Better, all depends on what type of game you are looking for. Yes Everquest had frustrations but as does WoW; for instance being solo-orientated till level 80, pvp being gear-dependant as well as having very little meaning, so many kill x/y quests t…
Originally posted by Zorndorf
People mix up things like "bad programming", "odd text descriptions" and "broken quest lines" with "hard content".
Clicking on every NPC to find a certain person for 15 minutes is not what I call "hard".
It is a bad pro…
always interesting what deluded views people have. And the laughability of seeing WoW as different from EQ in terms of core age. Here's the truth, both games attracted wasters, both games have/had a heavy student population. Both games had those peo…
Originally posted by brostyn
Talking to some jaded EQ vets you'd think they only thing that made EQ great were corpse runs and massive XP loss on death. I fail to see how that made the game great. In fact, I saw it as a huge hinderance to gameplay a…
One expansion. It's called PoP.
Not that I was a strong fan of either Luclin or Velious. Luclin probably is the expansion with the most completely wasted zones. Whoever went to Twilight Sea or Scarlet Desert? (other than maybe for the VT key)
I think when I first started mmos what was most appealling was the diverse classes. Seeing rehash and rehash of those classes gets really boring. One mmo which actually had a really original number of classes -AC2 closed down.
ah sod it, I voted Everquest. Why? It's the one that inspired the others, the one that drew me in like no other, the one that introduced me to 'fantasy'. It's admittedly shit now but for the reasons stated that is my nomination.
haha joke isn't it. I mean a person could easily start again and choose the customization they want, but mmo companies know people wouldn't want to opt for this and the grind all the way back up- so why not just suck them for their money to change t…
Not a big fan of solo because tbh it is OCD mind-numbing play but when I have soloed it is because sometimes you want to explore the world on your own, do your own thing, grouping can be too long(esp. in WoW when you had 3 hour instances), and that …
Originally posted by wjrasmussen
Originally posted by Majestico
Whether by design or not, I just had to wonder why someone would choose to play an MMO mostly solo.
And yet they do that. So they don't seem to have a problem with it. So if there i…