How much nostalgia plays a role here

[Tunabros]

I feel you man
I showed this game to all my friends
they all said it was old and gross and complicated

Dunno why they prefer league of legends over EQ

[Dural_Levant]

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

Both Ultima Online and Meridian 59 pre-date Everquest, while even in their "heyday" never achieved the following that EQ has.

So, I always knew about Ultima Online. In fact, back in the day, was about to buy it at EB Games before a store associate told me to get EQ instead; actually putting the retail box in my hand. However, I have NEVER heard of Meridian 59. I always thought that EQ was the first 3-D MMO, but according to Wikipedia, I have been wrong for years.

I have to say that I am rather intrigued. Has anyone here ever played it? What was your experience?

[BlackBellamy]

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

So, I always knew about Ultima Online. In fact, back in the day, was about to buy it at EB Games before a store associate told me to get EQ instead; actually putting the retail box in my hand. However, I have NEVER heard of Meridian 59. I always thought that EQ was the first 3-D MMO, but according to Wikipedia, I have been wrong for years.

I have to say that I am rather intrigued. Has anyone here ever played it? What was your experience?

Watch this video that's it in a nutshell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peT0Zwr5Zhk I mean don't watch the whole thing just skip around. It's EQ with way worse graphics, and as you can see the character movement sucks, and everything is just slightly worse than EQ. Look at that fight around 5:30 it's super unexciting and you can't tell what's going on. If there's anything surviving on on nostalgia, it's Meridian 59.

Zone design is labyrinthine, small mazes with big vertical walls everywhere blocking your movement. Models are sprites, all look like crap. I downloaded it and tried it even if there is some kind of gem in there buried with some quests or some advancement, I never got to it because it was so crap-ugly and stupid.

I guess the same reaction any younger WOW-fed-fan would have to p99.

[kjs86z]

Originally Posted by Bardp1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I find it impossible that someone who didn't play in the 90's/00's could find P99 and think its a good game.

I played Asheron's Call in that '99-'04 era...had heard about Everquest.

Some RL buddies convinced me to try P99. Been here enjoying it ever since.

[peterpal]

I had an awesome time in Meridian 59 and never had a better PvP experience than any other MMO. But even when it came out the graphics were horrible and sub-standard.

The community of like 200 players per server was even tighter knit than Everquests. Guilds could rent guild halls and if you beefed with another guild you could go to war with them and even claim their hall.
I remember we actually had bat phone events when someone attacked the guild hall in the night and we had to defend it.

It also had 3 different factions you could join that made a major impact on the gameplay - not like horde/alliance in wow. - it's really strange that things like these don't even exist in modern games 25 years later.

Eventually EQ came around and the general MMO scope shifted to PvE content.

[Perdu]

Brand new player chiming in here. I have zero nostalgia because my first ever MMO besides runescape was wow classic when it released last year. I've just started a druid here and had more emergent gameplay experiences and meaningful social interactions in 3 days playtime than in my entire levelling experience in WoW classic.

I'm sure nostalgia plays a role, but its not needed. The game is just great.

[Donkey Hotay]

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

nostalgia is all that this game has.

new players don't exist, because this shit is hot fucking garbage.

This is somewhere around 9/10 True, I would say. I'm sure Perdu is a nice person and I mean no offense but I wouldn't take any odds on his playing out a month based on my experience since 2013.

The game is very strategic and almost turn-based when you consider regen and respawn timers but once you've devised your strategy for a given play area, there's absolutely nothing worthwhile to do in the game while you wait for glacial regen. Everyone tabs out of the game because the boredom isn't alleviated by the group chat you would have had in the original game to fill this dead space.

If a player has to tab out of a video game to keep from eating paint chips for entertainment, it's hot garbage just like the man said.

[Muggens]

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

I feel you man
I showed this game to all my friends
they all said it was old and gross and complicated

Dunno why they prefer league of legends over EQ

time to get more interesting friends

[Ennewi]

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

time to get more interesting friends

[Tunabros]

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

time to get more interesting friends

Seems like people under the age of 30 don't have interest or heart for gaming history
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