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People Are Ignorant

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 26 / 59
Date: August 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Group work, coordination, when and what spells to cast, positioning, when to attack, who attacks what. Those are all part of the battle. Being smart and strategic is what keeps you alive half the time. Second of all, SOE said they WILL continue thier service for the original EQ so stop whining. If you want to play that, then keep playing. They have stated that they will keep making quests and adding to it. It is a parallel world to EQ 2, EQ 2 isn't a sequal, just a different world to game in. Also, why is everyone complaining about the game not being original? Sure its not a completely different game but its not supposed to be! These games, especially EQ are all about immersion into a fantasy world. The goal of EQ should be to make it as realistic as possible, not to play as a dragon. So don't rag on EQ for doing what its supposed to do. SOE is also taking out all the mind numbing things wrong with EQ like corpse recovery, and like everyone has been saying, they are taking out all the stats and exp bars which will make it much more realistic. So hopefully this review showed you the truth to these people ranting about nothing. EQ 2 will be an amazing experience for people who want to live and fight in a fantasy world.

BUYER'S BEWARE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 18
Date: January 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was a complete waste of money. My sons received it as a Christmas gift and it looked very interesting. After reading the instruction book during installation (it took almost an hour to load), I was directed to the website to pay for a monthly subscription. I had my doubts but paid for a month so they would be able to check the game out. After paying, the website said I needed to download updates before playing. That took another half hour, after which an error came up saying I didn't meet minimum system requirements. It took 2 days to reach SONY, at which point they pretty much told me I was out of luck and the game can't be returned because it was opened. Apparently the video card must have a pixel shader and vertex shader to run the game. As all my other new games work fine, I didn't even know what this was without talking to techinical support. In short, we are out $65 and didn't even get a chance to play the game. Make sure to visit www.everquest2.com for complete list of system requirements before purchasing. The game requires alot and my system is less than a year old DELL.

Long time game player

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 18
Date: November 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I used to play D&D back in the pen and paper days. I played those "word games", as I tell my kids, before the days of game consoles and computers.

EQ2 is a great game if you like being enveloped in another world. It is truly the closest thing to participating in another dimension. That being said, the graphics are unparalleled, and you become a part of an online community, that for many threatens to pull them away from the RL (real life) community.

Being an online community, you will and have to participate in that community. That means this is not a mindless first person shooter game. This is a fully developed world with quests that require the participation of others...not unlike life. I was a hard-core soloer until I joined a guild that became my online family. Now I offer my services to join groups, because it adds a dimension of interest and purpose, other than going out and killing things just for the sake of levelling up.

If you are the type that takes pride in having the highest level character possible, with the best armor, and can tell all your friends that you did the highest level quest on the hardest level, and that makes you happy...this game is not for you.

If you are ready to graduate to a more involved level of game that requires learning an incredible amount of knowledge, have the patience to complete complex quests over several days, and be willing to group with friends and guildmates to accomplish major tasks, then this game is unmatched.

Being a tried and true role playing gamer, the only thing that I miss is being able to defeat the final boss and win the game. This one doesn't have it. It is a perpetually evolving world with no "end game". Join it with the mindset that it becomes a second life when online. It truly is.

Just flat out good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing online games for about 2 years now. I have played COH,COV for a while but i cancelled the account because i got to level 50 and there was really nothing else to do. So I go to the store and pick up EQ2. From the reviews i have heard, i thought it wasnt going to be good, but the reviews were wrong. The graphics are beautiful and the game is very fun if you have a team to play with. The only problem is that it runs kind of slow sometimes and lots of lag get in the way. If you dont like playing on teams, dont get this game. Another bad point is the limited character creation. Sure you can just go out and buy cloths, but that sucks up all of your money (the in game money). You cant edit your characters costume at all, just there facial,hair,and body features really. A good point is the PVP (Player Vs Player). Its always fun going out and fighting your friends. So there is the review, I very was satisfyed with the game

I'm Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 20 / 42
Date: October 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My growning concern was pvp and solo play of EQ2, I thought there would be more, but, after reading the official site I see there will be NO PVP whatsoever and no promises of any to come in the future, this is a terrible day for PVPers everywhere who enjoy mmorpgs. It's also a terrible day for SOE since they will lose money by not having any sort of PVP system.

Then to top it all off, there are very many threads now concerned about the solo content and "lack thereof". It appears in the last few days they are taking away instead of adding to the solo content as soloing in dungeons is no longer available.

I see a bunch of fanboi banter here though both from the EQ2ers and the WOWers. You both really should state the facts and quit trying to make your game out better than the other. They both have potential, but, for me that potential is lost on EQ2 as I read more and more about less and less for "my" style of play.

It's really kinda like one of the other reviewers said. It's not for everyone and I can see that clearly now.

Dang and I really wanted to play EQ2, but, I can't see wasting $... and then $ ... a month for less than 20% of the content if that much and never being able to solo in dungeons.

But, I doubt I will buy {EDITED} either, so I'm no fanboi of any at the moment.

What a letdown.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Everquest2 is a visually appealing game, however, looks cannot carry a game. Everquest2 suffers from horrible zone mangement. When moving within the city and in between towns, you have a 30-40 second zone transition phase. While this may seem like not a big deal at first, when you are running around doing quests you spend most of your time zoning. Its a very poor experience.

