This has been a conversation that has been going on with myself and others for years. One friend of mine swears by the philosophy that "you never forget your first time." That is what worries me, that we find kinship over a game that was our first time in an MMO world.
No game to this day has given me more joy, more sense of accomplishment, more frustration and more confusion and more adventure and desire than EverQuest. I played the WoW and her progeny, Guild Wars and even EQ2 and all of them are always missing something.
I believe that something is the combination of game mechanics and a communal archetype that made it such a memorable game and I would argue the only MMO that got it right, at least for the first two expansions.
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Tornaire ~ 20 Trooper of Cabilis
Viscerti ~ 16 Summoner of Neriak
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