Looking for a few F2P RPG'S

[Spadeathome]

I've just come back to game after being gone for over a year. I left because of burnout. I love this game but found when it was all i played even with new content found it getting a little stale. SO this time I'm trying add a game or to more to keep this one more enjoyable.

I'm not sure if it's kosher to ask on this site but here goes. Ive googled some F2P games and was hoping for some feed back.
From the 30 sec promo's I've watched these are the games that caught my eye. Smite, Path of Exile, Rift, The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot.

Again i hope I haven't broke an unwritten rule about talking other games but pretty sure Ive seen other games talked about(WOW comes to mind) at great lenght.

P.S. I prefer 1st person games (not a fan of diablo)

Thanks

[Algreg]

try Warframe, it has some solid RPG elements. After trying to get into other MMORPG, I tried something I usually wouldn´t touch with a ten foot pole (guess I came across the game due to Penny Arcade): it is basically a 3rd person shooter with strong character building and gearing. Totally drew me in, and I haven´t enjoyed a shooter my whole life, 1st person or otherwise, before.

[dunklezhan]

Path of exile is what diablo 3 should have been and it gives DDO a run for its money in terms of build complexity. An arcade mashing dark fantasy RPG with more build options than you can shake a stick at, that's F2P? Can't really give it higher praise than that. But if you didnt like Diablo, you'd hate it.

The rest I've not seen, and I don't know of any 1st person F2P games. Is Secret World FPS? I hear good things about secret world.

[Seikojin]

You can head to mmorpg.com with a master list of all mmo's.

[Spadeathome]

try Warframe, it has some solid RPG elements. After trying to get into other MMORPG, I tried something I usually wouldn´t touch with a ten foot pole (guess I came across the game due to Penny Arcade): it is basically a 3rd person shooter with strong character building and gearing. Totally drew me in, and I haven´t enjoyed a shooter my whole life, 1st person or otherwise, before.

Thanks.

[Spadeathome]

Path of exile is what diablo 3 should have been and it gives DDO a run for its money in terms of build complexity. An arcade mashing dark fantasy RPG with more build options than you can shake a stick at, that's F2P? Can't really give it higher praise than that. But if you didnt like Diablo, you'd hate it.

The rest I've not seen, and I don't know of any 1st person F2P games. Is Secret World FPS? I hear good things about secret world.

I will try out Path of Exile ( Not a big fan of Diablo but dont hate it)

As far as I know it is F2P. All the Games I mentioned are on a youtube video of top 10 F2P Rpg's.

[HastyPudding]

I've just come back to game after being gone for over a year. I left because of burnout. I love this game but found when it was all i played even with new content found it getting a little stale. SO this time I'm trying add a game or to more to keep this one more enjoyable.

I'm not sure if it's kosher to ask on this site but here goes. Ive googled some F2P games and was hoping for some feed back.
From the 30 sec promo's I've watched these are the games that caught my eye. Smite, Path of Exile, Rift, The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot.

Again i hope I haven't broke an unwritten rule about talking other games but pretty sure Ive seen other games talked about(WOW comes to mind) at great lenght.

P.S. I prefer 1st person games (not a fan of diablo)

Thanks

Smite is slowly gaining popularity. It's like League of Legends except in 3D. The developers, however, could learn a thing or two from Riot Games about how to balance champions and items. But it's not a bad game by any means. It's much more skill-based than LoL; if you don't have any sort of aim, don't play Smite, as it's 99% skill-shot based.

Rift is an excellent game with an excellent F2P model. Of the many games I've played, I've only spent money on two F2P games: DDO and Rift. You can buy-sell just about anything in the game's cash shop through in-game currency (although it's entirely player-driven, so some people tend to be greedy) so, like DDO, if you have the patience, you can play it entirely for free. Unfortunately, the game is fairly high profile, and attracts high profile gamers: it's like a F2P World of Warcraft. Expect nerd-ragers if your character isn't built right or you screw up in a dungeon/raid.

Path of Exile is what Diablo 3 should have been. I like the game but it lags something terrible on my computer, for some reason. It's very fast-paced, in-your-face combat with an interesting league system, and all characters have access to all abilities (think of it like a huge enhancement tree, with different starting places (like Final Fantasy X, if you played it)). There is also no in-game currency: the economy is driven entirely by trading of goods, upgrades, and equipment (think of DDO without plat). It's not a bad game, but the population has dropped considerably since first opened. There's still tons of people playing, though. Nerd-ragers ahoy in this game, however: poorly built characters and newbies will find themselves browbeaten and kicked if they don't shape up.

