Before EQ I was all into strategy games....I'm a military history buff and computer gaming has always fed that particular interest for me, going all the way back to the early '80s playing text based wargames on the mainframe at my school, to the (kick ass) turn-based Avalon Hill adaptions for MAC that Atomic did in the early 90s, to RTSes, etc. I had played some RPGs before (M&M III was the main one) and liked them but strategy was always my thing.
Before they became Microsoft's Halo bitch, Bungie had a fantastic series of real-time tactical games called "Myth" which were rather ground-breaking for the time in the strategy genre and I was ALL ABOUT that when EQ came out...I think Myth II was the current one then....My friend bugged the piss out of me for weeks to get EQ and finally I caved and did...
I get into all of that because I'm trying to convey that I really didn't want to play EQ. I wanted to play Myth. And while I'm always open-minded about any game, I kind of had my head up my ass about it because I really wanted my friend to stop dicking around with EQ so we could go play Myth.
The first time I logged in to the Qeynos newbie yard and saw people slapping on bats and snakes with clubs and swords I thought to myself "He's completely lost it....This is the most retarded thing I've ever seen!" Sometime in the next 8-10 hours I was completely addicted. I just needed a little push, some time in-game, and a little tour around to see what I had to look forward to and that's all it took. When I saw those cyclopses in West Karanas for the first time I realized this game was going to be THE SHITE. Not sure why, but that's what did it.
Here we are 11 years later and I'm still playing.
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