The MBoard

I was into City of Heroes until I got banned for a reason that I recently figured out. (It wasn't my fault at all.)

Anyone have suggestions on a new game to play? I go to community college, and next year all of my friends and my girlfriend are going off to universities. I'm planning on working out a ton and playing hours and hours of MMOs.

Any suggestions on what I should get into? I have some friends on FFVI, they say it rocks.

I'm not going to play WoW, Runescape, Maplestory, and so on.

Kingdom of Loathing (http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/), nub. It is made of awesome.
 
Also, Twilight Heroes (http://www.twilightheroes.com/index.php). Similar kind of humor and gameplay as Loathing, but it's newer and it has its differences.

Guns, Gunbound(:D), Counter Strike

They are endless.

Get a life. :[

I have a life, but it's all going away to college.

I think I'll be getting into WoW, but after my RPG of course. >_>

Though if I'll be like any MMO I've played, though, I'll probably get bored after the third day.

Get FFXI if you're a fan of complicated navigation, SLOOOOOW paced gameplay, and looking for parties for up to six hours literally just to have someone disband within an hour of forming the party, and usually of a vital job on top of that, causing everybody else to quit the group at that point.

But hey, it's got it's fans, and people that are addicted to it despite hating it as well. Maybe if you hop on it sometime, and get on the Lakshmi Server, we'll run around and cause some shenanigans.

We'll see.

FFXI is one of the biggest wastes of time I've ever had the misfortune of experiencing.
And the system you access it from, Play Online, is unmanageably horrible (but I can but Chef Slicey Dicey! WOO!).

Go play some Ragnarok Online for a while and your MMO craving will be satisfied for a good, long time.

Isn't that game free?

I have a friend whose soul was consumed by FFXI.

It was sad. I watched and I didn't even really find it fun.

Because it isn't.
It's just horrible.

Isn't that game free?

Uh, not really.
Not "officially".

But yeah, I guess there is free stuff.
But I never said anything.

I used to play this MMO called Silkroad, it's free and is fun for awhile but lags a lot, leveling tends to be boring since there's like missions for killing certain monsters. You can kill your own monsters but the missions earn you more exp even if they're more boring so it makes you feel like you have to do them. I suggest you get some friends you know to play with you on there, or else the game wont be as fun.

City of Heroes was the only MMO that I have played that isn't only fun because it's online.

I used to be WAY too into playing a game called Nexus: Kingdom of the Winds when I was a teenager. The graphics left something to be desired, but the community (once you got past the trolls) was second to none, as far as I'm concerned. Any game in which you can literally become folklore clearly has a tight user-base.

I actually think my character is still on the books there, if only because I put so much time into it I can't bare to see it get deleted.

I suggest staying away from MMOs.
They're boring. I see no fun in clicking on an enemy, running up to them, waiting to take my turn to hit them, finally hitting them after they get like 3 hits on me and then doing zero damage, not my idea of fun.
Also, you can't just get by being skillful at the game, no matter how good you are, someone will always come along and be like 12 levels higher than you and then kill you instantly with their +12 hammer. I mean seriously, whoever has the least life is usually best at MMOs.
Playing an MMO is like doing math homework, not fun at all.

Unless it's the mindless point-and-click of non-PVP RO on a completely abandoned server, but that's just me.

although someone does eventually show up 40 levels higher tan you and steals your kill because they need berry water

That's why I liked Nexus. You didn't have to get involved in PVP if you didn't want to. The subpaths were a fantastic chance to role-play, and the more involved you become in the community, the more there was for you to do. Honestly, I always wondered why we even had PVPrs playing Nexus, but to each their own.

Actually, I remember a few fun ones that were free. Get Space Cowboy if you can, since it's like Star Fox, only with missions and custom ship parts and even classes.

Flyff wasn't a bad free one, either.

Or hack the ##### out of Maple Story

Mapel Story WOULD be fun...

If leveling up doesn't take weeks and if hacking was less tedious.

If it's tedious, you're doing it wrong. The best part of hacking that game is leaving it to it's own devices, and coming back a day or two later and reaping the rewards.

Couldn't find a place that had hacks that didn't look dodgy. So meh.

Mmm... not that tedious. That's the best part.

The tedious part is where Nexon decides to patch the game making it impossible to hack until a new version comes out and when it does come out forums shut down due to the popularity and then you have to wait for a week to properly download it. And after all that, you get banned. Twice.

...

At least, that's how it happened to me. D: I don't plan on playing Maple Story anymore now.

You can give yourself a leg up by going on whichever server had the feather symbol, and looking for any members of a guild called Section 8, namely a gentlemen named Slayer666, and tell him Edgecrusher told you to speak to him. He'll let you in and the guild will keep you up to date on the latest hacking methods. It's good to have friends that bored programmers.

I'll probably eventually do that... if I get back in the Maple Story mood that is.

Which... probably won't be anytime soon. >_<

I don't blame you.

I still get Nexus cravings now and again though. Now THAT'S a hard game to hack. Almost ALL info kept on their servers, and employees who constantly scan for edited packets.

After reading all of this and thinking about it, I think I'm going to quit playing MMOs. I am realizing that for me personally, and for most people who play them, they are just a chase after the "purple dragon" that never ends. It's a never ending quest for fulfillment in the wrong things. Next year I think instead of playing an MMO I'm going to take those painting lessons that I always wanted to, and practice piano more.

... am I the ONLY one here who plays MMOs just to kick back and relax once in a long while?
Like seriously.

Also, Maple Story is always boring. It takes five billion years to get one level, and everyone KS's.

I dunno, sometimes all you want to do is kill eight hundred inappropriately-named anthro fungi.

Heh. "Horny mushroom."

It's a never ending quest for fulfillment in the wrong things.

It's amazing how many things that can be said about.

Orange Devil, you should try Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst.

Not as awesome as the DC/GCN game, but still awesome. Although it's not an MMO (Four player co-op), you'll still have fun with it.

I play blue burst every once in awhile actually. It's fun, but I can't really get into it.

Ah, so you do play it...

Well, PSO was and always has been my favourite online game. I still play it from time to time.

You really should play WoW. It's not all that scary once the wire going through your vein reaches your brain. *twitch*

I tried WoW. Hated it. The thing that I hate most about MMOs is that getting good depends more on time than skill. And WoW is the poster child for that.

But like I said earlier, I've decided that I'm done with MMOs.