Before I even start I want to say I'm sorry if any of this offends anyone since it is just my opinion and observations of the ones I played. I'm going to be making this as unbiased as possible. This will be all based on pros and cons; I will be putting in descriptions of the games after I finish this since well of course this is going to be a lot of writing. There is going to be a lot of games I may not place on here due to I have not played them so it’s not right for me to do a review on them.
Free To Play Games
Voyage Century Online
http://www.voyagecenturyonline.com/
Pro
+ Pirates.. what else is needed to be said? lol
+ Huge map to explore with your ship, from the Caribbean to China. Going east that is.
+ Multiple skills you got to level up.
+ Decent crafting system
+ Guild Port battles
Con
- Huge grind fest
- If you don't have a certain ship you really can't participate in the certain battles.
- Too skill based.. example can't board a npc ship and expect to take it if you don't have sword skill of like 60 which takes a long time to get.
- Item Mall.. bigger your pockets are the better items you get.
Zero Online
http://zo.91.com/
Pro
+ Mechgame that almost feels like a transformers mix.
+ Has a pvp system that is kind of interesting.
+ Turning your mech into a cannon is kind of cool.
+ Mentoring system that gives both the mentor bonus xp and the student along with the student getting a bonus to attack and such.
Con
- Graphics...
- Getting ganked when at a low lvl really sucks especially when you’re new to the game.
- Item mall.. and gambling in a way can waste a lot of money in hopes of getting a decent item.
Guild Wars
http://www.guildwars.com/
Pro
+ Henchmen.
+ Well established game that has a pretty big population from what I could tell.
Con
- Graphics are outdated.
- Can't jump.
- Pathing is off since when I clicked one location it had the habit of walking back and forth in the same area than finally going there.
Pay to Play
Lord of the Rings Online
http://lotro.turbine.com/
Pro
+ Achievement type of system that gives you titles, and modifies your stats along with possibly giving you stuff like being able to hold a staff and sword together at once. (I can't remember what it was called)
+ Well established storyline that shows in all aspects.
+ Monster Play introduces a new PvP that is fun and gives you a great break from the usual leveling and PvP environments.
Con
- Long time to level and gets extremely boring if you attempt to do it solo
- Some servers have an extremely low population
- Graphics once again but this may be just my computer since I've heard of others having great graphics.
- Lag... Bree that’s the place where I lag like crazy and it takes me 15 minutes to make it from one side to the other due to it. Again this may just be me.
- Oddly enough this I know is just me but when I played last no matter how low I turned the in game volume the weather effects were extremely high.
Vanguard
http://www.vanguardsoh.com
Pro
+ Excellent crafting system, requires you take part in it more than any I've seen.
+ Armor design from what I saw was great even at a low level
+ Boats, being able to own your own boat was cool to see, though will never trust Saber to drive one again.
Con
- Lag lines or whatever they are called really are a pain.
- Lag in major cities kills.
- Lack of population
- Did I forget to mention lag?
- Also there are a lot of bugs people have mentioned though I must not have experienced it besides the lag so I don't know all about it.
City of Heroes/Villains
http://www.cityofheroes.com/
Pro
+ Super Heroes vs Villains PvP.
+ Tons of customization for your characters up to the inclusion of mechanical wings, angel wings, and etc.
+ Brings a new perspective to combat since you can fight in various ways from ground to air.
+ Abilities like teleportation make things even more unique when your teleporting people to you and along with teleporting yourself a long distance away.
+ Build your own super group base to your own view on how it should be.
+ Side kick and Exemplar system which makes you either higher in level or lower in level so you can help level with another.
+ Missions adjust for the amount of members in it currently along with 5 different difficulties to choose from.
Con
- Population in the game is small and only on select servers.
- Leveling can be slow.
- Groups are basically a must if you want to level fast.
- Bugs with accidentally knocking an enemy through the ceiling..
- Travel powers are a must if you want to travel through a higher level area.
- Always got to be afraid of someone in your group with recall friend teleport ability, they can drop you off of high buildings.
Star Wars Galaxies
http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/
Pro
+ Star Wars
+ Get to choose between 9 different professions along with 4 different trader types if you want to get more in depth.
