The moment you knew...

[Messianic]

Originally Posted by eqdruid76 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Additional fanciful, albeit untrue antecdote.

Go back under your bridge

[hedbonker]

It's funny - After EQ I played DaoC, AO, SWG, WoW, Guildwars and countless others - And never found what I did in EQ. They say you can never go home again - But P1999 seems to be the closest I have come yet to that original experience...

Thanks to the devs for making this.

[Overcast]

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

It's funny - After EQ I played DaoC, AO, SWG, WoW, Guildwars and countless others - And never found what I did in EQ. They say you can never go home again - But P1999 seems to be the closest I have come yet to that original experience...

Thanks to the devs for making this.

Indeed.
You know what got me?

I made my first character on my wife's account a DE SK.

Wandered out a bit, looked at the dark trail through Nek Forest - thinking, OMG no way I'm going down there yet, I wonder what the heck's down there.. I would get so lost.

That was all it took, lol

[Seritaph]

I remember my wife and I were playing, and she died in Blackburrow at the very bottom. Fell through on the top level. She was very upset. An extremely nice high level barbarian shaman, who we had met casually at one point, went down there to retrieve her corpse.

Later on this same shaman replied to our pleas to find a way to get to Freeport. He cast SoW and levitate and literally ran us from Qeynos via the Karanas, HHP, Kith, etc, and bound us in Freeport. I remember the trip and how epic it felt. I was in awe of the giant chained bridge connecting NK to EK, and I knew at that point I was in for an incredible journey.

[nafsmar]

When I first read about it in Gamepro ( i think that was the mag) back in 99. My comp at the time couldn't handle EQ but in feb 2000 I upgraded to a new gateway comp and preceded to play for the next 5 years almost losing my girlfriend (now my wife) to it.

[Reiker]

I joined a group in the Jamtland Mountains. After 30-60 minutes of grinding on various animals, a Scout started picking off our group members. After we rezzed up we abandoned our exp grind and began hunting down the Scout. He unstealthed a little too close and killed our Kobold Shaman, and we were able to charge and kill him. Total adrenaline pump moment.

Oh wait, wrong game.

[Overcast]

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

When I first read about it in Gamepro ( i think that was the mag) back in 99. My comp at the time couldn't handle EQ but in feb 2000 I upgraded to a new gateway comp and preceded to play for the next 5 years almost losing my girlfriend (now my wife) to it.

Big question then - did she ever start playing then - or now? lol

[Weekapaug]

Before EQ I was all into strategy games....I'm a military history buff and computer gaming has always fed that particular interest for me, going all the way back to the early '80s playing text based wargames on the mainframe at my school, to the (kick ass) turn-based Avalon Hill adaptions for MAC that Atomic did in the early 90s, to RTSes, etc. I had played some RPGs before (M&M III was the main one) and liked them but strategy was always my thing.

Before they became Microsoft's Halo bitch, Bungie had a fantastic series of real-time tactical games called "Myth" which were rather ground-breaking for the time in the strategy genre and I was ALL ABOUT that when EQ came out...I think Myth II was the current one then....My friend bugged the piss out of me for weeks to get EQ and finally I caved and did...

I get into all of that because I'm trying to convey that I really didn't want to play EQ. I wanted to play Myth. And while I'm always open-minded about any game, I kind of had my head up my ass about it because I really wanted my friend to stop dicking around with EQ so we could go play Myth.

The first time I logged in to the Qeynos newbie yard and saw people slapping on bats and snakes with clubs and swords I thought to myself "He's completely lost it....This is the most retarded thing I've ever seen!" Sometime in the next 8-10 hours I was completely addicted. I just needed a little push, some time in-game, and a little tour around to see what I had to look forward to and that's all it took. When I saw those cyclopses in West Karanas for the first time I realized this game was going to be THE SHITE. Not sure why, but that's what did it.

Here we are 11 years later and I'm still playing. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[HippoNipple]

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

I remember it well.

It was early October 1999, and I was a freshman in college. I had played several MMO's before EQ, starting with "The Realm", followed by Ultima Online, so I knew a bit about the structure and thought I knew what I was in for. So I rolled over to Best Buy, picked up a shiny new copy of EQ, rushed back to the dorm, and installed it. I guess I knew I was in for a different experience when I saw the elaborate CGI intro for the game, but it didnt really sink in at the time.

So, I rolled a barbarian shaman and journeyed out into the snow drifts of Everfrost Peaks. I found myself blinded by the snow and dark, and wandered, lost, far into the canyons around Halas (only to die to a malicious skeleton). The 3D and atmosphere was amazing, and unlike anything I had ever seen before.

So I rolled an Erudite Wizard next, and made my way to Qeynos to meet up with some friends. Eventually I found myself sitting in a group, in the Qeynos catacombs, with 4 other casters and thats when it sank in - this is something different.

Fast Forward almost 11 years, and I have played many, many MMO's over the years. Yet always, EQ has been there, lingering and beckoning me to come back and relive the challenges of early EQ. Project 1999 has given us all precisly that opportunity, and I can honestly not thank the devs and administrators enough. Thanks for all that you do guys.

The Realm is what I played before Everquest. I had just gotten 5 of my accounts disabled and was pretty burnt out on the realm. A friend that played the realm said he had a rl friend playing everquest that would show me around. I also had another friend that played with me from The Realm. We made an enchanter and druid because this guy suggested it. The erudite wizards name was Meith, sound familiar?

[PhelanKA]

I was leveling in Oasis and someone had trained specters down to the beach. I can still recall the feeling of awe and dread as those grim reapers stalked us noobs across the desert to the zonelines. It was such a powerful experience that I literally had nightmares about it for weeks afterwards.

Then on my first Vox raid, and first for the Rallos Zek server, I was amazed at the amount of preperation and teamwork required. It was totally unlike anything I had ever done in a game.