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Opinion: EverQuest Truly Is My Greatest MMORPG Of All Time

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited July 2020 in News & Features Discussion

imageOpinion: EverQuest Truly Is My Greatest MMORPG Of All Time

Jonathan breaks down why he feels EverQuest is the original GOAT of MMORPGs, at least for him.

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  • NanfoodleNanfoodle Member LegendaryPosts: 10,901
    EQ1 was my first MMO love as well. Never have I been so lost in a game or been more connected to a gaming community. I have been chasing that high ever since.
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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,061
    For some reason, I read that as Adventure Quest and questioned my faith in humanity. 
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  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 10,014
    Yeah it was a blast...UO was my first MMO (well if two days counts as a MMO) and I hated it...I thought I was going to be a single game player till the end of time and would never touch another multiplayer game again. Thank goodness EQ came along.
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  • AmatheAmathe Member LegendaryPosts: 7,630
    EQ was my favorite of all time as well.
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  • olepiolepi Member EpicPosts: 3,055
    I started gaming in the 1960's with Avalon Hill war games. By the later 1970's, I was playing Adventure on the computer, and then Star Trek. I loved the Baldur's Gate games, and Morrowind was a revelation.

    I looked at EverQuest and decided I didn't want to provide a credit card. I didn't really understand what an MMO was. When DAOC came out, I jumped in 100%. DAOC was for me what it sounds like EQ was for you. What an amazing experience!

    I remember getting high enough level to PvP for the first time, around lvl 43. As a minstrel, I could contribute even at that low level.

    By 2004, I switched to Ryzom, and City of Heroes. Both of those games are fantastic in my opinion. Vanguard SOH was also a blast.

    Since then, MMO's have been dumbed way down. Today, in ESO, you get maybe 6 skills at first, and that goes to 10 or so at the top. The classes are few, and options within the classes are few.

    I never played WoW, but I did get into LoTRO beta, and bought the lifetime at the launch. That's been a great investment.
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  • AvanahAvanah Member RarePosts: 1,627
    Such a Nostalgia inducing post. Thank you!

    I remember my days starting out in 1996 with Meridian 59. Then in 97 I moved to UO where I was one of the Co-Founders of Fired of Heaven guild.
    When EQ started showing up all over in the news and an eventually lucky Closed beta Invite got me into helping test the game and fix bugs with many other people, I was so amazed at what this game was.
    Once released in 99 I played it off and on due to my "Military" duties so I could not really get too far for being absent a lot.
    One of the best times of my PC gaming Life I shall never forget. :)
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  • NyghthowlerNyghthowler Member UncommonPosts: 392
    I grew up playing D&D through out my childhood and teenage years. I had seen UO, but it just didn't do anything for me.
    Then I stumbled across EQ. It sounded intriguing and, as I was looking for something new to play, I decided to give it a try.

    I have never been more addicted to a game in my life...! Not only for the gameplay, but for the close friendships I made. It was an almost magical time while EQ was in its heyday.
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  • NanfoodleNanfoodle Member LegendaryPosts: 10,901
    olepi said:
    I started gaming in the 1960's with Avalon Hill war games. By the later 1970's, I was playing Adventure on the computer, and then Star Trek. I loved the Baldur's Gate games, and Morrowind was a revelation.

    I looked at EverQuest and decided I didn't want to provide a credit card. I didn't really understand what an MMO was. When DAOC came out, I jumped in 100%. DAOC was for me what it sounds like EQ was for you. What an amazing experience!

    I remember getting high enough level to PvP for the first time, around lvl 43. As a minstrel, I could contribute even at that low level.

    By 2004, I switched to Ryzom, and City of Heroes. Both of those games are fantastic in my opinion. Vanguard SOH was also a blast.

    Since then, MMO's have been dumbed way down. Today, in ESO, you get maybe 6 skills at first, and that goes to 10 or so at the top. The classes are few, and options within the classes are few.

    I never played WoW, but I did get into LoTRO beta, and bought the lifetime at the launch. That's been a great investment.
    I played EQ1 from launch, when DAoC came out I thought, why not lets try it. I took a short break from EQ1 and got lost in the RvR system. Was not long from that I subbed to both and played DAoC for RvR and EQ1 for PvE. I got lost and disconnected from RL. I dont regret the few years I did that. I still have not found a MMO that did PvP as well. 
  • Mackaveli44Mackaveli44 Member RarePosts: 717
    Wonderful post -

    Many of us who enjoyed EQ for many years all have similar memories and experiences. I will always remember working on my Monk Epic on Tunare and being one of the first couple on the server to get it, walking around like you said being admired like a god. It was amazing. It felt incredible and the sense of accomplishment was out of this world, something you do not experience at all in these MMOs nowadays.

    Great post, great memories.
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  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    It was AC for me (because my All-in-One ATI 3D card could run it but not EQ) but nice article about your first MMO love.

