Since I brought WoW into the mix, I will say that garrisons look find, fit in to the game, and actually have some fun aspects in their look. Again, despite its limitations, the housing looks good and is well integrated into the settlements. I am going to put New World up high on the list too.
The Valar giveth, and the Valar taketh away. And the limited customization that I mentioned above means that in the neighborhood housing concept that the game uses, you can’t really end up living next to that horrible person who fills their yard with crap that spells out obscene words or political symbols.
I am going to be down on LOTRO housing in a number of these categories, but I will say that if you like the art style of the game, then their housing is very nice. We can argue over whether or now a POS or a station or a citadel counts as housing, but this actual attempt at player housing in the game was absolutely the suck. Not that you could tell, because you were the only one who could enter. It was otherwise identical to every single other one until they introduced a couple of basic faction options, and then they were identical to everybody who chose the same faction as you. The only thing that made the captain’s quarters unique was the presence of your avatar shambling about it awkwardly or sitting on the couch. Then, finally, I am going to bring in the captain’s quarters from the EVE Online Incarna expansion, specifically to dunk on it and provide a bottom end of the range for comparison. But for personalization it had a very limited range of pre-set options you could unlock, so every garrison felt very much like every other one. Then we get down to WoW and Warlords of Draenor garrisons, which I am declaring housing for the purposes of this discussion, and not simply to dunk on it because it ranks highly in some regards. Lord of the Rings Online is a bit behind that, largely due to limited items and the fixed hook system that puts a rather low cap on the things you can actually put in your house.
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Then there is EverQuest… my list is not exhaustive, I am just going through the titles I know personally… which has borrowed a lot of ideas from its younger sibling and has free form placement, including out in your yard. The housing options also feel a bit more constrained. New World isn’t too far behind, mostly because it doesn’t feel like there as many general “things” in the world for basic decor.
But Rift gets the nod for overall flexibility and being able to go nuts constructing things. EQII would be my top choice because it allows you to convert things from some special quests into trophies for your home, which is what I tend to display. I would put Rift and EverQuest II at the top of the list, as both allow free form decor and have crafting that can create house items. But even among the more sensible, there is a wide range things that make housing something they will use in an MMO, so I thought I would explore some of the items that came to my mind on that front.īasically, can you make the housing your own, or will it always look like everybody else’s place? This can mean a lot to some, but doesn’t necessarily influence the other items on the list. We all know at least one pedant who will argue that it is all useless by definition because video games have no practical use or some such. Over at Massively OP they had a daily grind question about which MMO housing was the most “usefless.” That elicited a lot of opinions, many of which with I agree, and even another blogger response, but I still felt like there was some cross purposes in some answers, because “useless” is something of a loaded description.
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