[Algreg]

Path of exile is what diablo 3 should have been and it gives DDO a run for its money in terms of build complexity. An arcade mashing dark fantasy RPG with more build options than you can shake a stick at, that's F2P? Can't really give it higher praise than that. But if you didnt like Diablo, you'd hate it.

The rest I've not seen, and I don't know of any 1st person F2P games. Is Secret World FPS? I hear good things about secret world.

it is really good in some aspects, but the UI, sigh. Actually, I tried to get back into it this very week, downloaded it, started, tried to readjust my disassembled inventory for 20 minutes... then deleted the game again :P If you think DDO has QOL issues... TSW is barely playable even with 3rd party addons, in all fairness, they encourage people using those curse addons.

[pHo3nix]

I will try out Path of Exile ( Not a big fan of Diablo but dont hate it)

As far as I know it is F2P. All the Games I mentioned are on a youtube video of top 10 F2P Rpg's.

Path of Exile is f2p and, at least when i tried it, there weren't any signs of p2w, you could only buy cosmetic stuffs and some convenience. In my opinion DDO is way better for its gameplay, but PoE wins hands down if you love games where skill it's the only thing that matters.

[HastyPudding]

Path of Exile is f2p and, at least when i tried it, there weren't any signs of p2w, you could only buy cosmetic stuffs and some convenience. In my opinion DDO is way better for its gameplay, but PoE wins hands down if you love games where skill it's the only thing that matters.

Yeah it's a good game, I just didn't really like the skill-gem system. You frequently see characters that are based entirely on a single skill/spell/ability. There's very little variety in what each individual character does. Even most magic-based characters have maybe 2-3 abilities they use for different situations and one of them is spammed. It got kind of boring, for me, after a wihle, just using the same 2-3 abilities over and over, killing monster after monster after monster. It's like playing golf: whack the ball, sit in the cart and drive to the ball then whack it again. It's very repetitive.

[pHo3nix]

Yeah it's a good game, I just didn't really like the skill-gem system. You frequently see characters that are based entirely on a single skill/spell/ability. There's very little variety in what each individual character does. Even most magic-based characters have maybe 2-3 abilities they use for different situations and one of them is spammed. It got kind of boring, for me, after a wihle, just using the same 2-3 abilities over and over, killing monster after monster after monster. It's like playing golf: whack the ball, sit in the cart and drive to the ball then whack it again. It's very repetitive.

I really liked the fact that if you were good you could dodge basically everything and so you could complete stuffs even with suboptimal builds. Another great thing is that it was really f2p, nothing in the store gave you an advantage in game. But yeah, it was just killing monsters and it lacked content. It's a good game, not one i would play for ages though cause it gets boring after a while.

[Rixaen]

Path Of Exile is certainly an amazing game and frankly has replaced DDO as my on again off again FTP MMO. It has zero pay to win with every thing purchasable only graphic changing cosmetics. They also sell something people here on DDO would kill for, the ability to take any item even ones with unique skins and turn them into a skin to be transferred onto another item. Love that early unique armors look, great instead of it being a stored away twink item its now a skin added on to your new not so cool to your eye armor.

There getting past the lvl range of the static content and gaining access to the true end game dungeons is itself an achievement that will bring out the envy of those too casual to get there.

It is a hard core game, one where rerolling is common, where you can create the hackmaster of your dreams. Its story content, voice acting, and over all game world tone is quite mature.

Each base class is worth exploring both for where they start on the huge web of a universal skill tree for everyone to explore, and for the unique voice acted comments each will make through out the adventure.

Seriously for anyone who even only mildly enjoyed the old diablo 1 and 2 or torchlight 1 and 2, give Path of Exile a try.

[Seikojin]

I dunno PoE wasn't and still isn't that much of a draw for me. it is far more grindy than Diablo3; to me. And d3 is really grindy. Especially in the later levels for both.

From mmorpg.com I found the following to be listed as 7.5 higher on their scoring and free/item mall:
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/46/Lineage-2
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/45/Lord-of-the-Rings-Online
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/96/Ragnarok-Online
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/129/Wurm-Online
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/147/Vanguard-Saga-of-Heroes - dunno if this is still running...
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/166/MapleStory
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/170/Tantra-Online
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/183/ROSE-Online
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/191/Age-of-Conan-Unchained
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/205/Flyff-Gold

And one that used to be on mmorpg, but isn't (soo many name changes):
http://www.istaria.com/

Of those listed, I have played all but Tantra, rose, Flyff, and wurm. Vanguard had good promise, but they didn't give it enough advertising or tutorial to help people navigate the hyper complex game. Same with Istaria.

