I remember skipping my junior prom because I had an important raid. Honestly it's a pretty fond memory. I got lost in this world and I loved every minute of it.
If anyone reads my comment. 16 years after video made. I started playing Oct 1999 and played on/ off till 2011. The main years were till 2004. This video has me crying from all the nostalgia. People, family, friends , so many co-workers. All out of my life now. The video brings back the fond memories of playing all night. With in game folks I adored, loved, but never met. Geez I never even spoke to any on the phone. The game kept me sane during rough years. I can honestly say, the game saved my life in many ways. At least mentally it did. Providing a healthy much needed escape for me back then, 20 years ago. Bless You for posting this video & for never taking it down.❤
omg this music hit my hears, I saw the old huge UI, I miss EQ soooo much :( No maps, no quest markers, no glowing items randomly all over the place. No DPS meters, no emphasis on maximizing everything, just a fun, open world with CHALLENGING monsters, and a great group based community that was the best ive ever met. R.I.P. Old Everquest, there will never be another one like you :(
I started playing in March 1999. I still play today. The song that you hear with the vendor open, is still there today. It is sweet music that takes you back so many years ago. The game is free to play now for live servers. If you are so inclined, login, find a vendor and open their window, and listen to it again with your eyes closed.
FippyDarkpaw2 when you mentioned the part about closing my eyes and listening to the music It brought to mind what it was like to have to sit and meditate to get your mana back and all you could see was your spell book. If you were outside of the city you always felt somewhat vulnerable not being able to see if anything that could do you harm was approaching.
@@vickigower8125 Very true! I remember meditating behind that book and hearing the approaching steps of a hill giant! Which is another thing... I love that EQ had higher level mobs wandering lower level zones. EQ is just a fantastic game all around, in my opinion. I was there for launch and am playing it tonight as well, over 22 years later.
Love seeing this, I played Everquest on dial up in 1999 as well, wanting to come back again after being over WoW and how easy it is for years, I just wish the progression servers weren’t pay to play
@@shaky_dawg One of the things that made it so immersive. You had to be on your toes almost anywhere you went outside the city gates. Dying was very punishing and your heart would be racing trying to avoid/escape danger.
It's 1999 and almost all internet is dial-up. Online games are barely a thing - there's just a few big titles, and PC gaming is still in its early toddler years. Quake 2, Ultima Online, that's about it. No social media, very few cell phones. Then this game comes out and there really hasn't been anything like it. Ultima Online was a sandbox, but this is a game that had 13 classes upon release, and a massive treasure trove of content that none of us had any clue about. It established so many standards - rare spawns, rare drops, group makeups, raids, camps. It deserves a quality remake
I STILL play this game, 14years and counting! Boy has it changed!!! I miss the old days of it. No MMO can come close to the great experience EverQuest gave you during its prime.
January 1st - 2022 I'm still playing today as I type since 1999 on the Mithaniel Marr server. I'm 33 now - Thanks SOE/DB/Enad Global 7 and Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover, John Smedley, Bill Trost & so many others including the P99 crew for keeping the game going in many different states. I play them all!
I had forgotten what the original UI looked like, I do remember being able to see the character in the inventory screen. I can't put my finger on what was so special about the original, maybe it was the time period but no other MMO's have impressed me since.
I think it was because it was pioneer game. I tried playing eq1999 recently and it was really hard to get into. Back then the game was not dumbed down, and that is nostalgic, but really hard to play in today's area of pay to win and super fast level ups.
At the time it was the best and funnest game anywhere.. Real "fun".. Not your intense quest for twinks, and dailys, and the quest for uber gear and who does the most damage... But rather friends, teamwork, ahhh the joys of trains out of Crushbone brings back memories.....
What was your account name? I bought one back in the days from a high level cleric called Aesh. He said he needs to sell it for the sake of his marriage. I know that this is most disgraceful and I didn't want to cheat the game. I only had a shaman on max level and my mom at that time wanted to join in so I got her a chsr to play with me
My friends teased me for years for keeping the old UI. I miss feeling my little window into the world. It was so strange how the UI almost felt like your eyes so fluidly, giving you such a great viewpoint. I remember my first few days in 1999..... not knowing how to fight back, and getting killed repeatedly as a gnome by a skeleton in steamfont.
