Project 1999 is around that tries to capture this. Takp server is kinda closer on it but has luclin and pop too. But it’s funny to see how much eq trailer looked like Medievil but the game didn’t look anything like this
Vanilla EQ was so remarkable. The hellish grind, the satisfaction when you got that DING! from leveling up. The gnolls in Blackburrow, camping Psjin in Qeynos Hills. And the absolute nightmare of retrieving your corpse. Wish I could go back.
Happy Birthday EverQuest! You gave me many great years of raiding fun with friends that I will never forget. I still log in from time to time but the nostalgia is so strong and none of my friends play anymore, it's a bit heartbreaking. But it is a chapter of my life I will always love looking back on. Thank you!
No game will ever give me that special feeling like EQ gave me. To think, I almost didn't buy it. My daughter, who was little at the time, saw it on the store shelf and wanted it because the cover was so pretty. So, I picked it up. That day was the day it launched, and we've been playing off and on ever since.
a friend of mine played this game back when it first started. He was a Shaman, he put loads of hours and effort into this game. So much so he sold his account later on. He told me how it was back in the day of EQ. I never played EQ back in the day was too little. I played EQ2. we became good friends at work talking about Everquest to past the time. Always tried to get him to play EQ2. He had so much invested with EQ. He couldnt begin to start EQ2. He past away 2 days ago. He was a really good guy. He loved this game. Glad for this game as well it made us friends. r.i.p Wayne! Hope you have more great adventures in the next life. leaving this comment here to honor him. Thanks sony and the EQ team for this masterpiece!!!!
I miss it so much. Was just talking with my family about It... we pray this new one is like the orginal.. we will try to play if it's good... Nameless server .. whodina enchanter... euphoria..
Make a wizard or druid and sell ports. Lol. God I miss those days.. this game was so magical to me when I found out. I never knew a game could become so immersive..
What a wonderful time I was hook line and sinker in love with EQ and still play but the first few years were so wonderful. The real fear you felt when people were leaving a raid and you were a class that could not gate and needed a ride. The pain of losing hours of experience being naked and praying you got back to your corpse before the mobs respawned. The fear you felt in the tunnel from Halas as a night blind Barbarian in complete darkness with goblins beating you to death as you tried to make your way out of the tunnel to go to a new zone. Good times indeed.
There were other MMOs before this that gave it a pretty good headstart, but MMOs didn't get REALLY popular until EverQuest came to be. This is the game that inspired many future MMOs.
This was peak cozy gaming for me man, there was just something so comfy about gaming in the late 90s especially with everquest. Playing games with people online was still novel and unique which definitely added to it, but the 90's atmosphere was also a key factor and there were so many awesome nights spent grinding away on EQ staring mindlessly into the crt monitor.
Have you tried Project 1999? It's a classic emu server that's free and it only goes up to Velious, so no AA's and no easy travel. At peak it has over 1,000 players on, it's amazing.
Ya, I played on Phinigel server a couple of years ago... created an Ogre Warrior and actually had a blast grouping and raiding. Ended up quitting around Planes of Power TLP opening up... the grind is so terrible. I'd play again but, with a less AA and gear dependent class.
People don't realize how advanced this was for the 90's. There was nothing even close to this when it came to multiplayer games. They invented the mmo with this. Yeah there were other mmo's before it but they created the format that was followed by WoW and many others since then.
I'll never forget the day that a group of assholes took over my cutpurse/bandit camp in Paludal Caverns. I had already set up and was camping there for several minutes, had full claim to it. They saw I was soloing it, /no-i-dont-think-so'd me and proceeded to kill everything I'd claimed while laughing at me and mocking me. I called on my friend, a legendary level 60 Druid named Karrotkorn. He promptly showed up, summoned his horse, and proceeded to run the entire zone, dropping level 1 spreading swarms on mobs as he passed by. He returned about 15 minutes later with a train of about 200 monsters. The dicks that stole my camp were blissfully unaware of said train since they were dead in the middle of a big fight with the bandits. Like a movie, my friend cast one of his portal spells, disappearing from the zone RIGHT as the train caught up to him. Without pause, they went straight through him and IMMEDIATELY started attacking the assholes that stole my camp. One of them tried to run, the others tried fighting, but ALL OF THEM were dead within 60 seconds. I sat there laughing my ass off, then returned to farming the bandit camp. My friend came back to the zone to make sure they weren't going to mess with me again, but they learned their lesson-- quickly looting their corpses and moving to find a different camp. Those were the days.
