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EQ2 overrated, WoW here i come....
rohbshop
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in Everquest II
I just typed a long post explaining why but this forum is so stupid, it logged me out and ate it 
I'm not typing all that again, why cant they fix that?
I'll just say i was an EQ2 fanboy early on, imo EQ2 deserves most of the praise it gets for its early play, but once you learn alot about the game and what it turns into, its overrated. I have a feeling there will be alot of others who may currently be in love with the game but will see things this way at some point. Mark my words....
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lol what makes you think WoW isn't just overhyped also???
well anyways i hope you find what you want in WoW
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EQ2 is PvE endgame. Thus it will most likely remain the same kind of tactics, combat, and situations until the end of the game. City of Heroes has a decent endgame, but its more of a question of showing off your high level hero and costumes kinda thing. World of Warcraft will have a strong PvP endgame much like DAoC, which means players will determine a high part of situations and interactions for the endgame. As of yet, beta does not include an expanded PvP advancement system and is somewhat pointless.
actually EQ2 is pretty different than EQ1 in gameplay, altho similar in many other ways. In general i think its dumbed down especially in terms of tactics. Devs also said theyre lookign to do a totally different type of high end game, not sure what that means, but i dont think anyones reached that point yet.
To the person that said how do i know about WoW, i dont. But at least now i'm going to be at least buying it, whereas before i was a big EQ2 fan and didnt plan to.
EQ2 is misleading, lets just say early experience does not carry thru to the rest of the game.
Heh, I didn't think posts like this would start showing up till january.
EQ2 is very misleading. I don't think it's the game most people expected it to be.
Yeah, I'd do Betty....
But I'd be thinking about Wilma.
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"Do I come to your workplace and tell you how to kill civilians? No, so don't tell me how to do my job" - Sam Fischer.
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--OracleP4
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WoW is overrated and WILL end up like linage 2, sorry WOW Blows, iv stress tested it and beta tested it, this is dog shit compared to EQ2
WoW is the same way, once you hit lvl 10 you dont want to accept one quest ever again. You dont watn to kill those 20 mobs for 3 quest items, you dont want to craft your new armor and go out and quest more. The game is so repititive and boring. At least in EQ2 you can group. WoW forces you to solo/quest.
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I wouldn't say that WoW blows, it has it's good points...then again so does EQII.
I found that both games were very similar in the aspect of actual gameplay. Both have excellent questing systems, although WoW's is dumbed down a bit (just look for the people with the big yellow ! over their heads). The actual quests are interesting and have a good storyline to them in both games, though.
I didn't get to play around with EQII's crafting much, so I won't try to compare the two. WoW's crafting system is very simple and easy to get right into making useful items, EQII's (from the little I did experience) seems a bit more in depth.
Community, well, EQII's blows WoW's away. I found WoW's community to be very immature and rude whereas EQII's seemed a bit more friendly and helpful.
PvP, WoW has it, EQII doesn't-no comparison there. If PvP is an absolute must for you in a game, I suppose EQII won't do anything for you then. I played on the RP servers in WoW's open beta so I didn't really taste what their PvP was like, but from what I read on the forums there it rather sucks.
EQII's graphics are more refined and realistic, although I really did like WoW's as well. They were completely different styles, but WoW's were very colorful and vivid, can't quite explain how easy it was to be taken with the look of the game.
Point is that both games have their pros and cons, EQII has housing, WoW doesn't. EQII locks players into their combat, good for stopping kill stealing, but bad for benevolent healers who like to do run by buffing and/or healing. WoW allows others to assist you, whether by healing or fighting, but only awards xp and looting rights to the person who held the aggro. RP is difficult to say the least in WoW, natural to EQII...I could go on, but I'll digress.
In the end it comes down to a personal preference of what you like better. Me? After playing the entirety of the WoW open beta I've decided on EQII and plan on going out in the morning and picking it up. It's not to say that WoW wasn't good, I just liked EQII better.
Pointless post sorry just as much as posts that say WoW blows.Simply because this site is so filled with trolls and fanbois no review is now valid.
Already the trolls and fanbois are circling the post.
Bottom line for all those who are thinking of playing EQ2 or WoW go buy it and try it for yourself.This site is now plagued by trolls and fanbois who for some reason have given themselves a non playing job with blizzard or SoE.
