A Quick Look at Some of the Upcoming MMORPGs and Expansions - Fall Back in Love with MMORPGs
5A Quick Look at Some of the Upcoming MMORPGs and Expansions - New World, Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker, Guild Wars 2: End of Dragons, and Ashes of Creation.
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MMORPGs are making a little bit of a resurgence over the next few months with some exciting new releases and expansion packs.
I want to run through 4 of the biggest new releases on their way, and some reasons why they might be worth checking out.
The third expansion for Guild Wars 2, End of Dragons is set in Shing Jea Island with big ties to the original Guild Wars game.
To be honest the feature I'm looking forward to the most are Skiffs which are your own personal boats that you can take anywhere in the world. And this will pair up nicely with the new ability to actually do fishing. Sometimes MMORPGs focus so much on the combat they forget about the relaxing little side activities like fishing, and it's features like this that I've been craving for a while.
Every existing class also gets a new specialisation, these are like advanced classes. I'm kind of interested in my new Necromancer specialisation which is Harbinger, this specialises in pistols with corrosive bullets and elixirs. I do generally prefer playing a ranged class in Guild Wars espically in the larger scale battles in World versus World content, so Pistols sound great. You can also drink harmful elixirs that inflict blight on yourself then in the typical Necromancer fashion you can convert the harmful effects from those elixirs into beneficial effects to power yourself up.
I still need to catch up and get the Icebrood Saga story chapters completed. This is actually something I've been working through on the side but I keep getting peeled away from the story by things like World versus World and I get addicted to it. If you're not familar with Guild Wars 2, World versus World is where 3 servers battle it out over fortresses and objectives in week long battles. But let's see if I can get all caught up for End of Dragons in February, because I really want to do some skiffing and fishing.
The next big upcoming MMORPG is New World. This one is exciting because this is an entirely new MMORPG from an entirely new studio - Amazon Games. I personally want to just take a dive into this blind and experience what this has got to offer, and I'm always more willing to give a MMORPG a try when there's no subscription fee's attached.
New World is set in an alternative history in the age of exploration, around the 17th century. The game has you washed ashore on an unexplored island called Aeternum and it's filled with supernatural secrets.
There's no races and not really any classes in New World unlike traditional MMOs. Sadly you can only play as humans, which might put some people off, I find it really boring playing a human in MMOs, I mean that's what we are, I want to play something different. And while there aren't any classes - you'll be able to equip different weapons to gain access different abilities, as you progress you'll make your own custom build and playstyle through your weapon choice as well as assigning attribute points.
New World is going to have your typical PVE style questing and dungeons. But there's also a big focus on PVP in the form of the War mode where 50 versus 50 large scale battles take place between factions and over control of territories.
Controlling territories ties in with New World's pretty cool housing system, this is probably what intrigues me the most when it comes to New World. Organisations can take control of settlements, then communities of players can buy and build houses in that settlement. In these settlements you can craft, trade, work on town projects, take on faction missions, and even decorate your house. Groups of players and guilds can go to war over control of these settlements and then the controlling faction can even charge taxes to those that own homes in the settlement. Some really interesting stuff that's pretty uncommon in MMORPGs these days.
New World has already been delayed multiple times so fingers crossed when this does release at the end of September it's in a polished state but I'm still expecting their to be tons of server issues in it's first week, but we'll see.
Final Fantasy XIV is getting it's next expansion Endwalker. This is going to be massive because this is the culmination and ending of the current main story which started over 10 years ago, so I'm really looking forward to the finale of this saga.
One of the new features is the Island Sanctuary. We've not actually seen this new style of content in action but it's been described as a location where you'll “live off the land, raise animals, and cultivate the earth, all while soaking in the sights of this beautiful paradise." It sounds very harvest moon and Stardew Valley like so fingers crossed this is good.
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