I'm getting a MMORPG.....any suggestions?

I'm leaning heavily towads City of Heroes, because:

1. It isn't a fantasy RPG

2. I love superhero stuff

The thing is, that I'm afraid my system reqs might not be good enough. I'm getting a new PC in 2 months, but I still want to play in that time. My laptop can run WoW, and does CoH have higher system reqs or lower?

And how is EVE?

EVE is simply amazing. I highly recommend it.

I also hear good things about City of Heroes though I dont know how large the community is at this time. Ive always wanted to try that game out tho.

EVE is simply amazing. I highly recommend it.

I also hear good things about City of Heroes though I dont know how large the community is at this time. Ive always wanted to try that game out tho.

mrbojangles25

The thing about EVE is that it isn't a fantasy MMO.

How are the communities? I don't care about size, but how good they are.

I've heard quite bad things about WoW's community

I'd also like to point out that I need an MMO that won't me make feel like its a job to play this game.

I'll probably play around an hour a day. Max.

Is EVE pretty casual? Or is City of Heroes more casual?

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EVE is simply amazing. I highly recommend it.

I also hear good things about City of Heroes though I dont know how large the community is at this time. Ive always wanted to try that game out tho.

foossilo

The thing about EVE is that it isn't a fantasy MMO.

How are the communities? I don't care about size, but how good they are.

I've heard quite bad things about WoW's community

WoW's community is huge...so you get a lot of everything. Most of the community is great in WoW, you just need to ignore the healthy amount of jerks. I am a long time WoW player simply because I enjoy it and I am comfortable there, and its a good game, but if I did not play WoW I'd likely play EVE Online.

EVE Online, however, has the best community ever imo. Its social, but kinda quiet in terms of general chatting. There are lots of great corporations ("guilds"), and tons of teamwork. People really want to see their members of their corporation thrive.

EVE has a steep learning curve (remember, right click is your friend!), but its very rewarding and the fact that there is no grind appeals to many (you "train" skills simply by clicking on them and waiting a set amount of time to wait for completion).

Also, in EVE, a player can be useful right away. Sure, you might not be able to fly a battleship for three months, but you can hop in a small electronic warfare ship and stop enemies from making an escape during a battle.

I'd also like to point out that I need an MMO that won't me make feel like its a job to play this game.

I'll probably play around an hour a day. Max.

Is EVE pretty casual? Or is City of Heroes more casual?

foossilo

Outside of the learning curve, I found EVE extremely casual. As I said earlier, you train skills whether youre online or not, so there is no grind.

There are no "raiding guilds" that demand a time requirement from you. Corporations ("guilds") are generally polite and casual, especially mining corps. Here is how my first week went:

Day 1: Spent an hour doing the tutorial, logged off. Logged back on, finished tutorial in another couple hours. Trained a couple skills. Logged off.

Day 2: Did the beginner missions and explored a bit. Read about mining and decided to head that route in terms of character development. Trained a couple more skills.

Day 3: Did some mining to make money, got recruited by a Corporation. Nice, talkative guild. Gave me a nice mining ship (Osprey), some skills to train, equipment, and a freighter for hauling ore.

Day 4: Participated in corporation mining run. Encountered pirates but was saved by corporation members. Despite my small ship and cargo bay, the corp paid in a time-basis so I got more than a fair share of ISK (money).

In short, EVE is a very casual, deep, laid-back MMO. Some might find it a bit boring, but I found it complex. Also, its easy to not pay attention. I often found myself alt-tabbing while I was mining an asteroid field, listening to music and posting on gamespot, then alt-tabbing back into the game.

hmm EVE sounds good.

I'll definitely get the trial. Thanks for your help!

EVE,WoW,Age of Connan...

The studio who made coh are releasing their new mmorpg in a couple of months (champions online) which would be right up your street.

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AleksandarTale

how is Age of COnan now? I played it for a month or two right when it was released, but quit soon after.

Is the community holding strong? Also, how is the game itself? Much more polished?

age of conan is now a totally new game. fix the performance issues, memory leaks, bugs, they added content. the servers are really active. the population has increased a lot. theres a hudge hudge patch coming out in about 2-4 weeks

you can download a 7 day free trail at their site

I'm leaning heavily towads City of Heroes, because:

1. It isn't a fantasy RPG

2. I love superhero stuff

The thing is, that I'm afraid my system reqs might not be good enough. I'm getting a new PC in 2 months, but I still want to play in that time. My laptop can run WoW, and does CoH have higher system reqs or lower?

And how is EVE?

foossilo

age of conan is now a totally new game. fix the performance issues, memory leaks, bugs, they added content. the servers are really active. the population has increased a lot. theres a hudge hudge patch coming out in about 2-4 weeks

you can download a 7 day free trail at their site

metal_head_5566

thats good to hear. I just might get back into it.

The trial looks good, but its a 13GB download, I think I would almost rather reinstall the game and pay 15 bucks lol.