upcoming MMO titles... [Archive]

Ammon777

October 18th, 2006, 06:56

What games are you guys watching out for?

Sorry about saying "I quit MMOs" for a few weeks! I am back!

I am looking forward to (in somewhat order of preference):

Here is my up-to-date list (updated Sept 29, 2007):

-- Darkfall Online (my baby)
-- 38-Studios MMO (confirmed to be a fantasy MMO)
-- Unleash the Fury
-- Bioware MMO (Forgotten Realms Online? or possibly Star Wars Jedi MMO?)
-- Heros Journey (very iffy, but they have a nice engine)
-- Age of Conan
-- Stargate Worlds
-- Warhammer Online
-- World of Darkness MMO
-- Immortal Destiny (similar features to Darkfall)
-- Zenimax MMO (maybe Elder Scrolls Online?)
-- Warhammer 40k MMO (eventually...)
-- Secret World (modern Earth MMO)
-- Red-5 Studios MMORPG (fantasy)

Currently playing World of Warcraft and EVE Online.

Arhu

October 18th, 2006, 09:25

Maylander

October 18th, 2006, 09:47

Played WoW since the beta, and will play the add-on. After that, I'm done with MMOs for a while - it's just too time consuming for me these days.

Sei Daneic

October 18th, 2006, 09:53

I never stay at MMO's for a long time, as they usually don't hold my interest for long. I guess I must check out the Warhammer MMO though, as it seems very promising. Even though EA has got their dirty hands on the developers. We have to hope that EA wont rape Mythic (the developers of WAR) as it has so many others.

EDIT: Cleaned up the grammar.

Inauro

October 18th, 2006, 10:14

I quit WoW...almost a year ago now. How time flies. Since then, I've dabbled in EVE Online, Saga of Ryzom, City of Heroes, and even tried to go back to my first MMORPG, Dark Age of Camelot (boy was that a mistake). At present i'm playing nothing at all but am eagerly anticipating Funcom's Age of Conan as one of the first real grown up MMORPGs.

Lissette

October 18th, 2006, 19:35

I got to see gods & heroes demoed at E3 this year and it blew me away. If it can deliver what it is promising and as pretty as it looks I will be there. :D Also Lord of the Rings, well because it is LotR. :p And Conan for about the same reason. lol

Kawika

October 18th, 2006, 19:48

YAY! Lissette's here. :D

I'm most looking forward to Conan, Vanguard and Pirates of the Burning Sea. I'm hoping Shadowrun Online finds a good publisher. :cool:

Severius

October 18th, 2006, 20:51

I recently quit wow for the third and final time. Not really interested in the expansion or most of the community in wow :)

Currently on my watch list:
Bioware MMO
Age of Conan
Warhammer Online
Tabula Rasa
Pirates of the Burning Sea
Star Trek Online

Watching but Skeptical
Lord of the Rings Online
Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising

Won't touch with a 10 foot pole:
Vanguard
DC Comics Online (whatever its final name is I dont recall)

Wishing for:
Star Wars Galaxies 2 (with 0 input from sony thankyou :P)
Ultima Online 2
Fallout MMO

Illuvatar

October 18th, 2006, 21:13

Severius

October 18th, 2006, 21:20

A Fallout MMO....Now that would be something S.P.E.C.I.A.L (pun intended :) )

No really, I would play it instantly. But alas, the Fallout rights are currently with Bethesda. And i'm not very attracted to the idea of a first person Fallout MMO with manual combat. I'm really not looking for a Post Nuclear Planetside.

Very true! But I have to reserve my own ideas about bethesda's work with fallout til I actually get my hands on it. It cant be worse than tactics :P

Illuvatar

October 18th, 2006, 21:29

Hmm, initially tactics also dissapointed me, but after I accepted that it was just a different kind of game (and not a succesor to Fallout 2) I enjoyed it alot. It's a little bit like Jagged Alliance, with all the tactical combat and equipping of your squad-members.

Whip-0

October 18th, 2006, 21:33

Warhammer Online - playing a Squig Herder sounds like my kind of pet class. I play both WHFRP and WHFB (busy painting me new night goblins) so unless they drop the ball I'm interested.

Age of Conan sounds intriguing and something I'm keeping tabs on.

I'll probably give WoW another spin once the crusade goes by.

Gulshog

October 18th, 2006, 23:23

Any possibility of being able to be Skaven in Warhammer Online? I'd love that.

Illuvatar

October 18th, 2006, 23:31

Alas Gulshog, it's not possible to play as Skaven. At least not from the start. It would be perfect material for an expansion though.

