IRL - Why do you play Everquest over all other games. (1 Viewer)

[Monkeyman618]

spill the beans lol

 

[dewey2461]

Habit.

When EQ came out several RL friends played it. EQ Lan parties, etc.

Now, its mostly for the social interaction and satisfaction of problem solving raid encounters, and writing code to automate various parts of the process.

 

[jfrazi]

I like a lot of the other old guys here started gaming on 5 1/4" floppies. c: //b: <enter> , b: dir/w <enter>, b: needforspeed.exe <enter> .... yay mono color cream spinach graphics.. lol And I just never looked back.

EQ was the first really 3D game and it totally blew me away. I still remember that shiver down my spine the first time a skeleton cackled at me before promptly beating me to death outside of Felwithe. I have literally tried a thousand titles in search of that again and just never found it. I still play other games - but I fell in love with Norrath that first night and have been here in some way - live, P99, EQ2, emu for 24 years since. Compared to some I am still a newb even now, I haven't mastered every single trick. But I have watched some come and go - bard kiting, the shaker shockers, donal's chestplate heal chains <pre-nerf>. The love is just still there.

 

[violent5]

orc hill

 

[Lookingforfun]

Because i'm almost beat it... so close

 

[Oldman66]

It's not that I play EQ over all other games but rather I keep coming back to EQ. I will go stints on D3 hardcore for the leader boards. I did purchase RDR2 late April and that has me entertained. I spent too much killing and started to like it too much hahaha. Now I am back working Jann's and a few ToV earrings.

 

[Crypl]

My wife would say, and she is not really wrong, that EverQuest is my first love. Released while still in High School, I very nearly flunked out due to playing this game day and night. I have only gotten to play intermittently since having a family, but with the last one going into High School and wife going back for her Masters Degree I have a lot more open time to play now.

 

[Doc James]

Why? Because cocaine is too expensive.

No, really. Because we like hurting ourselves with addiction......no wait..

 

[paasch]

no other game ive played has the player base eq has there are very few keyboard heros and for the best part the community has been strong since inception

 

[dezeran]

I grew up playing. Wizardry, Bards Tale 1-3, Kings Quest, ultima, leisure suit Larry. Ever quest was the first game that Gave me the Feels like playing bards tale 1 for the first time.

I have and continue to play multiple games depending on my time and mood. But there is always a few games that never leave my hard drive. Ever quest 1 and 2. Now I did after 20+ years on The seventh hammer. Moved to FV server.

For me ever Quest now is memories of days gone by. Log in call some old buddies talk people into playing for a month or 2 (and of course intro them to RG. Assuming I used to compile for them back in the day.) Just to bullshit and catch up. Most have moved on but not once has someone I knew ever said f that game. So for me it is I play it for the memories and friendships I made along the way with hundred's of people I would have never otherwise known.

I mean in todays gaming world can you picture

Forming PoF/PoH raid Raid ETA 6-8 hours commit.

Real corpse runs. (had a few lowbies i lost all my gear on lol)

And for me I met my Wife at a Guild Lan party Back in 2002.

So for those reasons EQ will remain on my HD until they shut the servers down (would prob just go to an Emu server then too )

 

[Silverspaceman]

MQ Redguides edition

It turned a fond, but aged, very rose-tinted gaming memory into a squad-based strategy RPG unlike anything else and the forums here are almost always friendly, if a little quiet. I'm also noticing a marked decrease in my ability, as I age, to pick up new game mechanics and controls, so I tend to get tired of new RPGs before I start having fun. My Gog & Steam library backlog is a lifetime worth of gaming if I ever get tired of EQ or banned!

 

[Szazor]

I was fully embedded in Ultima online - multiple accounts with Castles n stuff - even with a 800ms ping times my wife and I were Gods of UO.

Then one of my RL friends from UO started on eq in Beta and was one of the founding members of Talisman on Tunare.

I watched him play and even started a Human Druid on his account - I couldn't get out of the Zone line @at Surefall glades. Kept getting turned around as u zone, and it was pitch black....so deleted the game from my pc and continued playing UO.
Only when a few other RL friends were playing EQ did i finally make the switch. This time with a Necro, and soon to a Troll SK.

EQ was hard back then - nothing ever given to you, so everything was hard fought. I think that's where the addiction started. There is something about Struggling WITH friends that binds people together.

Why am I still playing it? When are all my friends off doing something else? D4 is a boring button mash grind. BG3 was absolutely great but all too linear and will be boring to repeat.

No other game has ever given emotion like absolute panic like EQ. I was clearing Fear the other week when one of my mages agroed Dracoliche and the raid was nowhere near ready for it. !!!!!!!!!! Did I panic - Yes I did.

No other game has ever given the fist pumping kudos like EQ too. Raiding with Friends and beating a difficult raid boss for the first time - never got that from any other game ever.
If it wasn't for RG though I wouldnt be playing the same way. I may still be raiding and probably boxing a cleric but i wouldn't be having the same fun as I do now.
If you have ever struggled with a raid boss with a raid of real people - and then by some absolute miracle you can box that same raid -Its hard to explain but it is absolute fist pumping. My Dog (RIP) must have thought i was mental!
Hats off to RG and all the DEVS! Fantastic Job.


How do you know your addicted? Because I'm 50 something and I still set an alarm for 3:00 to check a spawn or Because I am absolutely hanging out for the next expansion!

I hope I dont see it - but what are we gunna do when we login one day to the message "EQ is no more!"

