Everquest blew my mind when it came out. Regardless of how masochistically punishing the game was by today's standards I can't really think of a time when I had more awe just wandering around in a game. I'm glad the music survived the times.
+GrayStillPlays I just was thinking how much I miss EQ.. but on the other hand.. a decade later and being use to modern games. I dont think I could play EQ anymore. 18 hour raids, months long epic quests etc.
+Issac Stickley I downloaded the free version on steam. if was so surreal to see my characters faces after so many years away, it was actually sort of grounding. I still hop on from time to time to make the kethlin to qeynos run. I do it once a year now.
+TheDude i wouldnt even know what my account name was or pw anymore. Dont have a PC anymore. But id one day like to get back on here. Had a Warrior and a Ranger. Both were epic
Sarah G yea for sure. Freaking trying to do a CR in certain zones, if you were deep in was a pain in the ass. But thats what made it fun man. Warcraft was awesome in its own way, but can not touch EQ
Never? You saw the future or something? Come on man, I'm pretty sure one day some EQ fan will make an mmo just like EQ but with technological improvements and everybody's gonna love it. Don't you lose hope on developers and/or EQ fans!
SyndAg3nT ..so true. That reminds me last time I played a MMO. That was with TERA. We grouped for about 10 -15 min. got the quest done and later just about everyone said. So empty...
This song brings tears to my eyes. I can be driving down the road and have a fond memory of the game. It's like it became a part of my soul, no game has ever came close to the feel and excitement of the first time loading up that stayed with you everytime you logged in. I started playing with a lot of my family and met so many people far away and even in my home town. I was 32 years old then. I'm 65 now. Amazing Game.
No kidding. I feel the same way about it. The other day I passed a sign for a town called Riverdale and I immediately started humming the Rivervale song in my head. Then I started playing all the old music, and now I want to log back in and play EQ again. No other MMO has even come close in terms of the overall experience.
This. This bloody theme embodies everything I love about this game, and why I can never forget the countless hours I spent exploring it. No game has gripped me as tightly ever since I made my first wood elf druid on EQ.
Back in 1999, you could tell how well your EQ gaming session was going to go based on how long this song actually played before you were logged in. Those were the days.....
over the difficulty, the immersion, the atmosphere, the music and the feeling of isolation and danger/wonder, i think one thing made this game the best online game ever. THE PEOPPLE!!! For years, the ocmmunity on this game was sick-as, people who invested so much emotion into the experience that you felt liek you could too, and most of us easily did, immersing us completely, making it a place we felt we belonged, and could spend hours in. it was more than a game, it was a reason to live.
Log into Everquest around 1999, long day at work, cares of the day washed away by that intro music. 12-14 hours would then pass playing, unknown to me if day or night outside. Level up...!!
Just as the initial chords of midi sweep out from my speakers a single tear rolls down my cheek...a tear in remembrance of so many adventures, so many friends, and so much mystery. I am saddened for I know these things can never come to be again. No experience will ever be quite the same, nay anywhere near the same. Some may think me strange holding such love for another world in what is "just" a game. Let them. I have experienced Norrath. I will hold those memories forever
the most epic amazing feeling in the world when you first logged into everyquest and heard a badass amazing opening theme like this. never since my first character have i ever been more excited to simply making a character
My GOD. I absolutely can't get enough of that old-school pc game MIDI music from the late 90s. Just hearing this theme while looking at this title screen on a beautiful CRT monitor was legendary. Nostalgia overload thinking about it. Modern video game soundtracks that use real instruments and orchestras and utilize Dolby digital surround sound and such is great don't get me wrong, but there was just something magical about MIDI that just immerses you into a game so much.
"Can we get a REZ for the Ranger?"... Nekkid corpse runs... "DING!!" "BOAT!!!" "BARD needs a REZ!" Spent 4 months trying to get the parts for the Mage Epic and still not coming close... I LOVE this theme! Brings back great memories, but mostly I remember it because my PC was so bad at the time I heard the opening theme all the way through and restart before the game loaded...
