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Talk about online games, like if your looking for a party, guild, help on a quest, good MMO, etc.

I used to play Flyff.

Bah, I may have a character in every damn free-to-play MMOG out there.

Right now, the only game I'm playing is 9Dragons... And I am not playing it anymore because I want to focus in fanfic writing (I found out I can make 2-3 episodes a day if I don't waste time playing games... Yay.)

NWN isn't a MMO, just a limited multiplayer RPG. Just like Diablo, Diablo 2, Dungeon Siege or Dungeon Siege 2.

MMORPGs are those games where you have thousands of players sharing the same world (server) and slaughtering the hordes of monsters that lurk all through it.

Just a minor correction, but there's many terms that are miss-used nowadays (like n00b, hunting or power leveling.)

I already did explain it clearly.

MMORPGs involve hundreds/thousands of players sharing one single world (there can be several servers, yes, but each of them will have more players than you can count,) while stuff like NWN or Diablo have 4/8/16/32 players in and that's it.

In case you don't know, MMO stands for Massively Multiplayer Online, and to me, 16 players isn't massive, is what I beat the s**t out in a shooter (Unreal Tournament, mostly,) once or twice a month.

I don't, however, mind MMORPGs over normal RPGs. Why? Because I've seen once and again that the communities formed are rather packed full of humanoids that shouldn't be left near a computer. Hence, if I play a MMORPG, I do it because I like the game itself. Guilds/clans/parties can burn for all I care.

My main challenge is, often, getting one game where "u cannut lvl witout a partee, lolz!!!" (or so FAQs in the game's forum say,) and level easily to a very high level, given some experimenting, researching and field testing of stat distribution and skills. I can often make four or five characters in any given game before I find the class+stats+skills setup that works the best. I hate, and I repeat, I HATE healer classes, but in some games their buffs make them stronger and better tanks than warriors, but that's a fact often overlooked by those who choose the healer class because they think of it as an "I'll blow you for exp!" "I heal for exp!" class.

Take the above mentioned Flyff, for example. The Clerics in that game have a monk-like side that can destroy monsters so fast, I had some warrior-class morons wondering what hack I was using. "It's not a hack, it's knowing how to play the game."

... redface goes to show how ...sloppy i am at this... sweatdrop

I are now playing Warhammer Online Age of Wreckoning

I Play Wonderland online. Does anybody else plays?

I've pretty much abandoned MMOs.

Communities always suck, and the constant nagging for party/duel/money/PLISBMAHFREND! eventually tires me out of it.

Right now I'm only playing 4Story. "Another" WoW clone (much like 9Dragons, Metin2 Perfect world,) but this one lets you virtually isolate yourself from the community. You can auto-ignore whispers, trades, party invites, friend invites, duel invites, and you can even kill off the "talk baloons" over other players' heads.

The silence, it really is golden... rofl

So, my list of best/worst I've seen (in no order,) goes...

Best:
- Grand Chase
- Flyff
- Dragonica
- Conquer (before version 2.0)
- Fiesta
- Perfect World
- 4Story
- 9Dragons
- Anything that doesn't make it mandatory to join parties or guilds to advance to levels higher than 10. I know I'm forgetting a few.


Worst:
- Diablo/2/3/23/433423424. If you never find a cheater/hacker/town PKer in that game saga, you're an anomaly.)
- World of Warcraft. Makes you pay to buy a game that's years behind anything any half-assed Korean game company can release as closed beta, and makes you pay more to be able to play it. Awesome! Only not.
- Runescape. I wouldn't mind the Atari 2600 graphics, if the game had decent controls, a decent plot, decent challenge or a decent leveling system. It has none of those.
- Tibia. Take Runescape. Turn it into a 2D game with graphics which would have looked hideous in a NES console. Now put it in servers that make having a hundred players online at the same time an amazing feat. Yeah, that's what you get.
- Gunbound. Think of what Worms would have been if their creators tried to milk-cow it like Blizzard did to Warcraft. Yeah. Well, it's worse than you think.
- Combat Arms. The game is good, really. But they went and banned every IP from South America just because of the Brazil and Mexico assholes. Dude. The rest of Latin America doesn't hack games, it's Brazil and Mexico gamers who don't know how to play things right. Kicking the rest of the continent because of two countries is made of fail.
- Any game that's guild-focused or allows free PKing outside towns. I play the game for the game itself, not the communities, and I want to play the game without having to "town portal" my a** away whenever anyone walks by.