Oh God the nostalgia! It hurts! The Clarity/KEI whores, the SOW beggars,the druid taxis, the ec tunnel hippies hawking stuff... and trains TRAINS everywhere! And those fkcing griffins!!! I still remember the name of my first summoned earth elemental, Kasobab. Fennin Ro FTW
OMG that OG UI... using that many acronyms in a row made me hate myself a little more... anyway. this video recorded on a potato and encoded on a banana but I love it, thanks for posting this bit of nostalgia. Back in 2007 this was probably top tier video quality when this was posted. I spent so many hours playing this game, getting those J-Boots has still left me with some long lasting trauma... 72hours strait camping that cylcops in the middle of the ocean on that bloody island fending off kill stealers and not sleeping, eating pizza and drinking coffee only taking quick toilet breaks. It helped living in a tiny apartment so my toilet was real close. PC monitors were far too big back in those days to even think of moving the computer to the bathroom and just live in there till I got the drop I needed. Anyway, Atuke got his J-boots, his Wurm Slayer and that full suit of Barbarian warrior armor that kinda had a purple hue to it if I remember, man I wish I still had those screen shots.
i have so many memories from this game. it was fucking impenetrable to new players but i think thats part of why it was so easy to become emotionally invested in it. i understand mmorpgs these days are technically designed better but none of them really engage me
MMOs today are well designed games. EQ was not, but that was what made it awesome. It was a well designed world. In anime is is often said that life is a s&_$## game. The QoL updates over 24 years have made EQ a great game but it has lost some of what made it a great world.
@@raphaelsolo some of the inconveniences are what made it feel like an adventure. travelling from one end of the world to the other was pretty harrowing for a newish player also it wasnt designed specifically to accommadate solo players, even at lower levels. you really needed to make friends to even survive for the most part
EQ and UO created an unique experience of gameplay that only lasted for maybe a year or at the most for either one. The love of the game ruled and I haven't seen their like in the years that have followed so I am grateful I was there as I have many fond memories of adventure where triumph and pain were enjoyed or overcome. I'm not sure we will ever see this again.
I can remember the sounds of sooo many of the zones. Like when you were growing up in Kelethin, the sounds of the faeries when they were killed by a newbie or when you were making those first scary trips to Crushbone and you could hear the orcs grunting
Back then you even had to skill up your navigation to get your compass to work. No mini maps or question marks above things heads. Corpse runs were common. No hand holding at all. Ahh the good old days. Crack for donations at main bank!
And you had to skill up your spell casting otherwise it was just *fizzle*,*fizzle*,*fizzle*. And you also had to figure out how to read those compass locations.
Ahh - those sweet, halcyon days when the internet was young and so were we. I wouldn't trade a minute I spent in this game; it was truly a special experience and holds a special place in my heart.
Times that I actually "lost" my corpse and had to spend a ton of time finding it was quite rare. And, maybe it was just us old school EQ guys, but I always viewed corpse runs and trying to get a rez as an adventure in itself. That was PART of the play, not something that took you out of the play for 30 minutes. To me, that was much more of a quest than just about any "quests" you get now a days in anything post WoW.
So true Archimagus. A corpse retrieval was anything but an inconvenience. You had to be smart about it and use strategy as you could be quite vulnerable without your gear. Never mind the fact that if you got killed trying to get your corpse back you'd lose even more XP! :)
Started in 1999 too. Oh boy, I remember guilds begging others to help with Plane of Fear corpse retrieval back in the old days, and we all had a whole spare set of gear in the bank just because loss of corpse was a very real thing in those days.
Went to the midnight showing of The Phantom Menace, came home at like 3am and me and my buddies all logged on. We went to entrance area of Crushbone to kill goblins, my god this was such a magical time.
Why did we love EQ more than all others? Because it was HARD!! It was an incredible difficult game. It was not a "play nice" or "no death penalty" game like most others.
Holy crap... I ACTUALLY REMEMBER THIS! I can recognize this simply by the camera view when you loot something and barter with merchants (the one that shows in the upper right). I think my heart popped seeing this... I really miss the old Everquest, and there was an island I remember which had a lot of willowisps, and a beautiful song.
The sounds really bring it back to me, somehow. I loved the skeleton's laugh and that crunching sound; I loathed the dogs' whining. I wonder just how many hours I spent busting skeletons for bone chips...
You lost all your items and you have to get your corpse back. If you died really really unfortunately it was pure stress to do this task. You can lost your level 'cause your exp lost. To gain this exp you was sitting on it about one week, real time. (Yep! One week of playtime lost.) And your corpse can decay.. all your items are gone. Gee.. today gamers are spoilt ^^;
@@Orsuss To be fair all you need to do at such situation was just look for random necromancer who will cast summon corpse for you. But yeah. Even with that it was real deal of "adventure" compare to the mmorpg of nowadays. Ah I really wish to experience something like that again.