@randomguy8196 EQ1 character design was really nice for its time, at least pre-Luclin. Some of the Luclin character designs were wonky, some were nice. EQ2's character design was awful though. It had no charm to it at all. And it did not age well!
When travel was difficult and long the world felt real. Once the POK books and instanced dungeons came it was just another video game that didn't really matter.
AnotherBoringWeek Titanium I believe. I got my copy on pirate bay. Here's the Getting Started section of P99. www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2651
@We Smoke Bitcoins right.. but its looking amazing.. ill never understand people who push devs to release quicker.. then also complain when the game feels undone
2:53 Hang on, this is definitely not a launch video. It mentions Daybreak Game Company LLC, which did not exist when EQ was launched and it mentions (C) 1999-2016. Also it certainly wasn't free from the start.
Everquest was the best MMO that ever was or will be. This game in the trailer looks kinda cool too. lol Is the Troll/Ogre the only real class models they actually used for this vid?
anyone remember at what point this stopped showing? I feel like it was after Kunark or Vellious but maybe later. It used to play all the time and I would skip it because it took too long. Finding it now after more than twenty years was right in the gut for me. I literally just started a new char tonight about fifteen minutes ago lol. That game still maintains it's hold.
If only someone, somewhere found the Old code and databases from this - Velious and made EQ Classic. come on Daybreak, Go plunge those long forgotten Sony servers and 989 Devs Garages for grand treasure.
I worked at EB games when this launched and when they started carrying 3 month prepaid EverQuest cards I would steal one every three months, I played EQ for like 2 years that way 😂
EQ1999 was awesome. Take this example: You play a druid. Maybe a Halfling. Your adventures take you to Freeport. The guards like you and everything's chill. You gain a few levels and you can turn into a wolf. Because you move much faster, you stay in wolf-form all the time. Your adventures take you to Freeport--where the guards f*cking KILL YOUR ASS. Why? Because you're a goddamn wolf! What else would they do? "Oh, we have women and children in this city. Let's allow this wild wolf to run in. NOT!" Compare that to Age of Conan, which I loved. You play a Stygian Necromancer. You go to Conarch, a Cimmerian village. Cimmerians are northern barbarians who fear magic and strangers. You show up there with a small army of zombies following you, and the guards...don't react. "Right, in you go. Our women and children love the undead." If EQ designers had made AoC, you would not have set one black toenail in Conarch Village!
Actually wolf form was broadly used for its ability to remove race from the faction equation and have access to quests you wouldn't otherwise have and walk freely around guards who would normally kill you. As long as the deity you worship wasn't absolutely hated you could remove the factor of being a dark elf orge in wolf form.
I love EQ and it's my favourite MMO and some of my best memories of all time were in this game, but I don't like that pretty much everything in the trailer isn't stuff that you can actually experience in the game. Just a bit of a hate of mine, when a trailer of a game shows you a bunch of stuff that isn't possible, or doesn't happen, in the game.
I tried this game recently and it was honestly pretty hard for me to get into. But the funny thing is, I tried both the retail and the p99 version. The much older version is somehow much more appealing. I found the lack of tutorials, far more enjoyable than the annoying and absolutely horrid tutorial you get in retail. (Just for reference, I tried the toad race only in retail and I didn't play much before deleting it. I may have missed out on some quality gameplay, but it didn't manage to hook me with that intro)
@@jeanmichelexactitude9362 Isn't that about the time every year that they release a new TLP server? April-May or so? Is there anything new about this round of TLP EverQuest other than the UI? Or it's not confirmed yet?
