I met my wife in EQ... I was OBT (Original Beta Tester on CT '99). In '05 I got a random /tell on my Rogue asking if I could help kill the Prince, Queen and King for her Cleric guild mate's Epic Clicky Rezzer. During the fun, she "got" all of my stupid jokes and we clicked. Married 8+ years now. Awesome raiding buddy to this day. :) I was not forced to write this. LOL
+Captain Learjet that's actually pretty cool , I feel like it's harder to meet friendly people online these days. Everybody wants to be a troll. Back them it seems like there was still some internet etiquette.
+-=Sp00k=- Beta tester pride! I was on the RP server with the then-famous bard Jythri. I also ended up being friends with Baelish (We were both in Triton) and got rather drunk with him at the San Francisco Fan Fest. Sooooooo many great nostalgic memories. My friend who I had started playing with (CompUSA employee guild) even ended up marrying another Cleric from our later raiding guild. I know you two are far from the only ones.
+Mo Anderson everyone gets offended so easily in eq2, i'm not even trolling, I just told a few jokes and now I'm a wanted criminal.... sure, the joke was me blowing up new York, but its all just for shits and giggles!
keep your chin up.. play Pantheon Rise of the Fallen when it releases.. and Project 1999 is gunna release a new classic EQ server soon.. and thats as close as youll get to the real experience
I dont think i *want* the everquest experience again... i want a modern version of it though... death penalties, no hand holding, forced grouping unless u were a necro... 5am mornings helping a *stranger* do a corpse ... etc... lol... but thanks - if Pantheon can match the experience ill check it out
+Edward Barlow Pantheon. I cannot wait. I have not been this excited for a game since EQ"Next" (When it was announced originally like 8 or 9 years ago). Oh wait... that never happened though! Daybreak can lick my balls!
I just want to say that I had never played EverQuest until just recently. I'm playing on the Project 1999 server, and I'm having more fun than I've had with any MMO in years. The last time I had a similar gaming experience was when I first started playing WoW in 2006. It feels like I'm playing an MMO for the first time again. Probably has to do with the design philosophy being dramatically different from in modern MMOs. In terms of immersion, modern MMOs are a step above simply giving you a straight line of mobs to kill ad nauseam until you reach the level cap. In EQ you actually have to explore the zones looking for mobs to kill, and there's actually a sense of danger. There's something to be said for the sheer terror of encountering a vengeful lyricist as a lowbie in Everfrost. One of the fundamentals of game design is risk vs reward, and modern MMOs present little if any risk at all; death is never more than a minor inconvenience, whereas in EQ death can be devastating depending on the circumstances. The game is inconvenient, clunky, and dated. And yet somehow that makes it all the more rewarding an experience.
You need the Titanium Edition of the game. Its expensive to come by these days, but there are "other methods" of obtaining it. After you've set up a fresh install, go to the project 1999 website and follow the setup guide.
I sighed heavily watching this vid. I came in during Kunark and made a woody ranger. I played this game extensivelt for years. Met my wife in game. Made it through college playing this game. Found out my wife was pregnant during a raid after my guildleader gave us a 10 min break so that my wife (main healer) and I (puller) could talk. I miss the game. I miss the difficulty. I miss the friends I made. Casting SoW by orc lift, donations appreciated..../tear
I still use /(word), like /hug, in text messages and emails. People get what I'm saying but don't understand how ingrained those chat commands are still just stuck in my brain or where they come from. /camp
I go back to this video every time I wanna feel nostalgic, but I just realized that it's almost 10 years old.... I'm getting to the point where I need retrospectives of my retrospectives.
this is my favorite game of all time. I will never feel the absolute addiction to anything again like I felt to everquest. This game will forever be burned into my memory.
Thmbs up! I started in Qeynos. A friend of mine then found out about a quest in Faydwer for some two handed hammer which sells for a lot. Blinded by the riches we killed some dwarf in Qeynos for his head (Stumpy something or rather?) then ran all the way to freeport, then cross the ocean and finally to Kaladim. We were only lowbies then. Died so many times during the entire process including the stupid bandits in Karanas, but that was one of my greatest moments in gaming. I'll never forget that. I can imagine being an old man telling stories about it as if it really did happen in real life.
Honestly mate, just listening to the intro and music, seeing the game play - it really brought tears to my eyes. What a wonderful experience that was back in the days, folks helping each other, fantastic community - was rushing home every day from work - being in Germany i spent countless hours at night raiding first with an american guild - later on then being a proud member of Mortalis. I have never ever felt that spirit again in any other MMORPG. I still feel sad that this time is over - life goes on - but i will always cherrish the years of fun i had with this game and its people. Simply fantastic :). Thanks so much to you for bringing all these fond memories back to life !
PS: forgot to mention - how i loved and hated the XP-loss when you died - the dreaded corpse runs - the /consent and all your stuff got looted - running blind from Halas through Runnyeye etc etc - countless things - wonderful times :)
Warwiz I got killed on the boat from FP to Butcherblock by one of the damn Erollisi maidens when the boat stopped at that island. The Corpse traveled with the boat and got dumped somewhere. The GM's could not even find it for me. Thankfully I was only level 9, but that was one of my first characters back in the day. That was weeks worth of work!
How about when you had to petition the GM because your corpse was stuck in a wall and you would sit for hours debating whether you could take out a gnoll commander with your fists.
You can't express to people who have never played everquest just how meaningful everquest was. I have memories of all the places and probably still remember my way through dungeon mazes. I remember all those nasty deaths that seemed hopeless, everquest forced you to be social and it forced you to think, you died in the back side of cazic thule maze you had to look for people to help and everyone would! I still have friends I made in everquest and I still talk about things that happened in everquest with fond memories. Thank you for the video it actually brought tears to my eyes.
+John Hoffman agreed. Most fun i've ever had playing a video game came from my EQ days. I had a group of about 6-7 friends that all started playing it together one summer in highschool, when we weren't online playing (usually our parents would make us get out of the house during the day) we were hanging out and talking about EQ, or planning our night's hunt or whatever... DVINN to ZONE!!!
+John Hoffman I logged in about a year ago to run through some favorite dungeons for nostalgia points. I got hopelessly lost in Permafrost Keep trying to find Lady Vox.
+Elle Heilig oh jeeze, I seem to remember that rogues (with a high enough skill) could even pickpocket the rare items that bosses carried during the fight. Unless i'm mistaken I think that got patched pretty quickly, someone please correct me if i'm wrong, as I only leveled my rogue to about 30 or 40. Speaking of which (enter story mode, going off topic here)- that summer I mentioned above, after a while of playing on our original server we all switched to the brand new 'Quellious' server with the idea of leading the front-lines, which we did for the first few months- guild name 'How the Gods Kill'. One of my greatest memories of that time was a GM event in Kalimdor early on in the servers life where as a wood-elf rogue (named 'Dacient') I received the 'Jambiya', which I recall was pretty special at the time due to it having 2-3 points higher in dmg than the dragoon dirk dropped from Dvinn, which meant HUGE BACKSTABS for my level.
Hell levels. Corpse runs. "TRAIN TO ZONE!" Buffs that had no timer and could fail in 10 seconds or last an entire evening. Fizzling spells. "BOAT!" Damn I loved this game.
I'm just happy I was able to play it when I did, waaaaay back at the beginning. Nothing can compare. Things are so much different now, and I'm sad, and I'm growing old.
I'll tell you EXACTLY what you miss about the UI. This game was from a period when UI's were actually game-themed, not all sci-fi/simple boxes that can be dragged all over and made partially transparent. Same goes for runescape's UI.
In the old days I used to love trains when I was playing my chanter. There are few things as fun as camping the zone line in KC as an enchanter. I once derailed 3 trains in a row, that took my group like 10-15 minutes straight to clear with tons of close calls. Just a shame they nerfed the hell out of chanters over the years to the point where you really only need 1 per raid as a buff bot... All of our crowd control was rendered basically useless in nearly all raid encounters starting around the time of SoL or so and we were always crap as damage dealers compared to other int casters. So basically unless you were the chanter with the highest AAs for buff enhancements, there was really no place for you in most raids as a chanter, which killed nearly all of my enjoyment in the game at that point, at least with my main anyhow.
Man back in the day when you had to strategize even regular encounters. Normal fights in EQ were like mini boss fights in games today. Every role mattered. The group pullers, the CC, the tanks, the DPS, the healers. A bad pull could wipe out not only your group but many others around, lmao.
lol made a bard for that reason! i could never get a sow when i needed it, and i was making silver grouping with people to get them through zones at a high rate of speed
I had just recently started up what would end up being my "main". A Gnome Mage. He came shortly after leveling to almost 25 as a Gnome Wizard, who I had dumped all of my creation points into STR on, because I wanted to be able to carry ALL the loot! Only to later realize I gimped the hell out of myself, because INT mattered hugely for your mana pool later on. Some Halfling Druid, buffed to the teeth with STR came walking up to me painstakingly slow. He was so encumbered he could barely walk. He opened up the trade chat with me and to my delight he placed a couple hundred platinum in the trade window and hit trade. I gladly accepted his offer! The only issue was, he had converted every bit of it to Copper. Here I was, pockets busting at the seams with back then was enough plat to last you well on into nearly level cap, and I couldn't move. I was within viewing distance of the zone entrance to Ak'Anon. Within about 20 minutes I had collaborated with several other lower level people in the zone. I had promised them a cut of the Plat if they would help me. We all took some of the copper, and slowly but surely made our way to the bank.
I played from launch as a teenager, and I will never love another game as much as I loved Everquest. It was my preferred universe to be in. The game was so difficult, immense, rewarding, and soul-crushing. Sometimes I would quit it for weeks after something terrible happened, but I would always come back. It really was Evercrack. I have a wonderful life now, but I will always pine for those first few years on EQ.
Really can not overstate how amazing this video is. Really captures why the game was awesome. Also motivated me to play project 1999 (never played EQ but always wanted to. I am now!)
One of the big things i think this video didn't touch enough on is the grouping done in this game. In new Games you solo from level 1 to max level with a few dungeons thrown in. (50+ boring hours) In EQ you solo to maybe level 5 then spent the whole game grouping up with people and talking. This really built a sense of community. You knew or at least had seen a good many of the people on the server as you leveled up. Today most servers are divided into small groups of players who barely know each other if at all and server chats are spammed by the loudest most annoying people....
I know, in EQ1 one of my main chars was an enchanter... I could /ooc ENC LFG and have a group in a matter of seconds. Then again that was the days where strategy was required and crowd control was in high demand. Miss those days :-( I could mez an entire room full of froggies in Seb and keep them under control, until someone did something stupid like an AE nuke and you know who the froggies were mad at right? lol
You actually had a public reputation. If you were crappy at your class it would be well known even mid level. If you ninja looted you'd be instantly blacklisted. People would see you yell for a group, and then they'd yell that you're a thief. You came into the game like a newborn. No cloths, no skills, barely able to defend yourself. As you built your character up you also built up a reputation and a social group. People that had helped you complete quests, or recover a corpse without any real benefit to themselves and vice versa. I remember when I had to get together 30+ people to help complete my epic when they got literally nothing out of the encounter. They spent most of a night playing just to help me get something that I really wanted. These were people with jobs, families, and things they wanted to do. They did that because we had spent a lot of time together and they considered me a friend. I still consider those to be real friendships we'd formed and grown. I was also there when they needed me. I'd stop doing whatever self serving thing I was doing to go spend hours and hours helping them do something they wanted to do. Hell spending hours working out the tactics to how we'd do high end content. Because failure meant no loot, and spending hours on corpse runs. Especially pre cleric epic. The social aspect was incredible. I'm kind of glad no game has recreated it. I spent a lot of time on it. I have to say though, I don't regret a thing. Grouping Plane of Fear. Making mad dashes through Veeshan to Plane of Mischief. Staying there a month to get cards to get resistance flowers. Knowing that if you died you couldn't get back to your corpse. I still value the time I spent playing with my friends. Both the ones I knew in real life and ones I met in Everquest. All those people were equally my friends. Some I still talk to 14 years later.
I completely agree with you, these were real friendships. I actually ended up marrying someone I met in EQ. We have been together 13 years and have 3 children together.
