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You can reduce what made EQ1 great to sound like complete shit just like you can do with any other game. I actually fully intend to play EQN for a long time if it's worth a damn, and I've been researching the hell out of it. So feel free to lump me into some preconceived notion of what someone...

That's where people lose me. Bringing in a broken-at-launch game like Vanguard doesn't prove anything. Boxes sold weren't terrible considering how awful everything was in beta, everyone just left after a month because it was completely fucked.

I'd toss money at it, but Kickstarter success caps at around $2 million for the very best products (unless you count the shitty Ouya) and those dudes steady bust through budgets on small indie games. Even a moderately budgeted EQ3 would surpass anything Kickstarter would grant it. When/if EQN...

Sold.

I noticed they jacked with starting areas. I wanted to check out Ca'ial Brael the other day and when I opted out of the Isle of Dawn, I started out with the Half Elf scenario. Don't get me wrong, I love that opening event, but my main dude is a Half Elf and I just wanted to climb around in a...

My initial impression of Omeed wasn't great during that E3 EQ panel, but he actually seems like a really cool dude.

Don't forget to mention the Trolls.

I miss EQ1 tracking so much. I'm not a fan of the dot-on-a-map look, but I guess I should be happy if it's in at all.

I'll forgive 'em some if they debut an ugly Troll.

I'm sure Justin feels that when you emphasize how much of this game is "ours" and then speak for the players in a tweet, he wouldn't mind seeing evidence that this is the case. Seriously, it'd just take one of their fluff polls. And if it was overwhelmingly lopsided, then smart Ogres are in. Or...

I was talking about that tweet.

I don't know what the fuck that guy is talking about.

Did my part for the Ogre and Troll fat and ugly movement. Maybe I'll start throwing tweets with the #EQNRT tag or whatever. The cartoony style would actually work really well with it, too. Imagine a modern day wobbly Troll run. It has to happen.

That's where I'm torn. On one hand, you can't over saturate the market with 12 EverQuest titles and they damn sure aren't going to do something batshit insane like bring back Vanguard's name with all the negative connotations that comes along with it. There's still a large, but not massive...

Also, Oculus.

First person is the most obvious perspective, but it's not required by any means. But I do think this confirms at least some form of first person mode (even if it's just a fluff feature).

Post content is the biggest sign.

Welp, I'm considering this video a bigger victory than SOE Live.

Oculus Rift support? Fuck it all, I'm gone for life.

This panel:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR3NEsJzP_o

Definitely Kaladim. It's a big dwarf face entrance, look at the eyes, nose and mustache. Also, McQuaid said this on Twitter: "I'd like to see multiple EQ variants built on this tech. We need MMOs that target specific audiences. Time will tell" EQ3 confirmed. Edit: Yeah, I'm sure it was...

So does the glass and it's weird. That scenario shouldn't come up because they aren't just going to let you wreck Freeport, but there will definitely be buildings with glass being destroyed in some areas of the map. I'm not too worried about it though, that's definitely work-in-progress stuff...

That male doesn't really look realistic though, just more so than what we got. I'm not really complaining about the art style though, more that I don't care for the one human male face we were shown.

They exploded him when they announced the reboot at SOE Live 2012, but I think he was first show in 2011. Maybe that was the EQ3 version and I agree, I prefer that scowling mug to the human male we saw.

It's sad that I recognize it as completely absurd, but still hope there's some chance for the ghost of Brad McQuaid to rise from the ashes, use those pushed to the side assets, and create a proper EQ3. Despite everything that happened during the development of Vanguard, I still want McQuaid to...

Everyone at Arenanet must be bummed right now that everyone is so terrified that EQN has a GW2 combat system. So terrified even that SOE is making a statement that's basically going to say "We're totally not like that GW2 system."

I wonder how disgruntled employees were when they said "look guys, we're scrapping what we got. Again. WE GOIN VOXEL Y'ALL!" I bet that's a punch to the gut, but hey, at least that's job security.

For better and worse, you've owned this fucking thread. Thanks for all the questions answered. This answer makes me sad at what could have been, but oh well, that shit isn't getting made any time soon.

I heard Georgeson was a bit rude in the panels. I heard Smedley was really unapproachable, too. There are harsh opinions about him here, but on Twitter he always seemed willing to interact with people. And with as pleased as they seem to all be with themselves, I assumed he would be really...

I wonder how far they got if the EQ3 thing is legit. Save those assets and let someone finish it. But I doubt they want over saturate the market with 29 EverQuest titles.

Pretty much bummed as shit after reading this.

I'd +1 you for all these questions you're answering but I guess I've already done that too many times or something because it won't let me. Did they go over any of the static dungeons? There was Crushbone concept art so obviously it's in. I still can't get a grasp on what they're doing with the...

Sounds like he is saying they aren't using "same old combat" so roles aren't needed to work. The wording isn't great. Edit: He definitely said some of those layers are randomly generated, which means they'll probably be forgettable. I think the earthquakes they referenced are basically an...

They already mentioned that they're making sure everything is great on PC before thinking of consoles. Landmark will likely make it over, but not this year.

Did you sit through the Creating a World panel and see the Freeport screenshots I referenced? Just curious if it looked like shit or was it actually decent quality. I wish they would've showed off at least one damn in-game city to give me some level of confidence that this game is going to...

You just ruined that post for me.

Everyone is big on comparing the graphics to Pixar and WoW, but beyond the characters didn't that Ashfang place look ripped straight from PlanetSide 2? I get that it's using the same engine, but that was a bit of a bummer, even the day and night cycle looked identical to the tech demos we saw...

Haha, that was Rek (@rekMMO). I asked him to do it and apparently he obliged.

This is just pessimism speaking, right? Please tell me it's nothing actually confirmed. Edit: Good, pessimism. I was legitimately worried I missed something terrible announced.

I hope the layers don't turn out to be unmemorable events like the rifts in Rift, which equated to little more than enemy spawn points when the game launched. If most of them are randomly generated, are we just going to fall down a hole, clear out some mobs, and be done? The way they're being...