My Decade Post (MMO Version)

My Top MMO’s of the Past Decade

3) City of Heroes/Villains
CoH is pretty much a gimmick game: You’re a super hero and you fight bad guys. It was WOAH DIFFERENT compared to the fantasy worlds as they tried to keep everything thematic and flavored. Once you get tired of the gimmick you’re pretty much done with the game, but it was mildly entertaining until I got to that point. City of Villains had the same gimmick shine to it. I made a super villain and controlled robots. Controlling robots sounded cool at the time, but really, it’s the same as pets and summoning.

2) Phantasy Star Online
I think PSO was my first online game. There was I in middle school on my Dreamcast on a 56k connection rockin’ it up on a FOmarl with people from the now defunct Gaming Intelligence Agency. Some guy gave me a bazooka, so I was a human female in a long white dress with a bazooka. I still love the Mines boss theme. Fuck I remember watching some YTMND before and it used the mines boss theme. I tried playing Blue Burst on that one private server before, but it just isn’t the same. :baaaw:

1) Ragnarok Online
Ragnarok Online is one of the shittiest MMORPG’s I have ever played in terms of functionality, yet best MMORPG I have ever played in terms of memorability. We were all bored high schoolers using our parents credit card to spend $8bux/month on this shitty 2d sprite game with MAGICAL 3D BACKGROUNDS where the only customization was our hair, hair color and hat and we collected every motherfucking hat we could. It’s only now that I can look back and seriously say that RO was a game about hats. The targeting system was complete shit, at level 96 you were 1/2 way to 99 in terms of EXP, shit breaks when you upgrade, quests were like “lolwut”, the errors and Engrish were all terribleNOMSG, but the community was “amazing”.

I remember the Lesbian Squad, the Crying Siam Face, Amaris getting grounded because Yuki’s guild took over her mom and dad’s fort, pulling Bushi around by the chain, the Cosby Kids, DUSTIN X CRYSTAL LOLOLOL, getting Crystal banned, Acucrack asking me where to buy birth control pills, Evergreen (fat white guy) joining the West Coast Asians guild, Aeris revealing himself as a guy and Acucrack ragequitting, etc etc. In a way, it’s like Ragnarok Online is comparable to how people from my generation watched Power Rangers on TV and we can talk to each other about wanting to play the Green Ranger on the playground. Many have played RO and hated it, yet we always have stories about it.

Basically
All MMO’s are fucking terrible. It’s always about the community and the drama paying money to look fabulous. (´ー`*)

17 Comments
January 4, 2010 in MMO's

17 Responses

  1. That part about RO is too true, unfortunately. God I hate RO. 。・゚・(ノД`)・゚・。

  2. Haha oh RO, my first ever MMORPG back in….2003! I didn’t last on the official server for more than 2 months. The moment some douche hacked everyone’s accounts I quit and then spent the next 5 years server hopping private servers. needless to say this pretty much killed RO for me. Actually thanks to so much god damn RO I can’t deal with 2D games anymore. They bore me in like5 minutes. If an mmo isn’t 3D I can no longer play it.

    but yea RO was my first mmorpg! How can you forget! Now if only they’d bring RO2 out of development hell lol.

  3. MapleStory was my RO.

  4. >middle school
    I thought you were older than that koda, like internet old. :V

  5. The RO server that I used to play in had a wipe a few months after I quit. All those hats… ;_;

  6. That sounded like RO alright, legit or not.

  7. I didn’t even read the post, you should have included the tl;dr shit

  8. I cannot think of any MMORPG that generates as much (more or less public) drama per person as RO has generated…

    Personally I liked in RO how specialized equipment actually mattered. And fly wings & teleport before the nerfs. Hats? I belonged the half that ridiculed people for buying them.

  9. Gotta be PSO for me. It certainly was an awesome one that I’ll always remember playing.

  10. *waiting for ggRO / kRO (KodaRO)*

  11. RO is the only MMO I’ve played on that list.

    Oh, and great Durara subs btw, now those fansub stealers will think twice about stealing your scripts and calling them their own.

  12. Shiro, Long Tail's

    I thought CoH gimmick was the costume creator so I could prowl the streets as Captain Rainbow.

    If you have a DS you should give Phantasy Star Zero a try sometime.

  13. you played sakray? small world! bushi was the man, you should feel bad for abusing him. i’m guessing you were in mystic elves?

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