@@nulltheworm UI is confirmed, ruleset not yet but it "should" be a Kunark start at least, maybe velious too and possibility to box a duo with same machine (officialy). I hope they do the Mischief loot ruleset (everything is tradable). Having more people able to duo and trade items will help having lot of player on the server. Also 2022 TLP servers were a fail so there should be more this year. We will be aware of that in a few weeks.
@@jeanmichelexactitude9362 I've heard people say that the 2022 TLP servers were a bit of a bust. I burnt out on Yelinak when Kunark released. I was in a guild that was losing leadership to WoW's Wrath Classic server and couldn't find a consistent group to exp with, so I quit. But I was having fun up until that point. Prior to that, I hadn't played EQ Live or a TLP since 2007-2008. I really, really hated some of the new/revamped zones though. Freeport is just about the most awful city of any MMORPG I've ever played. Anyway -- hopefully the ruleset for the new TLP(s) will be positive. I know we won't be getting original zones, unfortunately. But maybe I'll come back again.
This opening cinematic still gives me goosebumps. I would love an EverQuest reborn. EverQuest 1: Lore, classes, cities, boats, etc. Plus: Palia's graphics, updated (but charming, not realistic) character design with added customizability, a modern questing system, New World's crafting system, WoW's auction house and mailing system, and proper mounts. (But nothing absurd and over-the-top that it breaks immersion.) Oh God, that would be the most perfect EverQuest game.
Nah, everything up through planes of power was great. After PoP is where EQ fell off. But honestly, nothing was going to stop WoW from taking over anyway. So its fine.
Man these old models...I'm so glad they updated these later on. The game is still active through Daybreak games, and has a decent player base. You can also do pay per month, and it unlocks servers that are progressive, or just do up to Plans of Power, for example. A lot is easier, such as wizards not having to get all of those runes, and the exp seems to go quicker as well as the AA grind.
The world where I grew up. Whenever I see everquest videos it's basically like watching my childhood, even though I played it in highschool. I feel like an alien and norrath was my home planet or something. These games were the best back then, and tbh everquest 2 was WAY better than WoW in EVERY way imaginable, but people are just too stupid and all flocked to WoW because it advertised better. If I could go back, I would have showed them 1 by 1 how much better eq2 was. I would have done everything I could go bring people over from WoW...god that game was awful compared to eq2.
It's not doing well, and it's not dead. It's basically a very small niche community game at this point. It has very few new players, but it has a devoted community that still makes the game profitable. 'Claws of Veeshan' was released less than a year ago. One of the original devs recently said in an interview that EverQuest was and still is SOE's most profitable game ever, when you take into account how much they actually invested in it. It made SOE a ton of money over the course of its life, and it continues to be profitable. The devs basically want to keep the game alive, in some capacity, forever. Because of the devoted niche community, but also because it's a huge part of online/PC gaming history.
I never understood why people felt the need to write "pst," like, are you *not* going to sell me something or join my group if I offer it to you in OOC or wherever? And if you missed my message, of course I was going to send a /tell... Just always seemed like a stupid/unnecessary thing that people did
I came here because I watched another video where a guy killed himself because of this game... Wanted to see what all the hype was to make a dude off himself over this game... It was some top 5 video game addiction death videos
Lol thank god I didn’t watch this before I started playing... this is horrible. But I have played this game since 1999 and still love it but game play sure has changed since 1999. Much more challenging back then and you were forced to group play now everyone has 100 alts and only group with themselves. Still love it though
![Why You Should Play Project 1999 Green Server [Everquest Classic]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2fCvU5Jbipw/mqdefault.jpg)
Best game ever, I still miss the players, it was a special experience.
It's still kicking around and pretty active...
