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RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

Clixxer — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:50:02 GMT

Meridian 59. Nuff said. Best PVP system ever build and used.

/endthread.

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

yagami — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:29:11 GMT

well....for me, the best and addictive games ever were:

Gunz (Korean server)

Gunz 2 (Korean server)

Raiderz (Korean server)

Rakion (Korean server)

KOF XIII (japanesse version)

Sengoku basara (japanesse version)

Gound bound (Korean server)

Asda story (no longer avariable :S)

and last but not least....Wolf team (Korean server)

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

AaronSmith — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:42:16 GMT

League of Legends is another game I would put into that list, I can't tell you how many hours I've spent playing with friends in that game.

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

Dorkstar — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:21:52 GMT

There already is a game similar to skyrim called Mortal Online. I played it during the Alpha and Beta stages, then they billed me for 8 months and refused to refund my money even though I never played after release (they changed their TOS to bill those who were being billed after release). So because of all that I refuse to give them another dime. The game probably sucked anyways.

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

OSunday — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:12:28 GMT

Wow Ultima Online sounds a lot like something you'd see from the Elder Scrolls series in an MMO, definitely sounds interesting. Sad to hear it's died out though>
I'm not sure if you've heard of it but Bethesda has actually announced their plans and development for an Elder Scrolls Online MMO. There are some gameplay video's out already too but I'm pretty sure their early. But considering how the single player Elder Scrolls games were in Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim where you could break into houses, steal things and kill almost anything and anyone it sounds like this could be the great successor to Ultima Online for you. I'm definitely gonna check it out because I love the Elder Scroll Series and what Bethesda has done with the games as far as entertainment, and depth in the stories.

From some of the other comments and a lot of the positive things I've heard about GW2 it sounds like it might be worth checking out as well.

@ an earlier comment, about a year ago I actually looked up some of the classic games that achieved legendary status and with some emulators gave Master of Orion 1&2 and X-COM UFO Defense and Alpha Centauri a quick go through but I'm too adapted to 21st century games and graphics, they were enjoyable but the limitations of mechanics compared to modern games made me lose interest after the retro pleasure effects of old school gaming wore off haha.
Speaking of X-COM, i've recently been playing the new Enemy Unknown game released and have found that pretty fun too.

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

WendellWoW — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:06:48 GMT

GW2 is no longer click to move. Moves like WoW with the WSAD keys, plus Q E for side-stepping. I haven't done any dungeons yet. I've just been doing the zones and the events/quests. It's different with the level adjustment as well, which makes doing the other starter zones interesting. So if you are level 30, and go into a starter zone you are dropped to an appropriate level for that zone so you don't just run and kill it all willy nilly. Granted you keep all your higher level abilities and gear bonuses which still makes it pretty easy, but the level adjustment makes it more interesting as you an still get killed by a level 5 mob while you are level 30.

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

Dorkstar — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:48:19 GMT

WendellWoW:

Ah, Wing Commander is probably my all-time favorite. That game sucked up a LOT of hours. Currently I've put WoW on hold to play some Guild Wars 2. I'm very impressed with how GW2 plays and it's event driven quests.

I was also totally into all the old Sierra games, Kings Quest, Leisure Suit Larry (chuckle), Space Quest etc. I'd love to see all those updated with modern graphics for nostalgia reasons.

How is GW2? I played the first one for a little while, but after my friend ran me through everything and got me all the best gear/skills within a few hours, I just got bored of it. I'm not a huge fan of the point-and-move type of games. I like the freedom that WoW had to move around, giving you an edge over someone with better gear if you could move around right.

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

WendellWoW — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:40:45 GMT

Ah, Wing Commander is probably my all-time favorite. That game sucked up a LOT of hours. Currently I've put WoW on hold to play some Guild Wars 2. I'm very impressed with how GW2 plays and it's event driven quests.

I was also totally into all the old Sierra games, Kings Quest, Leisure Suit Larry (chuckle), Space Quest etc. I'd love to see all those updated with modern graphics for nostalgia reasons.

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

Dorkstar — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 19:01:06 GMT

Sigh, the post pending moderation got me. I'm not rewriting all that.

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

fat78 — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:22:47 GMT

I thought stars the old republic had a ton of potential but something about the gameplay didn't feel smooth and fluid. It also had several other problems that brought it down, which is sad because it good have been a great game.

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

Dorkstar — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:06:11 GMT

I never actually played everquest. I powered through the decline of Ultima Online while Everquest was stealing players away.

Ultima was like medieval times, but realistic. You could steal anything from other players, you could buy a house, you could break into peoples houses if you made it in the door before they could lock it, and basically anything else you can think of. Eventually houses became secure so people couldn't steal from you anymore, and they made a cloned world where you couldn't murder or steal anymore. After all that happened, or rather after EA implemented all that after they bought OSI, the game just went into a steep decline.

The only real similarities between WoW and UO are the unique items you can get from harder dungeons. However with UO you could solo just about everything with the right amount of skills, and it didn't take 3 hours to do it. Plus there were no such things as bind on equipped items, so when you murdered someone you could just walk up to their corpse and take it. Strangely enough UO is still going strong with 90% of the players being based out of Korea and 10% in other countries. Last I checked they only had about 60,000 players still. UO2 was announced, but eventually got scrapped, so the franchise just stopped here. EA killed it.

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

OSunday — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 20:55:14 GMT

Was the basic structure of Ultima online and Everquest similar to WOW?
Considering they were out for almost an entire decade before WOW how similar were they in terms of gameplay?

I know the contrast between non MMO games from the 90's and and 2000's to 2010+ can be pretty stark but I'm wondering how much of a difference you can have between massive multi-player online games

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

Dorkstar — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 19:36:32 GMT

Ahh yes, Everquest. That one should definitely be on this list. That was WoW before WoW.

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

OSunday — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:06:19 GMT

Never tried any MMO other than WOW and then Guild Wars for a very short amount of time.

I remember being younger I always thought Everquest looked cool because it mean't I wouldn't have to wait and save up money to buy a new game once I beat one I already had lol... This was at about 10 years old, and I could never convince my parents to to buy it for me or let me buy it for myself because of monthly subscriptions and their fear of using credit cards, and second because the scantily clad female characters on the cover made them think it was filled with softcore porn/nudity for my young innocent eyes lol

I thought Star Trek Online and Star War: The Old Republic looked like they had some potential though, anyone know anything about either of those two?

One of the biggest turn offs from Fantasy/Sci-Fi MMO's for me aside from the repetitive gameplay is when they create their own universes or lore from scratch it tends to be less flushed out, compared to something based off an existing franchise that has a lot of depth and dynamics to it's universe (A.k.a Warcraft, Star Trek, Star Wars etc.) even though they too initially had to start from scratch they didn't do so with the idea of we're making this stuff for an MMO game which effects the way the story line and storytelling translate over to the actual game.

RE: Digital Obsession: The Most Addictive PC Games Ever

Dorkstar — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:48:09 GMT

I'm really surprised there's no Ultima Online or Meridian fans on here. Those games made MMO's what they are today, plus Ultima Online was awesome.