EverQuest honored at GDC Online awards

I miss Everquest, SOE needs to bring it back to our consoles lol.

Man, EQ was amazing in it's time. High level of difficulty, and the NEED to work with others if you wanted to get anywhere at all.

@Ellipsis667: You hit the nail on the head. While comparitively EQ isnt great with todays' games, the things that it did well (emulating pnp rpgs) are sorely lacking from today's mmos. A big part of the problem is wow and all the mmos trying to be like wow. WoW has seriously leeched the essence of what an MMORPG is supposed to be by streamlining everything and having maps and guides for everything. Sure they changed some things for the better (death penalties, corpse runs, mob tagging) but they made MMOs single player oriented. MMORPGs are supposed to be about players interacting, not reading strat guides and using addons to do everything. By interacting I dont mean farming raids for epics, I mean actually depending on players to flesh out the world around you. I remember in EQ how you actually needed another player that knew the way to actually guide you thru the world to a city for instance, or like you said having actual day and night with different types of mobs and creatures. I was thumbing thru an old AD&D Players Handbook and reading it reminded of small details that are totally omitted in current mmos like requiring light or infravision to actually see in dungeons, being forced to create a map to actually find your way out of a dungeon, casters not having a mana bar but a set number of spells they could use per day, racial languages and alignments etc.

@Ellipsis667 Yeah, Everquest was amazing. It was one of my first MMO games and it was perhaps the most exciting for me. It did, yes, have plenty of faults (which future games corrected; corpse runs being one) but it did so many other things well that future games should've taken with it. For instance, night time? No current MMO really gives you the sense of night like everquest did where you actually needed a torch or dark vision to really get a sense of things.The weather and sky also impressed me greatly as was the ability to, if you were suicidal enough, to swim from one continent to another. And one other thing. The shear scope! Everquest's world was huge with so many random sites that few adventurers ever went to or explored. Today's MMOs have nothing but planned dungeons and instances where diligent players posts faqs and maps and guides that outline everything that needs to be done. The spontaneity is almost entirely removed.

I had a great time playing EQ from 2000-2005, with a visit once a year just to see that is happening in my old Guild which is still going strong. The only game that has even come close to the fun i had in EQ (for me) is Guild Wars.

ultima online started it all.

DC Universe? Fail. Vindictus is much prettier.

Same here Ellipsis, I started in 2000 with EQ (I don't count MUDs from the 90s or tabletop games from the 80s, both were pretty different inspirations for EQ). It was incredible that we'd seen even that much happen, and now looking back it's a shame that each subsequent game - barring a handful - are just slight variants on that old promising formula.

Everquest was my first MMO and it totally blew my mind at the time. It's one of those things that you wish you could erase your memory of and experience all over again. It took what I thought was possible in games to much higher place.

Because of EQ, that got me to WoW. At the end of my EQ career... I just wanted a complete change and WoW came in being the opposite of EQ. I can only recall my EQ days with fondness... even the crazy 80 man Nagafen raids -_-....

EQ at the time was just ground breaking and possibly the biggest innovation to MMORPG ever since.

Hey! Congrats to Lord Keltin and {gasp} that Taylor dude! Da Sloth -*-*--*-*- (Everquest started it all!? Look up the Island of Kesmai some day.)

Everquest started it all.. with out it there would have been no World of Warcraft... well at least not until much later if at all. WoW took the Everquest mold and made it better. I doubt we will ever see a game that will thrill folks like the original Everquest.

This title makes much more sense than the last one.

Go Vindictus and Minecraft And also good luck to the other games as well !