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#1 salgurdar
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If you've never played a MMOG before, WoW's probably as good a place to start as any. It's easy to play on your own, and with it's massive subscriber base (which is growing all the time), it's easy to make friends to play with. If you're not too sure about downloading the game, then you can probably purchase a trial version from your local PC game vendor for less than $5 (ie. EB, Game, Myer, et. al.).
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WoW is just the latest in many computer games that have become the media's scape goat for the evils of gaming simply because of it's popularity. Before this, it was Counter Strike making kids go nuts with guns. People old enough will remember that Rock'n'Roll music was the great degenorator of youth. The media will always find something.
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I recommend unistalling Vista and rolling back to Windows XP personally.
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Everything you mentioned was actually missing from WoW. I experienced it all in EQ back in '99. WoW lacked that feeling of wonder and fear of death. Upon reaching 60, I found my self becoming rapidly bored, left the game, returned for BC, hit 70, quickly bored, left. Surfice to say, nothing Blizzard can do will ever interest me enough to return to, or even miss, WoW.
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You're probably only going to get biased opinions about this, either people are bored to tears with WoW, or are still enjoying the fun of exploration and levelling up and haven't experienced the endgame grind for rep and slight gear upgrades once a month.

While LOTRO is a totally fresh release that hasn't been fully explored to end game. Personally I think LOTRO shows a lot more promise, with a far superior crafting system, an inspired PvP system, stunning graphics and amazing backdrops, an intuitive quest and grouping system.

Having said that, I've played WoW from beta until a month ago, and experienced the level 60 stall, and now the level 70 stall. So my view is a little biased.

I will say that by the end of the WoW beta, I had reservations about the longevity of the game (i.e. how long I would play it). Those same reservations don't exist for me for LOTRO. I've purchased two copies myself, with the aim of perhaps running two accounts...

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#6 salgurdar
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Counter Strike: Source

Starcraft

Any of the multitudes of Half Life mods

Jedi Knight II

Myth II

 

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#7 salgurdar
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Why don't you get a trial disc and make up your own dang mind!capthavic

Is that really nessacary?

Go to you're local EB, Target or Myer, they'll more than likely have the trial version for sale for like $5 or something, then it's just a matter of patching for about 2 hours and you get 14 days free play. 

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#8 salgurdar
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Yes, but it will more than likley run at a low frame rate unless you set all video settings to their lowest settings. If I were you, I'd trash the fx5200 and buy a new video card. You can purchase GT 7600s at reasonable prices these days, which is enough to run most of the games on the market today.
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I couldn't even decide what I'd consider the best game ever, there's so many great titles out there. But if you go purely by box sales and current amount of players world wide. It'd have to be World of Warcraft. 8 million subscribers says a lot about a game.
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#10 salgurdar
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CoH/V is a Massive Online Multiplayer Game that requires payment of a monthly subscription to play. So, there isn't a demo for it. There are sometimes deals you can get where you get a trial period of 10 or 14 days of free play on some of the MMOGs out there. I presonally haven't seen 1 for City of Heroes/Villians yet, but I'd check their website (www.cityofheroes.com or www.cityofvillians.com) periodically and see if they're running a trial period. Also some of the large gaming sites might have deals for members for trials on MMOGs.
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