First time EQ stories

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Thought this could be fun [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I remember being around 14 years old, I played halflife, and a TON of tribes, a friend I played tribes with lots told me this game called everquest was awesome. I only played first person shooters on PC, and my exposure to RPG's was ff7 and console games.

I didn't know anything about EQ, the box kinda looked cool. I figured it was like most shooters, it being first person and all, but set in a fantasy genre.


So I login, decide to make a dwarf paladin because it looked pretty cool. Clumsily discover that I have an inventory, and that I can get a sword. The music is kind of cool... So I start running around the city.

I figure its like any other game and you basically just kill shit. So after exploring for 3 minutes or so, I see a guard and figure "fuck him" and decide to kill him and see what the gameplay is all about. I instantly die, after a 2 minute loading screen I appear in a new place, and I don't have my sword anymore. So I run around a bit, then something started attacking me and I died again, and it goes back to 2 minutes of loading. At this point, I have no idea what the fuck is going on, where I am, why I don't have my sword anymore, and why I can't kill anything.

I just quit and thought the game was complete and utter shit compared to tribes. It wasn't until about 2 weeks later out of boredom I made a woodelf, and started to understand that EQ was actually a giant world, and things are persistent, and that everything pwns the living shit out of you at level 1 lol. I started talking to other people in the game, I used to use napster chatrooms back in the day haha, once I realized EQ was pretty much a giant chat room with pixels and shit to do, and people to run around with and explore new and wonderful zones with, I was hooked...


Honestly, there was like 0 hand holding with EQ when you logged in for the first time. Most games even back then kind of had an introduction, and eased you into it. That and the fact this was the first ever true 3D MMO, none of us really had any clue wtf a game like this was about. It, 100% pioneered a genre for decades to come.

Anyways another thread made me remember this, and I am sure there are lots of amusing stories lol.