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EverQuest Still Growing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: November 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played this game that long, but from a gamers viewpoint and from somewhat of a computer geek standpoint. The game is AWESOME. This game is alive and continues to grow, and that my friends is why you are going to see bugs and glitches, if you want a dead game, bug free, internet free there are plenty out there for you to get. In fact get out of EQ all together, your complaints just cause lag.

What most people have trouble with in this game is their own personal computer system, or their connection, and from a CS stand point that isn't Sony's problem. I agree they could communicate with the player base a bit better, and there is room for improvement with any endeavor, Sony is not isolated.

But most of the players out there that have issues with the game, need to get a grip and realize with a game of this magnitude, all online, and sometimes supporting up to 60,000 plus players at once. That is amazing! Look around, no one else can even come close. Yes pioneers have obsticles.

But in my opinion Customer Service keeps getting better, and if you would lose the attitude when dealing with the guide or GM, you may in fact find they are really very helpful.

If you want a game like no other, and want it to last all through the next couple of years..... Buy this game.

EQ: Scars of Velious: An unequalled high point

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Note: This review is ONLY about the "Scars of Velious" add-on to Everquest, and not the game itself.

"Scars of Velious" (referred to as SoV or simply "Velious") is an Everquest expansion for levels 27-65. Unlike other expansions, it does not introduce a new race, a new class, raise the level cap or introduce a lot of special new abilities (although it does introduce a few for melees). Instead, its focus was on content.

Specifically, it covers the frozen lost continent of Velious, home to a race of shipwrecked dwarves from Faydwer (in the original Everquest), trying to survive when faced by hostile giants and ancient dragons. The struggle between these three forces defines the expansion -- if you spend more than an hour here, you're more or less forced to choose sides, and who you fight determines how the other sides view you, which in turn closes off some content and opens up other content, as you become part of the battle for the future of this continent.

The epitome of this struggle are two parallel quests for melees and spellcasters given out by the Coldain dwarves. Each is a multistage quest, and involves you proving your loyalty to the Coldain in their war against the giants. At first, the tasks they assign you are mundane -- deliver this axe to be sharpened, keep my nephew the "great hunter" out of trouble, go deliver some food to the captain of the guard -- but they culminate in skirmishes and even a full fledged war that totally redoes one zone for several hours in a pitched battle (lead by the players) between the giants and dwarves.

Even for players not interested in this content (the ring war in the Great Divide is a high level raid), the expansion offers the best dungeons in EverQuest, amazing new cities, two new planes, high level spells, and a greater concentration of dragons than any other expansion in the game.

While much of EverQuest can, at times, feel like a fantasy version of Quake, Velious lives up to the promise of an online roleplaying game that immerses players in another place and time. Featuring landscapes so chilly, you find yourself putting on a sweater, terrifying enemies, and great acts of heroism, "Scars of Velious" is the peak of the EverQuest experience.

This expansion receives my strongest possible recommendation to all EverQuest players with characters level 27 and up.

Just visiting...If I venture far, I'll perish.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Everquest: Scars of Velious is the 2nd of 3 available expansions for the Everquest, Online Roleplaying game. The original game was released about three years, ago, and used the self-title, Everquest. Subsequent releases were Kunark, which added an Austrailian-like continent, populated by evil lizardmen. Scars of Velious adds an icy-wasteland, populated by dwarves, giants, and dragons. Those three races are at odds with one another. SoV is best for character that are about level 30 or above, on a 60-level, logarithmic scale. SoV is no longer sold, separately, except for this jewel-case version. Instead, it is sold as part of a...trilogy. The newest expansion, available, is Shadows of Luclin, which adds access to a moon, populated with cat-people, which originally were on the main planet, called Norrath, but were blasted into orbit, leaving a particularly dangerous area on Norrath, called The Hole, near the evil Erudite colony of Paineel. I've jumped into the Hole...and perished. I took the icebreaker to the shores of Velious, but all the critters were considered deadly, to my character. I teleported in, from Luclin, but was promptly slain by a giant. I'm simply completing the world...just in time to have it all swept worthless, by Everquest II, which is set some time in the future of the current land of Norrath. Rather, this copy is for a friend of mine, since I'm already registered...but I replaced my hard-drive, and haven't yet reloaded this place...to which I venture to my own peril.

