Poll: MMOs of 2012
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No mention of FireFall? I am disappoint, OP. Also another good looking one is WildStar:NightmareWarden said:
I've also got an interesting article on another one called "End of Nations". Looks like 2012 will be MMO galore.
MMOs in general suck hardcore and I find it impossible to get "pumped up" for any of them. Nonetheless, I may still give Guild Wars 2 a shot. It is making some big promises to shake up an otherwise absolutely mind numbing genre of games(MMOs). Let us see if they can do it. I did enjoy Guild Wars.
guild wars 2 a game.crafted out of pure love of games AND art if Ever there was one. Crafted being the key word, not developed, not built..but crafted with love , care and attention. Plus playing GW1 and paying painstakingly close attention to the sequal crafting gor the past 5years hasgot me invested even before its release.
SWTOR for me, I've waited years for it and I'm so happy its finally out, but I currently have no gaming rig to play it on, always the way eh?
I've gotta admit I've been interested in GW2 as well though and I probably will give that a go when it is released, depends on how many friends I can get to try it with me as they're all currently absorbed with SWTOR.
I've gotta admit I've been interested in GW2 as well though and I probably will give that a go when it is released, depends on how many friends I can get to try it with me as they're all currently absorbed with SWTOR.
I'm going for Guild Wars 2 because first and foremost, there's no recurring fees and second, because of it's Dynamic Events System, which means that my actions will have an effect on the game world to some extent for a change, as opposed to that tired old start-finish-reset-with-blocks-of-text quest model that every other game uses and which I strongly suspect The Old Republic uses as well, despite trying to hide it behind it's Mass Effect-style branching dialogue.
I'll prob end up trying all of them, getting ToR soonish and I've been following the Secret World for a while. But its GW2 all the way for me, I loved the first one and I've been very pleased with what I've seen in videos and on the website.
Can't wait to make an Asura Warrior.
Can't wait to make an Asura Warrior.
I've been playing TOR to a ridiculous extent the past couple of days, so, yeah, that.
The Secret World and Guild Wars 2 look pretty good, but they'd have to be really, REALLY, good to win me over from TOR.
TOR is literally the most polished MMO I've seen on original release. The only thing Bioware needs to fix is the loading ques. It's just gotten released but if I try to log on at 8 or 9pm I have to wait 10 minutes to get on.
The Secret World and Guild Wars 2 look pretty good, but they'd have to be really, REALLY, good to win me over from TOR.
TOR is literally the most polished MMO I've seen on original release. The only thing Bioware needs to fix is the loading ques. It's just gotten released but if I try to log on at 8 or 9pm I have to wait 10 minutes to get on.
I already tried Swtor and they love our country(Romania) so much that we are going to get the game in March(woptie effing do).Mind I remind you that we got a big EA studio in Bucharest? Just to point that out.
On the other hand,I've been interested in the development of Guild Wars 2,which I am planning to play with my WoW friend when it comes out as a "filler" let's say when we are not raiding.
On the other hand,I've been interested in the development of Guild Wars 2,which I am planning to play with my WoW friend when it comes out as a "filler" let's say when we are not raiding.
While Tera looks nice, death to the trinity and for that, GW2. If there's one thing I hate is requiring a group to have X amount of people filling role Y or the party is doomed to fail. Requiring a heal-bot and tank bores the hell out of me. GW2 kills the trinity, has very mobile combat, and ignoring a mission will have a consequence. Best system for partying I've seen and all around appeals a helluva lot more than the others. No subscription is a big plus too.
Not much info on TSW that I've seen so no comment on that, TOR is a WoW clone, no love for Firefall? but it's F2P so I can play whenever and not care about monetary commitment.
Not much info on TSW that I've seen so no comment on that, TOR is a WoW clone, no love for Firefall? but it's F2P so I can play whenever and not care about monetary commitment.
ToR technically is released 2011 So can you still count that?
The referenced blade and Soul is going to be a typical meh MMO. I mean if your promo trailer reuses the same scene with a mob growling in two different locales its a pretty safe bet there will be a Massively Multiplying the same Opponents syndrome. It will be just like the other asian MMOs and that pretty much equals boring and unoriginal.
Terra will end up failing. It has no established brand in an oversaturated market and its only hook is being more physics based. Might have done good in say 2007, but next year? no. Plus it still will suffer from asian MMO syndrome. It pretty much looks and plays (at least from what the gameplay footage shows) no differently than any other asian MMO.
The secret world is an enigma... In part because actual gameplay footage is somewhat limited. What ive seen of it, looks rather uninspired gameplay wise. It also has what appears to be an archaic art direction that makes the game look like it was built in 2007. Also, Anarchy online, Cabal, Age of Conan were not particularly enjoyable. Dreamfall and the longest journey were pretty niche oriented and beyond that the company has had a long and storied history of making games most people have never heard of or even played. but I truly doubt that TSW will have a chance. Weak development team, Archaic graphical aesthetics, unoriginal game play mechanics. Regardless of how promising the cinematics are, or the story direction might be I dont think it has enough to do much more than to limp along for a few years and quietly fade into obscurity. There is a lot of history going against TSW and somehow I just dont see it breaking with that tradition and becoming some MMO juggernaut.
Guild wars 2 has potential, however Guild wars 1 had potential before it was released too. Hard to project exactly how it will play out. Id say its going to be one of the best, if not the best MMO released in 2012. However that still technically isnt saying much.
