Good day everyone, I was just wondering about how many of you have played any MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games). From the free online games, to the monthly subscription games. If so, do you have any memorable moments you would like to share?

As for myself, I have been drifting for several years now. From Everquest, Everquest2, Planetside, Ultima Online, and Horizons.

Possibly the best memories I have are from "the good old days" of EQ. Their fist expansion, "The Ruins of Kunark" had just come out, and it was the place to be. All over the original three continents you would see people auctioning "Kunark Weapons" to their fellow players. These weapons were often no better than the junk you could get from merchants or monsters, but they looked cool.

And in those days... even that so called "junk" was still worth buying to some people. In these days of epic 2.0 weapons and "Ub3r Ph4t l3wts" people often forget the age when a suit of bronze armor and a fine steel longsword made you one of the "l33t."

With all of this attention to Kunark, I decided to make it my next stop. Being a human ranger at the time, I was more than skilled at getting around. I hoofed it to my first destination, a desert city known as Freeport. From there I would board a ship to the continent of Faydwer to board my next ship.

Now, any EQ player nowadays can tell you there are no ships. What they mean is... there are no LONGER ANY ships. Due to issues, the ships were removed and replaced by little teleporting gnomes that provided instantaneous transport across the ocean. To me, this killed some of the immersion.

However, ships still existed at this point, so I did what anyone in my situation would do... I pulled out a fishing pole and worked on my fishing skill. In a short time, the ship arrived. During my wait, four others had arrived to wait for passage across the ocean as well. They were all close to my level (high teens) and invited me to join them for some leveling in Lake of Ill Omen... a zone on Kunark that was fit for my level. I agreed, and then we were off across the Ocean of Tears.

I have taken this ship ride many times. Each time I was awed by the mysterious islands jutted throughout the lengthy zone. I heard there were many high level mobs here that would be more than happy to destroy passing travelers... and sometimes the ship would get too close to these monsters...

Regardless, I stood on deck and watched the passing scenery. As I stated before, I had taken this ship to Faydwer many times and have never been attacked. This time was no exception.

The group I had joined was a very friendly bunch. We chatted about past adventures (we were all still relatively new to the game, yet we had still accumulated enough experiences to more than last the trip). Upon reaching the docks, the group jumped from the ship and directed me to a series of four small raftlike vessels. I remember asking if they were the boats to Kunark, and all I remember was a laugh from the dwarven cleric, followed by a "you'll see."

During this wait, I pulled out my trusty fishing pole and went back to my usual activities. The afore mentioned dwarf, along with our main tank, a human warrior, started chugging down mead. The chat window was spammed with it. When they couldn't possibly become more intoxicated, they would start taking bare-handed swings, doing only 1 or 2 damage when they actually landed a hit (this was the Vallon Zek server, a plaver vs. player teams server). It was good entertainment, and a good way to pass the time as we waited for the boats to move.

I had run out of bait by the time the little boats finally began to move. We passed through the zoneline, and all I could remember seeing was water. Lots and lots of water. There we were, five low level adventurers standing atop four crappy little boats stranded in the middle of a place known as "The Timourous Deep." The boats once again jerked ahead... just as the dwarf finished zoning. He fell into the water, and my first thoughts were "crap, there goes our cleric." The group leader simply laughed and told him to "ride the rudder."

As I contemplated the meaning of this, something began to materialize through the clipping plane. Something BIG. It was ship, THE ship that would take us the rest of the trip. I had never seen anything so massive in any zone, let alone as a ship. The cleric swam to it and jumped onto the back, at the only place anyone can rest upon after falling into the water.

As the ship carried us across the sea, I was racing up and down the halls of "The Maiden's Voyage." With in the ship were small rooms, large rooms, and rooms that were obviously meant to be taverns. The five of us were the only ones on board at the time, but in my mind I pictured an entire guild below deck in one of these rooms planning out and discussing a raid. The whole experience was mesmerizing.