Ammon777

October 19th, 2006, 01:52

I would love Ultima Online 2. That would be so awesome...

nameless hero

October 19th, 2006, 07:52

I have never played any MMO's apart from Savage and Diablo 2. Are all these up coming games the kind where u have to pay monthly subscribtions? Im really looking foreward to Age of Conan, but if I have to pay money to actually play the game, I probably wont get it.

Ammon777

October 19th, 2006, 09:19

Savage and Diablo arent MMOs. And yes, you have to pay money per month to play because its an online game that requires world servers, plus monthly expansions via patches, ect... However, please dont turn this thread into another "why do we have to pay monthly fees" topic. I want to know what MMORPGs people are looking forward to, i dont want to explain WHY we play them, here.

nameless hero

October 19th, 2006, 09:55

Ammon777, like u said yourself:

"I want to know what MMORPGs people are looking forward to, i dont want to explain WHY we play them, here."

I said "Im really looking foreward to Age of Conan". So really I wasnt off topic. :)

Ammon777

October 19th, 2006, 13:21

Uhh.. okey. Just so you know, Age of Conan will have a monthly fee, though. :)

Severius

October 20th, 2006, 10:03

Actually Age of Conan is doing something somewhat different from traditional mmo's. You see the game starts as a single player rpg. For the first 20 levels. You will have to be connected to their servers but wont be playing with the other players yet. Once you hit level 20 you have the option of continuing on into the mmo where you will then have to pay a monthly fee. But you can play the single player portion, up to level 20, as long and as many times as you want sans subscription.

Severius

October 20th, 2006, 10:06

because its an online game that requires world servers, plus monthly expansions via patches, ect...

Well, we can always hope for expanded content that is oft promised and rarely delivered :)

Ammon777

October 20th, 2006, 14:57

Some games are great at delivering expanded content, and some arent. Like Asherons Call 1 was great in that regard. So was DAOC. World of Warcraft expanded raids and talent points, not much else.

Ammon777

October 20th, 2006, 14:57

Illuvatar

October 20th, 2006, 15:10

The only reason that I have high hopes for AoC is because it's from the makers of Anarchy Online. :)

nameless hero

October 21st, 2006, 04:11

The only reason that I have high hopes for AoC is because it's from the makers of Anarchy Online. :)

Plus, the combat system seems to be quite awesome!

woges

October 26th, 2006, 19:30

I would have to say, of most interest at this time, it has to be the Bioware MMO.

That, of course, is depending what it is.

I thought that Bethesda had all BUT the rights to the fallout MMO - or have I got this confused with another title?

rheric

November 2nd, 2006, 22:58

Looking forward to the Age of Conan MMO as well, if only for the adult setting (something a bit new and fresh), and their take on combat. If they can deliver, sounds like the might have a nice evolution for a pretty stagnant system.

Other than that, Tabula Rasa (not NEARLY enough sci-fi MMOs out there), Warhammer Online (not the biggest fan of Mythic, but they create solid, fun games, and c'mon - it's WARHAMMER!), Lord of the Rings (cause, well, you know...), Vanguard (if only to see if they came anywhere NEAR fulfilling all of their promises), and mostly - Chronicles of Spellborn. What an amazing, refreshing Intellectual Property and spectacular art style, plus it sounds like the story could be downright great.

(Woges, I, too, thought that this was the case with Bethesda and Fallout...could be wrong, though)

Ammon777

November 30th, 2006, 06:23

Playing WoW, have been for almost two years. Will not get the Addon but rather take the opportunity to play Gothic 3 and probably NWN 2 for a while until...

... until Vanguard comes out. That'll most likely be my next big MMORPG. :) Would like more info though, specifically regarding the classes. But either way it'll be a nice change from WoW's cartoon look.

I have recently been converted to Vanguard. I am definately quitting World of Warcraft for Vanguard. The game is simply too good to let it pass by my radar.

Previously I didnt want to play Vanguard because of the lack of PvP options and what I falsely percieved as "requirement to group." However, I have done some digging and found out that soloing is indeed a viable option.

Also I am really looking forward to the housing options, I saw an E3 video about housing in Vanguard and it is *everything* I ever want in a CRPG game. In fact, housing in Vanguard is better than what it was like in Morrowind (which I loved). I am an item collector in games when possible and I love to have a home in the game, so thats my biggest turn-on with Vanguard.

