Do you remember why you played EQ?

[NPC]

When Ultima Online introduced Renaissance in March-April 2000 an essentially turned it into an really crappy looking 2-D version of everquest, I figured I'd try the better looking one. Before the Renaissance patch, Ultima Online was pretty much like a red Everquest server, only you could kill anyone at anytime an loot everything off peoples corpses. Ultima Online was the reason they made red servers. Only towns were safe in Ultima, if someone attacked you in a town you could call guards, the guards would instantly teleport an instantly kill anyone openly attacking another person. Best game ever made.

[Gustoo]

My neighbor had it first. He had a friend in middle school that also had it that was the only person in real life I knew that hit 50, and then 60.

He played on E-Marr so thats the first server I played on. He told me the red server was evil and bad and not to click on it. I eventually did when E-marr was down for some reason and I couldn't log there.

Played at his house for a while. He was really tolerant of me playing at his house for way more hours than he did. I owe him for not punching me in the face and telling me to GTFO. Damn if I could remember my very first toon on his accounts name. If I could remember that name it would be my guy forever. My first ranger on my own account is one of my permanent names though. My first character on my BROTHERS account (we got him Kunark for his birthday) was a dwarf paladin named Nield or Neild a name stolen from the star wars jedi apprentice series of the time [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Super cool guy right here.

[douglas1999]

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

When Ultima Online introduced Renaissance in March-April 2000 an essentially turned it into an really crappy looking 2-D version of everquest, I figured I'd try the better looking one. Before the Renaissance patch, Ultima Online was pretty much like a red Everquest server, only you could kill anyone at anytime an loot everything off peoples corpses. Ultima Online was the reason they made red servers. Only towns were safe in Ultima, if someone attacked you in a town you could call guards, the guards would instantly teleport an instantly kill anyone openly attacking another person. Best game ever made.

UO really was special. The item\loot system was perfect because there were no fundamental must-have items. A vanq halbard was awesome, but you didn't *have* to have one to win in PVP. You could recover quickly after a devastating loss. God I miss it.

Not to mention the housing system which no modern MMO has ever replicated. EQ2's instanced housing was so god damn lame by comparison.

[Ret.SaxonAlex]

if I was a billionaire I would love to pour some money into a UO project but it might rival with diablo 2. And if I am stuck here forever I need to have a crappy easy fun game like diablo 2. But I can't play video games these days, due to paranoia. Its video game character names and I am mostly afraid I will think I made the name on purpose to offend my ex-boss, even though I didn't and never have. It started from being afraid of offending sjws with names like "VikingKingofRomeandWesternEurope."

[Evia]

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

if I was a billionaire I would love to pour some money into a UO project but it might rival with diablo 2. And if I am stuck here forever I need to have a crappy easy fun game like diablo 2. But I can't play video games these days, due to paranoia. Its video game character names and I am mostly afraid I will think I made the name on purpose to offend my ex-boss, even though I didn't and never have. It started from being afraid of offending sjws with names like "VikingKingofRomeandWesternEurope."

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[Ret.SaxonAlex]

its also annoying they stomp on my ceiling to the rhythm of my breathing. When I visited my dad my lungs wouldn't inhale because the autopilot system in my brain had been shut down. I have had to deal with stuff like this for 14 and a half years though so no use in whatevering about it. Also conversations in life are too complex for the average person.