There's project 1999 private server out there! Check it out to live again the amazing experience this game offers! ...I'm not joking, project 1999 is an emulated server of the first version of Everquest back in 1999 and with it's first expension ''Ruins of Kunark''. I STRONGLY recommend this server for the nostalgia hungry ones
Sadly, it's a rather loose interpretation of what EQ was. Expansion pack level is there sure, but there's a lot that has been changed, and not always for the better. The community I've found ranges between indifferent at best, to toxic.
Jason O'Conner Think that's more to do with internet in general having changed in the past 16 years. Running into a complete douchebag in an online game was an oddity back in 1999, and people cared for their reputation alot. Now it's more of a contest of who can be the biggest trolliest douche out there and brag about it to his trolly douchebag pals. Just gotta try to look past the disappointments and enjoy the nostalgia. Then see afterwards if you still wanna keep logging in once the nostalgia need has been satisfied.
Exactly right. Back then, a dirtbag was rare. Everyone was helpful and friendly. It was a new experience (long awaited for me) to have a world that was D&D like to explore with others. Nothing will ever capture that again.
Oh my god, sweet serenity! I remember getting home from school and no matter how bad my day was this opening music reminded me all was well. It was as if an angel had descended from heaven and wrapped her arms around me making me all warm and fuzzy inside.... Hahaha, adding this to my favorites!!!
Eq was amazing but I feel like going back can't live up to my first experience and how amazing it was back then.I also feel the game has changed so much, that much of the stuff that was great on live in the old expansion is missing in the newer ones.I loved dreadlands and the early expansions and killing dragons.Later ones focused too much on loot, and god I loved how some classes were made. I feel Everquest had. Lot of problems early on that got fixed, like the lack of map system and the dialogue having no links in conversation to bring up the right dialogue choice to find the quest your looking for, because without reference in the conversation logs it's impossible.Its also nice the inclusion of a quest log, otherwise you would never know how how many enemies you need
So you want to turn it into WoW? No way, fool, that's what made EQ great! You had to actually interact with NPCs to get quest dialogue and figure out what you needed to do! Man, I still don't know how some people figured out those 1.0 Epics way back in the day. So great.
Nope I didn't say i wanted it to be like wow, but having quest windows for what you need is certain unless you want to be a big macho tough guy which is your thing. For instance:I'm opposed to how easy eq becomes later on with teleporations.Eq is more fun in classic because you sit and talk to folks for hours make friends and while looking for TP find new friends, its great. What makes eq better than wow, is that wow is too easy with the loot, and has a spell system not as epic as everquest.
I was an original player of EverQuest.. I played into Kunark. I will never forget those days. I came back almost a decade later to try it again.. It is a different beast. I tried Project 1999, man.. I forgot how hard it is to get around as an erudite SK! LOL. The players there are very helpful though, helped me out. I only lasted a few months though, a long term endeavor in EQ was possible when I was 15.. Harder now that I'm 28. What a game, I hope they hit EQNext with a winner.
My first and favorite MMO. Truly a timeless classic.... I got this for my 12th birthday in 2000 and I fell in love with it.... This was the best part of my middle school years.
..gee whizz... There are many times in life in general, that if I could find a place like ButcherBlock Mountains I'd go there and live. I use to love that zone. I think I still look for that feeling in other MMO's...that there was with EQ. Very sadly, will probably never be found.
Pain and Suffering and Nostalgia try to hit YOU, but misses! Pain and Suffering and Nostalgia try to hit YOU, but misses! You have died. Returning to home point... LOADING...
I can still feel the anxiety and excitement with this song.. Everything pre Luclin was just core memory stuff. Loved EQ and Loved DAoC. Two best mmorpgs ever.
A thousand times over again. This and UO when you're in Britannica. It's like a blessing and a curse to live through the EQ days, when an MMO was this good... you'll never find the same one again
I started playing EQ when I was 13. Norrath let me forget about the pressures of teenage living and spend all of my energy creating. There's nothing more precious than being given the freedom and leisure to create.
