I’ve been searching for that feeling of warmth, home and nostalgia or is it familiarity.
#BEST MMORPG 2018 BOMB FULL#
I’m an adult now with a full blown career and life but I’ll always happily try and recapture that feeling of wonder and amazement from titles like Wow, Mario 64, Doom / Wolf 3D, Sierra/Lucasarts, early squaresoft/Enix, bullfrog etc etc etc… The sad point is that games haven’t stopped being amazing and wonderous, it’s that we’ve seen too much of it to be surprised or impressed anymore.
It concerns me now as I flick through my steam library of 500 + titles (most of which I’ve barely scratched) and I have nothing to play that can hold my interest. No game has ever come close to replicating that feeling and I think it’s like chasing your first high (forgive the drug reference). The immense size of the world and endless sense of wonder and mystery (no guides or YouTube videos). Seeing hundreds of other players running around in real time (well as close to real time back then with US servers and ADSL). The awe of the first griffon ride from SW to West fall. I still remember that feeling from original Wow back in December 2004. The problem isn’t this… The problem is we’ve been desensitised (best way I can think to explain it) to the wonder and awe that early MMOs created. Perhaps once MMOs stop trying to recapture their own ghosts, we’ll see something really special. Unique combat mechanics and a fresh world (preferably not medieval-style fantasy) might whet my palate to figure a game out. Top-tier graphics can sell a game, I admit. Is a return of MMOs’ so-called glory days what I want, or do I want there to be new glory days? A decade after binging on the MMOs of the time, perhaps it’s time to admit my tastes have changed. Shroud of the Avatar felt all too familiar. Although its story is filled with unique plot points and world-building details, I didn’t feel a desire to continue the game. In practice, I felt like I’d played this game before, years ago. I appreciated how dedicated Shroud of the Avatar was to accessing the retro style of its predecessors. Holding a torch means not holding a shield. If you die, you have to wait about four minutes to respawn unless somebody resurrects you. Players can also type whatever they want to NPCs, but whenever I did that, the NPCs responded something a little nonsensical. Talking to NPCs, you can ask them more questions with a keyword system (a la the Ultima franchise) that sometimes works and sometimes assigns you quests you don’t want. Looting a corpse means clicking on a dead body and taking their money and items. Combat is a pretty basic auto-fight with a few extra skills thrown in - although you can opt for a deck-building mechanic for their skills.
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