BTW, Istaria is the only mmo where you can play as a dragon. It is a pay to play race though. When it was a sub only game, I played, and it was one of the coolest things to play.

[Spadeathome]

I just played The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot to lev 5. Fun quick quest so far. lots of of humor. Seems like 90% is left click.

I'm downloading Rift now. Will try it out and report back

[droid327]

I found TOR to be an excellent palate cleanser from DDO. Its space instead of fantasy...its much more story-driven, linear and seamless compared to DDO's very discrete and repetitive questing...its got enough complexity in game mechanics to be interesting without having too steep a learning curve. And, IMO, its very light on grinding, so you're rarely stuck hitting a "wall" where you cant get back to fun stuff until you spend 4 hours doing boring stuff. Oh and almost everything in the Store is available on the AH there as unlocks, meaning you can eventually play your way to a pseudo-VIP level.

The big knock on it is that it has a very lackluster endgame, if you don't want to PvP. But if you're only playing it as your change-of-pace game, its got more than enough content to keep you going through all the various class storylines, and endgame wont be a concern for a long long time.

[droid327]

Or my second vote would be for Hellgate: Global. That's just mindless fun, blowing up thousands of demons and zombies :) The game support is kinda weak, the community is small, and the English translations are horrible (which is funny because it was originally published in perfect English as HG:London), but the gameplay itself is still as fun as it was when Flagship ran the show.

[HastyPudding]

I just played The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot to lev 5. Fun quick quest so far. lots of of humor. Seems like 90% is left click.

I'm downloading Rift now. Will try it out and report back

Rift is a lot of fun. It has a ton of options for each character class. Like, pick a healer, then make them debuff enemies. Or attack enemies in melee. Or attack enemies with magic. Or heal allies and damage enemies at the same time. Or place shields on allies to mitigate damage instead of healing. Or be a tank that can self heal very well. There's even a mage tree called the Archon that's pretty much about spamming massive amounts of debuffs that heavily weaken your enemies, making them extremely easy to kill, and deals most of their damage not by casting magic at them but by boosting the party's damage indirectly. And there's a rogue tree that can act as a tank, aggroing nearby enemies then teleporting away, only to teleport back then teleport again and damage them, then teleport away to safety.

There are so many options for each class, and the best part is you can have multiple 'builds' for one character, switching freely between tank, single target damage, aoe damage, debuffer, crowd control, and healer in mere seconds outside of combat. Tank not doing a good job? Switch to your tanking build and do a better job. Did the healer disconnect? Change to your healing build until they come back.

The main draw of the game are the rifts; random events where rifts open up and monsters of a certain type (fire, nature, darkness, etc) come pouring out. You can then join public groups and take out the rifts. If rifts go on for too long, they can even wipe out nearby NPC's and invade cities, giving you an incentive to help out for exp and items.

There's a slight learning curve, though. Make sure you learn what to do in dungeons, and if you're new to them, say so and get advice. It's extremely easy to screw up a boss fight and wipe the party if you don't know what you're doing. There are no soloers in rift; dungeons and boss fights are designed to require teamwork and strategy. Tank and spank doesn't cut it or you'll be wiped out very easily. It's both a boon and a problem in the game, especially when you get people that don't listen.

[Luxgolg]

Skip the RPG's and go for a tank sim
http://worldoftanks.com/
http://warthunder.com/

[AzB]

It's not a bad game, but the population has dropped considerably since first opened. There's still tons of people playing, though. Nerd-ragers ahoy in this game, however: poorly built characters and newbies will find themselves browbeaten and kicked if they don't shape up.

