Do you miss all those childhood mmorpgs you used to play as a 12 year old?

>>715209182 (OP)
I do get a little bit nostalgic for them. They had soul. Stuff like Priston Tale and ROSE online. The graphics are better now, though.

>>715209182 (OP)
Mmorpgs never die

>>715209182 (OP)
I have local servers for all of them so no.
The communities on the other hand...

Sometimes.
But then I try to remember that it isn't about the game, its about the experience of a kid, and that's what I crave, not really the pixelated 50 polygon models of DarkStone 2, but rather the feeling of being a kid, playing Darkstone 2.
Adults shift this to their own kids, and you get to experience say christmas again, but from the other side, giving it to your kid.
Not on this society tho, that part isn't sold anymore, you are supposed to be a forever child, but you are not and will never be

>>715209182 (OP)
i'm still playing it

>>715209182 (OP)
yes but I mostly miss the people.

we all still play ffxiv & ffxi

>>715212125
You wonder where the people of the past went and you realise they're living in a society now. There's the internet and the real world, and that's why people can just disappear.

not as much as wildstar during my 20s

>>715212125
I miss the demographic of people we used to share the internet with

>>715209182 (OP)
I still occasionally pop in to play AQW. The game is still just as good and they even basically incorporated all the little features and settings that you used to have third party software for like Runelite for Runescape. Obviously hard to recommend to others though.

Sometimes I think about this garbage. I mean it was so fucking bad but I think the composer was already fishing for nostalgia back then with this one track:
https://youtu.be/bn1YCClRF-g?feature=shared

>>715209182 (OP)
Kind of, though mostly I miss MMOs being something new, intriguing or outright fascinating to me. Being able to play a game online with untold numbers of people in a huge world felt outright magical when most of my experiences with MP gaming at the time were couch co-op, hotseat and the vanishingly rare LAN party.

>>715209182 (OP)
Yeah. Everyone into "space" games talks about Star Citizen this, Elite that, even the supposed boomers love glazing about Freelancer.
Nobody seems to remember Earth & Beyond, the MMO that came out before even Freelancer yet had the ability to walk around stations populated by other players, had the ability to fully customize your character, and even the ability to fully customize your ship.
It was the last game made by Westwood Studios, too.

>>715212967
Can you also tell what people use this site? Because I can. The ethnics who showed up are much more hostile than the 4channers were. There's no one else who would even reply to some of these threads. It's funny to think about, actually. They came to the internet to argue with their own people.

>>715213894
Indeed. Internet culture is pretty much gone between the normalfags and third worlders flooding it.

>>715209182 (OP)
I'm playing AQW right now

>>715209182 (OP)
I think there was just UO when I was 12 and even if I'd known about it I wouldn't have afforded anything with a sub.

>>715215315
Really cool art
I started playing aqw during the beta and stopped around the time chaos lord wolfwing fight released. PvP in bludrut brawl was so much fun in that game.

>>715209182 (OP)
I didn't play mmos as a kid because I was a 90's kid and arcade master race.

>>715216239
Were there no private servers? I remember playing on WoW private servers.

>>715216436
The game has progressed pretty far since then. At least two major storylines have already passed.

>>715209182 (OP)
No. Nobody actually does, because the grand majority of them are either still around or have private servers. And if the game was all they missed, there wouldn't be constant bawwing over them.
People miss the memories associated with them. The last decent MMORPGs were released over 20 years ago, and it's only been getting worse since then. The people who grew up on these MMORPGs are now in their 30s and are likely living lives so miserable they'd commit several war crimes just to go back to 1999 for a single day.

I grew up playing Maplestory so I was a late bloomer with the MMORPG market. The game is still around, and there's no shortage of private servers giving me a near exact replica of what I played two decades ago. What private servers cannot do is replicate the social experience of people treating it like a social hangout rather than a second job, nor can it make me twenty years younger or bring my dad back to life. People grow up and move on. The people you meet are no longer genuine, and if they are they sure as fuck won't be talking to (You) unless you're in their friend circle, and even if you are it'll only be through Discord (applies to every other MMORPG, including one I'm playing right now).
MMORPGs are a relic of the past and have nothing to offer that thousands of other games in current year don't do better.

>>715209182 (OP)
Yes, whenever I see my siblings playing fucking Roblox I feel no hope for the future. Take me back.

>>715218164
>What private servers cannot do is replicate the social experience of people treating it like a social hangout rather than a second job
See, this is a thing that I think was just gaming in general, before e-sports and other things became popular. They might not be MMOs, but I spent hundreds if not thousands of hours just "hanging out" in Star Wars JK2: Jedi Outcast and Academy for instance - people would just hang out, /sit with their characters and chill, maybe engaging in the occasional duel.
Same thing with Counter Strike 1.6 and Source, I have lots of good memories playing on servers that would have "alltalk" on all the time, even those still alive could hear the dead, and it wasn't used to exploit anything since everyone was mostly just hanging out and bullshitting wile casually playing the game.
I can play all these games right now, Counter Strike at least, and I won't be able to find anything similar at all.

I didn't play AQW much and I went Good or whatever, but it was my first encounter with real people turning Evil for pussy.
Honestly I get it.

>>715218076
Always remember that he was a true hero.

>>715219006
She's the most for (You) girl in the entire game, so it's understandable. The devs intentionally designed her to have that "You and me against the world" appeal.
>>715219058
He deserves better.

>>715219325
Yeah, she's 100% waifubait. Just funny that like at least two-thirds of the evil people I encountered did it to simp for her.

>>715209182 (OP)
>biggest MMOs in 2009 (when I was 12) were Runescape and WoW
>biggest MMOs in 2025 are...hmm...still Runescape and WoW

>>715209182 (OP)
Kinda. It's a MUD, and it's still around, but it averages 50 people playing at any given point instead of 200+ and it's not the same. Still got like a 25 year old character on there but I just log on every few years, usually on new year's, and feel like a giant fucking dweeb

>>715219626
Can't really fault them for creating a successful character. I recall Evil winning almost every single relevant faction war just because of how many people joined.
There's also an NPC in-game who joined Evil because he thought Gravelyn was hot, but he tries to leave because she's a nagging, commanding bitch to anyone who isn't the Hero.

what are some mmos with rebirthing/prestiging as a mechanic? i know dungeons and dragons online and ragnarok online had them

>>715220181
Evil wins every war because they get catered to the most with items, storylines and such. Good items tend to only have one type of aesthetic because most of the artists they've hired are biased to that side unfortunately, and their faction always suffer the most losses in the story so you don't get to see them as much as a consistent entity to attach to.

Meanwhile aside from Gravelyn you don't really have anything else going for Evil (besides Noxus being cool), so every single "Evil" storyline is actually just more character growth from Gravelyn. Good faction content is super thinned out by comparison, though the newest storyline actually remembered that this game is based around factions finally. So that's nice.

>>715221294
To be fair, Legion and Nation are both technically on the Evil side, too

>>715222968
Technically, but they're treated more like weird uncles that help out occasionally and they're distinctly kept as separate factions from the Shadowscythe.

My first mmo was iRO. I was 16 or so and even got an online gf who would grind and dress up my priest.

Last time I played AQW was in beta when the cemetery was the only content to grind. It was based as FUCK. I was more of an AQ classic player. The developing meta over the years was fun to keep up with. I usually come back for that Christmas event, but I've missed two years. I'll probably try out a Warrior build next time I come back.

Gravelyn shit

Yara better

>>715227878
More like
WHO-ra

>>715209182 (OP)
Yeah
Gravelyn was my waifu
the lack of bondage, rape, and domination porn and porn in general of her is disappointing