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Originally Posted by Vizax_Xaziv
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I've played many, various MMOs over the decades with the most recent being Classic WOW!
One of the things that's always very striking to me when I go back and play EverQuest is the sense-of-scale that everything has. Specifically, of course, in regards to the playable races! Playing an Ogre/Troll or even just a Human FEELS very different from playing something like a Gnome or Halfling. It really changes your entire perception of the game world!
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Amen my brother!
Before I ever made my first character on live I was somewhat in awe of the fact that my friend's gnome actually saw the world from the same perspective as an 8-year old. Coming from D&D, 2D RPGs (think Fallout 1 &2), and bad 3D RPGs (think Bard's Tale and Wizardry), Everquest felt revolutionary in this way, like "the virtual reality future is here: you can
be an elf today!" (The enforced first-person perspective was probably a big part too; no mouse wheel back then!)
Obviously the game couldn't fully deliver on that dream, and latter games had much better graphics, but you're totally right that I never felt the same sense of my own character's physical space when I played my Gnome on WoW or my Rodian on SWG, that I do when I play my Halfling or Barbarian here.