What is your PERFECT gaming experience?

Coming home from work mentally exhausted and flipping a off switch in your brain while playing a nice calming game like Subnautica is just one of the best feelings I can have right now.

I do remember the old days of the rush of getting the kill in (insert any onlinegame here) and getting first place, thrash talking and getting it back while laughing. Getting stuck on a boss for days, perfecting your moves to finally defeat it. All that was good but now seems like a hustle. I just want to be dumb for a hour or two.

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Samson1

I know people on these forums make fun of WoW every chance they get but... Original WoW and even through Burning Crusade was my ‘Perfect’ Gaming Experience. Nothing has come close to that in a long time.

Wandering Mist

Much like films, the games I enjoy at any given moment depend on my mood and what I want to get out of the experience. Sometimes I want to be challenged - either physically or mentally, or both. Other times I want to relax and do something pretty mindless. And still other times I just want to be engrossed in a well written story. Hell, there are times when I just want to spend some time exploring a game world.

That's the great thing about games, they can fulfil so many different avenues and experiences.

George_Black

Open world PvP, no p2w, cool classes and weapons, mixture of natural ecosystems as well as dungeons, ruins, towers and other environments to explore.

Solid economy, not 1 character producing/crafting ALL the items.

Open world raidbosses, offering good xp and good loot for the players that manage to take them down whilst anybody could prevent them.

Meaningful guild activities such as war and map control.

Extras such as naval content, heists (caravans), epic quests that sets you apart from the rest, sieges, 1v1 competitions for the ultimate monthly trophy (L2 olympiad).

halbarz

Lord of the rings online, the game itself has plenty of flaws but the community is what made it the best experience I had in an MMO.

The earlier content was also very challenging, we had to work as a team for weeks sometimes to progress in a raid. These days raids are cleared in a day or two and it is considered "challenging"

PvP was not some 10 vs 10 battleground with a timer, we fought for hours to keep control of a castle. (was laggy at times hihi)

The combat for back in 2007/8 was really good and to be honest in my opinion has aged a lot better than some other MMO combat that are from the same period.

Lotro had plenty of mistakes and unfortunately, it got ruined by greed and lack of vision, so many wonderful features that they later abandoned to just add another one that is pretty much the same.

Played the game for 7 years without a break and I have some really good memories playing that game. From raiding to PVP but in the end, it all comes the community we had. There was no dungeon finder, people had to actually talk to find a group, discuss tactics before each fight. There was little to no sense of elitism as people were judged by other people and not some metric.

I do believe that this is something that can be relived in Ashes of Creation. Judging of the people on this forum, we got a good community going here

Mowaby

Ultima Online was the best. It offered so much more than current MMOs. It had a murderer system no pre determined factions or classes. There was faction warfare you could take part in if you wanted. Also had open dungeons. There was just so much UO had to offer that no new MMO has done...

Tyranthraxus

In reality? SWG was the fav that yours truly has actually played - but I did find it's PvE and Player City mechanics lacking. Space and Starfighter Engineering was the BEST - and nothing's ever beat it, for me. So far, AoC - with all of the intended mechanics that Interpid is planning - takes the cake, though.

In fantasy? The ideal game for yours truly would have to be the *notion* of Star Wars: Galaxies 2, with some to-be AoC mechanics. Disney and EA would never go for this, though. I'm a sucker for lightsabers and the Force. I have no idea how such a notion could be engineered, with so many multiple worlds and the Node mechanics. But ideally, someday? EA would run out of the exclusive contract with Disney to make Star Wars games, and Intrepid - many years on - would be contracted to make SWG2.

Tyranthraxus

By the way, @Sunboy - you have a very distinct Simon Whistler look, to you. I love the historical documentaries he does on YouTube.

Sunboy

Tyranthraxus wrote: »

By the way, @Sunboy - you have a very distinct Simon Whistler look, to you. I love the historical documentaries he does on YouTube.

Middle aged, bald and bearded white male with glasses. We all look alike 🤣 Love his stuff too!

Jamation

The best experience is the one that leaves me feeling...I don't know how else to say it but like...human feelings? Like some games will leave you crying in a puddle, but if it's done beautifully it can really make you think. While other games make the child in you beam with joy.

I play different games depending on what I'm in the mood for too, so somedays when I need to blow off steam I'll do something hardcore or hack and slash. While other days to blow off the same steam I might plant a nice little garden and feed my sheep.

