I’ve been playing a lot of classic Guild Wars lately in my attempt to play as many forms of Necromancy as possible and it really takes me back to an older time period of when the tab-target MMO was the king of the online space.
To those young enough to not know, tab-target MMO’s were essentially older style MMORPG games that used the Tab button to cycle between enemies when engaging in combat, as usually they were seen as animation based rather than action based. So you didn’t really dodge or engage in fighting tactics, you just selected attack on an enemy and then use your abilities until either you or them dropped dead. It’s of course a very old system now and so can feel very dated, but it used to be the best way to play an MMO. City of Heroes, Everquest, so many titans of the genre used this style and whilst it may not have been the smoothest or flashiest style of combat it worked for what it needed to do and playing Guild Wars really reminds me of just how it used to be, for better or worse.
I wanted to ask you all, did you used to play Tab-target MMO games and if so which one did you dedicate all your free time to? Let me know below! That’s all for now, and as always. It’s not just a game, It’s a Life.