You can play as a hobbit, fight alongside Gimli, and take on the Witch King in Angmar, just to name a few.
Lord Of The Rings Online is also faithful to the books, with plenty of neat little touches for those into the lore. It's an aging MMO now, first released in , and it was fairly old-fashioned even at release, but it continues to receive story expansions even in Guild Wars 2 isn't a traditional MMO, in the sense that it replaces a lot of boringly structured fetch quests with more emphasis on live events you can stumble across while exploring the world.
These are dynamically generated by the game's systems, and allow you to hop into fights alongside swarms of other players. The fighting is more dynamic than most MMOs too, as you dodge out the way of enemy attacks and aim your own, as opposed to being locked into an animation. Players praise Guild Wars 2 for its lack of grind as well. Nearly everything you do awards experience, from crafting to exploring to combat. Even if someone else has attacked a big monster before you, helping them out will still give you some EXP.
Guild Wars 2 wants you to have a nie time, and to see its world and story without needing to work thousands of hours for it. It combines multiple settings from the various iterations of Bethesda's singleplayer RPGs, allowing you to explore from Tamriel, to the High Elf realm of Summerset and the Khajit homeland Elsweyr.
As if knowing its audience, tThe Elder Scrolls Online also does a fine job of balancing being an MMO and a decent singleplayer experience. For those who want a solo experience or a massively multiplayer one, there's no judgement here, and if anything, it has increasingly offered more of the former. This is one of the few MMOs where your character development isn't all about making numbers go up, but in the relationships you form with others.
You can befriend and betray, murder or confess your undying love to NPCs who aren't just static quest-givers. Like ESO above, TOR's developers know a lot of people are coming to it from their love of Knights Of The Old Republic, and once you've reached the expansions, you're hit with this episodic structure that's frankly more like a singleplayer game than an MMO.
You're thrown into your own instance and free to make plenty of tough decisions that'll affect your story alone, no one else's. This is easily one of the best Star Wars games out there. Black Desert Online might be one of the nicest looking MMOs out there, with a vast, gorgeous world that puts a lot of others in the genre to shame. It's worth downloading just to play around with its gorgeous characters creator. You've also got fast-paced combat with an emphasis on aiming, dodging, and blocking in real time, but what really sets Black Desert Online apart, is its focus on building empires and civilisations.
There's also a sequel called Maplestory 2 that plays a bit differently and has a lot of newer features and content available. It has amazing visuals and a very immersive storyline that has countless hours of content.
One of the most interesting features in the game compared to other MMORPGs is that one character can be any class in the game. This is a really unique change in the genre as most games require the player to have multiple characters to try out different classes. The franchise is extremely popular on both consoles and PC and has received a ton of content updates throughout both the first game and its sequel.
No plans to release a third game have been announced as of yet, and a new expansion is on the way for Destiny 2 that will add plenty of brand new missions, loot, raids, and so much more. The game can be a bit uninteresting to play alone but it is a blast with friends. There are also plenty of online communities to do raids and multiplayer content.
Released in and still going strong, Anarchy Online based in a sci-fi world rather than one based on Western mythology. It was produced by a company based in Norway and predates most of the entries on this list. Players assume the role of colonists on a hostile planet known as Rubi-Ka, populated by demonic aliens and dotted with ancient ruins and harsh geography.
In addition to other quests and activities, their main goal is to find and collect a mineral called Notum while they advance their various skills. For those looking for their Elder Scrolls fix while they wait for the next main game to be released, The Elder Scrolls Online can fill that void. It's quite similar to Skyrim visually and takes a lot of the locations, races, and abilities from previous games.
The Elder Scrolls Online has a growing community that exists on both console and PC and offers a ton of content with more being added annually. But it's gorgeous world, emotional storytelling, and wide variety of activities set it far ahead of other MMOs in You can find the rest of our recommended MMOs below, but we also wanted to briefly mention some of the most promising upcoming MMOs to pay attention to. Amazon's no-subscription-needed New World has changed a lot over the past few years of development and though it still looks promising we're beginning to worry.
It's been delayed multiple times and is now coming in the spring of It wavers between being a proper MMO and just a really big multiplayer survival game. After the enormous failure of Amazon's other game, Crucible, it seems like Amazon still hasn't figured out what the New World should be. What's never changed is the emphasis on massive PVP territory battles with 50 players on each side battling it out to control various forts and settlements scattered around the map.
While I'll never say no to more PVP-focused MMOs, I'm also excited to check out New World's action combat, which actually requires carefully-timed dodges and melee attacks instead of memorizing complex hotkey rotations.
But given its numerous delays and constantly changing features, we're a little skeptical. Even so, New World could be a surprise hit and we're eagerly waiting to find out. New World should launch this spring. It's been in development for years, but this space-faring MMO has some cool tech under its belt, especially in how it plans to handle thousands of players in a small area at the same time.
If you've played sandbox survival games like Empyrean or Space Engineers, you'll be fairly familiar with how Dual Universe works. Everything is destructible and how you can design vehicles and spaceships is completely up to you—as long as you have the resources and skills, of course. What's cool, though, is that Dual Universe takes that familiar survival sandbox and drops it into a massive galaxy where entire player alliances can cooperate or fight one another.
You can design ships and then sell blueprints to others, and there's even a LUA-based scripting language so you can create in-game automation for machines like autopilot protocols or advanced security systems that can also be sold to other players.
The ambitions behind Dual Universe are sky-high, but if it succeeds it might be the next big evolutionary leap the genre has been waiting for. In the world of MMOs, "theme parks" are that movie you like to put on in the background—the one you've seen a thousand times but still love.
They don't push you into deep waters like most sandbox MMOs do, instead wrapping you up in a comforting and familiar blanket. They are games that, just like their name implies, are all about having fun as you tour from one attraction to the next.
Though they might rely on a time-worn formula, they can still conceal a surprise or two. These are often the most popular MMOs, and they've earned their reputations with every dungeon, every level, and every quest. No other MMO has had a greater impact on the genre and the entirety of videogames as a whole quite like World of Warcraft.
For that reason, putting it anywhere but first on this list just doesn't feel right—even if Final Fantasy 14 is still our best pick for the MMO of it's a tight race, however! Though it might be getting on in years, World of Warcraft continues to surprise. Shadowlands, its latest expansion, returns to the glory of WoW's early years through a mix of ambitious new systems and one of the best endgames the MMO has ever had.
Whether you love dungeons, raiding, player-versus-player battles, or just exploring a wonderfully charming world, World of Warcraft has you covered. In Shadowlands, there's also unique activites like Torghast, a roguelike dungeon that changes each time you enter it. There's also fun events like Timewalking that let you revisit old expansion dungeons for cool loot, and World Quests that help you accomplish something meaningful even if you only have 20 minutes to play.
There's not a lot of negative things to say about Shadowlands, though. Its story and questing feels tired, but each is such a small fraction of how you'll spend your time in Azeroth that it's hard to get too mad at them. That said, World of Warcraft's endgame is still very diverse and fun—even if it has frustrating flaws. The path to its throne is littered with the bones of would-be usurpers, but World of Warcraft's unparalleled zeal for bringing the world of Azeroth to life is a force to be reckoned with.
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