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True. Played it as a kind, loved it. And considering it is from 1998 the graphics look still quite good tbh.

It's a shame more games don't adapt the same projectile physics as was in this game. Controlling hills mattered a lot. Metal veins were natural objectives. There really isn't anything quite like it.

i was there!

All these videos skip over an important part of the lore. On one of the last beta tests the level cap was 6. And the testers zerged emperor crush and killed him using the same strategy that they used to kill the sleeper however many years later. There are screenshots, or were, somewhere about it.

Anyone know how to get this to run on windows 10? My disc is sitting on the shelf taunting me

Correct title should be: "The MMO that destroyed the genre". All the worst features of MMOs since then were introduced by EQ.

It was an absolute pleasure. My neighbour kid had it, and I was infected. So same week I guess I biked 15 km to the city and 15 km back to buy it for like 25 euro's I guess. It was great. And a coworker was talking to someone else about it, so I played it again last weeks, just the normal compaign :)

I think I replayed this game more than 5 times. This and Max Payne 2 I think are the best games that I have ever played.

Man, I wish MTM1 and 2 were more popular than just today's games nowadays. It's nice to see that you made a document about my childhood games. I like it.

Just stumbled on this. Excellent video! I still maintain that MTM is one of the most important racing games of all time, as it is the genesis of all the off-road and physics sandbox racers that are so popular today. There's no Wreckfest or BeamNG without how these trucks bound and tumble across the landscape, busting through everything they hit. But then again, as one of the last people modding the sequel, I'm massively biased.

I played in 1997. This piece focuses on the technical aspect, but I played TA primarily for its gameplay, though the two are linked obviously. I remember when SC came out and I thought, what is this simplistic crap? SC probably worked better on multiple levels, but SC wasn't cool. TA was cool.

I can't believe it... 20-22 years ago, when we were playing EverQuest and OG Vanilla WoW, we all probably thought "damn, if this is what MMOs are like now, just IMAGINE what MMOs are going to look like in the future!" And here we are now.. 22 years later, looking back at the greatest MMOs of all times faaar off in our rear-view mirrors, even occasionally trying to log back into WoW Classic or EQ for just a taste of what the greatest MMOs ever created used to be like. Truly, deeply sad.

Everything EA touches it turns to shit!

best no, one of the worst.

Most addicting multiplayer game I've played in my life. When a 3 v 3 loaded and we got to the team splitting screen, I don't think I ever felt happier in my life. Between the scouting, team work, game types and the ton of personalities of people online, i literally jumped out of bed to get on mplayer, zone and GameSpy. It was pure too , no jump cheating like in MCG.

We referred to EQ as Evercrack. 😅

Greatest MMO in the history of MMO's! I dream of the day that I will get a chance to play something like it again. I'll probably be dead before that happens though. Todays games are such crap. I can still hear the sound of town in my head. Someone please remake this with todays graphics!

The Golden Age!

It was by far the most influential game

Wow what an amazing video on an equally amazing franchise. Albeit i only played the first 2 iterations of it 😅 interesting stuff. Thanks for the video!

eden is 100% the place to play.

Ultima Online, Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, Star Wars Galaxies (pre-cu), Runescape (oldschool) World of Warcraft (Vanilla) The golden age of mmo's!!

See, if i was in Richard's position, i would see a player killing me in an entirely unplanned and unscripted manner as a perfect opportunity to create lore for the game in a way that the community itself is witnessing, and go along with it.

so its a big fat MEH

72 man raids. On the regular. Even WoW never had those numbers for a single raid. Nor has any game since.

People bitched when cyberpunk came out bugged, lacking features, and lacking soul. It's still a let down. Homeworld 3 comes out, and it has all features promised and is a complete experience; people are bitching AND it has a lower rating than even cyberpunk had at launch. You can't win.

The period of mid to late 2000s decline in PC gaming and the massive increase in console gaming with the launch of the X360, PS3 and Wii. This was a period of crappy PC ports, on disk DRM, the awkward transition from physical disks to digital distribution (Steam was garbage during these years), even FPS diehards were playing CoD on console and WoW gobbled up the majority of PC gamers attention. RTS has almost no place on console, every attempt has ended in failure due to lack of mouse resulting in poor control. No streaming meant only diehards went looking for pro Starcraft VODs or downloading replays. Command and Conquer 4 killed itself and without a genre leader, publishers wouldn't fund them.

