Where did EQ Live go wrong?

[webrunner5]

I too wonder about the hate of the Cats on the Moon thing lol. I loved playing a Beastlord. I think one of the nicest classes in EQ overall. That started in Luclin I think. The Cats Cat pet is awesome looking.

[Faisca]

I was never too fond of cats, frogs and such as playable races myself. I don’t see the appeal of those, but I guess someone coming out of kinder garden may have a different view.

All the original races were humanoids and that’s what made sense to me. They started ruining it with the lizard race that came with Kunark.

I guess pandas were not popular back then. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Pscottdai]

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

I was never too fond of cats, frogs and such as playable races myself. I don’t see the appeal of those, but I guess someone coming out of kinder garden may have a different view.

All the original races were humanoids and that’s what made sense to me. They started ruining it with the lizard race that came with Kunark.

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Nice little rude comment there especially since I was already 30 when EQ launched. To each there own but IMO to be so closed minded about a "fantasy" world that only humaniods should be playable is kind of silly .

[Volibear]

For me it was the class I played, Being a magician brought absolutely no enjoyment. Mod rod, Mod rod, Mod rod. Really got old. If I would of played a melee I probably would never of left

[falkun]

The appeal of the frogs has to do with the fact that the two stereotypically classic dungeons, Classic's Guk and Kunark's Sebilis were overrun by frogloks. In their prime, these two (3?) dungeons catered to players from the 20th to the 60th levels, and dropped some of the best loot in the game. Players spent a lot of time killing frogs, and after having them flip over dropping Ice comets and other hard hitting nukes on you, you develop Stockholm syndrome with your webbed feet attackers and you want to become one.

...then they give them to you as a hunchbacked, deformed playable race and you realize they aren't as cool as the ones you used to fight.

[falkun]

To be fair, the frogloks and iksar and drakkin and whatever else are still pretty "humanoid". They are bipedal creatures with 2 legs, 2 arms, and a head. I wish fantasy games would get outside of the "torso+head+2arms+2legs" theme, but then we usually start thinking "alien" territory.

[Dravingar]

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

To be fair, the frogloks and iksar and drakkin and whatever else are still pretty "humanoid". They are bipedal creatures with 2 legs, 2 arms, and a head. I wish fantasy games would get outside of the "torso+head+2arms+2legs" theme, but then we usually start thinking "alien" territory.

Think of the quad wielding DPS that could happen.

Also, everquest went wrong when it let retards run amok aka late PoP/Onwards. Even though cat people were stupid as fuck.

[Brimacombe]

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[Faisca]

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

Nice little rude comment there especially since I was already 30 when EQ launched. To each there own but IMO to be so closed minded about a "fantasy" world that only humaniods should be playable is kind of silly .

Yeah, right.

EQ would have been so much better if they had made a playable race out of a giant beetle. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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

To be fair, the frogloks and iksar and drakkin and whatever else are still pretty "humanoid". They are bipedal creatures with 2 legs, 2 arms, and a head. I wish fantasy games would get outside of the "torso+head+2arms+2legs" theme, but then we usually start thinking "alien" territory.

Sorry, but froglike creatures and creatures with tails don't qualify as humanoids to me. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[falkun]

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

Yeah, right. EQ would have been so much better if they had made a playable race out of a giant beetle. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sorry, but froglike creatures and creatures with tails don't qualify as humanoids to me. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Compared to that very recognizable alien, frogloks are humanoid.