Best Feature of MMORPGs?
A lot of online gaming companies are banging their heads to come up with new and innovative features for the latest MMORPGs. No one wants to be another “cookie cutter” or another WoW clone.
Let’s face it. A lot of MMORPGs out there look the same. Except for a new “theme”, new monsters, or some subtle changes in gameplay, it’s not that all different. Go to a quest, kill a monster, get good item, level up. This evil cycle repeats itself ad nauseum.
Some games spend advertising money to harp about the better graphics and how real the light and shadows are. But do the real gamers care?
Meanwhile, I decided to come up with an informal poll on which features of a game would make one play. The choice is yours…
Help me out, guys!
To you, what would be the best feature of an MMORPG? The thing that would really make you play (and eventually pay). Choose one (or a couple) below
- Graphics - self explanatory. Do you like a game that really looks cool? Even if it pales in gameplay and other features?
- Gameplay - This would be the sum totality of how easy is to understand the game, the skill trees, the game system, the AI and the game interface too
- Item Mall design - for F2P games, this is crucial. A game may have good graphics, good gameplay but the item mall may suck. Is this on top of YOUR list?
- Story - is a good background, milieu or storyline important to you?
- Community features - things such as chat interface, guilds, email “gifting”, and party system are just example of community features.
- Regular Content - this would mean patching of new stuff… so that things don’t get boring.
If you were to choose, what would it be?
Comment below and let yourself be heard.
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Master Diwa said
am May 19 2008 @ 9:59 am
Hot female sprites.
Ricky Reyes said
am May 19 2008 @ 11:01 am
tama!! hot female sprites hahahahahaha
umm ano po ung magmmerge inRO at pRO?……
Jeppe Gernale said
am May 19 2008 @ 12:27 pm
Gameplay > Community Features > Regular Content > Graphics > Story > Item Mall Design
Lix Tetrax said
am May 19 2008 @ 12:39 pm
Gameplay. WoW has a crap graphics compared to other MMOs out there but it’s their effort to bring all the best feature of other games into theirs and making some tweaks that makes WoW such a successful title. And I do hope that Aion Online would do the same but this time they put the Graphics into consideration.
Noel said
am May 19 2008 @ 7:22 pm
gameplay plus story
Davion said
am May 20 2008 @ 1:32 am
graphics for me is one of the motivating factors when i want to play a game.. i mean its obvious that the “evil cycle” is there in MMORPGs so i’m looking at something else that stands out, like the gaming graphics.. this is why i don’t play ragnarok.
Blackwolf said
am May 20 2008 @ 10:30 am
Regular content, gameplay and story will make an MMORPG a winner. It’s not always about graphics - it’s about the little details. Perfect World allows you to customize your character’s appearance to fit you to a tee. Guild Wars characters can switch their stats and secondary classes at the drop of a helm. WoW characters have a greater range of emoticons than most human players are capable of.
Jason Ryan Celeste said
am May 20 2008 @ 9:24 pm
I know one thing that sways me away from a game. The camera view. I hate games that make my head spin. I find a mob to kill, and i want to look at what’s on my character’s left side.I adjust the mouse to do that, and when i let go, so does the camera view, bringing my screen back to my character’s 12 oclock, lols.
tim said
am May 22 2008 @ 6:15 pm
para saken, gusto ko yung maganda graphics, gameplay and storylines..yung story, kahit hindi yung usual na fire vs ice na theme, parang sa RF, bago ung story nia na figthing for race superiority. ok din yung sa RO na based sa Norse Mythology. syempre, graphics is a plus factor, mas nakakagana yung maganda uyng graphics kse may dagdag na “awe” in every gametime. sa gameplay naman, sa tingin ko mas ok yung hindi masyadong complicated yung gameplay and game interface. plus din yung may mga new features like MAU’s in RF and iba’t-ibang quests na iba-iba ung ginagawa para hindi maging boring yung laro..^_^