Rise and Shiny revisit: Dark Age of Camelot
About once a year I like to take a look back at
Dark Age of Camelot, the classic
PvP MMO by
Mythic Entertainment, just to reassure myself that older
MMOs are still some of the best around.
Dark Age of Camelot comes from that older crop of titles like
Asheron's Call and
EverQuest,
games that still shine despite their age. Of course the next logical
question is, "If these games are still so good, why aren't more of us
still playing them?" There's an easy answer, really. First of all, we
don't spend time sitting around listening to our favorite albums or
watching our favorite movies constantly, but we still appreciate them,
possibly more than we did when we first found them. Next, all games are
finite for us as individuals. There is no MMO that offers endless
content if we take away the endless player-made content that comes from
roleplay or exploration.
No matter how good a game like
Dark Age of Camelot
was and still is, many of us have already experienced it quite a bit.
It's only human to become slightly bored with something we've played
with time and again. But once again, I've spent a week in a game that
shows it's always a good thing to check back on our favorites. They just
might surprise you all over again.
