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Hey guys, i need a little help from the gamers around here. Me and my friends decided to play together (again, after some stoped playing SRO and started different games) so we want to find a game that everyone will like and to start together from the very begining. And since i'm the forum rat in out little group, they gave me the task to find a game for all of us. So i know what each one of us search in a game, and i need to find the one that has most of that. But since i'm not really a gamer and i haven't played that much games, i decided someone here could help me out, so i don't have to download all of them to test them.
So here is what we all want in the game we wanna start:
First of all - the graphics. We want some cool graphics, not like a cartoon movie, a bit more realistic and detailed.
Second - the team play - something like the party sistem in sro, or something with that idea. We need something that we can fight for as a team, otherwise it's just pointless.
The guild - useful guild sistem, like guild buffs or something, because in sro i have more than 100 mil SP in the guild and i can use them for absolutely nothing.
The uniques - yes, again like in sro - some bosses or uniques that u need to hunt (that's a requierment from the girls in the group )
An interesting crafting sistem. (That one is from the boys in the group)
FTP and not bot infested. I know there are bots in every game, but i want real people to be able to talk with.
Well that's all i can think of at the moment, i'm sure there's more maybe but i forgot I would really apreciate it if someone could help me out with that one, because i read thousand of reviews, but they are summary and i can't read every game forum searching for those things.

go P2P and join Aion, although I am new there too, but I do not think there is Uniques but probably World Bosses, which is kinda the same but you dont get a message in the middle of screen that "X have killed SpookyAids in Aidstown" or something.

Well it won't be a problem to me, but as i said, we r a group of people, so i can't make all of them pay, and we wanna play together.

tell them to get a job and get WoW ~.~

Yea 10x, i never thoght i could get a job. What a nice idea indeed!

League of Legends, it's really fun with friends, but then again, what isn't?

stop playing mmorpgs and start playing cod mw2

Guild Wars

Extremely true, I find myself saying that a lot, "Xyz game is alright, but it's super fun with friends."

Well there are so many games, actually im on the same search "The Santo Grial Game" check this website http://mmohut.com

Guild Wars or Runes of Magic are both good.
Guild wars is DEFINITELY a good choice, except I am not too sure how interesting the crafting is.

Okay, i'll check them out. I tried Rappelz tonight, seems fine, infact reminds me a lot of sro which is not that bad. Someone played it to share an oppinion?

Doesnt that game got an annoying camera angel?

and why not try out Aion on infiniteaion.com, a private server with the same rates and close to bug free before deciding.

Rather 15 bucks a month and everything that can make you better than anyone else is the time you spend than paying 40 bucks a month for a F2P just to be able to be average.

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No, not annoying at all. And i may try aion there,the problem is not for me topay 15 $, but for the others.

Well I've heard Rappelz got a nice Cash Shop that doesnt give u any advantage what so ever. Otherwise play any games from Perfect World Entertainment, they got some nice games. And their upcoming game "Forsaken World" looks totally imba.

Check it out

I tried jade dynasty, it's nice but all the botting in it just makes it so easy and boring. When i play i love to explore the maps, the mobs, stuff like that and there u just click on the quest and the auto route takes u there and then u click on the esper and the bot fights...
I dowloaded Aika too and then i found out it's only for north america...
Downloading InfiniteAion atm, we'll see how it is.
And i think i fked up my monitor somehow with all that games, it's too bright and idk how to fix it, but that's a topic for another forum

Perfect World International seems to have alot to explore due the big maps, but it's really slow leveling even at 10+, atleast to slow for me. But I suggest signing up to Forsaken World Closed Beta, the map says to be effing huge and not stretched out as in PWI, so it would be alot to explore. =)

I just got red dead redemption for the ps3
Anyways I have some good memories with the free fps game crossfire, with a group of 8 friends we played clanwars all day long

Anyways, SRO gives me the best MMORPG memories

Try Dragonica it fits all of your requirements perfectly and its F2P. The only thing is the graphics are cartoony but they still look very good and the skill animations look very cool

Again, I'll put in Runes of Magic and Guild Wars.
Here's why:
Guild wars is an incredibly fun team game, and if you play with friends, it really allows the player to have so much fun. It relies on team work and synergy, so the intense PvE and PvP are really exciting. The PvE has elites, which are basically uniques, that give players elite skills, which I guess is the same as uniques? And the PvP is just awesome, 8v8 Guild Wars etc. It's a pay once game, however, it's very cheap to buy all of the expansions now (so I've heard). If you can, I'd give this a try first. Also, there are no bots, and it's not a grind fest at all, (max level is 20, where the game starts!) And if you love to explore, the maps are huge with amazing graphics, and you can receive titles/awards just for exploration! Being in a guild allows for an entrance to the Guild Hall, with helpful NPCs and places to buy skills, basically some benefits. Also, depending on your guild's faction, you can take part in Alliance battles on one of the two sides. Also, guild wars are an empirical part of PvP, and it's one of the coolest things in an MMO!

Runes of Magic, I haven't played to cap, but the graphics are terrific, the party play seems pretty good, because there are hundreds of quests, and the classes seem pretty cool. Especially with the dual-class system, the customization is pretty good. I have yet to try PvP though . Also, I think guilds give some sort of bonus (not 100% sure) and I've heard that the crafting system is intricate and interesting!

Now that's a nice reply, ty for it. Im dling Runes of magic atm, we'll see how it turns out.

Yeah, I seemed to dislike the Mage class in Runes of Magic, but that's just my opinion. I really like the rogue, because the combat is very fluid, so yeah definitely try RoM out.

Runes of Magic is basically a Pay 2 Win since you cant really do any endgame if you're not buying diamonds, it wasnt that bad for a couple of weeks ago when u could buy diamonds(their cash currency) from AH, but since they removed that due the inflation of goldbots buying them and selling them higher they removed this. But the game is really fun if you look past this. But it got cartoonish graphics and a really crappy engine.

I haven't been playing much recently, I can't believe they took diamonds off of the AH! But the graphics are not nearly as bad as you make them sound, and I thought the engine was good? lol
Anyway, he didn't mention anything about PvP specifically, so I am sure as a party of him and his friends, they will like the game.

Well, if they stood out spending 20 bucks or more each month for SRO, they can stand out with this. And yes, the engine is crap, makes you fps drop constantly, been complains about that from the start of Open Beta, but they kinda ignored it and just keept pumping out new expansions & cash shop items without fixing the old bugs etc.

Well i personally don't like the pvp, i'm more in to the group wars and battles, stuff like that. But that games takes FOREVER to update... and my BF is still trying to download it, i can't image when we will be able to play it together... maybe in a couple of days

Yeah it takes a while. I think it's worth it . The file took me like 6 hours, and yeah, tons of patches.