As much as I "down" this game now. Everquest was mystical and magical when it first came out. A friend told me to buy it and I just couldn't see myself playing it. Eventually I gave in, my first toon was a human monk, I remember killing rats and stuff in newbtown, I tried to be the humble monk so I would do what I could to help people although I really didn't know what I was doing. Someone told me when I hit lvl 5 to goto the lil halfling area - They told me that it would be a dangerous journey but, worth it. Sure enough after killing many an orc pawn, rat, bat - I embarked on my long journey. It was dangerous but, worth it. I remember people coming to the halfling village - where I made my home. Goblin hunter and defender of my new town! And helper to all who passed through. Someone told me one day that they were trying to complete a faction quest to become defender of the town and get a rechargable healing ring I think. I had spent so much time in my lil town that I already had the faction for the ring but, still didn't really understand all that - eventually I reached lvl 17 or whichever one it is you get feign death - oh it was a sight to see. Running from a giant - feign death - OMG!!! It worked!!! The giant turned and walked away! I was so impressed I would run and FD, run FD - I wanted to show everyone! Anyway - those were the days. I remember playing the game till the wee hour - next thing I know - it's the next day.... 12 hours!!! What?!?! I'm bringing my food to my computer to eat etc.... WOW!!!!! I have to quit this it's worse than drugs!!!
I played a ranger in the end - hence I now and forever hate this game.
Man... that is crazy... I thought I was the only one that felt that way about old school EQ. I started out watching my uncle bow kite mudmen with his ranger in that gorge... cant remember the name of it... its where the minotaur horn and polished bone bracers dropped... with the evil eyes, lol... I eventually started up as a Half Elf Paladin, Lemamdar... a name that no one could pronounce but me.. everyone said Lemander... I was fortunate enough to not only have a bunch of friends in game, but i had 3 uncles and all their friends that played it and helped me out a bunch, it was never the same after they added luclin tho... but i still loved it right up until Ykesha... things went south from there (who ever heard of trolls gettin beat by stinkin frogloks? the n00bs i pwned with my low lvl chars?). It was a place that you could really miss, and I was on and off of the game after Ykesha. Now, I play on a private 'old school' type server, Shards of Dalaya, but it still really isnt the same feel, and not the same community at all. If sony would release EQ all over up to Velious, or maybe even Luclin(Bazaar Pwned) I would pay double for it... EQ robbed from me about 4 years of my afterschool and weekend life, lol, and i loved it
awww old EQ i remember my first day.. it was a beautiful day i brought EQ home loaded it up.. and logged in.. thought ok.. barbarian... shaman.. because i can get spirit of the wolf. I get in and wander through the town wondering how do i get out of this place. so i reference the manual and figure it out.. woohoo i start swimming because the raft took forever to start if it did back then. i get outside and start killing the bears and goblins.. run to the guards a few times.. died im sure.. but that day what sticks out in my mind was the server crashing every 15 minutes it seemed. but i still would keep restarting and kept trying to play.
fast forward to level 9 .. woohoo spirit of the wolf!! now its time to make the great journey few have made.. i head out to go to Freeport.. i start crossing the karanas.. very few people out.. its night time and its stormy and raining in the game.. following the road with my friend we come across a barn so we go inside and theres just some NPCs .. then we hear it.. boom.. boom..boom.. what the hell is that i ask.. my friend doesnt respond.. so im like hey.. wait here im gonna go outside and check it out. i step outside the door and look to the left.. then i look to the right.. and just as i look around i see this big boot stomp on my head.. dead. my very first encounter with a Hill Giant.. my friend soon died after that .. that will forever stick in my head.. we finally did get to Freeport but it was quite a journey.
I soon dropped my shaman and created a DE necro and never went back.. Tanjin was his name and i so loved the days of killing gnome guards and Ogre guards and Human guards and dwarven guards .. ok well i killed every guard even the dark elf guards.. some how tho i was the only Dark elf who was amiable to the dwarves in Kaladim and walked into their city freely not quite sure how i got that way.
then came kunark and it opened such a wonderful part of the game.. Sebilis and such.. and my favorite place in the game.. the Pot room.. where you could click on a pot and port to any of the cities.. one of the few who bound myself there in time before they nerfed that.