Here is why EQ will forwever, in my mind, be the best MMO ever, much like this video alluded to the entire time. It was CHALLENGING. It was difficult at EVERY stage of the game. Hell, you had to develop an actual skill (side-strafe running) to escape fights that went south. Dying was detrimental, spawns were rediculous....and binding next to a rare spawn that you needed to call for friends to help you kill and then falling asleep was the worst of both. (My friend lost 4 levels on his druid because he bound at the spawn). But that is what made it worth it. Yes the epic quest took forever, was tedious and frustrating and arduous. But I swear to god, getting the ragebringer, with the 1 pixel animation was one of the most rewarding feelings I have felt in any game, ever. Hell, at the time (I hadn't done all that much in my life) it was one of the most rewarding feelings of doing ANYTHING ever. It is why we had a call chain that we would use so that if a mob spawned at 3am we could round up enough bleary eyed people, from all walks of life, to group and take down the Council of Twelve, or something. I quit playing sortly after completing planes of power, right after the next endgame expansion came out and sold my account on one of those sites. I went to Miami for spring break with the nearly $2k I made. I turned 21; I drank, and I dated, and I went to college and lived my life. But years later, I wondered, while bored...wonder if y account ever got sold. With some effort I managed to find out that it hadn't, (the mislabelled the stats on the account so it seemed completely outpriced) and I was able to retieve my account. I logged in and went to the Nexus. I did a /who. And one moment later -> /tell Muadd "hey its Geeii, remember me?!" There was this player who played in a "Friends and Family" guild I was in as I was levelling, a player that I helped get HIS epic for long after I had gone on to a raiding guild. And here he was, running the largest guild on the server, 10 years later, and remembered every bit of it. This...This is why EQ is the best MMO ever.
I did the same. I sold my account, got nostalgic and tried to log back in. The guy never even changed my password or moved my characters. All he did was sell my fungal tunic. The character never even moved. He paid $850 for a fungal tunic.
Some memories I had watching the video: 1) Going to Befallen for the first time, falling through the hole in the floor. Was able to hide in a corner while my tiny guild pulled in everyone we had online to come rescue me. 2) Logging on with plans to grind in Frontier Mountains only to discover that my guild had wiped trying to kill a Wyrm (forget the zone name just now). I spent my entire evening dragging people's corpses to them. This general thing happened a number of times, but not usually taking an entire evening. 3) Very early on, taking my guild of all Trolls and trying to run to Neriak, having never been further than South Ro. We didn't get any further than Oasis...and the Sand Giants... Good times.
Thank you so much for this video! I played from 1999 to 2009, and now, 5 years after I quit, I still miss the game. Every bloody day. Everquest was hardcore in a way MMORPG players of today could never even fathom.
The sort of nostalgia this game brings about in those who played in the glory days falls somewhere between PTSD and Stockholm Syndrome, lol. While I loved the game, I have so many horror stories of insane time sinks, many of which have remained unfruitful to this day. I used to help organize weekly pick up raids on Naggy and Vox in hopes of one day finally winning a roll on a red scale for my barb war's epic, but after nearly 4 months of weekly raids I lost the rolls every single time. On another occasion I decided to camp Hadden in Qeynos Hills to get myself a fishbone earing, took nearly 21 straight hours of camping, killing him 3 times in a row before the bastard finally dropped the earing. Another time, after spending some time leveling up in the Warrens over on Odus, I decided I would head off to Lake of Ill Omens to level some more, made the couple hour trek by foot and boat and when I finally got to FV I forgot to get bound before leaving the fort and aggroed a couple of those spider girls who managed to root and kill me a few feet from the zone line when the realization that I was still bound in Toxx came crashing down around me... 3 hours later with my longest ever corpse run nearly complete, I made damn sure I was bound before heading out for my body, lol. Had to stop several places along the way to hunt for some temp gear and fruitlessly ooc teleport requests that never got any responses.
I really misses this game. I played for 4 years..pretty much every day...didn't have much responsibilities back then...no mortgage, bills, wife, or kids. Just have a job....after work I went straight home, log on, and spent the next 4 or 5 hours grouping or raiding with guildies.... I had a lot of fun with friends. I think it one of the best MMO game ever made. The game just so socially connected you with the people around you, not just in the US, but around the world. That interactions with people you don't know and became friends with them is just real special. More than 10 years later and I still remember those old times.
You forgot to mention staring at a book to gain mana, no mounts, dragging corpses, keys for zones in your bags, weight limits, how long it took to make your first kill. I don't remember quest phrases having brackets until later on.
Duuude! Staring at that book! And I'll never forget the first time my character suddenly couldn't move. I had no idea what had happened. Finally figured out I was over my weight limit. Crazy what we put ourselves through, but I'll never forget it and never love anything as much.
I always come back to this video for the nostalgia. Never hard to find either. Thank you for this! I played EverQuest when it first came out and it will always be the most memorable game I ever played.
Something truly wonderful was made in Everquest, and that has been entirely lost in modern MMORPGs. Here is to hoping that Everquest Next can bring back the strength of the genre.. but I doubt it, developers seem to think that in game "hassels", "annoyances", "penalties" are bad for the game because players complain.. when in fact, even though players complain, these things are what make the game a social virtual world that we invest in. Modern MMORPGs are a pale shallow shell compared to this pinnacle, I fear we will never see its like again.
Check out Pantheon:Rise of the Fallen - new game being created by Aradune. Nothing is ever going to re-capture the feel of Everquest, but anything close will probably come from that man!
Jeremy Barnes Thanks for the heads up, however I am already aware of this project. It is at least 3 years away from release, and that is if it even makes it. Given its failed kick starter origins and who is currently helming the project (Brad, who previously drove Vanguard into the ground), I just don't think I can get on board with that game until its more of a reality then a theory you know what I mean? My hopes right now are with Everquest Next, while it won't be what EQ1 was, it is promising to be nothing like what any of the "modern" MMORPGs since EQ1 are like either. Perhaps they will hit a new sweet spot.
The wife and I (we met through the original EQ) decided to re-sub for the original EQ for a few months again due to lack of anything else out there right now. We're having a good deal of fun but it is definitely not the same.
Perhaps the most incredible thing about EverQuest was that it created an actual world. Remember waiting for boats to cross continents? An annoyance? A time waste? Yes. But it also helped instill the giant proportions of the world.
I think one of the things that made EverQuest so great, was that it was a "first" of it's genre. It's like loosing your virginity, you can only really loose it once. So noone knew what was going on during the first few months. Noone knew how to get from Kelethin to Qeynos, except for a select few brave souls and/or beta testers. Finding maps was hard, even on the internet, because the internet was in it's infancy too. Heck, when I started a wood elf bard, one of my most used songs in the Kelethin zone, was the corpse location song, because people kept falling down from the town platforms and there was no map showing them where the corpse was at. :D Also, you HAD to team up, you simply could not solo anything. That forced you to socialise with others, for better or for worse. But above all, the sense of adventure from going out into a world that NOONE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT ! That .. that was fantastic !
Early EQ was truly a Massively Multiplayer game... all the clones after it, while fun for a bit, just don't hold up to it. Just holding a dangerous camp in LGuk with a group of friends was an accomplishment in itself and I have not felt so fulfilled in any other game since EQ.
Great video! I actually got back into EQ recently, since they changed the All Access membership to work with all SOE titles. My favorite (worst) memory of EQ - was the one time I died in Cobalt Scar, fighting Wyverns, back before you respawned with all of your gear...and I had to walk all the way from Ak'Anon to Cobalt Scar butt-ass naked. Luckily I was a mage and was able to acquire some malachite, so i was able to keep some mobs in Skyshrine occupied...but you try traversing the temple without clothes on...that was insane! People in current-gen MMO's have no idea what we had to go through! lol (AND IT WAS GREAT!)
That was the worst! I remember being on the boat from Faydwer to Antonica. I got too close to the edge and the boat jumped out from underneath me. I started swimming in a direction, completely lost. I never swam because, "I'm a Paladin. They don't swim!" After an hour of swimming and going through my entire food and water store, I end up on the shore of the Cyclops island. Boom. Dead. All that work for a death. At least I didn't die in the water. (And my swimming skill had gained a few levels.) I'll never forget that.
Allen Lake Sad story Allen... You ever get you're body back? I once teleported my 37th lvl druid to an expansion and my parents wouldn't buy it and i lost my main DUDE! I also died in the Wyverns, sucked bad. Was there an amount of time you had to retrieve your corpse in this game or would it just stay there?? I always flipped out and stayed up for hours on end to get my corpse. Fuck school i need my gear lol
I did recover my corpse Kalub. My parents were yelling at my that we had to leave but the corpse stayed there for 7 days, so I had time. The next morning I got up like 3 hours before school and got someone hunting in the zone to help fight off the Cyclops while I looted my body. That sucks about the expansion! Losing your main dude just due to a bad teleport! Ugh!
I remember drowning in the ocean with my Druid had all the money and gear I owned, luckily a higher lvl player came along and i gave her permission to drag my corpse up off the ocean floor. You could give permission for others to drag your corpse to safety or Necromancers to summon your corpse. It was funny to see people running across the zone dragging someone's corpse behind them.
Great video, and yes it did bring back a lot of good memories for me. I started playing EQ back during Ruins of Kunark and for the longest time, Iksar characters were pretty much all I played. Soooooo many hours in the Field of Bone, sooooo much grinding, but I always look back fondly on it. EQ was in some ways a lot more relaxing to play than a modern MMO, too, because unless you were a bard, you weren't clicking action buttons all the time. Warriors and monks especially, there was a lot of auto-attacking in between using an ability. It was much less of a twitch kinda game and more about strategy and planning -- getting the right stats, the right gear, etc. There just isn't anything like that anymore -- game developers seem very afraid of players getting bored. Anyway, enough blather from me. Great video, thanks for sharing this.
I was from Torvonnilous as well, Darkeowyn played from 2005-2007. I loved this game and still miss it to this day. Most of my friends went to WoW as I did, but Norrath will ALWAYS be my home.
In the mid 90's, AoL went to unlimited dial-up subscription and I bought my first computer for personal email, instant messaging, and chat rooms. I spent several years involved in Virtual Places (VP - chat rooms interfaced with internet pages). Word was going around VP of an mmorpg called Ultima Online. Then came Everquest in 1999. All of my online buddies went to EQ, and VP shut down. I graduated college in 2001, bought a new computer, got the new dsl connection, and joined my friends in EQ. I rolled a High Elf Cleric on Tholuxe Paells, and I still play her today--although I retired from the game 2006 - 2010, she was still there when I decided to play again, and so was my guild. This video brings back so many memories of the old days. My real life people don't understand my "hobby", I explain to them "it's some of the most fun I've ever had in my life". The game is great, but the people I've played with all these years are awesome too. We meet up at SoE Live every year in Vegas and have a blast.
Man, this game really screwed up my life for afew years - but I regret nothing :) Can't help but wonder how some of my old friends and guildmates are doing in life nowadays~
Never played Ever Quest . But when watching how people can overcome some ingame problems on their own and for example make their own Economy Basicly is great and kinda interesting. I think it was far more of a social expierience to play that game . Bacause without everyone you would get nowhere
+Chriss RE You have no idea sir! The entire game was basically run by the players. It was the most sand boxxy MMO even now. We didn't have Dungeons or anything to level. Quests were a joke unless you were doing some class/race/faction specific epic end game thing. Raids were crazy and messy. I mean, you actually had to talk to NPCs. This was my child hood.
To this day, no other game has me ramble on like Everquest. The game made players feel attached to their characters and form actual bonds with those they played with. There are times my GF and I will just sit down and talk about Everquest for hours and not even realize it. I have yet to capture the same experience in any game I have played up to this day, and I hope that someday I will but I am afraid I won't be able to. Watching the video made me realize just how much I actually miss the old days. I wish some of those old things like no auction house would come back. I miss the real sense of accomplishment when killing raid bosses because there was no working on it for hours, if you failed the raid guild you barely beat there is ready to take it on the second you die.
I realize now just how similar the appeal of Dark Souls/Bloodborne is to Everquest. Both games thrust you into the unknown, amidst enemies that pose a real threat. Everquest did it first of course, and on a far grander scale. EQ had its drawbacks though. I remember mana/hitpoints used to take so long to fully regen, i kept a mini VHS tv next to my pc. So i'd have something to do while i wait. Or how about when your slain and you didn't make it to the corpse in time? And it just decayed, loosing all your $hit? .....This game was the grand-daddy of rage quit. And we loved every second of it.
The drawbacks you mentioned, as annoying as they might have been, were part of what made the game so immersive. You were actually afraid to die because of the consequences, the lost of experience, sometimes even lost of your level, and possible lost of your corpse (and everything in your inventory as well). When I started playing you looked up to high level players, level 50 was impressive, now when you hit level 50 (or even higher) you don't have that feeling of achievement, or at least its not as exciting (at least to me, still fun though), because its so much easier and faster to get there. There was no in map in game either, and I got lost quite a few times lol, but this too was part of the challenges that made the game immersive.