With a sudden question from the group leader, I abandoned my day dreaming. He had asked if I knew anthing about the trip to LoIO. I told him this I didn't and he began to explain it. To get there we needed to follow a small river through a forest crawling with spiders. BIG spiders. Their poison alone could kill a player my level in mere seconds. On top of that, they were druids and rangers. Which meant they can cast snares, buffs upon themselves, dots (damage over time) nukes (instant damage) and can root. To make things even worse (if they could be) the sun had set during the ride. We would need to pass these things on foot.

Needless to say, once we passed the next zoneline my eyes were on the forest he had spoke of. As the ship sailed by, I gazed blankly into the rustling branches. All I saw past them was blackness, and I doubt I can describe what I was feeling at that moment.

After spending time awing at the outpost of which we arrived, the group decided it was time to move ahead. With no speed buffs, we approached the afore mentioned forest. I was on edge the whole time, yet I never saw the spiders he had spoken of. Relieved, we finally reached LoIO. We trecked across the zone to a structure nicknamed "The Mill." It appeared to be a windmill of sorts, only the "blades" weren't position vertically around it, but rather horizontally, like a wheel resting on it's back. On the end of these arms were stone arcane symbols, that would spin only slightly as the arms circled about. We spent many hours here leveling.

I had continued to come to this zone for a long time. From the high teens to low thirties. I had lots of experiences both good and bad here. The zone was packed, and the chat window was always filled with shouts and out of character messages. There was always several groups going, and plenty of fun to be had.

Only recently did I return to the game. I was well above the level to be in LoIO, but I returned to see what had become of this once great zone. This trip, like all but the first, I encountered the spiders. They were no longer a threat to me, and I simply ignored them. Reaching the zoneline, I found the place abandoned. The chat window was empty, no people mouthing off, no people chatting with their friends, no people auctioning wares they had recently acquired, no dings or grats or woots. Just emptiness.

I returned to the mill. The awestruck feeling I once had had died off long ago. Only now, that I was it empty, did I once again realize the greatness of this structure, where up to three groups once gathered. I wondered if anyone who had once been here for exp, and was now off planar raiding for their precious "l3wt", ever took the time to appluad the devs for creating such a thing.

Wandering along the coast, I came upon a place known as "the pillars." A series of pillars from an ancient ruined city that jutted from the water near the shore. It was no uncommon to see several groups here as well. Now, only a lone npc kept a solemn watch over the still waters of the lake.

It was a sad thing, realizing I could go back to "the good old days". The days when you started off with a rusty sword, a torn tunic, and well wishes. Everything had meaning back then, rather than a means to reach the level cap and raid ceaselessly.

The game I once knew was gone forever.

Just thought I'd share that with you. If anyone else has any in game experiences to share, please do.

Wow that first post was longer than some of my fanfic posts I think....
I used to play guild wars, I was the head monk in my 70 some peeps guild that kicked people out for three days of absence without being on vacation. So yea..we were active, and above average in GvG....um I will have to take a while to think of some old stories but in the meantime My chars name was Why Heal Why anyone know me from there? Or at least hear of me? lol well I hope we have all gotten a taste of the mmo bug

Wow! That first post was a story in its self. I have to take a look at some screen shoots of the game. I rember thoese feelings of wanting to go back to the good ol days. I used to play Star Craft Brood war.

I yern so much for the feeling of joining my first clan and making friends online. The endless nights we stayed up playing maps and talking. We would play tons of RPG type maps and have a blast. Then you begin know every corner of the game and it grows old.

Also even though it is not a MMog, I rember that first feel to Morrowind. The free wrold to go where ever you want, the mystery of those sounds coming way off from the mountins (which were actuly from the silt striders). The rain as I yould trudge into a tavern to kill the people and loot the place, only to get my butt kicked, run out the door and then have to travel along walls to make it to the thives guild without the guards seeing me. Then you level up, you know everything and the NPC's which were amazing to me at the time, I began to see dull.

That is why I await obliving, to have that awe for a very long time and have a grand ol time!