Plus the game just has everything! (except open PvP, but I will play Darkfall simultaneously for PvP). There is just so much good stuff to say about Vanguard that I am too lazy to say any of it here. Only to say that, yes, I am converted now. So I am placing it on my list.

SirDeity

December 1st, 2006, 09:16

I think my next big MMO will be the one I create =P

Ammon777

December 1st, 2006, 21:45

I think my next big MMO will be the one I create =P

What does that mean? O.o

EDIT -- I think youre full of crap.

Majnun

February 22nd, 2007, 10:02

Warhammer Online - Sure to be great PvP (and PvE as well)

Age of Conan - It's Conan! (But it's also Funcom...so it might be utterly broken for the first YEAR it's live)

Tabula Rasa - Has potential...but also has potential to suck. But like someone said...we need more Sci-Fi MMO's

Stargate Worlds - I love the movie & shows. But sadly it'll probably suck or not even get finished.

Lord of the Rings Online - I've never even read the books, but what I've been reading about the game sounds great. Already pre-ordered it.

Vanguard - I know this one is already out...but from what I've been reading about it I sure won't be trying it for at least 3 months. You know...when it's patched up to the point it should have been BEFORE they released it? It's a resource HOG that doesn't even play nice with most bleeding edge machines...oh and it takes up 17 gigs of space on your HD (not that that's gonna get any smaller with patches).

I wouldn't touch a Fallout MMO done by Interplay with a 1000' pole. A post-apocalyptic MMO, hell yes. But Fallout, and/or done by Interplay? No way.

Yates1968

March 4th, 2007, 01:52

Out of all the upcoming massive online games, the 3 i'm most hoping will be great fun for me are:
1. Pirates of The Burning Sea
2. Warhammer Online
3. Conan

In that order. Good write up just recently in www.mmorpg.com previewing Pirates of The Burning Sea-- sounds like its coming along nicely in beta. It has some unique elements that I think I'd like. Different enough to spark my interest. It would be nice to see another massive online game -not- made by a multi-million $$ company take-off, like Eve Online did. That helps bring innovation to the genre, when smaller dev companies can make it, I think.

Warhammer Online I'm excited about because it's made by Mythic, who made the first mmorpg I fell in love with- Dark Age of Camelot. I loved the first 2 years of that game and spent 12 hours or so a day in realm vs realm combat. The game seems to be giving the players and realms real objectives to pvp over- instead of the current crop of pvp games that bring fights together just for fighting-sake. That's pointless in my opinion. I want to fight over territories, objects, etc that give the winner something tangible. Warhammer Online will provide such content.

Then Conan, which I'll try if the above two games end of sucking. Will be refreshing to play a game that's rating "M" and might have content a bit more interesting than stuff written for some annoying kid. heh.

Pyro-Ghozt

September 16th, 2007, 13:25

This is what I'm playing:
Guild Wars : EN
Silk Road

And here are the MMOs Im looking forward to !

1. HellGate: London
2. Fury
3. Aion
4. Guild Wars 2
5. Cry Gaia

I'm making no arguments about HellGate : London in an interview with one the developers he made it very clear that it has massive multi player aspects. It counts as an MMO :P ! they just don't tag it that because they are aiming at Ex-Diablo people who are worried its gonna be like WoW. Its a Hack and Slash RPG FPS 3rd Person MMO !

Ammon777

September 16th, 2007, 14:39

Right now I am playing World of Warcraft and EVE Online.

Previously I was looking into Colony Studios MMO called Universe Online until I watched a video of their space combat and control scheme... I crossed them off my list, it looks like total shit.

Fury should be coming in beginning of October, I am buying that one.

Also, Star Trek Online is being taken OFF my list. I dont really care about that one since I vehemently disagree with its design decisions. Also seems to be in pre-production limbo...

I am adding a new game to the list: Immortal Destiny, which has a lot of features similar to Darkfall, which is very much encouraging for this genre in design-innovation ways. Its very early in development cycle though, in pre-production. http://www.immortaldestiny.com/

I am interested in the Zenimax MMO, parent company of Bethesda. Maybe Elder Scrolls Online? We wont know for some time... I kinda hope NOT, Elder Scrolls should stay single-player only, in my book.

Trials of Ascension is removed from my list since its pretty much cancelled due to its developers losing funding / running dry out of money. Its sad.

I am watching with an eye on game at http://www.darkdemonscrygaia.com/ called Secret World.

Vanguard Saga of Heroes isnt my can of beer. So its off my list.

World of Darkness MMO is put on my list. But it comes out in... like... 2010-2012?

