So i have been playing Eq2 trials for a long time...Never tried EQ1. I always loved most aspects of EQ2 but hated ONE. I even did try EQ2 -eXtended. Same response. Loved everything i see expept for ONE.

 The world's theme is way to complex and confusing. The lore is amazingly superficial and has elements of almost all kinds of mythology and fantasy fiction ever existed on Earth. And this makes immersion impossible (as immersion is important to me for i am an old scholl mmo player). I mean the amount of things to do and to be in this game (EQ2) are tremendously vast but hard to connect and the storyline, the theme and the artistic representation of the world are too fake to backup such amounts of content.You can see evil fairies, good fairies , barbarian fairies, Lizard healers , lion archers etc... I mean come on!.....I like the graphics and music but these elements seem NOT enough to create the appropriate coherence for a grand world as Norath.

So my question is: Does EQ win EQ2 over simplicity and world immersion? Can a new player feel "at home" best in EQ than EQ2?

Indeed, I felt much more immersed in EQ1 than I ever came close to feeling in EQ2. EQ2 didn't feel like a world to me. EQ1 did. 

I tried EQ1 and well I just couldn't do it. The graphics, I can't stand them. I can't play something that looks so ugly. I know the game is old.Old school MMOs are too dated to be played today imo, for new players that is. Veterans are much more willing to overlook all the shortcomings of the game.

If you can overlook the graphics and the clunky controls and a gazillion other things which plagued games 10 years ago, maybe you might like it.

Believe me after the huge dissapointments of Aion and AoC (fantastic graphics) i trully need a medium lvl of graphics to enjoy a game. As long as gameplay rules!

BTW is there any PvP in EQ ? iS it server specific? Map specific? Or flagged type?

I got into mmos when EQ and DAOC were the big kids and after playing both i found DAOC just so much better from a grahpical and gameplay standpoint. No game has come close to having both meaningful pvp and pve in one game like DAOC

Originally posted by pupurun

Believe me after the huge dissapointments of Aion and AoC (fantastic graphics) i trully need a medium lvl of graphics to enjoy a game. As long as gameplay rules!

BTW is there any PvP in EQ ? iS it server specific? Map specific? Or flagged type?

Frostbite beat me to the punch. If you're looking for pvp, play DAOC. Plus, (and I know this isn't the opinion of the majority) I really really like the graphics in DAOC. I think they're much better than most mmo's. 

The pve though isn't super fun, but the game overall is quite a few steps up from EQ1.