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Resubbing at EQ2!
segmentfault
Member Posts: 75
After taking roughly one year off, I will be returning to EQ2. I have tried many MMOs in the meantime, and here are my comments on them:
1. Tabula Rasa (Tried the trial and really liked it for a week or so. After a while I found that the path you took on the map seemed too forced and linear and overall the substance just wasn't there. Not bad overall.)
2. WoW (Tried the trial but didn't like it very much. I felt that the path you took was too forced on you and the graphics really turn me off as I felt I was in a really horrible cartoon.)
3. WAR (Currently playing this and the PVP is pretty fun. The PVE is awful and uninspiring, but the PVP and RVR makes up for it. Overall, I feel like it's extremely linear and the route you take on the map is completely forced.)
4. Age of Conan (Was fun for a week until I realised that there were major class inbalances. My Necro that I put so much time into just couldn't hold a candle to many other classes in PVE and PVP. The path you took again felt forced and too linear. After a while I just lost interest even though the graphics are outstanding.)
Which brings me back to EQ2. I just can't find a game that is as hard as EQ2, has an open map that doesn't feel forced, has a great community and chat system, coupled with the lore and depth EQ2 does.
A lot of people say that EQ2 is not a sandbox, and to an extent I agree because of levels and gear restrictions. But what I find so great about EQ2 is that the map is so open, and you can explore quite a bit without "following a path" that most MMOs seem to be adopting lately [blame WoW.]
Anyways, I just thought I'd post this to share my experiences with others and to give EQ2 credit where credit is due. I just wish for one thing for Christmas, that EQ2 would upgrade the engine to make use of multi-cores.
Thanks for reading and I'll see you on AB.
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Wow, what a time to come back. As I just renewed my subscription and viewed the latest October 9, 2008 update notes, I see this:
MULTICORE SUPPORT
EQII now runs better with more than one CPU.
The game automatically detects if you have more than one CPU.
There is an option to control whether the game uses multicore mode in the Options Window under Display -> Performance.
If you're running multiple clients on the same computer you may want to disable multicore mode.
Game clients prefer running on CPUs other than the first CPU.
Setting the multicore option has no effect on machines with one CPU.
I guess christmas comes early
i too once had such love for eq2
but really "open" and not "forced" are simply not true
for those kind of thisng you should really go try VsoH these days,its the only game they really apply to
Well concerning the 'open' and 'not forced' are mainly true in my eyes. I'm not looking for a complete sandbox. For that, I'd go to something like Second Life.
I am an oldschool MUD player from the early 90s and all those MUDs like CircleMUD were basically a spin-off of a D&D type game. Even D&D, the godfather of all things RPG, isn't a complete sandbox.
EQ2 does have an open map type structure. If you want to go to a level 60 zone, there's nothing stopping you. Overall, you don't feel like you're guided through a tunnel like a MMO like WAR or WOW.
When you say to check out VsoH and you state "its the only game they really apply to
," do you mean that VsoH is open and not forced, or that it is?
Thanks for your input!
He probably means VsoH is a very open map world - you can pretty much wander anywhere you like at any level, although obviously you're going to need to be pretty careful (or be able to run really fast!)
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that would be what i meant thank you
I have a 6400+, GTX 260 and 4Gbs of RAM. EQ2 ran better BEFORE the patch when I had a 7600GT (!)
What the fuck? !
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I like Vanguard and I love it's open worldness, but I find that the game still lacks in atmosphere. If you go to the major cities you see a lot of NPC's standing around, which is fine, but then you can run into huge areas that are empty and don't seem to have any purpose.. That needs to be worked on, I'd love to see quests and content added to these areas, which is probably why you won't be seeing an expansion for Vanguard any day soon. Also, and this is something I bring up a lot in other forums, so sorry if I'm broken record, but there's no children NPC... Yet again. I know it seems like that's something that wouldn't matter, but for a game that claims to be able to immerse you, it omits that one thing.... I'd take children running around towns before housing, I know what am I on? :P
So those are things lacking in V, that is present in Eq2 and to me that's why Eq2 is still better. I don't like the instanced zones either but I'll take it over a grand world that seems empty in many places.
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I'm sorry? WoW is even more open than EQ2
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I'm sorry? WoW is even more open than EQ2
That is a matter of opinion. Every MMO out there leads you on a linear path of leveling. Just some of them its more prevalent than others.
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I do love EQ2, but I'll have to admit that when you get to the RoK zones (70+), it pretty much leads you from one zone to the other. You do have to quest for faction and decide what to and what not to do, but it's pretty much linear.
I'm sorry? WoW is even more open than EQ2
That is a matter of opinion. Every MMO out there leads you on a linear path of leveling. Just some of them its more prevalent than others.
ya I agree. I feel theres more openess in EQ2 than WoW. Im not speaking of zones and instances however, which may be where some think EQ2 is more closed (understandable). Im speaking of pure game world environment in spheres of collections, questing, crafting and variety of classes. I feel im more "free" to shape my character than in most games.
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