God, I remember loading this shizz up for the first time and I saw this loading screen (and heard the song) and I was like.... HOLY GOD THIS IS AWESOME. Loved it ever since ;)
I just got the chills. I tried to talk to guards first time I logged on... Then with my first cash I bought a fishing rod and was psyched I fished those sandals with algae on them. I wish someone would invent a "next step" type of game where I would get this same awesome feeling again.
Remembering the first log-in of the day, listening to this music and waiting to finally load in. You can still play EQ but you just can't go back in time.
Wow, this song brings back so many memories. It's so simple, yet so brilliant. They've done so many great renditions of it, but hearing the original for the first time in years makes me appreciate how good it was. Sadly, Sony took over. Gotta love old EQ pre-Sony.
This song really makes me want to get on right now! I love everquest and I had so many good memories. My guild that I grew up with was amazing and acctually cared. That is hard to find in an MMORPG, but EverQuest never seemed to have people that didn't care about you.
A friend of mine got me hooked on MMO's starting with this one back in 1998, and sadly I have stayed in the genre ever since. Just hearing this brings back so many memories...
got to agree with Matamuran, EQ being my first MMO, I was totally taken in. most people forget just how new that concept was and EQ really started it for all the rest to come. don't believe you can ever capture that feeling of your first time, remember most games were 2d and no social interaction, very fond memories. now that i have tried so many other MMO's, EQ still is the first.
This game brings back so many memories. I thank my uncle for letting my play this game when he was still alive. Hoping to get to play it again . Downloading the anniversary pack thing now :D
There was no corpse summoning in early classic EQ, not until closer to Kunark. They added a scroll drop to some mob in the original Paw. You either went back yourself to get your things off the corpse (naked, or if you were smart wearing some secondary backup cloths), or took your chances by giving /consent to someone else... Troublemakers loved to convince desperate people to /consent them, then they would drag your corpse to an even worse place saying 'I can't seem to find it'.
I had to play the music because I was feeling nostalgic. No other mmorpg that I've played has reproduced the same joy, wonder and amazement. And no other game has worried my bro from the random late night cussing and screaming. Loved it all and will always keep the memories, but hell if I go back to that hardcore shit.
i used to play everquest from when i was 5 right up to 13 with my dad and bro :*), i miss it so much, but we will all be left with the beautiful memories of this other world
Ah..everquest music...from the good ol days. It seems whenever I listen to this...it touches something deep inside me in such a way that nothing else can. (whether thats good or bad Idk)....My whole childhood was eq1...and I regret nothing :)
This game was great as a real co-operative experience. By that I mean you were pretty much forced to group up to progress and progress was extremely slow and difficult but that was deliberate pacing to keep you in the same area for a while and really appreciate the world as you explored it and found new areas to play. In WoW you simply stay in 1 area for a few hours until you've solo'd all the quests and then move on to the next. I loved exploring in Everquest, I didn't care about leveling up.
I remember listening to this song through almost twice before my Dial Up connection finished getting me ready to get ingame.... wow it feels like forever ago!
Everquest is the only game I've played where I actually had a fear of dying. Games now, and even Everquest now make it too easy. But back in the day an 11 hour plane of fear corpse retrivial was just terrorfying. Hell, even a naked guk run wasn't any fun. Everquest 99 will always be the hardest of the hardcore game
Camping, corpse runs, true fear running through Highhold Pass with a huge train of mobs relentlessly chasing you, agro giants, loot hijackers, and not to mention making lifelong friends .... there was just nothing like this game. This theme brings back all of those incredibly great memories.
First time i got all the way from kelethin, on my level 14 half elf paladin, to freeport, on boat, was momentous for me. I had so much dopamine pumping through my body like 'you can relax now youre on the boat' and 'this is awesome, im the only one on the boat at nighttime, its like im creating a movie as i play'. i had to log out when i got there. but when i logged on the next day i was at the bottom of the ocean.
