I'm done (Need a New Game)

• Darkboy132 wrote on 2015-11-20 04:09

  Quote from Meiji;1290500:

  - PSO2
  Since you said JP games are fine also, I loved PSO2. I played for a while with a friend and honestly I love the combat specially and all the dressups/cosplays.
  
  [video=youtube;rqd0--zOuas]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqd0--zOuas[/video]
  
  TERA is another game that you could give it a try (it has amazing combat) but imo it gets repetitive towards lategame.

  
  
  I've tried PSO2 and TERA. While grindy, both have their free flow of combat and environmental usage, especially moreso on the former and it's quite exciting in the pace of battle.
  
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  My recommendation: Undertale. The one RPG game everyone loves due to its story, characters, music, and great game features. Really knows how to toy with your emotions.
• Intimacy wrote on 2015-11-20 04:36
  Black desert, i'm waiting for that to come out, if you want someone to play it with i'll be fully available as well.
• Irazn wrote on 2015-11-20 06:09
  Guildwars 2 became free to play recently with some some in game restrictions, but you can enjoy the full game with the new expansion that also came out for $50. The community is pretty decent, and ANet really listens to the players. The cash shop is mostly cosmetic stuff, though you'll have to spend rl money for more inventory/bank space, so no pay2win aspects. lvling is not only by questing but by doing dynamic events, and exploring. This game does encourage being in groups though, you may "solo" if you are really good. PvP is pretty balanced, and Anet also does a decent about of class balances.
• Aubog007 wrote on 2015-11-20 08:53
  On the topic of FF14, it's a theme park MMO, there's nothing incredibly lasting, and no real hook or purpose.
  
  Sure you can level and do other classes, but it largely serves no real point in doing so, and the raiding can be stressful or not. I was never the raiding type in FF.
  
  
  It's fun with friends for a while, until you realize "it's this again"
  
  
  I mean. I liked it and enjoyed it, but as soon as i did my story stuff, i left. I absolutely loathe doing dailies.
• callback wrote on 2015-11-20 16:15
  On the subject of XIV, OP should go with her gut. If you don't like the looks you probably won't like the endgame. If you hate the WoW-style combat, that part never really changes. I play just to spend time with my friends and help them out, but the combat itself is so boring even at 60. Alex 4, for example, has nothing to do for anyone but the healers.
  
  Not to mention a big bullet point you made was solo-friendly which XIV is absolutely 100% NOT. Everything is done in groups, and if you are a solo player that just means you have to wait forever in queue just to end up with people you don't know, and some of them are probably going to get you wiped over and over with nothing you can personally do except try to explain their job to them.
  
  
  As for helping OP, since MMO was never specified as a requirement, might I recommend taking a break from them? Spend some time going through a few single and co-op multiplayer games? I'll suggest a few in addition to MMO in case you're interested. Don't throw away your Mabi stuff, just take a good long hiatus (~year?) and see how you feel after.
  
  
  Terraria. The sheer amount of content this thing has for its price is astounding. Works great both single player and with friends online. Leans mostly towards the adventure side with tons of difficult boss fights, but requires you to maintain enough of a strategic build on the creative side keeping up your base and keeping it defensible, or in carving out arenas and setting traps to help you through events like the frost and pumpkin moons. It's all extremely satisfying
  
  Warframe. Back on the MMO side, technically. It's a 3rd person shooter where you play as space ninjas. SPACE. NINJAS. The game plays well no matter whether you choose to solo or go with a squad, and people can dynamically join a mission in progress towards the beginning part of it.
  
  It's about as non-p2w as you can get, deceptively so. While they do sell in-game resources, credits, etc. for platinum, the rates are insulting. A ~$5 credit bundle could otherwise be obtained in a 5 minute mission. The only thing you want to spend that cash on are cosmetics and slots. Maybe a few extra potatoes (the amount of those you get for free is already reasonable to keep your favorite loadouts powered up). Slots are the closest thing to a "must buy", since they let you keep more of the game's insane arsenal (all obtained for free super easily despite being purchasable outright) of both weapons and warframes(characters) available without needing to throw away any you don't like to make room for new ones. Color palates are the best cosmetic you can buy because they can be used on everything you own to personalize your look. Helmets are the other big one, but those can also be gotten for free if you are patient/lucky enough to find them in alerts, or trade the ones you DO find to someone who found the one you want. There are skins and other cosmetics available too. Just do what you want.
  