I wonder if there's any relation to those two observations? ;)

[Lallajulia]

i like rift a lot, i share my time between ddo and rift. its kind a seasonally, because i get away when i have too heavy feeling of grinding, repetition. then i switch and find rift equally good for switching. both are great games. you have to try yourself, i do not think someone needs to be pushed one direction or another. but besides ddo it was only mmorpg i found with good character development, yet very different manner.

for example, i love play cleric, but... each class have various souls, what means you play different roles with same character class, you can switch between souls at any time, even right inside quest to adjust if group have weak healer or other weakneses, exception - you can not switch if you have aggro on you, you can switch even if group have aggro, only you have to be aggro free to switch. and it feels "freshy" when i am not forced play two or three weeks same and same approach while level my character, as it is in ddo where if you have decided be two-hander, then... thats it! you are tied to these weapons for all this toon current life.

one hour i can play dedicaded tank healer as sentinel or purifier soul, next raid i can switch to warden "water cleric" and fill raid/mass healer with heals over time and "preventive" healing role, after that i can play pure dps caster as inquisitor, later can switch to dot caster as cabalist, after that pull out my huge maul and play shaman melee dps role and go as justicar soul for tank role. this can give idea how differently you are able play one single character.

AND... very important side effect from this "soul" system - if you are good with all roles in your class, your not waiting, you do not have to. you can be healer, tank, dps, support. whatever is needed you are in group, it takes less than minute to get in to group and go.

AND... even that is not all, you even can run quests not only for your level, you can be lvl50 and join lvl20 group. no problems, game just adjust you stats and go... enjoy, dont wait.
good if you just have hour and do not have to spend half of it on waiting.

ofc some souls have big learning curve. need pretty big time spend to understand shaman cleric soul. you shine with it or it just bad. need to exactly know every important cooldown and understand what mechanic is behind one of best possible dps.

and... huge part of it its ftp as ddo.

plus it is crafting system, which someone like, others not, but thats a first thing i do in mmo - level up my crafter. but there player need gatherer toon too. rift gives very good, intense end raids, where you have to be on edge of your skills every second. but also it is grindy, but what mmorpg is not?

so... its almost never boring. only after few months start become boring and then i can switch to other great mmorpg - ddo. and repeat. :)

[Spadeathome]

I've good a toon to lev 7 on Rift. Looks like I'm going to like it. Although it seems like it all special attacks. That's OK but do prefer DDO (i know they do have more special attack now) fighting style a lot better. My only other real issue is you can stand right beside the enemy and they ignore you unless you attack. Makes the game seem a little fake. Yes I know its a video game but I do like when it acts more like it would in real life. Helps

I have been reading all comments and and off to try something else.

[Spadeathome]

any thought's on age of conan or runes of magic??

Just starting Path of Exile

[Rixaen]

any thought's on age of conan or runes of magic??

Just starting Path of Exile

Age of conan is such a flop it got the company funcom relabeled failcom. Its startin area tortage and the first 20 lvls will be rather basic but certainly flavorful conan setting stuff. But the heart and soul of that game had actually been its RP PVP servers back when the game had active GMs to moderate them. Now days its just a few pvp servers and RP servers and neither active enough to warrant much care from the company over the games future.

One of the great tragedies of MMO. It alone sits as an MMO truly made for an adult audience and mature theme role player who wasnt afraid to treat pvp as part of the world. It just got left to stagnate by developers with no real plan of direction nor care to make it great

[Lallajulia]

I've good a toon to lev 7 on Rift. Looks like I'm going to like it. Although it seems like it all special attacks. That's OK but do prefer DDO (i know they do have more special attack now) fighting style a lot better. My only other real issue is you can stand right beside the enemy and they ignore you unless you attack. Makes the game seem a little fake. Yes I know its a video game but I do like when it acts more like it would in real life. Helps

I have been reading all comments and and off to try something else.

threat range of enemies will go up very soon. and you will be glad not get on your tail more than few. if i may suggest, to explore lands(and these are... simply huge areas) try go with rogue. stealth rogue which is assassin soul with some riftstalker soul splashes for teleports and mobility, survivability. assasin go around invisible at normal run speed later and can incapacitate up to two enemies, one for about minute at later levers. that means you can take out small groups. and it is on the best dps you can get. assassin stun from stealth, then go with series of high crit builder hits and even higher finisher. when mob start go out of trance, it have about 25-30% hp. best thing is, this way you fight only with what you need or want. be able avoid hit tru half region and only pick targets you want is a big boon. i advice explore lands. from ddo i can compare only vale of twilight, how good these looks.
and enough about rift. :)

[droid327]

any thought's on age of conan

age of bewbies :)

[Azarddoze]

RGPs are a thing of the past, play Cloudbuilt till your eyes bleed!

...Or Goat Simulator, your call.

[Ausdoerrt]

Aion is fun if you're okay with traditional-style MMOs.

Also, why not mix it with single-player games? They tend to be less demanding than a "secondary MMO".