All Posts by Acaeus

I'm an ex-EQ1 player, played on and off for about 2 years. I'm a casual player so playing EQ was a mix of fun and work, precisely the reason of why it was on and off.

I will tell one thing that EQ2 players know but will never admit to.......  IMO, WoW is more like EQ1 than EQ2 will ever be. Don't get me wrong, WoW as you mentioned doesn't have the same stupid grind, corpse runs, death system, but it does have the best of what EQ1 had to offer. For starters Racial Towns/Areas, diversity in content, diversity in tactics (each class and sometimes within each class). I don't play EQ2, but merely reading from good sources it was easy to detect they have removed everything I liked about EQ1 (and I was waiting for EQ2 not Wow):

• There is no more kiting which IMO makes fighting now a lot simplified and boring. (kiting was fun and dangerous!)
• You no longer can interact with other players if theyr not in your group, toss a heal, a buff or help them in any way. (this what MMORPGs are all about IMO, not grouping !)
• There is no more specialized solo classes, which means soloing is a lot more difficult.
• As mentioned, no more racial areas/towns.
• Classes were very diverse, now they all play similar

It may not seem a lot to you but those are the things I liked the most about EQ1. On the other hand, Wow allows you to do all of that. I admit kiting is not 100% like in EQ1 but it is still doable. Racial town and places are a blast, you play as a dwarf or gnome is totally diff than playing as a human for instance.

I could go on and on, on the goods (graphics are great, art is ever better) but I will just mention the only thing I really don't like about Wow:

Character customization, I think if they had done a better job on this item, Wow would have been perfect to me. Char customization is really poor.

BTW, to be more precise: (the best of)EQ1+(the best of)DAoC+better graphics+Warcraft Art=WoW.

 Worst death system ever !!!

If you don't post often enough you will lose levels and become a newbie again.

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Originally posted by Cloudink

my advice, get 2 gigs of ram, i have noticed that EQ2 is unforgiving about ram, i have 1024mb's,(my computer with all the processes at start up runs at 700mb of ram so do the math.) and boy lemme tell ya after 3 hours of str8t combat i got 40mb of ram left!! so if you got 2 gigs for ram in Dual Chanell mode (make sure ram is the same in every way) you should be fine.

Your video card should do fine as well.. it cant help to upgrade but from whats happening on my computer ram is my next upgrade.. DDR2 here i come.

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You can go to control panel->adm tools->services and remove a lot of useless stuff windows has. If you're not running a server, first thing is to disable server and computer browser(theyr linked). Then there is more, like remote registry crap and such. You can do a search on the internet in order to know exactly what you can disable.

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Originally posted by Korpz

Sorry to be a stick in the mud but it is... well ... silly. Look if its any concillation I find the rastafarian trolls in World of Warcraft a bit on the silly side too.

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Couldn't agree more, rolled one to be my main char... Well I wanted to play a troll not a rastafari.

WoW doesn't introduce anything really new, but it implements all the right ideas in a fun way. I think in a nutshell (better Graphics)*(EQ+DAOC)=WoW, which to me isn't a bad thing at all.

On Dark and Light, it is getting a little too much for me as well.

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Originally posted by Mr_Man

I have a 2.0 GHz computer, cable modem, 528MB RAM, and a 128MB video card.  Will I be playing a slideshow like SWG or is it as smooth as the video previews make it look?

I've heard some people had 60 characters on the screen at once with little lag during a raid, is that true?

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Originally posted by boomix

Nice pretty much sums it up.

Few quick pointers. You will never run out of creeps damn dynamic spawn screwed me over last night died 12 times in short amount of time. If you have two camps of same creeps. Head for one where's less players. Creeps will spawn at slower rate.

 

For example. Palemanes. One camp was insane creeps would spawn at same rate they were killed off went to another camp and it was fine I could clear it of 3/4 of the creeps before they respawned one.

 

boomix

<<Disclaimer>>

blizzard's terms creep has been applied to this post. ;)

 

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Had no issue whatsoever. Installation, account creation, patching and playing all as smooth as possible.

Very different from Horizons launch where nothing worked.

*** Need more RP servers !!!

- Graphics are OK, I'm not too crazy about the cartoony look of them but they are ... Adequate.

- Beautiful landscapes though

- Ambient sounds are very well done.

- Quests are very well done, lead you to what you have to do in a fun way.

- Char and Mob models are very well done, Animation is perfect making the world seem alive.

- * Didn't like I cannot look up and down with the keyboard like in DOAC, only using the mouse (grabing the camera with mouse)

- Installation and download of patches was noneventful.

