EverQuest Review - A Look Back At This Classic MMORPG

Welcome to the first in my new series reviewing EverQuest and EverQuest 2, and today we're taking a look at the first MMORPG in the franchise, and a few of the things from the classic EQ that I miss, while also keeping an eye towards the future of the series.

Whenever I look back at the nostalgic moments of EverQuest that resonate with me, I think it's important to view it in the lense of "it's ok to look back at the past as long as you do so with an eye towards the future."

I am not one of those players who continually go on about how EverQuest will never be as good as it was "back then," or how I won't play anything other than Project 1999 because anything post-Velious "isn't really EQ." I very much appreciate the hard work the developers continue putting into this game to keep it alive with new content, even if the new content hasn't been anything that has struck a chord with me since I originally stepped away once EQ2 launched.

I love the progression servers, and it is my sincere hope that continued support of EverQuest (and EQ2 alongside it) will eventually give rise to the next game in the EQ franchise, so this video is, for me, a way to look back at some of the things I really loved about the original, while also appreciating where the game is now and playing it for what it is today.

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[jamesadams]

I feel all of this lol. I mained a halfling cleric named Fippen Burgers. I remember doing my cleric class armor runs in my 30s to get the full set of those golden beauties. Took forever but I didn't replace any of them until I was getting the purple class drops from planes of hate. I also remember joining a failed plane of fear run that we all wiped on trying to run straight to the back. I was on all night waiting for my turn to have a necromancer summon my body to just inside the portal so I could get my stuff and go to bed. And traveling.... lordy. I did get a lot of exploring done that way. Always shouting for loc's and skirting the outside walls of dangerous zones to get around. And it took 5 hours and the luck of myself and friends doing more damage to get my lambent stone from the ancient cyclops so I could finally get my journeyman boots. Man those were great times

[DeekerJones]

Ahhh magic weapons. I still remember my very first encounter with a ghoul. I had a freshly looted Fine Steel Sword and was feeling cocky. I lost that character because I had no idea where I died.

[JosephAlanMeador]

p.s. dude that shield drop was epic!!!

[kyle]

Great video! And sorry to hear you played a ranger.

[JosephAlanMeador]

Loving this talk man. I honestly wish I had memories from EQ, but I never played it. It's been in my periphery since like 2000, so there is some nostalgia regardless. The hardcore aspect of dying in this game has always been notable. Back in the day I played a MUD called Avatar, and death had similar consequences. There were Angel characters that would newer players locate and recover your corpse, I'm wondering did Everquest have something like this?