The Top Five MMOGs Out Today

In an enviroment overshadowed by the success and pop culture phenomenina World of Warcraft, it can be tough to know what are the best of this huge genre that has come very far since 1999, when the first big time MMO was released.

I'm going to list from five to one, what I believe to be the five best and technically my recommendations on what to play. Here we go!

5. World of Warcraft
While I am not the biggest of fan of what WoW has become today, I will not say it is not a good game. This game has revolutionized the MMO market. This game has been built on what was amazing PvE content from the completion of Molten Core to the end of the Ahn'Qiraj Live Event. The game has evolved, but did not introduce anything new.. they took things, simplified them and polished it during the first few months. There is no better "solo" content for an MMORPG.

4. Guild Wars
In a game that is known for it's PvP, I would recommend the game for it's PvE. However, if you do not have friends that play and want to jump into PvP, I wish you luck. I do not recommend that, unless you are ready to farm gladiator points, which takes far too long. You can jump straight into PvE and it has one of the most unique PvE experiences in the entire genre. If you want to try something new, try buying Guild Wars: Nightfall and give it a go. One of the best storylines I've played and one of the most interesting PvE experiences.

3. EverQuest
The game that was released in 1999 that completely changed the MMO landscape. It was not riddled with quest ironically, but it did bring elements that are fundamental parts of gaming today. While, we do not see 75-man raids anymore, we do see that raiding is one of the best and hardest features to perfect. Today, EverQuest is not as hardcore as it once was, but it is much more user-friendly as is a good example with the new server type to begin at level 51.

2. Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
Vanguard is notorious for one of the worst launches in the history of MMOs. Brad McQuade, the God of Gaming, and the potential spiritual successor to EverQuest were just too much hype for a game that didn't have the financial resources to come to fruition. Beyond that, there was supposedly huge management issues and so on and so forth. However, since that fateful day in January 2007, the game has come a long way, and is now what EverQuest used to be. You want over 80% group content? You want corpse runs and real experience loss? You want a huge world with the best community in MMO history? Then, welcome to Vanguard, sure you can't get the greatest population, but the one's there are great. All this game needs is some resources from SOE, re-advertising and a new expansion.

1. EverQuest II
At launch, the game was not complete and it was completely group-oriented. To this day, it is still group-oriented, but has a healthy chunk of "solo" content. The crafting is the best in the world of MMOs, the questing system is perfectly and none can be found that are better than EQ2. With the sheer variety of classes/races that come with EverQuest-styled games and the huge amount of enjoyable content no matter what level you are, this game is currently the best the MMO world has to offer. I might qualify that Vanguard is right there with it, but the communities are similiar for the most part and EQ2 has much better when it comes to population.

New Direction for Blog

I just wanted to say that I am going to take this blog into a different direction. I am not saying that I will stop writing about liberty, freedom and politics. I am still an active member in politics with my congressman and my senators and my state representatives.

However, I am an avid MMO gamer and I enjoy MMOs and fantasy setting lore just as much. It is something I am adamant about and plan to write about things I feel need to be changed, kept or erased in either MMO industry, an MMO or maybe even another game that I might get my hands on.

Why the Pledge of Allegiance is Wrong

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.

This is an interesting allegiance that one would pledge to their country. Especially considering it is incorrect! This is a case, that it would be made our 'National' pledge of allegiance. The first sentence is quite correct, " I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands" and I have no real concern or dismay with that, although I would rather pledge allegiance to the State of Texas and it's obligation of cooperating with the Union as it is a member State of the United States.

However, "one Nation under God", is very incorrect. We are not, and never have been a nation. There was a passage of a constitution that went into effect in 1781 and it was called the Articles of Confederation. Later, in a convention in Philadelphia in 1787, a constitution was proprosed and would be debated and argued over for quite some time. By the year 1789 it would finally pass and by 1790 all thirteen States would enter this Union. However if we read the preamble of the Constitution it says:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

We the people of the United States, it is not States United, the people of America, etc. It is a set of States that have agreed upon a Union. That is a farcry from a nation. During the convention in 1787, there was a small group of people from the northern larger states that wanted a monarchy to placed in as government, which would mean that there would be united Nation in America. However, the other two groups, one smaller representing the smaller states with a desire for a Republic with just a Senate, and another much larger group with a median of the two views. These last two groups however, only wanted a Union which we had under the Articles of Confederation.

Also, each State ratified the Constitution themselves, and it took a majority of nine of thirteen States to ratify. Therefore, this is definitely a Federal Union and not a Nation.

Another part of the pledge says we are "indivisible". However, as I just explained, each State is sovereign and ratified and joined the Union at their will in its conception. With Jefferson and Madison's theory of Nullification it re-instutited the theory that the Federal Government was a creation of the State's and should stay that way. Indivisible would mean Texas.. New Hampishire.. New Mexico... Arizona are not sovereign but are a region of the Nation. Which is not true, each State has representation in the Senate and has demographical representation in the House. We are the people of the United States not the people of America.

Secession is legal.. we are not a Nation. We are a Confederate Republic, and it's about time to re-assert this principle and stop transforming our 'more perfect Union' into a complete monarchial society we see all over the world.

Besides.. it was a written by a Socialist..

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Geraldo Rivera: Seccession is treason!

Geraldo, my fellow American, secession is not treason. Matter-of-fact, look up Aaron Burr who was even conspiring with a Spainish general to secede in the old West, and was not even convicted of treason.

Here is the tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America:

Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Now.. if you can find where in the Constiution it says that the Union cannot be dissolved or State's cannot leave, show me. If you can't, then State's have every right to secede.. and as Jefferson Davis said, it is one of those "inalienable rights".

Also, the United Colonies, which on July 4th, 1776 named themselves the United States of America, seceeded from Great Britian, were they treasonous? How about when the Republic of Texas seceeded from Mexico and won it's indepedance in the Texas Revolution? How about when countries seceeded from the USSR?

Every state has every right to secede, unless you have some invisible ink revealer that I might be able to use to find these texts that say State's may not secede. Also in the annexation of Texas, Texas wanted to make sure it could secede if the Federal government became overbearing.. as Sam Houston is known for saying that Texas will never know oppression.

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