MMO To scratch the itch with a non gamer wife

[LordyMatsuo]

So i been following New World since Beta and it's really got me wanting to play an MMO again. I've not got New World just yet, waiting for all the launch rush to settle down before jumping in.

With that said it's really got me itching to play an MMO or RPG and my wife who is not really a gamer wants to come along as well to make it a bit more fun. So to fill the gap over the next month or 2 i was thinking what games can i get into with the wife.

We played WOW together about 10 years ago, we also played Guild Wars 1 and 2 in our time but the biggest problem we hit is when the games start to get more complex for a first time gamer lets call it. Too much loot or too many weapons or skills is off putting for the wife.

So my question is, do any fans of these types of games know of any ideally recent (last 5 years) games that are welcoming for a gamer who likes it simple, simple loot, simple skills/weapon choices etc where we can just enjoy and explore a world together.

I'm hoping to get the wife familiar with MMO mechanics in a simpler game in the hope she can also join me when i enter Aeternum in a couple months.

Any suggestions welcome.

[Ironwu]

Messaggio originale di LordyMatsuo:

Messaggio originale di hyperion:

I mean, if nothing else, if she doesn't like combat or exploring or crafting or cooking. I can't imagine she wouldn't like some of that once you get her into the game. But there's always buying a house and decorating it. Lol, not trying to be cute or anything, but most women like doing that even if they don't like RPGs.

She does like playing house flipper so you hit the nail on the head there haha. We are trying to find something that ticks boxes for us both. I love MMO's and the wife does enjoy the casual questing element but easily get's lost when things ramp up. We started Guild Wars 2 again recently and was having great fun until the inventory management became a burden and either i was struggling with the amount of junk/loot we was getting.

I've done a bit of research on ESO and i think that is the winner, it has a bit of everything and is not too complex but the crafting goes deep enough by the sounds of the videos to keep me entertained as well as being heavily story / voice acted driven which is a bonus.

Lord, If you don't want to subscribe, then make some Mule Characters to hold extra crafting mats. :)

The one really big bonus to subscribing is the bottomless crafting bag (don't even have to carry it around). Crafting in ESO is actually SUPER useful. You can make gear that is top of the line for a long, long time. Gear that will allow you to do Veteran level dungeons and Raids to get the BIS gear.

Only one character is needed to do all the crafting professions (and only one should be used so drops don't have to be shared). Having a Master Crafter (all professions maxed) will make you very popular indeed. :)

[Jura Lith]

Id say try ff xiv has a free trial up to oevel 60 for all classes and also you have access to the first expansion

[Ironwu]

Messaggio originale di JLithPaw:

Id say try ff xiv has a free trial up to oevel 60 for all classes and also you have access to the first expansion

Way to complex for easy going play. Yes, the free trial has 100s of hours of play available, with only the 300k gold limitation being relevant. But it is a real loads of skills on multiple bars tab target game. In addition to that, you are FORCED to do dungeons to advance the main story quest.

[Phier]

ESO. The quest system is great, the content is too easy for real hard core skill players, but very very doable for casual.

[hyperion]

Messaggio originale di LordyMatsuo:

Messaggio originale di hyperion:

I mean, if nothing else, if she doesn't like combat or exploring or crafting or cooking. I can't imagine she wouldn't like some of that once you get her into the game. But there's always buying a house and decorating it. Lol, not trying to be cute or anything, but most women like doing that even if they don't like RPGs.

She does like playing house flipper so you hit the nail on the head there haha. We are trying to find something that ticks boxes for us both. I love MMO's and the wife does enjoy the casual questing element but easily get's lost when things ramp up. We started Guild Wars 2 again recently and was having great fun until the inventory management became a burden and either i was struggling with the amount of junk/loot we was getting.

I've done a bit of research on ESO and i think that is the winner, it has a bit of everything and is not too complex but the crafting goes deep enough by the sounds of the videos to keep me entertained as well as being heavily story / voice acted driven which is a bonus.