Id say Guild Wars 2 or The secret world will be the best 2 MMOs released in 2012, but really thats still at best a second place trophy considering that at least one of them will fall by the wayside and crushed underfoot of the 2011 released The Old Republic. GW2 will survive on the strength of its F2P-ish nature, but I get the feeling TSW is doomed to limp along like a wounded MMO until it quietly heads to the vast MMO graveyard.
I would also point to the MMO that will come out after Kingdoms of Amalur comes out will likely be a contender as KoA is there to try to establish the world/IP for the MMO, which is certainly a solid way to go about doing it. However that wont likely see the light of day till 2013 or later. So, 2011 or potentially 2013... 2012 doesnt look all that great from an MMO perspective, but that is ok because 2012 doesnt look that great from a game perspective either and many people will still be working off their 2011 backlogs.
The referenced blade and Soul is going to be a typical meh MMO. I mean if your promo trailer reuses the same scene with a mob growling in two different locales its a pretty safe bet there will be a Massively Multiplying the same Opponents syndrome. It will be just like the other asian MMOs and that pretty much equals boring and unoriginal.
Terra will end up failing. It has no established brand in an oversaturated market and its only hook is being more physics based. Might have done good in say 2007, but next year? no. Plus it still will suffer from asian MMO syndrome. It pretty much looks and plays (at least from what the gameplay footage shows) no differently than any other asian MMO.
The secret world is an enigma... In part because actual gameplay footage is somewhat limited. What ive seen of it, looks rather uninspired gameplay wise. It also has what appears to be an archaic art direction that makes the game look like it was built in 2007. Also, Anarchy online, Cabal, Age of Conan were not particularly enjoyable. Dreamfall and the longest journey were pretty niche oriented and beyond that the company has had a long and storied history of making games most people have never heard of or even played. but I truly doubt that TSW will have a chance. Weak development team, Archaic graphical aesthetics, unoriginal game play mechanics. Regardless of how promising the cinematics are, or the story direction might be I dont think it has enough to do much more than to limp along for a few years and quietly fade into obscurity. There is a lot of history going against TSW and somehow I just dont see it breaking with that tradition and becoming some MMO juggernaut.
Guild wars 2 has potential, however Guild wars 1 had potential before it was released too. Hard to project exactly how it will play out. Id say its going to be one of the best, if not the best MMO released in 2012. However that still technically isnt saying much.
Id say Guild Wars 2 or The secret world will be the best 2 MMOs released in 2012, but really thats still at best a second place trophy considering that at least one of them will fall by the wayside and crushed underfoot of the 2011 released The Old Republic. GW2 will survive on the strength of its F2P-ish nature, but I get the feeling TSW is doomed to limp along like a wounded MMO until it quietly heads to the vast MMO graveyard.
I would also point to the MMO that will come out after Kingdoms of Amalur comes out will likely be a contender as KoA is there to try to establish the world/IP for the MMO, which is certainly a solid way to go about doing it. However that wont likely see the light of day till 2013 or later. So, 2011 or potentially 2013... 2012 doesnt look all that great from an MMO perspective, but that is ok because 2012 doesnt look that great from a game perspective either and many people will still be working off their 2011 backlogs.
GW2 all the way for me.
TOR would have been interesting for the storylines and the Star Wars IP, but shelling out a monthly fee is absolutly not for me.
Secret World doesn't hit a chord with me - I'ld rather play world of darkness as Pen and Paper.
Tera Online - monthly fee & looks grindy... not my choice.
I wouldn't say those are bad MMOs, but they aren't for me or have an entry barrier that puts me off.
I will say that I fully expect Wh40MMO to tank like the titanic. It is an absolut abomination to the fluff (IG and Marines balanced against each others - oh the horrors) and doesn't show any promising signs of inovations. If an experienced designteam like Mythic couldn't do it with WAR, then a bunch of fledglings will not make 40k into an enjoyable experience.
GW2 hasn't shown any signs of weakness so far and even the initially somehow strange engineer seems to become a well rounded and fitting class choice. If anything, I hope they will expand the options for sylvan facial features to incorporate more alien designs... they look too human for my liking right now.
TOR would have been interesting for the storylines and the Star Wars IP, but shelling out a monthly fee is absolutly not for me.
Secret World doesn't hit a chord with me - I'ld rather play world of darkness as Pen and Paper.
Tera Online - monthly fee & looks grindy... not my choice.
I wouldn't say those are bad MMOs, but they aren't for me or have an entry barrier that puts me off.
I will say that I fully expect Wh40MMO to tank like the titanic. It is an absolut abomination to the fluff (IG and Marines balanced against each others - oh the horrors) and doesn't show any promising signs of inovations. If an experienced designteam like Mythic couldn't do it with WAR, then a bunch of fledglings will not make 40k into an enjoyable experience.
GW2 hasn't shown any signs of weakness so far and even the initially somehow strange engineer seems to become a well rounded and fitting class choice. If anything, I hope they will expand the options for sylvan facial features to incorporate more alien designs... they look too human for my liking right now.
NCSoft, the publisher and parent company, is Korean. The Guild Wars creators/developers, ArenaNet, are based in Seattle, here in the USA. NCSoft is no more responsible for Guild Wars 2 (and Wildstar, if I read correctly) than Microsoft was for Halo.s69-5 said:
OT: I'm voting for Guild Wars 2, but I'd like to add Wildstar and Firefall to the list.
Wildstar [http://www.wildstar-online.com/en/] is basically what The Old Republic could have been if
Firefall [http://www.firefallthegame.com/home] is on track so far to be the first successful MMOFPS, with a sweet future-tech spin on it and some interesting tactical gameplay and RPG elements.