If Allods Online is known for anything these days, it’s for the Gibberlings. Win or lose in the Ettenmoors, at least you have the knowledge that your mere presence will send a good chunk of the population into arachnophobic fits. Playing a spider - is there anything more wicked awesome? Spins a web any size, catches Hobbits just like flies - look out, here comes a Spider Weaver! While giant spiders are an extremely tired MMO cliché at this point, it’s a whole new bag when you’re allowed to pilot one. Monster Player) area, but it is a character class that can be grown and developed - so I’ll let it slide.
This may be a bit of a cheat for this list, as the Spider Weaver is only playable in LOTRO’s PvMP (Player vs. Really, any victory on your part as a Ratonga means utter humiliation for the forces of darkness - “Dude, you got your butt handed to you by a RAT!” - and that feeling never leaves you. Now I’m a little leery of EverQuest’s habit of merely anthropomorphizing anything the SOE crew saw at the zoo the weekend before, but I have to admit, rat-people are pretty cool.
However, most MMO gamers think of EverQuest II’s Ratonga first and foremost when anything small, furry and tenacious is mentioned. Little rat-people aren’t a huge staple of fantasy, but they are there - for example, Narnia’s Reepicheep or Warhammer’s Skaven. Hopefully future games will learn from their example and throw off the yokes of generic oppression to give us something bold and refreshing! That’s why today I’m standing up to praise 10 MMOs that dare to go above and beyond the stale by offering mostly unique and different races than the rest of the market.
Elvish impersonators.Īre you as tired as I am of the endless regurgitation of stock fantasy races in our MMOs? It seems inconceivable (I do not think that means what you think it means) for a new fantasy title to come out without most of the above races infesting the character creation screen with moldy unoriginality, putrescent stank, and dusty boredom.
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