I get it. My wife habitually watches HGTV house shows and she's constantly redecorating our place.

[TheFrackingDane]

Elder Scrolls Online aka ESO.

You can thank me later :D

By the way - if you decide to go ESO, be sure to read (just press E and out again quick) all the bookshelves you find. Each one has a chance of giving you a random skill up. :)

[Sanghelios]

You may like Dofus or Wakfu, they are french(made, available in english ofc) flash graphics click to move and turn based MMO, It's a niche i'd say but both are fun (wakfu is more recent and runs with Java instead of Flash wich is an abandonned unstable language, also Dofus will ask quickly for a sub that will give you all the game has to offer, wakfu will give you more for free, but will require a sub for last released content, a few areas and is more prone to microtransactions. Still both are very good and enjoyable).
Anyway if you plan to only play a little before hoping in New World, i'd say play Wakfu.
Both are rather simple with the skills and loot while not feeling empty or too easy.

Another game I loved was Runescape. It's pretty old but it got several improvements along the years (and more recently, microtransaction ) but it's enjoyable, even the free area, you will have some quests to do.
Even if it's not the most coop-oriented game (no party), you can travel together, do the same quests etc. Talking about quests, they are not the regular kill x mobs quests. Each quest in Runescape are unique and puzzle and read what NPC said. You will have to investigate, use a specific item on a specific furniture etc.
The game was not really skills oriented and it changed (I don't really know how it is now in the details since I might have played like 10 hours in the last 10 years )

Star Wars the old republic, it's fun, have a free model so you can discover the game without having to sub (the sub give you access to all the game and expansions, you keep them when the sub is over but you loose some of your sub advantages)
Story wise it's well written, each class have a different story, with cinematics, almost each dialogue if not every one of them looks like Mass Effect dialogue, meaning it's voiced, you can chose what to say, make choices etc. and while you can play together, you can't progress both campaigns together as one of you will just follow and help the other, see the cinematcis and dialogues but only the owner of the campaign will be able to choose what to say. Except if doing your/your wife campaign and doing hers/yours afterward doesn't bother you, in this case you will enjoy it.
Gameplay wise, it takes many mechanics from WoW like for Combats, Mounts, paid travels etc and so, you will end up having many skills so it can take time to learn. I'd says it's as hard to learn as WoW.

Fallout 76. I didn't knew I would one day recommend it, but it's pretty cheap now, and it's pretty good for new players, exploration is good, quests are meh but it's tied to exploration so you can still enjoy it. The major problem of fallout 76 is that all the fun you will get is by discovering the game, doing the quests, leveling up your character, because the end game is so much empty, all you have to do is farm legendary mobs to get the best legendary random weapon. There is also a new currency that you have to farm and reputation but once it's over (and it's repetitive) the only thing left is legendary farming, the same endgame we had when the game released 3 years ago.
So, this one doesn't really play like an MMO, and isn't really an MMO, it's more of a prototype based on Fallout 4. It shares mechanics with MMOs but it remains different. No skills, only your weapons, armors, all the "skills" are perks cards wich are mostly passive effects. No auction house but vending machine in your camp so players will buy to you when visiting.
Still, you can have fun discovering it meanwhile.

[forumcrybaby]

Messaggio originale di Ironwu:

Messaggio originale di Pvesucks:

SWTOR. It is the ultimate casual's MMO. Fully voice acted and the majority of the playerbase has zero interest in competitive PvP or serious PvE. Also you can play the entire "story" for free. Unlike New World which is just generic corporate MMO copy paste. Save your money.

She will very quickly be overwhelmed by the number of skills on the 3 or 4 full skill bars in SWTOR. Much of the story parts also have to be done solo, so there is that as well. But, it is a fun game for a while, but the F2P version of SWTOR is pretty much garbage; one really needs to subscribe.

