Comment on We got more games and better games when there was less money being made in the industry.
Serinus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Here’s a free one for you.
Discard pretty much anything learned from or after World of Warcraft. That game warped the genre for decades, largely for the worse.
Go back to MUDs. Iterate from there.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
What modern MUDs are there I can play now?
Serinus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
People still play this one. mud.arctic.org
Though I didn’t mean it has to necessarily be text-based. More that that ancestral path was more interesting than the WoW one. This is what EverQuest was born from.
One of the bigger differences is that not everything was questing. You just explored, and part of your motivation to level up was the ability to explore places that were previously inaccessible.