Thread 721160525

Why do all MMOs, even the so-called best ones, have such garbage stories?
The only one I can think of that had an entertaining story was AQW.

I don't know what the fuck AQW is but FF14 Shadowbringers has the best story in any MMO and it's not even close. Cope, seethe, dialte, have sex, whatever else you trannies usually do. It's the truth and don't even try to @ me.

>>721160645
>I don't know what the fuck AQW
kys zoomer.

>>721160525 (OP)
Because most MMOs are front loaded to get you into the grind and then by the time you get to around 12-24 hours in, you're supposed to be 'hooked' as you invested time so why stop?

WoW is probably might favourite example of this. Early game is interesting and you have a serious storyline with you being a lowly adventure but by the time you get to the 3 zone, around level 10-12, you're kinda just 'k go do more basic black bitch shit'

>>721160525 (OP)
Star Trek Online had a pretty good story.

>>721160525 (OP)
GW2's is particularly bad and when I see people praise it online I have to assume their IQ scores are double digit. That its a sequel to GW1 really drives home just how insufferable the writing is

>>721160525 (OP)
RO handled it the best way by just not having a story to follow and to explain everything with world building and side quests.

>I play the online multiplayer game for the story-driven singleplayer campaign
Do MMO players really? Grab some friends and kill some noobs, you retard.

>>721161434
That's not the issue retard, the issue is that you are forced to finish expansions with garbage stories and you can't just skip it. And it's not fun playing boring content for 50 hours.

>>721160525 (OP)
GW2s story is garbage but it's all it has.
After you're done and dont have the guard rails of the MSQ to guide you, you realize the game is shallow as fuck.

There is no endgame. Once you get full ascended (which you can do in the easiest tier of fractals) there is ZERO reason to do fucking anything. So people cope about the story and hype it up.

>>721160525 (OP)
because a big epic story is anathema to MMO

From the ones I've played, I think their writers only know how to write for a single protagonist. What they then do for group content is to write around a surrogate MC like your Thrall and Trahearne. This diminishes the players' agency in the story so if the special snowflake MC isn't solidly written, the whole narrative falls apart.

>>721161434
>the ESL pvpbabby

>>721160525 (OP)
They need to add the stock market in GW2.

>>721160525 (OP)
They need to get rid of GW2 and return to GW1. But only with old Arenanet.

Vanilla wow has great story, I hate mmos but I read all the quests when I lvld a human on alliance back in 2019. Retards like this>>721160798 make me feel physical pain. They clearly didnt understood the defias brotherhood/ onyxia kino

>>721162139
MMORPG is an ESL genre. Know your place, minority.

>>721160525 (OP)
True, MMOs invariable have poor quality storylines, but can you blame when everybody is skipping through anyway? GW2 is bad in particular: I cannot think of any other fantasy universe that is worse than the GW one with its square regions and endlessly repetitive same conflicts and jokes. Even Korean MMOs tend to have better worldbuilding.

>>721161738
>there is ZERO reason to do fucking anything
This is such a great indicator of autism, every time someone spouts this retarded take I know they've got some sort of 'tism. There's plenty to do at end game but you have to make your own fun, you cant just run on the gear treadmill like a fucking retard.

>>721165113
When people try to talk about GW2 lore I laugh my ass off because it's can be contained in a double spaced times new roman size 12 font page and they add half of a sentence once ever 5 years.

>>721165254
>you have to make your own fun
Go to retard cope. Always.

gw2 has a great story wdym

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxTiwKvp348

>>721165254
>make your own fun
How about the people who make the game make the fun as well.

>Every thread that mentions GW2 has GW1's 5 total fans being eternally asshurt about 2
It's funny but also sad

>>721165361
Sorry you have fucking autism. GW2 sucks but saying there's nothing to do because you're not grinding for better gear every six months is peak autism, god damn nigga must really suck not being able to comprehend doing things just for fun.

>>721165421
WvW roaming is fun nice AI slop you jeet bitch

>>721160525 (OP)
Who fucking cares about pre-made story in an MMO. MMOs are about the players, the "stories" should be how different guilds and players on a server interacts with each other and the drama/cooperation that arises from said interactions.

I don't want to sit in some garbage tier instanced room with NPCs sitting there spouting dialogue

>>721165369
God what a fuck up this was.
I played GW1 after I went through two and Cantha was fucking one of a kind. You start out on this peaceful little island, but then you get thrown into this urban Kowloon Walled City hellscape only to set foot on an ocean of solid jade. It was so fucking good.

GW2 Cantha and their lame steampunk shit is just gay.

>>721163872
>game has 10 expansions over 21 years
>he thinks vanilla isn't 'early game'

oh sweetie

>>721165575
>WvW roaming is fun
lol
maybe 10 years ago stupid

>>721165684
Some of my favorite "stories" were entirely created by players interacting with the world in UO. I still remember a lot of them to this day. I played FFXI religiously and I couldn't tell you what the fuck happened in that shit, I remember there was a Shadow Lord or something but beyond that I have no fucking idea. It's depressing to think about what MMOs could have been if Everquest and later WoW weren't so successful.

>>721165868
They have you a computer in jail, Tyler?!

>>721165527
You hit level 80. You have full ascended. You have a transmog you like.

Now what?

>>721165718
GW2 has been raping everything about GW1 since the start, it's awful to see. I still remember sitting slack jawed as my CHARR character was inducted into the Shining Blades and there was a comedic scene of a giant boulder dropping on his head, like straight out of a Looney Tunes cartoon.

>>721166008
Finish the story. Grind out masteries. Start working on your first legendary. Try out PVP and WvW. Thank god that you're not autistic and can set goals and enjoy things on your own terms without being told.

>>721165864
>I played FFXI religiously and I couldn't tell you what the fuck happened in that shit

>>721166018
playing through GW1 made me retroactively hate the charr. I thought it was kind of an Orcs/Humans thing but after seeing the searing it's on sight.
And GW2 just forces you to be sympathetic and forgiving to beastmen who ate women and children after burning them alive. Then in GW2 when you go to their territory half of them are saying they need to resume their conquest of Tyria.

THEY DONT EVEN HAVE THE EXCUSE OF BEING UNDER DEMONIC INFLUENCE. THEY JUST DID THAT SHIT ON THEIR OWN.

>>721165684
MMOs are singleplayer online games. Every MMO developer dropped the LARP aspect ever since WoW became popular in the mid 2000s.