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

Massively's finish-of-the-yr awards proceed at the moment with our award for the very best Pseudo-MMO of the yr. That is all the time a tough category because it forces us to outline MMOs. This yr, we opted to make eligible any online game that isn't a pure and conventional MMORPG, video games we would cover in Not So Massively: cell MMOs, console MMOs, OARPGs, MOBAs, MMOFPS titles, MMORTS titles, and so forth. And naturally, the sport will need to have launched in 2014. All of our writers were invited to forged a vote, but not all of them selected to take action for this category. Do not forget to solid your personal vote in the simply-for-enjoyable reader poll on the very finish.

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

@nyphur: Elite: Harmful. Although there's no offline mode, the graphics and gameplay in Elite: Dangerous do look wonderful, and it's spectacular what they've managed to attain on a fraction of the finances that Star Citizen has. It remains to be seen if the exploration factor of the sport will stay up to expectations and if the online gameplay is compelling in the long run, however I'm nonetheless cautiously optimistic about Elite: Harmful going forward.

@nbrianna/blog: This yr was really slim-pickings for new pseudo-MMO launches; Destiny just sucked the air from the room, and the sub-genres, like MOBAs especially, are already fairly locked up by current video games with out a complete lot of room for newcomers. I would wish to have voted for Marvel Heroes, however this year's "2015" rebrand didn't reeeeeaaaally make it a brand-new recreation. I'm not a TCGer, however I will throw in for Hearthstone. It's shiny, it's tight, and it reveals Blizzard hasn't forgotten methods to earn cash by sharpening the fundamentals.

@Eliot_Lefebvre/blog: Crud, I do not know. MINECRAFT-SERVERS.BIZ : Inquisition has multiplayer; does that depend? I'm voting for it anyway.

@jefreahard: Space Engineers. We don't actually cowl it, I suppose, however I wish we did. Positive, it is area Minecraft, and what may presumably be better? Some of one of the best gaming moments of 2014 for me concerned a few mates, a personal SE server, and the infinite creativity and addictive gameplay that SE continuously fosters. Oh and a few Firefly-universe roleplay.

@Sypster/blog: Hearthstone. Drawing from each the World of Warcraft and Magic: The Gathering swimming pools of inspiration, Hearthstone rofflestomped its strategy to domination. It is all of the more amazing that Blizzard did this with a relatively small crew and did not shrink back from utilizing a free-to-play system that allowed players to earn in-sport gold with out spending cash. Plus -- and this could have gone first -- it is a terrific sport that is playable cross-platform.

@MikedotFoster/weblog: Dark Souls II. I know Dark Souls isn't "on-line" in the way in which MMO players consider it, however From Software discovered some really wonderful ways to combine different gamers into what's in any other case a single-participant experience. Invasions, co-op summons, and hilarious/useful/completely misleading notes are what make Darkish Souls really feel like a one-of-a-form title.

@MJ_Guthrie/blog: For the fun factor on high of the nostalgia, my vote goes to LEGO Minifigures On-line! You get to construct with LEGOs and destroy issues too, so it is double the fun. And come on, LEGO minifigs! They're simply adorable.

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Our awards to date...
Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 6: Finest 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: Best MMO Studio - Sony Online Leisure

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 12 months - ArcheAge's melodrama

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