    In a way it's very similar to the first time having sex: a lot of fumbling around, "working on mysteries without any clues," but forever memorable and glorified way beyond what it objectively deserves
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  • MythlaMythla Member UncommonPosts: 25
    Since my days of playing EQ I met my soulmate and married her, had an amazing daughter, published multiple novels, and sold a screenplay that was actually made into a film. Sure, that stuff was pretty neat i guess, but those highs were but a shadow of the pulse-pounding thrill of finally hearing "THWAP, THWAP, THWAP..." after thirty-some hours camping Stormfeather. Every gaming experience since that kill has just been me chasing the dragon.
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  • MendelMendel Member LegendaryPosts: 5,609
    When EQ came along in 1999, I had already had 25+ years of gaming behind me, first with board games from Avalon Hills and SPI, then more social gaming with D&D and it's imitators.  I had jumped into computer gaming with various games on my Apple II+, before it was replaced by a Mindset computer (a beautifully made, not-quite-IBM compatible PC) but that had little offerings for games.  I migrated into the second generation Amiga computers (A500) which had a decent selection of games, mostly graphics, though.  I went back to the PC world, with a succession of 80186, 80386 and 80486 computers.  I remember the early days of EQ because I had to build a new computer (and buy the components -- that almost 2 paychecks)  to handle the game.  A better processor, a drastically improved graphics card and the Windows operating system.  I only missed the official April 99 launch by a month.  (Mendel's birthday is June 06, 1999 -- he was my third character).

    I was hooked (and financially invested).  That first EQ machine is still running on the adjacent desk, after all this time (and numerous upgrades to push the old technology as far as it would go).  That machine was retired several years back from active use.  Now it serves as a statement to tell me that just because Microsoft decides not to support a product (WInXP), it can't still go on working.  If something should happen to this machine, it would be just an hour or two of updating to get EQ up and running there (maybe not with the speed of the newer machine, but still, EQ).

    EQ and I have been friends for some time now.  I may have drifted at times, but I always seem to come back to it.



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  • killahhkillahh Member UncommonPosts: 445
    edited July 2020
    Funny this article came up, I just restarted EQ on the weekend, turned out a large part of my guild on Emarr (shout out to Ring of Destiny!) has returned and is having fun again. I started a necro, lvl 85 heroic start, and have been having a blast, easy to Fina groups, and once again I fear for my life, and my wife if she finds out :)
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  • ziabatsuziabatsu Member UncommonPosts: 150
    Yeah if you couldn't handle an open world sandbox, and open ffa pvp with full loot, EQ was your best bet.
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  • NanfoodleNanfoodle Member LegendaryPosts: 10,901
    ziabatsu said:
    Yeah if you couldn't handle an open world sandbox, and open ffa pvp with full loot, EQ was your best bet.
    EQ1 had some very unique PvP servers. People who made them their home have raved about them still to this day. 
  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 10,014
    ziabatsu said:
    Yeah if you couldn't handle an open world sandbox, and open ffa pvp with full loot, EQ was your best bet.

    Yeah because it was so much fun getting killed over and over by players that had maxxed their skills using scripts......
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  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,404
    I identified so much of the same feelings reading your article.

    All these years have passed since I played Everquest and I can definitely say with absolute certainty it was the very best game I played. I have not found any that comes close to it in terms of immersion.
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  • JimmydeanJimmydean Member UncommonPosts: 1,290
    I agree, EQ was the greatest MMORPG of all time. Unfortunately, I don't believe we'll see another EQ any time soon.

    Pantheon sounded good at first but it's clear that it will either not launch at all, or will be so "modernized" by the time it releases that it will be closer to WoW than EQ.
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    Did you mean 64MB of RAM because 64GB in 1999 would have been super uber.
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  • AaronGRAaronGR Member UncommonPosts: 1

    Jimmydean said:

    I agree, EQ was the greatest MMORPG of all time. Unfortunately, I don't believe we'll see another EQ any time soon.

    Pantheon sounded good at first but it's clear that it will either not launch at all, or will be so "modernized" by the time it releases that it will be closer to WoW than EQ.



    It will be worse than both WoW and EQ from what I understand Devs are implementing full inventory drop with gold on death, only keeping Equipped items. I will pass on that game.
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  • WebferretWebferret Member UncommonPosts: 90
    EQ - An MMO that relied on Community team work, I miss those days of actually talking to people to get things done. EQ was a shining example how to bring many people together to have fun. It took time to get to places, and at times was also dangerous to take the adventure to get to such locations. Delving into Dungeons was a blast, Kael Giants hate me for eternity I think.

    EQ still my most favorite MMO of all time.

    Most memorial moment, I met another player who was supposedly a female player, which we all know 99% are guys behind the GFX, she lived in the same area as I did, and we met. Long story short. its 20 years later, married with 6 kids and still play MMO's together.
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  • lahnmirlahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,054
    Iselin said:
    It was AC for me (because my All-in-One ATI 3D card could run it but not EQ) but nice article about your first MMO love.

    In a way it's very similar to the first time having sex: a lot of fumbling around, "working on mysteries without any clues," but forever memorable and glorified way beyond what it objectively deserves
    Don’t forget the grinding, both have lots and lots of grinding  o:)

    /Cheers,
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