I actually really hate it that I can't do PVP. I really wanted to try Age of Conan, but had to give it up when I saw it was going to have PvP

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I'd like to be able to have a reasonable-size picture in my sig, but if the majority doesn't like that (plenty of forums where people don't want to see pics in sigs), that's fine.

You can set a maximum size for sigs, probably, so it doesn't get out of hand.

The Great Tree is making a series of small videos about the events that transpired in the previous URU-Live (The storyline in the new URU-Live will pick up from there, so they are not going to discount everything that happened before). If anyone is interested in URU, and knowing more about what happened before, before they enter the new URU-Live this december.

http://thegreattree.com/media/

And here's a fan-made trailer:

http://www.phalkon13.com/

Yes, but that's caused for a large part by the absence of people, when you're playing a game offline that was meant to be an MMO. I played the offline portion first, and then joined the URU Live prologue, and the difference in atmosphere was staggering. Having other people with you in those places makes a world of difference.

There won't be an absence of people in the new URU Live. Won't even be an offline portion you have to play before you can go to the online portion, you just go straight to the people. I think that they thought that was one of the reasons the game failed the first time around: people who were expecting an MMO being forced to play an (albeit very small) offline adventure game on their own first.

That's because it's the same game, you needed the single player game to be able to play the first URU Live. The game now known as URU, an offline adventure game, was actually meant to be just the small offline portion of a huge MMO (which failed).

I imagine the new, upcoming URU Live won't look that much different though (and you won't need the single player version to play it).

Yeah, I've had no such luck either. Well, I have, but URU's not actually out yet.

I tried Second life for a little while too, saw it was on your list here, but I have to say that that was by far the worst MMO I've ever played. Had nothing but bad experiences...

Ryzom might have changed (RP-wise) since I last popped in there, of course, but I hear about its develpoments from some old guildmates who still play sometimes, and I didn't think much had changed, apart from that Ryzom Ring thing finally getting somewhere. The things I've always liked a lot about Ryzom are the people, and the graphics. It's such a pretty game (except for those trykers . You know who you are, you ugly little monkeys). I started playing Ryzom because my old MMO had just died (the first attempt at URU Live), and a lot of former neighbourhood people and Great Tree people that I knew were moving on to it. Like some of you are doing now. Back then it was still in beta and they promised it would be a very different game from what it is now. This feels so much like deja vu to me . I kept on playing it for about a year after launch, all in all, but not for a year straight, I kept leaving and coming back. Nevrax almost went bankrupt during the development of Ryzom too. That's partly why it turned out so different from what they once said, they hired someone, blah blah, and then they suddenly introduced PvP while they'd always said they wouldn't... To attract more people most likely.

I hope those of you who go to check out URU, like what they see. I can recommend some good fan trailers/movies about old Live, so you can see what it used to be like. But if you're a forum-reading kind of person you'll probably find them yourself soon enough.

I've always felt like story=game. I care about the gameplay and functions, but if it's not tied in with the storyline it means nothing to me, and I get bored. I want a reason for the things I do aside from getting more gold and better gear. URU and Seed were perfect in this way; everything you did in URU, was to learn more about the history and current story. The exploration, solving of puzzles, it was all connected to the story, the history, and, well, everything. In Seed, Labspace was about to collapse if we didn't repair it and clean it up. We had reasons to do things in these games. In games like SoR and WoW, I killed and killed monsters, I did quest after quest, but what did it get me? Hardly any of the quests were tied in with the storyline, and now we get to something equally important: Even if you did get a quest that revealed more about what happened in the gameworld, it meant nothing. Countless people before and after you would do the exact same quests. It was all incredibly static. Nothing changed, your influence on the gameworld and story alike, was entirely absent. While in both Seed and URU, you were actually part of it all, you influenced it all, not just someone running through it all trying to get some more gold.

Anyway, games with just one of the two don't work for me. I need both aspects, completely intertwined, to like a game.
Just gameplay, no story, no RP? Booooorring.
Just RP/story, no gameplay? Just as bad. I'll just go read a book instead. Or make up my own story.

Heh, so yeah, I did disagree, but you did say that it was allowed .

Norah