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Amazing game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I created this account because everyone is like this game suks yada yada yada so i was like the hell. my dad had 2 unsubscribe for a couple months because it is a bit expensive and are conversations at supper and all that other talking was sooo boring because we were like i dinged today (dinging means gaining a level) We were so addicted to get it and some guy said its inposible 2 gain levels thats probly because he wwas only fighting monsters that had a green then (click on the monster to see what it is or right click or even /con) I would so recomend buying this game.

Oh gosh, were back to gay stuff.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: May 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is really annoying and can remind you of not the cool fantasy with adventure, but the little pink fairy magic that you see in the forest. Gosh, why do people like this game so much?

Im not even giving a review, because If you get it, youll cancel the subscription the next month like I did. Look at screenshots and itll tell you.

The pictures lie, its a trick, dont listen to them! If you want adventure like that, youll have to be playing till your an old man. Get Final fantasy XI, or Dark age of camelot or something.

Not that worth it :<

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: January 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Yeah, this game is fun. Sure its fun when you start out. You think its a whole new world ahead of you...but its not. I cancelled the subscription to this game after about a month. You can have up to 8 characters, and they can be any class and race you wish. There are ogres, humans, elves, etc. And their classes are things like wizards, warriors, rogues, and that. It will really remind you of mythology because of their spells and stuff.

Its what people always do, they train and gain a few levels and get some cash from their enemy. Then they go buy some new weapons/armour/potions. They train till a certain level so they know they will be good enough to go out far through the everquest world. Sure, they are strong enough but they expected more. Tons of cool abilities and/or spells and items that makes it look cool like you see on trailers. But they dont get it. They train and train and accomplish nothing just like some other people are saying. Thats why I got rid of it.

If you want a good fun, action/adventure online RPG that is way more fun, then I'd suggest // Dark Age of Camelot \\ I have that game and it is what I expected. Its what I call *fun* ._.

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!!!!!!

Dont buy it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 17
Date: July 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I warn you. If you get addicted easily do not buy this game. I played for over a year and I was never happy with the game but I kept playing? Why you ask? well you work so hard to get better, but once you get better you feel like you've accomplished nothing, so you keep working hard to get better but you keep getting no where. This game is terribly addicting, you'll find yourself playing for hours and hours every day. You'll probly get on right when you get off of work and wont get off unless you absolutely have to, its that bad. I've heard of people killing themselves because they somehow lose all their equipment. They even have addiction groups to join (think AA but for EQ) to try and stop playing. How sad is that? I knew this game was consuming my life so I deleted my Characters, my account and I havent ever played since. Save yourself the trouble, enjor your life (your own, not your characters) and dont get this game.

Pros & Cons & Loss

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: July 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Yes, I will admit it, this is a good game. I played it for eight months and eventually lost interest.

Reasons for goin' frigid?
1) I remember one of the first times I was playing this guy shouted - or whatever the exact term is, I can't remember - over the entire area that he had just leveled to 60 and was feeling very depressed. The reason is that when you invest time and energy into something something virtual that energy can't be used for something that's real. It's like preteen girls wasting their time on infatuation because it's the closest they are to true love. Except --- Most people have the option of leaving EQ and actually living their own lives.

2) I know a guy who was kicked out of college for never going to class and using the T1 line for EQ. He is now living in Texas and has a job solely to support his addiction.

3) Not impressed with the artwork/graphics/extreme polygons. (Although the textures were great)

4) I don't want to live there.

5) Neverwinter Nights. Pure friggin' ecstasy.

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!

EQ

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I don't know if I could explain this game in under 1000 words... Over hundreds of patches, Sony and Verant have perfected the system in this game (though casters will always be overpowerful). For 3 years I played a Monk in this game of the reptilian race called the iksar. They regenerate faster than other races and start the game with the skill of 100 in swimming. For skills in EQ, you can pretty much do anything: fish, pottery, blacksmith, brewing and even jewelry. You are called a master when the skill reaches 100, though you can max it out at 250. My monk was a tailorer/brewer (nasty combonation i know.)

As for how big the world is, i played for 3 years and explored 2 full continents and barely touched on the other 3 and then Luclin came out and added an entire new world which you could teleport to. In my mind you will never go to every place in this game. Even if you had enough time, there are factions you have to gain before most city guards will let you in. The reptilians were hated in almost every city so they pretty much stuck to their own continent until mid-level. You typically have to kill 1000 enemies of a city for them to let you in, so I went out and slaughtered little orc encampments everywhere. It was easy because they are about lvl 8 and I was level 44 so 4 hits and a spin kick later, I had human faction.

If this was confusing, this is barely touching on EQ, but you'll get it all down within a week and then it gets all the more fun. As for some advice to start playin, make a caster as your first character, it makes everything go faster. I was the only true fighter where I live and I had 3 caster friends that were the same level as me, but had over 10 times as much money as I did and that is no exagerration.

About the other expansions, you would only really need the EQ trilogy and the Shadows of Luclin Expansion. The Planes of Power Pack doesn't really do anything BIG for you until you hit upper level.

And make sure you have something to do while waitin for boats... They go pretty slow and you generally can wait up to 15 minutes for the boat to arrive and most trips take 10-12 minutes and can pass through 2 different loading zones on the way so make sure you get off at the right one. First day I played I made that mistake and got off on an island with nothing but undead and they all were 20 levels above me... didn't go to well.

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.

If You Need to Know....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you need to know whether you would enjoy EverQuest, this is the purchase for you to start off with. You will get a good over-view of the game, the feel, the requirements (both time and expense-wise), and the cost is reasonable (comparatively speaking with other or past EverQuest costs). And the first month of the montly fee is free. But the graphics are just NOT up to today's standards. If you like the game, your next choice is to pay out the same amount of money for the "Luclin" expansion to get your graphics to something tolerable. Then the prices just go up from there. If you can play and enjoy the game without becoming an ADDICT, then I would say go for it. If you already know you want to play EverQuest, to the possible exclusion of everything else, then look for the higher end of packages and expansions currently available.

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