Star Wars: The Old Republic

[Xant]

Sounds great.

[Xtrah]

Sounds great.

Agree, never tried it, but seems like it was a different game with success. Too bad they're shutting it down. I'd love to try it.

[Vibe]

There's so little games of SW:Galaxies caliber, it's a shame to watch a game being ruined by their companies.. freaking impossible to find a good sandbox MMORPG these days.

[Xtrah]

There's so little games of SW:Galaxies caliber, it's a shame to watch a game being ruined by their companies.. freaking impossible to find a good sandbox MMORPG these days.

Thumbs up ^

Give a shoutout if you find one 

[Vibe]

Well I tried a lot (if not all) so called sandbox MMORPGs, there just isn't a worthy one out yet. I was most impressed by Haven and Hearth though (if you don't mind the graphics).

I tried:

- Haven&Hearth
- Ultima Online
- Wurm
- A Tale in the Desert
- Dawntide
- Galaxies
- Mortal Online
- EVE online
- Darkfall
- Fallen Earth
- Face of Mankind
- Saga of Ryzom

and a ton of others I forgot about. For now it's safe to say that singleplayer sandbox games are the only sandboxes worth playing (Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, Terraria).

[Tomas_of_Miles]

Well I tried a lot (if not all) so called sandbox MMORPGs, there just isn't a worthy one out yet. I was most impressed by Haven and Hearth though (if you don't mind the graphics).

I tried:

- Haven&Hearth
- Ultima Online
- Wurm
- A Tale in the Desert
- Dawntide
- Galaxies
- Mortal Online
- EVE online
- Darkfall
- Fallen Earth
- Face of Mankind
- Saga of Ryzom

and a ton of others I forgot about. For now it's safe to say that singleplayer sandbox games are the only sandboxes worth playing (Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, Terraria).

Dunno about Dwarf Fortress, but I find the multiplayer the best part of Minecraft and Terraria.

[Vibe]

Dunno about Dwarf Fortress, but I find the multiplayer the best part of Minecraft and Terraria.

Well true, I was actually thinking about Massively Multiplayer when I called those games "singleplayer" games Dwarf Fortress doesn't have a multiplayer I believe.

[bilwit]

Well the game was dieing and also they have a new Star Wars MMORPG coming out so that's probably why. Also I'm not sure if it's true since I haven't really played it myself, but I hear the game became broken as fuck which made players quit Galaxies. So I assume they are trying to star fresh with Old Republic.

I am somewhat excited for SW:TOR, I've played WoW 2004-2011 and quit this year around January, and I have to say ever since I quit I have yet to find one damn MMORPG that stuck on. I am hoping that this could be a good one as I am a fan of Biowares games and a SW fan. From what I have seen it does look pretty good, it was in the beta so can't give a final verdict yet but I am excited for it.

Going to play this and GW2!

Should really give the game a try before really saying anything about it. I mean if I didn't try a game and just based it on what I've "seen" I probably wouldn't have gotten Warband!

GW2 will pwn. SWTOR is solid, but I'm not willing to dump ~$100 on another copy/paste EQ clone. The tough part is that all my friends are going to get this game and want me to play with them

[Digglez]

Well I tried a lot (if not all) so called sandbox MMORPGs, there just isn't a worthy one out yet. I was most impressed by Haven and Hearth though (if you don't mind the graphics).

I tried:

- Haven&Hearth
- Ultima Online
- Wurm
- A Tale in the Desert
- Dawntide
- Galaxies
- Mortal Online
- EVE online
- Darkfall
- Fallen Earth
- Face of Mankind
- Saga of Ryzom

and a ton of others I forgot about. For now it's safe to say that singleplayer sandbox games are the only sandboxes worth playing (Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, Terraria).

The problem is, not 1 major studio/publisher has put equivalent resources to make a worthy sandbox game to compete with the boring themepark wow clones.  The titles you listed are from a small start up besides StarWars Galaxies & Ultima, both of which were profitable but too old for newer players to bother trying.  Lets see a AAA sandbox game with 100 million investment to compete with these tired old themepark games.

Some would argue APB was a sandbox, but in reality was much closer to a themepark.  It wasnt anywhere near opened ended enough.  No FFA pvp area, territory control, street races, crafting, bounties, etc etc etc.  It was far too scripted & restrictive

[SixThumbs]

Maybe I'm just being cynical but it seems like we can't have sandbox MMO's that involve vast customization because we wouldn't want people being creative just for the sake of creativity or have a system for division of labor with sound economic foundations involving some logical thought-process because people might wonder why such things don't happen in the real world and god forbid someone puts two and two together and decides to create something outside of an established framework.

[Tomas_of_Miles]

Gonna hijack a post and ask anyone who likes PVP in open areas (particulary the epic setting of Gotham/Metropolis) and say join mah DCUO league. It's full of randoms, but it got made before my account goes premium, and I'd love to see some of you fellas alongside me as I battle evil level 30 gank squads.

[HKinematix]

Lol I actually just started playing DC Universe until Star Wars: Old Republic comes out.
But I could care less on peoples' general idea of the game right now. I want to try it myself before giving judgement on it. This isn't galaxies so of course it's not the same. Plus I'll be playing with a good other 6 cRPG players so that will probably make it a bit more fun to play with peeps from here.

Then when GW2 comes out (If SW:TOR doesn't flop) I'll be playing both then!
After all GW2 is free so no skin off my bone!

But yeah Galaxies did seem like a good game but eventually every MMORPG has to come to an end. The fact was the game was becoming less popular and from what I heard they fucked up the game somehow in the end. I played a bit of it when it was still up and it sure seemed like it would have been a fun game. =/
Rest in Piece Galaxies. D;

[Gristle]

The problem with DCUO is that open world PVP has no consequences. After level 9 you can get back to where you died in less than 30 seconds, you spawn with full health/mana, and you don't lose exp or money for dying. Still, I've been playing casually with a friend, and we enjoy the challenge of ganking people 10 levels above us. It's very easy in that game for 2 level 4s to beat a level 14. It's all about the CC.

[Tomas_of_Miles]

The problem with DCUO is that open world PVP has no consequences. After level 9 you can get back to where you died in less than 30 seconds, you spawn with full health/mana, and you don't lose exp or money for dying. Still, I've been playing casually with a friend, and we enjoy the challenge of ganking people 10 levels above us. It's very easy in that game for 2 level 4s to beat a level 14. It's all about the CC.

CC is pretty cool. I'm still trying to find identity in a niche character combination. I rolled a 2h nature (plant) dude who flys around smashing shit and tanking with healing, but it's pretty common. I keep finding myself drawn to gadgets when I make a new character.

[Gristle]

Gadgets has a lot of CC and the ability to stealth. Pretty good for world PVP. Another strong combo is Fire and Ice. My friend and I were beating level 20 people when we were level 6 with that combo. It's just silly. I have not tried 2H or nature yet, but 2H seems slow.