Halo was inspired by Starsiege Tribes.

What I find distressing is that the gameplay on your average MMO is no different than the MUD I used to play fifteen years ago.

World of Warcraft is more or less the same archetype as any later-era MUD, wrapped in a shiny shell.

Call me when they develop a genuinely encounter-based MMORPG.

Ultima Online was 1997, two years before Everquest.

Apparently Waaaaaait is right as well. There was a NWN MMO on AOL back in 1992.

MUDs were being played for a decade before UO came out.

Everquest was only the first 3D MMORPG, as best I know. That's why it gets all the press.

@ Checkers: Technically Chess is Turn-based Strategy, not Real Time Strategy

*trollface*

MMO= WoW
Fps= Halo
Sandbox= Minecraft

i think my first mmo was the 4th coming. that was so long ago

Let us all talk about how inferior massively popular products are while ogling a drawing.
Quite the critics corner.

No, WoW was definitely the first mmo.

trollface

I still miss EQ. Best gaming years of my life.

[url=#user_comment_73762]@anon123[/url]: Space Marine? Anyhow, we all know that Halo is just some shitty first-person remake of Math Blaster.

Halo invented spheeze mahreen

Everyone knows Call of Duty invented the FPS genre

@Dot Hack: I still wanted to play it. -_-

All you people citing DOOM. What about Wolfenstein 3D?

Get off my lawn!

[url=#user_comment_73640]@JyndTactica[/url]: What conclusion? .hack// Infection through Quarantine and the G.U. series of games were awesome and available but extremely hard to find. If by "conclusion" you meant LINK, then well... supposedly it wasn't that good anyway.

@Dot Hack: very awesome game series!
Darn you bandai for not releasing the epic conclusion in the US!

@My previous comment

Goddamn my magical ability to overlook glaring grammatical errors.

"People who think this (what Jo talks about in the strip) feel like an insult to human intelligence" is more what I wanted to say...

I think it's worth a (brief) mention, but correct me if I'm wrong. The .Hack// series of games was the first single-player MMORPG, as redundant as that sounds; you played a character playing a character in a fictional MMO wwhen all hell breaks lose and players fall into a coma.

Pretty awesome.

Now are we sticking to just computer games or can we argue in favour of the old school too? I mean you haven't roleplayed with out having tossed dices and descriped what you do.
Or the game that Warcraft takes a load of influence Warhammer.

But if we stick to just MMORPG's, I couldn't care less.

THIS IS MY WORLD!And those "Mine" comments suck,just like YOU!You un-manly bastard!Stop doing those abefore i strangle you with my own training bra!

The first MMO wasn't Everquest. It was Neverwinter Nights. Not the Bioware game, but the AOL-only Gold Box MMO. I seem to recall that one of the heads at AOL used to drop into the game as Lord Nasher.

Mabinogi
I would like to state this because it is an MMO that is nothing like WoW. Any similarities either are ones that games in general simply share or added in the most recent "expansion" but whom I believe to be someone without a clue what they are doing.

Even though I play WoW and never played Everquest...People just feel insulting to the human race.

Also, Engie-tan(1) working the Sexy Back. FANSERVICE IS A-GO!

we are still waiting for the first mmo that doesn't suck so I can understand why some people have never even heard of everquest

Halo, the first FPS?
Nah it set new standards, lets take a view before halo, we got the Turok series, we have the N64 classic Golden Eye 007, we have DooM, Duke Nukem (before it sucked), Wolfenstein 3D...

@NeoPets before Runescape: Neopets was more of a social media site than a true MMO, but it was similar in concept.

Not seen in this picture: The underground fort that EQ built while everyone thinks it's died off.

It seems like such a long time ago, but I remember in elementary school (+10 years ago) when seemingly everyone played NeoPets (way back when it first came out). It was an online MMO, but I'm not sure if it was an RPG, I can't really remember too much.

Well I don't know which games of which genres came first, but old or new they are still fun.
But:
Chess predates Command & Conquer.
Quake predates Call of Duty.
Hell, even Half-Life 1 predates Halo.
Stupid kids these days...

Oh man. I had an email from SoE inviting me to come back for a month free. Solsek Ro server representing!

o primeiro MUD Gráfico (que era como os MMORPGs eram chamados) foi o Meridian 59, o qual eu joguei :D
Tinha de ir na USP, jogar de lá, no incrível backbone de 1mb! ahahahahah

Am I the only one who thinks that "I STILL ATEN'T DEAD" would've been funnier? Discworld HOOOOOOOOOO!
This also annoys me when I encountered a guy at school who thought Judas Priest had ripped off Lady GaGa for their name.
HOW CAN PEOPLE BE THIS STUPID?!

i was arguing with this guy on you tube who was saying modern warfare was the first first person shooter ever made.

ah, those exciting doom2 matches over serial port... good old times and god damn im so old. when i literally tilted my body against an incoming rocket... and IT WORKED!

[url=#user_comment_73549]@pong[/url] Actually, that's a good point, usually newfags consider the oldest thing they can remember to be the first, or at least, the most commercially profitable. For instance, did the Wright Brothers create the first flying plane? Lol nope, but theirs was the most successful (at the time).

Command and Conquer was totally the first RTS

Do people just assume the first oldest thing they've heard of in a specific subject is automatically the oldest?

What?!?! I coulda sworn the first fps was Cod 5 =/

@Ze Spy: F2P accounts can't give items in trade, only receive. Unless they changed it recently, idling in newly created F2P accounts would be a useless "activity".
On topic: I heard someone once say that the Fantastic Four movie was copying The Incredibles... *facepalm*

Is this even possible to idle now than there is an item cap?
I heard people are setting up F2P accounts for that. That's sad.
And now than I think of it, idling means you're not playing, how can you read kids if you're just running a program/softare in the background?