This is the game where I learned "Grats" was not an insult to someone... This is the game that introduced me to playing games... After watching my dad play it when I was about 8 or so, I HAD to play it.
Brad "Aradune" McQuaid (maker of the original Everquest) is making a new mmo that is suppose to be old school and high fantasy. It's called Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, check it out!
I remember when you had to go get your corspe and drag it around. and taking five minute boat rides from place to place then falling and getting stuck. Then not having a map to guide you and getting really lost and sad. Then dying to some really hard crap and having no idea where your corspe is. And then trains to zone where i would die. Or raiding Mistmore and reading the tombstones. Or Going to FM and farming loops from the giants..... *sheds single tear*
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This song binds us all... the first thing we all heard the day we decided to play Everquest.
Everquest blew my mind when it came out. Regardless of how masochistically punishing the game was by today's standards I can't really think of a time when I had more awe just wandering around in a game. I'm glad the music survived the times.
+GrayStillPlays I just was thinking how much I miss EQ.. but on the other hand.. a decade later and being use to modern games. I dont think I could play EQ anymore. 18 hour raids, months long epic quests etc.
+Issac Stickley I downloaded the free version on steam. if was so surreal to see my characters faces after so many years away, it was actually sort of grounding. I still hop on from time to time to make the kethlin to qeynos run. I do it once a year now.
+TheDude i wouldnt even know what my account name was or pw anymore. Dont have a PC anymore. But id one day like to get back on here. Had a Warrior and a Ranger. Both were epic
The difficulty actually made it more immersive. You were REALLY afraid to die lol.
Sarah G yea for sure. Freaking trying to do a CR in certain zones, if you were deep in was a pain in the ass. But thats what made it fun man. Warcraft was awesome in its own way, but can not touch EQ
I wonder if there will be Everquest in heaven.
There will be.
I believe EverQuest is heaven ...
And it'll be without corpse runs.
Heaven started working on the next patch around a week ago. I'm sure this'll be in it. Word is they hired a top man to work on it.
There is but its on dial up...and your mom needs to use the phone. So you can only play the tutorial offline
MMOs will never be this good and innovative again.
+Kexin Considering they pretty much stole from a bunch of earlier MUDs, I don't see how you can call it innovative.
+Kevin they will be one day. The technology is evolving...slowly...it will get there. Problem is...we wont be 16 again....
Never? You saw the future or something? Come on man, I'm pretty sure one day some EQ fan will make an mmo just like EQ but with technological improvements and everybody's gonna love it. Don't you lose hope on developers and/or EQ fans!
Just add the micro transactions, DLC and loot boxes ;_;
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This was back when you actually got to know the people you grouped with - not spend twenty minutes in a group and never even say hello. Good times.
this. a thousand times this.
Mackenzie Compton
I'll chip in another thousand times.
SyndAg3nT ..so true. That reminds me last time I played a MMO. That was with TERA. We grouped for about 10 -15 min. got the quest done and later just about everyone said. So empty...
+SyndAg3nT Can't go and eat a sausage because you guys always have to go and get adds...
Yeah man, that was awesome
This song brings tears to my eyes. I can be driving down the road and have a fond memory of the game. It's like it became a part of my soul, no game has ever came close to the feel and excitement of the first time loading up that stayed with you everytime you logged in. I started playing with a lot of my family and met so many people far away and even in my home town. I was 32 years old then. I'm 65 now. Amazing Game.
Did you mistype? It hasn't been out for 33 years...
No kidding. I feel the same way about it. The other day I passed a sign for a town called Riverdale and I immediately started humming the Rivervale song in my head. Then I started playing all the old music, and now I want to log back in and play EQ again.
No other MMO has even come close in terms of the overall experience.
@@azuarc right? he'd be 55 not 65 as it's been 23 years not 33 lol
still... so crazy to think how time just continues along.... I was 12/13 when playing it, now I'm 35; truly feels like yesterday.
@@kylel7158 No, he clearly means he max leveled after the Planes of Power expansion. 😀
Every time you heard this song, there was always the whisper in the back of your mind, "I wonder what will happen to me today?"
