In the end though, I have to give the nod to Diablo III. The ARPG race this decade included Diablo III, Torchlight II, Path of Exile, Grim Dawn, and even Titan Quest Anniversary Edition, all of which I played. This could arguably fall under the MMO banner, but I have chosen to break it out because there was actually some competition here. I never did play Destiny or the sequel or anything else along those lines, so World of Tanks it is. Other potential titles for me here included World of Warplanes (where I am even worse than War Thunder) or maybe World of Warships, though that never really clicked with me so my time with it is pretty minimal. But when I do play, I like the way World of Tanks looks and feels, even if I am bad at it. This was kind of a tough one, as I have pretty clearly spent more time playing War Thunder and I haven’t spent any time playing World of Tanks recently. I will make the definitional cut between MMORPG, where you can see or interact with hundreds or thousands of players in a virtual world, and MMOs, which are just online titles where a bunch of people can be in the same lobby, but actual game play is in limited arenas. So New Eden gets the nod, as nothing else comes close. ![]() They heyday of WoW was last decade, which is what WoW Classic is telling us.Īnd after that, what other choices could I justify? I spent stretches of time in LOTRO, EverQuest II, Rift, Neverwinter, SWTOR, and a few others, but not nearly as much as either EVE Online or WoW. Three disappointing expansions ( Cataclysm, Warlords of Draenor, and Battle for Azeroth) and an inability to make things better has left me flat on the game. ![]() I might even make it third behind WoW Classic if that wasn’t barely four months old. Better or worse is up for debate, but definitely different.Īs for other choices, World of Warcraft would probably place second, but a distant second. And, to loop back on how MMORPGs change, 2019 EVE Online is a lot different than 2011 EVE Online was. And then I got tied up in the tales of null sec, where the stories are all player created, and have stuck around as a player/tourist ever since. I’ve been playing EVE Online in a continuous arc since November 2011, when I came back to the game to see if the Crucible expansion would get the game back on course after Incarna. Maybe Rift? And Rift fell apart for me with the first expansion.īased on hours spent playing, number of posts written, and amount of time continuously subscribed, it would be impossible to pick anything besides EVE Online. I would be hard pressed to pick an MMORPG I cared about that launched since 2010. So, unlike the other categories, I am not limiting this to games that launched this decade. First because MMORPGs are the main focus of this blog and, second, because MMORPGs constantly renew themselves with expansions and updates. MMORPG is a special category in this list. And, just to make this a bit more difficult, I am going to try to break these out into categories like some sort of award show, which will allow me not only to pick a winner, but then ramble on about other possible choices. How I picked them is vague mixture or memory, blog posts, and any measure of how much time I spent with a given title over the time frame. I do have a decade of blog posts to refresh my memory here. ![]() With that in mind and some empty days to fill I thought I would join in on the retrospective action and pick out a list of what I consider to be my games of the last ten years. But the blog was just past the three year mark back then and I had yet to settle down and recognize how a recurring topic makes an excellent writing crutch. ![]() I know, I checked and back in December of 2009 my posts… all 38 of them… showed only a low level of reflection, and that involved reviewing my gaming goals and predictions. I didn’t do this back at the end of 2009. As an end of year summary post is an easy pitch, so too must an end of decade summary pitch. I have noticed that a number of people and gaming sites are taking a moment to celebrate the coming change in the tens column of the year to take a look back at the last decade, the teens, and to pick out high and lows and bests and worsts and whatever.
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