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EVERQUEST

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

'Nuff said. Actually if you have any life left you wish to save do not buy this game. If you do you will do nothing but play it from now until the day you die, this isn't your average game once your hooked you can kiss your friends good bye (unless they too connect to everquest!!)

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First I would like to address all the reviewers that said this game is horrible. This game is the best and most addictive game I have ever played in my life. The reviewers who gave bad ratings obviously have the patience of a two year old and demand immediate results. The playability is great. The game is easy to learn and if you are having problems there is always someone who will stop and help you. Most players are friendly and helpful. There are so many different ways to play and places to go that I can't see myself ever getting bored with this game. You can do everything from getting drunk with your online pals to taking out legendary dragons. To all you potential buyers I advise you to buy this game. It was great to begin with and just gets better with every expansion.

"EverCrack" indeed 8)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First the bad ... to play this game with full graphics, sound, etc. requires serious upgrades in your computer. I personally spent over $300 in RAM and a top of the line graphics card! So much for [the price of this game]... The only other fault I have found is that this game is *extremely* addictive. Seriously. You are warned!
But what that means is that for the over 400,000 regular subscribers (says sony), this game is *fun* to play. The social aspect of this game is the phenomenon! I am older and have found many many others who play are as well (25-55, married with kids, etc.) This gives EQ a different feel (it is amusing to hear people in my guild talk about being able to play now that their child has gone to bed!) So out of every 1 grumpy, unhelpful player I have met easily 10 who are "smiling;)" and generous. These are the game's strength and what fertilizes my addiction. No rules guiding who you can become or how to play your character, the skills you use are the skills you get better at (such as brewing, tailoring and smithing). To me, this is the essence of role-playing.

A NEW PLAYER...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Since I've just started playing Everquest, I'm not really qualified to give the game a proper rating. But there are some important things that new players need to know about EQ. First of all, if you buy Trilogy and the Luclin expansion (which brings the graphics up to an acceptable level) there is NO TUTORIAL placed on your desktop as advertised in the instruction manual, because the Tutorial isn't compatible with Luclin. This means that you'll arrive in Norrath bombarded with menus and information and fading colors and screens with players busily running this way and that way ignoring you and you'll feel like Tarzan dumped in the middle of Manhattan during rush hour - overwhelming to say the least. Anyway, I shouted to the community that I needed help and luckily a Good Samaritan was around to get me started.
Well, why did I give the game 4 stars? Because it is a truly amazing game. I'm having so much fun with it, I can't wait to finish this review and dive in again. And yes, they are all right, it EATS your time. If you don't like fantasy or RPGs or you have three jobs or a ton of responsibilites, maybe you should stay away. But if you want to visit a highly technicial but living and breathing world right on your desktop, buy it right now!

There are other MMORPGs out there... (...)

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing these types of games for about two years now. It started with Everquest. Everquest was slow moving, boring but soooooooo addictive....

Now I'm playing Lineage. It takes everything Everquest did makes it 100x better and also throws in some great new ideas. Lineage has this thing called bloodpledges which are groups of warriors led by a prince or princess. These bloodpledges are always trying to capture castles that other bloodpledges control and its a great thing to do after you get to a high level unlike in Everquest when you stand around waiting for teh next expansion pack when you get to a high enough level.

Speaking of expansion packs Lineage releases a new episode every month(its now on epiode 9) and a new continent 4 times a year. It's like getting 4 free expansion packs a year!!! And trust me these continents are HUGE! (...)

EQ review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: October 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

lol, it's kinda funny how all these people blast EQ non-stop.. abut how it (is bad) so much and they hate it.. and how it takes SOOO long to level. they talk about how they played for a year and are only lvl 31. I have played for about 9 months now, i got this as a gift for christmas from a friend and set it up in January 02.. i have a 54 druid and a 30 rogue. I am NOT a hardcore player, and i still manage to level and quest. this game is so fun, there is no end to the things you can do, you are only limited by your imagination and your ability to stay awake (on those 8 hour Plane of Hate raids..) you can play for 20 mins or 20 hours.. although i've never known anyone to play for 20 mins at a time hehe.. but it's possible. seriously though if you have little to no free time.. don't do it..