I miss the pranks you could do the most ... for instance. Charming a level 1 wolf while your raid is waiting to port out. Then stacking that sucker with high level raid buffs before you leave. Along comes a level 1 to attack the little wolf ..... doh ! Or turning myself into a bag in the EC tunnel and watching people walk back and forth trying to pick me up.
you would have loved pvp then. stuff like casting dispel to remove a guys water breathing is mean. or levitate when your dead man floating in the clouds.
5 year veteran from 1999. Best game I've ever played, there is no doubt in my mind. It was so hard that it made you remember everything good and bad that happened to you. And the joy you felt when you got a super rare drop, or just figured something out on your own....Priceless. My friends and I still ramble on and on about this game sometimes, that's how much of an impact it had on us.
+Casey O'Brien I knew I won EQ when pulling mobs as a chanter pretty much any where we went. The guild which was top 10 guild in EQ would let me pull. AEing so many mobs you would lag in Seb, Chardok and quite a few other zones. I pulled King and queen outside castle in Chardok. Those were the days. So many good memories over the bad ones. What an incredible game.
This game was so amazing. I played it from shortly after launch until right after WoW launch. My first real memory of it was being a Wood Elf Druid and running around the Greater Faydark, having no idea what I was doing or where I was going, and (unknowningly outside of Crushbone) coming across a dead orc, looting it and getting a fine cloth bracer. I thought it was so amazing. I died shortly after since I was way too low level for that area. I had no idea that I needed to get back to my body, so obviously I lost my beloved cloth bracer. I discovered this a day or so later and was pretty bummed lol. Those were some great times. This game will always be one of the greats! Thank you for the video and the great walk down memory lane!
I loved EQ. I had a Dark Elf Enchanter and could never get my faction high enough for the high elves to allow her to finish her epic. And I LOVED Lower Guk. And Sebilis. I have deep dark elven roots...
For whatever reason reading your posted reminded me about the zone Qeynos. I didnt figure out until like 8 years into playing EQ that it was backwards for SonyEQ loll!
So much love for this game. Two things I really hated that they changed though - the character models ugh! - and adding in the Bazaar. EQ tunnel went from the biggest collection of people selling wares and socializing and helping new/low level players out to a ghost town in a matter of weeks. It was truly sad :( Mind you if you played on a PvP server the bazaar was probably a blessing. I started on Rallos PvP and carrying all that plat around wasn't a good idea so there was no real commerce in EC.
99-2001 player on bristlebane. Best gaming memories. Real communities formed...fav gaming experience still to this day, even after I burned out from running a big guild...thanks for this post!
Stumbled across this video by accident. I'm an old fart who once played EQ. I started during The Ruins of Kunark. Your commentary was very relatable. I have since quit ALL mmorpg's but if I were ever to play any again, it would probably be good old EQ. I did try to recover my original SOE account but I was unsuccessful so if I were to try to play again, it would be a long and insane process to try to rebuild my main character, whom I spent so much time on with not only leveling but also raiding and epic quests. And so for this reason, I don't see myself ever playing again. But like many, I have very indelible memories of my time playing this game and meeting folks from around the world.
Started playing in 2000, after the Kunark expansion. So while I can't say I was there from the very beginning, it was close enough. I rolled a Human Paladin, started in Freeport, and I still remember the sense of dread of the first Griffin that killed me, as well as the framerate drops from the tunnel. I remember camping for the Ghoulbane and the Jboots. And I remember staying at lvl 52 for nearly a year to get the book drops from Wox and Nagafen for my epic quest. In the end, I gave up and moved on, and eventually stopped playing and deleted my character after Planes of Power. Still, the original game had a sense of discovery and danger I haven't felt in any game since. Still remember my first adventure to visit Qeynos at lvl 10. That WAS an adventure.
Well.... You dissed to classic UI of the game. Yes, it was a small area of graphics. Yes, there was no customization at the time. But... this game ran on my Pentium 100 Mhz computer. That is a SOCKET 7 CPU. Which I still have in perfect working condition today........ Regardless, I will state this: The small view area was necessary for the computers of the time and was in fact charming..... YES.. charming... in a world filled with HD megapixel this and that, I will still say that the classic small UI in EQ is charming and with the SPELL BOOK when you MEDITATE taking up the whole VIEW area it added a very special aspect to the game. Pleases Thumbs me up if you agree. - Terethian Corpseraiser, High Elf Cleric from CLASSIC Everquest on Zebuxoruck Server.
I was just using it as an opener to relate to people how modern games have such different UI structure. I then said how much I missed the UI. I preferred and used the classic UI all the way to the point I was forced to change it when they disabled it.
Vareous No, No, I was way off base here. Let it be known I was watching this video drunk and I posted at a pause, if you pause the video when I did it sounds like a straight up dis of the UI. Then... after the negative comment you mention a kind of nostalgia to the UI...... so you are fine, this video is great. But I am a die hard classic fan. One of the crazy people that remembers fantasy from the beginning. So I am 100% classic Ever-quest all the way, Corpse runs, cloth armor,exp loss etc. It all adds character to the game. I apologize to you, formally, for my drunken comments.... which is more than Justin Bieber would offer you.... I promise!
But if I was Justin Bieber I would just spit in your face and claim I was young and still learning about mistakes like this... but... oh wait... I always knew it was wrong to spit in someones face even before I was a kindergartner. ...well... I guess extreme singing skill makes up for common sense?
I feel like I have been VERY spoiled with the MMO's I have played growing up compared to this. I give a lot of props to anyone who had the patience to play this game =P
Chlorophant Agreed. Pre Planes of Power EQ was the golden age of MMO's. No auction house, no farmers or gold spammers; none of that cancer existed yet. You had to play the game to get the goods. Economy was 100% purely player generated. Long live the East Commons Tunnel and the art of the deal! Lets not forget GM events! No MMO since, and I've beta tested and played many, have come remotely close to anything as cool as a GM event. Winning some item from a GM that had your toon's name on it was the coolest. "Train to zone!" Miss that game. Rad post. When I heard the opening music, it took me back. Goosebumps.
You made me relive my teenage years. I've tried replaying this, but I can't go back because it's just not the same. I remember tanking Kunark and Velious raids upwards to Planes of Power when I was 13. I really think this game made me have a great imagination, and appreciation for the fantasy genre. It was truly a gem of its time. Good video.
I love this video so much bro, im not gonna lie i watch it and listen to it at work or when im at home, this is the most wonderful put together montage of everquest I've ever seen. Huge props and thank you. I want to save your video so i can show it to my daughter who loves watching me play and kill dragons now with my guild
Final comment... one of my favorite classic zones was Unrest. When the game was first released, the hags in the basement of Unrest used to be able to charm. People would aggro the hags and then train them out to the zone exit... Once the player had zoned out, the hags would turn and aggro anyone who had the bad luck to be standing anywhere near the exit. They would charm the character, and then march them back through the zone all the way past aggro mobs and down into the nastiest depths of the dungeon. Then you would sit and wait for the charm spell to wear off (because you couldn't control your char until it did) and the moment it wore off, and the mobs would aggro you and you would more or less die instantly. The hag room in that dungeon would truly be STACKED with corpses. You'd have to get someone to cast invis to undead on you, and you would run in and drag your corpse out.... running all the way and hoping the spell wouldn't wear off. Yeah it was quirky. Yeah it was buggy and unforgiving. Yeah the learning curve was like a steep canyon wall. But no game since has ever captured the same level of excitement and engagement. At some level... that may be a good thing. Guild raids that REQUIRED everyone to commit 8+ hours just to get to the boss mob... Brutal.
I started pre-velious, what used to grip me about the game the most was with each piece of armor or weapon you had there was a story, an adventure, questing or grouping with awesome people for hours and hours just for a chance that what your looking for would drop, and if It did the butterflies in your stomach, to this day I could tell you where I was and who I was with when I got each item that is on my 15 year old toon that I haven't played almost that long ago.
Time to die, a_Vareous_bard! My friends and I in high school were OBSESSED with this game. I played an Enchanter. Used to run around newbie areas handing out Clarity buffs so they'd never go out of mana for 20 minutes. Hey, I had to pay it forward after all those Druids ran by giving me Spirit of Wolf so I could run fast. I remember Hell Levels. 35 and every 5 levels until 50 took 3 times as long to grind through, and dying and losing that exp you just spent your whole weekend accumulating was HEARTBREAKING. BUT... it was totally worth it. That sense of accomplishment of getting your punk ass to 50 through 60 was epic and there was no way you could have done it alone. "Massively multiplayer" indeed. P.S. High Elf agnostic Enchanter was easy mode. Need to sell? Far from a neutral or friendly city? ILLUSION: [friendly race] and BOOM, vendors buy your stuff. Just had to hope your illusion buff didn't run out before you could zone back out. P.S.S. INC TRAIN TO DOCKS.
I never got to level 65 back when that was the level cap. And I never reached end game stuff like raids and top tier gear. But I still loved every moment of my EQ experience... Wish the community was still big as it was back then. Super nostalgic from your video! Awesome work.
My favorite memory was when a cleric friend and I (enchanter) would go to newby zones charm mobs (make them my pet), buff them to the 9s (Health, Armor, Haste, etc.), then release charm, mem wipe, watch low level groups get rekt as the mob resets with all of its buffs. Watching the area chat was hilarious as people could not understand what was going on. Alas, I have never had an MMO character I loved as much as my Ogre Shadow Knight. OMFG I loved that guy so much... Thank you for this video, it was exactly what I was looking for.
I remember hearing about this game launching, but I never understood what it was about. A few months later, I heard people talking about it like it was the best thing ever (which admittedly was). i asked a friend about it, and he told me that it was only for PC, and that I need a really high end machine to play it. I feel like I missed out something huge.
Lol, so weird to think this game was a performance sucking monster but it was. I had pretty much the slickest swag available to play it in 2000. But then, at that time not everybody even had a computer. Different age. And it'll never be the same, we're spoiled now.
Katy Wiggins So true, I remember building a custom computer so I could play without lag. haha! I managed to complete 2 epics before I gave it up.. so very time consuming, but so incredibly fun!
I would give anything to go back in time and be able to experience this game when it first came out. I've never played Everquest at all but just from the subtle joy in your voice from re-visiting it, i can tell that it must have been something special. I think the 'problems' you outlined make the game all the more unique, something to truly build friendships on. Hopefully something will come along to shake the gaming world up again and i'll be ready to experience it in full. A great overview btw, thank you for this.
A few thing left out that all of us that played will never forger ... 1) If you didn't get to your corps in 4 or 5 days RL time ,ya lost everything. 2) Raiding was done in OOC and if you weren't in a high dps group ,you probably spent 4 or 5 hours not getting xp. 3) Just one death without a REZ meant hours of lost xp. 4) Most importantly without courage s self sacrificing people that were usually strangers and willing to help ,,you could be stuck in a 1,2,3 loop ... I think most that played way back when either knew or heard the call to go rescue a poor cleric that was trapped in the Naggy prep room in a bind death loop.
My favorite part of EQ was the community, and how everyone knew their character by the time we got to Crushbone. I was excited about the PoK Books (teleporting) but after coming back to EQ they've changed way too many things that made EQ, EQ. Anyone else have a love/hate relationship with warriors?
yeah, i loved and hated my 2 warrior characters, my last warrior was a troll war named Oogaboogabooga Boogaboogabooga and i remember having to get shrink cast on him just to fit his fat ass through the doors. also, the fact that you had only kick, bash and taunt was something else.
Haven't seen this video until just now looking back at various EQ videos. Gotta say, it was some of my most fondest memories of gaming was when me and my buddy were playing this game. Started off at the Kunark expansion (had it prior to Kunark), but since it was Online only I wasn't able to get my parents on board until my buddy was playing it and his parents let him. I think we were 13-14 at the time and I remember just spending weekends at each others houses, as well as the following summer vacations just absolutely loving the world. I stopped playing pretty much right after Ykesha expansion and still never got my Mage his full epic quest, came pretty close though! I am hoping that Pantheon will bring back some nostalgia for me as pretty much all MMO's have fallen short for me, but boy do I yearn for a great MMO that will suck me back into their world again.
Everquest was so great. Well no it sucked and was grindy and there were no quests. BUT I FUCKING LOVED IT! Anyone else remember making an elf, but your buddy made a human and started in free port...so you sit on a boat, for 2 hours, only to glitch off the boat and die? Then can't find your body with your stuff? LOVED IT!