Take the number with a grain of salt

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: February 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the 3rd add on to the original Everquest game. The comments below are about Everquest in general. Each subsequent software adds more land to the original Everquest map plus more character types. To my knowledge only one of them increases the "levels" of experience possible (Ruins of Kunark). This prompts your player to play more and more, especially if they have not maxed out the original game yet. You need to have a 3D video card to play this. My 300 speed Dell needed a Voodoo 3 card before it could be used.

This game (Everquest) either grabs you or leaves you cold. In my case, it held no interest. As a person who likes the game play of Myst, Riven, Journeyman's project 1-3, X-files etc. I found it's graphics too cartoonish and sophomoric. It's purpose (to go up a level) was not enough incentive for me to want to kill things. Killing things is the only way to get ahead it seems. I didn't care for the violence.

Additionally there seemed to be such convoluted ways to gain items and other stuff to remember... Just too much work. I like to relax in a game.

However, if you like Diablo, Warcraft and Starcraft you might have a niche here. The men in my family certainly did and they were addicts of the games mentioned above.

You have to not only buy a separate game for each player that wants to play simultaneously, but you must sign up for their service to play this game, if you want to play simultaneously. In our house that is 3 of all the games (Everquest, Ruins of Kunark and Scars of Velious) and 3 separate $10.00 per month accounts. Without this commitment, this game is unplayable. Of course each person then needs a separate way to get to the internet too if they want to all play at once.

Players create their persona by choosing among the types of characters available. Each character type has certain abilities.

Players can speak to other players in this game but can't kill them unless both players opt to battle. This is the social aspect of it. It also fosters team work in the sense that some things just can't be done alone. You need the right mix of characters to do this, so some people can get excluded, if the team already has that type of character. Lower level players can be helped by higher level ones too.

We have heard of relationships created by the social aspect in this game and we know of ones damaged by this.

Another point I really did not like about the game is the inability to quickly get out of it, without repercussions. It seems once certain actions are begun, exiting the game has a real potential for damaging your character. Supper times, phone calls etc. get ignored for this game. If you have a life, you will pay for it. Also if you lose your connection it can really make a mess for you too.

If you want the special person in your life that has already shown tendencies to be addicted to computer games to really disappear, buy them this. If you don't steer them away.

Reviewing something that isn't even previewed?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 8
Date: November 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Unlike most game companies, VI lets nothing at all be known about games that they are about to ship. They basically take the stance, "trust us, it is fun, we are gaming gods" Nothing is known about the game, and no review is possible. Asking someone to preorder this game based upon NO information is an exercise in the gullibility of your customer base.

GET THIS ADDON!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ok this is an addon to the RPG Game of the year EverQuest. It is going to run on the Kunark video engine with all new models and skins on the guys. If you like EverQuest GET THIS!!!!!!!!!!

Hooked

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is great fun. I was hooked to this game by level 3. I am now a level 33 Cleric and have been to about 30 zones in the game. I have met people from the West coast to Sweden and have made aliances with many people and have found out that people come to my group because I am in it. The young ones I find give me the most fun when I help them with a quest or when I complete a quest for a much needed item. Favors abound in this game and you will enjoy it as much as I have. Please come and experience the fun and excitement that I have found with this game.

AWESOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 19
Date: December 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

best game ever, you gotta love it ~Vidyas Icefist ~Tunare

EQ

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

IF you have been playing everquest for a while then you probably already know about SoV, and are probably drooling over it right now. If you don't even know what Everquest is, then take a look at Ruins of Kunark. ... All i have to say is this:

should you decide to play everquest, let your family and friends know where you are, because they wont be seeing you for a while.

Savipup Karana-Shadow Knight

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I agree with earlier reviews that this is the best game currently on the market, However, I used to say that about Ultima Online. Both games suffer from the same problem, the game designers are non responsive to any ideas they don't agree with, which is to say, they do anything they like, often at your, the paying customers expense. I left Ultima when EQ came out and experienced the same poor customer support once i reached a level where it made any difference, and I will leave EQ when the next MMORPG comes out, I hope not from Veriant or Origin. I am letting my money speak for me at my displeasure with both companies. Visit any of the many websites devoted to either game and read first hand what you will be required to endure once you advance to a level where it makes a difference before you purchase either game, or their follow on products.

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