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Fun, addictive, at times boring, infuriating

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Very addictive once you get your character up to a certain level and learn the language and oddities of Everquest. If you want, you can seek out good items and sell them in an in-game auction. Or you can take your meager self with cloth armor and kill things to gain experience and power. Interacting with people and forming groups and guilds can be fun and can also try your patience. You can go solo too, but eventually you will need to be grouped to enjoy the game and get the good stuff.

The downside is it does get very repetitive killing something over and over again until you end up watching TV while playing the game. There are quests and places to explore but eventually you must return to very repetative fighting. Advancement is very slow but when you do make it up to level 50 or higher you know you have earned it and you will have nice magic items and probably some handy spells such as those that make you run faster or make you see in the dark, or teleport you instantly to another land. Some classes even get pets to command and fight with them. The world is well made if simply designed. You wont see as much detail like birds flying overhead or little bushes and a lot of buildings and skeletons for example are reused graphics. There are a lot of re-used graphics in this game but the world is HUGE. You can't even explore all of it unless you have several months and a large group of friends with you since some areas are extremely dangerous, even to high level players. There are thousands of spells and items. The items vary from the very difficult and rare Epic Weapons to the simple and worthless. Unfortuantly, to keep items rare, one must sit for hours on end and try to get something while others are 'camping' the same item. My advice is to not get too caught up in items and enjoy the game. You can usually buy what you want with in game money too. Although money is rare too. The world is well designed with the sun rising and setting and it does get very dark at night. There are oceans which can only be crossed by boats, which are huge and automated. It can take 30 min to cross an ocean if you include waiting time for the boat and travel time. You need time to play this game, I'd say at least an hour per sitting.

The game is difficult and dangerous which makes it all the more fun. An easy game where you can run from monsters is not very exciting to me. You do die in this game, but the penalty for death isn't too bad. You have to return to where you died and get your stuff. You lose some experience points but not much. Game balance is good and the whole game is designed to make people group together. For example a cleric can heal another player or himself, but cant fight well. A fighter can fight well but will die without help. A wizard can blast with spells but dies very easily. A well balanced group of 6 players can do wonders. Experience and usually loot is shared among the group. You will make friends with people who likely live in another state. Like real life, you will make enemies too.

-RP

Check this game out

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you have a social life (eg. girlfriend) I advise you to stay clear of this game. But if your parents and you want to keep your kids inside and out of trouble get them this...they wont leave the house, I know I dont go out as much. When you first start playing Everquest you think ^why did I buy this, its the dumbest game in the world^ but when you get further along, increasing stats ect you will undoubtably get hooked, jock or not.... Another good point about this game is that you get practically 0 lag no matter what your connection, and they keep adding expansions to it.

EQ vs AC

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 17
Date: May 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Hello, I have been playing Asheron's Call for the last 6 months. Lately I have been itching for a change of scenery so I decided to pick up a copy of Everquest + its expansion. I thought to myself, "If this many people are playing this game, it has to be good" Well, I was definetly wrong. This game should be called Ever-wait. It takes a very long time to just log in,( One time I a recieved a message "servers are too busy, try again later" once in the game you are constantly bombarded by "zones" in which you must wait and download the next region, when you die you have to wait again to respawn, and finally there is even a 30 second count down ticker just to log off. The down-time is not the only thing that turned me off. The graphics and animations leave something to be desired. The game interface is terrible, definetly not user-friendly, and the online community seemed non-existent. You also have very little control over how your character evolves other than choosing your base character class. If I had to choose between Asheron's Call or Everquest, it would be AC hands down. AC is user friendly, no zones, A++ graphics, great online community (ie monarch system), and the game's storyline changes every month with FREE updates which include new quests, creatures, spells and cities (yes, there is a monthly fee as in EQ, but you don't have to buy an expansion pack). So if you are interested in joining a MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game)I recommend playing Asheron's Call over Everquest. And if you are currently an AC player, don't lower your standards and play this game, it will only lead to frustation and disappointment.

Arrogant GM's, full of bugs and poor customer support.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: October 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is full of bugs; so many that the server's go down once every week to have it fixed. If you don't mind waiting up to an hour (depending on the speed of your connection) to download the latest bug fix, then this area of concern should not be a problem for you. Then there is the customer support issue, you normally pay around ten dollars a month to play, this translates into little or no help from the customer support people in the game called GM's. The game is really tough, verant wants to make money so their not going to make the game easy. When you die because of a bug, then good luck to you. You will get the standard answer "I didn't see the bug so I can't help you." This is frustating because you lose about 3 to 5 hours worth of experience points each time you die. To give an example, my character died because of a bug, the game froze as soon as I zoned and I was getting whacked from a monster that I couldn't see and I couldn't do a thing. After I reset my computer and went back to get my character's dead body, it wasn't there in the spot where I died. After about an hour of trying to get a GM's attention I was told that the body was there. I went back to look again, but no body. Well, after several more attempts of trying to get the GM's attention again, he finally told me where the body was. I had to pull the information out of this guy, it turned out that the body was in another zone, completely different from the zone I died in, and I had to drag the information from him before he told me this! The GM wouldn't give me back my experience points so a I asked if he could atleast get my body back for me since I didn't know exactly where it was, he said no. I said fine, and after I colorfully told him what verant can do with this crappy game I deleted my account and quit. There is however another plan where you pay about $49 dollars a month which supposedly will give you better customer support, I laughed when I was offered this. This plan probably would have given me the right to be told that my body was in another zone without me having to drag it out from the GM's. Ontop of all this, the GM's get bored sometime and mess with the players. There are some monsters in the game that roam around and the GM's would take control of one of these monsters to kill players for the sheer fun of it or to get back at a player for putting them in their place. They can even go as far as altering your stats without you knowing it, which will make a significant differce in the game on whether you live or die; you can't win in a fight with a monster if you keep missing five or six times in a row while the monster's almost never miss. It's really sad to see you're character get whacked and all you see is "you have missed." All in all, the game is okay if you don't mind all the problems associated with it. NOT!

