/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5374656
I remember Subspace and also TetriNET.

Maybe they aren't really what you are thinking of though.

>>5374681
You are free to share what you want. Also other types of online games are accepted.

>>5374656
Is this the one with norse mythology elements where you can play as a giant or something but you have to shrink yourself down to enter boats

good old times

>>5375047
yes

released in 1996
sadly p2p, had a great community

>>5376904

Looks gay as fuck

>>5374656
I know runescape isnt necessarily /vr/ but i definitely had a fun time playing that when i was younger. I lived in Tennessee and used to play with my friends that lived in Michigan. Come back up to Michigan and they arent friends anymore.

>>5377242
kek

bump

>>5374681
TetriNET was awesome.

Meridian 59
The guild

>>5374656
Does stuff made with BYOND count? Apparently that engine has been around since 1996.

>>5381305
No, it's the Crossfire engine.

>>5377248
It's kind of /vr/, the original public beta for was in either '98 or '99, however at that time it was known as DeviousMUD. At that time I've read there were only about 20-30 players.

We'll never have the pure magic that was early RS from 2004 - 2007 ever again... Play OldSchool RS if you aren't already, it's as close as we'll ever get before Jagex shuts down and source code is leaked out from there 2007 backups.

there was a short taste of it when they launched OSRS, that pure 07 backup was beautiful

>>5376904
Played the earlier version of that game which is actually my country's very first MMORPG

bump

Ultima Online.

My high school english teacher talked about teaching a class in an old-school mmo environment, and how one of his female students was cyber-raped.

Aren't you guys gonna mention Tibia? Game was good on the earlier versions, before the whole p2w ruining everything.

Either you guys are very retro or very old.

anybody remember this game? Astonia? I had some friends who were obsessed with it.

>>5383978
>Astonia
Looks like a fork of Daimonin/Atrinik/Angelion

>>5383978
looks comfy

Shadows of Yserbius was my jam

>>5374656
Any MMO that actually requires some kind of social contact is always a plus in my book. I used to play MMOs and come away with so many gaming contacts, now it's a struggle to even get a response if I say hello to somebody in-game.

For that reason I've wanted to get more into MUDs but I find them so incredibly unforgiving in terms of mechanics, it's a shame because their communities are often the most tight-knight and welcoming.

>>5384143
when somebody say "hi" to me i leave, lol

>>5384268
Honestly I get that response often, people will teleport away or even log off. I understand that not everybody wants to engage all the time but It's a bit upsetting that every MMO I try is 90% these people and the other 10% want me to join their Discord\Vent\IRC\Forums before they'll throw a sentence back at me.

I guess trends come and go, eventually it'll be fashionable to interact with your fellow gamer again.

>>5384143
>get more into MUDs
Try starting out on something like Aardwolf or Alter Aeon. They both have pretty good intro areas/mud schools, fairly standard syntax that will make picking up any other mud easier, and big populations. Only downside I have with them is that they are fairly ordinary, not bad just average fantasy stuff.
Discworld mud also has a good intro, a decent amout of players, and is just cool because it is Discworld but some of the syntax takes a little to get used to if you are fresh into muds. Finally I would say try out Lost Souls, absolutely no intro/mud school area, thrown into the deep end with just help files, an admitedly decent wiki, and a throw away character to mess around with but it is by far my favorite mud once you get into it for sheer depth and wierdness.

Haven't seen Darkages mentioned yet or if you like mudds, Achaea

>>5384304
not gonna happen bro, last mmos i tried people are literally acting like bots. Maybe they were bots after all, i simply cannot tell anymore

New EQ progression servers are opening up for the 20th anniversary. They look like shit though, even by progression server standards. Plus they'll be even further ruined by Krono farmers. It's kind of sad to see what EQ has become, hopefully somebody who cares about the franchise buys it once Daybreak goes bankrupt.

>>5385143
>EQ launched 40 years ago

That looks real comfy, OP.

Here's Dransik - basically Ultima 5, MMO style. Free to play and still online, though the player base is tiny these days, and the forums are basically dead.

The thing I remember most about it is the absolutely majestic music. Easily some of the finest midi I've ever heard.

>>5374656
The best standing around spot.

I remember playing games like Dransik, UO, Tibia... the worlds of these games felt alive, with stuff happening when you're not there to witness it.

Is there any game like that still around with a decent population?

