Remember when EQ ment something...

There was a time that EQ ment something to some of us here.

Was it our social climates, general mood, or prehaps some odd genetic disorder that caused us to fall in love with a virtual world?

Have others noticed that no other games even comes close to the feeling you got when you first logged onto EQ, say 5+ years ago?

Thoughts and comments welcome...

words can't explain the feeling eq gave me back in the day. Sometimes i get sad because i miss eq so much... certain music i listen to will remind me of certain zones or toons from when i use to listen to the music while playing. My fondest memories are staying up all night grinding xp then having to sneak to bed when my rents woke up.. oh haha and once when the original eq first came out i married my rl bud with some woodelf b***h then he cybored her in one of the huts in kelethin.. ah and of course, killing Sergent Slate becuase he always KS'd my griffin fights.

Im certain it wasn't a disorder that caused me to love it so. It was greed. I wanted to be the best and i was willing to dish out the hours of lvling if i got a good camp... Getting a big head on eq is the greatest power trip.. I knew my class backwards. It beats having friends or family.

its hard to describe

was better feeling then being high

I think I can take a stab at it. Back when I was in my EQ groove, I felt like I belonged with the people I played with, Running a guild was a little bit more personal than just "running a guild".

-Nah-

wow this thread is gonna become disturbingly real.

it already has....

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I felt like I belonged

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It beats having friends or family.

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was better feeling then being high

This is like rehab shit.

I certainly feel the nostalgia for the game. And I can certainly identify with some of this. But isn't tht f*****g scary?

People say the same things about heroin. well, minus paden's i guess...

It was good times...funny how we forget how f*****g hard it used to be. Getting owned...getting owned while retrieving the corpse that was made from the previous ownage...having no money...wearing Armguards of Shitessence (ac 2, +1 int, -8 cha) for 38 levels...

i dream about eq sometimes, fun stuff it is

Back when it was scary and you had to look up s****y maps and quests and wonder if you turned in something if the NPC was gonna eat it.

NToV was the highlight of EQ/

atarom wrote:

wow this thread is gonna become disturbingly real. it already has.... Quote: I felt like I belonged Quote: It beats having friends or family. Quote: was better feeling then being high This is like rehab shit. I certainly feel the nostalgia for the game. And I can certainly identify with some of this. But isn't tht f*****g scary? People say the same things about heroin. well, minus paden's i guess...

I agree man...I get the same feeling as everyone else, but it is kinda f****n scary to think about.
I think it was because of all the damn social interaction, and alot of times I just felt like I couldn't let people down, or I would at least try my hardest not to. I remember helping Valencia on her epic on oasis for like 54 hours striaght I think trying to get Cazel to spawn haha. No way in shit I would do that now -a- days. For anyone...including myself lol.

I enjoyed showing off. Nowhere in WoW to show off, since everyone is level 60 with full blue and a lot of purple gear. Nothing unique you can do in any MMO's any more, and there's certainly nothing you can change as a player about the game itself. Not that you really could in EQ, but it felt like you could.

I have some great memories of classic EQ (I quit at Luclin). I remember groups of us at work browsing the same sites, sending each other links and then talking about it on break. I remember 2am runs to resteraunts with like 5 other players and talking about nothing but EQ. The g*****n 48 hour marathon sessions and so much more.

No game has ever and I honestly believe, will ever, reach what the original EQ did for me.

I was trying to think of something that gave me a better feeling then when I first played EQ, sadly... it took me a few minutes, when I use to go hunting, just kicking back in the woods with my dad/uncle/cousin is the only thing that comes close.

I miss EQ, the only girlfriend that never did me wrong!!!

P.S. I am a biger loser then most of you. <3

Hi, my name is Fenora and I'm a VR addict.

Nahu pretty much hit it on the head for me, I felt like I belonged with the people I played with. Belonged...as in connected with, knew really really well, trusted, and liked/hated/loved (as opposed to not giving a shit one way or another heh).

Seems to me that sort of thing happens rarely if ever in RL.

I think a lot of the comraderie in the original game came from the fact we were all on equal ground.

Think about this... how long were yall following the development of EQ and could not f*****g WAIT for it to come out? I remember hearing about it via rumors to seeing its screen shots in a magazine around 1997 or 1998 and thinking 'Man this is going to be huge'.

When EQ debuted we were all united as explorers. As time went by, sadly, the joy of the game left some people and their true personality started showing, thus we see the game's first dickheads as soon as they discovered they could KS.

Back then, if you were a dickhead, word got around and you only got to play with the other dickheads.

Now, GMS dont even give a f**k if you harass the hell out of people.

Speaking of GMS, it used to not be rare that they would just show up anywhere people were hanging out and say a few words. This gave the game the living, breathing feeling.

I still enjoy EQ, but it is true that no game will ever hold the sense of wonder that EQ did when it opened.

I still have friends from pre kunark, too.

atarom wrote:

wow this thread is gonna become disturbingly real. it already has.... Quote: I felt like I belonged Quote: It beats having friends or family. Quote: was better feeling then being high This is like rehab shit. I certainly feel the nostalgia for the game. And I can certainly identify with some of this. But isn't tht f*****g scary? People say the same things about heroin. well, minus paden's i guess...

ITS SCARYT HOW FUCKIJNG PISSDE IA M FUCKIGN SGHITANRGY

Xieroth wrote:

There was a time that EQ ment something to some of us here. Was it our social climates, general mood, or prehaps some odd genetic disorder that caused us to fall in love with a virtual world? Have others noticed that no other games even comes close to the feeling you got when you first logged onto EQ, say 5+ years ago? Thoughts and comments welcome...

I loved EQ when I started playing it right after Velious came out and loved it for a long time, being able explore the world without the maps, not knowing what's going to jump at me from out of nowhere while traveling through a new area. Luclin was ok minus the model upgrades, but after that expansion I hated almost everything much after that as it was mostly requires constant raiding in order to progress, too much honestly. LDoN was neat, but didn't last long due to GoD and OOW, DoN's really good, but it'll probably flop like LDoN in due time as newer expansions come out.

Honestly right now the only reason why I'm still playing EQ is for the new expansion coming out, it seems neat and all with it's features.

Maybe Vanguard will bring some of that old EQ magic back to us when it comes out, unlikely though.

I started EQ during the Kunark days. I really wish i would have started playing with m best friend at release when he tried to get me to. Although I missed alot of the first days I still feel the same way alot of you do about things. The good ol' days are gone. yes I still play and have fun at it when I do, but it is just not the same. I have some really great friends who i have made that I still keep in touch with even though they have moved on to other games or none at all. Hell a few of my frineds that I started playing with back on Innoruuk and I still get together once a year in Vegas to party.

Will EQ ever get back to where it was in those days? No.

Will another game ever hold fascination over a group of people like EQ did? Maybe, but EQ was still the first.

I still remember sitting in the breakrom at work talking about EQ with a few guys that I worked with at the time who played on different servers. We would talk about different content we were seeing and raid strats. the other people at work looked at us like we were some sort of freaks, but man I tell you what...it was good times. Where else can you have a hobby that only costs you a little over $10 a month on top of an internet connection that you would already have in the first place. I can't even go out to the movies for 2-3 hours for what one of my EQ accounts costs me for a whole month.