Project 1999 is around that tries to capture this. Takp server is kinda closer on it but has luclin and pop too. But it’s funny to see how much eq trailer looked like Medievil but the game didn’t look anything like this
Very true. I absolutely loved that game. Felt like I was in an entirely different world.
Project quarm is a great emulator with a huge population
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Vanilla EQ was so remarkable. The hellish grind, the satisfaction when you got that DING! from leveling up. The gnolls in Blackburrow, camping Psjin in Qeynos Hills. And the absolute nightmare of retrieving your corpse. Wish I could go back.
You can! Project 1999 is a free emulation server and you can find the original EQ from back then pretty much as it was.
Happy Birthday EverQuest! You gave me many great years of raiding fun with friends that I will never forget. I still log in from time to time but the nostalgia is so strong and none of my friends play anymore, it's a bit heartbreaking. But it is a chapter of my life I will always love looking back on. Thank you!
Wow 6 years ago!
8 years
2024: Happy 25th birthday EQ! You are never forgotten.
No game will ever give me that special feeling like EQ gave me. To think, I almost didn't buy it. My daughter, who was little at the time, saw it on the store shelf and wanted it because the cover was so pretty. So, I picked it up. That day was the day it launched, and we've been playing off and on ever since.
My favorite game of all-time bar none. ;-)
a friend of mine played this game back when it first started. He was a Shaman, he put loads of hours and effort into this game. So much so he sold his account later on. He told me how it was back in the day of EQ. I never played EQ back in the day was too little. I played EQ2. we became good friends at work talking about Everquest to past the time. Always tried to get him to play EQ2. He had so much invested with EQ. He couldnt begin to start EQ2. He past away 2 days ago. He was a really good guy. He loved this game. Glad for this game as well it made us friends. r.i.p Wayne! Hope you have more great adventures in the next life. leaving this comment here to honor him. Thanks sony and the EQ team for this masterpiece!!!!
The best MMO ever. EQ is the last game that gave you a true adventure experience and loaded with mystery, consequence, and rewards.
You should take a look at Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. Some of the same devs.
@@nervecentral
They've got any "Vision" (tm) :)
WoW.
@@nervecentral still not out lol
World of warcraft aint got shit ?
awesome game. I hope the servers stay up forever.
I fell off the tree bridges in that god damned elf city so much. Oh, the nostalgia.
Cough It Up Kelethin!
I auto-ran West Karana for 3 mins, AFK and came back I was dead. It took me forever to look for my corpse! (it was in water!)
it's all good memory )
Drunken run! :D
Kelethin hahaha
Greater Faydark
I miss it so much. Was just talking with my family about It... we pray this new one is like the orginal.. we will try to play if it's good... Nameless server .. whodina enchanter... euphoria..
I spent way too much time on EverQuest, I don't regret a minute of it....
And Tunare is still looking as great as ever!!!!
My childhood, this game and its IP ultimately changed my life. Norrath is my true virtual home!
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Omg good times with this game. I'm still friends with ppl I met on this game years and years ago.
Wow...I totally forgot about this video and remember every moment of it while rewatching. Oh, the memories...
Oh the memories.. i was just a kid.. selling SoW buffs outside the cities and getting rich lal! :D
Moondrip 😢
Before Luclin when everyone traded from the tunnel in East CommonLands
Make a wizard or druid and sell ports. Lol. God I miss those days.. this game was so magical to me when I found out.
I never knew a game could become so immersive..
@@shogunjo Or selling Mind Candy at The Second Torch for donations!
Kiting dwarves in BB with my druid elf because the giants where always camped. 😊
Oh man. Right in the heart, EQ!!
Nothing compares to this. nothing even comes close and never will.
I played this game for 15 years. Absolutely loved it!!!!
That's brings back memories. I forgot about that intro video. Thank you.
Here comes the Train. All the pain of retrieving your corpse. Ah the memories
What a wonderful time I was hook line and sinker in love with EQ and still play but the first few years were so wonderful.
The real fear you felt when people were leaving a raid and you were a class that could not gate and needed a ride.
