That independence does funny stuff to class balance: As your ability to level pretty much depends solely on your damage output, a healer or tank these days has the same damage output as a dps class, making the latter somewhat nonsensical. In fact over the weekend I was sometimes annoyed to see other players, because there were challenges that required you to kill a certain number of monsters within a time limit, and those only worked well if you were alone without other players killing "your" spawns. Every class is completely independent and needs nobody until the level cap. What I find even worse is that modern MMORPGs appear to be designed to minimize social interaction. People remember Mankrik's wife not because of the quest story, but because of the effect it had on Barren's chat. The canned quest stories are most of the time trite and not very memorable. The things I remember are rather those moments of emergent gameplay, the kindness of strangers, doing stuff you aren't supposed to do at that level, and all that. Or presumably ad raideam, which isn't much better.Īnd it struck me that when I think back on all the MMORPGs I played, that my memories are never about those stories on rails.
Like in nearly every other MMORPG released in the last decade, everything was on rails: You get a quest right after character creation, and then its quest, quest, quest, until you reach the next zone, where it all starts over again. But after trying 4 classes with 4 races and 4 paths in 2 factions, I was already bored with the game.
I played a perfectly good new MMORPG in beta this weekend.
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