Hey ogopogo what do you think about Dark Age of Camelot?

Im personally gonna wait for "the World of Warcraft", then after that its D&D Online. I have heard good things about EQ and AO, but im not gonna go for those...

I have prior experience with AO, as I've stated, so I'm more likely to go with that. It's been like 4 years, give or take, since I've played. At least I think that's how long it's been.

The only thing I don't like right now is the fact that it costs almost $100 a year at it's cheapest (that is with the 12 month plan). What's the price range for the other games?

[ 01-10-2004, 11:22 AM: Message edited by: Firestormalpha ]

I played it when it first came out for a few months as well... Personally I didnt enjoy it but it is very popular... The problems I found were it was quite unbalanced, but with 2 expansions now that may have been fixed...

edit--The problem with most MMORPGs is they are not very "solo-friendly" ... To advance in most you most certianly need a large team and sometimes that is hard to find... And if you just want to play for less then an hour it is pretty rude to pick up a team then leave them... DAoC is like that... Very team oriented and I am a bit more of a soloer myself...

With the mission system of AO you can pick up a mission and do part of it or all of it in you own time...However its downfall is that to be truely powerful and not just average there is camping and long team sessions needed just like any other MMORPG...(maily in the higher levels)... But if you are content not to have the best weapons and armour then it is by far the most solo friendy out there...

I am not much of a role-player myself, but there is a large roleplaying base who play as well... There are disco's, bars and lots of other things for the role-players... Hehe it sounds like I work for Funcom or something but I dont [img]smile.gif[/img] ...

[ 01-10-2004, 11:59 AM: Message edited by: ogopogo ]

Yeah i am looking forward to WoW too... It looks like it could be real good, but I have learned not to get my hopes up to high [img]smile.gif[/img]

I've checked out FFXI quite a bit these last couple days, and it's looking good to me.

the system is built for 56k users (somebody explained that to me, I don't have the details).

It's got lots of feature I like.
I'm new (to MMORPGs), and this game is realtively new, so that works.

I heard of plenty of flaws, but they don't seem to unbearable: $1 for extra characters? I don't plan on having extra characters. the world pass system? i found some people that will get world passes for me and my buddies. things like that, most can be bypassed, and I believe that Square is in this for the long run, and will continue to update and fix this game.

How does the creating a person work? when you choose an initial starting job, how does that affect your stats?

how are your stats affected when you change a job?

for example, I'm going to be hume; i choose monk as a starting class for his extra vitality point, but right away switch to warrior? would that work? what would my stats be?

you can find loads of info on ffxi as well as most other MMORPGs here http://vnboards.ign.com/

I played Anarchy Online a little, and I really hated it. It was my worst MMORPG experience.

BTW, has anyone of you played Earth and Beyond?
I tried it about a year ago and it was fun in the beginning, but it couldn't build up enough flair for long time playing IMHO.

Just tested AO (after downloading the 'small' 700 MB package (6 hours DOH!)). It's funny, but my ping suxx hard (over 150 all the time). :(
But my 2 cents about it are the same I said about EaB above plus I don't like the graphixx very much.

Gonna wait for WoW. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 01-11-2004, 11:15 AM: Message edited by: Ghoul ]