Massively''s Best Of 2022 Awards: Finest Pseudo-MMO Of The Year

Massively''s end-of-the-12 months awards continue right this moment with our award for the perfect Pseudo-MMO of the yr. That is all the time a troublesome category because it forces us to define MMOs. This 12 months, we opted to make eligible any online sport that is not a pure and conventional MMORPG, video games we might cowl in Not So Massively: cell MMOs, console MMOs, OARPGs, MOBAs, MMOFPS titles, MMORTS titles, and so on. And of course, the sport should have launched in 2014. All of our writers had been invited to forged a vote, however not all of them chose to do so for this class. Best Games Don''t forget to forged your personal vote in the just-for-enjoyable reader poll on the very finish.

The Massively employees pick for Greatest Pseudo-MMO of 2014 is...

@nyphur: Elite: Harmful. Regardless that there is no offline mode, the graphics and gameplay in Elite: Harmful do look wonderful, and it''s spectacular what they''ve managed to realize on a fraction of the budget that Star Citizen has. It remains to be seen if the exploration factor of the sport will reside up to expectations and if the web gameplay is compelling in the long term, however I''m nonetheless cautiously optimistic about Elite: Harmful going ahead.

@nbrianna/weblog: This 12 months was really slim-pickings for new pseudo-MMO launches; Future just sucked the air from the room, and the sub-genres, like MOBAs particularly, are already pretty locked up by existing games with out an entire lot of room for newcomers. I might prefer to have voted for Marvel Heroes, however this yr''s "2015" rebrand did not reeeeeaaaally make it a model-new sport. I''m not a TCGer, but I''ll throw in for Hearthstone. It is shiny, it''s tight, and it shows Blizzard hasn''t forgotten easy methods to generate income by sprucing the fundamentals.

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

@jefreahard: Space Engineers. We do not actually cowl it, I assume, but I want we did. Sure, it is space Minecraft, and what could probably be better? Some of the very best gaming moments of 2014 for me involved a couple of pals, a non-public SE server, and the countless creativity and addictive gameplay that SE always fosters. Oh and a few Firefly-universe roleplay.

@Sypster/weblog: Hearthstone. Drawing from each the World of Warcraft and Magic: The Gathering swimming pools of inspiration, Hearthstone rofflestomped its approach to domination. It is all the extra amazing that Blizzard did this with a relatively small group and didn''t draw back from utilizing a free-to-play system that allowed gamers to earn in-game gold with out spending cash. Plus -- and this could have gone first -- it is a terrific recreation that is playable cross-platform.

@MikedotFoster/weblog: Darkish Souls II. I do know Dark Souls is not "online" in the way MMO gamers consider it, but From Software discovered some actually wonderful methods to combine different players into what is otherwise a single-player expertise. Invasions, co-op summons, and hilarious/helpful/completely deceptive notes are what make Darkish Souls really feel like a one-of-a-form title.

@MJ_Guthrie/blog: For the fun issue on prime of the nostalgia, my vote goes to LEGO Minifigures On-line! You get to build with LEGOs and destroy issues too, so it is double the enjoyable. And are available on, LEGO minifigs! They''re just adorable.

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Our awards up to now...
Massively''s Best of 2014 Awards, Day 6: Best Pseudo-MMO of the 12 months - Hearthstone

Massively''s Best of 2014 Awards, Day 5: Biggest Disappointment - Tie: WildStar & ArcheAge

Massively''s Best of 2014 Awards, Day 4: Finest MMO Studio - Sony On-line Entertainment

Massively''s Better of 2014 Awards, Day 3: Most Improved MMO - Final Fantasy XIV

Massively''s Better of 2014 Awards, Day 2: Greatest Story of the Year - ArcheAge''s melodrama

Massively''s Better of 2014 Awards, Day 1: Most Underrated MMO - Elite: Harmful