The first 3D MMO, Meridian 59 was released in 1996 and it's still playable online:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/893390/Meridian_59/

>>5386118
My secret shame from my youth

>>5384304
The problem is they're all 14 and trying to get that "close knit friend group" we had without realizing that we didn't have login noises and all that weird shit. You had to like, keep track of these guys and remember their names and stylings and shit.

Now everything just tracks you across any and all alts and servers and shit and everything is designed to just pick up and go, you don't NEED to socialize anymore.

And like you said, they all just want the biggest Discord. It's the nerd version of likes or Upvotes, to have a fat Discord.
Really, MMORPGs are just a glorified Facebook these days.

>>5386223
Not that shameful. I didn't know what a furry was when I played this game and I didn't become one after playing it. I don't remember any sexual roleplay but then again, I was playing with other eleven-year-olds from school

>>5385927
Everyone in this image looks so different, that's really cool. Are they all player characters?

>>5386250
You and your 11-year old buddies used to come home from school and play Furcadia? That sounds hella gay, comrade.

>>5386223
Furcadia was so weird, it had a really solid Ultima-bro programmer behind it. (Dr. Cat) and yeah it was a Furry paradise, but being able to create your own worldspace was pretty advanced for its time, but there was nothing to actually do with the spaces. You couldn't set up experiences. It was a glorified chatroom with no interactivity.

Where are my Materia Magica bros at?

>>5374681
I never did Subspace but I played a shitton of Infantry Online, and apparently those share the same engine and a bunch of the dev team

>>5384729
>Aardwolf

thats a name i havent heard in a long ass time. every once in a few months i have a craving to go back and play on my old character but i feel out of touch at muds anymore.

>>5386223
My nigga, I still play it, and am even playing it right now

>>5386118
>Special Ed

Using a character name like that these days will get you banned, doxxed, and publicly defamed until your life is ruined and you're forced to kill yourself.

Would any of you be interested in starting an MMO together? It could be an old one with a muted population but if we can scramble 5 people together that'd be something.

In the past I've done this with /v/ with great success but nowadays our schedules are likely more hectic so I propose we all join the same game and share our experiences but not necessarily play the game together. If we can get 5 people to all filter into the game then that's a nice amount of discussion\screenshots that can be generated. If we can all make 1 in-game contact then that's a pool of 10 people with which to do things.

>>5387478
You're retarded.

>>5387541
>ableism
>in 2019

you just proved him right

>>5386807
That was the craziest thing. It had solid tech behind it, it was legitimately impressive, even 5 years after its initial release.

...But there was no game to be played. All you could do was build pretty, but ultimately sterile spaces with nothing to do in them beyond chat to other players.

...Which I guess is *fine* if you're just a furry who wants to roleplay getting pounded in the ass by an anthro wolf, but holy fuck, what a missed opportunity. Even if they wanted to keep Furcadia purely as faggoty roleplay chat server, why didn't they develop an actual game on the same tech? They could have been filthy rich.

>>5387648
It was the biggest mystery to me. I wonder if there was something behind the scenes that caused it to just halt in development or if there was something just utterly fucked on the backend.

Here's one I'd be surprised if any knew of: Empirian. Have a picture for ants as I can't find a single screenshot of the actual gameplay as it seems the only website with screens was the official one that's no longer around.

I've played it before, but by the time I played it it was already empty, and I failed to find a single other player online.

>>5387739
Empiriana^

>>5387192
CRINGE

>>5387674
They tried a recent overhaul which was to include an html5 client, mobile app, etc, as the second dreaming, it got fully funded, but thanks to internal drama, went nowhere beyond fancying up some default dreams, and rebuilding allegeria and Furabian nights. Shame really.
>>5388118
Fuck you, it's retro

>>5388136
>thanks to internal drama
Let's hear it. I'd love to have a glimpse at what goes behind the scenes with something like Furcadia.

>>5387739
Courtesy of The Wayback Machine. The player stat screen reminds me a lot of daggerfall.

>>5388208
I don't really know much about it, other than what people will say in Furrabian Nights, so if you want to hear it, just go to the fire pit in Furn and ask someone

>>5386292
Yeah, that's not my pic, but I was active around that time period, called deoch in game. Heavy RP based game play, in game player run governments and religions. Good times.

>>5388969
Player run religions sound great. In Ultima Online I once apprenticed myself to a guy who worshipped bears. He would take all his clothes off and get hit once, then proceed to pray to them, finally we'd go to town and ask for alms to heal his festering bear wounds.

>>5388992
CRINGE