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agreed. the scariest part of all is i'm actually hoping that mcquaid is working on EQN; as i firmly believe if he's clean and sober he's probably the most qualified guy at sony to make EQN a solid game. even with its fuck ton of flaws, i enjoyed VG more than any other MMO since EQ.

i'm just shocked that someone that could write and direct something as beautiful and magical as "pan's labyrinth" could also write and direct this flaming pile of shit. it's the equivalent of da vinci doing a painting of dogs playing pool.

love this post. i count myself as one of those who are "cautiously optimistic," but my optimism is fading quickly as i realize this will be free2play (which means pay2win), and will probably have absolutely nothing in common with the EQ game that i loved so much except for the name.

so you don't mind traps, as long as you know about them ahead of time... how exactly is that a trap then? no wonder people neg the shit out of you.

honestly, the word sandbox scares the shit out of me. every time i think of that word i think of a game like mortal online, where there is some shitty, boring pvp and nothing else in the world to do but grief people or mine for minerals. i hate pvp, and the fact that they think pvp will somehow...

didn't befallen in the commons have a trap floor as well? i remember falling into that dungeon and someone from the outside had to let you out or you had to kill someone to get the key to get out. good times. it's amazing that shit like that that was in a game almost 15 years ago hasn't made its...

you're definitely not alone in wanting a harsher world. i actually miss death penalties and corpse runs. yes they suck when they happen, but it also makes you not want to die and makes the thrill of victory, well, an actual thrill.

how do you know? it's never been done. WoW has been redone a hundred times; all of which have been colossal failures. EQ, on the other hand, has never been redone (and don't give me VG either. that game was a broken mess).

i saw a movie about a month ago on syfy called "sharktopus" with eric roberts. was this a sequel?

"the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

agree with everything you said. velious was the pinnacle of MMO gaming. the top guilds raced to the finish line (NTOV and ST) but there was still plenty of content for other guilds as well (all of kunark was still being used, even when most guilds where finishing up NTOV). the content was...

you're obviously entitled to your opinion, but please, for the love of fucking god, stop trying to pass it off as fact. stop trying to act like EQ existed in some sort of vacuum and was the only game available for people to play. it wasn't. people chose to play EQ because it was head and...

star wars was a completely original story. how did that turn out? the problem with this movie isn't its originality (which actually wasn't original at all. it's been done 10,000 times over) it's because it's just not a good movie. you can combine a great story with great special effects and make...

the majority of people around the world looked at the previews and said "holy fuck! this looks like warm ass!" and they were right. the fact that this movie tanked at the theaters is no surprise at all. all CGI + zero plot + bad acting=fail. the more these kinds of movies tank the better because...

you do need to interact, just doesn't have to be with the combat in the game. you don't need to play DDR to interact in a game world, but your ADHD generation will never be able to comprehend this simple fact.

i remember it being incredibly fun because it was. if you decided to play a game for several years that you didn't like then you are a fucking idiot. i played it for 5 years because i loved the game. if you don't like EQ, then why the fuck are you even bothering posting in an EQ thread? i don't...

see, this is where you come off sounding like a fucking retard. people reminisce about their high school or college years because those were great times and you have mostly all fond memories and zero responsibilities. that's why most of the people here enjoy reminiscing about EQ, because those...

i agree with you 100%. i could give two fucks about PvP, because in every single instance it just becomes about griefing others and serves no real purpose in the game. like draegan said, if they just have PvP in the PvE game and just leave it alone, unbalanced and imperfect and people want to...

you're failing to address the biggest issue of all when trying to create a marriage between PVE and PVP: CC. it's the mezzes, the charms, the stuns and the root spells that fuck PvP up six ways from sunday. not to mention the issues that arise from players having OP weapons and items when...

truer words have never been spoken. think sony should just hire Lee Kang-kuk to officially run this franchise into the fucking ground.

agree. please dear god tell me that this art was from the game that they decided to scrap and not from its current state (maybe if i close my eyes and wish hard enough it will come true).

Warcraft was a much higher established name than EQ ever was, and WoW has had the benefit of having absolutely zero competition for the past almost 10 years because every game that has come out since has just been a shitty WoW knock off. plus, most people had never even heard of a MMO before WoW...

dude, seriously you have no fucking idea what you're talking about. the reason why EQ wasn't relevant anymore when WoW came out (your opinion of "competent" competition) was because by that time EQ was already over 5 years old and had run its course; mostly due to unpopular expansions like OOW...

are you serious? you really don't understand what the advantage is of XP boosters? if i play for 40 hours and i hit level 30, and another guy plays for 15 hours, uses XP boosters and hits level 40, and we are both at the same skill level, you don't see how that is an advantage? you may not see...

why are steroids considered cheating in sports? it only makes you bigger, faster, stronger, and able to recover from injuries in less time. aren't you still playing the same game as your competitors? that's how stupid your argument is.

wow, didn't realize you were the final say in MMO decisions. congrats on your position. XP boosters are p2w, you can't even make a valid argument why they aren't. you are gaining a distinct advantage over everyone who isn't buying XP boosters. and all this "they're here to stay" is just...

explain to me please how XP boosters aren't pay to win? you're gaining an advantage over those who aren't buying XP boosters, correct?

i loved BRD, the first time. after that, like every other part of WoW, i fucking hated it. that's the reason why i absolutely hate instances that have to be run from beginning to end like in WoW. i liked dead mines, i liked gnomer, i liked SM, but only the first time i did them. after that, i...

saw this too. thought it was the perfect description for this dump of a movie.

as a whole, sequels fucking suck. in the entire history of movies, you can probably list the number of good sequels on two hands. but as long as people are willing to spend the money, hollywood will keep investing.

"a clockwork orange" if you haven't seen it yet. fucking amazing movie, although not really about the 70's, it was written in the 60's and made into a movie in '71 i believe. also, most definitely has that 70's "vibe."

the only problem with giving everyone everything is that you lose all identity. i like having specified roles in MMO's. i'm not saying it has to be as rigid as EQ was (but maybe it does?), but the new mantra of "everyone can do everything" has completely ruined class interdependence, which is...

personally, i never really care or even think about combat that much when i play an MMO. EQ's combat just felt right to me, just the right pace. not saying it was the most epic combat i've ever witnessed, but when I'm playing an MMO, i'm not as concerned about the combat as I am about just...

any time you put variety like this in a game it has a much higher chance of being fun. the more variety you give the players, the more they can customize. this allows each player to feel unique (well, at least as unique as is possible in a MMO).

my AE group (2 chanters, 2 wizzies, a bard and a cleric) will kill 100 times the amount of mobs that your shaman/necro group will in about a third of the time.

yeah, i would NEVER take a necro in a group over a chanter, at any point in EQ. chanters were almost essential in having a solid group for having clarity, charm, and mez.

think draegan stated before that he didn't play EQ, at least not for very long. but yeah, necro's in EQ were pretty damn good. they weren't as great in groups, but if you liked to solo, they were really good.

i played a wizard in original EQ, and i loved it. i also loved playing a blood mage in VG. for some reason, i usually gravitate towards caster classes, will probably do the same for EQN, just hoping the classes are as varied as they were in original EQ.

the physics in gaming doesn't exist yet for this to be possible. although it would be cool if it was possible to create a game where you had to literally block an incoming sword swing with your shield and then jockey for position for a counter strike, or have swords clashing or larger weapons...

i hate exp loss, but i love it at the same time. it is a necessary evil. i can't think of any other means by which to make the players care about dying. when i played EQ, there were plenty of times when my heart was in my throat while playing because i knew i was in a place where it would be...