I had 3 friends that all started playing this the same time as I did. I started in Kelethin, with 1 of the friends.. The other 2 started in Qeynos area. Literally as far as possible from where we started. it was decided that I and 1 of my friends would make the journey... Talk about an epic quest, we ran into players along the way that helped us through HIgh hold.. we ran for our lives across Kithicor (learned the difference between day and night). Learned to CON guards. It was from that moment i was so hooked in this game.. It was amazing in a way that no other game could touch. Jimii - Bard of Morrell Thule
I remember your name, Jimii. I too, was on Morell Thule. Truehammer was my main. Dwarf paladin. Everything you say brings back the greatness of old EQ. Today's live servers are sad. Every zone is a ghost town.
chillyfog2427e7738 That's not the only funny spell in the game : Tunare = Nature, Tolapmuj = jumpalot (the froglok in front of Trakanon), the beetle named "Ringo" in paludal caverns, etc... :)
I miss those old Everquest days... I remember the first time i went trhew Kael Drakkal, the rush to PoTime... That feeling when you hunt crocodiles in oasis and you ear a Sand Giant coming... I was Hestia (DE/Wiz) on Karana server.
Played EQ from Beta for years. No other game had races and classes that were so unique in ability that forced people to play together. My first ever toon after launch was a Bard. Carpal tunnel syndrome was a right of passage for a good EQ bard. If you could twist 3 songs you were acceptable, if you could twist 4 sometimes you were really good, and if you could maintain 4 through C.C. in a group you were a god among bards. Years and years, and 4 more accounts later, I had 5 accounts with multiple of every class. I had epics on every toon and at least 1 toon of every class with over 2,000 AA's. There won't ever be another EQ. By "the end" (for my playing time) the game had been destroyed by the developers. Every class was capable of almost every skill. Warriors were rooting, Rangers were solo pulling specialists that could tank and heal well enough to solo, wizards could supply themselves with almost endless mana, clerics could melee, and bards.... my beloved bard .. were using scripts to auto twist instead of skill. Every class lost its uniqueness, and therefore... the game lost it's community. There was no longer a need for a tank, healer, damage class, puller, crowd control, etc... It got so bad that the goal was not to group up and defeat enemies, but rather to multi-box and camp "clickable items" that would give you the spells/buffs/abilities of other classes without having to interact with another person. ..... and every last bit of this class muddying that eventually killed this game started with ... horses. The first class specific ability to be exploited and sold off was the run speed of a bard... and one by one EQ sold off every classes abilities through clicky items, purchasable "cards" that gave in game items, potions, foods, and gear gems, and ultimately an AA system (as a last ditch effort to stay relevant) that gave away class functions to anyone that wanted them .. until everquest became a giant muddy pit of a game where everyone could do everything, and no one wanted to do anything any more. EQ lived well beyond the life cycle of its graphics capability and even game mechanics ability. The unique classes and abilities that forced community play-styles created a world of cooperation where people made long term friends, solid relationships, and many many marriages ITRL. It was a game that thrived by the separating classes and forcing cooperation of players, and it started dying the moment it started moving away from that dynamic. I miss EQ. WoW is the most casual thing Ive ever played. It is so 'easy' that the rewards earned don't feel like rewards. There is no triumph in completing something, because there was never any doubt that you would complete it, and you could do the whole thing solo. Nothing has to be figured out. GW2 offers no punishment for screwing up and no need to ever form a group. If you die, you just click a waypoint and keep going. No rezz, no corpse run, no secret stash of 'old' gear in the bank that you can wear, and no begging friends or strangers to come to a demented half-ling god's twisted maze of a castle and try to help find your body, and your gear. (Yes, by the end of EQ you could summon your corpse and the rezz penalty was all but gone with a 100% rezz achieved by sacrificing low level toons to a necro -- but that was more of what killed the game imo). Hope is on the horizon. 1999 EQ players should be keeping a close eye on Pantheon ........ atm it smells like the original EQ, at least until the devs start bending to the will of a community that asks for things that will destroy the game. There will never be another EQ. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. (How could you NOT mention that in the original EQ.. you had to open your book and stare at the pages to med? Recovering mana meant being blind to the world!)
I remember as a cleric staring at the book while trying to get mana back. It wasn't until level 30 that I could actually watch the game instead of reading just the chat box.
I couldn't agree more on every single thing you said in this video. I'm sure I'll never play a game like Everquest again, but I will never lose hope. All we need is an MMO that requires you to socialize with other people..is that too much to ask? :(
You hit every point on this game: the game was an interactive story. I met so many people on my grind. I remember moments of terror running across the world naked or seeing a new particle effect for the first time would scare the crap out of me. These moments of terror made the game so amazing.
Nothing will ever compare to classic Everquest. My very first trek from Felwithe to Erudin with my very first character (high elf) was beyond epic. The boat rides, the run through the commons where I though everything was hostile so I zigzagged, the time it took, the weird names of players I've never seen before talking about dungeons I never heard of yet...so much nostalgia right now!
Thanks for this! I was actually a beta tester in EQ and a Senior Guide. For those that don't know what that is, it was in-game help from regular players that helped the GM (game master for that server) and you could help stuck folks, players that lost an item, resurrect folks that died due to bugs, etc. You would actually create a character and that character would then be made into a Guide by the GM and you'd get special gear that allowed these tasks to be performed. What a great trip down memory lane!!! (oh yeah, LOVE the music... just love it.) Thanks Vareous!!!!
My favorite memory is going to Najena for JBoots right after I finally got the Ice Comet spell. It was a mess, everyone was fighting to outdamage each other. Somehow, on the SECOND spawn, I did enough damage to get kill credit. She dropped the Jboots. Those things used to drop like once every few days.
ShowEQ came in handy there (after they nerfed the drop), running through South Ro so much from druid teleports and heading back to Guk (ie corpse retrieval), the Ancient Cyclops would on occasion just be hanging out waiting for someone to "track" him down . Also got a glowing black stone with it, after someone finally figured out the spawn cycle in Qeynos hills at night, spend the night tracking down and killing his placeholders, eventually the necro dude showed up with the thing (though he didn't always have the stone either!) If you relied on plain luck you could be waiting a very long time
man i'm getting so excited thinking about this. the fact that you couldn't navigate the zones without knowing them was one of the best parts! man this game was so good!
I almost teared up over this. I still have a bunch of Everquest note pads that I had to write down maps, peoples names, and various quests things. I was a beta tester, and I remember playing a Barbarian Rogue during the beta test and I level capped at 9 because my stats were shit and I kept trying to kill snakes with their own fangs but couldn't do it. The last day of beta there was a large battle between the gods in the desert. For the live game, I started with a Troll Shadowknight, and then a Dwarf cleric and I remember running around in my purple ass armor. Shortly after I became a Guide (GM) for the game and that was an amazing community. We were all volunteers just helping out stuck players etc. I doubt i'll ever feel connected to a game and a people the way I was connected to that one.
Jeez the memories. As far as gaming goes 1999-2006 playing EQ were the best times for me, no way to ever recreate or relive that feeling. Seeing the impatient entitled insta gratification brats that make up most of the MMORPG communities nowadays is really sad ^^
I never could get into another MMO after EQ. None of it was rewarding enough. I still remember going through the Soulfire quest and having a guild mate explain how one part of quest dialogue had a hidden typo that you had to work around. Good times.
I played this pretty much from the start and stuck around for the first 3-4 expansions before I moved on. Seriously dumped 2 years of my life into this in 1999-2001. That video... wow. Thank you so much. This made me all warm and fuzzy inside. I played many MMOs since then but the sense of awe and magic and fear I have felt in EQ, I have never found in any other MMOs. Wow. I
Level 54 Wizard on Prexus server, will never forget this magical world, some of the most fun i've ever had. This kind of thing will never be re-captured in a modern game, players want it to easy these days. I never finished my epic quest, it was damn near impossible, even with a great guild.
MMORPG's are dead as dead now days. As the OP says, you can just throw caution to the wind in the current games, and you never need to talk to anyone if you don't want to. But EQ forced player and community interaction. No one could solo their way through it. I miss that game. I miss it a lot. /cry
This video pretty much sums up everything I think of when i think of everquest, and even some things I forgot about. This game was a challenge. It made you think and made you interact with people. I love this game, and wished time had treated it better. Nostalgia at its best. One day my dad had ran his druid invis all the way up to the Ice giant king. He hadnt realized that he ran past some giants that could see through invis and got completely trashed by some good number of ice giants. He had spent 3 days, died 40 some times and lost something like 3-5 levels just TRYING to get his body back away from the king. Things like this is what i miss from a game. Nothing seems to compare to what Everquest had to offer.
I remember the first time I got one of my friends to try the game. All of the textures for the hallway outside of the Neriak bank were the exact same. Unlike modern day MMOs you couldn't tell by looking at your buddy's character which way their camera was facing. I stood there for about 45 minutes trying to get him to follow me with him stating that his view wouldn't change. From my screen his character would just back up and do circles. I was about ready to pull my hair out and fake a disconnect when we found out that his camera view had gotten moved so that he was looking at the ceiling the entire time. Thus the reason his view would not change no matter which way he turned. Another friend couldn't figure out how I was able to find him but soon realized that I was simply following a trail of his corpses. Man I miss those gaming days. East common tunnels was THE place to hang out. Camp checks are even a fond memory for me. So strange and alien now as they seem. Thanks for this video. Enjoyed it immensely.
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I remember luring my brother into the river of nektulos so the fish would eat em. It was awesome.. Thanx for the video.
chad verbus this is one of the best comments I've ever had on any of my videos!
chad verbus holy shit.
Holy shit?
+chad verbus Brothers... The perfect manipulable noob prototype. They trust you all the time.
lmfao
I met my wife in EQ... I was OBT (Original Beta Tester on CT '99). In '05 I got a random /tell on my Rogue asking if I could help kill the Prince, Queen and King for her Cleric guild mate's Epic Clicky Rezzer. During the fun, she "got" all of my stupid jokes and we clicked. Married 8+ years now. Awesome raiding buddy to this day. :)
I was not forced to write this. LOL
+Captain Learjet that's actually pretty cool , I feel like it's harder to meet friendly people online these days. Everybody wants to be a troll. Back them it seems like there was still some internet etiquette.
+Mo Anderson "Netiquette"
+-=Sp00k=- Beta tester pride! I was on the RP server with the then-famous bard Jythri.
I also ended up being friends with Baelish (We were both in Triton) and got rather drunk with him at the San Francisco Fan Fest. Sooooooo many great nostalgic memories.
My friend who I had started playing with (CompUSA employee guild) even ended up marrying another Cleric from our later raiding guild. I know you two are far from the only ones.
+-=Sp00k=- now that's what i want in life ;-;
+Mo Anderson everyone gets offended so easily in eq2, i'm not even trolling, I just told a few jokes and now I'm a wanted criminal.... sure, the joke was me blowing up new York, but its all just for shits and giggles!
no MMo will ever feel the same as everquest did if you never played it im sorry..
True, no MMO will feel the same as EQ. But EQ never felt like UO, and UO felt like pure magic in 1998.
keep your chin up.. play Pantheon Rise of the Fallen when it releases.. and Project 1999 is gunna release a new classic EQ server soon.. and thats as close as youll get to the real experience
I dont think i *want* the everquest experience again... i want a modern version of it though... death penalties, no hand holding, forced grouping unless u were a necro... 5am mornings helping a *stranger* do a corpse ... etc... lol... but thanks - if Pantheon can match the experience ill check it out
Aye. UO was where the real magic happened. EQ paled in comparison to UO, especially in the community aspect.
+Edward Barlow
Pantheon. I cannot wait. I have not been this excited for a game since EQ"Next" (When it was announced originally like 8 or 9 years ago). Oh wait... that never happened though! Daybreak can lick my balls!
I just want to say that I had never played EverQuest until just recently. I'm playing on the Project 1999 server, and I'm having more fun than I've had with any MMO in years. The last time I had a similar gaming experience was when I first started playing WoW in 2006. It feels like I'm playing an MMO for the first time again. Probably has to do with the design philosophy being dramatically different from in modern MMOs. In terms of immersion, modern MMOs are a step above simply giving you a straight line of mobs to kill ad nauseam until you reach the level cap. In EQ you actually have to explore the zones looking for mobs to kill, and there's actually a sense of danger. There's something to be said for the sheer terror of encountering a vengeful lyricist as a lowbie in Everfrost. One of the fundamentals of game design is risk vs reward, and modern MMOs present little if any risk at all; death is never more than a minor inconvenience, whereas in EQ death can be devastating depending on the circumstances.
The game is inconvenient, clunky, and dated. And yet somehow that makes it all the more rewarding an experience.
Where do you download project 1999 i have been searching for it for quiet some time now ?
