What do you remember most about eq?

[violetwolf227]

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I believe the music is what entrances me in this game. Everything is so wonderful about this game, but the music really gets me going, and even the sounds which are probably considered cheap and archaic by today's standards. I'd like to hear what people like the most about this game, and maybe we can chat about memories we had!

[Rygar]

I definitely remember the music, Kelethin especially. We started playing on red and there were these high elf twins ingrid and cumini that kept blasting everyone around crushed zone in, do we organized a party to take them out, hella fun intro to EQ.

There were also a set of gnome triplets xoink, yoink, and zoink that were the bane of the steamfont mountains. That sense of playing against other players (not talking just a Nintendo game Mario party here) and not against the computer was so different and enthralling.

First big raid target my guild dropped was also a big deal and I remember it well: master yael in the hole. We were a non raid guild, and we took sooo long to get to him, finally engage and us noobs are dropping like flies, get him to 10% and a mob complete heals him! I think for sure that is it, but we keep going... We somehow get him back to 10% and I'm on the edge of my seat... DTs a tank and I step in as last tank, only me and a rogue left, along with a cleric, chanter who are near oom. Yael at 1% and rogue says DIIIEEEEE!, I'm almost dead, just whispering in the dark, "come on, come on..." BOOM! Yael down! Guild chat goes nuts.

I always remember that fight and the sense of accomplishment after it, have yet to match that in any other game.

[Calthaer]

Jay Barbeau (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaybarbeau) was the original composer - clearly incredibly talented. He has part of the original soundtrack for purchase on Amazon (here (https://www.amazon.com/The-Original-Opus-Everquest-Composer/dp/B002OVTO9G/ref=cm_wl_huc_item)) - unfortunately, it doesn't include the tune for Kelethin, which is also my absolute favorite in the game. I really wish someone would do a skillful cover of these with real instruments (trumpets, harp, and so forth).

Engaget did an article on the soundtrack (http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/30/jukebox-heroes-everquests-soundtrack/). It truly is one of the best parts of the game.

[violetwolf227]

Yes! I adore kelethin theme as well! I don't have anything major as memories, but everyday I meet new people and group up with very nice people and we always have something interesting to talk about, and THIS is one of the many things that makes this game great! I occasionally play live version, but it really isn't the same...not at all.

[leftharted]

+1 for the music.

Since 1999 I catch myself playing the Kelethin theme in my head, from time to time. And Akanon too, for some odd reason.

[Daywolf]

Getting lost. Never happens in these new games :(

[Tolyn]

Greetings!

In those days the darkness was very real. I would often get lost at night immediately after leaving Felwithe unless I had my head down following a trail. Even then, I would miss a turn by a tree and end up out in the wilderness, certain some Crushbone orc or worse was going to find me. The music of Felwithe was always a relief to hear for one frightened, young high elf returning home.

[joppykid]

Kelethin no doubt about it. My server on live (Tunare) used Gfay to trade instead of tunnel. That music man. Gives me chills everytime lol. So sad... haha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO4_8A9Uiwg

[fugazi]

Meeting awesome people in Highpass Hold and Highpass Keep. It was a great place to be as a newb pre-Kunark and Velious, because ringmail and a decent magic weapon dropped in that place plus it was close enough to the likes of Qeynos, Rivervale, Neriak and Freeport for new teensters to hop on over for a group. Groups on live were way more fluid, with people constantly coming and going, so you'd often meet a whole bunch of new people every session. Kunark and Velious sort off undid these xp spots, forcing people to ye obvious Oasis, but back then people cared way less about optimization and min-maxin like the P99 crowd does. It's a shame that as the EverQuest world grew larger, the xp options grew smaller for non-solo'ers.

Oddly enough, EverQuest's music never really got to me. It felt too erratic (to teenage me) and truth be told, pales in comparison to the tracks of other games from its time. Sure, I love the opening/loading track, and the Kelethin track deserves a special mention, but other than that? The combat music made me turn the ingame music off real fast.

[coki]

Hugging the wall in every zone, the adrenaline rush of PvP with item loot

[Daywolf]

Kelethin no doubt about it. My server on live (Tunare) used Gfay to trade instead of tunnel. That music man. Gives me chills everytime lol. So sad... haha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO4_8A9Uiwg
Yep, the official Elf's Elf server. Confirming it was all about the Elf, and at Kel bank and Gfay spires. Well mostly about the elf, there were some oddballs :p

[Chronoburn]

Think this video was created by a p99 player ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NBSmT4JwKM

[TheFaceless]

I started a wood elf, and after falling off Kelethin and getting lost for the umpteenth time, just deleted that character and started somewhere else.

[violetwolf227]

Most starting places for me are difficult as I can't navigate well and I need paths and landmarks I can get familiar with. I find Nektulos forest and Qeynos to be the easiest starting places for me, and coming close after is Field of Bone as I can see where everything is...I'm a bit odd with finding my way around..

[Sodors Finest Poster]

What do you remember most about eq?

The trains.

http://i.imgur.com/aJFQnYP.gif

[jududdar]

I remember watching a friend play and seeing a barbarian shaman I think in full Rubicite change into a Dark Elf. I wanted to be that guy when I bought the game.

My friend got into an AoF group in CT, telling me that's where the chestplate dropped... I couldn't wait.

It took a while for 14 year old self to save up to buy the game + 1 year of subscription since parents wouldn't put it on credit card without a year up front (pretty good deal, as they paid it for the next 10 years without asking again).

I finally get in the game and make my shaman, so excited to be on my path to being like that awesome guy I once saw. Then, I find out at about lvl 10, this beautiful red armor no longer drops and the mask can only be used by bards and rogues.

Re-rolled rogue, farmed cash eternally until I finally got my suit of Rubicite! Sold it a few weeks later after the new wore off... needed better stat gear. Still put 10 years into the game - came for the Rubicite, stayed for everything else.

[Lagaidh]

My strongest memories involve laughter.

In the earliest days (through early Kunark release) I palled around with a ranger. I'm always a paladin so we were a motley duo. We didn't know we were supposed to be sucky hybrids. He was almost always drunk and I was almost always stoned IRL, and we had an absolute blast on our goofy adventures.

Again, when my wife began to play seriously, we made friends with five other players- another couple and three other guys. That group of us, we leveled and grinded together. Invariably it ended up with us all laughing ourselves to death over the ridiculous chat.

We would stay together through guilds. Guild chat memories are the same for me: how hard did we laugh, how funny was the chat?

I suppose, that's what has been missing for me personally on P99. For whatever reason, I haven't made friends here like I did in live. I've not spent a lot of time laughing over chat.

[Doctor Jeff]

That slippery fucking floor in Lower Guk is my strongest memory of EverQuest.

That and when my dad was giving me twink gear for a character he was going to help me make later and told me to "give it to the banker"

Spoiler: I gave it to the banker and it all disappeared.

[NegaStoat]

Starting off the game on launch making a dark elf shadowknight like the excited nub that I was, only to delete the character because I couldn't find my way out of Neriak 3rd Gate (no maps on websites up yet).

I also played the game with 4 RL friends and all of us were grubbing for gold, wearing leather and using tarnished weapons, wondering how the hell we could ever get ahold of metal armor. One of these friends found out early on that Erudin had unlimited bat wings on a vendor and that Hallas had unlimited fresh fish on a vendor. The unholy union saw all 5 of us skilling up baking to make fish rolls (long, long before they were nerfed) and we discovered we could make like 100pp in 4 straight hours of combining and selling.

Blacksmithing for banded armor soon followed from the cash flow and we felt like we had beaten the game. I spent like, days cooking and smithing.