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Dungeons & Dragons Online

This classic MMORPG game stayed in the market since 2006. Based on the tabletop RPG, which was hugely popular before computer MMOs were even "a thing."
The action takes place in and around the city of Stormreach, somewhere on the fictional continent called Xen'drik. The continent is mostly unexplored but some time in the past it was the centre of highly prosperous Giant Civilisation.

With stunning visuals, huge amounts of missions and very classical approach to RPGs, Dungeons and Dragons Online should draw a lot more attention and is one of the titles underplayed by many MMO fans.

The game has a unique approach to the characters levelling up system. Traditionally new skills are gained by killing monsters, while in Dungeons and Dragons Online skill improvements can be gained by completing quests.

It is quite possible that sourcing this MMO from the classic RPG can make some players reluctant as it suggests a high level of complication and very slow dynamics of the game. But once you will step into Dungeons and Dragons Online, it is easy to see that there is nothing to worry about. The game is classy, beautiful and highly playable once player would soak into the lore.

The Secret World

How about an MMO which takes place in our times? It could be an extremely boring idea, but imagine this: every myth, every legend and every conspiracy theory is true?
In this MMO the world is attacked by the occult forces. To fight them humanity has three different secret societies, known from conspiracy theories: The Illuminates, The Dragons and The Templars.

Just the storyline should grant some attention from players, but this is not everything. The scenery and overall feeling of the game is stunning!
The Secret World is set very contemporary reality, drawing aesthetics from folklore and legends, smoothly connecting monsters: Zombies in foggy England, mummies in Egypt and of course vampires in Transylvania.

And there is more, The Secret World offers very playable classes (they are easy to learn and play with for the most part) and a reasonably easy to follow system for advancing your character. No steep learning curve and high playability.

Regardless of the fact the game has stayed on the market since 2012, and had a lot of positive reception, it seems to be hidden gem. Overpowered by much more popular titles on the market.

The Secret World is based on buy-to-play model, but there is 10 days free trial giving full access to the game.
My advice would be to jump in, and feel the different approach to MMO offered by this title.

EverQuest II brought significant improvements to the*EverQuest franchise. A 3D MMORPG situated in fictional world of Norrath, sometimes compared to un-doubtful ruler on the market -- World of Warcraft, EverQuest II never reached same popularity.

EverQuest II offers a lot of different playable races and decent amount of character classes. While the storyline is very classic, players should not have any problems to connect with the in-game lore and expand it on their own. EverQuest II is solid example of classic approach to MMO.

Game has been on the market since 2004, still providing new content and has a stable base of players. It just seem to be not popular enough.

Certainly EverQuest II seems to be underrated, but with a free to play option added a couple of years ago, it is a recommended MMO for all those who did not try it yet.

Let's see: we have all the superheroes from the DC Comics Universe, superpowers, tonnes of action and stunning visuals. Nothing should go wrong.
DC Universe Online has also rather good reviews from the critics and holds reasonable base of players, reaching 18 million.

For some reason most of those players come from the Xbox and PlayStation.
DC Universe Online is underplayed by PC gamers, which are turning to other more popular MMO titles. It seems the biggest concerns for people trying this title are some limitation in character creations, shortages in storyline, and too long cinematic sentences.

Personally I didn't notice any of above issues. Perhaps DC Universe Online is not exactly what I am looking for in MMO games, but certainly there is no reason for this title to be underrated by players.
The game can be played for free, and MMO fans who have yet to try DC Universe Online should try it now.

Runescape

Why has Runescape landed on this list? The game has been on the market since 2001 -- at some point it was probably one of the most popular MMOs. With a huge community of players, tonnes of content and a very playable realm, Runescape should be one of the winners.

But it is not the case. At least not any more.

It seems that issues started from 2007 when the game was heavily rebalanced, or for vast amount of active players -- unbalanced.
From then on, more and more active players to left the game. Finally, the developer -- Jagex -- asked their player base for its opinion on the changes provided in 2007. 99% of them wanted to go back to previous system of game mechanics.

While this should have solved the problem, Jagex -- in a separate referendum -- decided to also maintain the new rules on separate servers. This decision divided the existing player base into two communities, and since 2013 there are two separate versions of Runescape -- old school version and current version.

It seems that this was not helpful for the franchise as Runescape moved quickly to the niche of MMO market. Although it is good to know that the game is still stunning and highly playable for anybody into fantasy worlds.


I don't know about you guys, but I have never heard of The Secret World until now. Looks pretty dope. Might try it out soon.


Just to let you guys know! I got this from here

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I had no intentions of stealing or making my own. If it is a problem, I'll gladly just report it to an admin (or someone) to get it closed down and get a penalty. I haven't been in this site for years and I just came back. I'm not sure if there's any new rules around or not.

pretty much all of these suck, and nice oh sleeper sig they are one of my fav bands

I haven't really played them, so I can't really judge them. I only played DCUO religiously back on the PS3 and ended playing it after a lot of bullshit kept happening and nothing ever gets fixed right.

Nice to find someone that likes Oh, Sleeper. Haven't listen to them for a while. I heard they are working on a new album after like 4 years of nothing? I may be wrong. I only heard their new single.

ye their lead singer made some garbage with whats left of as i lay dying

I see... That's some shit. Well, at least they're somewhat back.

Well yeah, I did, my bad. I wasn't trying to steal anything or something like that. I just thought it would be cool to put it up here to make people see other that there's some other games out there.

I'll add the source in a minute now just in case. That's my mistake

You totally forgot about Neverwinter sir.

Neverwinter ain't that bad

Never knew it was a PC Game until they brought it to Playstation 4. It's the only free game I actually bought ZEN from.. too addictive at buying enchanted keys..