My favorite MMORPG of all time.
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“Boat…boooooat!”
“SoW Plz!”
Selling cb belts at tunnel! TRAIN!!!
I had five magical years in that game. I was a mage main. I don’t think anything will top EQ.
Cazel to docks!!!
/shout guys /qu gives you a list of quests in the zone I just learned this
/Who
7 LD
cackles
This video was what I first saw, beginning my intense following of the game developments and then jumping into the beta when it started. Then years of playing afterwards.
Such a magical MMO. Nothing afterwards even came close.
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Did that guy solo a dragon at the end? Verant really setting up some reasonable expectations there. Lol
I want to say (and this could be totally wrong and bad memory) that in an official discussion (in IRC?) about the game’s progress that very fact was brought up by someone, and Brad McQuaid (head designer) agreed that it would be unlikely to happen in the real game and was just used as a appealing demonstration of the basic idea of the game.
I do remember a few online chats with the developers, just can’t be sure of my recollection of that specific topic.
I’m too young and missed out on its release, but I’ve played some P99 and man EverQuest must have been an absolutely magical experience in 1999.
I appreciate the work that went into making P99 happen, but I made the mistake of trying to recapture nostalgia and played P99 for a while. It just wasn’t the same feeling as when new, even though it’s the same code. It’s why I won’t ever touch the Ultima Online servers that I know are out there, they also aren’t the same as what I played in the beginning. Just cherish the memories of such epic games and look forward to new ones that hopefully are able to capture the same magic of their own.
I did the same. P99 and Asheron’s Call servers. I remember why I quit. Good nostalgia to see the old sites, though.
Darktide AC and UO… its like sadomasochism but digital!
Specifically, this is from the launch of Shadows of Luclin (3rd full expansion), and showcases the new “Luclin Models” that are still used on Live today, 20 more expansions later.
Obligatory, “Fuck the great timesink in the sky” for SoL. At least it had some cool raids, gated behind all those timesinks.
The hype for Luclin was real. I still remember standing in line at Best Buy with my big box copy.
I lost my corpse in the time it took to watch this trailer.
This is the one they played before LOTR right?
I believe so, yes.
I desperately wanted to play this game but my parents refused to upgrade to cable Internet so we were stuck on 56k. That meant after booting up the game, logging in and the world rendering it had been 10-15min. In retrospect it was probably a blessing I never got hooked on MMORPG’s. Instead I got hooked on Diablo 2 for a decade and had all the different spoofed OP items and one of every character build.
I played EQ on dialup without issue. Most people around that time (1999-2002) were still on dialup.
