Massivelys Best Of 2022 Awards Greatest PseudoMMO Of The 12 Months
Massively's finish-of-the-12 months awards continue in the present day with our award for the best Pseudo-MMO of the 12 months. This is all the time a troublesome category since it forces us to outline MMOs. This yr, we opted to make eligible any on-line recreation that is not a pure and conventional MMORPG, games we might cowl in Not So Massively: cell MMOs, console MMOs, OARPGs, MOBAs, MMOFPS titles, MMORTS titles, and so on. And naturally, the game will need to have launched in 2014. All of our writers were invited to solid a vote, however not all of them chose to do so for this category. Remember to solid your own vote in the just-for-fun reader poll on the very end.
The Massively employees decide for Best Pseudo-MMO of 2014 is...
@nyphur: Elite: Harmful. Despite the fact that there's no offline mode, the graphics and gameplay in Elite: Dangerous do look superb, and it's impressive what they've managed to achieve on a fraction of the funds that Star Citizen has. It remains to be seen if the exploration issue of the game will dwell as much as expectations and if the net gameplay is compelling in the long run, however I'm still cautiously optimistic about Elite: Harmful going forward.
@nbrianna/weblog: This yr was truly slim-pickings for new pseudo-MMO launches; Future just sucked the air from the room, and the sub-genres, like MOBAs particularly, are already pretty locked up by present video games with out a complete lot of room for newcomers. I would like to have voted for Marvel Heroes, however this 12 months's "2015" rebrand didn't reeeeeaaaally make it a brand-new recreation. I am not a TCGer, but I will throw in for Hearthstone. 360 degrees all the way around It's shiny, it's tight, and it exhibits Blizzard hasn't forgotten easy methods to earn cash by sharpening the basics.
@Eliot_Lefebvre/blog: Crud, I don't know. Dragon Age: Inquisition has multiplayer; does that count? I am voting for it anyway.
@jefreahard: House Engineers. We don't actually cowl it, I guess, but I want we did. Sure, it is area Minecraft, and what might presumably be better? A few of the very best gaming moments of 2014 for me concerned a couple of mates, a private SE server, and the infinite creativity and addictive gameplay that SE always fosters. Oh and a few Firefly-universe roleplay.
@Sypster/blog: Hearthstone. Drawing from each the World of Warcraft and Magic: The Gathering swimming pools of inspiration, Hearthstone rofflestomped its option to domination. It's all of the more superb that Blizzard did this with a comparatively small staff and did not shy away from using a free-to-play system that allowed players to earn in-recreation gold with out spending cash. Plus -- and this should have gone first -- it is a terrific recreation that's playable cross-platform.
@MikedotFoster/blog: Dark Souls II. I do know Darkish Souls is not "on-line" in the way in which MMO gamers consider it, but From Software program discovered some actually superb ways to integrate other players into what's in any other case a single-participant experience. Invasions, co-op summons, and hilarious/useful/completely misleading notes are what make Dark Souls feel like a one-of-a-form title.
@MJ_Guthrie/blog: For the enjoyable factor on top of the nostalgia, my vote goes to LEGO Minifigures On-line! You get to build with LEGOs and destroy issues too, so it's double the enjoyable. And come on, LEGO minifigs! They're simply adorable.
Let's have your vote!%Poll-90265%Our awards up to now... Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 6: Best Pseudo-MMO of the 12 months - Hearthstone
Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 5: Biggest Disappointment - Tie: WildStar & ArcheAge
Massively's Best of 2014 Awards, Day 4: Best MMO Studio - Sony Online Entertainment
Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 3: Most Improved MMO - Ultimate Fantasy XIV
Massively's Best of 2014 Awards, Day 2: Biggest Story of the Year - ArcheAge's melodrama
Massively's Best of 2014 Awards, Day 1: Most Underrated MMO - Elite: Harmful
