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Excellent game - can be frustrating though

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game when it was first released in February of 1999. It is very addictive and the game has gone through numerous expansions and changes since its enception. Although the play dynamics were very boring when the game first came out it has improved greatly. It has a group based play system, which means you have to combine your character skills with other character's skills to accomplish a goal to defeat a creature or MoB as they are called in game. Some MoB bosses requiring up to 60 or more players to defeat. After a kill the the player or players earn experience and collect any items or coin that drop. Some characters classes are soloable but most aren't.

Other things players can do is learn a trade skill, which requires lots of coin or platinum pieces. The higher the skill level of a player, the more likely they are to produce items that will sell for a nice profit.

Player run guilds are also an option for players to join. To join a guild often requires a long trial period before the guild leaders decide if a character is suitable or not. Ten players are required and some form of organizational documentation for GMs to allow a player to start a guild. Many guilds have their own websites and forums.

Usually the game doesn't start getting interesting until a character gets past level 25 or so. The upper levels, 60+, provides the highest opportunity in the game and the most enjoyment. Be prepared to die alot in all levels.

With the game being six years old, starting a new character maybe somewhat difficult since most players are 60+ and grouping has a 10 level spread. There are low level characters in the game, they just have to be found.

The game has many more features. I have only mentioned the most prevelant ones.

Many many bugs in this boring game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played this game for several hours and I have ran into a multiple number of problems with the game.

How fun is this game?

Not very fun at all. This is nothing but a hack and slash game where no tactics are required. It is also very frustrating. You die quite often and when you do you lose all of your possessions until you recollect your possessions from your corpse. This means that you need to find your corpse which can take a lot of time. It takes a lot of time because it takes several minutes for your character to travel from one location to another because everything is needlessly placed several minutes apart. There is an instance where I go to my corpse and everything I had was now gone!! This is a bug in the game that the designers are probably aware of.
In order to recover your ability to cast spells, you simply have your character sit down and just wait and wait and wait. I was playing this game and reading a book at the same time because there was so much waiting for my character to recover.
Other examples of programming bugs are dialogue mistakes with NPC characters. YOu are supposed to type in phrases from a predetermined list to interact with some NPC's but half the time, it doesn't work! Not only that but the actual NPC dialogue was obviously written by people with little English skills but the sentences were very confusing and hard to understand. It would have been nice if Sony hired an English speaking American to write the dialogue.

If you like a game with lots of waiting, bugs, frustration, and a monthly fee for a game you already bought, then this is the gamne for you. I wish I could return the game but its already opened.

ever quest rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

everquest is the ultimate game!!!!!!I play it around 5 hours a week.Dont consider it buy it!!!!there are ssoo many zones to go in and endless explorations. Im currently a lv22 Iskar necromancer named Jortiz Shadowgaurd .Hope you enjoy it!!!!

No Thanks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I might get yelled at by fellow gamers, but I hated Everquest.

1) The graphics were horrbile compared to Asheron's Call
2) I got motion sickness. No other game game me motion sickness. This game started it!
3) The learning curve was horrible
4) It was tedious
5) Couldn't group like Asheron's Call

Don't Waste your money!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm thankful I was given this game as a gift, because I would be seriously upset if I had paid money for this. First off, Sony was too cheap to actually give you all the discs you need to install this software and you have to spend hours downloading the rest of the program from their website. Second, you have to pay $12.95 per month to have the honor to play this game, NOT a small fee. And when you finally get to the point when you can play the game, it lacks direction and has akward controls. But don't worry, you'll be disconnected every fifteen minutes so you won't have to waste your time on this game.

What I don't understand is how Sony expects people to buy this game when you can purchase many other similar games (Diablo 2, Baldur's Gate) that you can play online for no additional cost (or play wihtout having to log on at all). Spend your money on something else.

Commiting suicide has never been easeir!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is unexplicably fun, it drives you insane when your character dies, it makes you go into tears when you acquire your spells. THIS GAME IS EVIL...First off you do one thing, kill, kill, and kill. Sure there are quests and of course tradeskills, but those two things are only possible by killing, and get boring and pointless. SO then you just end up killing everything, you keep going and going until it sucks your brain dry. DON'T buy this game...

Give this game to someone if you dont want to see them again

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'd say it's actually 3 and 1/2 stars but they don't have that option so whatever. When I first played Everquest I was an extreme newbie. I had never played a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). It took me awhile to get used to it. Like a month or 2 maybe. Everquest is not very newbie friendly but once you get the hang of things it can be your best friend or your worst enemy. It can result in you dancing around the room and cheering in happiness having gotten your epic weapon after months of doing those massive quests. Or it can have you slamming your head against the keyboard as you get ready for another CR (corpse run as it's called in game) after dying once more and losing experience. However, I made GREAT friends playing Everquest, you can join unions of players called guilds and I still talk with some I met today (I recently stopped playing). EQ is extremely addicting, in other words if you're a husband than prepare to invest in large amounts of flowers and other gifts for your wife for neglecting her for several months.

The game is great fun though, but you need to watch your standing with the many different factions in the game. Killing a certain thing may give you good standing with some factions, but bad with others. There is a complex in game economy, including a zone called the Bazaar where more than 300 players can be found at any different time selling thousands of different items. I liked to go to that zone and stare at all the cool armor and weapons and stuff lol. The customer support people are all very nice. There's even a volunteer customer support program called the Guide Program for those over 18. I spent a couple of months in it before quitting EverQuest (had been playing for about two and a half years). The game can get boring however. Endless hours of camping (killing monsters and waiting for them to respawn to kill them again) can be tedious, especially if you keep dying. However, expansion packs keep the flow going with new zones, quests, items, and playable races and classes. The variety of classes and races in EverQuest includes classes such as Warrior, Wizard, Shadowknight, and Druid. As well as races such as Barbarian, Wood Elf, Troll, Human, and Dwarf. Sometimes you'll hear arguments being shouted in a zone and they sometimes can get nasty, that's what the Guides are there for, to handle those issues and issue warnings to offending players. But parents should keep in mind that this is an online game with real people and kids sometimes may hear things they're not supposed to hear.

But, all in all this is a good game and I recommend it for it's fun value and the aspect of making good friends like I did.

something they wont tell you

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: September 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

You can get the classic edition of EverQuest at everquest.com the only the you need to do is create an account and your on your way to the most exiteing game of them all if you like RPGs then this is the one for you.

The first of it's kind

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Everquest is a name which is in every online player's vocabulary. It is a game which revolutionized online gaming, and has made an impact on many people who haved played it. The imaginary world of Norrath is full of creatures that are waiting for you. Sounds great, but it really isn't as fun as many people make it out to be. First of all, you have to start by being a "newbie", which is basically having all of the higher levels laugh at you, and they will get their laughs out of you any way they can. Another bad thing about being a newbie is that you can only kill a few animals, which gets old real fast.

Now, don't get me wrong, this is a fun game. The characters are really diverse, and the people controlling them are extremely diverse. Some people really try to play this game. Some people just run around making it a horrible exprience for other gamers. I have had experience doing both, and they are both equally fun. Another good thing about this game are the settings. No two zones look alike, and the starting points for each race are extremelly different. The halflings will start out in a forest, while the Barbarians will start out in a snowy region.

Overall, this game is fun, but it really isn't worth your ten bucks a month, and it definetly isn't worth your life.

Wow, this is awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game and I think that iff u have the money u should get it. It is a nice exploration, interaction, Role-Playing Game. I really liked it and still do. This has to be the best MMORPG out there. (...)I loved it.

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