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Iron Wolf Saber
Den of Swords
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Posted - 2013.09.23 06:02:00 -
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MMOs like world of warcraft constantly throw the word epic around like it's nobody's business these days.
New Raid boss, new gear, new way of fighting with rehashed fights and most of the time a storyline you can care little for.
What makes so many of these events feel unepic? I have to say is the entire lack of difficulty, people just plow through and get measly rewards that are only good for 2 levels into the next expansion.
Special events are at most of the times fun and all but nearly suffered the same fate, with often sometimes the next year's event resulting in similar or updated prizes.
So how what do you think is your epic event?
I will give my example.
FFXIV 1.0
The game was buggy, difficult, required a party to level and was extremely hard. The story was a bit more involving as most quest givers were allotted cutscenes, far less wall of text and more casual talk. As FFXIV continued despite its bad reviews and promises to improve the game the grand companies arose as part of the continuing storyline. The Erozan alliance had to face off against the Garlean Empire, hell bent on domination you come to find out the Legion sent to conquer the three city states had a plan to throw the moon down on the nations because adventurers like your own character was consistently making it difficult for the alliance to be invaded.
The fights leading up to stop the legion commander from smashing the small moon into the land were some of the hardest in recent mmo history, small mistakes were very costly wiping out the entire warband. Some parties began just to form to try and beat the story line, it became more of a quest to not farm bosses but just to down them in the first place to save Eroza. It was equated to blood, sweat and tears in trying to kill white raven as the game's own poor performance itself could render the fight over easily.
In the End the efforts seemed for nothing, the moon continued to descend and the empire forces began to gather.
Before 1.0 shutdown there was a small place you can go and see the red moon ominously floating in the sky. These players decided that the area would most appropriate to bid FFXIV 1.0 farewell and recorded the ending seeing an event unfold for the first time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgEg8kXmifo
I don't know about you but the words going out with a bang doesn't seem to do this one justice. The players who walked the lands, explored the world, made friends with other players and toiled over beating the bosses and suffered through this horrible game to the very end is undeniably profound. |
Anita Hardone
Fraternity of St. Venefice
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.09.23 07:49:00 -
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Organized drift competitions in GT5.
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6097/6291628167_a6137bdac7_o.jpg |
Scheneighnay McBob
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.09.24 02:04:00 -
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Nothing particularly interesting happens to me, but when I still played SWTOR, I was part of a pretty big battle that built up on Tatooine.
Basically started with some assholes ganking low levels, so people started calling their guildmates or switching to other characters to help. Eventually, the fight expanded past the area between 2 opposing outposts into the whole planet.
At one point, since I was one of the few stealth guys my faction had there, I went on a few really long trips around the edge of the main fighting in order to cut off (somewhat literally) any enemy who tried retreating.
I'm pretty sure nobody won- both sides just slowly gave up. |
Mossellia Delt
Militaires Sans Jeux
405
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Posted - 2013.09.24 16:30:00 -
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When the devils invaded the marketplace in Dungeons and Dragons online. Was crazy
Also the Memorial when Gary Gygax passed away |
BARDAS
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.09.24 17:57:00 -
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Organizing bounty hunts on Jedi in Star Wars Galaxies before the Combat Upgrade and NGE killed it. Had a family bounty hunting business in that game. Me and my brother and our friends would gather in large packs and just annihilate Jedi and also Rebel scum that got in the way. Ahhh the good old days. Have not found a MMO to match it's experience since. |
Terram Nenokal
Namtar Elite
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.09.24 21:08:00 -
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Once in Ultima Online, an Orcish RP/PVP guild I was in convinced the GMs to turn off guards in the main city of Britannia (insta-kill CONCORD type guards). 100+ Orcs raided the town and a massive battle raged on for a few hours. The GMs even replaced a lot of the buildings we were raiding with burnt variations and added little blood splatters on the walls and streets.
"HOOWAH! BLUUD FER DA BLUUDGOD! KLOMP LATZ SKUULZ!"
I miss UO. |
Buddha Brown
Factory Fresh
380
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Posted - 2013.09.25 20:09:00 -
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I dont play any of those games but i really have to say that FFXIV 1.0 farewell was ridiculously awesome, kinda got goosebumps a little bit there |
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