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"Do I come to your workplace and tell you how to kill civilians? No, so don't tell me how to do my job" - Sam Fischer.
--OracleP4
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"Do I come to your workplace and tell you how to kill civilians? No, so don't tell me how to do my job" - Sam Fischer.
--OracleP4
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/Agrees wholeheartedly
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OracleP4, why does the discussion stop with your opinion? Fan boys indeed... Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black to me.
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"Do I come to your workplace and tell you how to kill civilians? No, so don't tell me how to do my job" - Sam Fischer.
--OracleP4
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"Do I come to your workplace and tell you how to kill civilians? No, so don't tell me how to do my job" - Sam Fischer.
--OracleP4
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I can't claim to be nor be accused of being a Sony or Blizzard fanboy (actually girl) since I hated EQ1 and SWG and I never played one Blizzard game, not even Diablo so take that twisted sense of logic elsewhere in reference to me.
I judge games by how well I think they're done, not by who makes them. All ANY of us can do is offer our opinions of the games, but in the end it's just OUR OPINIONS none of which are fact. The only facts of the matter is that the games are games. What appeals to one will not necessarily appeal to all. If WoW appeals to some, great, same for EQ.
My question is, if you're so gung ho on WoW, why are you even looking in the EQII forums?
Sorry, but saying WoW is easy I would say isn't entirely true. Many people agree WoW is very easy...the first 20 levels. Why? Well that is the "tutorial" phase of WoW. Level 10 is the true tutorial, but it still gives you a break up to about 20. Then it starts to increase in difficulty, until the endgame where it is a DRAMATIC increase in difficulty. Comparing the "vox" raid to the "onyxia" raid when the two games where in beta, it showed that WoW was extremely more difficult to figure out, and Onyxia is actually the easiest tier of WoW raiding, and Vox of course is not. After comparing the two, right now WoW's raiding system is way better, IMO, because of the depth and complexity involved in completing them. Plus the time sink in WoW is not leveling, it is gear hunting, which takes a lot longer... Still, your first level 60 will still take you over 12-20 days /played and getting him "geared" up for upper level content will take even longer. Once you know all the ins and out, you can max a character in about 9-10 days /played, but again gearing up takes time there too.
It may not be your cup of tea, and thats fine, but saying WoW is extremely easy is a fallicy. Oh, and not all of WoW's quests are given to you by the golden !
There are actually tons of "hidden" quests in the game that do not start out at a NPC quest giver.
Because this post has the word WOW in the title. Plus I wasn't looking in the EQ2 forums when I posted it, I was just looking in most recent posts section, I didn't even notice nor did I care that it was in the EQ2 forums. I figured it was just another pointless WOW vs. EQ2 debate that needs to be brought to and end.
It is not opinion any longer but fact that WOW is better then EQ2, appeal and opinion don't matter any more. This debate has been going on much too long and people should go play their respective games already. I can't cause I'm at work.
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"Do I come to your workplace and tell you how to kill civilians? No, so don't tell me how to do my job" - Sam Fischer.
--OracleP4
Like: DAoC, WOW, GW, DnL
Dislike: SoR, EQ, EQ2, SWG, KO, AC2, CoH
Don't Care About: Most Everything Else
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"Do I come to your workplace and tell you how to kill civilians? No, so don't tell me how to do my job" - Sam Fischer.
--OracleP4
Like: DAoC, WOW, GW, DnL
Dislike: SoR, EQ, EQ2, SWG, KO, AC2, CoH
Don't Care About: Most Everything Else
The "Opinions are like a-holes...." quote couldn't be more true than in threads like these. If you like EQ2 great, no reason to hate on WoW and visa-versa. Personally I am sick to death of SOE from SWG and don't feel like putting my self through any more of that BS. Blizzard seems to be doing a better job, but is definitly not flawless because of BS like the forced servers and such. Why don't you post all of the great things about your game and give up comparing the two, they ARE completely different games and personally I'm quite happy that they are not trying to clone each other. Diversity is always good.
He's right, ya know. I mean, it's fine to not like a game say so on these boards, but why not at least give some examples of why you don't like it? Statements like WoW sucks, or WOW is so much better than EQ2 are meaningless to everyone except the person who writes it, I suppose.
Sure I favor one game over the other, and I'll even write nasty things about some games I didn't like, but you'll know why.