Tssk, what the hell are kids learning in school??

No surprise, a lot of morons out there who think Twilight created vampires and werewolves....seriously think there's something in the McDonalds we raise our kids on these days.

I read someone's blog who thought WOW made Orcs. Poor J.R. Tolkien

[url=#user_comment_73447]@rellly[/url]: Bye!

WoW? Nah, I'm playing Everquest. You probably haven't heard of it, it's 6 feet underground *shades*

Doom had multiplayer!

@O no: google "An Illustrated Guide To ESRB Ratings" for your purple tentacle rape on engie-tan

Rare created the modern FPS with Goldeneye 007, and I won't hear anyone say otherwise. LALALALALALALALALALALALALA.

"Saudade" of Ultima Online!

the firts console are PS ONE.... SLIM

While WoW was not the first and clearly took inspiration from earlier MMOs, it's hard to argue that it wasn't the first to get it "just right," and made eleventy zillion dollars. By the way, Jo, that tie won't work for a formal cocktail party. Get a black one. Red, maybe.

... and Lucasfilm's Habitat predates Meridian 49 and Ultima Online! Habitat single-player became "Maniac Mansion," which begat SCUMM VM, which begat all the point-and-click adventure games.

No, first FPS was Halo 2.

[url=#user_comment_73501]@Draconi[/url] Proof you are correct (or wrong) --> http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/553

I still get newsletters from Asheron's Call now and then, too. AC was one of the "Big Three" alongside Everquest and Anarchy online back in the 90s.

Hell, evidently they released a new expansion just last year or so.

Avatar, played on the PLATO network at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In about 1982.

That's an old-school MMORPG.

I played everquest and everquest 2, they were both very good :3 I prefer them to WoW anyway

[url=#user_comment_73504]@Annon[/url]: I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic about the Halo thing

[url=#user_comment_73504]@Annon[/url] No, it wasn't.

Castle Wolfenstein 3D, now that's where it's at!

:/ Halo...Are you kiddding me?!?!?Did you ever hear about Quake 1?That was basicly the first fps that added multyplayer!Doom 3 had a addon multiplayer but it was more an experiment.ID software made the first FPS games evah and still are teh best.

They're getting ready for the big Q&A with Kritzcast, you just watch.

Am i the only one wondering if Engie-tan married a tenticle?

Am I the only one wondering why they're dressing in fanciful attire?

There is a WoW edition of D&D. World of Warcraft: the Roleplaying Game was released in 2005 under the OGL and was based on D&D 3.5. Suck on that.

Ultima Online isn't the first or even the second MMORPG.

And no, MU*s are not commonly accepted as MMORPGs. The term could technically be applied, but MUDs predate the term "MMO" and it is commonly applied only to graphical games.

Jo thinks Everquest is the original MMO.

Ultima Online is turning in its grave. Assuming we're not counting MUDs.

*SHOCK AND HORROR*
WOW is not the first MMORPG! :O :O :O :O

I swear, if I hear some kid saying Cawadootee or Halo created the FPS genre, I'm gonna slug his head off with a metal bat.

what about MUDs? They are not count as MMO? there are MUDs with hundreds of people.

*cough*firsttrueMMORPG*cough*
On another note, nice work again!

[url=#user_comment_73475]@Geary[/url]: Yeah, and its exactly 4th edition that he's talking about I bet. Bloody abomination of a PnP system.

No love for Runescape? :'(

[url=#user_comment_73473]@Thisishiphop[/url]: Go to comic. Scroll down. ???????????? Profit.

[url=#user_comment_73471]@Dumbledoofus[/url]: no U.

[url=#user_comment_73472]@Runescape[/url] Hush, nobody wants to remember you

[url=#user_comment_73462]@COYOTE[/url] OBJECTION! DnD was first published in 1974, and WoW was released in 2004! Therefor, WoW cannot be held credit to anything before 4th Edition.

Just letting you know, Everquest isn't the First MMO, Ultima Online beat it by two years, Check yourself before you wreck yourselves and what not.

I guess I dont count?

Fuck ponies.

That's nothing. I actually heard someone saying that Elves and Dwarves came from WoW. I almost strangled them for their stupidity.

mr. No comment is why the troll face is so popular, some just can't see sarcasm in text.

Next thing you know, kids are going to say DnD copied WoW...oh wait nvm it did.

I'm just gonna chill over here >.>

Full purple tentacle rape on red hair engie-tan.
Stop that or I send my army of trolling ponies.

Awww man, Meridian 59. I played that game! I got banned for harassment though.

True story.

Thanks for mentioning Meridian 59 :D. It's still alive, too.

What are they dressing up for?

Your trolling will not anger me...much.
won't prevent me from bitchslapping any kid saying FPS came from CAll of duty or halo!!!

Yea... no comment...

Writer and engie-tan relationship. Yup. Full CAD comic transformation complete. I'm gone.

Doom Doom. Doomy Doomy Doom. DOOM!!!

No one remembers me :'(

EQ have ponies, WoW don't.

And damn you spamalot song stuck in my head now... "I am not dead yet <insert music i cant remember>"

heh, back in the day UO pwned EQ big time... they had to add an expansion to give players Moon Horses... like, wtf ?

Everquest?
More like, NEVERQUEST

Everquest isn't dead, it's Vintage!

Also, apparently when idling, you stay there to idly chat.

That's what powers blizzard servers the turning non-corpse of EQ.