I am watching 38-Studios for more details of their MMO. Very excited due to its team members and having read its design philosophies.

Theres also going to be a Warhammer 40k MMO at some point...

So here is my up-to-date list:

-- Darkfall Online (my baby)
-- 38-Studios MMO (confirmed to be a fantasy MMO)
-- Unleash the Fury
-- Bioware MMO (Forgotten Realms Online? or possibly Star Wars Jedi MMO?)
-- Heros Journey (very iffy, but they have a nice engine)
-- Age of Conan
-- Stargate Worlds
-- Warhammer Online
-- World of Darkness MMO
-- Immortal Destiny (similar features to Darkfall)
-- Zenimax MMO (maybe Elder Scrolls Online?)
-- Warhammer 40k MMO (eventually...)
-- Secret World (modern Earth MMO)
-- Red-5 Studios MMORPG (fantasy)

:D

September 16th, 2007, 22:10

Planning to get Guild Wars: Eye of the North soon. It is available but my cash is not. lol

Ammon777

September 29th, 2007, 09:51

Cm, you must like PvP, eh. I love PvP, its soooo awesome and fun..

-- adding Red-5 Studios project to my list...

xSamhainx

October 2nd, 2007, 00:58

I'm still excited about Gods and Heroes Rome Rising, I may break my MMO hiatus for that one

Ammon777

October 2nd, 2007, 02:48

I've pre-ordered Fury, a gladitorial PvP MMO. It comes out the 16th of October.

Gallifrey

October 2nd, 2007, 20:34

I think the new WoW expansion is going to get me back in the game.. Lately I've been missing Azeroth, so with the next patch that's supposed to boost XP for the 1-60 range and then the new areas (I'm a sucker for snowy environments), yeah, I'll be back.

*sigh*

xSamhainx

October 2nd, 2007, 21:07

I'm actually wanting for WoW in a way lately. I havent seen the Burning Crusade, and Ive been able to resist thus far, but the whole freakin awesome sounding Arthas bizness just may be my achilles heel.

I have a lv 60 awaiting me, I just need to spend a week updating, cutting all social ties, and it's on babayy.

I wish we had the momentum to make a RPGwatch WoW guild, I think that would be really cool. Then I'd play for sure, I think we'd make a pretty cool guild. I dont think that could ever happen tho because of our time zone issues.

Gallifrey

October 2nd, 2007, 22:45

That would be a great idea, actually. Time zones do interfere dramatically, but with WoW it's not as bad as it could be with something like an NWN persistant world. I guess it depends on how many people are in the guild really. And time zones can be a mixed blessing at times. For instance, I tend to play in times more friendly to GMT-ish times even though I'm EST because I play earlier in the day or evening, which is the more common night to late night for gamers in the GMT and thereabouts.
Of course with this lot, we've got people on the other side of the planet so the time change is dramatic.

But still, an RPG Watch WoW guild is not a bad idea at all. Could even have two, one Horde and one Alliance. It'd have to be an RP server of course :p

Ammon777

October 2nd, 2007, 23:00

I'm leaving WoW before the next expansion for Conan or Warhammer or Darkfall. I been playing WoW for 2 years, its time for something new. Although the snowy environments look like they'd be pretty awesome. If Darkfall comes out in a couple months, I'm out of WoW as soon as I get DFO beta invite.

wynams

December 5th, 2007, 22:59

MMO's I am looking forward to:
none ... until the genre gets redefined, I am done with kill x, loot y and take z mindlessness just to advance to the next level and spend my points according to the cookie cutter of some min-max guru.
I miss EQ and the ability to advance your character thru AA's even at level cap (and/or raid ... etc.)

WoW really lost me once they reneged on the hero classes they were discussing way back in beta. I know the next expansion is going to have an unlockable class, but I want to advance my main class (and in ways other than just a new epic once a month).

Gallifrey

December 6th, 2007, 01:04

For me, I like WoW just for the fun of exploration and seeing stuff. I don't care about min-maxing for maximum efficiency, raiding, grinding instances and whatnot. I just love the huge world that encompasses the game and it's fun to explore it and just poke around.

Alrik Fassbauer

December 7th, 2007, 20:48

Is this true ?
http://kotaku.com/gaming/lethal-update/eve-online-trinity-update-kills-xp-330805.php

Acleacius

December 8th, 2007, 01:21

Yes, it destroyed the Boot.ini it happed this week, bad news to lose your Boot.ini. :(

Damn doesn't look like any good mmogs out before the end of the year, maybe I will jump back in EQ2 for the new expansions.

