Sincere Question-Will Project 1999 be worth someone's time who has no nostalgic ties?
( NOTE : This is my reddit thread. But it is very strongly associated with Project 1999. I'm posting this in various forums in order to get feedback so that I can make an educated decision. )
I've been into MMOs for a somewhat decent time now. About 5-6 years. Note, that I have never, ever reached end-game in any MMORPG. There are various reasons for that, but most common of all is the fact that I simply get burned out before I even reach the end game. The repetition is too much for me. The lack of a strong community or social behavior turns me off. It feels like I'm grinding a character just so I can look at him and be happy. I can do that in Single player RPGs. That's what SP RPGs are for. That's what something like Dark Souls is for, or Skyrim.
I've recently ( about last year or so ) tried EQ. I couldn't get very far into it, mainly because I could not understand the combat. I couldn't understand the UI. I WISH I'd been born in the infancy of the MMORPG era, because I read these stories, stories of how AMAZING people's experiences were and I just, I feel very sad. Because I know I could never again experience it. I've played action MMORPGs like TERA, I've played instanced / solo Online RPGs like Path of Exile and the recent OBT Skyforge, but even these 'action' MMOs last about a week or so at BEST. I can't sink hours and hours of my life into them. Why ? Because there's no social interaction! The most time I've spent in an MMORPG was from 2009 to 2014, though, it isn't technically an MMORPG- it felt like one for me.
San Andreas Multiplayer, with its countless RP servers. Mostly text-based RP, but there were scripts with specific character progression, a pseudo MMORPG if you will. Interaction was a MUST. Meanwhile in these new themepark MMOs, all I have to do is run around, kill a bunch of dudes, accept a group invite or two and again kill a bunch of flowers or something and I'm done! That's my "FUN" element! Yes, yes, dungeons are extremely fun too. I had my dungeoneering fun with Guild Wars 2, Lord of the Rings Online. But again, that's a fraction of the time you spend playing MMOs! What about the levelling up ? You can solo it all if you want, but I don't want that! I don't want to solo everything, neither do I want to group up without ANY interaction at all. > send an invite, group up, and leggo have fun by killing the same things over and over again.
No. I want to be FORCED to socially interact with others. With the 'send invite and it's a group' mentality it feels more like an AI companion is along with you rather than an actual player. I've tried my best to love older games like EverQuest, but I can't. I feel like I've missed it all. I've recently installed Project 1999, and you know what ? For the first time in ever, I actually enjoyed the extremely short time I spent with it. I wasn't aware of what I had to do, I kept dying to monsters, but these players were around me- they helped me out. We interacted. We spoke. It was absolutely blissful. I want more of that. But unfortunately, it's a humongous pain in the ass to set up Project 1999. I can't play on fullscreen, tabbing out keeps messing the game up, and I don't have the strong 'nostalgia' factor to push me along and motivate me to actually fix the game and re-learn ( in my case, learn ) everything about the game. I don't know what to do. I'm not sure if P99 is worth the time or not. I'm not sure if there are any other MMORPGs like P99 or not.
I'm just tired of trying out new MMOs and being disappointed time and again. So I'm gonna post this on various forums, reddit included. I ask you for help. What should I do ? Is Project 1999 worth the time ? I'm looking for a rather detailed reply, and I would really, really appreciate any help I get. Thank you.
I would write an entirely different post / thread for these forums but I'm exhausted right now. I couldn't play EQ1999 because basically, I was very. Very young back then x). And in my country, games were barely getting any exposure- let alone MMORPGs. Oh also, I'd like some technical help as I mentioned earlier. I can't play on fullscreen and alt-tab at the same time. The game keeps flashing weirdly if I do try to alt tab and I have to completely relaunch it. Please give me your honest opinion about P99, the good and the bad. Thank you once again.
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