For me the whisper said, "You will spend three hours getting a group, then wipe many times and lose a level before rage quitting.
What would you like your tombstone to say?
Man. If we could just go back in time.
my god this music brings back ALOT of memories. almost brings a tear to my eye
my thoughts exactly
Ditto
almost ??
My childhood. Playing this with my dad on multi comps .. I'm serious when I say it brings tears to my eyes.
Nathanial Roy yea man. No shame. EQ was a legit way of life. No game can compare to that time on it.
Same for me, three boxing and we'd take turns running the 3rd toon pending whomever was making the soda/snack run.
Same for me and my dad. Though I was only 6 or 7 so I didn't play often as I sucked lol.
Same bro, me and my dad still play from time to time
my dad and i played it on multiple comps too 🙂 good times
This. This bloody theme embodies everything I love about this game, and why I can never forget the countless hours I spent exploring it. No game has gripped me as tightly ever since I made my first wood elf druid on EQ.
Playing a halfling druid right now in P99!
Bloody song, still gives me the goose bumps after all this years....
Back in 1999, you could tell how well your EQ gaming session was going to go based on how long this song actually played before you were logged in. Those were the days.....
Good old Dial-Up Hehe
This song brings back sooooooooooooo many memories. I seriously got a chill when i started.
over the difficulty, the immersion, the atmosphere, the music and the feeling of isolation and danger/wonder, i think one thing made this game the best online game ever. THE PEOPPLE!!!
For years, the ocmmunity on this game was sick-as, people who invested so much emotion into the experience that you felt liek you could too, and most of us easily did, immersing us completely, making it a place we felt we belonged, and could spend hours in.
it was more than a game, it was a reason to live.
RIP brad mcquaid AKA Aradune. I hope you live on through Pantheon - Rise Of The Fallen.
Log into Everquest around 1999, long day at work, cares of the day washed away by that intro music. 12-14 hours would then pass playing, unknown to me if day or night outside. Level up...!!
Project 1999 people.. its a beautiful thing. if you want to go back, you really really can.
RIP Brad McQuad
Just as the initial chords of midi sweep out from my speakers a single tear rolls down my cheek...a tear in remembrance of so many adventures, so many friends, and so much mystery. I am saddened for I know these things can never come to be again. No experience will ever be quite the same, nay anywhere near the same. Some may think me strange holding such love for another world in what is "just" a game. Let them. I have experienced Norrath. I will hold those memories forever
Remember stickerbrush symphony? midis were so cool
Cuts deep. My son was an infant when I played this. He is 19 now.
the most epic amazing feeling in the world when you first logged into everyquest and heard a badass amazing opening theme like this. never since my first character have i ever been more excited to simply making a character
Ya for sure there is nothing like eq the feeling you got when you started to log in and you heard this music AMAZING..
I played this game so much in college that the music is ingrained into my soul now. I'll always have fond memories of that game.
My GOD. I absolutely can't get enough of that old-school pc game MIDI music from the late 90s. Just hearing this theme while looking at this title screen on a beautiful CRT monitor was legendary. Nostalgia overload thinking about it. Modern video game soundtracks that use real instruments and orchestras and utilize Dolby digital surround sound and such is great don't get me wrong, but there was just something magical about MIDI that just immerses you into a game so much.
"Can we get a REZ for the Ranger?"...
Nekkid corpse runs...
"DING!!"
"BOAT!!!"
"BARD needs a REZ!"
Spent 4 months trying to get the parts for the Mage Epic and still not coming close...
I LOVE this theme! Brings back great memories, but mostly I remember it because my PC was so bad at the time I heard the opening theme all the way through and restart before the game loaded...
I completely agree.. I remember those days.
What nostalgia i feel.. all that's left are the memories of a truly epic masterpiece.
90s fantasy games and movies had the greatest aesthetic.
