Any good wuxia type mmos?

[deama]

I'm talking about cultivation, similar to age of wushu, but more polished maybe? Or rather, able to play without crap lag.

I used to play age of wushu back when it was released, and was good but had too few content at the time.
I was meant to come back but at one point the western servers just shutdown so...
I tried again on the chinese/asian servers, but the lag was too annoying for me.

I tried sword of legends around a few months before it shutdown, but didn't like it too much. The concept was fine, but it was too generic mmo, I was expecting something like age of wushu but maybe with some less weird mechanics, but it was just mostly a generic mmo.

Anyone know of any more? I was thinking of trying justice online, but that one requires a chinese account I believe, and not sure how the lag for that one is either since it's in china.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I cannot think of any MMOs with a good rap that have the Xianxia web novel/Cultivation aesthetic. The only reputable Chinese fantasy MMOs I can think of are going to be way older games with lower production values and a more generic Chinese fantasy aesthetic, like Lineage or Perfect World.

If you are okay with lower production values and a more generic fantasy aesthetic, then there is Perfect World International, which is like Chinese WoW. I remember playing that one for a little bit way back when. There was a mermaid race with their really cool underwater city, there was an elf race that could sprout angel wings and fly for a bit, cute petite cat/foxgirls, but the best part was you could play as a tiger or panda beastman. It also had some neat licensed ambient/synth music. IIRC it may have also had guild PvP territory mechanic where guilds cloud claim territory in the world and get into PvP wars with other guilds? Not sure how that compares to Lineage's much bigger guild war zergs.

If you really, really want that Xianxia web novel/Cultivation novel aesthetic in a game, then you're probably going to have to look at singleplayer games. Ho To Lu Sho and Gujian 3, though I didn't think they were very fun and dropped them. Maybe Chinese Paladin or Sword & Fairy is better.

 

[ADL]

Age of Wushu 2 is literal vaporware
Moonlight Blade never came to the West
Sword of Legend never recovered its playerbase and shut down last year
Where Winds Meet is coming out soon but it's structured more like Genshin Impact than a MMO

 

[deama]

I cannot think of any MMOs with a good rap that have the Xianxia web novel/Cultivation aesthetic. The only reputable Chinese fantasy MMOs I can think of are going to be way older games with lower production values and a more generic Chinese fantasy aesthetic, like Lineage or Perfect World.

If you are okay with lower production values and a more generic fantasy aesthetic, then there is Perfect World International, which is like Chinese WoW. I remember playing that one for a little bit way back when. There was a mermaid race with their really cool underwater city, there was an elf race that could sprout angel wings and fly for a bit, cute petite cat/foxgirls, but the best part was you could play as a tiger or panda beastman. It also had some neat licensed ambient/synth music. IIRC it may have also had guild PvP territory mechanic where guilds cloud claim territory in the world and get into PvP wars with other guilds? Not sure how that compares to Lineage's much bigger guild war zergs.

If you really, really want that Xianxia web novel/Cultivation novel aesthetic in a game, then you're probably going to have to look at singleplayer games. Ho To Lu Sho and Gujian 3, though I didn't think they were very fun and dropped them. Maybe Chinese Paladin or Sword & Fairy is better.

I'm not really looking for production value per sey, but rather the gameplay mechanics, e.g. instead of just leveling up, you level up to a certain point based on your cultivation qi method, then you have to find something to breakthrough to the next tier, and that gives you a big power boost, etc... something more unique.
I remember playing lineage or perfect world, but they were more on generic side from my memory in that regard.

Yes there's some single player games out there, though was hoping for something bigger feeling, like a big open world. When I played, Gujian 3 just seemd like a final fantasy rip off set in china.

Age of Wushu 2 is literal vaporware
Moonlight Blade never came to the West
Sword of Legend never recovered its playerbase and shut down last year
Where Winds Meet is coming out soon but it's structured more like Genshin Impact than a MMO

There's World of Jade Dynasty being developed I heard, donno if it's going to get released though.

 

[itsme]

Not an mmo but it has a coop pve mode - Naraka Bladepoint.

 

[deama]

Not an mmo but it has a coop pve mode - Naraka Bladepoint.

I think I tried this a while back, don't actually remember much at all from it...