Originally posted by stijn1993

I'm looking for a new MMORPG and my favorite genre is sf.. I played Anarchy Online for a year....  Should I give this a try?

The title of this thread provides a very complete answer to that question.

How about this... Your opinion is of no use to anyone if you played for less than a week.

Thanks.

To some extent, what Tyron said is the fact. I agree with your conclusions of the shortcomings of this game. So the best policy is to choose another game~~

I played from Early OB till the end of retail when FoM shut down,

There was literaly no other game like FoM, sure it had its problems...but they was slowly getting fixed.

Now i dont play any game.....Only FOM will do...

Originally posted by VenerableD

If you mess around reading guides and god knows what else before you play it then it is marginally better however the whole player run aspect of FoMk destroys all gameplay. Player run missions and player run politics????  Why are Duplex surprised that doesn't work??

 

As for graphics............well they are just the icing on any cake and the ones in FoMk would be adequate were the actual gameplay and setting better.

I'm not one to disagree, but when the player run missions and politics DID work, it was AMAZING. I wouldn't trade that kind of an experience for anything.

Author of this thread has no idea what is he writing about and is probably overdosing his meds as well.

I've played many other games out there, but only fom has give me the unique experience I was looking in all the other games I've played to date.

It sure isnt perfect but no game is, thats why they are called "games".

if you're looking for something even more realisting, with lower pings, better graphics and all the other shit you think that FOM lacks... well then punch yourself in the head and go outside, try that scenario for once.

 Some  cartoonish games are like WoW are there for everyone to play them and be good at them. Games like fom get you sucked in for the thrill of action and diversity in them... but at no point it is said you will be good at it.

Its like with rl... most guys are whiners and loosers.

I don't care what anyone says.... I loved this game! I think a lot of people would agree with me on that heh

I can see why most people would think the game sucked but to me it had a lot of things that no other MMO had and that alone made it great to me.

I can't wait until it's released again, I know I will pay to play it!

Originally posted by Fickey

I don't care what anyone says.... I loved this game! I think a lot of people would agree with me on that heh

I can see why most people would think the game sucked but to me it had a lot of things that no other MMO had and that alone made it great to me.

I can't wait until it's released again, I know I will pay to play it!

Agree, I will be there the experience is vastly more different then any other game out there.  Great times were had by all.

This game was the only game to keep my attention for 3 years on and off.

Yes, it had nothing to do at times.. and I made a few suggestions myself about adding some form of content, but this game was still the only game I ever really enjoyed.  So much that I can't even find an enjoyable game/mmo to play now.

Yesterday, I spent about an hour searching for a game to waste a little time on.  I was sifting through lists of real-time strategy games, turn-based strategy games, online games, and multiplayer games.

First off, there were four game settings in all of those lists. 

Medieval fantasy with armor, arrows, elves, and magic. 

Medieval historic with armor, arrows, horse back knights, and trebuchets.

Historic 'through the ages' type games with cavemen, archers, musketeers, and riflemen protecting huts, castles, and military bases.

Space flight combat/colonization.  As if I wasn't bored enough of EVE already.

Not to mention the amount of times I realized I hated MMO's after searching for multiplayer/online games on google.  Hello, I don't want to try any of these lackluster bullshit generic mmos about fantasy elves flailing their magical attacks in the direction of pretty blond humans in a merry party of Dwarven axe men.  I don't give a shit if you can raise your own pet or become possessed by a beast.  Its all the same shit.  Over and over again.

In these new mmos, you start the game and immediately talk to the NPCs around you.  You get a quest and head out into the field to kill magical monsters so you can level up to have boring PvP that is more random than anything.  You attempt to stun the target, you miss.  You attack for 32 damage.  Player attacks you for 35 damage.  You attack for 11 damage.  Player misses you.

FoM was different.  It had freedom.  Sure, a lot of things could have been added to it to make it more exciting, but it was still better than most games on the MMO market.

Now, in order for FoM to survive, they have to make it into a generic leveling game.  Hence Elementum, guild wars, and body enhancing.  All because some simple minded people couldn't grasp what FoM truly was.

damn freakin straight

The politics give us more of a feel of reality ingame and it did work quite well more so in beta because there was more people playing but as soon as fom went P2P it was a detterant. The game was totaly worth the money, but the community was needed to play it. Like some one said earlier the community was getting to small to play. In beta FOM had it right, but by adding the P2P it ruined the community if they have implemented to same structure in rebirth but adding free accounts they will be able to get alot more cash and hopefully implement the stuff they have cut back on for the budget.

As i was a LED DPI from OB - end of FOM it affected me alot more no players to train i trained about 1 every month it was very stressful being unable to do my job. I think they have a perfect game it was the community who left after OB who ruined the game.

I dont want FOM to loose its essence and features like politics, player run missions, ranking system but i guess we lost it with the new budget.

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LED hand in your badges

All I have to say is I miss the days of running around Andromeda late night with my EC co-workers just goofing off and having fun.... up until someone showed up who wanted to kill us all

I agree that they need some form of free account if they want to get the type of numbers they had during beta. If they were smart they would do what a lot of smaller games have been doing and have a free account and then a premium account.

Either way I just hope they go through with everything and I don't mind paying them to play again :)