EQ,WoW or DAoC?

JimDaDefiler · June 2005

i havent played a rpg for several months now..played EQ for about 5 years and DAoC for maybe 2-3 and have never played WoW...the past few days i have been scratching my brain on which one to start up again..any output would be very much appreciated...HELP ME CHOOSE!!

Veiled_light · June 2005

DAOC is really hard to get into now, i wouldn't personally, probally die soon anyways.

Everquest is easier than ever to get into, still has 400k people. Nice golden oldie.

WOW copies other mmorpgs and makes everything way too easy, no economy no player housing and a crap pvp, plus bad community really ruins it! Warcraft name is why it's popular.

Everquest 2, mite aswel try it! To me it's EQ but alot easier, only fun if your pc can handle it tho

JimDaDefiler · June 2005

Originally posted by Veiled_light

DAOC is really hard to get into now, i wouldn't personally, probally die soon anyways.
Everquest is easier than ever to get into, still has 400k people. Nice golden oldie.
WOW copies other mmorpgs and makes everything way too easy, no economy no player housing and a crap pvp, plus bad community really ruins it! Warcraft name is why it's popular.
Everquest 2, mite aswel try it! To me it's EQ but alot easier, only fun if your pc can handle it tho

alright man i think i'll stick with EQ i have a couple high lvl toons there anyways...but i also had a lvl 48 healer in DAoC =-/ oh well ty for the info..

Yeebo · June 2005

Obviously you already know a good deal about DAoC and EQ. If you are happy in EQ by all means play that. However, if you haven't tried them and you're jonesing for something new, I would also recommend EQ II or WoW. They are also both quite good. EQ II is casual and solo player freindly, but still has more depth than WoW. It also has an amazingly rich (but also amazingly repetitive) crafting system. WoW is not as deep as any of the others you mention, but playing WoW is like receiving oral sex while shooting up heroin every time you play for about the first two months. It's just that fun and addictive. Unfortuinately, it gets very stale once the newness of it wears off.

JimDaDefiler · June 2005

i was going toward EQ..but now im certain im gonna go back to DAoC for a while and if it bores me then ill go back to my 5 year long relationship with EQ..if that doesnt settle me(which it always has in the past) then ill try a NEW MMORPG like WoW or something..but ty for your input it is very much appreciated.

Smyd · June 2005

eq one is the best then eq2 follows... all the rest dont compare :P

ganon89 · June 2005

all three are great games and i would take any of tehm i have played them all and tehy are all alot of fun. everquest is getting as little old and is hard to get to teh end game but still is good. wow is fun i left daoc for it but eventually went back to daoc.

mabas19 · June 2005

Ok first thing im asking, have you ever played EQ2? EQ2 has awesome graphics that make EQ1 look like crap. There is voice chat for the NPC's and you can find npc's by asking the guards not by going on looking up the npc in a book or on a website like you have to do for EQ1. If you wanna game that you will play for a long time I would get EQ2. ITS AWESOME

Kane · June 2005

First, let me qualify this by saying I have Station Access, so I play them all. The graphics in EQ1 have been substantially upgraded as of last year. They can now pass for maybe...a 2 year old game. Well, the character models anyway. Old world content still looks pretty old. Finding NPCs in EQ1 is now just as easy as EQ2 as they added an NPC search feature. Personally, I like both EQ1 and 2 for different reasons. EQ1 feels more epic and is definitely tougher, but more rewarding. EQ2 is faster paced and more action filled, with quests taking no more than 15 minutes to half an hour each in the early levels.

Bobiin · June 2005

I chose EQ2 as the funnest. To tell you the truth, I love all the games listed.

EQ was the best game ever... and i mean ever. It will never be topped or outdone, but then a crushing blow came to it known as the Planes of Power. It took out the size of the world, and made alot of the old world zones useless. Needless to say the Scars of Luclin wasn't very healthy for it either. *sigh* The eq i knew and loved is no longer with us today. The community will never be topped. /moment of silence

-----edit----- Just so ya know, i played EQ from release all the way to 2003. Was my first and favorite MMORPG ever. Probably my favorite game of all time as well. Cheers

EQ2 Is a great game! The combat is intense and fast paced. The heroic oppourtunities are amazingly fun, the quests are very very immersive. Great community.

WoW. Loved it, fast gameplay. Fun untill you hit level 60. Horrible community, though, I would swear there was about 75% of the community under 15.

Never really played DAoC, dont have much of an opinion there. (only played the 7 day trial)

neschria · June 2005

I loved EQ for years, I am playing WoW now, and I played DAoC for a while at launch. I haven't played EQ2, so I can't comment on that either way.

If you wouldn't be starting from scratch, either EQ or DAoC would probably still be good bets. WoW is a great game for the time-challenged and the extremely casual player, but no so much for the serious MMORPGer . (I like WoW, but if I were playing more than an hour or two at a time, I think I'd have gotten tired of it and gone back to EQ.)

EQ has changed over time, and while I was upset by some of the "dumbing down, " I haven't really seen anything much better in any of the games I've tried (which would be most of the big ones).

Thunder- · June 2005

take away one vote for daoc, i just wanted to see what had the most.

brostyn · June 2005

I've actually tried all these games since WoW game out in November. I left DAoC for WoW. While WoW is a fun game the community is really lacking. I was on horde side, and there was so few of us it made grouping very rare. I was in 2 groups in my 41 lvls. Lots of immaturity. Not to say mature people do not exist there. I left that and tried EQ2... um yea I'm still pissed about losing my 50 bucks. I mean this game is so freakin boring. People claim its changed and you can solo now. Yea cool, I can solo something that doesn't have any drops. Groups are, of course, hard to come by just like the original EQ. It looks just like EQ where you have to group and even worse you must join the elite guilds to advance. Why did they even make a new one? Anyways, I headed back to EQ from a year long vacation. Place was pretty empty and no one did LDoNs anymore, which is what I loved most about EQ(I've been playing since Kunark, btw). I got tired of trying to keep up with all the expansions. Especially since the last 2 were just terrible, imo. I went back to DAoC, and have been having a decent enough time. Leveled a few toons to 50. Right now, I'm on break from MMOs. Looking forward to trying out DDO and Age of Conan. Anyways, I say stick to DAoC. EQ is pretty much empty except for a few zones. EQ2 is a complete snoozefest. WoW is ok.

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