You need the Titanium Edition of the game. Its expensive to come by these days, but there are "other methods" of obtaining it. After you've set up a fresh install, go to the project 1999 website and follow the setup guide.
You can download it at SOE online. www.soe.com/home
It looks exactly like a decaying skeleton.
Never mind, now that the novelty has worn thin, its just a mind-numbing grind.
I sighed heavily watching this vid. I came in during Kunark and made a woody ranger. I played this game extensivelt for years. Met my wife in game. Made it through college playing this game. Found out my wife was pregnant during a raid after my guildleader gave us a 10 min break so that my wife (main healer) and I (puller) could talk.
I miss the game. I miss the difficulty. I miss the friends I made.
Casting SoW by orc lift, donations appreciated..../tear
I miss being a broke ass druid and SoW'ing ppl for free but often being surprised by some high level dude tipping like 60pp.
I still use /(word), like /hug, in text messages and emails. People get what I'm saying but don't understand how ingrained those chat commands are still just stuck in my brain or where they come from.
/camp
@@raywhite9069 Come play on project 1999 green. I'm a broke A druid right now, lol
@@kebonhawk1081 You should come play on p1999 green if you aren't already
Damn talk about some fond memories! My wife turned me on to the game and totally regretted it. I was addicted big time!
A Snake Kicks you for 5 damage - best attack ever ;)
I go back to this video every time I wanna feel nostalgic, but I just realized that it's almost 10 years old.... I'm getting to the point where I need retrospectives of my retrospectives.
hahahaha
this is my favorite game of all time. I will never feel the absolute addiction to anything again like I felt to everquest. This game will forever be burned into my memory.
EverQuest is heroin and we’ve all been chasing the dragon ever since that first high
Just don't listen to the sound track and youll be okay.
Thmbs up! I started in Qeynos. A friend of mine then found out about a quest in Faydwer for some two handed hammer which sells for a lot. Blinded by the riches we killed some dwarf in Qeynos for his head (Stumpy something or rather?) then ran all the way to freeport, then cross the ocean and finally to Kaladim. We were only lowbies then.
Died so many times during the entire process including the stupid bandits in Karanas, but that was one of my greatest moments in gaming. I'll never forget that. I can imagine being an old man telling stories about it as if it really did happen in real life.
Honestly mate, just listening to the intro and music, seeing the game play - it really brought tears to my eyes. What a wonderful experience that was back in the days, folks helping each other, fantastic community - was rushing home every day from work - being in Germany i spent countless hours at night raiding first with an american guild - later on then being a proud member of Mortalis. I have never ever felt that spirit again in any other MMORPG. I still feel sad that this time is over - life goes on - but i will always cherrish the years of fun i had with this game and its people. Simply fantastic :). Thanks so much to you for bringing all these fond memories back to life !
PS: forgot to mention - how i loved and hated the XP-loss when you died - the dreaded corpse runs - the /consent and all your stuff got looted - running blind from Halas through Runnyeye etc etc - countless things - wonderful times :)
Warwiz I got killed on the boat from FP to Butcherblock by one of the damn Erollisi maidens when the boat stopped at that island. The Corpse traveled with the boat and got dumped somewhere. The GM's could not even find it for me. Thankfully I was only level 9, but that was one of my first characters back in the day. That was weeks worth of work!
How about when you had to petition the GM because your corpse was stuck in a wall and you would sit for hours debating whether you could take out a gnoll commander with your fists.
Warwiz Good times! Paladin Jarls (Mortalis)
Same here Warwiz, I had so much fun in EQ1!
You can't express to people who have never played everquest just how meaningful everquest was. I have memories of all the places and probably still remember my way through dungeon mazes. I remember all those nasty deaths that seemed hopeless, everquest forced you to be social and it forced you to think, you died in the back side of cazic thule maze you had to look for people to help and everyone would! I still have friends I made in everquest and I still talk about things that happened in everquest with fond memories. Thank you for the video it actually brought tears to my eyes.
+John Hoffman agreed. Most fun i've ever had playing a video game came from my EQ days. I had a group of about 6-7 friends that all started playing it together one summer in highschool, when we weren't online playing (usually our parents would make us get out of the house during the day) we were hanging out and talking about EQ, or planning our night's hunt or whatever... DVINN to ZONE!!!
+John Hoffman I logged in about a year ago to run through some favorite dungeons for nostalgia points.
I got hopelessly lost in Permafrost Keep trying to find Lady Vox.
+PunkinRB HAhAH Dvinn. Forgot all about him in Crushbone. That bastard killed me so many times when I was a noob. Man, he could hit HARD!
+Zayna Leady I just remember how hilarious it was that rogues could pick pocket his heart.
Kali Ma!
+Elle Heilig oh jeeze, I seem to remember that rogues (with a high enough skill) could even pickpocket the rare items that bosses carried during the fight. Unless i'm mistaken I think that got patched pretty quickly, someone please correct me if i'm wrong, as I only leveled my rogue to about 30 or 40. Speaking of which (enter story mode, going off topic here)- that summer I mentioned above, after a while of playing on our original server we all switched to the brand new 'Quellious' server with the idea of leading the front-lines, which we did for the first few months- guild name 'How the Gods Kill'. One of my greatest memories of that time was a GM event in Kalimdor early on in the servers life where as a wood-elf rogue (named 'Dacient') I received the 'Jambiya', which I recall was pretty special at the time due to it having 2-3 points higher in dmg than the dragoon dirk dropped from Dvinn, which meant HUGE BACKSTABS for my level.
Hell levels. Corpse runs. "TRAIN TO ZONE!" Buffs that had no timer and could fail in 10 seconds or last an entire evening. Fizzling spells. "BOAT!" Damn I loved this game.
"BOAT!".... "OMG, im on the other side of the zone! I have whips to collect!" ....
I'm just happy I was able to play it when I did, waaaaay back at the beginning. Nothing can compare. Things are so much different now, and I'm sad, and I'm growing old.
I'll tell you EXACTLY what you miss about the UI. This game was from a period when UI's were actually game-themed, not all sci-fi/simple boxes that can be dragged all over and made partially transparent. Same goes for runescape's UI.
I get the feeling that the same guy who made the Ultima Underworld UI must have designed the original Everquest UI. They are very similar.
If you have ever been trained, give me a thumbs up! Specially with no heads up!
/shout TRAIN
In the old days I used to love trains when I was playing my chanter. There are few things as fun as camping the zone line in KC as an enchanter. I once derailed 3 trains in a row, that took my group like 10-15 minutes straight to clear with tons of close calls.
Just a shame they nerfed the hell out of chanters over the years to the point where you really only need 1 per raid as a buff bot... All of our crowd control was rendered basically useless in nearly all raid encounters starting around the time of SoL or so and we were always crap as damage dealers compared to other int casters. So basically unless you were the chanter with the highest AAs for buff enhancements, there was really no place for you in most raids as a chanter, which killed nearly all of my enjoyment in the game at that point, at least with my main anyhow.
Man back in the day when you had to strategize even regular encounters. Normal fights in EQ were like mini boss fights in games today. Every role mattered. The group pullers, the CC, the tanks, the DPS, the healers. A bad pull could wipe out not only your group but many others around, lmao.
Most can't type and run at the same time lol
TRAIN TO ZONE! lol
"Can I get a SOW please?" ... Haha Thank you for the trip back in memory lane.
lol made a bard for that reason! i could never get a sow when i needed it, and i was making silver grouping with people to get them through zones at a high rate of speed
Spirit of the wolf was a must! Otherwise, took for ever to run across the plains. 🤦♂️
I had just recently started up what would end up being my "main". A Gnome Mage. He came shortly after leveling to almost 25 as a Gnome Wizard, who I had dumped all of my creation points into STR on, because I wanted to be able to carry ALL the loot! Only to later realize I gimped the hell out of myself, because INT mattered hugely for your mana pool later on.
Some Halfling Druid, buffed to the teeth with STR came walking up to me painstakingly slow. He was so encumbered he could barely walk. He opened up the trade chat with me and to my delight he placed a couple hundred platinum in the trade window and hit trade. I gladly accepted his offer!
The only issue was, he had converted every bit of it to Copper. Here I was, pockets busting at the seams with back then was enough plat to last you well on into nearly level cap, and I couldn't move. I was within viewing distance of the zone entrance to Ak'Anon.
Within about 20 minutes I had collaborated with several other lower level people in the zone. I had promised them a cut of the Plat if they would help me. We all took some of the copper, and slowly but surely made our way to the bank.
I played from launch as a teenager, and I will never love another game as much as I loved Everquest. It was my preferred universe to be in. The game was so difficult, immense, rewarding, and soul-crushing. Sometimes I would quit it for weeks after something terrible happened, but I would always come back. It really was Evercrack.
I have a wonderful life now, but I will always pine for those first few years on EQ.
Really can not overstate how amazing this video is. Really captures why the game was awesome. Also motivated me to play project 1999 (never played EQ but always wanted to. I am now!)
One of the big things i think this video didn't touch enough on is the grouping done in this game. In new Games you solo from level 1 to max level with a few dungeons thrown in. (50+ boring hours) In EQ you solo to maybe level 5 then spent the whole game grouping up with people and talking. This really built a sense of community. You knew or at least had seen a good many of the people on the server as you leveled up. Today most servers are divided into small groups of players who barely know each other if at all and server chats are spammed by the loudest most annoying people....
I know, in EQ1 one of my main chars was an enchanter... I could /ooc ENC LFG and have a group in a matter of seconds. Then again that was the days where strategy was required and crowd control was in high demand. Miss those days :-( I could mez an entire room full of froggies in Seb and keep them under control, until someone did something stupid like an AE nuke and you know who the froggies were mad at right? lol
+Bob Dageek Ohh man, the good memories of the chanter getting the aggro when a mistake was made. Loved this damn game...
You actually had a public reputation. If you were crappy at your class it would be well known even mid level. If you ninja looted you'd be instantly blacklisted. People would see you yell for a group, and then they'd yell that you're a thief. You came into the game like a newborn. No cloths, no skills, barely able to defend yourself. As you built your character up you also built up a reputation and a social group. People that had helped you complete quests, or recover a corpse without any real benefit to themselves and vice versa. I remember when I had to get together 30+ people to help complete my epic when they got literally nothing out of the encounter. They spent most of a night playing just to help me get something that I really wanted. These were people with jobs, families, and things they wanted to do. They did that because we had spent a lot of time together and they considered me a friend. I still consider those to be real friendships we'd formed and grown. I was also there when they needed me. I'd stop doing whatever self serving thing I was doing to go spend hours and hours helping them do something they wanted to do. Hell spending hours working out the tactics to how we'd do high end content. Because failure meant no loot, and spending hours on corpse runs. Especially pre cleric epic. The social aspect was incredible. I'm kind of glad no game has recreated it. I spent a lot of time on it. I have to say though, I don't regret a thing. Grouping Plane of Fear. Making mad dashes through Veeshan to Plane of Mischief. Staying there a month to get cards to get resistance flowers. Knowing that if you died you couldn't get back to your corpse. I still value the time I spent playing with my friends. Both the ones I knew in real life and ones I met in Everquest. All those people were equally my friends. Some I still talk to 14 years later.
I completely agree with you, these were real friendships. I actually ended up marrying someone I met in EQ. We have been together 13 years and have 3 children together.
Here is why EQ will forwever, in my mind, be the best MMO ever, much like this video alluded to the entire time. It was CHALLENGING. It was difficult at EVERY stage of the game. Hell, you had to develop an actual skill (side-strafe running) to escape fights that went south. Dying was detrimental, spawns were rediculous....and binding next to a rare spawn that you needed to call for friends to help you kill and then falling asleep was the worst of both. (My friend lost 4 levels on his druid because he bound at the spawn).
But that is what made it worth it. Yes the epic quest took forever, was tedious and frustrating and arduous. But I swear to god, getting the ragebringer, with the 1 pixel animation was one of the most rewarding feelings I have felt in any game, ever. Hell, at the time (I hadn't done all that much in my life) it was one of the most rewarding feelings of doing ANYTHING ever. It is why we had a call chain that we would use so that if a mob spawned at 3am we could round up enough bleary eyed people, from all walks of life, to group and take down the Council of Twelve, or something.
I quit playing sortly after completing planes of power, right after the next endgame expansion came out and sold my account on one of those sites. I went to Miami for spring break with the nearly $2k I made. I turned 21; I drank, and I dated, and I went to college and lived my life. But years later, I wondered, while bored...wonder if y account ever got sold. With some effort I managed to find out that it hadn't, (the mislabelled the stats on the account so it seemed completely outpriced) and I was able to retieve my account. I logged in and went to the Nexus. I did a /who. And one moment later -> /tell Muadd "hey its Geeii, remember me?!"