@@ZenithalPoint Well in old zones where almost nobody will run it wasn't that easy. I remember when I tried to get this stupid lost scroll in Dalnir.. I died.. gee I need a whole weekend to get my corpse back.
Wow, I've felt the urge to play Everquest again and again over the last few years... but not the current one. I want to play -THIS- Everquest again. Thanks for the huge nostalgia boost!
Man I loved this game a few years back. Seemed like it took forever to get to level 22 w/ my Paladin. Spent many nights up until 3am only to be the undead at work the next morning :) Good times..
The biggest problem with gaming companies, particularly with MMOs is they create a gem and they go and fuck it all up. What is the phrase, "Don't try to fix something that isn't broken?" I for one do miss the old interface and if they would have kept this stuff the same I'd still be playing Everquest today.
I'm still mystified by this game. Been playing since it first was released in 1999. I remember this UI very well, and I remember how excited I was to play in "Full Screen" mode. I've played many other MMORPGs, including WoW, SWtOR, DCUO, and others, but I still come back to EQ for pure fun and relaxation. I've been playing Project 1999 and having a complete blast doing it for the last couple months.
This is what everquest looked like for me.I remember talking to someone in everquest when i was real new.I was a wizard and i was talking from kelethin to some more experienced players, and i remember that is what the game looked like to me.I quit wizard and i played a bard after messing around a lot.
This is how I remember it back in 1999 except I was p-laying on an S3 Virge video card that did not support transparency in sprites so all sprites had black opaque boxes around them :D I was also on AOL
Exploration was real. No minimap. Learn the zones, love the zones, to progress. Fear, wonder, adventure. I'll never experience anything like it ever again I fear.
omg hahaha I totally forgot about the old screen. I remember countless time medding and then getting pounced on by random mobs. sigh such excellent memories from this game.
Amen brother. I took a walk through Qeynos, High Pass, Freeport, the Commonlands, Crushbone. Hell, I even took a stroll through Befallen and Unrest. Completely empty. God, I miss so much about that game. I like video games, but this one was very special for some reason. It never gets old. It gets worse, but never old.
Its videos like these that remind me of how painful memories can really be. Man, for having no life, I had some of the best times on EQ back before Luclin came out.
Man! This brings back memories of endless hours corpserunning to BlackBurrow after endless trains and falling into the pits. *Traveling by foot for the first time from BB to Freeport, and falling off the boat on the way to Butcherblock, having to have a GM recover my corpse from the depths ^^ Thanks for the video ;D
Well said. The music took me back 12 years rather quickly. Hard to believe you could spend so much time on a game like this after playing the more recent MMO titles but all the wonderful memories come pouring in!
EQ was the absolute greatest game, the first with this seemingly eternal char development. 65 levels (when I quit), hell that was alot. And the graphics with every new expansion always been a benchmark at that time for online gaming. Met so many awesome people there, two of them died during 9/11, something that the whole EQ-Community brought me closer than anything else could, not living in the US. I really miss this game, or a similar one. Those times won´t come back.
Wow! I remember playing this in like '99 at 640x420 resolution and being stuck with the UI Frame thing before they let you go fullscreen. The gameplay window was about the size of my DS screen. Also sucked to have to have your spellbook open when meditating so you couldn't see anything, just had to listen for that awful bone crunching sound when something attacked you. I also had to do my first ever PC upgrade to play it.. Increasing from 24M to 64M of RAM and a Voodoo2 vid card lol.
dude!! this reminds me of when i FIRST started EQ! I was a half elf in kelethin. i remember playing like that back when it first came out... now it's all different.....
AH This was the EQ I fell in love with.. My mom got be hooked on it back when it first game out. I was a Monk, Druid, shaman, ranger & cleric I would play up to 8 hours a day and not even know it when I was off work. I do miss it but know I could never play it again. stopped playing and my subscription ran out about 10 years ago.
In 1999 you didn't have Chain or Plate armor until high level. Everyone wore cloth and leather armor because the others were expensive and didn't drop until places like highpass hold. Some higher levels could craft it. Spirit of the Wolf made you run faster. You likely wouldn't have it unless a druid or shaman buffed you. There were no jboots. I think Shaman got SoW at level 9. Druids got it at level 15. Rangers got it at level 30. In the original Paladins and Rangers didn't get spells until around level 8 or 9 I believe. Considering the time it could take to level for hybrids and certain races it could take a while. People in the original would often pay high levels for buffs and teleports from Druids to other locations. The game was very difficult for most classes without a group. Even with a group it was difficult to level past 15. If your group died it might mean hours of exp grinding lost. I do like the music a lot.
"Train to Zone"... What is a train?.... OH GOD WHY IS IT ALL KILLING ME!????? How the hell did I get back to Qeynos? Oh blackburrow how I miss thee....
