Other unique games that are long dead or kinda around in some way...I imagine this kinda fits in this thread since hazeron was so unique
Anyone ever play a game called Lands of Hope (or Forlorn Online as it became to be called toward the end. No not the junk steam game he made, he never could replicate how good the original was lol)? It was still the only browser RPG that was like it, had an incredible indepth housing/dungeon building system and outside of Runescape, was probably the biggest and only browser game I ever liked. Not just the building system, but had the best pet system to be seen in a browser game let alone most games in general...nothing ever came out again like it. Sadly got pretty pay to win toward the end, but besides that, was really good for a long time.
Asheron's Call is alive through emulators...but no one still has made a world as unique as Asheron's Call. Like, still the best npc enemy ever (for me) is the Olthoi and it truly was a diablo loot system that was done extremely well. And if anyone played during Bael'zharon event...an actual GM played as Bael'zharon and the whole thing was just amazing. Granted, I dunno if I could go back to such an old MMO even if it is still around. Tbh I did try to get into it again a year or two ago, but the control system is too archaic and I quit.
Guess SWG would be the same in that there is yet to be a star wars MMO or an MMO at all like SWG, I still play emulator(s) for it, but one of a kind for an MMO/especially a star wars one.
Anarchy Online...well this one is probably a given. Okay so its not dead, but any funcom game is a dead game lol, they abandon all their games (except conan exiles) and leave them to die so its pretty much dead. Still outside of funcom being a dead heap of a company, AO after it fixed its launch issues was probably one of the most unique MMOs ever played and no MMO around like it. I guess I'll throw in city of heroes as a side note along with AO, but there are some superhero MMOs around and I didn't think it was THAT unique outside of theme/setting, but unique enough to get a mention. I still loved CoH so nothing bad about it, but not really as unique as people make it out to be imo, maybe for the time it was. But yeah, as far as AO goes...that game was pretty awesome.
Istaria/Horizons...well I mean...the only playable MMO with a dragon...AND...its....still updated? UPDATED FOR DECADES AND DECADES?
Yeah dunno, the company who started it is still updating it...surprising I know lol. That makes it unique in itself just because the game is kinda small community wise. Or maybe the community took it over, not sure, pretty sure original people kept going the whole time which makes it unique in itself. Its also the extremely rare PvE based sandbox (mostly sandbox) MMO, alongside Ryzom...every other single sandbox MMO or anything vaguely sandbox is just a gankfest MMO (update: Istaria is ran by volunteers, so community ran pretty much. Pretty neat)
Hm...I'm sure there are a lot more unique MMOs out there. Neocron is one, but I never got into it. There is Planet Entropia, which before you say anything, is actually extremely good if you play it as a normal MMO with a 15 dollar "subscription" fee, ignoring its a casino MMO...its actually good, though more like second life than anything else as the MMO I only enjoyed because of the community/social atmosphere. Also the community in planet entropia is probably surprisingly the most friendly (but not creepily overly friendly) community I've ever seen in an MMO...dunno how that happened lol. But literally never experienced in an MMO such an amazing REAL community where there wasn't any douches, gankers, harrassers, trolls or people pretending to be nice to you and overly friendly, just completely normal people lol, probably only reason I enjoyed my time in PE...but that makes it pretty unique to me.