Hi all. I'm interested in all your personal reasons for playing this game. I've played most MMORPG's on the market since 1999 or so, and although I've had fun in lots of them, I usually come back to SoD. It's interesting because as time goes on, other games get more and more advanced, and this shows it's age. For example, there are no "Battlegrounds", "arena" matches, flying mounts, ships, the graphics are quite basic and NPC dialogue has to be done with /commands, and there is no world map, etc, etc. So technology wise, it's quite "no frills", and yet, I still prefer it to the other modern games I've played. Of them all, the two that came closest, were Vanguard, and WoW. But with all their fancy graphics and nice modern features, I still come back to SoD for one reason or another, and I often think about why that is. So now I am interested in why you are here.
Personally, my answer is number 3. I *choose* to play it over all the other games, and it's mainly to do with how soloing works in the other games. I find that most MMORPG's have sterilised the gameplay so that you either do "group content", or you do "solo content", and there is no in between - which is a big deal to me.
I find that with this game (and the game it's based on), solo content and group content kind of blends together, and you can sometimes solo group content if you pick stuff that is a bit lower level. And you are therefore not restricted from dungeons etc. I find that exciting and challenging, and being completely alone in a dungeon is great... so eerie, and yet you can make exp at the same time so it's worthwhile. I tried, but couldn't do that in WoW or Vanguard (unless you do stuff that is MUCH lower level). In Vanguard for example, they had the 3 dot 4 dot system and basically made every dungeon mob a 4 dot so you just couldn't realistically solo it. So you could never really go in dungeons, and instead you have to just stay doing the boring over land "solo content", which is basically a matter of just picking off mobs one by one like a shooting gallery, and then performing your same old routine.
And in addition to that, there are the changes to (the game) they made with SoD, like the mail, quests, treasure maps, house of portals, etc. which are all things I really like.
Personally, my answer is number 3. I *choose* to play it over all the other games, and it's mainly to do with how soloing works in the other games. I find that most MMORPG's have sterilised the gameplay so that you either do "group content", or you do "solo content", and there is no in between - which is a big deal to me.
I find that with this game (and the game it's based on), solo content and group content kind of blends together, and you can sometimes solo group content if you pick stuff that is a bit lower level. And you are therefore not restricted from dungeons etc. I find that exciting and challenging, and being completely alone in a dungeon is great... so eerie, and yet you can make exp at the same time so it's worthwhile. I tried, but couldn't do that in WoW or Vanguard (unless you do stuff that is MUCH lower level). In Vanguard for example, they had the 3 dot 4 dot system and basically made every dungeon mob a 4 dot so you just couldn't realistically solo it. So you could never really go in dungeons, and instead you have to just stay doing the boring over land "solo content", which is basically a matter of just picking off mobs one by one like a shooting gallery, and then performing your same old routine.
And in addition to that, there are the changes to (the game) they made with SoD, like the mail, quests, treasure maps, house of portals, etc. which are all things I really like.
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