I miss this game soo much. I spent so much time time playing EQ as a young teen. So many memories. Anyone remember the "eye patch of plunder" ? I got two of those which was insane to even get just one. Oh yeah, the commonlands trading, sad day when that was gone.
i remember those days the best days ever without POK u could find and met freinds everywhere and eventually u'd know so many people u'd have to keep a real list of names on paper to remember um it was the best times
@Geurion A true sense of wonder and exploration. A real community that would help each other. The risk vs reward. It made every crawl exciting and every item upgrade made me jump in my seat. The graphics and music are also still my all time favorites.
Ah so many good memories everquest at the time was such a magical world, had some good times with my friends and brother there and never regret all the time we spent on there lol
dude this game is over 10 years old, this is what helped spawn WoW and almost every mmorpg after it. and yet everquest is still no doubt the biggest and most overwhelming mmorpg to date. I think i must have gotten lost in at least 70% of the maps I went to, really good times.
This was the first MMO I ever played and my whole family played it together. We started it because we were waiting for Diablo 2 to come out (played Diablo 1) I was 9 years old when I started and it was a human mage. Going to EC tunnel for buffs and buy new gear when I had the plat. The community was strong, you needed the assistance of others to further your progression and everyone knew everyone so if you were rude, word spread. I miss the gaming community back then, it so different now and doesnt engage my interest.
I remember skipping my junior prom because I had an important raid. Honestly it's a pretty fond memory. I got lost in this world and I loved every minute of it.
Bahahaha
Cope.
One of the few games you would actually get lost it.
If anyone reads my comment. 16 years after video made. I started playing Oct 1999 and played on/ off till 2011. The main years were till 2004. This video has me crying from all the nostalgia. People, family, friends , so many co-workers. All out of my life now. The video brings back the fond memories of playing all night. With in game folks I adored, loved, but never met. Geez I never even spoke to any on the phone.
The game kept me sane during rough years. I can honestly say, the game saved my life in many ways. At least mentally it did. Providing a healthy much needed escape for me back then, 20 years ago. Bless You for posting this video & for never taking it down.❤
omg this music hit my hears, I saw the old huge UI, I miss EQ soooo much :(
No maps, no quest markers, no glowing items randomly all over the place. No DPS meters, no emphasis on maximizing everything, just a fun, open world with CHALLENGING monsters, and a great group based community that was the best ive ever met.
R.I.P. Old Everquest, there will never be another one like you :(
I started playing in March 1999. I still play today. The song that you hear with the vendor open, is still there today. It is sweet music that takes you back so many years ago. The game is free to play now for live servers. If you are so inclined, login, find a vendor and open their window, and listen to it again with your eyes closed.
FippyDarkpaw2 when you mentioned the part about closing my eyes and listening to the music It brought to mind what it was like to have to sit and meditate to get your mana back and all you could see was your spell book. If you were outside of the city you always felt somewhat vulnerable not being able to see if anything that could do you harm was approaching.
@@vickigower8125 Very true! I remember meditating behind that book and hearing the approaching steps of a hill giant! Which is another thing... I love that EQ had higher level mobs wandering lower level zones. EQ is just a fantastic game all around, in my opinion. I was there for launch and am playing it tonight as well, over 22 years later.
@@shaky_dawg Awesome. Ah for the good ole days :) So many wonderful memories.
Love seeing this, I played Everquest on dial up in 1999 as well, wanting to come back again after being over WoW and how easy it is for years, I just wish the progression servers weren’t pay to play
@@shaky_dawg One of the things that made it so immersive. You had to be on your toes almost anywhere you went outside the city gates. Dying was very punishing and your heart would be racing trying to avoid/escape danger.
It's 1999 and almost all internet is dial-up.
Online games are barely a thing - there's just a few big titles, and PC gaming is still in its early toddler years.
Quake 2, Ultima Online, that's about it. No social media, very few cell phones.
Then this game comes out and there really hasn't been anything like it.
Ultima Online was a sandbox, but this is a game that had 13 classes upon release, and a massive treasure trove of content that none of us had any clue about.
It established so many standards - rare spawns, rare drops, group makeups, raids, camps.
It deserves a quality remake
Idk if darkpaw could pull it off in the modern day. project Lantern is slowly being worked on by the community though. waiting on that.
I still play on Project 1999 which does classic emulation. Everquest will forever be the king of MMORPGs, idc what anyone says.
p99 is shit
@@craigshlabot5719 Lol ok
@@ryanc6878 p99 is totally trash bro
@@estip111111 Beta!!
