Great Mmo but too tedious now unfortunately

[ᛉᛏneon@stralᚨᛉ]

I was really longing for an old school experience, EQ is one of those games that have old school charm but still look good in a retro way.

Ppl need know i have 0 nostalgia attached to it, just going in raw

A tried this game many times but every time I stopped and remembered why i dropped it.

UI is Painful, like actually headache inducing within 10 min, no way to properly scale it. Why in the world the text is Blue?? Its already so dark and hard to read and now I need glasses because text isnt even white as I can recall.

Then the system of conversation, it seemed like it was revolutionary at the time but Typing certain words or squinting and clicking on them is beyond tedious.

Battle is auto-attack in slow motion. I played A LOT of early 2000s mmos nearly every Korean game you name it, Rakion, 2 Moons, Linage I & II, Mu Online, Perfect world games etc. not a single one had this slow and clunky auto attack, not a single one.
By the time I killed the first Orc my beard grew and my balls dropped coiling on the floor into a rope stack.


Quests are creative but equally silly, take the starting area for example.
You get the key from an Orc to open the door, but Noooo you cant just come up to the door and open it you Must Trade it for NO reason to this joe-smoe so he can do it for you.

The process of trading a SINGLE thing is so un-nessesary complex its like trolling, you have to trade it to yourself then equip it then right click the NPC, trade the key to him, then follow him etc. I mean its SO COOL dont get me wrong for its time it was awesome. But now doing all this extra stuff with this Abysmal UI is impossible without aging a year in a process.

I really wish they’d remake this game, even keeping graphics the same just Update UI and combat.

So far im gonna pass on it after trying for the 3rd time shame because it has huge potential for bigger audiance

[Vantose]

Can change the color of all the text and resize it, can also change how dark or light the back ground windows are. Also can sent any chat window to also talk in what ever channel you what it set to.

Yeah its sad most MMorpg's now days let you kill mobs in one or two hits, in guild wars your auto attack does AoE damage and you can kill 2-6 of the same level mobs as you with just auto attack. Everquest was made to be a group game, a group of 6 peoples and the mobs in it have HP set for that.

Its showing you how to hand stuff to people for quest turn ins... As its a staple of the game to do quest turn ins its kinda some thing people need to know early on.

You sound like a lazy kid crying because he has to walk to the fridge to get his cake.

The combat is also different as you level which i guess you wont find out. Spells, AA's skills and such leave you doing other stuff during the whole fight not just auto attacking

I agree the game has alot of problems but for a 22 year old game it stands up a hell of alot better then many others have. The biggest problem with it is under population and no new players.

You could try one the progression servers "a new one will come out in a few months" and find some people to play with. As i said the game is built around playing with other people. Most people who solo play now days play many accounts at the same time.

[Dwarf80]

gawd i rem trying to kill a lvl 20 alligator, was kind of like chopping a tree down. The Nostalgia drew me back in but the pain still remains.

[Goregasm]

While I agree, none of the reasons you mentioned are the problem. Most of that stuff is adjustable. The real problem is level 70 and up. Way too hard, too grindy, too easy to die. Very hard to solo. Take necromancer - one of or the best solo class. Still an utter chore later levels. Your pet dies in 2 seconds even with mercs and so do you.

[pantheon0918]

The Faction system
huge world / crazy big dungeon design with tons of secret stuff
Nowadays games just plain sucks comparing with eq

It’s scary when you think of it, for 2x years there are none able to even attempt just to copy Everquest despite lots of MMO rise & fail

Well, I wish I’m born in a Kadashian family ….
so I can fund a true sequel of Everquest , too bad my parents are shallow & poor and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless

I guarantee you won’t able to find any indoor dungeon able to compare with GUK / SEB / Kc / chardok / Velketor's Labyrinth ? Like low level Zone the fallen ? lol I jumped into that well lkke every noob did and I was dead in 4 seconds

Remember I was amazed how big & spacious the zones are in this game
like in Eastern wastes , I was on my way to velketor’s labyrinth, far far away I see a group of people fighting a dragon and suddenly I am dead ! The Area effect of that dragon was SO HUGE I was literally standing behind a hill to watch that fight like a kid !


And when you are traveling outside there’s always of uncertainty and sense of danger
Something bad always happen to you


Mobs will ♥♥♥♥ you up even if you stay on the edge of the mountain etc ( KF forest at night / sky fire mountain / over there / FM / dreadland )
I still remember how stunned & addicted I was when I first play 23 years ago when I was 11!

I was A dark elf necromancer walking around inside Nek city cluelessly attacking NPC with my silly clinging darkness spell & then somehow find my way out of the city and into the Nek forest ….
Still remember there are skeletons spawn at the floor of the Nek portal pyramid ..( I was 11 and that spot looks like it’s light up or something I thought it’s some kind of special spawn camp so I tried to solo and died a few times and also was my first time to press C and was wondering what’s it really mean scowl at you ready to attack

And someone show me the way into East commonland

And got killed by the cleric trainer inside a little house in East common land ( that place was so crowded always ,

I love East commonland at night, everyone sitting at the orc camp pulling all the mobs around you even killing the snakes , with the campfire it always feel like a party

Btw, nowadays MMO’s water / sea don’t even have mob inside …. It’s just “beautiful “ water nowadays …god nowadays games design are just retarded ….
Why is there no mob underwater killing people like Everquest ? The more games I play the more I feel like we are going backward !! ( for example elderscroll online , I have been forcing myself to play ESO for 7 years and try to move on from the memories of EQ and I can’t , you can’t even dive into the water in ESO !!


Jesus Christ , still remember those deep water goblin in Oasis with a spectre camp at the middle
And LakeOmen also got deep water goblin , that deep dark lake

I guess the final solution is
Pantheon: rise of the fallen?
Since eq free to play run by daybreak games is soulless

paid $100 and had been waiting for it ever since

[KOOLLAYDTAC]

It's not really fair to compare this game to other mmos that came out after. Keep in mind this game was the very FIRST of it's kind. And to be entirely honest if it had not been for the popularity of this game then any and every mmo just like it very well may not have existed. Is the game tedious? Of course it is. The original design did not hold your hand at all what so ever.

Speaking of which is why I personally play EverQuest Project 1999. EverQuest Live to my understanding has a lot of improvements as far as the interface goes. The other thing people need to keep in mind is that these older mmos were meant to be played at lower resolutions. So if you run the game full screen at say 1024x768 then reading the text in it really isn't that hard of a thing to do.

Having said that though I do believe there are ways to customize that as well too. If anything I am pretty sure there may very well even be a UI mod for it. So that may be something worth checking in to mates.

Yes I do have some nostalgia attached to it, but I also will be the first to raise my hand and say this game can and will kick your behind some times. The original version is like survival games for mmos. lol It's just that brutal and harsh mates. lol You got to eat and drink to stay alive and you got to try and find your body if you die and hope you don't die again. lol So ya if survival games are not your thing then this is probably not a game I'd recommend. At least not the P99 version anyway. lol EQ Live you might be all right.

I don't really see this mmo or any mmo like this becoming insanely popular anymore considering now days most people want those lazy pay store mmos. The days of the old school are over. Only us old farts mainly left to play them. lol I'd like to think I'm wrong. I'd hope I am. Just so far I've little to indicate otherwise.

Anyway OP I hope you find a game you enjoy. This one isn't for everybody so I totally get it mate. Stay safe and have a good one all.