By:AndyJul 25, 2007 at 3:28 AMViews:2,392Comments:1Saved: 0
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14. Statesman, NPC, City of Heroes. He’s Paragon City’s first and finest cape, and is also apparantly bad-ass enough to have jacked Magneto’s hat. |
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13. Fansy the Famous Bard, player character, Everquest. When the going gets tough, the tough start griefing. |
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12. Leeroy Jenkins, player character, World of Warcraft. Leeroy is that guy. He’s in every guild you’ve ever been in, every pickup group you’ve ever been in, and was perhaps even you at one point. You will eventually LOL about it, but when it’s happening, all you see is murder. |
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11. Sheyla Morrison, Everquest Guide and drama queen. You’ve probably never heard “her” name, but you’ve undoubtedly heard her story, usually in some bastardized form on the boards. |
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10. Woody Hearn, Comic artist, GUComics. He’s branched out into other computer gaming formats, but for a long time his strips were about Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, and a few other MMORPGs. But he’s still damn funny, and there’s a good chance you’ve got one of his comics taped to your monitor. My dream of course is to one day screw up a game or infuriate a fan base so badly that I wind up as the subject of one of his panels ftw. |
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9. Lucan D’Lere, NPC, Everquest II. He’s evil, undead, and sounds a lot like Saruman. And you got to meet him if you did the old school betrayal quest. |
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8. Warchief Thrall, World of Warcraft. He’s the greatest Orc in the world…of Warcraft. |
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7. John Smedley. You either hate him or have never played a Sony game. I kid. He’s the President of Sony Online Entertainment, and keymaster of the most diverse portfolio of MMORPGs in the industry. SOE may not be the 500lb gorilla in the room anymore (or maybe they just seem a lot smaller next to that new 8 million lb gorilla) but don’t count Smed out just yet. He bought Vanguard you know. |
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6. Sanya Weathers, Internet Relations Manager, Mythic Entertainment, and former “Tweety” ranter. She wasn’t the first community manager, but she wrote the book on how to do it right. And lemme tell you something about that book. It’s filthy filthy filthy. |
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5. Antonia Bayle, NPC, Everquest II. Even if you
didn’t play EQ2, there’s a good chance you picked up the box to, you
know, look over |
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4. Lum the Mad, commentator, The Rantings of Lum the Mad. Back before there were blogs or blogging software or even keyboards I think, Scott “Lum the Mad” Jennings ranted incoherently into a dictaphone, where it was then transcribed via teletype onto the Arpanets and disseminated over the gophers. I am told this makes him very very old. He is, however, still kicking. |
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3. Orcs, NPC, every fantasy MMO you can think of. This one sort of breaks my rules, but every single fantasy MMO has them. And I know, we could say the same thing about the goddamned Elves and Dwarves, but won’t somebody think of the Orcs? |
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2. Lord British (aka Richard Garriott), NPC/Alter Ego, Ultima Online. Was famously assassinated during the Ultima Online beta, but he got better. The same cannot, however, be said of Ultima Online. Two sequels have been canceled, and only a small but dedicated fan base remains. Presumably this fan base is physically and/or psychologically unable to cope with that fancy new spacial Z-axis all the physicist kids keep talking about. |
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1. Firiona Vie, NPC, Everquest. She is literally the MMORPG poster child. Even gamers who have never stepped foot into a virtual world know this is “the Everquest chick.” If there is a single iconic representation of MMORPG’s, she’s it. She’s also a great example of how evil never attacks your midriff, arms, legs, head, or cleavage. |
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