The pain of losing hours of experience being naked and praying you got back to your corpse before the mobs respawned.
The fear you felt in the tunnel from Halas as a night blind Barbarian in complete darkness with goblins beating you to death as you tried to make your way out of the tunnel to go to a new zone.
Good times indeed.
For one if the first fully 3d Trailers for any MMO this is still pretty good.
There were other MMOs before this that gave it a pretty good headstart, but MMOs didn't get REALLY popular until EverQuest came to be. This is the game that inspired many future MMOs.
Oh man, the feels are coming back. I think they do this on purpose...
This was peak cozy gaming for me man, there was just something so comfy about gaming in the late 90s especially with everquest. Playing games with people online was still novel and unique which definitely added to it, but the 90's atmosphere was also a key factor and there were so many awesome nights spent grinding away on EQ staring mindlessly into the crt monitor.
surprising how many zones are downright recognizable in this poser3D hell
I wanna know why they dragged that ogre guard all the way from Najena to Kelethin just to execute him.
The new generation of gamers couldn't handle this game. It's brutal compared to the ones we have now.
wow is beter
@@SoyAntonioGaming lol, yeah stay on wow please
@@jeanmichelexactitude9362 pls look up the sales numbers pls. WoW > EQ and has aalways been
@@SoyAntonioGaming sure, also more people go to macdonald instead of stared restaurants :)
go to your numbers :) i go to quality.
@@jeanmichelexactitude9362 EQ only has 85% on metacritix. WoW has 93%. Wow is objevtivitle beter
Love this game.
Hello 1999-2004. Auldawyn Garamonde, my wood elf druid on the Karanas Server were some of the best times.
*EQ fans:* This video gives to me so much nostalgia!
*Normal people:* My eyes! What the uncanny valley shit I just watched!?
*downloads fanart with less than respectable intent*
The best part is the game is nothing like these animations. It's so bizarre but perfectly on par with the whimsy of EQ.
What an awesome opening!!
Happy 20th Anniversary EQ!
Check out project 1999. People are still playing EQ with classic version and my recommendation is blue server.
Being a teenager in 99 when this came out… an experience one will never be able to recreate 😢
best game ever made, to many AAs and easy travel made me lose intrest in this game for me.
Have you tried Project 1999? It's a classic emu server that's free and it only goes up to Velious, so no AA's and no easy travel. At peak it has over 1,000 players on, it's amazing.
Me too. Especially being a warrior.
You should seriously try the TLP servers.
So many quality of life enhancements without a flood of AA's lol.
Ya, I played on Phinigel server a couple of years ago... created an Ogre Warrior and actually had a blast grouping and raiding. Ended up quitting around Planes of Power TLP opening up... the grind is so terrible. I'd play again but, with a less AA and gear dependent class.
AAs?
Good thing I never saw this before I got the game. When I got it home, I would have been PISSED!!
The problem here.. BURP... is no one is sitting down. Thing I remember most was sitting, lots and lots of sitting. Called it Eversit.
Tell it to the Arcade Center..
Who remembers the first time they found the gamma setting and cranked that sucker up?
infravision mod for humans
Wow... what a crazy nostalgic flashback
People don't realize how advanced this was for the 90's. There was nothing even close to this when it came to multiplayer games. They invented the mmo with this. Yeah there were other mmo's before it but they created the format that was followed by WoW and many others since then.
Best game ever thank God this trailer got people interested. It's funny that the elf model look the same as the PS2 version lol
I'll never forget the day that a group of assholes took over my cutpurse/bandit camp in Paludal Caverns. I had already set up and was camping there for several minutes, had full claim to it. They saw I was soloing it, /no-i-dont-think-so'd me and proceeded to kill everything I'd claimed while laughing at me and mocking me.
I called on my friend, a legendary level 60 Druid named Karrotkorn. He promptly showed up, summoned his horse, and proceeded to run the entire zone, dropping level 1 spreading swarms on mobs as he passed by.