+ Space combat
+ Diverse choices in races to be
+ City building
+ Mounts and Vehicles add more diversity to how you travel from one place to another.
+ Great PvP action
Con
- No true economy in the game, it’s too random
- Lack of quests
- The small amount of quests give a level that is way off when you get a level 60 quest that is surrounded by level 90 creatures
- Graphics are way outdated and too many issues with objected having the ground covering them half way.
- That brings my next thoughts; enemies seem to spawn in the ground a lot along with them being able to shoot through walls so it’s impossible to kite anything.
- Having to creature or person in order to fight or heal makes it a little annoying especially if you’re like me who prefers to use the mouse for everything.
World of Warcraft
http://www.blizzard.com/wow
Pro
+ Tons of quests
+ Diverse population on all servers
+ Plenty of dungeons to run
+ Achievements give a sense of accomplishment.
+ Legendary gear can give you a sense that are one of the few
+ Two different difficulty of dungeons at level 70 and 80 that give better loot.
+ Raids at 80 have different difficulties that have different amount of players that can be in it. Normal = 10 man and Heroic = 25 man. These have different loot also. Some raids also have a hard modes in them along with the later raids having 10 man normal/heroic and 25 man normal/heroic.
Con
- Graphics can be viewed as cartoony
- After 2 expansions they are running out of ideas and have already decided to reuse one dungeon and gotten lazy on making new armor designs
- No true sense of feeling unique in this game since there is so many people playing most likely if you think you got one item that someone else doesn't have, they most likely do.
- Grinding to sell mats to get the money for an item you want or need can get very frustrating.
- As with all games with huge populations you also take in the bad. Gold sellers, bots, jerks, and etc constantly spamming chat just to annoy you and ruin your experience.
Darkfall Online
http://www.darkfallonline.com
Pro
+ Endless slaughter of anyone who makes you upset, open world pvp with no restraints
+ Clan cities that can be destroyed in combat
+ Interesting style of fighting, FPS with bow and magic and third person in melee
+ Huge world to explore
Con
- No PVE value except in crafting
- During pvp if you die, you must accept all loss of items that others could steal
- No lore for the most part
- Only a few quests
- New game but very rough launch
Star Trek Online
http://www.startrekonline.com
Pro
+ Scifi themed game that provides a new and unique game to play
+ Space battles are fun in the game
Con
- Relatively new game with problems during headstart
- A lot of maintenance since being released
- Ground combat needs to be worked on a bit more.
- Game is still new around a week old so not all the content is entirely finished.
- Feels like it is missing developer feedback and useful responses on forum posts.
Champions Online
http://www.champions-online.com
Pro
+ Superhero based game
+ Game provided great customization of your character
+ Nemesis system of where you create your own enemy
Con
- Teleportation power did not seem as fun as it did in City of Heroes/Villians
- Lack of content at the time when I played it
Aion
http://www.aiononline.com
Pro
+ You can have a character that can fly with wings.
+ Interesting concept of a game.
+ Classes seemed to fit well.
Con
- Game didn't feel that fun after a short period of time.
- No offense to anyone but Asian mmorpg.. not my style of game.
- Bots and gold spammers
Extinct Games
Tabula Rasa
http://www.playtr.com/index.html
Pro
+ Excellent storyline that shows basically every place you go
+ Some quests lead you down different paths in the game. Example: Doing a certain quest can make it so you can't get quests from others.
+ Tiered classes
+ Excellent graphics
+ Clan Vs Clan PVP
+ Base defenses are great since when defending a capture point you have tons of creatures to fight back, feels like an actual war going on and you have to fight to survive.
Con
- Bugs, I mean a lot of them and not fast enough response to fix them. Clan bug lasted 4 months at least.
- Lack of PVP, besides the Clan Vs Clan, there is hardly any at all besides duels and Friday night fights. The Clan one hardly happens except for the top clans of the server.
- Most people actually spend their time on the Public Test Server instead of the actual servers.
- Lack of population in the game.
- Crafting system consists of dye for armor and nothing else really besides ammo and grenades
- Servers go down for good on the 28th of February.
Alright that’s all for now I'll be updating this a little later today.
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