just content.
I would keep watch of SWG and AO since those 2 games have great expansions. The new swg expansion looks like just a content pack, but they are doing some decent gameplay changes to the core game right now.

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Originally posted by protoroc
like in the real world....i could kill cops while they are in a fire fight with someone else, well his buddies are gonna come gunning for me (and shoot to kill, not arrest)...if i beat up some 3 year old, his dad is gonna be looking to kick my ass...until there is consequences, unrestricted pvp is only for low self-esteem people that most likely fail in everything in life

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You just described how shadowbane works. if you killed someone in the err... cop guild, the entire guild will hate you and attack you whenever they see you, and the um.. feds guild who controll most of the server will also be hunting you down all the time. If you do soemthing that the playerbase dont like you will be hunted down relentlessly, and getting spawn camped to kill you over and over until you log out, if you piss off everyone on the server you will end up having to make a new char or something. In shadowbane you depend on others for survival. Soloing is just about impossible. Players make their own rules.

oh yeah as someone said before: If I wanted graphics, I would play 3DMARK...
makes a lot of sense too.

Man, Shadowbane was a great game... Everything was self governed, if you were a ass, everyone kills you over and over again... Some other guild camping your spot, kill all of em and raze their city... Since everyone leveled up really fast the game becomes a game about stragedy and tactics, well unless you outnumber then enemy 5to1... Ive seen a very well organized and coordinated group take on another group almost 5x their size (yeah, I was in the large zerg group), but only very few guilds could pull that off... Sadly, I have not played a game with so much player freedom since...

The only thing that turned me away from the game was that it ended up like playing a ffa rts game over and over and over again on the same map, with the same people. The ganking wasnt a problem cause most people were in a guild and you can bring up the issue with the guild the person's in, or just attack the guild outright. If they implemented server vs server wars, i would have stayed and kept playing...

The one game that is similar in gameply style would be Face of Mankind, dunno if its still in beta but it has a similar idea for gameplay. Its a MMOFPS/RPG that is all about territorial controll, but you cant build towns and castles and stuff, its a sci-fi game too.

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Originally posted by Stryfe1987
I found AO very very fun, but it was too easy, 1 day, i got lvl 35, lvl 63 the end of the next, and i only played about 12 hrs each day, lol

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but there is like 300 levels...
and there are lots of things to do, not just leveling up...

Anarchy Online is a good Free Sci-Fi MMORPG. Its ranked number 5 here. But be warned AO is quite a bit harder than most other MMO's

AO also seems to have much friendlier players than most games... well at least compared to wow...