There was this player who played in a "Friends and Family" guild I was in as I was levelling, a player that I helped get HIS epic for long after I had gone on to a raiding guild. And here he was, running the largest guild on the server, 10 years later, and remembered every bit of it.
This...This is why EQ is the best MMO ever.
That's is truly an amazing story. Now you've got me thinking about my old EQ friends lol. Haven't thought about them in a long time.
I did the same. I sold my account, got nostalgic and tried to log back in. The guy never even changed my password or moved my characters. All he did was sell my fungal tunic. The character never even moved. He paid $850 for a fungal tunic.
Some memories I had watching the video:
1) Going to Befallen for the first time, falling through the hole in the floor. Was able to hide in a corner while my tiny guild pulled in everyone we had online to come rescue me.
2) Logging on with plans to grind in Frontier Mountains only to discover that my guild had wiped trying to kill a Wyrm (forget the zone name just now). I spent my entire evening dragging people's corpses to them. This general thing happened a number of times, but not usually taking an entire evening.
3) Very early on, taking my guild of all Trolls and trying to run to Neriak, having never been further than South Ro. We didn't get any further than Oasis...and the Sand Giants...
Good times.
My first 5 min in EQ in 1999 was trying to hail a guard, and instead, hit the attack button.
Many people did this to the priest of discord as well, or accidentally turned in the book without knowing and stuck in pvp.
Thank you so much for this video!
I played from 1999 to 2009, and now, 5 years after I quit, I still miss the game. Every bloody day.
Everquest was hardcore in a way MMORPG players of today could never even fathom.
I laughed at the 'spamming sense heading'. So very true.
The sort of nostalgia this game brings about in those who played in the glory days falls somewhere between PTSD and Stockholm Syndrome, lol. While I loved the game, I have so many horror stories of insane time sinks, many of which have remained unfruitful to this day. I used to help organize weekly pick up raids on Naggy and Vox in hopes of one day finally winning a roll on a red scale for my barb war's epic, but after nearly 4 months of weekly raids I lost the rolls every single time. On another occasion I decided to camp Hadden in Qeynos Hills to get myself a fishbone earing, took nearly 21 straight hours of camping, killing him 3 times in a row before the bastard finally dropped the earing. Another time, after spending some time leveling up in the Warrens over on Odus, I decided I would head off to Lake of Ill Omens to level some more, made the couple hour trek by foot and boat and when I finally got to FV I forgot to get bound before leaving the fort and aggroed a couple of those spider girls who managed to root and kill me a few feet from the zone line when the realization that I was still bound in Toxx came crashing down around me... 3 hours later with my longest ever corpse run nearly complete, I made damn sure I was bound before heading out for my body, lol. Had to stop several places along the way to hunt for some temp gear and fruitlessly ooc teleport requests that never got any responses.
I really misses this game. I played for 4 years..pretty much every day...didn't have much responsibilities back then...no mortgage, bills, wife, or kids. Just have a job....after work I went straight home, log on, and spent the next 4 or 5 hours grouping or raiding with guildies.... I had a lot of fun with friends. I think it one of the best MMO game ever made. The game just so socially connected you with the people around you, not just in the US, but around the world. That interactions with people you don't know and became friends with them is just real special. More than 10 years later and I still remember those old times.
You forgot to mention staring at a book to gain mana, no mounts, dragging corpses, keys for zones in your bags, weight limits, how long it took to make your first kill. I don't remember quest phrases having brackets until later on.
Duuude! Staring at that book! And I'll never forget the first time my character suddenly couldn't move. I had no idea what had happened. Finally figured out I was over my weight limit. Crazy what we put ourselves through, but I'll never forget it and never love anything as much.
medding!
This was the greatest game of all-time. I have so many amazing memories and I have used my rogues game name ever since.
I love watching this video... I watch it this time every year for about seven years, this is the time of year when I first logged on back in 2000.
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I always come back to this video for the nostalgia. Never hard to find either. Thank you for this! I played EverQuest when it first came out and it will always be the most memorable game I ever played.
Something truly wonderful was made in Everquest, and that has been entirely lost in modern MMORPGs. Here is to hoping that Everquest Next can bring back the strength of the genre.. but I doubt it, developers seem to think that in game "hassels", "annoyances", "penalties" are bad for the game because players complain.. when in fact, even though players complain, these things are what make the game a social virtual world that we invest in. Modern MMORPGs are a pale shallow shell compared to this pinnacle, I fear we will never see its like again.
Check out Pantheon:Rise of the Fallen - new game being created by Aradune. Nothing is ever going to re-capture the feel of Everquest, but anything close will probably come from that man!
Jeremy Barnes Thanks for the heads up, however I am already aware of this project. It is at least 3 years away from release, and that is if it even makes it. Given its failed kick starter origins and who is currently helming the project (Brad, who previously drove Vanguard into the ground), I just don't think I can get on board with that game until its more of a reality then a theory you know what I mean?
My hopes right now are with Everquest Next, while it won't be what EQ1 was, it is promising to be nothing like what any of the "modern" MMORPGs since EQ1 are like either. Perhaps they will hit a new sweet spot.
The wife and I (we met through the original EQ) decided to re-sub for the original EQ for a few months again due to lack of anything else out there right now. We're having a good deal of fun but it is definitely not the same.
Jeremy Barnes
Project 1999 is currently in the Kunark expansion.
MrTechFox Sony had more to do with driving Vangaurd into the ground than any other reason or person.
Perhaps the most incredible thing about EverQuest was that it created an actual world. Remember waiting for boats to cross continents? An annoyance? A time waste? Yes. But it also helped instill the giant proportions of the world.
I think one of the things that made EverQuest so great, was that it was a "first" of it's genre. It's like loosing your virginity, you can only really loose it once.
So noone knew what was going on during the first few months.
Noone knew how to get from Kelethin to Qeynos, except for a select few brave souls and/or beta testers. Finding maps was hard, even on the internet, because the internet was in it's infancy too.
Heck, when I started a wood elf bard, one of my most used songs in the Kelethin zone, was the corpse location song, because people kept falling down from the town platforms and there was no map showing them where the corpse was at. :D
Also, you HAD to team up, you simply could not solo anything.
That forced you to socialise with others, for better or for worse.
But above all, the sense of adventure from going out into a world that NOONE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT !
That .. that was fantastic !
Early EQ was truly a Massively Multiplayer game... all the clones after it, while fun for a bit, just don't hold up to it. Just holding a dangerous camp in LGuk with a group of friends was an accomplishment in itself and I have not felt so fulfilled in any other game since EQ.
Great video! I actually got back into EQ recently, since they changed the All Access membership to work with all SOE titles. My favorite (worst) memory of EQ - was the one time I died in Cobalt Scar, fighting Wyverns, back before you respawned with all of your gear...and I had to walk all the way from Ak'Anon to Cobalt Scar butt-ass naked. Luckily I was a mage and was able to acquire some malachite, so i was able to keep some mobs in Skyshrine occupied...but you try traversing the temple without clothes on...that was insane! People in current-gen MMO's have no idea what we had to go through! lol (AND IT WAS GREAT!)
Lol, I remember keeping a little extra gear in the bank just in case I died and had to go get my corpse
That was the worst! I remember being on the boat from Faydwer to Antonica. I got too close to the edge and the boat jumped out from underneath me. I started swimming in a direction, completely lost. I never swam because, "I'm a Paladin. They don't swim!" After an hour of swimming and going through my entire food and water store, I end up on the shore of the Cyclops island. Boom. Dead. All that work for a death. At least I didn't die in the water. (And my swimming skill had gained a few levels.) I'll never forget that.
Allen Lake Sad story Allen... You ever get you're body back? I once teleported my 37th lvl druid to an expansion and my parents wouldn't buy it and i lost my main DUDE! I also died in the Wyverns, sucked bad. Was there an amount of time you had to retrieve your corpse in this game or would it just stay there?? I always flipped out and stayed up for hours on end to get my corpse. Fuck school i need my gear lol
I did recover my corpse Kalub. My parents were yelling at my that we had to leave but the corpse stayed there for 7 days, so I had time. The next morning I got up like 3 hours before school and got someone hunting in the zone to help fight off the Cyclops while I looted my body.
That sucks about the expansion! Losing your main dude just due to a bad teleport! Ugh!
I remember drowning in the ocean with my Druid had all the money and gear I owned, luckily a higher lvl player came along and i gave her permission to drag my corpse up off the ocean floor. You could give permission for others to drag your corpse to safety or Necromancers to summon your corpse. It was funny to see people running across the zone dragging someone's corpse behind them.
Great video, and yes it did bring back a lot of good memories for me. I started playing EQ back during Ruins of Kunark and for the longest time, Iksar characters were pretty much all I played. Soooooo many hours in the Field of Bone, sooooo much grinding, but I always look back fondly on it.
EQ was in some ways a lot more relaxing to play than a modern MMO, too, because unless you were a bard, you weren't clicking action buttons all the time. Warriors and monks especially, there was a lot of auto-attacking in between using an ability. It was much less of a twitch kinda game and more about strategy and planning -- getting the right stats, the right gear, etc. There just isn't anything like that anymore -- game developers seem very afraid of players getting bored.
Anyway, enough blather from me. Great video, thanks for sharing this.
I was from Torvonnilous as well, Darkeowyn played from 2005-2007. I loved this game and still miss it to this day. Most of my friends went to WoW as I did, but Norrath will ALWAYS be my home.
I was on Torv too, you joined as I left
oh yeah, fond memories of going Link Dead in the middle of a fight and finally coming back naked at your bind point!
Emperor crush still scares me.
Link Dead!! OMG I completely forgot about going LD. Haven't thought about that in a long long time.
I spent more time dragging my corpse out of lower guk then anything ... god the was fun
I would get lost down there so many times
level 63 human shadow knight agnostic...I know kinda lame, but Damn I miss those days...
In the mid 90's, AoL went to unlimited dial-up subscription and I bought my first computer for personal email, instant messaging, and chat rooms. I spent several years involved in Virtual Places (VP - chat rooms interfaced with internet pages). Word was going around VP of an mmorpg called Ultima Online. Then came Everquest in 1999. All of my online buddies went to EQ, and VP shut down.
I graduated college in 2001, bought a new computer, got the new dsl connection, and joined my friends in EQ. I rolled a High Elf Cleric on Tholuxe Paells, and I still play her today--although I retired from the game 2006 - 2010, she was still there when I decided to play again, and so was my guild. This video brings back so many memories of the old days.
My real life people don't understand my "hobby", I explain to them "it's some of the most fun I've ever had in my life". The game is great, but the people I've played with all these years are awesome too. We meet up at SoE Live every year in Vegas and have a blast.
That intro music gave me chills
Fuck, me too. I haven't thought about this game in a long time.
Everyone who misses (or missed) this game needs to checkout Project 1999
Man, this game really screwed up my life for afew years - but I regret nothing :)
Can't help but wonder how some of my old friends and guildmates are doing in life nowadays~
Me too, I've met so many great people in EQ1.
Never played Ever Quest . But when watching how people can overcome some ingame problems on their own and for example make their own Economy Basicly is great and kinda interesting. I think it was far more of a social expierience to play that game . Bacause without everyone you would get nowhere
+Chriss RE You have no idea sir! The entire game was basically run by the players. It was the most sand boxxy MMO even now. We didn't have Dungeons or anything to level. Quests were a joke unless you were doing some class/race/faction specific epic end game thing. Raids were crazy and messy. I mean, you actually had to talk to NPCs. This was my child hood.
I started to play this game in 1999. Best memories ever.
To this day, no other game has me ramble on like Everquest. The game made players feel attached to their characters and form actual bonds with those they played with. There are times my GF and I will just sit down and talk about Everquest for hours and not even realize it. I have yet to capture the same experience in any game I have played up to this day, and I hope that someday I will but I am afraid I won't be able to.
Watching the video made me realize just how much I actually miss the old days. I wish some of those old things like no auction house would come back. I miss the real sense of accomplishment when killing raid bosses because there was no working on it for hours, if you failed the raid guild you barely beat there is ready to take it on the second you die.
What a trip down memory lane indeed! Awesome!
I realize now just how similar the appeal of Dark Souls/Bloodborne is to Everquest. Both games thrust you into the unknown, amidst enemies that pose a real threat. Everquest did it first of course, and on a far grander scale.
EQ had its drawbacks though. I remember mana/hitpoints used to take so long to fully regen, i kept a mini VHS tv next to my pc. So i'd have something to do while i wait. Or how about when your slain and you didn't make it to the corpse in time? And it just decayed, loosing all your $hit?
