I enjoyed playing WoW for years until I had pretty much explored everything explorable and killed most everything killable a few times over. When I ran out of new and interesting things to do I stopped playing the game. As there was no story I was never immersed in the game although I was addicted for quite some time.

My most memorable emotional game experiences are those I had in games like the Baldur’s Gate series, Fallout, Half Life 2, the Total War and Neverwinter Nights series.

huh, got zero idea how that happened (tho yea – i just pasted the url in a hurry from reddit or someplace).

hmm, if you search google for cryptic-studios-announces-neverwinter-for-2011, you get this very examiner.com page as the first result… don’t ask me why anyone would bother to spam/gbomb through such a niche topic…

anyways, ontopic substitute link: http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/08/23/neverwinter-a-co-op-rpg-from-atari-a nd-cryptic/

@ Dr. Azrael Tod:

Wow… Good catch. I totally just approved this without even thinking since it seemed so on-topic. Color me impressed.

I’m gonna leave it up but just mangle the URL. :)

@ rzlq:
whoa.. nice way to spam. didn’t see that comming o0 (look at url, ignore last part because the server will too)

as for the notion of “lightly multiplayer online rpgs”:

Neverwinter: a five-man co-op RPG from Atari and Cryptic

http://www.[–spam-url-removed–].com/celebrity-fitness-and-health-in-ch arleston/cryptic-studios-announces-neverwinter-for-2011

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@ Liudvikas:

but I still have not enough friends that would be interested in that sort of thing.

maybe it’s just because there are no such games at the moment. think of pen and paper rpg’s. true, it’s rather niche these days, but it still can get people together. yet in lmorpgs they wouldn’t necessarily have to be in the same place.

@ rzlq:
Well the only MMORPG I’m playing right now EVE online, got something like this. Almost everything is manufactured and sold by players. There’s no training. Though there’s still grinding if you want to earn money. Though I barely do that. Once in a while together with membership I buy some extra ingame currency, that funds my PVP fun.

The point about LMORPGS is a fine idea. But it wouldn’t work. I play Diablo 2 sometimes with a friend, but I still have not enough friends that would be interested in that sort of thing. So unless there’s whole community of players you would be stuck alone or with a limited supply of players.

@ MrPete:
The schedule is the point of MMORPG’S. There’s community and you are supposed to be part of it and constantly participating in events. If you don’t like this, then MMORPG’s are not for you.

The one problem with good RPGs is that they need much more time to develop than the go-here-kill-that-restart-resets-all.
And on one point time is getting the mayor factor in your development payroll since programmers just can’t work for free (they have to pay their MMO’s, you know?).
So if there’s no big corp making a truly immersive game as a by-product that’s designed to pay after several years of development there’s no real chance of seeing one in the next time.

The main drawback any MMO had for me so far wasn’t gameplay or payment but the time needed. Sure, Eve (thanks for mentioning the one I stuck with the longest time) allows you pretty much freedom, you can play whenever you feel like – as long as you don’t make the mistake to join a corporation or guild…
But most of these games more or less stick you in a schedule and that’s not what I want. I want a game that I can fire up for 30min when I got nothing else to do or for 4h straight when I feel like…