For me its:

  1. Ultima Online

  2. Final Fantasy XI

  3. Ragnarok Online

UO was a game I just recently discovered and it’s fantastic, best sandbox experience I’ve ever had in a game.

FFXI was another recent discovery. It took the formula from Everquest and made it better. The game is even less grindy today with the QOL changes.

RO was a big part of my teenage years. I love the look of the game, it reminds me of Final Fantasy Tactics. It’s a great casual game to just pop into and grind out some levels or explore.

  • Roonerino [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I revisit it every now and then because I want to like it so much but I always get bored fairly quickly because it’s just such a piss easy game. I wish they’d just give me a difficulty slider to crank up, I don’t even want a bonus for it.

        • batsforpeace [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          7 months ago

          I had this issue too while questing, it took some tinkering to make a ‘nerfed profile’ where the overland enemies pose a bit of danger, wearing almost no armor, no blue/red CP skills, fairly low health, also using some of the new ‘scribing’ skills, they’re customizable but not very powerful, I use a npc companion too because it’s more fun gameplay overall, on average I don’t think people have enough time to mess around like this though, the overland feedback thread on their forum has like 200+ pages of people debating for and against raising overland difficulty lol

          • Roonerino [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Yeah MMOs seem to have just evolved over the years to make the leveling process extremely fast and extremely easy. I always just end up back on a classic WOW private server.

              • Roonerino [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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                7 months ago

                It’s the opposite for me, the whole experience has always been the leveling journey for me. Exploring the world, doing the quests, meeting cool monsters and killing them. Even Guild Wars 1 that was the part I enjoyed the most. I find raiding just excruciatingly boring.