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Looking for a good, free MMORPG
MKR
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I'm looking for a decent, free MMORPG to kill idle time with. It helps if it will run with 512MB of ram on a 1.4Ghz celeron M, with 128MB of shared video ram on an integrated POS. Isometric quasi-3D is a preferred, but full 3D is fine. 
I tried Flyff and Trickster, but the grind is horrible.
I know there's a free MMORPG megalist in the MMO forum, but it's old, and many of the games have changed considerably or have vanished since being mentioned.
I tried Flyff and Trickster, but the grind is horrible.
I know there's a free MMORPG megalist in the MMO forum, but it's old, and many of the games have changed considerably or have vanished since being mentioned.
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if you want to kill a little time, I suggest Toribash.
Not an MMORPG, but fun
There's grind, then there's "Holy crap, what kind of monsters designed this?".
I could take RO's grind just fine up until I explored the entire world and did everything, and supposedly its grind is pretty intense. :P
Drift City is also a lot of fun, too, while not strictly an MMORPG.
As far as actual MMORPGs go, though .. I think Trickster is still free?
Other free games:
Dungeon Runners - Diablo with a sense of humor. Subscribers get tremendous advantages, but you can still play it for free and have a lot of fun. Very pick-up-and-play.
Shadowbane - Some bad stigma around it, because of its no-holds-barred PvP, but it's a fairly unique and entertaining fantasy game to play, especially if you are just looking for a diversion.
Ones to avoid: The Korean MMOs, Silkroad, Rappelz, Flyff (anything by Gpotato, really), RF Online, 9 Dragons, Last Chaos, and loads of other crappy games. Pretty graphics, very little substance other than the grind, and many of them have almost identical engines.
I haven't played Diablo, so "diablo clone" doesn't have meaning to me. :P
I didn't like how limited the free version is, and how much of the game is PvP, even counting members content (I subscribed for a while). I got to about level 60 a while back and quit. :P
The community, however, is next to disgraceful.
Space Cowboy is good enough to blow a month or two on. Very different sort of MMO. The mechanics of the game help hide the fact that it's a huge grind for awhile. Fun to pick up from time to time still though. Definitely worth checking out.
I recently downloaded one called RF Online. So far, it's alright. Sort of reminiscent of phantasy star mixed with FlyFF. Of course, the grind is there.
You forgot GunZ (I know it's not REALLY an rpg)
http://www.gunzonline.com/
The game looks like it's freaking awesome. But the fact is, it isn't. It sucks. It's like a bad mix of Devil May Cry and... well, crappiness. At least, that's my opinion. (Though it's been about a year since I played it, maybe they made it better?) And I love DMC, too.
GunZ sucks.
I tried it and found that if you want to be any good you have to learn these ridiculous exploits attacks
and my friend who enjoyed it so much injured his wrist playing it, apparently
Tragic!
I really enjoyed it, although I haven't logged in for a while because of that other* Massive Game.
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The guns are all fine, chances are that if you stay back during bigger fights you'll get most of the kills, but the daggers, really, are the most overpowered weapons in any game I've played.
There's a attack with daggers that knocks enemies down, during this time you are free to shoot them with your shotgun several times in the balls. If they decide to get up, knock them down again and shoot them dead.
So easy it wasn't any more fun.
Another game I tried was Rakion. I played it for maybe a month, it's really like a brawler more than a RPG, but there are RPG elements involved. It might entertain for some time as well.
Another thing you might like is Upshift Strikeracer or something. It's like drift city I suppose, with less drifting and more shooting. You level up and get better cars and weapons et cetera.
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The characters are terribly cliché, there's the pink haired older guy who shoots fireballs, there's the young lad with spikes who wields a ridiculously large sword and there's the blonde anorexia princess who heals.
But then you look past that and notice that all three of them can beat the living shit out of orcs, throw them up in the air and slam them against the ground, after that you can jump down on said orcs and kill them by driving all sorts of magic energies and swords through your enemy's bodies.
Really, this game has such an awesome combat system.
*edit: there's also enough different items so that most higher level characters look different from each other. And the cash shop items don't hold any bonuses for your characters, just a pretty new skirt and stuff like that. This game is just a lot of fun to play, no nonsense combat, enough options to make a unique toon and paying costumers are not all-powerful.
Rappelz - Grindfest Korean MMO. Kept me mildly entertained through the summer.
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and I actually kinda enjoyed rappelz for a little bit, but the lag was so awful that it drove me away. I don't know what the situation now is like though
It's really amazing.