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Best RPGs / MMORPGs of 2004

Posted by Zonk on from the from-the-people-that-know-them-best dept.

The folks at RPGDot and MMORPGDot always run "game of the year" polls among their readers and staff members to determine the best interactive RPG experiences of the year. They've now run their course, and all the awards have been given out. For RPGs, they have the categories of Best Graphics, Best Sound, Biggest Surprise, Biggest Disappointment, Most Anticipated, Dream Game (mm...Torment 2), Best Console RPG, and Overall Best RPG of the Year. Vampire: Bloodlines, the dark RPG from the late, lamented Troika appears to have garnered many of the top honors. As for Massive Games, the categories included Best Graphics, Best Sound, Biggest Surprise, Biggest Disappointment, Most Anticipated, Dream Game, Best Expansion, and Best MMORPG Overall. World of Warcraft pretty much swept the categories for the genre.

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  1. Worst...Poll...Ever... by Pinkoir · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And you thought the Oscars were bad...

    What a popularity contest. I do not see any signs that this was anything other than an exercise in people voting for the game they were playing at the time they took the poll. The clincher for me was the comparison between the results for "Best Overall MMORPG" and "Biggest Dissapointment". It would seem that while EQ2 is the second best MMORPG of the year it is also the biggest dissapointment and WoW while being the best was the runner-up for biggest dissapointment...hmmm.

    Possibilities:
    -Voters have absurdly high expectations and even awesomeness is not good enough for them.
    -Voters are die-hard partisans and vote against the enemy for the negative award.
    -Voters have never heard of any MMORPG other than EQ2, WoW or CoH

    I think it's the last option. The hype machines for those three games pwn all and in a popularity competition it isn't even about popularity anymore, just hype.

    Anywho, there are other MMORPGs out there. If you are interested in a well developed, balanced, mostly bug-free game with a superb market-driven economy and the kind of meaningful PvP that WoW and EQ2 only dream about then I suggest you give EVE a look-see.

    -Pinkoir

    1. Re:Worst...Poll...Ever... by C0rinthian · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I agree that Eve is much more complex than any other MMO. However that is both good and bad.

      Running a production corp of about 50-75 active members from both the US and Europe for the better part of a year, as well with dealing with alliance politics/BS ended up being more work than I did at WORK getting paid. Eve forced me to learn a LOT of stuff in Excel I never thought I'd know. Problem was it became all management. I'd never actually play the game. I'd log in, do corp maintenance and paperwork for an hour or two, and log out. It stopped being a game and started becoming a job and I simply burned out on it. The simplicity of WoW is a friggin relief after Eve. I get ehough of real life in real life. I don't want it in my games too.

      However, my 3 accounts are still active and training, in case the fire sparks back up. :)