First EverQuest, 3 screenshots
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Muligan
Trakanon Raider
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I'm so glad you caught that... lol. I was setting that up intentionally. Made my day!
I've got a Zip Disk full of old pics from 99-00, do they even sell Zip drives anymore?
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Louis
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Hah, cool seeing pictures of TDE. I see some familiar names, especially Urian. Pretty sure Frodlin lived a mile away from me.
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Hey, I'm the fat blue and brown orge in this pic. And yes it was first Dain kill.
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Yeah I'll necro this... Played on Cazic Thule, this one brought back many good memories from the CTC. Thanks for all the shares. Wish I still had all of my screenshots from 20 years ago...
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Mystery, no hand holding, no quest hub bullshit, hand made loot that actually mattered. No excel sheet +3 random generated crap. Of course all this stuff gets found out later but still...There was tons that was wrong that many games improved upon later, but while improving, the games also lost their soul.
I do have to add though that if a game came out today with a modern engine and basically the same mechanics of EQ classic, size and scope of the world, hand made loot, same diku type combat but modernized with a bit of bling and maybe a hotbar of skills for melee, Im betting it would do well. And no I dont mean Brads wet dream made in his garage of ferraris by industry has beens.
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Cybsled
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You can't go home again. It would never work in the modern era. Data miners, min-maxers, hackers would figure out shit ASAP.
Plus the only loot we ever really cared about in EQ1 was eventually nerfed or removed from the game. Sure, we remember stuff like Guise of the Deceiver or Holgresh Elder Beads, but we also forget all the trash items that dropped from hard raid bosses that was only fit for alts, beggars, or feeding to NPCs to troll people.
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That stuff is true but I am not even talking about that. I just mean the scale of of some of those zones. Kael Drakkel as an example. Even in WoW they have yet put anything of that scale.
Or ToV
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TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Adding the fear factor back into the MMO genre would do a lot for it. Yes, data miners and hackers would figure shit out quickly but they can't design shit out of the game.
- No add-ons allowed.
- Go primitive with the interface. No maps, no complicated rotations.
- Make the game world scary, which means making death inconvenient enough to want to avoid.
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kegkilla
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That's pretty much it. EverQuest was released at a point in time where the technology to trivialize everything and easily share the information didn't yet exist, which allowed it to possess an air of mystery that couldn't otherwise exist. Would be much harder to achieve this in the current day. It's also a reason why Pantheon is dead out the gates if it ever does "release". The people who will have paid for Beta access to the game are the same types who will look to data mine and exploit everything they can find.
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