Looking for a good MMORPG

[shazzy]

If you want to observe animal life go to the zoo, if you have money to the galapagos island or if you are broke watch animal planet. If you want to play a GAME wait for Wow or Guild Wars.

Maybe the game wasn't for you but someone else can find a lot of enjoyment in Ryzom. Did you stop to think that your opinion isn't the be all and end all? Or are you going to troll all day enforcing your opinions on others. You gave your opinion, now stand aside and let others give theres without picking them apart please.

[mattius]

I think you should go buy the game so i have someone to group with lol, because at the moment...its slim pickings

[vladww]

Wait for Guild Wars, Ryzom is crap!

Lol Raul you're not even a troll, you're a joke, dude .
Your serie of posts makes me think of a poor kid having a nervous breakdown, just sad.

As for the original post & talking about UO, I find Ryzom to be the best from UO ( for the skills ) & the best of Horizons ( for the craft ) + much more.

Right now Ryzom is the best mmorpg i've played for years in my opinion, definitly worth a try

[raynes]

I've been looking a Ryzom for a little while now and i'm interested.

I played UO when it first came out and loved it, and i also played AC and i liked that too. Quite frankly, i like the mideval theme moreso than the futuristic theme, but i'm willing to give Ryzom a chance.

Basically i'm looking for an MMORPG where you can run around and adventure the world. I guess you could do that in most MMORPG's. I've looked at AC2 and that looks fine, i'm sorta tired of their whole theme. I've never tried EQ so i can't say much about it.

Is it mandatory to play Ryzom quite frequently to keep up? I can play once or twice a week at the most. I'd love to have a stand-alone pc game where i can just adventure a world, but most stand-alone rpg games a INSANELY LINEAR AND BORING. I like MMORPG's becaust you have the whole world to explore and all those wonderful sorts of things.

Any comments/comparisons?

Thanks,

If you like exploration Ryzom is a really good game for it. Once you get mainland between the animals, the change of seasons, and the various landmarks it will keep you busy for sometime.

[mattius]

The game is decent, better than the 'average' MMORPG.(Which is like saying it's better than someone else's rotten saliva.)

However WoW and EQII are both in my opinion(Haveing played all 3) much better games. With WoW being the best by far.

-Xira

I think Ryzom is quite differant to those games, certainly in terms of setting. Im sure all 3 though are really at the top of the field.

The only thing against WoW as far as i can tell is the community. Read the official boards..its horrid, remind me of Lineage 2 actually.

[vladww]

The game is decent, better than the 'average' MMORPG.(Which is like saying it's better than someone else's rotten saliva.)

However WoW and EQII are both in my opinion(Haveing played all 3) much better games. With WoW being the best by far.

-Xira

You bash Ryzom here now after doing so at mmorpg.com, up to you Xira.

But in most of your posts you give wrong informations about the game ( only two kind of mobs, only guild buildings that can be PK'ed for , etc..)

If you only tried ryzom beta a long time ago, keep up to date with what is the game right now after release.

Even better , actually try to play the game then your posts will be taken more seriously by registered players & won't mislead visitors who need honest reviews.

[yy48n19]

well

i played UO when it first came out. I stayed with it for about 2 years. I loved it, but then Asheron's call came out. I wanted something new so i went with that. AC lasted for a while and then i just got too dam busy. I have a bit more time and the stand-alone PC game BITE! They are no comparison to the MMORPGS!

Anyways...i just d/l the 15day trial for AC2 and its kinda cool. I guess..it just seems like a more graphically enchanced version of AC1. Maybe i should just give it more time.

I guess my main question is...

Is ryzom just like AC or AC2...but just a different setting?

I played AC2 for just a little while. I liked it to an extent, but I've always been looking for the missing "RP" aspect of MMORPGs. AC2 was actually the first MMORPG that I tried, and I wrote it off b/c I felt the RP aspect was totally missing.

Four MMORPGs later and my attitude has changed a bit. I'm looser in my standards. I don't try to go around IC all the time in Ryzom, like I did in SWG. Actually, it's been quite rare so far for me to be IC in Ryzom. It's just easier and, I dare say--and surprise myself by saying--more enjoyable to play this way.

That's not what you're asking, though. You want to know if Ryzom is like AC and AC2. I don't know about AC, b/c I never played it, but I'd say it shares a few things with AC2. Beautiful graphics. Races that are attempts to diverge from the stock fantasy races of elves, dwarves, hobbits, etc. AC2 may have an edge on Ryzom in that department, actually; hard to say. Ryzom has a simple and fun crafting system, like AC2. The foraging, or harvesting, by contrast, seems more complex than most other MMO's I have played.

I guess all MMORPG's are just that?
You run around the world...fight monsters and build your char?
I like doing quests and whatnot.

If you like doing quests, I think you should keep an eye on these and other Ryzom-related boards. Right now, the only quests are available are dinky, dimensionless hunt, gather, and craft missions that truly stretch the definition of the term "quests." I remember in AC2, there are campaign-type quests right from the beginning, which are tied into cinematic presentations of the storyline. There is no such content in Ryzom as of yet. Quests are coming though, with the first two patches; but, I am not sure exactly what they will be like.

I'm optimistic about Ryzom, and would recommend it. It seems that you are still a bit unceratain about the whole MMORPG concept. Like me, there seem to be aspects of it that you love and aspects that you hate. I think all MMORPG players have to learn to compromise their standards to fit the mold of the game. Many people don't like to do that, have a set of expectations that they expect to be completely fulfilled, and get amazingly, and in my opinion, ridiculously and childishly angry over what should be a trivial time-filler, not a life-shaping obsession (although these games easily turn into that). This is a game, after all, and if it makes you angry, or stirs up some kind of hate in you, then you need to step back and put things into perspective. I'm getting onto another soap box here, and straying away from your question, but I had to make that comment.

I guess, as an MMORPG player with maybe similar tastes towards and issues with the genre as you have expressed, and as one who is currently playing this game (unlike some who have been posting in this thread), my advice to you is, keep an eye on Ryzom, but don't bite yet. You seem to have a set of standards and expectations about the kind of game you want, as you should. The kind of quests you are looking for are not available yet. Right now, you will pretty much "run around the world, fight monsters, and build your character." I should add that there's a healthy amount of foraging, crafting, and socializing going on, as well. Plus, there has been already at least one GM-oriented mass invasion of Kitin. I think, perhaps, that these invasions and the RAID engine, are going to be the focus of development, rather than static quests that are available at any time.

Anyhow, my fitty cent worth.

Peace out.