World of Warcraft

I put way too many hours into this to not give it a high score but I also put way too many hours into this to feel anything but a deep deep shame.

this game is legendary. from the plot, mechanics, innovations to legacy it has made for gaming industry for years to come.

I played this up until the current expansion - Dragonflight killed it for me. I want to play a game, not fall out of the sky continually. I miss my garrison.

Love hate relationship. More hate in recent years.

Too many stupid quests to kill things and the graphics are really bad compared to other modern MMOs - everything from overly tiled backgrounds to low poly characters. The community is pretty toxic, too. But the environments were still fun to explore.

Even as the world gets bigger, you always have to do the same stuff. Woudn't mind that much if you could just buy it once (and the expansions when they come out) but it's not worthy if I have to pay a monthly subscription to play.

Made a lot of interesting MMO concepts popular, was fun for a bit, but damn did it shit all over the Warcraft lore and introduce a LOT of grind in its gameplay loots.

Played 2007-2009 and then some unofficial versions. Always vanilla. Great, addictive game.

Whilst I might be biased since I've been playing this game since Vanilla, no other MMO has come close to the experience WoW provides. Most players leave only to linger around the outside of a swirling vortex; waiting to be sucked into the centre by a content update, balance patch, or new expansion. Whilst the game descended into awful madness throughout MoP-Warlords, Legion picked up the near-dying MMO giant and gave it the kiss of life it needed.

I stopped playing around four years ago. To this day, if I talk about the game, I want to play it for days without stopping. Addiction is real. Still a 100 for Grizzy Hills though.

As far as MMOs go, this is middle of the road for me. I could never get into it the way other people could. I just didn't give two shits about the gameworld, and the idea of raiding to get better gear and level up to go on more raids to get to the end game so you could raid more... seemed fucking retarded.

I played about 20 minutes of this on someone else's account in reality, but listened to enough stupid conversations about it circa 2006-2008 to feel justified in ranking it.

To this day still the king of MMORPG. At its peak players were astoundingly numerous. Like most of the genre grinding becomes tedious but starting a guild with 20 of your friends that you know the real world and fucking sucking at everything but having a blast is priceless.