What are you playing?

My friend got me addicted to Dave the Diver. Why is plus-gooder so fucking addictive?

Dr.Retarded said:

I understand. I was friends with a couple of guys that I met at work back in college who were heavy EQ players, and that's a whole different animal from UO. One of them sold his characters a few times to people over the years and got like thousands of dollars, andwas selling Platinum all the time.

I guess I always enjoyed UO because the gameplay loop wasn't about having to spawn camp raid dungeons or whatever, it was just freeform and it was hey let's go PVP in Territhan Keep or one of the dungeons tonight. And if you weren't home, just set up EZmacro and level skills in the comfort of your online house, until they cracked down on that. Once you got your character maxed out skill wise, it was easy to pick up and put down whenever, which is why we played other games.

Probably why we played D2 so much was because we all played Diablo back in high school. I remember pirating a copy of Windows 95 from my friends dad because you needed it to run the game on my potato PC. We were just excited as hell with the second one was coming out and you could actually have a bigger multiplayer party.

Like I said though, since you've not played it you're in for a treat especially with the remastered version. You'll really have a good time, it's still one of the all-time greats.

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Back in the 90's, the big game I wanted to play on PC pre-EQ was Legends of Terris, a text-based MUD (probably the best text-based MUD out there TBH) and my Windows 3.1 computer with no sound card couldn't even run that without tons of scrolling lag. That game was awesome, with nine classes and the ability to learn cross-class abilities (at a steep training point cost) after level 35. So you could have a Sorcerer (top DPS) that could wear armor, or a Berserker that could fight using Monk abilities (giving you the raw damage of Zerker combined with better skills), or a Fighter that could heal (basically make your own Paladin). Had to finally upgrade to a Win 95 computer in 1997 just to run the game smoothly. LoT was basically Hero's Journey in text form.

I played a Battlemage, which was a mistake. They couldn't fight well OR cast well and their class spells were all basically utility spells (like Pick Lock and Levitate) when what I really wanted were attack spells and priest spells. Had to wait until level 35+ to start learning those cross-class. After wasting dozens of hours struggling with that class, I rerolled a Sorcerer and flew through the levels, started learning priest spells at 35, and was pretty much what I wanted by 50 (the max level was 99, in theory, but nobody could get there because the EXP requirements became completely exorbitant by the 70s).

That's pretty much what I played until people told me I had to try this new EQ game that just came out last week. Of course, my computer wouldn't run it, so it was time to upgrade again and go to Win 98. It was a lot like Legends of Terris, only with actual visuals, 3D visuals. I was in total awe of the tree city, but after falling to my death a couple times (couldn't seem to look up or down) I rerolled in Qeynos and was in total awe of the boat pulling into the harbor. Was hooked by then. Game seemed like a real world. Pretty much everybody was sub level 10 at the time too, and Bards seemed like the greatest class because they got runspeed at level 5 so they didn't just die like everybody else did when a fight was going south. After I went and read about all the classes, I dropped my level 6 Bard and rerolled in Neriak as a Necro since they had the coolest repertoire of spells. Also there were rumors among the (by now mostly sub-25) population about this place called Lower Guk that was an absolute death trap for the few groups that tried to go in.

Anyway novel over, Terris was really cool for what it was.