Any indie MMOs similar to EQ?

[mwatt]

At one point, about 8 months to a year after launch, VG was very close to EQ 2.5. Prior to that it was too buggy to be allowed to carry the title.

Durying the Halcyon time, it only lacked for proper itemization.

After that, Silly-Ass started wowifying it, until oddly, in the end, he made the best places difficult to play because they got sick hard.

I don't know what has been going on for a long time now, and I was never there during the RMT era.

Still, it is worth checking out. Some of the graphics are astounding... especially the skies. Kudos to the late great Keith Parkinson.

[Treefall]

Originally Posted by hyper50 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Vanguard was as close of an MMO as I could find to original EQ, but the very small population at launch caused me to quit. I couldn't ever find groups, but it was an awesome game.

The population wouldn't have been so small if people like me could have actually played the game.

I had a great rig on its release, and running early access/beta on the lowest settings, the game was still so choppy it was unplayable.

Loved the idea of that game. If it wasn't a crap, bug fest initially, it would have been a current, top tier MMO in my opinion...but when a first impression is a major fail, it's almost impossible to come back from that.

I did give it a shot here recently with a buddy, but aside from the bug fixes, it really felt more like EQ2 than EQ now, and. I absolutely hated everything about EQ2. Those casting combos from different classes or solo...I don't know why, but that shit made me want to rip my hair out. If it's in EQN, or if they have those stupid resurrection items for non-priest classes to cast on priests...so help me.

[hyper50]

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

The population wouldn't have been so small if people like me could have actually played the game.

I had a great rig on its release, and running early access/beta on the lowest settings, the game was still so choppy it was unplayable.

Yeah, I had the same issue, but I had a computer that was probably about 5 years old (past it's prime for my taste) and after chugging through beta, I built a new computer.. Not top of the line for sure, but it was able to play Vanguard with no issues at release. I agree though, if it wouldn't have been so demanding on systems, it would have definitely pulled in some big numbers.

[Sithel1988]

asherons call 2 is back but you have to have an asherons 1 account to play the beta. yea you heard right, asherons call 2 is now in beta, even though it was a perfectly fine game that got shut down. they must have lost all the codes or something. but i wish i could play it.

[LordSterben]

Might seem a little off-point, but i played pirates of the burning sea for a while. It was unusual enough that it recaptured that "this is an all new experience" feeling. I actually wanted to play it again instead of EQ but my computer won't run it for some reason.

[Kinlain]

Try Wizardry Online, that game is alot harder than EQ. When you die you lose all your items, the game looks exactly like EQ with better graphics, its even published by SoE.

It will take you forever to get max lvl in that game.

[t0lkien]

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

Try Wizardry Online, that game is alot harder than EQ. When you die you lose all your items, the game looks exactly like EQ with better graphics, its even published by SoE.

It will take you forever to get max lvl in that game.

You have got to be kidding. I loaded up the beta, ran around for 10 minutes, and uninstalled it. It's a complete Asian style MMO with nothing in common with Wizardy. Anyone who loved EQ is going to hate it immediately.

[Wotsirb401]

Aion is super hipster , takes forever to level

[Vaildez]

I have heard good things about Asherons call... I played AC 2 Beta and it was a bit too strange for me.

[Talgurin]

Vanguard is pretty great. I just started playing it.

I swear it's the same engine as EQ 2, even down to how many of the classes have the exact same abilities, like somebody just copy and pasted EQ 2 code. At first, this turned me off.

Then I started playing and realized it was hard as F, and way better than EQ 2. In the newbie island, I had to team up with a bunch of other players to raid the hobgoblin dungeon, and it took a lot of effort and strategy to pull this off.

This alone makes it worthwhile. EQ 2 was so carebear you could easily solo through the whole game.