So i got an Email this morning...Follow

... offereing me three months free EQ and EQ2 to get me back into the game.

So i patch 18 months worth of data, spend hours trying to remember my password/login name etc..

I Even download a WoWclone Ui so i'm not totally confused as to where simple things like my bags are.

Finally i log in and spend 5 mins looking at each toon wondering which would be the best to start with after basicly 3 years of not playing (i didn't really play EQ much the last 18 months of my account time.) and so having spotted that my old main was in Bazaar, i logged her in.

And the client crashed.



Trying again now...

Downloaded....logged in my 70 ranger....stepped out into PoK.....looked around...tried to adjust video settings to max....realised they already were maxed....logged out.....uninstalled.

Superficial! Me? Damn right I am...

/goes back to AoC and LoTRO

Have fun tho guys. EQ was my first MMO and I loved it then.

But this is now.


Edited, Jun 4th 2008 12:08am by paulsol

Your right. I didnt.

But I'm superficial like that.

I've never ever had a problem with EQ graphics and still don't!

Course those EQ pics are the old graphics, trolls don't look like that anymore ( or Iksars for that matter)

The AOC does look sweet... be interesting to see if it sticks.

I last logged into EQ nearly 2 years ago. So that is how it looked when i quit.

I still remember some places that I saw for the first time that I stopped and stared at. That is what would be missing for me if I came back.





Early days yet. but from what i've experienced so far, it has HUGE potential. Theres a visceral feel to it, that is missing from all the other games I've tried. It has an 'edgy-ness' that apeals to me. They have managed to capture some of the barbarity and filth of the books. For example, a frontier barbarian settlement feels 'muddy'.

LoTRO is still a winner as well.

Anyway this is an EQ thread..I'll be off.

I'm not trying to make it out as a horror.

Its like when you have fantastic memories of a place you used to hang out as a kid. Then 30 years later you take your own kids to the treasured 'place', and when you get there, rather than finding a pool of crystal clear water, with willow trees and a rope-swing, you find a muddy puddle with a old shopping trolley and a tyre floating around in it.

Sometimes its better to keep the memories you have, rather than trying to ressurect the ones you think you have.

So if you got nothing better to do, go and kill Fippy for me, Nit-picker.

I'm with Paulsol on this one.

My affection for EQ, and my 1st ever toon, remains, but logging back in to reacquaint myself with old friends was very disappointing this week.

The core engine is extremely dated now, and after the near-realism of LoTRO, I couldn't find the immersion I used to find in Norrath.

My 1st girlfriend was gorgeous - freckles, blonde pigtails and a smile that melted me with a glance.

30 years on, she's probably saggy, wrinkly and unattractive.

I'll remember her as she was thanks.

Ditto EQ.

heres the deal for me.

When i click on my WoW icon on my desktop, i am playing inside 3 minutes unless there is a patch, i timed it this afternoon, it took 13mins 20 sec to log in to a char...

Once there the graphics where awful, not bad absolutely awful, painful chair squirmingly awful... and the lag was worse than WoW, much worse as it happens and that was running through an empty Felwithe, not another toon in the entire zone.

I wasn't expecting 100's of people but i was expecting more than 3 people in PoK bank... So who am i going to relearn with? my guild long since booted my *** out, it appears none of my friends list play anymore if they even remember me and i have no idea where to hunt.

So i strongly suspect i will be returning to WoW fairly shortly...

i was nice to spend some Plat in bazaar though but i fear the chances of me actually entering combat are slim.

Still waiting on my email

Yes, Now the POK banks are deserted ( for the most part) but the guild lobby had 75 people in it last night on Zek.

As for the loading times, with the new patcher, it takes all of 3 minutes 14 secs from icon to character screen for me.

I know how you feel about the games Tarv...I just never left EQ. The other games were like that pretty girl at the mall...she was fun to look at, but I always came back to the woman I know intimently...

That is why it is great that these new games ( AOC, WOW ) are so well done and popular, cause it leaves the best game around for me

When was EQ ever about graphics anyway? Maybe compaired to UO they were nice but Eq has never been cutting edge in the visuals department

The tagline for this event is Celebrate your hardcore heritage.

EQ has always and will always be about the adventure. Yeah, you can do the books in LoTRO and fight with Legolas but that is something everyone does and isnt very prestigous. EQ makes tasks and quests seem unique in that there is so much content that not everyone does the same quests. Also in the case of epics, some characters never do them. The rewards you earn in EQ feel like they are truly yours because of the time and effort invested in them.

No other game on the market can give you the raid experience like EQ. Every MMO has endgame content, but nothing near what EQ has. That kind of adventure can never be beaten, and quite frankly on game is likely to live as long and amass such a huge ammount of content like EQ has.

Edited, Jun 6th 2008 12:51pm by tombiggy

But, Paulsol, your Avatar is increda-hot, so that makes everything OK in my book :)

Edited, Jun 8th 2008 3:19pm by badogre