Currently bouncing between: Littlewood, Minecraft, Guild Wars 2, Nier Automata, and ARK

halbarz

Jamation wrote: »

The best experience is the one that leaves me feeling...I don't know how else to say it but like...human feelings? Like some games will leave you crying in a puddle, but if it's done beautifully it can really make you think. While other games make the child in you beam with joy.

I play different games depending on what I'm in the mood for too, so somedays when I need to blow off steam I'll do something hardcore or hack and slash. While other days to blow off the same steam I might plant a nice little garden and feed my sheep.

Currently bouncing between: Littlewood, Minecraft, Guild Wars 2, Nier Automata, and ARK

Gw2 for sure used to give me that feeling of Wooo this is the best game. In the last 2-3 years I lost touch with it. Great to see yu are enjoying it, wish I could do the same

Leroher

Wandering Mist wrote: »

Much like films, the games I enjoy at any given moment depend on my mood and what I want to get out of the experience. Sometimes I want to be challenged - either physically or mentally, or both. Other times I want to relax and do something pretty mindless. And still other times I just want to be engrossed in a well written story. Hell, there are times when I just want to spend some time exploring a game world.

That's the great thing about games, they can fulfil so many different avenues and experiences.

You can say it louder but not clearer. You pretty much spoke for me.

Honshu

For all its faults, Age of Wushu was my most memorable mmo. Tons of fun memories made due to the overlapping social circles that game encouraged.

I remember this one time I was dicking around the player hub area, when I saw two players rush by super fast, one clearing chasing the other. Curious, I followed them as they ran behind a hill and began to fight at the base of a small cliff face. Now that I had time to look at both players, I recognized one of them as being from an enemy guild! Deciding to thrust myself into the melee, I began jumped down from the top of the cliff and began pummeling the enemy guild member. The other player was taken aback at first, but quickly paired up and started fighting alongside me until we killed the enemy guild dude. After he was dead, we exchanged stories about how we came to hate those bastards and laughed about it.

The ability to fight people whenever and whereever for whatever reason made things fun and tense and added a feeling of danger and enjoyment to the game. Not that death meant much, it was basically just a short term debuff and bragging rights... but still, it kept you on your toes!

Songcaller

Fighting alongside my crack team in Age of Conan, outnumbered 40 to 1 (only 5 of us against 200). The Commander of the 200 sent in teams of 5 at a time against us. We carved up 12 groups of 5 until the 13th group killed us. Corpses littered everywhere, we had elephant corpses, rhino corpses, horse corpses, stygian corpses, camel corpses, cimmerian corpses and aquilonian corpses.

Was an awesome time and the fight latest an hour. I led a Bounty Hunter Guild at the time and my 4 partners and I had been given a bounty quest to kill the leader of the 200. I took 13 to be my unlucky number from that day.

Edit: Spelling Mistakes, I've been rushing through typos all day lol.

ValaAule

I've had 2 mmo's I enjoyed more than all others. Shadowbane back in 2001 and Darkfall in 2009. Others have been ok but those were my favorite due to the high risk vs. reward aspects. I'm not the greatest solo pvp'r but I prefer games where the risk of loss is huge.

Mennis

Open world, sandbx games for sure these last years, roaming around exploring things, that's what can pull me in and calm me in the last years or amazing stories. Zelda BOTW was for sure one of those these last years. Monster hunter world not as much for the open world but world building is amazing.

Dragonsyear

Anyone else from darkfall online?

Buskolsky

Lineage 2 before going free to play.

Frostshot1

Perfect MMO, I haven't found one, which is why I'm interested in this. I would say the best or most fun I've had in MMO's would be, WotLK period in WoW, GW2 decent all around game with crappy game servers and outdated engine, and Tera was good when it first came out before you hit end game.

Vhaeyne

Dragonsyear wrote: »

Anyone else from darkfall online?

Buskolsky wrote: »

Lineage 2 before going free to play.

Darkfall Online and Lineage 2 were both PERFECT gaming experiences for me.

Up until the point that they both turned on themselves.

I see a lot of what was good about those games AOC, that is why I am so passionate about this game.

Merek

I've never played a mainstream MMO that I can call the perfect experience. Nearly all post-2010 MMO's have had glaring issues that killed them, none of them were worth the time.

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