He returned about 15 minutes later with a train of about 200 monsters. The dicks that stole my camp were blissfully unaware of said train since they were dead in the middle of a big fight with the bandits. Like a movie, my friend cast one of his portal spells, disappearing from the zone RIGHT as the train caught up to him. Without pause, they went straight through him and IMMEDIATELY started attacking the assholes that stole my camp. One of them tried to run, the others tried fighting, but ALL OF THEM were dead within 60 seconds.
I sat there laughing my ass off, then returned to farming the bandit camp. My friend came back to the zone to make sure they weren't going to mess with me again, but they learned their lesson-- quickly looting their corpses and moving to find a different camp.
Those were the days.
Sometimes a problem works itself out. :-)
Hahah on RZ Server , you could of just killed them if they were in your level range hehe .
really i like that !
I love the dancing Ork's around the fire ! they get eaten by their own invocation in the end
God i wanted to play this as a kid SO badly
This was an awesome game!
It's strange. The character models and animation here looks kinda like the charters in EQ2.
@randomguy8196 EQ1 character design was really nice for its time, at least pre-Luclin. Some of the Luclin character designs were wonky, some were nice. EQ2's character design was awful though. It had no charm to it at all. And it did not age well!
Toute mon adolescence j'ai adoré
I was hoping to see more of that stacked Elf chick...
SLATE! incoming to tunnel lmao! I miss this game.
Michael Edens Before they nerfed the deep water pally helm. Used to root solo slate all the time. Root.....click, click, click
Thank goodness that's not "actual game play" - actual game play looks a lot better
23 years and counting
Bring the Boat back.
The time it took to travel in the beginning was half the fun
When travel was difficult and long the world felt real. Once the POK books and instanced dungeons came it was just another video game that didn't really matter.
Play project 1999. I do, and am reliving the experience of waiting for the boat!
ChameleonLost88
What copy of EQ is required?
AnotherBoringWeek
Titanium I believe. I got my copy on pirate bay. Here's the Getting Started section of P99. www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2651
ChameleonLost88
Thank You
Shout out to Rallos Zek Server !!! Long live !
I still recall Champions of Norrath & Return to Arms...
It's funny, we could redo the graphics for EQ to be better than the cutscenes now.
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen < You dont want to miss this one /salute
2 years later....still haven't missed it, still not out.
@@wetokebitcoins1769 Alpha should be out this year, with beta towards the end of it.
@We Smoke Bitcoins right.. but its looking amazing.. ill never understand people who push devs to release quicker.. then also complain when the game feels undone
@@Dranex11 I hear Pantheon is now an expansion for Star Citizen...just waiting for that one to come out and then we can play it.
@@Dranex11 so where is it now?
2:53 Hang on, this is definitely not a launch video. It mentions Daybreak Game Company LLC, which did not exist when EQ was launched and it mentions (C) 1999-2016. Also it certainly wasn't free from the start.
"Use of alcohol"
Haha, that's for damn sure. There is some in the game, too!
I loved the super FOV tunnel vision you'd get when you got wasted. Then the wobbling... Good times.
I still have the TV guide when EQ was on the cover.
Best MMO ever!
Everquest was the best MMO that ever was or will be. This game in the trailer looks kinda cool too. lol Is the Troll/Ogre the only real class models they actually used for this vid?
Had to watch this every time you launched the game unless you deleted the file. ;)
One of the first addictive MMG. I wasted so many hours, sometimes till 4am. Kinda wish I could get that time back
Get it back.. to do it all over again? 😂
anyone remember at what point this stopped showing? I feel like it was after Kunark or Vellious but maybe later. It used to play all the time and I would skip it because it took too long. Finding it now after more than twenty years was right in the gut for me. I literally just started a new char tonight about fifteen minutes ago lol. That game still maintains it's hold.
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This game started it all for me. Sucked 40+ hours a week from my life.
