[All] Where does the games head ?

Hi there community!

I love playing games over the internet ... and i also like Role-Playing ... and so I got into MMO - RPG gaming.
I mostly play free mmorpg as I never get involved so hard to stay at a game for long enough to start paying for it as most of present mmorpg stuff is heading toward hack'n'slash ...
I went through tens of mmorpgs and i've found only 2 interesting ones "Wurm Online" and "A tale in the desert" , they are both about being like "robinson cruzoe" which means being a single man capable of doing almost everythin :]
These two were fun as i could create buildings,tools and reform the world around me. Wurm online has a great community becouse of the fact that players there connect into villages and even cities which makes them socialise with others. BUT these were only games that really entartained me for a while, becouse of that creating possibilities which make you able to play as you wish.
Out there we see dozens of mmorpgs and "so called" mmorpgs which are games from asia mostly where there are many free games with great graphics and very straight mechanics. Even the beloved by many "world of warcraft" is just a hack'n'slash to be truth as what we have there is : creeping [ killing mobiles ],few types of quests [bring,colllect,kill,talk to] and tradeskills[blacksmithing etc] and quite easy gameplay which comes to everyone having same sets and skills at the end ...
And here comes my question : DOES A GAME WITH A GOOD GRAPHICS CAN NOT BE DEVELOPED TO ENTARTAIN PPL WITH IMAGINATION?:smurf: DO THEY ALL HAVE TO BE ABOUT CLICKING :2gunsfiring_v1:AND GETTING XP:drinks_no ??:punch:
Gosh ... Id rather prefer MUDs [Multi User Dungeons] that have no graphics but make you learn to type and learn english than the WoW ...
I'd like to hear your opinions about that future of MMO...

P.S.
I'd be glad to hear from anyone about some interesting [ even not mmo ] games ...
P.S. 2
I'd be glad to become a article writher on your site or a gm at your server as while I'm not a gaming maniac I like to help people, talk with them, hear their opinions, help them or just see how things [ games , sites ] work from the "scripting" side ...

Cheers.:jester:

i guess im like that just never thought of it too hard whenever i play games i get so bored of them cause all you ever do is sit there fighting and almost every aspect of the game is fighting i played WoW i didnt even get to lvl 30 before i got sick of fighting...

Exact same issue as me, i get sick of any grinding, i want an MMO where being part of a communiy actually matters, i want human shopkeepers who specialize in creating and selling goods, i want hunters that get their meat to make food, i want customizable houses, i want a world where everyone has to work together to actually play, i don't want entropia online, that game annoys me, gotta invest loads before you make a profit -.-, i'd love a game where a community is run by some, there could even be warring nations and you could join the army i guess.

thats exactly "wurm online" :]

but i stopped playing as i lacked ppl to play with as my friend are rather into WoW ...

Looking forward for next responses :wavetowel

If you have msn and a link i'll play with you ^_~ i've been waiting for a game like that for years, grinding is so bland and automated, i like open endedness.

I'm to bored to read all that shit but I think you're right.

It's the same in the entire game industry atm really.
Graphics and effects rule, and gameplay is copied thousands of times virtually without improvement.

I'll play that wurm thing.

i tried to play Wurm but its crashes

.. Wurm is really gay.

MMORPGs are all about communities simply said.

It is what makes and breaks games

WoW succeded cos it has 6.5m ppl playing and in turn has an awesome community in which when i was playing made to level 60 in my own time having partied with friends and guildmembers.

A good example of community succes is Mu online [example only]. I have often wondered myself why i like dthe game for so long and what compelled me to stay awake just to play with my guild. The answer came to a while ago the commmunity Mu online being a relatively tight community had a great spirit that i loved and someone was always there to help me out when i was in trouble. I think that is what is wrong with private servers [mostly highrate] Everybdy just cares about theyre lv not their community and thats what makes them boring oh so quickly.

So well thats i reckon mmorpgs will turn basically into online commmunities for chatting and socialising purposes look at seond life for a early example of this.