No one logged in today because of Lost Ark

[Rosenstrauch]

Since this looks like the thread for it, I'd like to vent just a bit about Lost Ark. I decided to give it a try, and made a Mage character. The intro promptly dropped in my lap that I'm not only the chosen one, but the double chosen one and the most special person to have ever lived among my kind at that.

Is there an MMORPG on the market that doesn't do stuff like this, aside from World of Warcraft? It's one of the few things I miss from that game—that your character who started from humble beginnings actually starts from humble beginnings. None of this "handpicked by God" stuff.

[AnnRam]

Since this looks like the thread for it, I'd like to vent just a bit about Lost Ark. I decided to give it a try, and made a Mage character. The intro promptly dropped in my lap that I'm not only the chosen one, but the double chosen one and the most special person to have ever lived among my kind at that.

Is there an MMORPG on the market that doesn't do stuff like this, aside from World of Warcraft? It's one of the few things I miss from that game—that your character who started from humble beginnings actually starts from humble beginnings. None of this "handpicked by God" stuff.

Welcome to FFXIV, Where you start as a "god" and can't be harm or killed.

[Momo_Kozuki]

Is there an MMORPG on the market that doesn't do stuff like this, aside from World of Warcraft? It's one of the few things I miss from that game—that your character who started from humble beginnings actually starts from humble beginnings. None of this "handpicked by God" stuff.

You can try out Lord of the Ring Online. You're basically a "hero of another story". You will go where the fellowship doesn't venture, like Angmar in the North, Mirkwood in the West in first few expansions, until you meet up with the fellowship post-disband as you accompany the Rangers going South toward Helm's Deeps. You occasionally meet up with big names like Gandalf, Aragorn... and fight together with them, but for most of the time, you have your own adventure to do. You're the champion of your own story, but not a godly one like Warrior of Light.


For writing, up to Gondor, the writing is quality. The presentation is more wall-of-text and barely any cutscene compered to FF14.


LOTRO is a F2P with strange cash shop. You can grind cash shop currency to buy quest packs/expansion packs and can actually own every content without spending a penny, but I would suggest to pay sub to skim though some early contents and save points for necessary expansions.

[SturmChurro]

Since this looks like the thread for it, I'd like to vent just a bit about Lost Ark. I decided to give it a try, and made a Mage character. The intro promptly dropped in my lap that I'm not only the chosen one, but the double chosen one and the most special person to have ever lived among my kind at that.

Is there an MMORPG on the market that doesn't do stuff like this, aside from World of Warcraft? It's one of the few things I miss from that game—that your character who started from humble beginnings actually starts from humble beginnings. None of this "handpicked by God" stuff.

I don't know, I don't mind it. It allows them to take certain liberties in storytelling - and they certainly do that. I see it like a Shonen anime, there is also a place for this type of writing.

[Roflcopter]

Since this looks like the thread for it, I'd like to vent just a bit about Lost Ark. I decided to give it a try, and made a Mage character. The intro promptly dropped in my lap that I'm not only the chosen one, but the double chosen one and the most special person to have ever lived among my kind at that.

Is there an MMORPG on the market that doesn't do stuff like this, aside from World of Warcraft? It's one of the few things I miss from that game—that your character who started from humble beginnings actually starts from humble beginnings. None of this "handpicked by God" stuff.

WoW started doing that in the storyline though at least starting from Warlords of Draenor. You shift from just being another run of the mill adventurer to the champion. They even give you your own garrison which is supposed to be the only one… Layered on a million others of course. It progressively becomes more focused on you as the lone champion as the expansions wear on. You are even the lone chosen champion to travel through to the Shadowlands.

[Rosenstrauch]

WoW started doing that in the storyline though at least starting from Warlords of Draenor. You shift from just being another run of the mill adventurer to the champion. They even give you your own garrison which is supposed to be the only one… Layered on a million others of course. It progressively becomes more focused on you as the lone champion as the expansions wear on. You are even the lone chosen champion to travel through to the Shadowlands.

WoW is not exactly the most story-focused MMORPG. Far from it. But by that point in WoW, the player has done more than enough to deserve recognition. I'm talking about the beginning of the game. I don't need the game to start blowing my ego just because I finished character creation, is what I'm saying.