Time to take a look at the history of EQ (what it was like at the release and what problems occured over time and so forth)

I know the feeling. Once I first started and all I had was a dagger (didn't know about the flying elf) I tried to clear the cave. I had to be really careful and do all sorts of backing up, JAB, back up some more, run around a lot stuff. And when I found the mage... lol I believe my first reaction was "[censored] a FIREBALL!"

Then later you could be off looting a Deadric Shrine with little care to the Dremora Lord smacking you with a Daedric Dai-Katana.



Sorry I'm afraid I don't recall anyone by that name. Then again I havn't played in a long... long... time. I got to Yak's Bend and simply couldn't play anymore. The game had awesome scenery though, and my WAR/Monk looked awesome in his black cape with the gold lion head on the back. I was hell bent on getting that thing before leaving Pre-Searing.

Hmmm, I used to play Everquest, but now if I play any MMOG's it's only going in Warhammer40k Dawn of War.

One compound word, four numbers. Battlefield 1942 (havn't played in a while and have only played number 2 briefly). I had a lot of fun with all of the different groups and clans I joined, killing and maiming my Axis counter parts.

I remember one time I was playing an island invasion map (Omaha I believe) and only me and about four people were left to drive, use and defend the Battleship. I took the drivers seat because I was one of the few people in the game that could drive (getting in someone else's jeep was a rocky, tree filled suicide) while three of the soldiers filled turrets and the other just walked the deck (probably to kill swimming enemies).

So, we're waiting for some action when two Japenese fighter planes fly in. Easy target practice especially when I got into the turret for a second. Then, a Japenese bomber and two fighters fly in fast. They didn't land any hits and the one who decided to parachute down on us was killed, but we knew what was to come, so I started moving the ship farther around the island. We can see the enemy base on the horizon, so we shell it, and shell it hard. Our boys in red, white and blue fly, drive, roll and run in and take the base.

But we all knew revenge never rests. A battle ship, four transport ships filled with enemies, about 3 bombers and 3 fighters and even swimmers come in at us. Well, we lost a base then and most of our infantry and such ran to there, so we only had with us two planes, three turrets and three people on deck. Our planes go down, newarly crushing our men on deck, but we keep fighting. MGs on the Transport ships fires, so our men take out sniper rifles. BAM BAM BAM! about two boats down, but we lose a sniper. The the planes and battle ship come into firing reach. Everyone in a heavy position attacks the Battle ship and because of poor enemy soldiers, it goes down quick, but the planes are hitting us hard.

We get two more allied planes to come into help, but only one enemy goes down. Skilled pilots are a hand ful, especially when in bombers. Just when I was about to call for reinforcements, I see fire in the sky, and a plane hitting the water. A soldier took an enemy down, long distance, with a medic MG. Then another, then another. Two fighters were left, and the bombers, before being killed, had taken out two turrets.

Some soldiers respawned on our battle ship, but most of the first round of respawners turned into casualties. I let a driver I trusted take the controls of the battle ship as I and a ally ran to a tranportation ship. I drove, he took turret. We landed on the beach of an enemy base. We rushed through the base, killing three enemies and forcing two to make a break for the two idle planes. One was far behind us, one infront. The front one was almost to a plane, but then he fell bleeding filled with American bullets. We got to the plane, I took pilot and he took gunner. We flew up and bulleted down the other plane.

There were now five enemy planes attacking the battleship. The enemies barely noticed me, as they fired at the ship. We flew trough the cloud of enemies, one downed by me, two by the gunner. We were joined by an ally plane that took down our last enemy. Well, last air enemy.

The Battle Ship was smoking from shots fired and when we parachuted down from our damadged plane, we knew we weren't safe. I took the drivers seat as the water rippled. BAM! A torpedo hits the battle ship. Planes come and damadge the submarine that shot said torpedo and killed it eventually, but not before he shot the finishing blow. Sirens went off and the chat was filled. People were running around, not finding transport boats. The boat tipped.

It looked like people wanted to go down with the ship. Me and another soldier tried to co-ordinate them to the last transport ship that wasn't under water, but someone took it for himself. He was promptly shot. People made no leverage in the situation, so I simply yelled "Over board! Go overboard!" and shot into the air. They ran and jumped over the railings and I swam out the last, now idle, ship and picked up our allies.