Amen brotha
I STILL play this game, 14years and counting! Boy has it changed!!! I miss the old days of it. No MMO can come close to the great experience EverQuest gave you during its prime.
I second that sentiment EpioneEQ
@@vickigower8125 Okay Vicki Gower
Are you still playing 24 years later? Man, that hurt to write.
The nostalgia is INTENSE when I watch this!
January 1st - 2022
I'm still playing today as I type since 1999 on the Mithaniel Marr server. I'm 33 now - Thanks SOE/DB/Enad Global 7 and Brad McQuaid, Steve Clover, John Smedley, Bill Trost & so many others including the P99 crew for keeping the game going in many different states. I play them all!
Same. I am 45. I started EQ in collage 24 years ago and I never stopped. R.I.P. Brad.
I was on MithMarr as well.
I had forgotten what the original UI looked like, I do remember being able to see the character in the inventory screen.
I can't put my finger on what was so special about the original, maybe it was the time period but no other MMO's have impressed me since.
I think it was because it was pioneer game. I tried playing eq1999 recently and it was really hard to get into. Back then the game was not dumbed down, and that is nostalgic, but really hard to play in today's area of pay to win and super fast level ups.
Non will
oh man I miss the sound of those skeletons : (
we'll never ever feel this way about a game ever again. so sad.
The sound of their bones breaking apart and falling to the ground :)
The fact that this video is 10 years old, at the time showing a 8 year old game, makes me feel super old.
And the fact that I read this 3 year from when you wrote this makes it even worse...
@@RazBaz07 haha true
At the time it was the best and funnest game anywhere.. Real "fun".. Not your intense quest for twinks, and dailys, and the quest for uber gear and who does the most damage... But rather friends, teamwork, ahhh the joys of trains out of Crushbone brings back memories.....
Yes it was not about competition like all of today,s MMO,s are. It was about teamwork and the desire to help your fellow player.
Fuck, time flies. What an incredible game. I wish I could travel in time and go back to 1999. This forever changed gaming.
OMG my first intro to staying up till 4am gaming. I loved/hated this game in the early 2000s. Had to sell my account to save my marriage
What was your account name? I bought one back in the days from a high level cleric called Aesh.
He said he needs to sell it for the sake of his marriage.
I know that this is most disgraceful and I didn't want to cheat the game. I only had a shaman on max level and my mom at that time wanted to join in so I got her a chsr to play with me
My friends teased me for years for keeping the old UI. I miss feeling my little window into the world. It was so strange how the UI almost felt like your eyes so fluidly, giving you such a great viewpoint.
I remember my first few days in 1999..... not knowing how to fight back, and getting killed repeatedly as a gnome by a skeleton in steamfont.
Oh God the nostalgia! It hurts!
The Clarity/KEI whores, the SOW beggars,the druid taxis, the ec tunnel hippies hawking stuff... and trains TRAINS everywhere! And those fkcing griffins!!! I still remember the name of my first summoned earth elemental, Kasobab. Fennin Ro FTW
@Josh Nonya I was in a couple guilds, Army of Fate and Eternal Crusaders of Norrath.
OMG that OG UI... using that many acronyms in a row made me hate myself a little more... anyway. this video recorded on a potato and encoded on a banana but I love it, thanks for posting this bit of nostalgia. Back in 2007 this was probably top tier video quality when this was posted. I spent so many hours playing this game, getting those J-Boots has still left me with some long lasting trauma... 72hours strait camping that cylcops in the middle of the ocean on that bloody island fending off kill stealers and not sleeping, eating pizza and drinking coffee only taking quick toilet breaks. It helped living in a tiny apartment so my toilet was real close. PC monitors were far too big back in those days to even think of moving the computer to the bathroom and just live in there till I got the drop I needed. Anyway, Atuke got his J-boots, his Wurm Slayer and that full suit of Barbarian warrior armor that kinda had a purple hue to it if I remember, man I wish I still had those screen shots.
i have so many memories from this game. it was fucking impenetrable to new players but i think thats part of why it was so easy to become emotionally invested in it. i understand mmorpgs these days are technically designed better but none of them really engage me
MMOs today are well designed games. EQ was not, but that was what made it awesome. It was a well designed world. In anime is is often said that life is a s&_$## game. The QoL updates over 24 years have made EQ a great game but it has lost some of what made it a great world.
@@raphaelsolo some of the inconveniences are what made it feel like an adventure. travelling from one end of the world to the other was pretty harrowing for a newish player
also it wasnt designed specifically to accommadate solo players, even at lower levels. you really needed to make friends to even survive for the most part
The Nexus killed my taxi service
Big Nexus pushed us small Druids out of our most lucrative business.