- Not much char customization I'm afraid.

- Didn't like much the spell effects at low levels (I know still just low levels)

- Many skills at low level though can't way to level up :)

- Low level content was really GREAT, each racial town had a near by dungeon and plenty of mobs (even though newbie areas were pretty crowded yesterday:)

- Racial places ! Really neat ! Feel as a night elf is totally diff than as a gnome for instance. Or undead :)

- Didn't group yet, I was invited but declined was still playing with the interface and chars, next time.

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Originally posted by FrostFreiDen
Call your local gameing store. Mine is Gamestop and they said 10:00.. in fact.. Im leaving right now to get it!

"I fear no enemy! For the Khala is my strength! I fear not death. For our strength is eternal!" - Fenix

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any idea when and where the game will be first available to be picked up ? Or getting it shipped would be better ?

RP enforced servers should allow 1 character only. All other servers should allow several chars. PvP servers that implement faction/race/group wars should only allow chars of the same group/faction/etc.

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Originally posted by jd269

You can kill even "con" mobs, but the experience solo is absolutely a joke compared to a group. As you get higher up it seems to become even more of a joke to the point where 10 minutes of soloing is worth about 30 seconds of grouping exp wise. In other words, you can solo, it's just such low experience, so horribly balanced with grouping experience, that soloing is about as fun as pulling hairs out of your head once you know how much quicker you can get the exp grouping. Basically this game is the biggest FU to soloers.

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Thanks for the info, it seems that EQ2 might be a little too demanding (time wise) for me.

Maybe I will try it anyway but my impression so far is that EQ2 is less soloable than EQ when you take the most soloable classes of each. In other words, EQ had a few solo specialists which are absent in EQ2 even though of course you still have better or worse soloists in EQ2.

Well too bad, WoW graphics don't really appeal to me nor does the class/race selection or even the lack of customization.

Like many I have limited time to play, maybe a few hours a day occasionally. In EQ I always had to choose from a few classes that were very soloable (Necromancer, Druid, Bard, Shaman, Mage, etc).

(IMO, one of the reasons these classes were better at soloing was cause the different tactics they could use to solo MOBs, sometimes yellow or red ones (kiting and its variations))

I'm thinking about getting EQ2 but some things I've been reading are making me concerned about how soloable the game really is.

So, here are my questions:

1. How soloable is EQ2 compared to EQ ?

2. Do all classes have the same soloability ? Casters and Melee ?

3. i know SOE removed any kind of kiting, but is there other ways to kill a MOB or each class has to do the same thing in the same way over and over again ?

Thank you in advance.

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Originally posted by Thoom

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Originally posted by Puoltry

On board sound
1 gig of memory.
Ati all in wonder 9700 pro.
Dvd drive and a cd recorder.

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Get a updated soundcard, and update your bios/chipset and the game should become playable. onboard anything USUALLY means subpar.

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Sony made sure PS2 was released before XBOX.

Now SOW makes sure EQ2 is released before WoW.

I see a pattern here.

And many sleepless nights for SOE developers...

Bad graphics and old graphics are different things.

Atari in the 80s was pretty much the best you could get on home video game.

I hope this thread is not an EQ2 vs WoW discussion disguised as a Graphics discussion.

I don't consider myself shallow, I'm a "real" gamer (since the 80s) and heck Graphics are very important to me just because realism is very important to me.

graphics = immersion

Thus, quality of graphics is very important indeed.

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Originally posted by Kilguri

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Originally posted by Acaeus
Screen shots are nice and all but they don't show one of the most important aspect of video game realism IMO which is the quality of the animation.
I'm not even talking about how the chars run or fight, even though its very important as well (horizons is really bad on that), I'm talking about how the textures match the movement, how well everything works together when things are actually moving, when everything is alive.

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EQ2 Movies
WoW Movies

There, do I get a cookie now?

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Sure but you know they go to your hips right ? 

I'll check these movies at home, machine too slow here at work. I'd still like to see actual gameplay (from the client) in order to feel how movement is done, how the textures move and work together, I know it will ony be possible when they are out. Movies give a nice idea though.

Question, will there be any changes in the graphics of these games b4 release ? Texture, animation, models, etc ? Or what we see now is what we r going to get.

Screen shots are nice and all but they don't show one of the most important aspect of video game realism IMO which is the quality of the animation.

I'm not even talking about how the chars run or fight, even though its very important as well (horizons is really bad on that), I'm talking about how the textures match the movement, how well everything works together when things are actually moving, when everything is alive.