so i have been exploring

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Originally Posted by Mblake81 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

it's one world, just moving to different continents. Kunark and velious might've been planned to be in the original release. At least one magazine article mentions kunark and velious before the originals release.



And people bitched about any models that were copy pasted, I remember. Yeah, I would be fine with the Kael giants being the old world models with armor on. They had a charm to them.



Dunno. Every zone in EQ was fairly unique and you could navigate by landmarks. Maybe the ocean zones (cool concept) were similar but the islands in each were different.

landmarks exactly, every room in sola looks different enough that i can almost tell which ones i am in, definately the important ones like the barkeep, the throne room etc

same with guk though guk has a few confusing areas, but they seem to be purposefully confusing, same with ct maze, but once u get deeper in its obvious were u are and ur not somewhere else in the zone

the loot tube that is I cant even remember the god damn named of the zone because its so undistinct... "The Motherload" which is actually one of wows best loot tubes it's the one i remember the best and does have some cuteness but it's fucking impossible to tell were u are @ in it u just zoom thru as fast as humanly possible go either left or right then straight up the middle again and the end looks a little bit more like a theatre stage and it gets a little more thematically post apocolyptic rather than skid row - just blurrrrs toghether
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eq is also full of old half finished uncared for secrets and stuff too

the invisible wall in the gnome caster guild

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the tunnels that allowed my ranger to sneak into neriak

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all the invisible walls and stuff like the shortcut to the goblin foremen thru the predators sorta spawn room thru that invis wall

----- the cities having sewers and undercities which were seperate from the main city and not integrated ----

WoW and EQ2 cities feel more like grobb and oggok, though even grobb and oggok have a lot of charm i'm not dissing on grob it has a lot of character but it's simplified compared to freeport

------ new freeport is horrific -------- it could have been good if they didn't rush it out and half ass it like they did but it is a shambles compared to the old one

------- that river in kaladim that goes from two parts of the town ------ and is an non-obvious alternate route

once i level up on live again i will report back in from the stone hive bixies i think some of the later expansions flirted with different design concepts that weere interesting enough on their own 1 off merits