Upcoming MMORPGs That Fans Need to Know About
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen
As MMORPGs become more modern, streamlined, instanced, and casual friendly, a lot of the old-school social elements have started to erode. For a lot of MMORPGs, unless you’re attempting some of the most challenging content, there aren’t a lot of times that you need to socialize or communicate with team members. For example, Final Fantasy XI –my MMORPG of choice when I was younger– for all its flaws, actually led to me making some lifelong friends because of the extreme level that players were forced to communicate and cooperate. Final Fantasy XIV on the other hand, while it’s a blast to play, feels like a solo game at times. Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, one of our most anticipated upcoming MMORPGs from the experienced ex-Everquest developers, aims to bring back those moments in MMORPGs that led to friendships being formed, or even, enemies.
Pantheon is intentionally designed to be played with others. The game is going to be challenging and will punish failure and death more than modern MMORPG fans may be used to. To survive and thrive, you’ll have to reach out to other players, to help accomplish your goals.
In addition to that overarching gameplay philosophy, Pantheon also has a few tricks up its sleeve too in order to compete with the other MMORPGs on this list. For example, The E in PvE for Pantheon also stands for Environment. Obstacles created by nature, such as storms, and can both impede players, forcing even more cooperation, but can also present an opportunity for craftier players as well.
Again though, like the other the other upcoming MMORPGs on this list we have no idea when Pantheon will be complete and fully release sadly.