  The Secret World. I'm recommending this to play through up to the endgame then leave This isn't really one worth getting into since the combat's not the best (still a small step up from XIV IMO) and the endgame is pretty lame, mostly just harder dungeons and PVP to do. The thing is, it's not the dungeons and combat that sell this game. It's the story and quests, and taking that by itself makes this game well worth the purchase price (it's buy-to-play style). The game takes place in an alt version of our modern world where the paranormal is real. You work for one of 3 underground factions trying to keep the world in balance through their own philosophies. You travel to several world locations investigating paranormal outbreaks and trying to get to their source.
  
  Quests come in 3 kinds. Red are your standard MMO quests. Fetch this, find that, kill these, go there. Nothing too exciting except the way they are given. Instead of a ton of NPCs asking you to go do stuff for them, you could find these quests anywhere. An old book lying in the street prompts you to read that it's a journal and go find its owner. A corpse on the ground prompts you to find out what could have done this and go take it down. Yellow are stealth quests and a good deal more interesting. These guide you into instanced typically solo areas where the goal is stealth. Sneak around guards, traps, and simple puzzles, finding your way around through switches, keycards, whatever you need to make your way through undetected to do what you came there for. Finally we get to the best. The green investigation quests. These are puzzle to the max with no guidance from the game. You are simply given a prompt of something that needs to be looked into, maybe a starting hint of where to look, and set on your way. An early example simply points you to a manhole outside. [SPOILER="minor spoiler partial solution"]The cover bears the Illuminati symbol, a pyramid. You need to figure out that the pyramid is pointing in a certain direction, and follow it until you reach another manhole. That one also has the symbol and points in another direction. Continue following these until you end up pointed simply onto the sidewalk? Yes. The stone you are standing on can actually be interacted with (no visual indication until you actually click on it) to lift it up and reveal an underground passage. And down there is where things get really hard.[/SPOILER] The puzzle continues to test you both in the moment with your critical thinking and puzzle solving, cryptographic knowledge, [SPOILER="small spoiler"]knowledge of the works of 16th century Renaissance composers?[/SPOILER], as well as your research skills, taking facts and passages from real literature and history (there's actually an in-game web browser so you don't need to alt-tab to start researching), all open within the game's world requiring you to rely on the clues you find to know where in the game world to actually go.
  
  Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (and Afterbirth DLC) Just a single player game I love. This will eat countless hours off of your life.
  
  Any other single player backlog you might have. Take a break from MMOs and play some other games. If you don't own much for now, wait for the Steam holiday sale coming up and just get EVERYTHING good that goes on a decent discount.
• Jake wrote on 2015-11-20 19:30

  Quote from Chihaya;1290496:

  
  
  Tree of Savior's completely out of my league since it's Maplestory in 3D minus PQs. Reviews emphasize hours of grinding which I have no time or will to do.
  

  
  
  But this isn't true at all.
  
  First, there are "party quests". At least, something that is referred to as one. I'm not 100% sure because I didn't participate in them when they unlocked. There are also instanced dungeons. Not to mention it's cbt, and for a cbt this is already a LOT of content. Who knows what they will eventually add in.
  
  Second, I'll say it again since I have to keep repeating myself. This games grind is nothing compared to maplestory, both old and current. I guess it also depends how you define "grind" though, like endlessly killing monsters? In the first cbt there was a lot more grind than the second. They upped the EXP rates and gave more quests to substitute grinding between cbt 1 and 2. In cbt 2, there's minimal mindless monster grinding. I'm talking maybe 20-30 hours in total. Then it's as easy as questing as it was before. The levels have a curve that eventually resets every x level, so it becomes easier to level for quite a few levels after you reach these milestones. There are many people who reached the level cap in the first week. Space their playtime out to that of an average and you'll probably be able to reach the level cap in about 3-5 weeks. That's not that long at all, all things considered.
• Tropa wrote on 2015-11-20 20:55
  I highly recommend FF14, it does alot of things right, like a Role system for example and a pretty good balance between all the classes(minus Pally).
• Shanghai wrote on 2015-11-21 02:43

  Quote from Chihaya;1290496:

  I'll be honest; that looks really interesting. The only problem I see is that I'm usually the person who favors DPS classes, but hates parties. I also don't have the greatest internet which is kinda deterring, but as you said, I'll at least give it a shot.
  