If only someone, somewhere found the Old code and databases from this - Velious and made EQ Classic. come on Daybreak, Go plunge those long forgotten Sony servers and 989 Devs Garages for grand treasure.
Ahh the memories 🥲
I worked at EB games when this launched and when they started carrying 3 month prepaid EverQuest cards I would steal one every three months, I played EQ for like 2 years that way 😂
if I saw this trailer around 10 years prior to today I would have thought that it is top notch animated and there is no way it was Ade in 1999
GOAT
R.I.P SOE
RIP Verant.
Omg this is so unique
That gnome rogue was thicc.
EQ1999 was awesome. Take this example: You play a druid. Maybe a Halfling. Your adventures take you to Freeport. The guards like you and everything's chill. You gain a few levels and you can turn into a wolf. Because you move much faster, you stay in wolf-form all the time. Your adventures take you to Freeport--where the guards f*cking KILL YOUR ASS. Why? Because you're a goddamn wolf! What else would they do? "Oh, we have women and children in this city. Let's allow this wild wolf to run in. NOT!"
Compare that to Age of Conan, which I loved. You play a Stygian Necromancer. You go to Conarch, a Cimmerian village. Cimmerians are northern barbarians who fear magic and strangers. You show up there with a small army of zombies following you, and the guards...don't react. "Right, in you go. Our women and children love the undead."
If EQ designers had made AoC, you would not have set one black toenail in Conarch Village!
Actually wolf form was broadly used for its ability to remove race from the faction equation and have access to quests you wouldn't otherwise have and walk freely around guards who would normally kill you.
As long as the deity you worship wasn't absolutely hated you could remove the factor of being a dark elf orge in wolf form.
I love EQ and it's my favourite MMO and some of my best memories of all time were in this game, but I don't like that pretty much everything in the trailer isn't stuff that you can actually experience in the game.
Just a bit of a hate of mine, when a trailer of a game shows you a bunch of stuff that isn't possible, or doesn't happen, in the game.
I tried this game recently and it was honestly pretty hard for me to get into. But the funny thing is, I tried both the retail and the p99 version. The much older version is somehow much more appealing. I found the lack of tutorials, far more enjoyable than the annoying and absolutely horrid tutorial you get in retail. (Just for reference, I tried the toad race only in retail and I didn't play much before deleting it. I may have missed out on some quality gameplay, but it didn't manage to hook me with that intro)
Even the devs at EQ today say that they would like to get a UI developer to completely rework that sort of thing. Modern EQ is visually atrocious.
@@nulltheworm new UI and new TLP (redo the game with all expansions step by step) with fresh people starting over. In april probably.
@@jeanmichelexactitude9362 Isn't that about the time every year that they release a new TLP server? April-May or so? Is there anything new about this round of TLP EverQuest other than the UI? Or it's not confirmed yet?
@@nulltheworm UI is confirmed, ruleset not yet but it "should" be a Kunark start at least, maybe velious too and possibility to box a duo with same machine (officialy). I hope they do the Mischief loot ruleset (everything is tradable).
Having more people able to duo and trade items will help having lot of player on the server. Also 2022 TLP servers were a fail so there should be more this year.
We will be aware of that in a few weeks.
@@jeanmichelexactitude9362 I've heard people say that the 2022 TLP servers were a bit of a bust. I burnt out on Yelinak when Kunark released. I was in a guild that was losing leadership to WoW's Wrath Classic server and couldn't find a consistent group to exp with, so I quit. But I was having fun up until that point.
Prior to that, I hadn't played EQ Live or a TLP since 2007-2008.
I really, really hated some of the new/revamped zones though. Freeport is just about the most awful city of any MMORPG I've ever played.
Anyway -- hopefully the ruleset for the new TLP(s) will be positive. I know we won't be getting original zones, unfortunately.
But maybe I'll come back again.
34201 divorces and counting!
This opening cinematic still gives me goosebumps. I would love an EverQuest reborn.
EverQuest 1: Lore, classes, cities, boats, etc.