I wish as a 14 year old kid invited to the beta, I'd both have understood how to play and been aware how fleeting this era was to be. I tried EQ at launch, couldn't get the grips of it. Enjoyed SWG until NGE and wasted a lot of time in Azeroth. The world has changed, I'm decades older too... I still wish this style of game had survived beyond the small indie and private server. Se la vi, great video regardless!

When I bought my 1st MMO I picked up Final Fantasy 11. The guy at the computer store basically begged me to buy EverQuest instead, But I'd already played and loved FF 1-10 so, out of brand loyalty, I stuck to my guns and bought FF11. Later, as I heard the reverent way in which so many people spoke about EQ, I regretted my purchase... until I tried EQ for myself. Now, I didn't get too far with the game, because by the time I got to it, it was pretty much already dead, and unless you're playing as a Necro, you're not going to have a good time solo. But from what I've played of it, and also what I've heard many other people say about it, (mostly on UA-cam) it seem like the only thing to really do is level up (i.e. quest & grind). I understand that that's just the way MMO's were back then, and FF11 was no different, but at least I got to enjoy much much better graphics whilst I did it. Sadly, there were no Gnomes.

My brother and I haven't found anything that comes close to the perfection of the original TA. Some of my fondest memories were of setting up a LAN and playing this all day long with buddies.

It has been at least 15 years since I played The Longest Journey but it, together with Dreamfall: The Longest Jouney, is one of the best and most beautiful games I ever played. If you read this and never played it then I really recommend giving it a try.

That character selection music hits hard with nostalgia

Would love to see old RTS games ported to consoles

This was one you had to pay a subscription fee. I never had any money so I didn't have the game :(

Your city looks huge, and yet it is populated by only 46K people, which is completely unrealistic. This is one aspect where Simcity 4 was better, that is population density. I know that Cities: Skylines is agent-based, but having huge skyscrapers with 5-10 households really ruins the immersion for me.

I was addicted to this game when I was a kid.

was not everquest out first? There was another one before both of them. a game made by Sierra called The Realm. it was a MMO. i was in the beta 0 for asherons call. i may still have the disk around somewhere. i dont remember the servers being great at the time.. a lot of lag, and infinite loops in the tunnel loading screen.

Je me souviens I hope Pantheon isn't a disaster, but it looks like it might be

Great job! Up there with the likes of Nostalgia Nerd, gaming historian, and LowSpecGamer

I miss old Funcom

Asherons Call all day EQsucks

That portal sfx makes me 😢 every time

First thing i did was make a dwarf warrior, fall into the water and drown. I restarted as a barbarian shaman thank god. 56k modem went out and i died in blackburrow and it took days to get my stuff back. Eq was hard as a child lol

<~~ anyone remember me any more? 🥲

Stormgate will change everything

I disagree that the game's only organised religion is greedy and corrupt. They even make the frankly weird choice of having the catholic priest being one of the least corrupt people in the game. Otherwise, I liked your review. This is probably my favourite game of all time, but it's not without flaws. If I were you, I wouldn't really bother with the sequels. They're not good. If You're really into the first game, it's interesting to return to old locations during the second game and see what happened to them but apart from that the games are honestly boring. Gameplay's awful, writing is in some ways better but in most ways worse. You can sort of feel the years between the games. You can tell that the writer(s) stopped caring so much about the story as laid out in the first game. They grew older, started caring about other things and, as a result, they had other, different stories to tell. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but evidently they had to shoehorn them into the world and story they'd already established. That's the impression I got, anyway. Plot threads are dropped by the handful. Themes, worldbuilding and established fact are bulldozed. If you ever wondered what happened next to a certain character, it's probably something depressing. The third game especially was a slog. There's barely any of the people or places I cared about left. I think I even stopped playing it before it fnished. For the sequel to genuinely one of my favourite games, this took a lot of doing. The series as a whole comes across as an exquisite corpse. A whole chopped into thirds, with the author of each third seperate from and indifferent to the intentions of the previous. I relate it most to Twin Peaks' third season. Anyway, I'm sorry for the perhaps overlong comment but I reckon anyone who cares enough to make a whole-ass youtube video about a game might care about it as much as I do and be interested in hearing what I have to say. What are we doing here if not searching for others who share our passions?

They should have put asherons call in asherons call 2 engine.

They have an emulator for asherons call 2 also (though not finished yet).

I'm still at it after 22+ years, "I can't quit ya", lol. We have since moved to Eden which is free and they have done a wonderful job with it so far! Long Live DAoC, best game evah! <3

This guy seems a little too knowledgable about this ‘Rainz’ character… 😒