We landed on the beach and rushed up, at no particular enemy, when a screen came up announcing our victory. Appearently the land fighting was as exciting as the Battle ship battle, but all I knew was I earned me some medals.

Sounds like one hell of a day Red. MMOFPS are great if people actually work together.

I remember some good times from an MMOFPS I used to play... PlanetSide. My first team was the New Conglomerate, and my first battle dropped me from the HART shuttle into a hot spot on a Terran Republic controlled continent.

I remember I was listening to Dead Souls by Nine Inch Nails as the shuttle took off. By the time I reached the fight, the music had picked up. Listening to that as the drop pod zoomed through the atmosphere into a mess of bullets, explosions, vehicles, aircraft, and even BFRs... well lets just say it was intense.

There would be medics running from position to position keeping the soldiers healed up, and engineers who would charge into the nastiest of the combat to get to a tank or BFR that needed repairs. Any of the infantry that stopped moving (medics and engineers not excluded) would be picked off by a sniper. I hid behind a rock with a handful of others with my trusty gauss and shot anthing that lit up with a red name. When I was out of ammo, I braved the firefight to the nearest Advanced Mobile Station to re equip myself.

It was glorious.

That was my first day in PS, and unfortunatley it was the most hardcore battle I ever participated in. After that all I would see were squads of infantry coupled with a few aircraft mindlessly zerging bases into submission.

For the rest of my PS career, I chose to have the engineering certificate, and later the medic certificate. Not to keep my own butt glued together, but to be one of those crazy SOBs that run into any fight, no matter the dangers, to keep your comrads going.

Sveet, I thought I was the only one that played PS anymore..

I love planetside, but it def isn't what it used to be.

I've also played...

WoW - Still play
EQ2 - 3 months
EVE Online - 1 year and counting
PlanetSide - 2 1/2 years
Guild Wars - Whenever I feel like it
City of Heroes - For about a month

and I think theres a few more..

But I really enjoyed BF1942 like red said... But I don't think you were on Omaha beach though, cause on that map there were no trees... But, I loved driving a boat being that I'm in the Naval Division of my Battlefield Clan.

I think Ima reinstall BF42

now see...i wish i had those kind of memories, but my parental unit never let me play online...i think Mmo games are the coolest thing ever! like playing morrowind but every npc is an actual person that sounds like a load of fun to me.... i d probably sink so much time into those i'd rather live there running around doing nothing other than exploring the world....but alas, here i am.. thats why im waiting4oblivion!....

Wow man that sucks. Although most MMOs nowadays consist of people rushing to the level cap and raiding for high end loot. You see very little exploration and adventure...

Hopefully Vanguard will at least bring back the exploration feel. I'm trying to get into the open beta. Kinda got high hopes for this one...

It looks like its consisted mostly of the old EQ community that liked the game before they screwed it up with the SoL and every following expansion after that.

Sounds fun.

NWN persistent world 'Avlis' rates the player on RP value not just xp value. Mainly because its DMed constantly

It roxxors. etc etc ad nauseum.

Well, I'm in the beta, or at least they approved me... Only problem though is its to difficult to get on your machine. (The beta that is)

Cool. Hope you have fun when it starts.

Mean while I'll continue to struggle with my email so I can finish registering with their forum and maybe apply myself.

I used to have World of Warcraft which was an awsome game but i traded it for Xbox live which is way cooler

I feel like I'm an oldy i still play Starcraft Brood War and Diablo II lord of destruction, and of course, the cool Never Winter Nights. Having my account scammed, I sort of stopped playing Diablo. Oh my gosh! I can't get sig to work -.-

Starcraft here too.. But thats not a MMO...

The only MMO I own is GW, because it's the only free one
But for just any online game, I think my best memories are of Jedi Knight Jedi Academy. I found this server with the best mod ever devised, where you could build your own stuff. Me and 2 other people spent HOURS building this absolutely HUMUNGOUS warship... and when we finished right next to us one of the other guys had built the F word.