Thank goodness p99 exists then.
EQ and UO created an unique experience of gameplay that only lasted for maybe a year or at the most for either one. The love of the game ruled and I haven't seen their like in the years that have followed so I am grateful I was there as I have many fond memories of adventure where triumph and pain were enjoyed or overcome. I'm not sure we will ever see this again.
Holy shit. A rush of emotions and memories when you opened the merchant window and that music started playing.
I can remember the sounds of sooo many of the zones. Like when you were growing up in Kelethin, the sounds of the faeries when they were killed by a newbie or when you were making those first scary trips to Crushbone and you could hear the orcs grunting
Back then you even had to skill up your navigation to get your compass to work. No mini maps or question marks above things heads. Corpse runs were common. No hand holding at all. Ahh the good old days.
Crack for donations at main bank!
Your right, we had to go online and print out paper maps. Write down our concordances when we died to find our corpse.
And you had to skill up your spell casting otherwise it was just *fizzle*,*fizzle*,*fizzle*. And you also had to figure out how to read those compass locations.
Ahhhh, the good old days. I remember playing back 2000. Man, the hours I chewed up. thanks for sharing. I love that old music.
I played EQ for 20 years..still is an incredible game
Ahh - those sweet, halcyon days when the internet was young and so were we. I wouldn't trade a minute I spent in this game; it was truly a special experience and holds a special place in my heart.
Which is why I went back again for the 10th time.
Times that I actually "lost" my corpse and had to spend a ton of time finding it was quite rare. And, maybe it was just us old school EQ guys, but I always viewed corpse runs and trying to get a rez as an adventure in itself. That was PART of the play, not something that took you out of the play for 30 minutes. To me, that was much more of a quest than just about any "quests" you get now a days in anything post WoW.
So true Archimagus. A corpse retrieval was anything but an inconvenience. You had to be smart about it and use strategy as you could be quite vulnerable without your gear. Never mind the fact that if you got killed trying to get your corpse back you'd lose even more XP! :)
Started in 1999 too. Oh boy, I remember guilds begging others to help with Plane of Fear corpse retrieval back in the old days, and we all had a whole spare set of gear in the bank just because loss of corpse was a very real thing in those days.
This is so nostalgic to me, the music and the old GUI, I can still remember all of this so well! EQ was the shit back in the day
This brings me back so much. Thanks for this trip down memory lane!
Went to the midnight showing of The Phantom Menace, came home at like 3am and me and my buddies all logged on. We went to entrance area of Crushbone to kill goblins, my god this was such a magical time.
Why did we love EQ more than all others? Because it was HARD!! It was an incredible difficult game. It was not a "play nice" or "no death penalty" game like most others.
Holy crap... I ACTUALLY REMEMBER THIS! I can recognize this simply by the camera view when you loot something and barter with merchants (the one that shows in the upper right). I think my heart popped seeing this... I really miss the old Everquest, and there was an island I remember which had a lot of willowisps, and a beautiful song.
It's so nice seeing classic EQ and hearing that music onces again. Totally missed the old skeleton models.
The sounds really bring it back to me, somehow.
I loved the skeleton's laugh and that crunching sound; I loathed the dogs' whining. I wonder just how many hours I spent busting skeletons for bone chips...
Cant' believe I stared at that screen for 9,000 hours. WTH was I thinking!
I think I was around 11,000 hours... in something like 3.5 years...
it's like a different game now days. after you died I think you had to remember all your spells again. Very tough game when it first came out.
You lost all your items and you have to get your corpse back. If you died really really unfortunately it was pure stress to do this task. You can lost your level 'cause your exp lost. To gain this exp you was sitting on it about one week, real time. (Yep! One week of playtime lost.) And your corpse can decay.. all your items are gone. Gee.. today gamers are spoilt ^^;
Yup, it made just roaming around into areas risky. Shit had your heart racing if you had your best gear on lmaooo
@@Orsuss To be fair all you need to do at such situation was just look for random necromancer who will cast summon corpse for you. But yeah. Even with that it was real deal of "adventure" compare to the mmorpg of nowadays. Ah I really wish to experience something like that again.
@@ZenithalPoint Well in old zones where almost nobody will run it wasn't that easy. I remember when I tried to get this stupid lost scroll in Dalnir.. I died.. gee I need a whole weekend to get my corpse back.
/shout paying x gold for a rez at xx yy 😁
Ahh, I am sad I can't play the classic EQ any more. I love everything in it, the music game play, ... everything.
magnifique moment of nostalgie really ! the firts start to everquest game
Gosh what a wonderful flashback this video gave me.
