Everquest lore is ridiculously overlooked

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Originally Posted by Donkey Hotay [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I enjoy EverQuest's world--more just the original game than the expansions, which are less quirky and more ugly. The lore is interesting but on those occasions when you're lured by some detail or NPC, the quest is broken and eventually the world ends up being a tantalizing heap of might-have-beens. If only it hadn't been hacked together!

WoW is by far the better game but in a silly and tedious world. EverQuest is a marvellous fantasy world but the game is usually breathtakingly insipid.

I disagree -- what keeps me coming back to p99 is the gameplay. It's an incredibly complex interlocking of systems that you can combine and manipulate in countless ways to solve very tough and fast-paced problems. Unfortunately, the full depth of EQ's gameplay doesn't really come into its own until the low/mid 50s, when the monsters are super unforgiving and every class is really cranking on all cylinders (and the players tend to be more engaged and competent as well). It can be a bit of a tedious grind until then, imo, but still there's just something about it.