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[madwilliamflint]

Scruffy Forever!

I never got to DAoC at all. People raved about it. Agreed about SWTOR. I was really digging SWG before NGE. But that's the old story.

I'll probably go back to WoW sometime soon. The sense of humor is just too great, as long as you can avoid the 12 year olds.

Aside from those rare GM events, I never raided really. I don't group/guild/corp up, preferring to use MMOs as big single player RPGs with giant chat rooms and interesting economies. When I want to hang with other people, I do it in meatspace.

[Apoco]

Originally Posted by Brutus2600

Beardo, that sounds so familiar...were you on Rallos Zek? I know there was one guy who ran the economy too, literally had millions of platinum, which was absolutely insane at the time.

Nah - I was on The Nameless (lovingly referred to as "The Gameless"). I played a couple of different characters - I started as a half-elf bard named "Izinging Azong" but ended up as a Froglok Shaman named "Apprentice Fisherman Ribbuffit Igotslongname" (I was young and your standard jerk online - just hoping to take up as much screen space as I could for hilarity).

And when we are thinking back to towns - Kaladim is where it was at. The dwarven town where no one went (except to turn in that bonechips quest that you could easily powerlevel on). Another favorite zone of mine - Crushbone. Kill Emporer D'vinn! ZOMG HE DROPPED HIS DIRK!

Man - I haven't played that game in 6 years and all of this info just flows right back once I start talking about it. Crazy.
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[madwilliamflint]

I hate to do this to you but...

you should go back and poke your head in. It's still worth playing ;-)

[Apoco]

Originally Posted by madwilliamflint

I hate to do this to you but...

you should go back and poke your head in. It's still worth playing ;-)

But I fear that it will be much like going back to your grandparents house. it just won't be as amazing as I remember it.

I played EQ during its golden years. There really wasn't any other competition (DAOC, EvE are the only ones I can think of) and so it was thoroughly saturated with players, the game was complex & punishing enough that the upper end players were almost always intelligent, and the game was in constant development. I played again when they hit their 10 year anniversary just for an afternoon and it felt so...I don't know...sepia toned. It wasn't the vibrant, lively EQ I had known. It had lost whatever the EQ quality was - whether that was the player base, my guild, the real life friends that I had that still played the game, the fact that I knew the game inside and out at the time, whatever.

TL;DR version: Time makes memories awesome until you go back and actually revisit it.
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[madwilliamflint]

Yeah combat music is enough to kill yourself by, and it is a slow grindfest. But there's some stuff in there that I've STILL never seen as good. Like some of the crafting mechanics. You just had to know, as a player (not character) a recipe to take a crack at something. Nobody's done that since that I know of. There was all KINDS of weirdness; exceptions to the formulas built in to the game.

[Apoco]

Originally Posted by madwilliamflint

Yeah combat music is enough to kill yourself by, and it is a slow grindfest. But there's some stuff in there that I've STILL never seen as good. Like some of the crafting mechanics. You just had to know, as a player (not character) a recipe to take a crack at something. Nobody's done that since that I know of. There was all KINDS of weirdness; exceptions to the formulas built in to the game.

Crafting in that game was WEIRD.

At the time, quests didn't seem weird as they were standard MUD format. The PITA part was figuring out what to say if they didn't have anything [in brackets] to guide you. Looking back - that is a dumb system .

PVP was hilarious to watch - because the game was flat out not optimized at all for PVP. It was a PVE game through and through
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[madwilliamflint]

Yeah. Most of the new stuff (yeah, there was just an expansion last year) has a new quest interface. But the quests in Qeynos are still soul-crushingly annoying, doing the binary search of pasting the source text in to see what triggers the quest drop or whatever it was.

[Apoco]

Originally Posted by madwilliamflint

Yeah. Most of the new stuff (yeah, there was just an expansion last year) has a new quest interface. But the quests in Qeynos are still soul-crushingly annoying, doing the binary search of pasting the source text in to see what triggers the quest drop or whatever it was.

REALLY? An expansion?

Damn. Last time I logged on Plane of Knowledge had like 15 people in it at 3pm on a Saturday. I'm amazed they still have the player base to validate an expansion...
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[madwilliamflint]

1 a year like clockwork.

[Apoco]

Originally Posted by madwilliamflint

1 a year like clockwork.

Once I finish up The Witcher 1 I may renew for a month and poke my head in. I'm curious now.

(CURSE YOU!)
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[madwilliamflint]

Ya know I just unsubbed from AO and EvE (let the month run out but they're both boring me senseless) and poked my head over to WoW to re-up for a month, and it gave me the option to take a free week. I clicked, so I could laugh at them, thinking it was "we'll give you a free week if you re-up for a year." But it turns out it was an honest to goodness plain old "no credit card required" free week.

That ought to be enough time to get sick of it again

I can't wait until the rest of my toys come so I can set up the machine shop in the new house, keep me away from this garbage.

[Apoco]

Originally Posted by madwilliamflint

I can't wait until the rest of my toys come so I can set up the machine shop in the new house, keep me away from this garbage.

You're waiting on that - I'm waiting on the new Final Fantasy, the new Call of Duty, the new God of War...

Priorities. I have them
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[madwilliamflint]

New FF MMO? The style of the old one (11? I'm never sure.) was really slick but it took forever to do anything and get anywhere.

I just took up the machining habit in October for the first time. Moved in April and need some widgets to set things up. It's currently more interesting than video games (though I'm becoming a serious minecraft whore.)

As for games, I'm waiting for Skyrim, ME3, SWTOR and... I can't remember what else. What I need is for Steam to pick up the old C&C series :-)

[Brutus2600]

Originally Posted by madwilliamflint

I hate to do this to you but...

you should go back and poke your head in. It's still worth playing ;-)

I actually downloaded the free trial for EQ just to explore Qeynos and see if it might be fun to revisit, but they stuck you on a newbie island and the combat was so painful that I couldn't play it for more than 15 minutes. I did get a little shiver up my spine when I hit level two and had that *DING* sound play.

Ah, memories

[madwilliamflint]

EQ1 DING FTW! Seriously. That makes me salivate every time I hear it.

Thing about EQ now is that there are new starting zones, so Qeynos is a ghost town. Freeport has been totally redone though, it's freaky.

I still wanna kill Sgt. Slate and Holly Windstalker.

[Apoco]

That reminds me - for my Shaman I had taken a screen shot of him at each level up. I wonder if I still have my EQ screenshots saved somewhere...

And who cares about Sgt. Slate and getting to KOS with the Freeport faction. I need to go to Oggok and farm myself a Crude Stein for the +CHA!

EDIT: I just had a thought - are emulated EQ servers still around?
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[madwilliamflint]

Ah see now that would take me back. I didn't think to make screen shots.

Don't know about emulated servers. Too busy searching for secret ale recipes.

[Apoco]

Originally Posted by madwilliamflint

Ah see now that would take me back. I didn't think to make screen shots.

Don't know about emulated servers. Too busy searching for secret ale recipes.

I am POSITIVE that I still have my WoW screen shots...just not sure about EQ...that was a long time ago and many formats have occured since then
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[Apoco]

I spent most of last night just playing either Beat Hazard or Sanctum.

Beat Hazard is a fun game to hop on and just goof around with.

Sanctum is a fun Tower Defense/FPS game.
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[Bill86]

Anything decent for the PC come out recently or coming out soon?