I remember these days.... Thank you for posting this video.
“TRAIN FROM CRUSHBONE INC!!!!” - Me all of the time LOL 😂
That UI was so epic! I miss the old days.
Wow, I've felt the urge to play Everquest again and again over the last few years... but not the current one. I want to play -THIS- Everquest again. Thanks for the huge nostalgia boost!
I want to play the old tutorial. Haha the one we all used to play on repeat while servers were down way back when!
I Missed the old Skeleton's laugh so much lol... being a Gnome Necromancer back then, my Skeleton buddy was literally MY BUDDY!
That skeleton’s laugh brings back memories!
Wow, seeing this, hearing the music brings back so many good memories. Thanks for posting this, good times.
wow... this brings back so many fond memories, i just want to thank you for bringing me back man
Haven't played EQ in like 6 or 7 years, but i knew what zone you were in the instant the music started
Man I loved this game a few years back. Seemed like it took forever to get to level 22 w/ my Paladin. Spent many nights up until 3am only to be the undead at work the next morning :) Good times..
The biggest problem with gaming companies, particularly with MMOs is they create a gem and they go and fuck it all up. What is the phrase, "Don't try to fix something that isn't broken?" I for one do miss the old interface and if they would have kept this stuff the same I'd still be playing Everquest today.
Thanks for uploading this. This is how it looked when most of us started playing before the changes that Luclin exp brought. Very nostalgic.
It's good to see Kelethin in the old UI and to hear that music again... Thx.
o kelethin music. you are amazing. I miss you Gildjiian! Woodelf druid ftw. 21 years old and still missing it :(
I'm still mystified by this game. Been playing since it first was released in 1999. I remember this UI very well, and I remember how excited I was to play in "Full Screen" mode. I've played many other MMORPGs, including WoW, SWtOR, DCUO, and others, but I still come back to EQ for pure fun and relaxation. I've been playing Project 1999 and having a complete blast doing it for the last couple months.
ever play Guild Wars? at one point I was playing Everquest, WoW and GuildWars
@@Mikej1592 No, never did play that. I wanted to try it, but unfortunately my gaming time is pretty limited.
This is what everquest looked like for me.I remember talking to someone in everquest when i was real new.I was a wizard and i was talking from kelethin to some more experienced players, and i remember that is what the game looked like to me.I quit wizard and i played a bard after messing around a lot.
This is how I remember it back in 1999 except I was p-laying on an S3 Virge video card that did not support transparency in sprites so all sprites had black opaque boxes around them :D
I was also on AOL
Exploration was real. No minimap. Learn the zones, love the zones, to progress. Fear, wonder, adventure. I'll never experience anything like it ever again I fear.
Best years of my video gaming life.
I was 14 when i played this.. im now 37.. eq was a game that changed everything for me
omg hahaha I totally forgot about the old screen. I remember countless time medding and then getting pounced on by random mobs. sigh such excellent memories from this game.
Man I wonder what this must’ve been like to experience… too bad I wasn’t old enough, looked like a lot of fun!
Right, missed opportunity
Omg this totally brings me back when I would wake up early to beat my brothers to the computer to play EQ. haha
Amen brother.
I took a walk through Qeynos, High Pass, Freeport, the Commonlands, Crushbone. Hell, I even took a stroll through Befallen and Unrest. Completely empty. God, I miss so much about that game. I like video games, but this one was very special for some reason. It never gets old. It gets worse, but never old.
Such a beautiful and immersive game. Ahhh, memories.
Wow I remember this video. One of the first internet videos I ever saw. Made me want that game sooooo bad. Those were the good days.
Its videos like these that remind me of how painful memories can really be. Man, for having no life, I had some of the best times on EQ back before Luclin came out.
OMG. Thank you for posting this. I remember before WOW I played Everquest. It made high school more bearable lol.
OMG BEST CLASSIC VID, this is exactly what i was looking for. brings tears to my eyes
Nice, brings back alot of old memories. Thanks for sharing, considering coming back again.
There hasn't been anything like Everquest since... Everquest.
Man! This brings back memories of endless hours corpserunning to BlackBurrow after endless trains and falling into the pits. *Traveling by foot for the first time from BB to Freeport, and falling off the boat on the way to Butcherblock, having to have a GM recover my corpse from the depths ^^
Thanks for the video ;D
Hearing this and seeing this hurts. The memories I made and the truest of friendships. There will never be another game as fun as this.
man... these sounds bring back so many memories and just seeing Kelethan and all the terrain again
Well said. The music took me back 12 years rather quickly. Hard to believe you could spend so much time on a game like this after playing the more recent MMO titles but all the wonderful memories come pouring in!