The nostalgia is over 9000
Oh jeez, the music from 1999? I remember fondly sitting by my dad's PC watching him play this game for hours lol. He mained a Cleric and a Paladin.
There's project 1999 private server out there! Check it out to live again the amazing experience this game offers!
...I'm not joking, project 1999 is an emulated server of the first version of Everquest back in 1999 and with it's first expension ''Ruins of Kunark''. I STRONGLY recommend this server for the nostalgia hungry ones
Sadly, it's a rather loose interpretation of what EQ was. Expansion pack level is there sure, but there's a lot that has been changed, and not always for the better. The community I've found ranges between indifferent at best, to toxic.
Jason O'Conner Think that's more to do with internet in general having changed in the past 16 years. Running into a complete douchebag in an online game was an oddity back in 1999, and people cared for their reputation alot. Now it's more of a contest of who can be the biggest trolliest douche out there and brag about it to his trolly douchebag pals.
Just gotta try to look past the disappointments and enjoy the nostalgia. Then see afterwards if you still wanna keep logging in once the nostalgia need has been satisfied.
I will say that on the original EQ reputation was everything. I maintained a great rep in LG as a great puller / tank. At Least I always got groups.
Exactly right. Back then, a dirtbag was rare. Everyone was helpful and friendly. It was a new experience (long awaited for me) to have a world that was D&D like to explore with others. Nothing will ever capture that again.
Still remember negotiating prices with shamans and druids to get the Spirit of the Wolf buff.
got sow?
Especially to run through Kithicor woods... (shudders)
@@johnh2118 This comment reminded me of a guild name I had forgotten, Kithicor By Night, thanks!
@@KnaveSkye We are all forever connected by the best of times had in a wonderful world!
Amazing the memories and feelings a simple loading screen song can bring flooding into your head
Oh my god, sweet serenity! I remember getting home from school and no matter how bad my day was this opening music reminded me all was well. It was as if an angel had descended from heaven and wrapped her arms around me making me all warm and fuzzy inside.... Hahaha, adding this to my favorites!!!
wow this brings back some hardcore memories, TRAIN INC TO ZONE!!!!
It's been over 15 year. So many memories
Was the best MMO ever made I miss it I played for 20 years
Eq was amazing but I feel like going back can't live up to my first experience and how amazing it was back then.I also feel the game has changed so much, that much of the stuff that was great on live in the old expansion is missing in the newer ones.I loved dreadlands and the early expansions and killing dragons.Later ones focused too much on loot, and god I loved how some classes were made.
I feel Everquest had. Lot of problems early on that got fixed, like the lack of map system and the dialogue having no links in conversation to bring up the right dialogue choice to find the quest your looking for, because without reference in the conversation logs it's impossible.Its also nice the inclusion of a quest log, otherwise you would never know how how many enemies you need
So you want to turn it into WoW? No way, fool, that's what made EQ great! You had to actually interact with NPCs to get quest dialogue and figure out what you needed to do! Man, I still don't know how some people figured out those 1.0 Epics way back in the day. So great.
Nope I didn't say i wanted it to be like wow, but having quest windows for what you need is certain unless you want to be a big macho tough guy which is your thing.
For instance:I'm opposed to how easy eq becomes later on with teleporations.Eq is more fun in classic because you sit and talk to folks for hours make friends and while looking for TP find new friends, its great.
What makes eq better than wow, is that wow is too easy with the loot, and has a spell system not as epic as everquest.
В пиве - твоя сила и мудрость....
I was an original player of EverQuest.. I played into Kunark. I will never forget those days. I came back almost a decade later to try it again.. It is a different beast. I tried Project 1999, man.. I forgot how hard it is to get around as an erudite SK! LOL. The players there are very helpful though, helped me out. I only lasted a few months though, a long term endeavor in EQ was possible when I was 15.. Harder now that I'm 28. What a game, I hope they hit EQNext with a winner.
There's nothing like nostalgia for the greatest MMORPG ever made. WoW just doesn't even come close.
It's a testament to stuff like P1999 and TAKP that there was nothing like it, nothing left like it, and it's still an experience unlike any other.
