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Golden Cog Awards Celebrate MMO Winners

Posted by simoniker on from the not-MMO-wieners dept.

Thanks to Stratics for publishing its Golden Cog Awards for 2003, honoring "the very best of 2003's Massive Multiplayer titles... chosen through the votes of literally hundreds of Stratics staffers." Interesting or unexpected choices include Codemaster's Dragon Empires as 'Best Beta' ("populated by creatures that thrive in their ecosystem by acts of migration and foraging"), eGenesis' A Tale In The Desert as 'Most Innovative' ("...a difficult game to classify because of its pioneering nature"), and overall, Final Fantasy XI as 'MMOG Of The Year' ("...attention to detail, and a great community.")

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  1. Re:FFXI by Dylan_t_p · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the best rpg I ever played was a free rpg out of korea named slayers great game but unfortunaly the closed the english version down since they more or less were using us as test subjects for the korean version.

  2. Re:FFXI by brkello · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I feel your pain. I got my Paladin flag and had a tough time finding a good party in the Dunes. It is really hit and miss whether you can find an effective party or not. Whenever I had that problem and leveling became a chore, I just did something else. I had a lot of fun trying the crafts out. I got fishing up to level 26 and cooking up to 40. I completed a bunch of quests. That's the nice thing about the game, if one thing gets annoying, there are lots of other things you can do.

    Sorry it didn't work out for you. I know how it feels when your friends are way ahead of you. You feel you need to catch up and it isn't fun. The nice thing about this game is that your friend, if he wanted to, could just pick another job and start at level 1 (not losing his old job levels) and go up with you. Too bad he didn't go that route.

    I played a few MMORPGs (EQ and SWG) and got sick of those in a few weeks. This is the first one that has me hooked, I highly reccomend as well as the grandparent post.

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  3. Re:MMORPGs are the best thing that never happened. by L7_ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This thing about Dragon Empires is that the premise of the game sounded EXACTLY like Shadowbane when it came out. I mean EXACTLY. I don't have the press release handy, but it was almost like the DE people copy and pasted GoD Game's press release and published it as thier own.

    Now, fast forward 2 years later when the Shadowbane implementation left a bad taste in alot of people's mouths, and you find that Dragon Empires hardly even mentions that they are going to be a full asset pvp/gvg/zvz game (unless of course, they did a complete 180 with thier game design).

    These next generation MMOGs need something to keep people interested, and that is mainly due to game play and its implementation. And it won't be the hyped up games like Horizon either, I think it will be something a medium sized development house puts out.

    Either way, we shall keep playing betas, reading message boards, paying thier monthly fees and we will keep being disapointed.