Aradune Returns to EQlive

[Clark]

Originally Posted by SirAlvarex [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Having played both EQ2 and Vanguard at launch, Vanguard was so horribly broken it was insane. Boring combat, no end game, crashing zones/servers, no sense of direction all claimed a game that had some beautiful vistas and some nice promise. But the character models and execution was flawed.

EQ2 was much more interesting at release, albeit I had a halfway decent computer at the time. The raiding scene was boring, since it was basically hitting up the same instances each week for barely upgraded loot.

Combat was subpar up until GU13, but that happened after like 3 months of release. That's when they changed it so that soloing was possible.

I just think that the consensus of Vanguard gets clouded because it's always "the game we all thought we could have." It's easy to create an ideal. But they failed to execute it. And SOE actually did try to save Vanguard. They get too much of a bad wrap for "destroying vanguard and everquest" when they always owned Everquest and put money into Vanguard to make it actually playable.

that makes me glad I never tried it