Games that you love but everyone hates

[Arnox]

Anarchy Online. It has a vast spectrum for what you'd call "success". It's 63 or so skills with very few profession/breed/level locks, it's also an end of life MMO that has a mostly veteran playerbase and a ruthless economy. Meaning, you can either get along with people and thrive or take a poke at it like a helpless noob and probably hate every minute of it. I love it's freedom, and the ability to twink characters is nearly endless compared to other games. However, without help, you're likely going to drown. I've played on and off since like 2006 or 2008 and I still feel like I have a lot to learn.

Perhaps that's why I like it so much. It's too big for me to "conquer" like most games and I do genuinely enjoy the long, complex challenge.

The community is generally extremely helpful though. Got handed more money than I'd need for months my first day back, for example.

I remember some of my family playing this WAY back in the day. I never did check it out though. Maybe I need to remedy that one of these days.

 

[RewmServive2101]

I remember some of my family playing this WAY back in the day. I never did check it out though. Maybe I need to remedy that one of these days.

That was, as you may have guessed my first actual post here - I was in-between browser refreshes after registering.

If you do ever get started let me know. I'll give you a running start. Same goes for anyone else. I've only just returned after taking a break for a few years but I'm doing alright. Currently situating myself with free accounts/characters to prepare to make a paid account. Item/money mules, dungeon specific twinked characters, implant building, etc. But there's plenty of people around with way more phatz than myself who don't mind helping out.

 

[Arnox]

That was, as you may have guessed my first actual post here - I was in-between browser refreshes after registering.

If you do ever get started let me know. I'll give you a running start. Same goes for anyone else. I've only just returned after taking a break for a few years but I'm doing alright. Currently situating myself with free accounts/characters to prepare to make a paid account. Item/money mules, dungeon specific twinked characters, implant building, etc. But there's plenty of people around with way more phatz than myself who don't mind helping out.

Well, the only problem is Guild Wars 2 is pretty firmly lodged into my "MMO" slot right now. lol Me and Battousai also sometimes do Classic WoW on private servers when the whimsy strikes us.

 

[RewmServive2101]

Well, the only problem is Guild Wars 2 is pretty firmly lodged into my "MMO" slot right now. lol Me and Battousai also sometimes do Classic WoW on private servers when the whimsy strikes us.

Fair enough. I tried guild wars 2 and if I could get more into it I'd be a happy man, but I hold an age old grudge with A.O. and my PC isn't exactly awesome, so I figured I'd give A.O. one final run for it's money after all these years until I'm satisfied with all the gripe the learning curve has given me since, literally middle school.

When I upgrade my PC I'm looking forward to playing lots of Ready or Not, which is one of those games people don't like because of it's difficulty - but you don't see people complaining about it very often because, god forbid call of duty fanboys had to admit they're not built for milsims. Just my theory anyway.

 

[Arnox]

When I upgrade my PC I'm looking forward to playing lots of Ready or Not, which is one of those games people don't like because of it's difficulty

Try Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield. It's a rather old game now so it should be much easier to run for you. I think there's still a small active community behind it as well. One other game as well that's more graphically intensive is the first Insurgency.

 

[Battousai]

These low spec military sim stuff reminds me how absolutely basic the original Rainbox Six was, I used to have the N64 version.

 

[RewmServive2101]

Try Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield.

LOVE Raven Shield. I may just have to boot that old sucker up just because you mentioned it. Oh, the memories of me having my ass handed to me.

These low spec military sim stuff reminds me how absolutely basic the original Rainbox Six was, I used to have the N64 version.

Remember having full screen full snap auto-aim, because the reaction times were so ruthless they didn't even expect you to aim? Fantastic.