Great video. The music was good too but was a bit too loud compared to the voiceover at times and it was hard to hear. Good to see people doing EQ videos in 2023.
The random acts of kindness really stuck out to me because that happens in my shitty video game obsession, Warframe, too. I'm glad that these people exist. Excellent video.
"...what it means to be authentic to the self ... rather than be mired in self-made expectations and the expectations of others ... What I concluded was that a truly authentic self can't be achieved for more than a moment at a time before what that is shifts into something new..." If that line isn't fire then you can call me Permafrost because that's a cool as hell reflection.
The Everquest player kindness was/is absolutely a thing! One of the last memories I have of my original playthrough was some random player handing my ranger a full set of thorny vine armor for nothing.
We play because we loved the environment of the classic game. Everyone was like that back then, having high levels in newbie zones to buff/heal/give out little “trash” items that are massive upgrades for them… It was awesome, and a lot of those players have come back to experience that atmosphere again.
p99 is a love and hate relationship for sure. Some of us want it to be everquest like it was back then, for the most part its ppl satisfying their elitist behaviour, steam rolling ppl and gatekeeping content from the others. And I wont start with the "monetary contribution" certain ppl give the GM which let them have a pass on using third party programs. P99 is probably the closest we will ever have to the true experience, but it is heavily corrupted also. Its like a very good and delicious cake, with some moldy spots here and there. There is still some good part, but you still biting into something with mold on it
Lots of the peculiarities of this game echo greatly in Eve Online. It was released in 2003, so despite being a space game, it has very MUD like characteristics... The developers, CCP Games, only overhauled the UI as recently as 2016, and it took until 2019 to put in any semblance of anything telling you to actually play the game. I guess the time had come that CCP had to think about new player retention, these new players not having been raised in the wild west of MUDs and complex role playing games, and were instead used to being spoonfed fun gameplay loops. Somehow it endured. The Tranquility server cluster sees in excess of 10k daily, and over 20k on weekends and such. Great video, and I look forward to more.
Well stated my soul friend. By the way, look at Monsters and Memories... made by an old school EQ developer and maybe, just maybe will have some of that magic again...
It's ok, I turn on Asheron's Call private servers every few months just to soak in the atmosphere, the bad sfx, the 5 polygon models, the low res textures, and I love it. I'll be loving it til the day I die.
@@daveydavedave If this video had been made about Project Quarm, the video would have already been copyrighted, and the player who made the video banned in-game.
Did you try Evercraft yet? Its gonna be the next hit. Ive played every MMO you can imagine since Everquest. Evercraft has huge potential given they dont eff it up lol.
What a great presentation with clever and gifted writing. Great job relating how a bunch of triangles translates into real life events/experience. Does the game emulate real life experience, or do we bring the human condition to the game and just play ourselves on some level, vicariously through a character...or both? This playground of triangles certainly reveals the most noble to the darkest attributes one can possess. Does the distance between sheer fantasy and reality amplify any of these possible selves? I include the question because of the mention of "authenticity" near the end, which I find very relevant to the EQ experience. Thanks for the video. Full marks!
Great video, immediate sub from me. It did bother me that you mentioned Michael Jackson and show a picture of Prince. I played the original eq and remember when they added "Gems", a tetris like mini game that you could play while having downtime. That was the first song that things in eq might not be an optimal game
EverQuest is the first, worst mmorpg that every other game aside from a few blindly copied and didn’t try and make anything original. It literally fucked rpgs for the last 30 years
This video should be called, "When you have an above average vocabulary but you DRONE ON non stop for 36 plus minutes".....I made it to 6 minutes before I couldn't stand the droning and yes, I understood all the words....