When you buy a game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: April 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

...you in effect, buy the company behind it. And to be frank, these people seem to take great joy in abusing their customers. The game really has AMAZING potential, I just don't think it will ever realize that potential with the current crew at the helm. The friends you make online might keep you playing tho (which is what happened to many of us). If you don't already have EQ, I wouldn't spend the money on this expansion... wait a few months for some of the other MMORPG's that are coming down the pike. Verant has left such a bad taste in my mouth, that I won't be buying the Star Wars MMORPG that Lucas has teamed with them to make. NEVER another Verant game... EVER.

PLAY ME

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Hey, let me start off by saying:I LOVE THE GAME BUT I AM ONLY GIVING IT 3 STARS. The expression time flys when your having fun, should now be Time flys when you are playing everquest. Oh, about all you people who say that the loading is horrible, well it only takes about 5o sec with a 56K modem (which is just about the time it takes me to run from the computer to the fridge for a soda!). If you dont have a 56k modem than get one b/c my grandma can run a mile in the time it takes a webpage to load with a 26k modem! I mean, it only takes the equvlient of a simple webpage to download to load into other zones! I admit, the game is addicting. But if you have any will power what so ever (also called a parent) you WILL get offline when things need to be done. Now if I say the game is all good, why am I giving it 3 stars? Simply because I share the computer with 2 other EQ players and I can't level (lvl for EQ players) my lvl 10 MONK FAST ENOUGH! This game is awesome, and there maybe some flaws (like some of the crabby people who have been waiting for someone to show up for a dragon raid for the past 12 hours, SORRY, he is drooling on his keyboard from lack of sleep!) but you meet new people.Now, this is probably the safest online game to play from us 13 year olds becuase everyone only knows each other by their characters name! (I mean,who names there kid Aeelyonaia) Also, it is a great game becauase you get to chose special things like what you look like, hair color, do you cast spells or use your hands? Are you good at swiming? So I say, buy the game, but be prepared! (PS the $10 fee isn't that bad, its only .34 cents a day!) The money you spend on it is worth it. Like in day one I learned that Toll Booth is called a Road Stop in england! How interesting!

Best Onlne RPG to date, hands down.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: September 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you like the idea of having one ever changing gigantic world with thousands of players online at the same time, then this is a game for you. However if you value your social life in any way, stay away! This game is extremely addicting, as you no longer care about anything in real life, only about getting that next level :) Has a variety of classes and races to play from an Ogre Warrior, High Elf Cleric or even a Gnomish Necromancer. Great game in all aspects, although very time consuming. Highly reccomended, A+!

A great crappy game.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: April 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If and when you can play this game it is awesome. Plan to spend literally forever and all your time to even get anywhere in the game. Moving up levels take A LOT of time.

Despite how great the game is, it is an online game which you cannot play if you cannot connect to their servers. Their servers are down at least 1/3 of the time. That's about 8 hours in a 24 hour period. I've tried playing the game 7am, 10am, noon, 2-3pm, 6-9pm and never could connect because they are performing maintenance. Perhaps I have bad timing... but this was in a one week period. They have absolutely NO SENSE when to conduct maintenance and updates. I suppose their system is always up and running 3-4am in the morning for some of those 'unique' people.

If you don't want to waste your time playing the game and waiting to play the game, pass this and choose something else.

Evercamp

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: July 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've played this game for quite some time, although it has all the right hooks to get you started, Evercamp has problems for high level playing. The world is static, monsters drop the same thing time after time (if you can get it to drop). Alot of the items are on creatures that spawn once 8 hours or more, so if you ever want to get an item...either have 3 full days of playing time without sleep, or buy it from another player who spent 3 full days repeatedly killing the creature. Downtime from regenerating health and mana starts at a tolerable level...a couple minutes, but after you get a few levels it increasingly gets worse (in excess of 15 minutes in some situatations after each kill). Fights generally take a minute...definately not a fast pace game. If you want to solo, this is not your game, one is forced to group with others at higher levels. Poor customer service, practically no quests, and overcrowded servers make this game totally worthless.

AVOID!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: December 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game cannot be called an RPG. No one roleplays. The whole point of it is to kill and get stuff. There is no storyline at all. Period.

Oh yeah. As if it gets any worse, its addictive too.

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