.....This game was the grand-daddy of rage quit. And we loved every second of it.
The drawbacks you mentioned, as annoying as they might have been, were part of what made the game so immersive. You were actually afraid to die because of the consequences, the lost of experience, sometimes even lost of your level, and possible lost of your corpse (and everything in your inventory as well). When I started playing you looked up to high level players, level 50 was impressive, now when you hit level 50 (or even higher) you don't have that feeling of achievement, or at least its not as exciting (at least to me, still fun though), because its so much easier and faster to get there. There was no in map in game either, and I got lost quite a few times lol, but this too was part of the challenges that made the game immersive.
I miss the pranks you could do the most ... for instance. Charming a level 1 wolf while your raid is waiting to port out. Then stacking that sucker with high level raid buffs before you leave. Along comes a level 1 to attack the little wolf ..... doh ! Or turning myself into a bag in the EC tunnel and watching people walk back and forth trying to pick me up.
Or freaking out newbies in Crushbone by dragging corpses towards them while invisible.
you would have loved pvp then. stuff like casting dispel to remove a guys water breathing is mean.
or levitate when your dead man floating in the clouds.
5 year veteran from 1999. Best game I've ever played, there is no doubt in my mind. It was so hard that it made you remember everything good and bad that happened to you. And the joy you felt when you got a super rare drop, or just figured something out on your own....Priceless. My friends and I still ramble on and on about this game sometimes, that's how much of an impact it had on us.
+Casey O'Brien I knew I won EQ when pulling mobs as a chanter pretty much any where we went. The guild which was top 10 guild in EQ would let me pull. AEing so many mobs you would lag in Seb, Chardok and quite a few other zones. I pulled King and queen outside castle in Chardok. Those were the days. So many good memories over the bad ones. What an incredible game.
This game was so amazing. I played it from shortly after launch until right after WoW launch. My first real memory of it was being a Wood Elf Druid and running around the Greater Faydark, having no idea what I was doing or where I was going, and (unknowningly outside of Crushbone) coming across a dead orc, looting it and getting a fine cloth bracer. I thought it was so amazing. I died shortly after since I was way too low level for that area. I had no idea that I needed to get back to my body, so obviously I lost my beloved cloth bracer. I discovered this a day or so later and was pretty bummed lol. Those were some great times. This game will always be one of the greats! Thank you for the video and the great walk down memory lane!
I remember casting KEI for gold for hours on end
I loved EQ. I had a Dark Elf Enchanter and could never get my faction high enough for the high elves to allow her to finish her epic. And I LOVED Lower Guk. And Sebilis. I have deep dark elven roots...
*****
If you have a deity its useless. Main reason ENC always were agnostic..
For whatever reason reading your posted reminded me about the zone Qeynos. I didnt figure out until like 8 years into playing EQ that it was backwards for SonyEQ loll!
Jeff Mastio
Tunare >nature ;)
So much love for this game. Two things I really hated that they changed though - the character models ugh! - and adding in the Bazaar. EQ tunnel went from the biggest collection of people selling wares and socializing and helping new/low level players out to a ghost town in a matter of weeks. It was truly sad :(
Mind you if you played on a PvP server the bazaar was probably a blessing. I started on Rallos PvP and carrying all that plat around wasn't a good idea so there was no real commerce in EC.
99-2001 player on bristlebane. Best gaming memories. Real communities formed...fav gaming experience still to this day, even after I burned out from running a big guild...thanks for this post!
Stumbled across this video by accident. I'm an old fart who once played EQ. I started during The Ruins of Kunark. Your commentary was very relatable. I have since quit ALL mmorpg's but if I were ever to play any again, it would probably be good old EQ. I did try to recover my original SOE account but I was unsuccessful so if I were to try to play again, it would be a long and insane process to try to rebuild my main character, whom I spent so much time on with not only leveling but also raiding and epic quests. And so for this reason, I don't see myself ever playing again. But like many, I have very indelible memories of my time playing this game and meeting folks from around the world.
Started playing in 2000, after the Kunark expansion. So while I can't say I was there from the very beginning, it was close enough.
I rolled a Human Paladin, started in Freeport, and I still remember the sense of dread of the first Griffin that killed me, as well as the framerate drops from the tunnel. I remember camping for the Ghoulbane and the Jboots.
And I remember staying at lvl 52 for nearly a year to get the book drops from Wox and Nagafen for my epic quest. In the end, I gave up and moved on, and eventually stopped playing and deleted my character after Planes of Power.
Still, the original game had a sense of discovery and danger I haven't felt in any game since. Still remember my first adventure to visit Qeynos at lvl 10. That WAS an adventure.
Dadaph i used to Farm the GE boots and FBS for sale.
Well.... You dissed to classic UI of the game. Yes, it was a small area of graphics. Yes, there was no customization at the time. But... this game ran on my Pentium 100 Mhz computer. That is a SOCKET 7 CPU. Which I still have in perfect working condition today........ Regardless, I will state this: The small view area was necessary for the computers of the time and was in fact charming..... YES.. charming... in a world filled with HD megapixel this and that, I will still say that the classic small UI in EQ is charming and with the SPELL BOOK when you MEDITATE taking up the whole VIEW area it added a very special aspect to the game.
Pleases Thumbs me up if you agree.
- Terethian Corpseraiser, High Elf Cleric from CLASSIC Everquest on Zebuxoruck Server.
I was just using it as an opener to relate to people how modern games have such different UI structure. I then said how much I missed the UI. I preferred and used the classic UI all the way to the point I was forced to change it when they disabled it.
Vareous No, No, I was way off base here. Let it be known I was watching this video drunk and I posted at a pause, if you pause the video when I did it sounds like a straight up dis of the UI. Then... after the negative comment you mention a kind of nostalgia to the UI...... so you are fine, this video is great. But I am a die hard classic fan. One of the crazy people that remembers fantasy from the beginning. So I am 100% classic Ever-quest all the way, Corpse runs, cloth armor,exp loss etc. It all adds character to the game. I apologize to you, formally, for my drunken comments.... which is more than Justin Bieber would offer you.... I promise!
But if I was Justin Bieber I would just spit in your face and claim I was young and still learning about mistakes like this... but... oh wait... I always knew it was wrong to spit in someones face even before I was a kindergartner. ...well... I guess extreme singing skill makes up for common sense?
I feel like I have been VERY spoiled with the MMO's I have played growing up compared to this. I give a lot of props to anyone who had the patience to play this game =P
It was simply awesome!
You have no idea. It was unlike any other, and there will never be an equal.
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Its debatable whether that inequality is in its favour or against it, but I dig the enthusiasm
You aren't spoiled, you are deprived. You will probably never play a good MMo in your life, because they don't exist anymore.
Chlorophant Agreed. Pre Planes of Power EQ was the golden age of MMO's. No auction house, no farmers or gold spammers; none of that cancer existed yet. You had to play the game to get the goods. Economy was 100% purely player generated. Long live the East Commons Tunnel and the art of the deal! Lets not forget GM events! No MMO since, and I've beta tested and played many, have come remotely close to anything as cool as a GM event. Winning some item from a GM that had your toon's name on it was the coolest. "Train to zone!" Miss that game. Rad post. When I heard the opening music, it took me back. Goosebumps.
You made me relive my teenage years.
I've tried replaying this, but I can't go back because it's just not the same. I remember tanking Kunark and Velious raids upwards to Planes of Power when I was 13. I really think this game made me have a great imagination, and appreciation for the fantasy genre. It was truly a gem of its time.
Good video.
I love this video so much bro, im not gonna lie i watch it and listen to it at work or when im at home, this is the most wonderful put together montage of everquest I've ever seen.
Huge props and thank you. I want to save your video so i can show it to my daughter who loves watching me play and kill dragons now with my guild
This game provided thee best social gaming experiences I ever had.
our bazzar was greater faydark or Faymart as it was known. hehehe
Great video! It brings back so many memories. My wife and I played for 7 or 8 years.
Final comment... one of my favorite classic zones was Unrest. When the game was first released, the hags in the basement of Unrest used to be able to charm. People would aggro the hags and then train them out to the zone exit... Once the player had zoned out, the hags would turn and aggro anyone who had the bad luck to be standing anywhere near the exit. They would charm the character, and then march them back through the zone all the way past aggro mobs and down into the nastiest depths of the dungeon. Then you would sit and wait for the charm spell to wear off (because you couldn't control your char until it did) and the moment it wore off, and the mobs would aggro you and you would more or less die instantly. The hag room in that dungeon would truly be STACKED with corpses. You'd have to get someone to cast invis to undead on you, and you would run in and drag your corpse out.... running all the way and hoping the spell wouldn't wear off.
Yeah it was quirky. Yeah it was buggy and unforgiving. Yeah the learning curve was like a steep canyon wall. But no game since has ever captured the same level of excitement and engagement. At some level... that may be a good thing. Guild raids that REQUIRED everyone to commit 8+ hours just to get to the boss mob... Brutal.
+wifeofnerd1 oh yea I remember the first time I got sucked down into the basement... truly a feeling of horror at the moment lol
I started pre-velious, what used to grip me about the game the most was with each piece of armor or weapon you had there was a story, an adventure, questing or grouping with awesome people for hours and hours just for a chance that what your looking for would drop, and if It did the butterflies in your stomach, to this day I could tell you where I was and who I was with when I got each item that is on my 15 year old toon that I haven't played almost that long ago.
Time to die, a_Vareous_bard!
My friends and I in high school were OBSESSED with this game. I played an Enchanter. Used to run around newbie areas handing out Clarity buffs so they'd never go out of mana for 20 minutes. Hey, I had to pay it forward after all those Druids ran by giving me Spirit of Wolf so I could run fast.
I remember Hell Levels. 35 and every 5 levels until 50 took 3 times as long to grind through, and dying and losing that exp you just spent your whole weekend accumulating was HEARTBREAKING. BUT... it was totally worth it. That sense of accomplishment of getting your punk ass to 50 through 60 was epic and there was no way you could have done it alone. "Massively multiplayer" indeed.
P.S. High Elf agnostic Enchanter was easy mode. Need to sell? Far from a neutral or friendly city? ILLUSION: [friendly race] and BOOM, vendors buy your stuff. Just had to hope your illusion buff didn't run out before you could zone back out.
P.S.S. INC TRAIN TO DOCKS.
For me? Its agnostic human enchanter (Freeport starting city)
@@Cynidecia but... high elves have more Charisma!
@@lunayoshi but they're elves.
Lower Guk was the most amazing zone ever seen in Norrath
i played back when you could loot ALL corpses
I never got to level 65 back when that was the level cap. And I never reached end game stuff like raids and top tier gear. But I still loved every moment of my EQ experience... Wish the community was still big as it was back then. Super nostalgic from your video! Awesome work.
My favorite memory was when a cleric friend and I (enchanter) would go to newby zones charm mobs (make them my pet), buff them to the 9s (Health, Armor, Haste, etc.), then release charm, mem wipe, watch low level groups get rekt as the mob resets with all of its buffs. Watching the area chat was hilarious as people could not understand what was going on.
Alas, I have never had an MMO character I loved as much as my Ogre Shadow Knight. OMFG I loved that guy so much... Thank you for this video, it was exactly what I was looking for.
Need a retrospective to this retrospective
This
I remember hearing about this game launching, but I never understood what it was about. A few months later, I heard people talking about it like it was the best thing ever (which admittedly was). i asked a friend about it, and he told me that it was only for PC, and that I need a really high end machine to play it. I feel like I missed out something huge.
Lol, so weird to think this game was a performance sucking monster but it was. I had pretty much the slickest swag available to play it in 2000. But then, at that time not everybody even had a computer. Different age. And it'll never be the same, we're spoiled now.
Katy Wiggins So true, I remember building a custom computer so I could play without lag. haha! I managed to complete 2 epics before I gave it up.. so very time consuming, but so incredibly fun!
LOL i played it on fucken DIAL up bro, shit was awesome, was my first MMO. First time experiencing all of the content was awesome.
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Here you go: /watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0
This flashback brought to you by: ME
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Lol me too. /dialup noise. Followed closely by original EQ music. A feeling that will never leave me.
i miss this game so much ;_; there are the best experiences i ever had, from this time.
I would give anything to go back in time and be able to experience this game when it first came out. I've never played Everquest at all but just from the subtle joy in your voice from re-visiting it, i can tell that it must have been something special. I think the 'problems' you outlined make the game all the more unique, something to truly build friendships on. Hopefully something will come along to shake the gaming world up again and i'll be ready to experience it in full. A great overview btw, thank you for this.