  Thanks for the suggestion!

  
  
  You can get to max level without ever doing a single dungeon in the game since doing all the quests in a zone WILL overlevel you for the next, and they have zones set up so that you'll get to 50 if all you do is questing. And there's still a bit of content to do even if you're not interested in raiding at max level. Combat's VERY fast in this game since you can only hold 1 hotbar's worth of abilities, so all of your ability choices are meaningful and pack a punch at what they're designed for. In my experience, it would take around 30secs-1 minute to kill a single monster in FFXIV when questing, with that time increasing as you get to Heavensward and higher level content. In Wildstar, doesn't even take 5-10 seconds to obliterate a group of mobs in quick succession since most abilities are AoE and all classes have a slightly different low-resource class mechanic that beefs up your damage/utility. Like in TERA, it's possible to do some of the overworld group content(Which is mostly big bosses in an area that recommend having 2 or more players to beat) if you're skilled at dodging, specced your abilities well and know how to optimize your class.
  
  This is just my experience though; some classes are obviously different since I was rolling a Spellslinger which has the highest burst DPS/Healing but lowest sustained DPS/Healing and I was a White Mage in FFXIV.
• Splatulated wrote on 2015-11-22 08:03
  well you never said it HAD to be an MMO so i'm going to suggest non mmo's :3
  
  Fallout 4 (it comes with fallout 3 at least on xbox one anyway might be same for pc hopefully o.o)
  
  Stella Glow its for 3DS so hopefully you have one o.o maybe ? its story based and about some stuff im not far in game yet but i guess from what im told its like fire emblem
  
  GTA V - great game
  
  Second Life - weird but addicting as hell and if you know how to make stuff, imagination is your limit literally everything is possible (except making a mirror but even that is possible with some lighting tricks and working under SL water) but say you want to be an anime character, you can be an anime character or you could be a tank or a combination of anime character that turns into a tank anything you want to be you can be
  
  Garry's mod kinda like SL but over all can be much cheaper but also more restrictive either way still pretty awesome
  
  Rocket League seems neat
  
  Goat Simulator probably not game to move onto entirely but its pretty fun
  
  The Elder scrolls Skyrim
• Herro wrote on 2015-11-24 12:46
  I vote for pso2, you can join ship 2 and play with us~
• Brynn wrote on 2015-11-24 13:08
  Tree of Savior if you haven't checked that out yet. It involves some more waiting though, since it's still in closed beta.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2015-11-29 20:53
  I been playing Hyper Dimension Neptunia Re Birth. I am on the second game right now.
• Drizzit wrote on 2015-11-29 23:35
  Fallout 4 is working for me. Who needs their RPGs to be MMO anyway? Or if you like deep characterization and storylines, try Witcher 3.
  If it does need to be an MMO, another outside the box option is Destiny.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2015-11-30 02:34
  I should mention, I was kind of surprised, Neptunia the game actually has opening theme lol, it was pretty funny.
  
  [video=youtube;rzL4UiXBUhQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzL4UiXBUhQ[/video]
• Chihaya wrote on 2015-12-02 06:45
  Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I'm literally going through almost all the games listed here very extensively.
  
  A lot of console game suggestions though, which is not something I'd be able to afford with one go. I'd rather spend my money voluntarily on a game I want to spend money on, rather than buying a game and later regretting it.
  
  Not only am I watching video reviews for these titles, I'm also reading the Criticisms listed on NamuWiki (Korean), since a lot of the video reviews shuffle the bad parts of the game under the rug and the latter Korean source is completely unbiased and based on the player's viewpoint.