I agree there has yet to be a game that totally captures the feeling you all described.. I was so drawn in and very much wish to have that feeling again.. but i doubt it will ever be.. and thats ok.. because EQ in its infancy was great even with its bugs and crashes.. what i think it was most for me was the feeling of exploration.. everything was a new experience and so there was deep immersion into the game
The first day outside of Crushbone and entering it thinking it was hot. Nice memory.
But my first time meeting with the Efreeti Lord is far more incrusted in my memory and is a pure dislike of the end game betrayal, have nothing to do with the whole progression. Seeing the "FINISH LINE" not been on my track is wrong, I doesn't raid, the finish line can't belong to raiders. I don't care if I reach it or not, as long as I can HOPE to reach it...I can't hope to reach it in a raiding trash.
I left EQ over this Efreeti Lord...then SoE took over and they put heavy marketing traps, saying grouping and solo was nice and everything...and I fall for it...during SoV. When I reach again the high level (before SoL), I was outraged but figure I can give it a try...In PoP I was catered to (not many high level chanters who know how to walk and chew a gum at the same moment back then) and benefit from a lot of side effects which make it interesting and...LDoN marketing was kicking in...so I keep going...LDoN come in, it was the best expension, I have a blast...but the devs back away and remove the best reward inside LDoN. GoD come and I nearly delete my character as I left EQ for good.
No raiding game will ever get a chance again. From the start I ask and annoy devs about end game and lack of answer = I don't try/stick. Grouping uberness belong to groupers and to nobody else. Solo uberness belong to soloers and to nobody else. If the devs can't understand at least 1 of those 2 laws (or understanding both ideally), I won't trust them or play their game. End game deserve to be logical with the game core itself.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
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As much as I "down" this game now. Everquest was mystical and magical when it first came out. A friend told me to buy it and I just couldn't see myself playing it. Eventually I gave in, my first toon was a human monk, I remember killing rats and stuff in newbtown, I tried to be the humble monk so I would do what I could to help people although I really didn't know what I was doing. Someone told me when I hit lvl 5 to goto the lil halfling area - They told me that it would be a dangerous journey but, worth it. Sure enough after killing many an orc pawn, rat, bat - I embarked on my long journey. It was dangerous but, worth it. I remember people coming to the halfling village - where I made my home. Goblin hunter and defender of my new town! And helper to all who passed through. Someone told me one day that they were trying to complete a faction quest to become defender of the town and get a rechargable healing ring I think. I had spent so much time in my lil town that I already had the faction for the ring but, still didn't really understand all that - eventually I reached lvl 17 or whichever one it is you get feign death - oh it was a sight to see. Running from a giant - feign death - OMG!!! It worked!!! The giant turned and walked away! I was so impressed I would run and FD, run FD - I wanted to show everyone! Anyway - those were the days. I remember playing the game till the wee hour - next thing I know - it's the next day.... 12 hours!!! What?!?! I'm bringing my food to my computer to eat etc.... WOW!!!!! I have to quit this it's worse than drugs!!!
I played a ranger in the end - hence I now and forever hate this game.
World of Warcraft - it's getting boring also....
What's next?!
Build a world - I will journey through it!
