TERAīizarre sights and ideas go hand-in-hand with Asian MMOs that we don’t tend to blink at most of the goofiness that erupts from such titles. Players are encouraged to set up and run roleplay “daydreams” with others, making this a mix of sandbox, chat room, MMO, and potential fetish fuel. As the name might imply, Furcadia allows players to live out their fantasies as an animal, whether that be completely feral or as a human-like, well, furry.
One of the genre’s oldest continually running games (it is 21 years old as of 2017) is also one of the oddest in tone. Today, we will celebrate the wonderfully strange in online gaming with these 10 titles. These MMOs don’t usually boast universal appeal, large numbers, or even great respect, but they do offer vivid imagination, hidden qualities, and a certain uniqueness that is rarely found elsewhere. Still, every once in a while a game comes out that walk on the weird side. When it comes to MMORPGs, I feel that more devs would love for their games to be more strange while the risk-averse studios (and their publishers) pull hard to keep traditional tropes in play. To be weird is to deviate from the safe and predictable and instead venture into the wild and woolly lands of the imagination. In third grade, my teacher sent home a report card with the note that “Justin is wonderfully strange.” Ever since then, I never found the terms “strange” or “weird” to be pejorative but rather a signpost pointing the way to interesting paths less traveled.
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