Yeah but if you aren't pvping or doing Hard mode raids then it doesn't matter what buttons you push. The game is designed now for the simple gamer who desires nothing more then to experience the story and maybe buy some stuff off the cash shop

[Truen]

Messaggio originale di LordyMatsuo:

So i been following New World since Beta and it's really got me wanting to play an MMO again. I've not got New World just yet, waiting for all the launch rush to settle down before jumping in.

With that said it's really got me itching to play an MMO or RPG and my wife who is not really a gamer wants to come along as well to make it a bit more fun. So to fill the gap over the next month or 2 i was thinking what games can i get into with the wife.

We played WOW together about 10 years ago, we also played Guild Wars 1 and 2 in our time but the biggest problem we hit is when the games start to get more complex for a first time gamer lets call it. Too much loot or too many weapons or skills is off putting for the wife.

So my question is, do any fans of these types of games know of any ideally recent (last 5 years) games that are welcoming for a gamer who likes it simple, simple loot, simple skills/weapon choices etc where we can just enjoy and explore a world together.

I'm hoping to get the wife familiar with MMO mechanics in a simpler game in the hope she can also join me when i enter Aeternum in a couple months.

Any suggestions welcome.

Black Desert has a great life skilling alternative game, fantastic character models, and one of the most beautiful and detailed game worlds I've ever seen. She might like BDO.

[Vexillarius]

From your post i don't think this game is what you are looking for. I would go for FF14 based on what you have said.

[Kelenek✪]

I would 4rd or 5rd the ESO recommandation... its a great game, and it has world wide power scalling since One Tamriel... so even if you are Max level and she is lvl 25.. if you guys quest together, you wont neccessarily obliterate content leaving her to just be a pet behind you... ( gear is not Useless you do get stronger but its very nicely balanced ) that also means there are no zones too low level for you... which means, there is enough content in the game atm for THOUSANDS of hours of gameplay without doing the same quest twice.

[Kelenek✪]

Messaggio originale di Truen:

Messaggio originale di LordyMatsuo:

So i been following New World since Beta and it's really got me wanting to play an MMO again. I've not got New World just yet, waiting for all the launch rush to settle down before jumping in.

With that said it's really got me itching to play an MMO or RPG and my wife who is not really a gamer wants to come along as well to make it a bit more fun. So to fill the gap over the next month or 2 i was thinking what games can i get into with the wife.

We played WOW together about 10 years ago, we also played Guild Wars 1 and 2 in our time but the biggest problem we hit is when the games start to get more complex for a first time gamer lets call it. Too much loot or too many weapons or skills is off putting for the wife.

So my question is, do any fans of these types of games know of any ideally recent (last 5 years) games that are welcoming for a gamer who likes it simple, simple loot, simple skills/weapon choices etc where we can just enjoy and explore a world together.

I'm hoping to get the wife familiar with MMO mechanics in a simpler game in the hope she can also join me when i enter Aeternum in a couple months.

Any suggestions welcome.

Black Desert has a great life skilling alternative game, fantastic character models, and one of the most beautiful and detailed game worlds I've ever seen. She might like BDO.

i would agree about every point you have said about BDO, Lieskilling can be fun, it is absolutely gorgeous... but ultimately, BDO is a SOLO mmo, you are penalized for doing stuff with 2 ppl in this game and the End game is nothing but Hardcore PvP...

[TheFrackingDane]

Messaggio originale di ✪Kelenek:

I would 4rd or 5rd the ESO recommandation... its a great game, and it has world wide power scalling since One Tamriel... so even if you are Max level and she is lvl 25.. if you guys quest together, you wont neccessarily obliterate content leaving her to just be a pet behind you... ( gear is not Useless you do get stronger but its very nicely balanced ) that also means there are no zones too low level for you... which means, there is enough content in the game atm for THOUSANDS of hours of gameplay without doing the same quest twice.

Oh definately agree on this. Specially the thousands of hours. I have at this moment, 1700ish hours into the game, and havent even done the chapters/dlc's from after Summerset. xD A friend of mine lies around 12555 hours. Yes - 12.555. Hours. He loves cats. And Khajiits. As long as they have wares.

Also - Dringoth rocks.