My first and favorite MMO. Truly a timeless classic.... I got this for my 12th birthday in 2000 and I fell in love with it.... This was the best part of my middle school years.
This was the gold standard of early MMORPG's. 8-10-12 hours a day through a 56K modem and the game ran great. Often a brutal grind but I loved it.
I used to get butterfly's in my stomach when I was logging onto this game while this song played.
RIP Brad McQuaid, you gave me and my brother a lot of amazing memories. “Karnor Castle LFG!”
ORC TRAIN TO ZONE
What zone? - GET OUT OF THE WAYYYYYYY!
..gee whizz... There are many times in life in general, that if I could find a place like ButcherBlock Mountains I'd go there and live. I use to love that zone. I think I still look for that feeling in other MMO's...that there was with EQ. Very sadly, will probably never be found.
Pain and Suffering and Nostalgia try to hit YOU, but misses!
Pain and Suffering and Nostalgia try to hit YOU, but misses!
You have died.
Returning to home point...
LOADING...
You consider the Everquest-Opening theme
what do you want your tombstone to say ?
I can still feel the anxiety and excitement with this song..
Everything pre Luclin was just core memory stuff.
Loved EQ and Loved DAoC. Two best mmorpgs ever.
Wow! This is so nostalgic.
RIP Brad.
I couldn't agree more. WoW knows how to get subscribers, but EQ knew how to get players. It was an amazing experience.
@shoe every once in a while, i return to hear these songs.. ty
A thousand times over again. This and UO when you're in Britannica.
It's like a blessing and a curse to live through the EQ days, when an MMO was this good... you'll never find the same one again
This may have become the best video on youtube. Ever.
I started playing EQ when I was 13. Norrath let me forget about the pressures of teenage living and spend all of my energy creating. There's nothing more precious than being given the freedom and leisure to create.
God, I remember loading this shizz up for the first time and I saw this loading screen (and heard the song) and I was like.... HOLY GOD THIS IS AWESOME.
Loved it ever since ;)
man this brings back memories... 4 years of this song!
1:04 the best part of this game for me, the Freeport theme arriving by boat. Lived for it when I was a kid : ]
I just got the chills. I tried to talk to guards first time I logged on... Then with my first cash I bought a fishing rod and was psyched I fished those sandals with algae on them. I wish someone would invent a "next step" type of game where I would get this same awesome feeling again.
Remembering the first log-in of the day, listening to this music and waiting to finally load in. You can still play EQ but you just can't go back in time.
Man I miss this game maybe I'll start playing again. Got a retired mage on project 1999
There will never be another experience like it ever... rip
Wow, this song brings back so many memories. It's so simple, yet so brilliant. They've done so many great renditions of it, but hearing the original for the first time in years makes me appreciate how good it was. Sadly, Sony took over. Gotta love old EQ pre-Sony.
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This song really makes me want to get on right now! I love everquest and I had so many good memories. My guild that I grew up with was amazing and acctually cared. That is hard to find in an MMORPG, but EverQuest never seemed to have people that didn't care about you.
A friend of mine got me hooked on MMO's starting with this one back in 1998, and sadly I have stayed in the genre ever since. Just hearing this brings back so many memories...
Omg i m SO OLD !
Couldn't have said it better myself. :) Absolutely - big part of my childhood. Loved every second of it.
TRAIN TO ZONE...CHOO CHOO!
Man can I go back to when ROK came out this ate up my time after school lol
got to agree with Matamuran, EQ being my first MMO, I was totally taken in. most people forget just how new that concept was and EQ really started it for all the rest to come. don't believe you can ever capture that feeling of your first time, remember most games were 2d and no social interaction, very fond memories. now that i have tried so many other MMO's, EQ still is the first.
Man, does this bring back memories.
This game brings back so many memories. I thank my uncle for letting my play this game when he was still alive. Hoping to get to play it again . Downloading the anniversary pack thing now :D
Oh god. Dem feels.
Goosebumps.
