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You can never go back to EQ. That's the problem the Sigil people had with their vision. The reason EQ was so awe inspiring was because you had never even thought of playing in such a massive world with people all around the world like that and suddenly there it was. I imagine anyone starting his first MMO gets much the same thrill. I know once I started playing with other people, single player games just lost their interest.

The think I remember most about EQ was the absolute fear of getting killed. Not only would you lose several days playing time and perhaps a level (am I the only one who always seemed to die within minutes of levelling?), but if you were somewhere new, you could lose your corpse and all of your stuff. And they populated low level areas with occasional instant killing machines just to make you even more scared. And forced you to sit and stare at a blank screen after every battle to regenerate mana, where you would not even notice the Giant before he wanders across the zone before he smashes you to pieces. I remember heart pumping fear every time I started to explore a new area that something would jump out and one shot me and I would not be able to get back in time to get my stuff. Not to mention the agony of dying just before you were ready to go to bed and realizing you now had to stay up another hour and do a corpse run.

The hallmark of excellence in any game development is if they have to add in sub-games which are in no way related to the main game just to make the main game seem bearable.

All very true; you can't regain that same awe you had the first time you played an MMO, but how is this the problem with Sigil's vision? How are the two even related? As far as I know Sigil's vision doesn't really rely on their players being brand new to the genre, quite the opposite, in fact.



I take it you didn't enjoy the fear? Myself, I like being afraid, I dig some risk. I'm tired of having my hand held and I'm bored with games that pander to the lowest common denominator. Danger is good; excitement is good. Risk breeds ingenuity and strategy, encourages thinking things through and punishes douchebaggery.

That said, staring at your spellbook while you med is bad, but if I could find someone to create a mod to bring back that old school EQ interface, you know, the one where you saw the world in the tiny little window in the middle of the unbelievably cumbersome buttons and chat boxes and stuff? I'd probably shoot them, or maybe choke them.



Edited, Apr 30th 2007 7:05pm by Barkingturtle

Fear is why I love PvP so much and what I miss so much in regular ol' blubie mmos. I can't have fear and danger in my real life and still have a normal life so damnit give it to me in my games.

Been there done that. I mannage to die not too long after I finally got my main to 75. Was all prepared to offer a cleric 1K+ to use the epic clicky rez for 100%, but it ended up was just a hair still in 75 after the death. Alot of the "negatives" have been minimized to be more competitive with the other MMOs, of course travel time is alot faster with portals, and with guild lobby summon corpses the daeth penalty is reduced though not eliminated. The new fast out of combat regen means 2-3 mins to full mana and health no matter how many hps/mana you have. Its not the same game it was, though with so many zones now, the world seems huge still, just takes less time to get there. It is still a tougher game to master and excel at than WoW or other games.

I dinged 53 no less than 10 times. Fortunately I played a gnecromancer(gnome necro) so I never quite lost my corpse, just quite a bit of money for coffins. Of course I could also locate my corpse while invisible and /corpse to a safe place for a cheap necro CR.



I knew I could never go back to Everquest again when the progression servers opened and I couldn't bring myself to camp LFay orcs for more than an hour at a time. Compared to 4 years ago spending 30 hours straight camping one spot I am a gaming weakling.

Edited, May 1st 2007 12:12pm by Natdatilgnome

EQ was the third online game I played. All the others are long gone. I never did mud's, but ever since I started playing and join a guild in NWN, SSI's Gold Box game on AOHell, I been following my guild to new games.

I start playing eq, after months of reading email about the game on guild list and boards. When I mention thinking of getting the game, a guild mate Wun, ask if he could send us an extra copy of the game he had brought for his son, but ex wouldn't let his kid play the game.

A week after Christmas 1999, I got a package from WunderClause and 2 EQ addicts were born. Wun past away few years ago, and his son and 2nd wife are now member of the guild. I got to meet her at our 10 year anniversary Bash in '04.


PrimrOse
Peer Councilor, The Brotherhood of Pathfinders

Hi guys!

My name is Darqflame and EQ popped mine as well! (even though I was an avid UO watcher)

Hi my name is Rosleck and I am a alcoholic.....opps wrong meeting...

EQ popped my cherry as well.

The first Online game I played was in the mid 90s called Drakkar, I think. It was horrible graphics, 2 dimensional game that you had to dial up to and paid by the hour, $2 per hour after like 40 hours free. I ran up $80 worth of a bill and they cut me off when I did not pay for it. Once the play by months games came out and I had time to play, I knew I was going to be hooked.

Got your other cherry popped?

Hi my name is bodhi and DAOC popped my cherry!

I know, it's like admitting to sleeping with the fat sister