Ok I think I'll bring up my old past to give you guys the idea of my experiences with MMOs. I hope you'll recommend me something that isn't Wurm.
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1/10 Unplayable.
I tried it on friend's account 10+ years ago. It was slow, ugly, boring and all sorts of unappealing. I didn't like a single bit about it.
Recently it got some big ass update, so I decided to try it, especially since you can start playing it for free and it still the same shit - slow, boring and ugly. Fuck that game
4/10 barely enjoyable
I played in the same period as wow originally, and like it a lot more. It was prettier, cooler more intense and overall much better experience. But still it was slow and boring game, and everyone looked the same and was running like an idiot. Never touched it since then.
6/10 not bad
The next big MMO I ever played. Absolutely beautiful, much faster paced and with high quality animations it occupied me for a good month. And then I got bored of it, because rotations through huge pool of abilities, as I understood is a basis of classic MMO combat, was more like busywork than actual combat. And while initial character customization was amazing, actual in-game dress up was limited as fuck and stock armor you were finding along the way all looked shitty.
5/10 overrated mediocrity
I probably should have played it right after Aion, but as a matter of fact I played it after games like PSO2, Warframe and Vindictus, and return to slower paced delay-based combat, even if it presented itself as action was pretty painful. Very limited character customization, Aion's plastic graphics and limited dress up options didn't help either. Maybe it was amazing for its prime time, but now it's conceptually outdated as fuck.
2/10 buy lockbox key work points silly goy: the game
It was advertised as graphical power house, but in reality it looked like slightly polished up Lineage 2. But in terms of gameplay it was fucking Lineage 2, a game that I found boring 10 goddamned years ago. Also work points motherfucker, buy it!
3/10 piece of shit
Archeage with Star Wars skin. Well instead of lockboxes free players got gimped exp and loot, so you were forced to grind the same areas for longer to proceed. Shitty graphics, boring gameplay, all that too. Fuck this game.
4/10 Not as bad as I expected
I played it on private server, so it would be unfair to actually judge it. It wasn't as terrible as I expected, managed to occupy me for a whole week.
7/10 Solid singleplayer game
I get where all the hate comes from - you finish 6 hours long story and long for more, but the only thing left is soulless grind. Then don't fucking grind motherfucker, just move onto next game. Yeah I liked Warframe as a small 1-playthrough game, I never bothered to grind for anything, good graphics, good combat, actually nice voice acting too. Play it once if you haven't already.
6-10 hours of solid space ninja action.
6/10 Good combat, shit everything else
I expected it to be the same as warframe, but I didn't got any interesting story, and I was forced into grinding right off the bat. Graphics were very meh, characters look nice, but the rest is pretty bad. Combat was good enough, but the rest of the game was super repetitive and samey.
4/10 You can't go there yet: the game
It didn't fucking let me outta the starting town before I completed boring long-ass quest with shit cut-scenes where everyone uses the same 5 looped motions and no voice acting. Mediocre graphics, boring combat and a lot of waiting and gating. Can't even use the best cards for triple triad, gotta grind some card level or some other nonsense. This game is not complete garbage, but fuck it.
5/10 Whacking
I shouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I did. All you do is run through areas and whack shit. Maybe use a couple of your 4 abilities which are essentially whacking for more damage. Visuals are cool, music is great, and combat system consisting of 1 attack it god-tier. But after 1 week of playing I realized that gameplay didn't change a single bit, so I dropped it.
4/10 ToS's granpa
Basically the same as above except you don't even get to use any abilities for your first 70~ levels or something. At least that was the impression I got. It was slow, boring and monsters' sounds were unbearable. Didn't even spend 10 hours on it.