Ammon777

December 12th, 2007, 08:12

Im stuck in World of Warcraft for 3-4 more months. So I quit Alliance and joined the Horde. I havent played Horde before so this has a nice newness to it.

I lucked-out and didnt lose my boot.ini. I wouldve been very pissed if it happened to me, though. I downloaded EVE from a fresh install instead of using auto-update. Thank gods.

Alrik Fassbauer

January 7th, 2008, 16:39

Olnigg has a list oif his "most anticipated" - well, more or less ;) - MMORPGs ready:
http://www.olnigg.de/jahr2008/olg145.htm

This is in German language only, though.
Be sure to visit his Blog as well.

Ammon777

January 8th, 2008, 05:39

Sorry I cant read German... :-/

Uhhhh... Darkfall is supposed to be targetted for Spring 2008. That means beta is imminent in only a few months. Life is good !!!

(Im still in WoW and EVE)

Alrik Fassbauer

January 26th, 2008, 01:22

Olnigg hinted to something "even more colourful than WOW" (in this sense):

Lego Online : http://universe.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx

Seems to be no joke at all.

Seriously, I see some sort of potential in this - the Star Wars Lego games had been popular as well, hadn't they ?

Gallifrey

January 27th, 2008, 19:51

A Lego MMO could be seriously awesome. I wonder what angle they plan to take for the base game? The possibilities for expansion packs are endless, too.

xSamhainx

January 28th, 2008, 18:55

I can see the player housing already....

Alrik Fassbauer

January 29th, 2008, 15:14

I just stumbled upon a notice that a developing studio called Gravity (located in Korea) has aquired rights for an Ice Age MMO. Source (http://www.pcgames.de/aid,628231/Ice_Age_Online_-_Neues_Online-Rollenspiel_geplant/)

Ammon777

February 3rd, 2008, 00:29

Ice Age MMO, ya I heard about that. Its for kids...

I joined EQ2 and loving it. Also I didnt leave WoW yet, so I am still playing that occassionally. Also I am playing EVE Online still. Three games are fun.

woges

February 27th, 2008, 16:39

Quite interested in the Conan MMO.

xSamhainx

February 27th, 2008, 17:46

Ammon777

February 27th, 2008, 19:12

I have quit EQ2 entirely (I hate that game), and still playing WoW and EVE.

EQ2 has a LOT more quests and a lot more quest content. However it has absolutely worthless player-versus-player. I consider WoW PvP fairly fun (as far as carebear MMOs go) (I play in BGs daily and I play on a PvP server) but EQ2 PvP is pretty much a tack-on addition not really worth bothering with. EQ2 has far less variety in items and how they look than WoW. For instance, many items in EQ2 have the same model, just with different colors -- even with an item of level 1 and another item of level 40-50. Thats pathetic. World of Warcraft has, by far, way more items. I didnt like EQ2's auction system interface. WoW has a way better auction system. EQ has unnatural, odd character animations that remind me of Vanguard. WoW has fluid, well-done animations. EQ2 crafting I found was both frustrating and boring. EQ2 housing was alright but the fact that you are limited in the amount of items you can put in your house, and also by the fact that you cannot place most items where you want like you could in Morrowind or Oblivion (only certain items are placeable in houses, most furniture; you cant place your sword anywhere, you cant put plants or potions or anything down into your house, thats gay) -- that ruined it for me: housing in EQ2 is merely a bunch of worthless furniture, it has ABSOLUTELY NO FUNCTION in that you cannot put your cool stuff there. Useless housing system.

Immediately in EQ2 I got into a guild but then a leader started pressuring me to get ready to raid. I HATE RAIDING. Raiding is retarded waste of time.

Another extremely annoying thing about EQ2 and Sony Online is that you are extremely limited by the amount of characters you create and use. You can only make about 7 characters. If you want more slots, you have to subscribe to the goddamn SOE Station Access, which costs 15 more dollars per month! And then you only get about 6 more character slots! DAMNIT !!! In World of Warcraft you get almost 60 available character slots over different servers !!! In WoW you can make up to 10 or 11 freaken characters ON ONE SERVER. WTF is the problem with SOE? They want more ways to suck more money out of you, thats what. I hate that. Its very greedy and inconsiderate of SOE developers, I will probably never play another SOE game because they are freaking idiots.

I do not recommend EQ2. Play EVE or World of Warcraft, or try one of the new games coming out. Like Darkfall.