22 years now, time really flies.
EQ was the absolute greatest game, the first with this seemingly eternal char development. 65 levels (when I quit), hell that was alot.
And the graphics with every new expansion always been a benchmark at that time for online gaming.
Met so many awesome people there, two of them died during 9/11, something that the whole EQ-Community brought me closer than anything else could, not living in the US.
I really miss this game, or a similar one. Those times won´t come back.
Very nice, the music brings it all back to.
Wow! I remember playing this in like '99 at 640x420 resolution and being stuck with the UI Frame thing before they let you go fullscreen. The gameplay window was about the size of my DS screen.
Also sucked to have to have your spellbook open when meditating so you couldn't see anything, just had to listen for that awful bone crunching sound when something attacked you.
I also had to do my first ever PC upgrade to play it.. Increasing from 24M to 64M of RAM and a Voodoo2 vid card lol.
oh my god early EQ, the nostalgia could suffocate me. I'd give up my manparts for a 2000+ populated vanilla+kunark+velious EQ server.
dude!! this reminds me of when i FIRST started EQ! I was a half elf in kelethin. i remember playing like that back when it first came out... now it's all different.....
AH This was the EQ I fell in love with.. My mom got be hooked on it back when it first game out. I was a Monk, Druid, shaman, ranger & cleric I would play up to 8 hours a day and not even know it when I was off work. I do miss it but know I could never play it again. stopped playing and my subscription ran out about 10 years ago.
In 1999 you didn't have Chain or Plate armor until high level. Everyone wore cloth and leather armor because the others were expensive and didn't drop until places like highpass hold. Some higher levels could craft it. Spirit of the Wolf made you run faster. You likely wouldn't have it unless a druid or shaman buffed you. There were no jboots. I think Shaman got SoW at level 9. Druids got it at level 15. Rangers got it at level 30. In the original Paladins and Rangers didn't get spells until around level 8 or 9 I believe. Considering the time it could take to level for hybrids and certain races it could take a while. People in the original would often pay high levels for buffs and teleports from Druids to other locations. The game was very difficult for most classes without a group. Even with a group it was difficult to level past 15. If your group died it might mean hours of exp grinding lost. I do like the music a lot.
I miss those days.
Man that brings back memories
omg I got shivers up my spine watching this :) awesome
just the music brings back so many memories
"Train to Zone"... What is a train?.... OH GOD WHY IS IT ALL KILLING ME!?????
How the hell did I get back to Qeynos? Oh blackburrow how I miss thee....
Ahhh that great old skeleton "hit" sound with the laugh. Ahhhhhh, the memories.
Oh how I loved that game. I started playing the year it came out in 1999 until 2010.
24 years later and I am still playing! Though it doesn't look like this anymore. lol
i want to thank you for posting this. old eq memories is what i live off of...this is what i call heaven.
Greater Faydark! Sooooo many good memories of being a Bard.
the nostalgia is heavy with this one
I miss this game soo much. I spent so much time time playing EQ as a young teen. So many memories. Anyone remember the "eye patch of plunder" ? I got two of those which was insane to even get just one. Oh yeah, the commonlands trading, sad day when that was gone.
i remember those days the best days ever without POK u could find and met freinds everywhere and eventually u'd know so many people u'd have to keep a real list of names on paper to remember um it was the best times
wow i miss this amazing game and that music brought back old memories
Thanks for the memories.
@Geurion
A true sense of wonder and exploration.
A real community that would help each other.
The risk vs reward. It made every crawl exciting and every item upgrade made me jump in my seat.
The graphics and music are also still my all time favorites.
oh god the nostalgia, the memories! god i miss that game now.
Ah so many good memories everquest at the time was such a magical world, had some good times with my friends and brother there and never regret all the time we spent on there lol
dude this game is over 10 years old, this is what helped spawn WoW and almost every mmorpg after it. and yet everquest is still no doubt the biggest and most overwhelming mmorpg to date.
I think i must have gotten lost in at least 70% of the maps I went to, really good times.
R.I.P. Brad McQuaid (Aradune)
sad.
This was the first MMO I ever played and my whole family played it together. We started it because we were waiting for Diablo 2 to come out (played Diablo 1) I was 9 years old when I started and it was a human mage. Going to EC tunnel for buffs and buy new gear when I had the plat. The community was strong, you needed the assistance of others to further your progression and everyone knew everyone so if you were rude, word spread. I miss the gaming community back then, it so different now and doesnt engage my interest.
I know the feeling man, i quit it a few years ago but i still get cravings to play it again to this day.