Interesting, but I'm really burned out on most of the games that are out now and even most of the ones coming out. I've seen Matrix Online and it's like City Of Heroes without the superhero charm. City of Heroes is fun for a month, and then it's on to new things. EQ/2? Don't make me laugh. World of Warcraft? It's alright, I've played the beta, but it's the same old things other MMOs have done, with that little bit of spit and polish Blizzard puts on everything it does. It's a refinement, maybe even a perfection, of the old-style MMOs. Wish is a goat-herding simulation and a joke.
Meanwhile, let's survey the current MMO landscape. UO is ancient by MMO standards. EQ is home to a legion of hardcore poopsockers, people who can create drama by pretending to sleep with sexy wood elves played by fellow sweaty geeks. SWG is a bunch of Star Wars geeks playing a broken game and Jump To Lightspeed will be Geeks In Space, which is basically that Pigs In Space sketch from the Muppets. Horizons is a joke, Shadowbane's a walking corpse, Lineage 2 is populated by a bunch of insane Asians and some Americans trying to convince themselves they're having fun staring at jiggling Dark Elf boobs.
Really, the only things that give me any kind of hope are Pirates of the Burning Sea, which looks like a pretty cool pirate MMO, and The Saga of Ryzom, which looks like awesomeness distilled into MMO form. Definitely looking forward to the Open Beta period on both of those.
The rest? Just EQ clones and Tolkien ripoffs.
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Interesting, but I'm really burned out on most of the games that are out now and even most of the ones coming out. I've seen Matrix Online and it's like City Of Heroes without the superhero charm. City of Heroes is fun for a month, and then it's on to new things. EQ/2? Don't make me laugh. World of Warcraft? It's alright, I've played the beta, but it's the same old things other MMOs have done, with that little bit of spit and polish Blizzard puts on everything it does. It's a refinement, maybe even a perfection, of the old-style MMOs. Wish is a goat-herding simulation and a joke. Meanwhile, let's survey the current MMO landscape. UO is ancient by MMO standards. EQ is home to a legion of hardcore poopsockers, people who can create drama by pretending to sleep with sexy wood elves played by fellow sweaty geeks. SWG is a bunch of Star Wars geeks playing a broken game and Jump To Lightspeed will be Geeks In Space, which is basically that Pigs In Space sketch from the Muppets. Horizons is a joke, Shadowbane's a walking corpse, Lineage 2 is populated by a bunch of insane Asians and some Americans trying to convince themselves they're having fun staring at jiggling Dark Elf boobs. Really, the only things that give me any kind of hope are Pirates of the Burning Sea, which looks like a pretty cool pirate MMO, and The Saga of Ryzom, which looks like awesomeness distilled into MMO form. Definitely looking forward to the Open Beta period on both of those. The rest? Just EQ clones and Tolkien ripoffs.