MOST HORRIBLE GAME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: April 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Played it for about 3 months, made it to lvl 31, had a monk, pally, wizard. (I tried SO HARD to get any sort of "fun")
Game is horribly BORING AND A WASTE OF TIME.
All you do is slap on the auto attack an sit an watch with nothing else to do, or sit in 10 minute intervals staring at the screen refilling mana... not very exciting...
Ever played RPGs? thats what Everquest is, but everything made so ridiculously longer from getting the next "better weapon" to the next "level". Any RPG fan that played Final Fantasy or any GOOD RPG knows that Everquest is such a waste of time with absolutly no fun or any sort of action. What a piece of trash, buying it with the additional 10$ a month is NOT WORTH IT.
(I wouldnt even play it for free)

Terrible... Expensive... Just bad!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: February 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because my friends recommended it to me... I wish they hadn't. You have to pay 10 bucks a month for something that is just not worth it. I'd enjoy it more if maybe they'd have put in a 1 player off-line version, but I still would have given this review 1 star. The gameplay is bad, and it's always the same old thing-- hit the monster with a stick, and keep moving. The worlds are vast, but with no challenge at all. No challenges, no mazes, the lands were slapped together all in about two minutes for each area/zone. The monsters are too simple to beat, the quests are easy, and there's no end to this game. For you parents out there, this game absorbs your children's lives. Basically, their grades in school will drop, they will never do what they're told, and if there are online restrictions in your house, they will play as much as possible behind your backs. One of my friends even waits until his parents to fall asleep to sneak downstairs and play Everquest. The game makers made a big mistake in making this game, and they should've quit while they were ahead.

The bottom line is: unless you want your life ruined and your money wrongly spent, DO NOT BUY EVERQUEST-- you could buy something a little more useful, or even a better game... but, I'm not going to stop you. You'll see what I mean if you buy it.

Not what I thought it would be :-(

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

READ THIS REVIEW IT IS VERY HELPFUL

My friend got this game and he was saying stuff "you gotta get it, its so cool" I was so exited to get EQ trilogy. Finally I saved up enough money to pay for it for a few months. By the way thats a badthing, you have to pay $13 a monthly fee to play. Finally I started to play it and that weeks I played it every day. day 1, awesome.. day 2, awesome.. day 3, awesome, day 4 5 and 6, awesome... day 7, SUCKED! after a few days of playing it, not only it gets old, but you learn your way around the game and figure out that its really dissapointing. The graphics are pretty good. but thats about the only good part. its impossible to gain levels, it takes so long. After 5 days of gameplay, 3 hours each of nothing but fighting, training, fighting, training I was level 4. I didnt take one break, not a lunch break, NOTHING. Thats how hard it is. I didnt die once either. It is hard to find your way around. the 7th day before I got rid of it, it took me an hour to find the magic shop where you buy new spells to use. it is hard to use some spells, like hide. it never works. not many people are friendly. I only joined a group 1 time and that was with a friend my friend who I knew in real life. Even in the daytime, it seems kind of like it is still dark. It just barely lightens up. It is still about the same. You need a torch which doesnt help much. you can turn up your gamma and it will be easy to see but it will be like that the whole time even at night so it takes away the fun. It takes forever to get enough money to buy stuff unless you do a trade skill which is hard. It is nothing like the commercials, they say you go on challenging quests, fight dragons and other monsters, go on an adventure of a lifetime! YOUR KIDDING RIGHT? For crying out loud You have to stay in the same town until you are like level 20 which takes about a year, if youll leave in half a minute some monster will kill you. I can go on and on but I am getting tired.

SO......DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IT IS HORRIBLE!!!!! WAIST OF MONEY!!!!!!! WAIST OF TIME!!!!!!

I see why this is so popular

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played the majority of these online MMORGS. Most become repetitous and boring after a couple of weeks. Everquest Trilogy has yet to become this. It's a fantasy D&D setting, so you must enjoy that, but it is massive and just to much fun.

On a bad note the graphics are about 3-4 years behind, but the game play is great. I have played for about a month, and have only ventured into about 4 zones. There are 100's of zones and different parts of Everquest that I can not wait to see. For now Everquest is still the king, I see why so many companies want to break into this market.

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