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[Lunar Templar]

From what I?ve seen of Vindictus it looks like a hub based MMO . is there an open world to run around and explore ? or is it all instanced with a couple of other people?
Also is the F2P model they use fair? I remember hearing some complaints

first, the world: still hub based, linear dungeon crawler, but the 'season 2' up date looks to make those instances more like Monster Hunter in nature, other wise, no open world as of YET. team size for normal instances cap at 4, most raid instances cap at 8, save the 'unknown zone' raid instances, THOSE cap at 24

the cash shop: probably the 'temporary armor' sets, all level versions of level 56 gear, i gotta free 30 day set for kinda forgetting about my character on east, OP as hell in the low levels, not really viable past the gears actual level though (IE: the level 60 gear), how ever, i haven't seen many using, maybe 2 or 3 a day, at best? other wise the cash shop is pretty tame, mostly storage, potions, graces and beauty items are the only things worth looking at

 

[Fleetfiend]

Guild Wars 1? I'm sticking with that one, yep.

I've also found Dark Blood Online to be really fun so far. It's a dungeon MMO, and the English translation is a bit poor, but other than that it's really enjoyable.

Also League of Legends. I don't play it, but it's pretty popular, so it must be good.

All of these are also free-to-play.

 

[jollybarracuda]

How about Dungeons and Dragon's Online? Free to play, got some fairly satisfying combat. It's very, very instance based, however. But it is fun, and exploring the dungeons is awesome.

Also, Forsaken World can be pretty good fun, though i heard its predecessor Perfect World was better.

Hmm, i'd recommend Vindictus as well, it's got great, great combat but is almost entirely instance based, like DDO.

From these suggestions I might have to give Spiral Knights a try. I've been looking at it for a bit from Steam and it always just seemed alright. Maybe i'll give it a go.

 

[moostar]

"City of Heroes" , its a old game from 2004 , but, haves gotten some graphical updates not to long ago, its a super hero based mmo where the character creation is nearly unlimited, its set in modern day, and the combat has this sort of fast pased fell to it. i would also say to check out "Battlefield Heroes, but, i feel that game could be too cash shop oriented

 

[Cyfu]

Dude, Tibia.
Don't judge it before you've tried. I promise you, It's magnificent.

 

[sanquin]

Runescape.

Why? it's the most successful MMO to date

No, it isn't. The number of accounts is NOT the same as the number of active subscribers. Sure, the number of accounts exceeds 100 million, but active accounts probably lies more around the 2~3 million.

 

[Char12]

Runescape.

Why? it's the most successful MMO to date

No, it isn't. The number of accounts is NOT the same as the number of active subscribers. Sure, the number of accounts exceeds 100 million, but active accounts probably lies more around the 2~3 million.

So true, I made like 10 accounts years ago, and I havn't logged in any for about 6 years

 

[Childe]

Already been said but The Secret World... got me into an mmo in ways i havn't been since WoW.....Good graphics, flexibility can customization... they have new and fun ways of doing stuff as well...if your going f2p then try DDO its not bad

Star wars the old republic is f2p now or will be soon so you can try that as well...if you havn't played an mmo before then you might like this...if you have then you will probably be disappointed. But then again you might not be no harm in checking it out

 

[Mr.Governor]

TERA Online? The fact that nobody has mentioned it means there's something wrong with it,isn't it?

 

[Skylare]

Dude, Tibia.
Don't judge it before you've tried. I promise you, It's magnificent.

awesome game +1

 

[rawrmonsta]

Id say if you can wait for mists to drop Id say play WoW. Its by far the most polished MMO around, That Ive seen anyway.

As for something not on your list The old republic is a very nice mmo, Granted it is a lot like WoW in game play but it brings enough new to the table to be interesting and the story alone is worth leveling a toon (Mass effect/Dragon age type storytelling)

EvE online is something completely different a lot of my friends are into. Ive yet to try it myself though.

 

[this account is gay]

Fallen Earth. The post-apoc setting is a nice change from the usual fantasy variants and it has 1st/3rd person shooter combat. Quite a different feel to it - not as polished as some, but beautifully atmoshpheric and open.

Star Trek Online. Best recommended if you're a fan of the Trek franchise. Ground combat is okay, but the real selling point for STO is the space combat, which is fantastic.

Both of these are F2P now.

Space combat is amazing? I tried that game, I mashed my face on the keyboard during the space combat section of the tutorial, and I won. Seriously. I was rolling my face on the keyboard.

 

[Baron von Kritz]

For something different to a re-skinned WOW try APB reloded, its a bit shabby and short lived but I had a lot of fun for a month or two with it (F2P via steam) or D.C universe (PC or PS3) also F2P and kept me going on the PS3 when my P.C went bang.

 

[Sixcess]

Star Trek Online. Best recommended if you're a fan of the Trek franchise. Ground combat is okay, but the real selling point for STO is the space combat, which is fantastic.

Space combat is amazing? I tried that game, I mashed my face on the keyboard during the space combat section of the tutorial, and I won. Seriously. I was rolling my face on the keyboard.

It's a tutorial level, what do you expect?

Given that a tutorial's main purpose is to teach you the basics of movement and firing of course it's easy. Once you get out into the game itself the combat starts to become more challenging, and therefore interesting, and there's three difficulty settings.

 

[Eddie the head]

TERA Online? The fact that nobody has mentioned it means there's something wrong with it,isn't it?

I hear it's kind of boring. Like the combat is good but the quest's and such is the same old same old.

 

[Furioso]

The cool thing to do on these forums is to bash The Old Republic, but I love the game. It plays like WoW, but with lightsabers, which I think is great, I never had an issue with MMO combat so that wasn't a problem for me. The biggest thing though, at least for me, was the fully voiced npc dialogue, coming straight from WoW, where I didn't even read the quests anymore, the dialogue was so much more engaging than a text box. Each class gets their own personal story too, the one I've been playing, the Sith Warrior, has a story line that makes you feel like a total badass.


You can play it for free up to lvl 15 now, and it's going free to play soon