We made the top 10 list for Non-Fantasy MMOs! This is a great honor for everyone as we move towards our 10th year of service!
*cheers*
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We made the top 10 list for Non-Fantasy MMOs! This is a great honor for everyone as we move towards our 10th year of service!
*cheers*
FTA:
"If you can stomach some heinously dated visuals, AO is still one of the best sci-fi offerings on the market."
Thanks?
AO actually mad top5 as well :p New engine to be top1? Soon(TM)
noone paid off the judges ?
Is this a tribute to our uberness or an idictment of the current state of non-fantasy MMOs?
Meh, I'll go with the former. AO roolz!
Sci-Fi offering is quite dry... But all the other MMORPGS are so simple(not EVE, but it's better red then played...)
I like how they had to include Lego Universe and Pirates of the Burning Sea to make 10 non-fantasy MMOs
Other than a select few pet peeves the graphics in AO were never a make or break element for me. That said, please someone animate a female toon that can carry a two-handed ranged weapon and still run without appearing to fall over, endure a broken pelvis, and have her arms disappear into thin wisps of nothing. Please.
woot! yay!
is that free advertising or did someone get bribed?
I remember back in the day when I had an Atari2600 and then the Intellivision came out and thought to myself "HOW AWSOME ARE THOSE INTELLIVISION GRAPHICS". Well 10 or more MMORPGS later and AO really dose look like an Atari2600 game :).
Eunucha
Inner Circle
Since 2001
Hmmm AO on an Atari 2600.. It would have looked awesome!!..
Proof.. scaled screenshot and reduced palette to 16 colors.. (even though the Atari 2600 could only show 4 at a time)
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...eanScreen1.png
lol, Cheers!
Never like the black and white. I had a monitor with a button, "Black & White", "Black and Green" and "Black and Amber". That was a cool monitor, for its time.
I saw the top 10 list.... really the worst list ever. I'm not really proud to see AO on that list...
I only agree with like 3 of the 10.
I guess some people still don't know that mmorpg.com is mostly social hacked, with fake ratings...
No MMORPG has the complexity in game play and avatar development of AO .... Yes the graphics are horrible but if you can get past that its hands down the best MMORPG out there.
Every other game out there is dumbed down for the five year old. This is where the Adults and near Adults ...or even the Adults that barley act like Adults do battle :).
Eunucha
Inner Circle
Since 2001
What we read recently in Fw(o)M, they gonna go that "dumb down" way.
No Maps needed, that was what i remember, so we wont have a map shop anymore, no skills to upload these maps are needed, no upgrades are needed and in general, mapnavi skill is obsolete.
Let me clearly say, I DO NOT LIKE THAT WAY !
Flatten or dumb'n AO = wrong
Give out some extra IP for every Profession.
We got so many new things, weapons, options, but we never got more IP, except from the Shadowlands expansion.
It felt all the years like we are 5% ImprovementPoints short.