Current Events > part of me misses Everquest

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the original game had a really interesting world and lore. I wasn't a big fan of how they changed it in Everquest 2 which was set 500 years later and after a cataclysmic change to the world. but in the original, the world they crafted was pretty cool. that's why I played it for so long. but the game is so dated now, even though they keep adding expansions. I know that if I logged in aftter all these years, I would be disappointed. it won't feel the same. I wish they would make an everquest 3 that is on the level of WoW and retcons 2 into never happening and makes it more like it was in 1 just with better graphics and gameplay. call it Norrath Reborn.

I miss EverQuest, but I don't really miss how boring the camping and steep level grind would get

TheMarthKoopa posted...

I miss EverQuest, but I don't really miss how boring the camping and steep level grind would get

yea the gameplay was bad. but I think about the story and sometimes I think the planet of Norrath might be better than Azeroth. but the game didn't display the story and lore properly. and it was all about just grinding. most people I played with had no idea what the story was. I was one of the few people to research it, and I was my guild's official "loremaster"

It's still around and being updated. An expansion just came out last year.
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i miss MMORPGs so much. playing an MMO in the early to mid 2000s was one of the greatest experiences ever because the whole concept of virtual worlds was new and exciting to everyone
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Sparksfanboy posted...

Crowfall, Pantheon, and New World are all upcoming MMOs that seek to bring back the pre-WoW spirit of the Everquest games.

Pantheon looks like the most interesting one. If the devs deliver on even half of their promises it's going to be THE BOMB.

Wildstar tried to do this and failed miserably
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I have the same feelings for Ragnarok Online. That game pretty much dominated my life for a couple years. I miss the world and music and all that, but not the super grindy game itself.
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EQ was a bad game with good graphics (for the time) and decent lore. There were better MMOs before and after in terms of actual gameplay loop.
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What the world really needs is a new Ultima Online. No level system. Reagents to cast spells. World PVP. Dungeons you have to find to access. Just give me a massive, almost-too-big-to-explore world filled with tons of hidden shit and let me go to town.
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I remember it was ruins of kunark experience. co-workers back then tried to get me to game with them as the mmo gaming became a thing. EverQuest was our 1st 3d MMO game together. we were coming from Ultima Online. the game mechanics was familiar with dnd like rules.
so there we were in 2000 playing everquest. coworkers and their wives playing the game together. it was a blast. i had a roommate who played eq and i made a human qeynos monk. i didnt get my own game until later when i decided to leave UO. ruins of kunark was fairly new in the game and i made an iksar monk. there i was in quarter of Cabilis. it looked savage like it's been through some shit. I thought of how battle torn everything was compared to the human settlements in the main land.
fast forward to shadows of luclin coworkers and I were camping poair for epic mobs. we all got to a certain isle and just camp out to alts until we all were ready to camp the isle. lotsa fun that was farming key to key and clearing the isles to get where we needed to be.
by planes of power, most my coworkers left the game by then. they moved on to other games. while i did more key farming.
by gates of discord, i think I saw the game lose its wealth of players. man I loved raiding GoD. the challenge was vastly pumped up. going through zone debuffs and crazy raid splits was worth the efforts because Tacvi was raidloot end gear payoff I didn't know there was another raid loot zone like potimeb. made my berserker then. I wanted to key and flag him for rots but i just didn't get my berserker geared enough to survive and my monk was needed more on the raids.
I played my berserker when i returned to the game and pretty much stuck with him from omens of war to veil of alaris. the game went f2p then and I just couldn't play anymore. the thing was I knew the game and played well. it just wasn't the same without my friends.
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