Plus: Palia's graphics, updated (but charming, not realistic) character design with added customizability, a modern questing system, New World's crafting system, WoW's auction house and mailing system, and proper mounts. (But nothing absurd and over-the-top that it breaks immersion.)
Oh God, that would be the most perfect EverQuest game.
Pandemonium Zen pvp...bring back the old PvP I'll play again. ..&).
I miss the old Everquest days. after they started changing the cities and zones it became less fun
This wasn't a trailer though. This was the intro video when you launched the game.
Most hours played would be this game...
Never seen this video before.
I'd do it all over again!
🤩
Luclin down right ruined everything.
Luclin was what pushed me away from EQ, myself.
Nah, everything up through planes of power was great. After PoP is where EQ fell off. But honestly, nothing was going to stop WoW from taking over anyway. So its fine.
@@kyo3124 wow was trash too, so sad.
Man these old models...I'm so glad they updated these later on. The game is still active through Daybreak games, and has a decent player base. You can also do pay per month, and it unlocks servers that are progressive, or just do up to Plans of Power, for example. A lot is easier, such as wizards not having to get all of those runes, and the exp seems to go quicker as well as the AA grind.
That sounds terrible. I'd rather get the real EQ experience on p99
Awesome. When it comes to women and games, I love easy.
@@mr.h4267 You mean boring.
*Not Gameplay Footage*
You can't tell me what i'm seeing when I play the game!
Best MMO of all time
No gameplay footage wtf?!
The world where I grew up. Whenever I see everquest videos it's basically like watching my childhood, even though I played it in highschool. I feel like an alien and norrath was my home planet or something. These games were the best back then, and tbh everquest 2 was WAY better than WoW in EVERY way imaginable, but people are just too stupid and all flocked to WoW because it advertised better. If I could go back, I would have showed them 1 by 1 how much better eq2 was. I would have done everything I could go bring people over from WoW...god that game was awful compared to eq2.
This game still alive? Doing well?
Dead. But Pantheon (made by Brian McQuaide's team) is coming soon.
EQ project 1999 is alive and well old school style all he way.
Game is still going
@@brandonjenner3178 dead server
It's not doing well, and it's not dead. It's basically a very small niche community game at this point. It has very few new players, but it has a devoted community that still makes the game profitable. 'Claws of Veeshan' was released less than a year ago.
One of the original devs recently said in an interview that EverQuest was and still is SOE's most profitable game ever, when you take into account how much they actually invested in it. It made SOE a ton of money over the course of its life, and it continues to be profitable.
The devs basically want to keep the game alive, in some capacity, forever. Because of the devoted niche community, but also because it's a huge part of online/PC gaming history.
TRAIN INC FROM CRUSHBONE LOL WATCH OUT!!!
Don’t forget those lower guk trains lol
@@jamesroe8159 lol, oh man, those were the days 😂
it was free to play at launch?! eqemu is free too i suppose.
/shout CORPSE RUN!
/shout Anyone breaking Fear?
/shout EVERYONE CAMP NOW!
....did a cleric make it out in time?
35 DE SK LFG SoIB PST
I never understood why people felt the need to write "pst," like, are you *not* going to sell me something or join my group if I offer it to you in OOC or wherever? And if you missed my message, of course I was going to send a /tell... Just always seemed like a stupid/unnecessary thing that people did
Shame we don't get a true to life tlp ala p99 that goes to PoP.
I think a Agnar ended at PoP
Why there is no emu for eq2 classic ?
Because it wasn't a very good game?
I came here because I watched another video where a guy killed himself because of this game... Wanted to see what all the hype was to make a dude off himself over this game... It was some top 5 video game addiction death videos
train to zone "qoute Karnos castle"
Lol thank god I didn’t watch this before I started playing... this is horrible. But I have played this game since 1999 and still love it but game play sure has changed since 1999. Much more challenging back then and you were forced to group play now everyone has 100 alts and only group with themselves. Still love it though
Heya