Evercracked.. Everquest Documentary.

[Zehn - Vhex]

Was reminded linking search links doens't always work.

http://www.fohguild.org/forums/membe...e-mithara.html

Is Brad's board account for those that PM'd me.

Anyways.

Here's the real EQ highlight reel:

[The Insider]

Originally Posted by Zehn - Vhex

Was reminded linking search links doens't always work.

http://www.fohguild.org/forums/membe...e-mithara.html

Is Brad's board account for those that PM'd me.

Anyways.

Here's the real EQ highlight reel:

So they had Luclin models in pre-alpha??

[ChewieTobbacca]

Originally Posted by The Insider

So they had Luclin models in pre-alpha??

They shoulda stayed pre-alpha for good

[Saban]

Beat twice on the "they must have used those animations for Luclin" joke.

[Grizzlebeard]

I love the way it looks like a player just casts a fireball at Naggy and he falls over. Some poor bastard must have been in for a surprise when he tried that for real.

[kcxiv]

Originally Posted by EmpireF4i

I took some Ox for about a week (prescribed) and after I stopped, I felt like shit for about two days. Im assuming that was a comedown/withdraws, but man it was like a horrible hangover with no headache for two days straight.

i got hooked on ativan for a bit. i just took it in small doses though. One of them damn things, and you dont have a fucking worry in the world. lol I haven taken any in almost 2 years though. For the first week or so, i felt like i had to take one, but that wasnt the first time i had to break a drug habit. i was pretty bad in my late teens. So this time it was fairly easy.

[Saban]

I have a crippling addiction to NO-Xplode.


Dont judge me.

[Neric]

Pretty irritating as they talk about the beginnings of EQ and most of the stuff they show is EQ2, "new" character models and some cinematic stuff. Whenever a story about EQ is being told, it should contain Kelethin, Nagafen and the old char models. Somehow it seems to me that in their desire to make everything look "better", they didn't even realize that they made everything look worse and actually destroyed the atmosphere of the game. It could almost be compared to the "enhanced" version of Star Wars with all the superfluous computer generated crap that they added to the movie.

Everquest is certainly not the story of success, it is the story of the downfall of a great game.

[Azrayne]

Pretty sure there is a disgusting withdrawl potential with opiates. Plus you said you got over how fake it feels, so why fuck around with an absolute top addictive class of drug just because its new to you?

Same reason I do a lot of things, because I like new experiences and I like to explore new states of consciousness. And withdrawals aren't the same thing as a comedown, they only come with chronic use, while a comedown is more or less unavoidable. Anyway this isn't really relevant to the topic at hand.

[Vagoo]

can you take this fagggot drug derail to screenshots

[Big W Powah!]

Originally Posted by Azrayne

I always saw BC as WoW's thematic equivelant to Luclin. You've got the lunar/planet surface landscape (in some zones), the space/scifi esque atmosphere and technology, etc.

Then Northrend = Velious, and the upcoming ocean/jungle themed expansion will be Kunark. Then, if the expansion release schedule is to be believed, we have an expansion where we explore, wait for it, the elemental planes. I think that's where the parallels end, it's quite interesting though.

TBC aside, Northrend/Velious, Elemental Planes, and the Jungle/Kunark themes are fairly standard fantasy stuff; EQ wasn't super origional there either, and its not like Northrend wasn't super-rooted in lore already.

[Azrayne]

Oh of course not, though there are some fairly obvious nods to Velious in the expansion. I just find it interesting that there's a fairly clear parallel between them.

[leane]

Originally Posted by Neric

Everquest is certainly not the story of success, it is the story of the downfall of a great game.

EQ was the biggest force that lead to games like WoW being possible. Hardly downfall, the fact it is still active while other games coming after it have closed down says a lot. It has declined but but that is more because so many left for new games that were basically EQ clones. The vast majority of the games out there are based on a similar model of gameplay as EQ. Only a handful can really be claimed as being different (EvE for one). This board itself is still active and the only reason there is anything even here is because of that game.

Some people actually prefer the new models. The old ones looked like a cheap Quake game and the fact everything looked like blocks annoyed the hell out of me.

Plus on a highlight reel are you really going to show something clunking around with 1999 graphics when you want to get people excited about it? Nah, your going to show flash and glitz. This isn't the documentary, wait and see what they finally produce.

[Needless]

In that trailer when they show the "WoW Lead Designers" Is that furor in the back or am i seeing something I want to see in an EQ documentary?

[James]

It's actually the late Gary Gygax.