Nameless 17 monk of everquest
end game ranger - bane of my existance
Mojojojo - 60 orc hunter - retired - Gorefiend
Stormshadoh - 60 NE Druid - Kael Thas
Mentat - of Dune
Man... that is crazy... I thought I was the only one that felt that way about old school EQ. I started out watching my uncle bow kite mudmen with his ranger in that gorge... cant remember the name of it... its where the minotaur horn and polished bone bracers dropped... with the evil eyes, lol... I eventually started up as a Half Elf Paladin, Lemamdar... a name that no one could pronounce but me.. everyone said Lemander... I was fortunate enough to not only have a bunch of friends in game, but i had 3 uncles and all their friends that played it and helped me out a bunch, it was never the same after they added luclin tho... but i still loved it right up until Ykesha... things went south from there (who ever heard of trolls gettin beat by stinkin frogloks? the n00bs i pwned with my low lvl chars?). It was a place that you could really miss, and I was on and off of the game after Ykesha. Now, I play on a private 'old school' type server, Shards of Dalaya, but it still really isnt the same feel, and not the same community at all. If sony would release EQ all over up to Velious, or maybe even Luclin(Bazaar Pwned) I would pay double for it... EQ robbed from me about 4 years of my afterschool and weekend life, lol, and i loved it
awww old EQ i remember my first day.. it was a beautiful day i brought EQ home loaded it up.. and logged in.. thought ok.. barbarian... shaman.. because i can get spirit of the wolf. I get in and wander through the town wondering how do i get out of this place. so i reference the manual and figure it out.. woohoo i start swimming because the raft took forever to start if it did back then. i get outside and start killing the bears and goblins.. run to the guards a few times.. died im sure.. but that day what sticks out in my mind was the server crashing every 15 minutes it seemed. but i still would keep restarting and kept trying to play.
fast forward to level 9 .. woohoo spirit of the wolf!! now its time to make the great journey few have made.. i head out to go to Freeport.. i start crossing the karanas.. very few people out.. its night time and its stormy and raining in the game.. following the road with my friend we come across a barn so we go inside and theres just some NPCs .. then we hear it.. boom.. boom..boom.. what the hell is that i ask.. my friend doesnt respond.. so im like hey.. wait here im gonna go outside and check it out. i step outside the door and look to the left.. then i look to the right.. and just as i look around i see this big boot stomp on my head.. dead. my very first encounter with a Hill Giant.. my friend soon died after that .. that will forever stick in my head.. we finally did get to Freeport but it was quite a journey.
I soon dropped my shaman and created a DE necro and never went back.. Tanjin was his name and i so loved the days of killing gnome guards and Ogre guards and Human guards and dwarven guards .. ok well i killed every guard even the dark elf guards.. some how tho i was the only Dark elf who was amiable to the dwarves in Kaladim and walked into their city freely not quite sure how i got that way.
then came kunark and it opened such a wonderful part of the game.. Sebilis and such.. and my favorite place in the game.. the Pot room.. where you could click on a pot and port to any of the cities.. one of the few who bound myself there in time before they nerfed that.
I agree there has yet to be a game that totally captures the feeling you all described.. I was so drawn in and very much wish to have that feeling again.. but i doubt it will ever be.. and thats ok.. because EQ in its infancy was great even with its bugs and crashes.. what i think it was most for me was the feeling of exploration.. everything was a new experience and so there was deep immersion into the game
The first day outside of Crushbone and entering it thinking it was hot. Nice memory.
But my first time meeting with the Efreeti Lord is far more incrusted in my memory and is a pure dislike of the end game betrayal, have nothing to do with the whole progression. Seeing the "FINISH LINE" not been on my track is wrong, I doesn't raid, the finish line can't belong to raiders. I don't care if I reach it or not, as long as I can HOPE to reach it...I can't hope to reach it in a raiding trash.
I left EQ over this Efreeti Lord...then SoE took over and they put heavy marketing traps, saying grouping and solo was nice and everything...and I fall for it...during SoV. When I reach again the high level (before SoL), I was outraged but figure I can give it a try...In PoP I was catered to (not many high level chanters who know how to walk and chew a gum at the same moment back then) and benefit from a lot of side effects which make it interesting and...LDoN marketing was kicking in...so I keep going...LDoN come in, it was the best expension, I have a blast...but the devs back away and remove the best reward inside LDoN. GoD come and I nearly delete my character as I left EQ for good.
No raiding game will ever get a chance again. From the start I ask and annoy devs about end game and lack of answer = I don't try/stick. Grouping uberness belong to groupers and to nobody else. Solo uberness belong to soloers and to nobody else. If the devs can't understand at least 1 of those 2 laws (or understanding both ideally), I won't trust them or play their game. End game deserve to be logical with the game core itself.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren