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08-17-2010, 04:12 PM
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When I first read about it in Gamepro ( i think that was the mag) back in 99. My comp at the time couldn't handle EQ but in feb 2000 I upgraded to a new gateway comp and preceded to play for the next 5 years almost losing my girlfriend (now my wife) to it.
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08-17-2010, 04:36 PM
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08-17-2010, 07:14 PM
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08-17-2010, 04:32 PM
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I joined a group in the Jamtland Mountains. After 30-60 minutes of grinding on various animals, a Scout started picking off our group members. After we rezzed up we abandoned our exp grind and began hunting down the Scout. He unstealthed a little too close and killed our Kobold Shaman, and we were able to charge and kill him. Total adrenaline pump moment.
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08-17-2010, 05:10 PM
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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. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | ||
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08-17-2010, 06:31 PM
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As for the threads question. I started out on Rallos because PvP was always my favorite thing to do in games, whether it was on bond 007 or like I previously mentioned above The Realm.
I made a gnome starting out and things were tough, I couldn't even buy spells at first. I got a few cloth pieces and got pked near the kobolds and lost one. I remember this making me very mad. After this happened I decided to hide up in the mountains near the kobold tents and wait for a victim of my own. After getting my first kill I was hooked... it was then my mission to level up and become as powerful as quickly as I could so I could kill stronger players.. and survive other players. Later I found out the entire server turns on people who attack players and don't really let them play end game... which I really never understood since it was a PvP server.. but it was fun until then. | ||
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08-17-2010, 06:59 PM
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I read about EQ in magazine print somewhere in 1998, and I saw something to the effect of "the game is so detailed a fireball from across the bay (in freeport?) will light up the sky for onlookers on the other shore" and "each rain drop individually exists when it falls from the sky" (this is what got my interest). Those aren't exact quotes, just what I seem to remember.
Then the moment I was hooked on EQ uberness was the last day of Beta testing in 1998. I thought I was badass, 12th barbarian warrior, a BRONZE two handed sword, and full tattered/rawhide and all the shitty gear from blackburrow. Everyone else was < lvl 12. Then in comes like a 20+ something ranger and has two mino battle axes and chain graphics armor, we were all just like oh my god wtf how did you get that! Not many people I played with in beta seemed to understand the concept of grouping, i remember killing, sitting, and regening. The last day of beta was the best, I got a SoW from someone and hit an ice giant with an arrow and said, "amass at the guards, if we all fight together we can kill a giant"... I must have gotten 50-60 sub level 10s slaughtered... again and again. Then I sold all my gear and got alcohol tolerance really high! | ||
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08-17-2010, 07:14 PM
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My brother talked me into playing. I was big on RPGs and knew I would get sucked in if I played and I didn't want it interfering with college. Well one day he gets me on, he powerlevels me a little bit with his ranger after I get my first few levels and he shows me Lesser Fay. I was hooked the second he yelled 'run!' and I saw some little brownie bastard with his hands lighting up in fire, killing me seconds later. The real sense of urgency made the game special, knowing such dangers could lurk around any corner was pretty cool.
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08-18-2010, 03:56 PM
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Played UO which had lag so bad it was literally unplayable. No progress. Waited til UO Second Age came out. Prior to giving UO another go; I decided to check gamecenter.com for its reviews. Everyone was raving about EQ. I remember looking at the EQ box months earlier. This time I decided to buy it. 100x more playable than UO; no lag; first person perspective....freaking awesome. Hooked solid for a year.
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