With all the recent complaints about, well, everything, I thought it'd be a nice change if we all shared what we think is good about AO. Why is it fun, why do you play it?
I'll start:
- Excellent sound and graphics.
- Futuristic setting without being postapocalyptic. With all the elves and dwarves littering RPGs, this is a nice change.
- Skill based, I prefer this over level based RPGs.
- "Mana" based "spell" system. D&D, yuck. Sleeping 8 hours just to cast a magic missile is a major bother.
- Mission system. Nice
- Lots of funky gadgets to play around with