One Shots is a Massively Overpowered feature in which we highlight cool MMORPG screenshots from readers. You can send your screenshots into us at justin@massivelyop.com. [Follow this feature’s RSS feed]
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One Shots: MMOs are serious business
As we all well know, MMORPGs are a Serious Business indeed. We must treat them reverently and with our utmost due diligence as we...
One Shots: Lonely hearts
Are gamers really lonely? Do we flock to MMORPGs as a response to that? I'm pondering these thoughts today following the response of a...
One Shots: Through the portal?
The other day, Bree was complaining about how so many screenshots from modern MMORPGs suffer from a bland and monochrome palette. Coming to the...
One Shots: Lights, camera, frogs!
Just because you happen to be a humanoid frog doesn't mean that you've lost at the lottery of life. On the contrary, you have...
One Shots: Screenshots big enough to wallpaper your house
Obviously due to column width limitations, we have a fixed pixel size for screenshots here at Massively OP. But that doesn't stop some of...
One Shots: Eight-bit vista
One of my favorite MMO April Fools of all time is Guild Wars 2's playable Super Adventure Box. It's so brilliantly designed and executed...
Ask Mo: Work progresses on the comment system
Earlier this week, Massively OP reader Sally asked us for an update on what's changed with the comment system recently. Since then, I've been able...
One Shots: Avenging angel
When you push a player too far, commit too many crimes, and flaunt your evil with one of those tacky pre-battle speeches, you're going...
One Shots: I took a picture THIS big!
When you take the best screenshot in the world and want to impress your friends, do you find that you end up exaggerating a...
One Shots: The Candy Man
If you have a sweet tooth or diabetes, you may want to avoid the temptation that we're about to put in your path with...
One Shots: No more worlds to conquer
There's that special joy that every screenshotter knows when you're able to get that perfect angle, that photogenic pose, and then capture it for...
One Shots: All dolled up
It's always a crapshoot with our weekly screenshot challenges; sometimes they take off, and other times... not so much. But boy howdy did you...
One Shots: There’s nothing wrong with being childish
An interesting bit of fallout from last week's One Shots challenge to submit a picture that captures a "childlike" spirit is that several commenters...
One Shots: I am no man!
The big screenshot challenge last week was to capture action, not just still shots, in MMORPGs. This is tricker than it sounds, because you...
One Shots: The power of pink hair
Wherever there is trouble, Manastu Utakata will be there to fight it with her lightning-fast screenshot button and trademark pink hair. Villains, start running right...
One Shots: Cow disco!
With the recent switchover to a new comment system and the very real fear that we might lose previous comments (including, alas, your excellent...
One Shots: A purrrfect sunset
What makes a good sunset even better? When you get to curl up with your favorite pet and share a Hallmark moment together.
UpayaCrow kicks...
One Shots: Healin’ skellies in Shards Online
When the NDA is away, the cats will play -- and take screenshots! Bless our dear community for documenting upcoming MMOs as they venture...
One Shots: Tabula Rasa’s 21-gun salute
Ralph the Wonder Llama kicks off today's community screenshot gallery with a salute to the late, great Tabula Rasa.
"Yes, Tabula Rasa ended up being...
One Shots: The Reaper comes for all MMOs
In light of this past week's sad Landmark news, it's perhaps too on-the-nose that I asked for players to send in pictures of defunct...
