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EverQuest II: Yahoo Games Preview & Exclusive Movie!

MalkavianMalkavian Member UncommonPosts: 2,995
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Russ Fischer of Yahoo Games recently took a look inside Sony's EverQuest II. Releasing an extensive Game Preview, in-game screenshots and an Exclusive featurette available for your viewing pleasure!
"The most basic designs of EverQuest II have been tweaked to attract the many players who felt that the original game was simply too much to handle. Specifically, no more will players be required to find several dozen of their closest friends to clean out a dungeon or slay a dragon. Instead, EQII focuses on smaller groups, limiting party membership to six. Quests are accordingly less demanding (from a human resources standpoint), but no less epic. The idea is to create a sprawling, living world that can become a gamer's vacation spot, rather than a home away from home."

Check out the Game Preview at Yahoo Games here.

Download the exclusive featurette from Yahoo Games here.

"When you find yourself sinking into Madness, dive"

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  • ArchaegeoArchaegeo Member UncommonPosts: 233

    The new video is mostly clips from other videos, not really exclusive, though it does have some interviews I hadnt seen before.

    Good for a view while waiting though

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  • MalkavianMalkavian Member UncommonPosts: 2,995

    Yes i was a little dissapointed, but then again it also did include clips we haven't seen before. All in all it still makes me wish i could play it already... image

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  • RCCrashRCCrash Member Posts: 7

    Translation:  Greed prevails again.  For those of you that take offense to that statement,  quit reading now.  I'm not trolling you.  The statement comes more from a concern for the genre as a whole.

    EQ1:  How many times have you been scared in EQ1?  I myself, was scared often.  The reason:  the penalty for death was high enough that I really really really did not want to die.

    EQ1:  Travelling to a new destination was a quest in itself!  Who remembers the first time you travelled from Qeynos to Freeport (pre-books!).  The travel in the original EQ epitomized the term 'getting there is half the fun'.  I even had a DE that made a name providing young adventurers an escort service.  That was some fun roleplaying to be sure.

    Enter the second and third gen mmo's.  What tangible changes have been made to make the game more accessible to 'the masses'?  You guessed.  Lower death penatly and easy travel.  What a shame...

    Now,  I understand the nature of business.  To make a profit.  The changes I lament are targeted directly towards that goal.  It's hard to argue the concept (Although EQ1 in it's original for was pretty successful wouldn't you say!?!?).  But in the end,  players coming onto the mmo scene now will never know the true excitement of completing a long journey while avoiding costly death.  Freeport is now just a click away at lvl 1.

    Donny S Alumbaugh

  • RCCrashRCCrash Member Posts: 7

    dbl post.....

  • dokahdokah Member Posts: 26

    I didn't hear anything about gameplay other than phrases such as "hundreds of hours," and "thousands of players." We've all come to expect those things in massively multiplayer online games. EverQuest 2 definitely looks like it will sell hardware.

  • TormentedToyTormentedToy Member Posts: 4
    OMG I can't believe how negative you all can be. So what that the video was mostly just screen shots of what we have already seen. I just want to play the ficken game. You and I all know this game is gonna be awesome, and if you are just gonna slam it before you have even played the game then guess what ~ last time I checked no one had to tie me down to play a game I really liked, and I really doubt that If you all don't like it, then you don't have to play. But, I'm sure I won't be playing alone ~
  • TheHiddenOneTheHiddenOne Member Posts: 66

    Shame about the video, as I had hoped for something more in an "exclusive featurette" but still worth a view to remind ourselves what will come.

    The review was an interesting read as I, being only an occasional EQ player, hadn't really realised that EQ is limited for my style of approach! Also, didn't help that the reviewer seemed to be listing some "differences" in EQII to EQ that I thought were exactly the same image

    Doesn't change how much I'm looking forward to this though, whether it comers out in September as retailers seem to be saying or November as this review states.

  • MeipMeip Member Posts: 21

    kickass teaser... never been an EQ fanboy but for sure i'm going to be in the sequel as long the gameplay will have something good to keep me in it .

     

    edit : yea someday I won't just be the player ...mab I'll be a part of the game's creation ... dream on they said  

  • AdinaNZAdinaNZ Member UncommonPosts: 40

    Found the article to be a bit refreshing, as its the first one I remember having tidbits about the gameplay (combo wheel mention).

    I'm hoping for more articles to give insight about gameplay, especially things such as downtime.  There may be more out there articles with gameplay info out there, but I don't go looking so this is the first.

    November release though?  *cough*

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