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Love this part of norrath. Hallas always felt like this hidden town way up north. Had this wonderful feeling to the whole town. I'd often feel cold anytime I was up there

I got really sick with the flu back in May of 1999 and my boss allowed me to combine vacation days and paid medical days plus an extra paid week I had accrued due to having a very high work performance into nearly 30 days of paid time off. My mother came to stay with me to help around while I recuperated. I'm not going to lie, it was one of the best "vacations" I've ever had, even with the high fevers and body aches. Nothing beats eating mom's chicken soup wrapped in a cozy blanket while playing an amazing MMO. I almost felt like I was back in middle school. :D I vividly remember at one point during the worst of the flu falling asleep to the sound the snowstorm near Halas when my druid went to pick up a barbarian friend and she accidentally dc'd (Garila the barb from Fennin Ro, hope life as been good to you). I was probably eventually booted from the server myself for being afk but I swear that snowstorm must've inserted itself into my fever dream because I remember dreaming I was in EQ in person and being lost in the snow for what felt like hours.

Used to sit in the guard tower in west karana and listen to the rain when i started playing at 12 years old. 24 years later and i still love it

My god

Nice. Anybody need a port? Tips welcome, but not required. 🔮✨

This audio track has always been calming and reminds me of my first Barbarian roaming around Everfrost Peaks.

Aviak Town = KFC

This could use a little work - it wasn't nonstop bug/frog noises - there was also quiet with a whistle sound every so often. The Feerrott was a terrible leveling zone - probably one of the worst. Poor mob density, high level lizard camps all around, Cazic Thule was high lvl But it was my leveling zone. Ran around in the dark jungle fighting yellow spiderlings, bats, tadpoles, and the occasional lizardman. Hop over to Innothule Swamp and hang out with some Troll friends and kill gators/frogs, or take on the zombies/skeletons and eventually move into Rathe Mnts (also another bleh leveling zone)

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar

I don’t miss this game - I can load up any number of servers and revisit it I miss the sense of wonder when this was all brand new and nobody knew anything We would need a remaster/remake to experience that again

I know these songs more than I thought! They whisper rent free in the deepest corners of my memories like Dervish thugs.

Eq is the best of the best

God my childhood returns. Sounds like its night time as I remember the background rumble not being as present in the morning. Maybe that was Feerrott though. E: Nope just saw night time on the playlist good god 20 hours for both.

Ah yes, bird

Such splendidly beautiful music, classic EQ was so magical. It has never been duplicated to this day. Thanks for taking the time to upload, God's work :)

I listen to this while playing through the game on P99. It's really nice because so many zones have no music going. Sometimes the music randomly fits with the theme of the area I'm in too haha

My young adulthood

Project 1999 is out there for anyone wanting to return

Good times, brings me back to 2000!

Kelethin best Home away from Home for a Gnome.

Great video my friend 👍

Nailed it.

Southern Plains of Karana - Aviak Town, my all-time favorite. Oooh man, such nostalgia. Almost tear worthy.

I played World of Warcraft for much longer than I played EQ, but I played EQ during high school from 1999-2003. I never had the sense of wonder and amazement in WoW that I did with EQ. Nowhere close. My family didn't have a lot of money so it was a huge deal when we finally got dial-up in '99. Also the game had a subscription fee which was a bonkers concept at the time and I don't remember there being a free trial, but I was doing extra chores to earn that sub fee. Chores were not an option in our house, and you did not get paid to do them. Coming up with shit to do that was worth $25 to my parents was insanely hard, because anything that should done was delegated to one of us already. I got them to agree to let me vacuum and clean their cars. The quality of my EQ experience playing on a dial-up connection was utter dogshit lol, but it didn't matter because I was blown away by the basic premise of the game. Seeing a character dart across the screen (freeze, then dart some more, then freeze lol, gg 56K) and knowing that was another human somewhere on the planet...WOW. I still get goosebumps just transporting myself to that moment when I experienced it for the very first time. Obviously it's completely trivial in today's atmosphere, but I was also one of those kids who hit the ground running in AOL, sending chain letters asking people to respond back with their location lol. My amazement with EQ was in unison with my amazement over the internet. I only put up with dial-up because I was so in love with the experience and at the time I didn't think anything better existed. Seeing all the zones like in the OP is mind-blowing because I could never pan my camera that high without freezing up my computer. I made particle effects practically invisible bcause it seemed like two flashing balls of light would fry my graphics card. Zoning into another area meant hitting the load screen, going upstairs, using the bathroom, making some food, playing with the dogs, then coming back downstairs and MAYBE finish loading in after another minute. It seriously took forever. Also, the rage that would be induced when I zoned over and the asshole game left my character FACING the loading area. Some areas it was nearly impossible to tell, so I move forward an inch and *BOOM* loading....

Can't wait to play this amazing game again with my kiddos

24 years later and the elves still won't sell to my gnome necromancer. Man, they certainly hold a grudge.

Just found this video, so many emotions. People who played the original EQ circa 1999/2000 know exactly where I'm at right now. It was a truly magical time, never to be duplicated. As pathetic as it might sound, I'd give anything to time-warp back to those days and experience it one more time.

Always loved Kelethin...

Sea theme is my favourite but this version seems a bit glitched.

im not crying, you're crying.

This sound is used in other media. it's so distinctive and you recognize it instantly. I remember hearing it in a Witcher 2 animated cutscene and flipped out. "That's from EQ!"

Noisy night. What are the sounds and animals in this? Some kind of bird cawing, wind blowing, a bat screeching, and a bullfrog maybe? I wonder if they're individual clips from older stock sound files.

SoW at orc lift. Donation not required but appreciated!

You know, in a recent interview with Jay Barbeau, Jay said that the Character select music was never meant to be listened with all tracks turned on. In the original game when you select a different race, it would turn instruments on and off in the midi track! :)

My favorite memories was sitting at the gates of Qeynos and watching random folks, some in cloth armor and some in fine steel, running off into the distance and wondering what adventures they were on their way to. No better feeling than seeing some of those same folks months later more powerful than ever boasting about their epic groups, what they achieved, and what they heard whispers/rumors about juuuuuust over that next mountain or river.

I used to drive home for lunch (a 5-minute drive) to get 45 minutes of EverCrack in. [edit] Missing one of my favorite zones: Befallen.

at first glance the locations do not seem particularly significant, but all together this is a great tour of classic Everquest! 🤗🤪

one of the best songs in video game history

Yeah. This is where it started for me. Over 20 years ago. Polar bear cubs, ice goblins, Langseax of the Wolves. Making my own reinforced leather armor before even knowing you could quest for armor. Wow.

I put this on my speakers one night when I fell asleep and I had some very vivid dreams. Highly recommend.

1999-original Vallon Zek - loot n scoot pvp blew!

Karana Server. 1999. Aegir.

I was so hyped to see the videos this channel was producing. And then crushed to see that the last upload was over a year ago. Hope your well, and thank you for the memories.

first day in 1999 or so a rat killed me

ohh the good times here hi dep keld

This compilation is so lovely. Thanks so much for memorializing it here.

01:02:30 This is not Kaladim. Heresy. 😉

Ahh, home in the Faydark.

This is going on my playlist!!

Wild reach, but do you think this could be uploaded in a shorter, like five-ten minute loop? I'd love to download it and use it for nostalgia listening, but even just the audio is close to 1GB lol