A few thing left out that all of us that played will never forger ...
1) If you didn't get to your corps in 4 or 5 days RL time ,ya lost everything.
2) Raiding was done in OOC and if you weren't in a high dps group ,you probably spent 4 or 5 hours not getting xp.
3) Just one death without a REZ meant hours of lost xp.
4) Most importantly without courage s self sacrificing people that were usually strangers and willing to help ,,you could be stuck in a 1,2,3 loop ...
I think most that played way back when either knew or heard the call to go rescue a poor cleric that was trapped in the Naggy prep room in a bind death loop.
My favorite part of EQ was the community, and how everyone knew their character by the time we got to Crushbone. I was excited about the PoK Books (teleporting) but after coming back to EQ they've changed way too many things that made EQ, EQ. Anyone else have a love/hate relationship with warriors?
Vintan and Psychodanie you out there somewhere?!
yeah, i loved and hated my 2 warrior characters, my last warrior was a troll war named Oogaboogabooga Boogaboogabooga and i remember having to get shrink cast on him just to fit his fat ass through the doors. also, the fact that you had only kick, bash and taunt was something else.
bertoxxulous and firiona vie mostly. i did have a char on almost ever server though!
Ahh Crushbone memories "Train to zone"
I loved my tanks/off-tanks... rogue here =) After PoP though, I could tank with all the disciplines, gear, AAs and such.
The amazing classic Everquest experience still exists in Project 1999 Everquest. its amazing and far better than Everquest is today.
yep. Project1999 is fantastic. tons of players, classic rules. great community. awesome. and guys, be cool and donate once in a while.
Haven't seen this video until just now looking back at various EQ videos. Gotta say, it was some of my most fondest memories of gaming was when me and my buddy were playing this game. Started off at the Kunark expansion (had it prior to Kunark), but since it was Online only I wasn't able to get my parents on board until my buddy was playing it and his parents let him. I think we were 13-14 at the time and I remember just spending weekends at each others houses, as well as the following summer vacations just absolutely loving the world. I stopped playing pretty much right after Ykesha expansion and still never got my Mage his full epic quest, came pretty close though! I am hoping that Pantheon will bring back some nostalgia for me as pretty much all MMO's have fallen short for me, but boy do I yearn for a great MMO that will suck me back into their world again.
Everquest was so great. Well no it sucked and was grindy and there were no quests. BUT I FUCKING LOVED IT!
Anyone else remember making an elf, but your buddy made a human and started in free port...so you sit on a boat, for 2 hours, only to glitch off the boat and die? Then can't find your body with your stuff? LOVED IT!
I had 3 friends that all started playing this the same time as I did. I started in Kelethin, with 1 of the friends.. The other 2 started in Qeynos area. Literally as far as possible from where we started. it was decided that I and 1 of my friends would make the journey... Talk about an epic quest, we ran into players along the way that helped us through HIgh hold.. we ran for our lives across Kithicor (learned the difference between day and night). Learned to CON guards. It was from that moment i was so hooked in this game.. It was amazing in a way that no other game could touch.
Jimii - Bard of Morrell Thule
I agree I had more epic adventures on the game. Did you notice Qeynos is SonyEQ spelled backwards?
I remember your name, Jimii. I too, was on Morell Thule. Truehammer was my main. Dwarf paladin. Everything you say brings back the greatness of old EQ. Today's live servers are sad. Every zone is a ghost town.
chillyfog2427e7738 That's not the only funny spell in the game : Tunare = Nature, Tolapmuj = jumpalot (the froglok in front of Trakanon), the beetle named "Ringo" in paludal caverns, etc... :)
I miss those old Everquest days... I remember the first time i went trhew Kael Drakkal, the rush to PoTime... That feeling when you hunt crocodiles in oasis and you ear a Sand Giant coming... I was Hestia (DE/Wiz) on Karana server.
Played EQ from Beta for years. No other game had races and classes that were so unique in ability that forced people to play together. My first ever toon after launch was a Bard. Carpal tunnel syndrome was a right of passage for a good EQ bard. If you could twist 3 songs you were acceptable, if you could twist 4 sometimes you were really good, and if you could maintain 4 through C.C. in a group you were a god among bards. Years and years, and 4 more accounts later, I had 5 accounts with multiple of every class. I had epics on every toon and at least 1 toon of every class with over 2,000 AA's.
There won't ever be another EQ. By "the end" (for my playing time) the game had been destroyed by the developers. Every class was capable of almost every skill. Warriors were rooting, Rangers were solo pulling specialists that could tank and heal well enough to solo, wizards could supply themselves with almost endless mana, clerics could melee, and bards.... my beloved bard .. were using scripts to auto twist instead of skill. Every class lost its uniqueness, and therefore... the game lost it's community. There was no longer a need for a tank, healer, damage class, puller, crowd control, etc...
It got so bad that the goal was not to group up and defeat enemies, but rather to multi-box and camp "clickable items" that would give you the spells/buffs/abilities of other classes without having to interact with another person. ..... and every last bit of this class muddying that eventually killed this game started with ... horses. The first class specific ability to be exploited and sold off was the run speed of a bard... and one by one EQ sold off every classes abilities through clicky items, purchasable "cards" that gave in game items, potions, foods, and gear gems, and ultimately an AA system (as a last ditch effort to stay relevant) that gave away class functions to anyone that wanted them .. until everquest became a giant muddy pit of a game where everyone could do everything, and no one wanted to do anything any more.
EQ lived well beyond the life cycle of its graphics capability and even game mechanics ability. The unique classes and abilities that forced community play-styles created a world of cooperation where people made long term friends, solid relationships, and many many marriages ITRL. It was a game that thrived by the separating classes and forcing cooperation of players, and it started dying the moment it started moving away from that dynamic.
I miss EQ. WoW is the most casual thing Ive ever played. It is so 'easy' that the rewards earned don't feel like rewards. There is no triumph in completing something, because there was never any doubt that you would complete it, and you could do the whole thing solo. Nothing has to be figured out. GW2 offers no punishment for screwing up and no need to ever form a group. If you die, you just click a waypoint and keep going. No rezz, no corpse run, no secret stash of 'old' gear in the bank that you can wear, and no begging friends or strangers to come to a demented half-ling god's twisted maze of a castle and try to help find your body, and your gear. (Yes, by the end of EQ you could summon your corpse and the rezz penalty was all but gone with a 100% rezz achieved by sacrificing low level toons to a necro -- but that was more of what killed the game imo).
Hope is on the horizon. 1999 EQ players should be keeping a close eye on Pantheon ........ atm it smells like the original EQ, at least until the devs start bending to the will of a community that asks for things that will destroy the game. There will never be another EQ. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. (How could you NOT mention that in the original EQ.. you had to open your book and stare at the pages to med? Recovering mana meant being blind to the world!)
So many memories...
I remember as a cleric staring at the book while trying to get mana back. It wasn't until level 30 that I could actually watch the game instead of reading just the chat box.
I couldn't agree more on every single thing you said in this video. I'm sure I'll never play a game like Everquest again, but I will never lose hope. All we need is an MMO that requires you to socialize with other people..is that too much to ask? :(
Just started playing Project 1999 yesterday and I love it. My dad played back in the 90's and he showed me this video.
Your old man has excellent Taste.
You hit every point on this game: the game was an interactive story. I met so many people on my grind. I remember moments of terror running across the world naked or seeing a new particle effect for the first time would scare the crap out of me. These moments of terror made the game so amazing.
Nothing will ever compare to classic Everquest. My very first trek from Felwithe to Erudin with my very first character (high elf) was beyond epic. The boat rides, the run through the commons where I though everything was hostile so I zigzagged, the time it took, the weird names of players I've never seen before talking about dungeons I never heard of yet...so much nostalgia right now!
Thanks for this! I was actually a beta tester in EQ and a Senior Guide. For those that don't know what that is, it was in-game help from regular players that helped the GM (game master for that server) and you could help stuck folks, players that lost an item, resurrect folks that died due to bugs, etc. You would actually create a character and that character would then be made into a Guide by the GM and you'd get special gear that allowed these tasks to be performed. What a great trip down memory lane!!! (oh yeah, LOVE the music... just love it.) Thanks Vareous!!!!
My favorite memory is going to Najena for JBoots right after I finally got the Ice Comet spell. It was a mess, everyone was fighting to outdamage each other. Somehow, on the SECOND spawn, I did enough damage to get kill credit. She dropped the Jboots. Those things used to drop like once every few days.
Ha! The JBoots, I was never as happy to be a druid as when I saw my friends grind for those.
ShowEQ came in handy there (after they nerfed the drop), running through South Ro so much from druid teleports and heading back to Guk (ie corpse retrieval), the Ancient Cyclops would on occasion just be hanging out waiting for someone to "track" him down .
Also got a glowing black stone with it, after someone finally figured out the spawn cycle in Qeynos hills at night, spend the night tracking down and killing his placeholders, eventually the necro dude showed up with the thing (though he didn't always have the stone either!) If you relied on plain luck you could be waiting a very long time
Sank so many hours in this game until WoW came out. This game was truly amazing for its day.
I remember vallon zek back in days, and fighting to own a dungeon for the night, that was epic ^^
Original Ultima was the wild west of mmo's
man i'm getting so excited thinking about this. the fact that you couldn't navigate the zones without knowing them was one of the best parts! man this game was so good!
I almost teared up over this. I still have a bunch of Everquest note pads that I had to write down maps, peoples names, and various quests things. I was a beta tester, and I remember playing a Barbarian Rogue during the beta test and I level capped at 9 because my stats were shit and I kept trying to kill snakes with their own fangs but couldn't do it. The last day of beta there was a large battle between the gods in the desert. For the live game, I started with a Troll Shadowknight, and then a Dwarf cleric and I remember running around in my purple ass armor. Shortly after I became a Guide (GM) for the game and that was an amazing community. We were all volunteers just helping out stuck players etc. I doubt i'll ever feel connected to a game and a people the way I was connected to that one.
Jeez the memories. As far as gaming goes 1999-2006 playing EQ were the best times for me, no way to ever recreate or relive that feeling. Seeing the impatient entitled insta gratification brats that make up most of the MMORPG communities nowadays is really sad ^^
I never could get into another MMO after EQ. None of it was rewarding enough. I still remember going through the Soulfire quest and having a guild mate explain how one part of quest dialogue had a hidden typo that you had to work around. Good times.
There is a new MMO being worked on called Chronicals of Elyria, and it seems to be rough on the player like EQ was.
I played this pretty much from the start and stuck around for the first 3-4 expansions before I moved on. Seriously dumped 2 years of my life into this in 1999-2001. That video... wow. Thank you so much. This made me all warm and fuzzy inside. I played many MMOs since then but the sense of awe and magic and fear I have felt in EQ, I have never found in any other MMOs.
Wow. I
Level 54 Wizard on Prexus server, will never forget this magical world, some of the most fun i've ever had. This kind of thing will never be re-captured in a modern game, players want it to easy these days. I never finished my epic quest, it was damn near impossible, even with a great guild.
MMORPG's are dead as dead now days. As the OP says, you can just throw caution to the wind in the current games, and you never need to talk to anyone if you don't want to. But EQ forced player and community interaction. No one could solo their way through it. I miss that game. I miss it a lot. /cry
This video pretty much sums up everything I think of when i think of everquest, and even some things I forgot about. This game was a challenge. It made you think and made you interact with people. I love this game, and wished time had treated it better. Nostalgia at its best. One day my dad had ran his druid invis all the way up to the Ice giant king. He hadnt realized that he ran past some giants that could see through invis and got completely trashed by some good number of ice giants. He had spent 3 days, died 40 some times and lost something like 3-5 levels just TRYING to get his body back away from the king. Things like this is what i miss from a game. Nothing seems to compare to what Everquest had to offer.
I remember the first time I got one of my friends to try the game. All of the textures for the hallway outside of the Neriak bank were the exact same. Unlike modern day MMOs you couldn't tell by looking at your buddy's character which way their camera was facing. I stood there for about 45 minutes trying to get him to follow me with him stating that his view wouldn't change. From my screen his character would just back up and do circles. I was about ready to pull my hair out and fake a disconnect when we found out that his camera view had gotten moved so that he was looking at the ceiling the entire time. Thus the reason his view would not change no matter which way he turned. Another friend couldn't figure out how I was able to find him but soon realized that I was simply following a trail of his corpses. Man I miss those gaming days. East common tunnels was THE place to hang out. Camp checks are even a fond memory for me. So strange and alien now as they seem. Thanks for this video. Enjoyed it immensely.