Massively’s Better Of 2022 Awards: Finest Pseudo-MMO Of The 12 Months

Massively’s end-of-the-year awards proceed right now with our award for the best Pseudo-MMO of the 12 months. That is at all times a difficult category since it forces us to define MMOs. This 12 months, we opted to make eligible any on-line sport that is not a pure and traditional MMORPG, games we would cowl in Not So Massively: cellular MMOs, console MMOs, OARPGs, MOBAs, MMOFPS titles, MMORTS titles, and so forth. And of course, the sport must have launched in 2014. All of our writers have been invited to cast a vote, however not all of them selected to take action for this category. Remember to forged your individual vote in the simply-for-enjoyable reader poll on the very finish.

The Massively workers choose for Best Pseudo-MMO of 2014 is…

@nyphur: Elite: Dangerous. Though there isn’t any offline mode, the graphics and gameplay in Elite: Dangerous do look wonderful, and it’s impressive what they’ve managed to achieve on a fraction of the finances that Star Citizen has. It stays to be seen if the exploration factor of the game will live up to expectations and if the web gameplay is compelling in the long term, however I’m nonetheless cautiously optimistic about Elite: Dangerous going forward.

@nbrianna/weblog: This 12 months was actually slim-pickings for brand new pseudo-MMO launches; Destiny simply sucked the air from the room, and the sub-genres, like MOBAs especially, are already pretty locked up by existing games without a whole lot of room for newcomers. I’d like to have voted for Marvel Heroes, but this year’s “2015” rebrand did not reeeeeaaaally make it a brand-new sport. I am not a TCGer, but I will throw in for Hearthstone. It’s shiny, it is tight, and it reveals Blizzard hasn’t forgotten how one can become profitable by sharpening the fundamentals.

@Eliot_Lefebvre/weblog: Crud, I do not know. Dragon Age: Inquisition has multiplayer; does that depend? I’m voting for it anyway.

@jefreahard: House Engineers. We do not actually cover it, I assume, but I want we did. Sure, it’s area Minecraft, and what might possibly be higher? Some of the very best gaming moments of 2014 for me concerned a couple of mates, a personal SE server, and the limitless creativity and addictive gameplay that SE consistently fosters. Oh and a few Firefly-universe roleplay.

@Sypster/weblog: Hearthstone. Drawing from both the World of Warcraft and Magic: The Gathering pools of inspiration, Hearthstone rofflestomped its method to domination. It is all the more superb that Blizzard did this with a comparatively small staff and did not draw back from utilizing a free-to-play system that allowed gamers to earn in-sport gold without spending money. Plus — and this could have gone first — it is a terrific sport that is playable cross-platform.

@MikedotFoster/blog: Dark Souls II. I know Dark Souls isn’t “online” in the best way MMO gamers consider it, however From Software found some actually amazing methods to integrate other players into what is otherwise a single-player expertise. Invasions, co-op summons, and hilarious/useful/totally misleading notes are what make Dark Souls feel like a one-of-a-type title.

@MJ_Guthrie/blog: For the fun factor on top of the nostalgia, my vote goes to LEGO Minifigures Online! You get to construct with LEGOs and destroy things too, so it is double the fun. And come on, LEGO minifigs! They are just adorable.

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Our awards to this point…
Massively’s Better of 2014 Awards, Day 6: Finest Pseudo-MMO of the Yr – Hearthstone

Massively’s Best of 2014 Awards, Day 5: Largest Disappointment – Tie: WildStar & ArcheAge

Massively’s Better of 2014 Awards, Day 4: Finest MMO Studio – Sony Online Leisure

Massively’s Best of 2014 Awards, Day 3: Most Improved MMO – Ultimate Fantasy XIV

Massively’s Better of 2014 Awards, Day 2: Greatest Story of the Yr – ArcheAge’s melodrama

Massively’s Better of 2014 Awards, Day 1: Most Underrated MMO – Elite: Harmful