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Who played Dark Age of Camelot and felt it was ahead of its time?

Hollywood Hitman

Hollywood Hitman

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So for me this is easily one of the most memorable games I ever played for one sheer element, 3 factions that were all against each other in pvp, Hibernia, Albion and Midgard. To this day I can't find anything that remotely offers not only the community aspect but a pvp system where there were endless variables given you had one huge pvp map and 3 factions that could clash any time any place and anywhere.

October 9th 2001 this baby launched and it was all a perfect blend of game and community because the VN boards were a huge part of the rivalry aspect where everyone went to throw jabs or whatever drama was happening at that time. Then people you hated on forums were in pvp battles, there was no greater pleasure than killing someone and busting their balls on the VN boards.

The game had a great pve aspect as well, very memorable etc. But those pvp battles in Emain Macha were still some of the most memorable and exciting gaming moments of my life.

The 90s and early 2000s for MMOs were a special time, UO rolled into Everquest, then rolled into Asherons call and DAoC... All amazing games and at a time online gaming was still so new, it was unlike how anything feels these days at least to me. I did love my days in Warcraft back those days as well, especially Lich King... But still nothing ever offered the pvp elements that Camelot had. I was on the Guinevere server in camelot and always curious to find any others.
 
reinking

reinking

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I played a Lurikeen name Gnu Gnuttwacker for a long time. I logged in one day to find that I had been reported and his name was changed. :messenger_frowning_

I agree, it was an awesome time for MMOs. I beta tested a lot of them and of course continued to play many of those. Fun times.
 
Hollywood Hitman

Hollywood Hitman

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reinking said:
I played a Lurikeen name Gnu Gnuttwacker for a long time. I logged in one day to find that I had been reported and his name was changed. :messenger_frowning_

I agree, it was an awesome time for MMOs. I beta tested a lot of them and of course continued to play many of those. Fun times.
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Ah that sucks! But yea I was originally hibernia and one of the first level 50 Blademasters, spent awhile there and eventually defected to Albion and became an Infiltrator and ran a stealth team... Just was nothing like it.

MMOs were so fresh back then, that's what I miss... It was a pure time in the genre
 
HerjansEagleFeeder

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Played it for an ungodly amount of hours, yes it was ahead of its time. I think it's the best MMORPG ever made, this game is the reason I was so disappointed with WoW when it came out. The best part was the three faction system with constant PvP going on everywhere and capturing stronhholds having a real impact on how the game works. As far as I'm concerned, this system has never been truly replicated in another game to the level of perfection DaoC achieved.
 
Davernos

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Good memories. However some classes were not viable for PvP, highly unbalanced, and the engine ran at 3fps when crowded PvP happened. Also, parties of 8 people were too time-consuming to set up before playing (this is were the chat shined, sitting and waiting for people to gather up).
 
Protocol7

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Still remember the first hours when I logged in... horrible... not here to bash the game, I'll just say nothing was to my liking to stay polite... anyway I /uninstalled it and then a miracle happened, Final Fantasy XI was released.
 
Sentenza

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The game was flawed in multiple ways and it has been surpassed in many areas, but on the other hand...
Realm vs Realm vs Realm is still the best basic concept about how to do PVP in a MMO.

I used to play Midgard and at least on our server we were the rulers of the RvR despise Albion being BY FAR the most populated faction (more people than the other two combined).
 
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Hollywood Hitman

Hollywood Hitman

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DaciaJC said:
Never heard of it, much less played it, but going by this thread it sounds like it was a damned fun time.
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It was a good time back then just one of those once in a lifetime type moments given how forums were at some of their best years as well. Ign and vn boards were humming, so it really all lended to itself as one big huge world of community and added to the game world.

We also had duel nights as well when the realms would meet in areas and people would square off for duels, very fun, all very different than anything you can experience today.
 
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Zacfoldor

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I loved it, loved the giant RVR battles(and sneaking behind enemy lines in stealth), loved painting my armor. The game had a feel to it. Loved my clan. There was just so much personal stuff going on in that game, like other players were people and shit was real. It was a different time. Still to this day I think it is one of the mmo goats. It was hard and unforgiving af though. When I played at least you lost exp when you died and that shit was CRAZY hard to build up. Play all week, get drunk on friday night, lose the whole week's progress.
 
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Chaos

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Eden a free Daoc shard is launching on March 29th, a great time to jump back in :)

eden-daoc.net

Eden-DAoC.net

A Dark Age of Camelot Free shard with a custom classic experience (post 1.90), based on Bossiney / Glastonbury servers.
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Hollywood Hitman

Hollywood Hitman

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Chaos said:
Eden a free Daoc shard is launching on March 29th, a great time to jump back in :)

eden-daoc.net

Eden-DAoC.net

A Dark Age of Camelot Free shard with a custom classic experience (post 1.90), based on Bossiney / Glastonbury servers.
eden-daoc.net eden-daoc.net

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Awesome to see! It just sadly I couldn't make it work these days with my other gaming that I do, but I love to see it tho. It's the same with EQ, they continually churn out expansions and I love seeing it still going but I couldn't focus on it like I used to, great to see tho
 
skit_data

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I did! For a while at least. I fell off, online RPGs have never been something that manages to keep me in it's grasp.
I was quite surprised when WoW took off like a rocket because to me it didn't feel much different from DAoC
 
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Roberts

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Played it when it came out. Still remember the first time I joined that massive PVP battle. My framerate hit single digits and yet still I was amazed from seeing all these huge player numbers in one location.
 
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