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

Massively's finish-of-the-year awards proceed in the present day with our award for one of the best Pseudo-MMO of the yr. That is always a tough category because it forces us to define MMOs. This yr, we opted to make eligible any online sport that is not a pure and traditional MMORPG, games we'd cowl in Not So Massively: cell MMOs, console MMOs, OARPGs, MOBAs, MMOFPS titles, MMORTS titles, and so on. And naturally, the sport will need to have launched in 2014. All of our writers had been invited to cast a vote, however not all of them chose to take action for this class. Don't forget to solid your own vote within the simply-for-enjoyable reader poll at the very end.

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

@nyphur: Elite: Dangerous. Despite the fact that there is not any offline mode, the graphics and gameplay in Elite: Harmful do look superb, and it is spectacular 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 sport will reside as much as expectations and if the online gameplay is compelling in the long run, however I am still cautiously optimistic about Elite: Dangerous going forward.

@nbrianna/blog: This year was truly slim-pickings for new pseudo-MMO launches; Destiny just sucked the air from the room, and the sub-genres, like MOBAs particularly, are already fairly locked up by present games without a complete lot of room for newcomers.  Ntzsw8 'd wish to have voted for Marvel Heroes, but this yr's "2015" rebrand did not reeeeeaaaally make it a brand-new game. I'm not a TCGer, but I will throw in for Hearthstone. It's shiny, it's tight, and it shows Blizzard hasn't forgotten the way to generate income by sharpening the fundamentals.

@Eliot_Lefebvre/blog: Crud, I don't know. Dragon Age: Inquisition has multiplayer; does that count? I am voting for it anyway.

@jefreahard: Area Engineers. We don't actually cowl it, I assume, however I want we did. Certain, it's space Minecraft, and what might presumably be higher? A few of the perfect gaming moments of 2014 for me concerned a few friends, a non-public SE server, and the countless creativity and addictive gameplay that SE constantly fosters. Oh and a few Firefly-universe roleplay.

@Sypster/weblog: Hearthstone. Drawing from both the World of Warcraft and Magic: The Gathering swimming pools of inspiration, Hearthstone rofflestomped its strategy to domination. It is all of the extra amazing that Blizzard did this with a comparatively small team and didn't shy away from utilizing a free-to-play system that allowed players to earn in-recreation gold with out spending cash. Plus -- and this should have gone first -- it's a terrific recreation that's playable cross-platform.

@MikedotFoster/weblog: Darkish Souls II. I know Dark Souls is not "on-line" in the way MMO gamers think of it, but From Software discovered some really amazing ways to combine other gamers into what is otherwise a single-participant experience. Invasions, co-op summons, and hilarious/helpful/completely misleading notes are what make Darkish Souls feel like a one-of-a-type title.

@MJ_Guthrie/blog: For the fun issue on high of the nostalgia, my vote goes to LEGO Minifigures Online! You get to build 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 thus far...
Massively's Better of 2014 Awards, Day 6: Greatest Pseudo-MMO of the 12 months - Hearthstone

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

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

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

Massively's Best 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