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Just got EQ2, my thoughts
BroodsteR
Member Posts: 86
FANTASTIC
I can't exactly give a full review I've only played it for an hour or 2, and I loved every millisecond of it.
It's just constant action, none of those deliver x to y bull crap, it's all about killing monsters and adventuring...
WoW (no disrespect I did like WoW), makes you run around towns endlessly trying to find NPCs, trying to find monsters, trying to find items by killing crazy ammounts of monsters. (That's not fun...)
EQ2 you just kill everything in your sight ! And the graphics are so damn cool.
I don't know wtf all this 'I need a geforce 8 bull crap'
I have a Amd64 3000+, 1gb ram, and radeon 9550 pro.
This game runs so smooth and I havn't experienced a frame skip ONCE.
I have a great smooth framerate and the game just looks beautiful.
I would recommend anyone who hasn't tried everquest2 to give it a try, forget what other people say, I've played both, and my pityness for EQ2 led me to buying it, and now I envy WoW selling by their brand and not quality.
Liked: Shadowbane, Neocron, Ultima Online(Before UO:R)
Not Sure about: DAoC
Disliked: AC1, Everquest 1, Everquest 2, World of Garbage(Warcraft), Eve Online, Jumpgate, AC2, Anarchy Online, Sims Online, Saga of Ryzom, Lineage II, City of Heroes, FFXI, Planetside, UO:R(and after)
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Wait till you get around level 20.
EDIT: That's not to say the game will suck then, I meant you'll have done quite a few delivery quests by then.
"Okay you freaking sig nazi's. Everything between these floating comma type things is my sig. Not part of my above text.
If ignorance is bliss, you'd think people would be happier when you point out what morons they are!"
Two hours, eh? Wow, you really are a hyperion classed game critic. But you know, I thought EQ2 was fantastic too after just two hours of play. Hell, I even had good thoughts for Horizons after my first few days, it seemed really fun at the time.
Come back and tell us again how much you really like it after two or three weeks of play time, then maybe you'll be worth taking seriously.
2 hours is too short to put a review .Leave that to the paid reviewers who do that often enough
As a true mmorpg gamer you should review after a few weeks play.
Also,it seems to me you want to put down WoW.
I beg you please don't do that
On this site EQ2 fans have shown great restrain as against another group of fans(name not included you all know the game in question and the people involved) who have gone around spreading garbage over EQ2 in every single post like some radical fanatic preacher that knocks on your door every day and refuses to go away.
This few bad apples have given a bad impression of the kind of people you meet in the game.And made the majority of the fanbase who are totally not like that ,look like them.
This people have given their game and community a bad reputation please avoid doing this to EQ2 .Don't put down WoW.
Damn for some reason my post do not showes up. Be glad I was flaming you Broodster.
in short, go play more, talk later. Your thread is pointless.
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Wait about a week until you give your thoughts. The first 2 hours I played the game I almost called EBgames and told them to pre-order it for me (luckily EBgames was closed on that day).
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If you have difficulty finding quests in EQ2 you should seriously consider giving up gaming. The real problem is trying to maintain room for more quests in the 50-quest journal. My god ... exclamation points and dots ... do you want to DO anything in a game, or just paint by number. Maybe they should assign an NPC to you that you could put on auto-follow and be led through the quests while you read your comic books.
If you have difficulty finding quests in EQ2 you should seriously consider giving up gaming. The real problem is trying to maintain room for more quests in the 50-quest journal. My god ... exclamation points and dots ... do you want to DO anything in a game, or just paint by number. Maybe they should assign an NPC to you that you could put on auto-follow and be led through the quests while you read your comic books.
Obviously all of WOW's NPCs don't have question marks. And the dot on the minimap only shows up once you have gotten within proximity of the NPC.
If you want to run around and talk to every NPC you can do that in WOW the same way you have to do in EQ2. But if you want to do quests that are appropriate in difficulty to your character's level, you can choose to only talk to the ones with yellow question marks.
In EQ2 you have glowing yellow line to NPCs.
Killer: 80%
Achiever: 60%
Explorer: 33%
Socializer: 26%
Killer: 80%
Achiever: 60%
Explorer: 33%
Socializer: 26%
A joke, actually. But the point of that line (I know because I wrote it) is that EQII's graphics engine will bring many current graphics cards to their knees unless effects and settings are lessened to some degree. I played it on two systems (including my own which has a geForce FX 5200 128) and the frame rate on the default systems was choppy. It took some playing with the settings to get the animation smooth.
EQII has a graphics engine that was built for the future. While that is nice forward thinking, it seems to have left out a number of those in the present, including those with less than 128MB graphics. The minimum reqs on the box say it will run on a PIII 1.0 GHz system with 64MB graphics and 512MB RAM. Anyone who attempts to run it under those circumstances is in for a heapin' helpin' of frustration.
Of course, I'm sure someone will post that he has that exact system and it runs with absolutely no performance hit. I can buy that Broodster's system can make it, but a PIII/512/64? I don't think so!
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You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
MMORPG.com Staff
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Old timer.
MMORPG.com Staff
Nice to see someone else remembers the original adventure game
Its been a long time.
Killer: 80%
Achiever: 60%
Explorer: 33%
Socializer: 26%
Killer: 80%
Achiever: 60%
Explorer: 33%
Socializer: 26%
True enough, a second job is precisely what it started feeling like. A mediocre job on minimal wage to be very precise.
Camping in the same room for an hour to get one key to complete four different quests at level 15? Yeah, that's a really involved quest system there, cojack.
Oh, and something else I feel like mentioning. Was anyone else out there killed by a the freaky flying killer fish of Nektulos river while only standing on the bank? There I was running along the river and all of a sudden **BAM**!! Four big ass fish leap out of the water into flying mode and proceed to kick my ass. They followed me over land for fifty yards away from the water where I finally fell. Naturally, I submitted a bug report to SOE, asked around and found out other people have as well. I come back to Nektulos a few days later and what do I find? Not only are fish still killing people but I see that they're staying out on land and aggroing people who walk by, no where even close to water.
That was the final issue that said "it's time to go back to WoW." Retards in the gaming community I can handle. Despite what some people might think, EQ2 does have them. I've both guilded and grouped with them there. WoW has them too, but not nearly as bad as everyone seems to think. Lag issues I can handle as well.
What I can't handle though is a game that's half empty on the fun issues despite all the promises of a great game that they fed to us, piss poor programming issues with certain mobs, and the apathy that refuses to fix these issues.
MMORPG.com Staff
Nice to see someone else remembers the original adventure game
Its been a long time.
/em tips his hat to a fellow veteran gamer.
Not many around here remember the days of text adventures, although Scott Adams has been known to post here. (No, not the Dilbert creator you young whippersnappers! Click here if the name is unfamiliar).
Cheers!
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You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
MMORPG.com Staff
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Old timer.
This now just another WoW vs EQ2 mudsling .