 

[Robren911]

I'm 53 in a couple of weeks so my perspective is probably a little different. I grew up playing pen and paper Dungeons And Dragons games. Everquest was the first and still the best I believe game to bring a world like that to an MMO. I had played Ultima Online but it was different. The only thing I really liked about UO is if someone made a smartass comment you could kill them and loot them clean. Anywhere at anytime. So I became a skilled dueler before EQ. But it was the comraderies from my first guild. The feeling I still get when I get a piece of loot for a toon either for me or for another person. That is what set the hook and kept me in love with EQ long after my friends left.

 

[519helvis]

i actually dont like video games ... the first time i saw eq i didnt even know hot to turn a computer on. i was always a lifelong fan of tolkien and conan etc. i was living in a hosue w 4 other roomates and one of them was a "nerd" as i used to call him. one day i brought some beers up to his room and he was running around as a a dwarf cleric in beta 2 release. after about 20 minutes i was sold ... the next month he was helping me setup my own computer in my room.

to this day i dont like video games ... eq is above that for me... its like TV ... its just something i do ... i have tried playing other games with my kids etc and i get bored after an hour or so...

long live eq and as always thanks to RG for making it even better

 

[Yenil]

To easy.

It’s because Im an addict.

 

[raven_warsong]

I wasn't much of a gamer prior to playing Everquest. I played a few games. Diablo 1, Resident Evil, I beat both of those and my cousin turned me on to EQ.
I started as an Erudite Wizard playing in Toxx. I was blind as a bat in that forest. I was killed over and over again. Everyone told me to go to Freeport, but Kith stood in my way.

I remember seeing what I thought was another Erudite across the river and swam over to say hello when wack wack wack! I was dead. That's when I found out about Heretics. Back then we had to recover our bodies and loot ourselves. Heck, Spider silk didn't even stack then. Every time I would swim to try and loot my body, wack wack wack went the Heretic. I probably had 9 corpses in and by that river before my cousin told me about /corpse.

Long story short nothing compared to the magic of wack wack wack. That was in 2000. I've just never left.

 

[Beastmann]

My wife and I were introduced in 2000 by a couple of friends, I was amazed by the graphics and the game play. I never played a game quite like EQ before, I fell in love with the game it was very satisfying to hear the "DING" every time I leveled. My wife stopped playing a long time ago, and I have left EQ to play WoW with friends for a very short time and also when I went back to get my MBA, but I have always came back to EQ. One of the friends that introduced me to EQ still plays and we group together still to this day, killing mobs and taking down raid bosses with the guild we are in.

 

[Monkeyman618]

Habit.

When EQ came out several RL friends played it. EQ Lan parties, etc.

Now, its mostly for the social interaction and satisfaction of problem solving raid encounters, and writing code to automate various parts of the process.

right on i wouldn't mind learning to code part i also play for these reasons

I like a lot of the other old guys here started gaming on 5 1/4" floppies. c: //b: <enter> , b: dir/w <enter>, b: needforspeed.exe <enter> .... yay mono color cream spinach graphics.. lol And I just never looked back.

EQ was the first really 3D game and it totally blew me away. I still remember that shiver down my spine the first time a skeleton cackled at me before promptly beating me to death outside of Felwithe. I have literally tried a thousand titles in search of that again and just never found it. I still play other games - but I fell in love with Norrath that first night and have been here in some way - live, P99, EQ2, emu for 24 years since. Compared to some I am still a newb even now, I haven't mastered every single trick. But I have watched some come and go - bard kiting, the shaker shockers, donal's chestplate heal chains <pre-nerf>. The love is just still there.

that is awesome thank you for sharing.

Because i'm almost beat it... so close

untill the next expansion comes out

Why? Because cocaine is too expensive.

No, really. Because we like hurting ourselves with addiction......no wait..

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hahaha thats funny

 

[Robren911]

I'm 63 in a couple of weeks so my perspective is probably a little different. I grew up playing pen and paper Dungeons And Dragons games. Everquest was the first and still the best I believe game to bring a world like that to an MMO. I had played Ultima Online but it was different. The only thing I really liked about UO is if someone made a smartass comment you could kill them and loot them clean. Anywhere at anytime. So I became a skilled dueler before EQ. But it was the comraderies from my first guild. The feeling I still get when I get a piece of loot for a toon either for me or for another person. That is what set the hook and kept me in love with EQ long after my friends left.

I'll actually be 53 in a couple weeks. I started on Karana. While I'd never want to play anywhere with rules other than FV. I sure miss Karana. I started right as Kunark was released my first toon was an Iksar SK I maxed him out and got his 1.0. But SKs got nerfed and an Iksar SK had huge XP modifier penalties. So I sold that account. I got quite a lot for it. And I created the Troll Daddy the Shaman I still call my main to this day. Man he was a beast taking down Veliuus raid mobs solo. Soloing dragons. That was a feat. Like 4 people in Karana managed to do it once in the Veliuus era. I spent my free time there. Taking loot for my friends. Peerless Dragon was no joke at one time. God I love EverQuest

 

[Kambic]

Still haven't completed it

 

[sage254]

I used to play EQ back in the late 90s and had a ball. Played it for years until Gates of Discord came out and that made me want to quit. As someone who always soloed or was a casual player, I did not have time to participate in multi-guild raids for the Plane of Time gear. At the same time WoW came out and I and many others absolutely loved it because it was immersion reminiscent of the first time we played EQ. Over the years WoW became boring and the same old: quest, grind, repeat, rinse. I wanted something to waste time and feel accomplishment. So I started playing EQ again.

 

[Mirto]

I like that there is a level of intell required to play. It takes in more realistic components. All so there is always something about your first that makes you want to stay or come back to 8).