Everquest

I played EQ near launch and thought it was dated back then compared to all the single player games I was playing at the time. I decided to give the game another go and tbh I have never had a more buggy trash of a experience in a mmorpg even worse than that Dark and Light game I tried at beta awhile back.

Ok So I decided to make a Lizardman type thing and then started at some city which has very dated graphics and lots of rivers then exits out onto omen lake 3 or whatever it said. Anyways I got stuck in the river things and frigging couldn't find anyway out but the ladders but the only problem is the ladders didn't work! You kept trying to go up it and it would just chuck you off and then no matter what I did my character just wanted to slowly sick and I eventually worked out you have to keep tapping space to stay afloat which I found very strange and annoying.

I'm trying to ask for help of what to do and I'm just called a noob under the new player chat which it's like :S Yeah I am a new player so your point being? The place is ssooooo barren and empty because noones playing the game anymore or something and it's the most barren mmorpg I have ever seen and honestly I never found one player while I tried lots of servers. I eventually got out by using a ladder and I'd always get stuck just as your about to have all your body out of the water and then all of a sudden it just suddenly teleported me onto the surface......... as I was crossing the wooden bridge I fell straight back through and just gave up with that character,

I'm not one to configure controls because normally if you do that then you fuck everything up and have to set it to default cause something isn't working. What I hated is theres no WASD movement from default and I found that soooo weird and I thought they would have patched that in and made it default by now atleast. I hate the way you can't right click and auto combat but you have to select and then press the button because I always do stuff in games via the mouse as it's alot nicer to play like that I kept trying to click away but ended up targetting myself more often that not. Omg the graphics and the sound I understand is bad because it's old but the controls are still old and clunky. What I don't get is the point of the map which looks like some kid drew it because you have this nicely detailed coloureful world map and then each area is like a kid drew aload of lines and it's like wtf is going on? It doesn't even tell you where you are on the world map so I had NO idea what so ever.

I just found the game sooooooooo BAD I just quit in disgust that people are still playing it and if the Vanguard dev's wanted to make a game like that then I think they succeeded at making a much better game lol!

I don't really like being stuck in a river thing and not being able to get out.

Your thread is incorrectly named. I guess it just isn't for you. I tried it again after 5 years and was reminded of a lot a places and things I had all but forgotten. MMO's have come a long way, good or bad I guess. I won't be playing it because I'm used to all the conveniences we see in mmos now, but I found your post entertaining. LOL

Everquest helped to pioneer a whole new era in online gaming.

I remember playing when it first came out. Sure, there were some annoying issues, and features that may be considered primitive by today's standards, yet it was still the first popular 3D MMO out there, and king of the hill until WoW came along.

Not worst by a stretch, but you're right about some of the bugs in it and very frustrating at times. The game IS dated, but it also is going is nearly 10 years old so that is expected.

EQ gfx and game play dated by todays standards? hmmm

I tried it for the first time like 2 weeks ago.  Uninstalled it within 2 hrs lol.

Was too dated for me to even play.  I guess I would have been able to bear it ~5-7 yrs ago, but not now.  It was painful to even look at.

I know that is to be expected, I'm just stating my thoughts :P

Originally posted by JustBe

I just found the game sooooooooo BAD I just quit in disgust that people are still playing it and if the Vanguard dev's wanted to make a game like that then I think they succeeded at making a much better game lol!

I am really tempted right now to say: "Go continue your incessant whining elsewhere, probably in graphically-intense yet design/fun-shallow games like AoC," but I won't. I think most of the ranting centered around the graphics (What would you expect from an 11 year-old game?) and the control layout. I kind of laughed at the whole "I don't change my key settings" comment, since it took me about a total of 10 seconds to configure the WASD movement in EQ when I wanted to. It's pretty imperious to put down a game that obviously was not meant for you, and automatically assume that your ravings have some sort of credit when they are really only based off of playing through the first hour or so of EQ. It indeed was a pioneering game that essentially (I know there are probably a few other games to claim this) was the first critically acclaimed MMO.

Originally posted by xephonics

I tried it for the first time like 2 weeks ago.  Uninstalled it within 2 hrs lol.

 

Was too dated for me to even play.  I guess I would have been able to bear it ~5-7 yrs ago, but not now.  It was painful to even look at.

 

I know that is to be expected, I'm just stating my thoughts :P

Believe me, 10 years ago, when EQ first came out it was revolutionary. Noone, and I mean NOONE, had anything like it at all and it was a huge undertaking. New territory that no other company had tried and it was a big risk. Obviously, it worked out as it was a big hit and stood number 1 for 5 or 6 years. Even other MMO's that came out years later came under the realization how daunting it was and it showed companies just how much they'd have to invest into a good mmo.

Yes I realize that, but in 2008, it is nothing special (to me) - infact it was rather horrid.

Sure the first car was awsome and revolutionary, but if you want a good ride, would you take a model-T over a Viper?

I know the vantage point of new players playing EQ today because I tried AC some time ago and that was seriously ugly, and dated. New people playing EQ will see it the same way and unfortunately any good aspects Everquest might have people won't see.