I have made a minecraft server of over 100k players and have 100% encouraged the use of WTS/WTT/WTB/PC/OBO/LFTP/LFG for 3 years now. Long Live EQ1
Christ, I was in elementary when I first heard this. I long to go back to that time just for one more day.
There was no corpse summoning in early classic EQ, not until closer to Kunark. They added a scroll drop to some mob in the original Paw.
You either went back yourself to get your things off the corpse (naked, or if you were smart wearing some secondary backup cloths), or took your chances by giving /consent to someone else...
Troublemakers loved to convince desperate people to /consent them, then they would drag your corpse to an even worse place saying 'I can't seem to find it'.
Everquest is such a beautiful masterpiece -tear-
I had to play the music because I was feeling nostalgic. No other mmorpg that I've played has reproduced the same joy, wonder and amazement. And no other game has worried my bro from the random late night cussing and screaming. Loved it all and will always keep the memories, but hell if I go back to that hardcore shit.
i used to play everquest from when i was 5 right up to 13 with my dad and bro :*), i miss it so much, but we will all be left with the beautiful memories of this other world
Ah..everquest music...from the good ol days. It seems whenever I listen to this...it touches something deep inside me in such a way that nothing else can. (whether thats good or bad Idk)....My whole childhood was eq1...and I regret nothing :)
Music soothes my soul
So many memories. I just wish I had the time/money for a computer that could still play it.
This game was great as a real co-operative experience. By that I mean you were pretty much forced to group up to progress and progress was extremely slow and difficult but that was deliberate pacing to keep you in the same area for a while and really appreciate the world as you explored it and found new areas to play. In WoW you simply stay in 1 area for a few hours until you've solo'd all the quests and then move on to the next. I loved exploring in Everquest, I didn't care about leveling up.
I remember listening to this song through almost twice before my Dial Up connection finished getting me ready to get ingame.... wow it feels like forever ago!
Everquest is the only game I've played where I actually had a fear of dying. Games now, and even Everquest now make it too easy. But back in the day an 11 hour plane of fear corpse retrivial was just terrorfying. Hell, even a naked guk run wasn't any fun.
Everquest 99 will always be the hardest of the hardcore game
Camping, corpse runs, true fear running through Highhold Pass with a huge train of mobs relentlessly chasing you, agro giants, loot hijackers, and not to mention making lifelong friends .... there was just nothing like this game. This theme brings back all of those incredibly great memories.
Still makes me feel butterflies in my belly
First time i got all the way from kelethin, on my level 14 half elf paladin, to freeport, on boat, was momentous for me. I had so much dopamine pumping through my body like 'you can relax now youre on the boat' and 'this is awesome, im the only one on the boat at nighttime, its like im creating a movie as i play'. i had to log out when i got there.
but when i logged on the next day i was at the bottom of the ocean.
This is the game where I learned "Grats" was not an insult to someone... This is the game that introduced me to playing games... After watching my dad play it when I was about 8 or so, I HAD to play it.
Best. MMO. Ever.
I will never forget that black horse in lesser faydark. That was some crazy AI. Unpredictable. Demonic. Awesome.
That's just RAD! 1999 I miss you!
This is luminye Osluna of Firiona VIe server and to all my friends still running out there trying to beat the game, I am still standing.
Brad "Aradune" McQuaid (maker of the original Everquest) is making a new mmo that is suppose to be old school and high fantasy. It's called Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, check it out!
holy shit the memories ROFL, i don't know how many times I listened to this while waiting for my AOL DIAL UP to load the game haha
I remember when you had to go get your corspe and drag it around. and taking five minute boat rides from place to place then falling and getting stuck. Then not having a map to guide you and getting really lost and sad. Then dying to some really hard crap and having no idea where your corspe is. And then trains to zone where i would die. Or raiding Mistmore and reading the tombstones. Or Going to FM and farming loops from the giants..... *sheds single tear*
I miss raiding with Cestus Dei & Fires of Heaven on Veeshan. Wonderful memories