Everquest Online Adventure Is Still Alive In 2024 

I actually still have my copies in mint condition. I think I even have the physical strategy guide for Return To Norrath.

@@javajawa2157 Certainly deserving of ports, I wish DayBreak would try something small scale with the IP, nothing grand like Everquest Next. and If it does good Expansion, expansion, expansion.

ff11 will never have a private server unless they can crack play online but there were never any pcaps of it so nil chance on a ps2 compatible server as far as I am aware. I would love to hop on with a real ps2. Youu can still play regular pc ff11 with a controller to get that oldschool feel tho.

There’s been some drama here and there, but for the most part the devs are well liked. The biggest offenders have been banned from both discords.

I most likely will never try this, but atleast we have the game alive at some capacity. We don't get to talk to our dead ones in real life either.

@@roachtv995 this is very true. I never thought I would see the day where I could play this game again. I’m so happy it’s back even if it’s not finished.

For "some" reason? I think i made the reasons pretty clear lol. What's sad is that they told everyone the server was going to be as close to the game before shut down as possible, opened things up for us to report and help them develop, and then sperged tf out half the time we reported things and did things their own way anyways. The "other" project in development is the ORIGINAL server with the ORIGINAL devs who began this entire endeavor to begin with so show some respect. Sandstorm wouldn't exist without their efforts. The video has been up for over a month explaining this situation to everyone. Gaslight all you want.

@@BunnyArisu Mmm not quite Arisu, we left. Not interested in woke ideology and self centered devs.

Two teams are working on their own projects right now. EQOAEmu (unreleased) and Sandstorm (playable, server in the video). I can’t say much on the emu side of things, they posted an update list that indicates A LOT of progress but can’t check it. Sandstorm gets updates almost every day, update posts are done weekly on the discord.

@@BunnyArisu Thanks for the info. I have the PS2 copy/Frontlines but I'd love to play on PC if that ever became possible

@@Theorybind you can play on the ps2 if you software mod with free mcboot i believe.

Thanks for this comment! I've occasionally thought of The Realm but dreaded looking it up for fear of learning it's fate. Somehow, I am both surprised and not surprised that it's still active. ...Now I know what I'll be doing for at least a few days.

It is the original Age Of Wonders game.

Having tried eq2 years ago when it still belonged to SOE I actually agree with this.

It's not going to hold up with modern gaming. But agree EQ1 and 2 never matched it.

did you make sure the cheat file was turned on in pcsx2?

It is playable but it is not complete. You can quest, level up, play as various factions etc. It works well as it is. It is still in a alpha phase being worked on. I am sure if you played it though you would have fun.

@@javajawa2157 Thanks for the vid! Playing it now, what a nostalgia trip.

The original first Age Of Wonders.

Where there is a will there's a way.

you can play today if you wanted to. I was playing earlier quad boxing like a degen. look at the subreddit eqoa for links and such.

EQOA was a great game, especially considering the hardware the devs had to work with. For having absolutely ZERO hard drive space and patching to a memory card, having a game with a seamless open world 11 races and 14 classes is pretty impressive.

hit start go to inventory find the gear and equip, its super simple. did you ask in chat how to equip a wep. I am sure someone woulda helped.

Yes you can.

power hungry, how so?

@@SpookyGoodTimes changing the way the game should be so it plays on their terms rather than how it used to be.

@@ZombifiedZealot how so? in what ways?

@@SpookyGoodTimes them adding sphere of annihilation, where if you afk xp for too long it shows up and kills you. not adding specific content that was in the original game because the items they give are deemed "too powerful" by the devs.

@@SpookyGoodTimes I very clearly spelled out the ways. I noticed your post here, must have fell in with the rabble rousers who wanted me cancelled. The devs have a chip on their shoulder. They lied about being as close to EQOA on launch as possible, they are doing things their own way despite people BEGGING them not to, i watched a bunch of people quit including the guy who gave us the save state that made the game even POSSIBLE to play again, they treated him like crap, and many others including myself.