The quest system is also poorly done. The quest rewards are terrible, and keeping track of what you have to do, and where you have to go should really be overhauled. EQ2 includes a quest "wizard" that lets you select a quest, and it will show you your progress, however; there is no intuitiveness to it at all. You can have 40 quests at one time, and quest management is time consuming, and typically poor reward for the effort. On average you get 30cp (copper) per quest completed. That doesn't buy hardly anything in the game, and the inordinate amount of time it takes running around like an idiot just doesn't make it worth it.

The map system is also poorly done, there is automapping of dungeons, and outside the city zones, you have to explore every edge to see anything, and there is no notation of where you are; it shows your dot, but not the name of the region. HOrrible management.

Adventuring isn't actually all that bad. A unique system of combo techniques, and focus on team environments make adventuring enjoyable, and ultimately what drew me to purchase the game, but everything else just makes the game too poor to suffer through.

Some folks might like EQ2, its not a horrible game, but it isn't revolutionary, or show any real innovation. Overloaded zones (they spawn new zones on servers when it gets overloaded, so you can have 2 instances of Anatonica -- thats just not something you should see from an established MMO gaming company), inventory, quests, just make this game more work to play than enjoy.

EQ2 Not the Worst Game Ever...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: November 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The game locks you into a series of quests you must complete for the first six levels and beyond, some of the longest 4 hours of my life.

You begin on a ship learning basic tutorial movement and such. This takes maybe 10 minutes and can be skipped if desired. You then arrive at Refugee Island which cannot be skipped. Here you must complete a series of goblin bashing quests and random killing to pad out your xp bars to level six. You can leave the island beforehand for your starter city, but there is nothing in that city you can kill and you cannot leave your initial arrrival slum until you complete a Citizenship Quest which cannot be begun until level six.

The graphics quality is high, but poorly used. Freeport where I began is dismal and the countryside is miles of emptiness between orc spawns. You thought the run from West Gate to the Bank was too long, wait till you try to get out of this city now. Even crossing the city takes far far longer than it should. The countryside outside was well textured but ultimately blah. There are landmarks, towers and ruins and such, but there is nothing to make you pause and admire the vista. Admire the graphics engine, but not the vista.

Character avatars, there is not as much customization as you would think having played Star Wars Galaxies. The sliders are there but all the faces have chunky cheeks and odd foreheads. Hair almost always looks like formed plastic on your head. With effort and skill a nice looking avatar is possible, but there are the worst newbie clothes Ive ever seen. You will soon cover them with an ugly robe or armor, so I guess it doesnt really matter, but still.

I have yet to have a moment of joy occur. Only frustration and annoyance and "What WERE they thinking". Its just as easy to make clothing pretty as it is ugly.

There was no reason to force us through a 4 hour tutorial. There is no reason why we cant get outside and look around within the first half hour of logging in.

And why is there so much clicking required? The interface is not intuitive, its not horrible, but it could be much improved.

Sony is famous for buggy product. I crashed once in game and 4 times while installing the game, but as a five year EQ/SWG player, this one seems so far to be remarkably bug free.

Through my own fault, I had to do the tutorial three times. Once as a quickie character to try to attend an in game meeting that night with friends playing in the evil city (I didnt even come close to making it) and twice today. The second time because I didnt notice I had selected Good rather than Evil, and so didnt notice I had the wrong city until completing all six levels of questing and slaughter. This can be changed later through a long traitor quest, but it seemed faster and easier to just redo the character from scratch.

I dont think I want to ever create any more new characters in EQ2 so the 4 character per account (not per server) limit doesnt bother me as much as it normally would.

Oh, and yes, the voice acting got turned off early on. A few voices are quite nice, but the rest... not the worst voice acting, but I'm only going to turn it back on if I find Lucan D'lere (who was voiced by Christopher Lee).

Great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: April 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. The spells are fantastic, the graphics are spectacular, and the gameplay is wondrous. Here are some pro's and con's of the game...

PROS
1. Great Graphics
2. Great gameplay
3. Hours and hours of enjoyment with almost no end
4. Mature guilds and chats which is actually a good thing becuase when you play a MMORPG, there is always some moron always acting big and making everyone feel bad. I truely dislike it, and, so far on EQII, there has been nobody acting like a "newb" in the chatrooms.
5. Quests are pretty original, whereas WoW's quests are repetitive to the max.
6. Adventuring is fun, and tradeskilling is fun
7. Most guilds will help you out if you are a newbie to the game which is quite handy if you need help killing a certain Monster, or to get to a certain place.
8. A lot of character classes which have their own skills and armour just for them.

CONS
1. Long zoning if you don't have an optimal computer
2. To get far in this game, you have to be in a group. Most mobs in dungeons are 3 people and up heroics (which you can't do soloing).
3. Rangers and such can't kite in this game. =(
4. Soloing is not really a good choice in this game because you don't get a LOT of exp. soloing whereas you get a ton of exp. with a group or a raid. To me, it's actually an annoyance to get a group to help out with some random Heritage Quest or something else.
5. As stated in another review, most of the low level items look similar to the high level items. If you get a better item, then it should look quite amazing compared to something not as good.

The reason why i'm giving the "overall" factor a 4/5 stars, is the fact that it takes a while to zone to different areas around Norrath. If you are looking for a good time, and great people to play with, get this game. You won't be dissapointed.

A horrible game, a horrible company

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 31
Date: January 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

After playing PlanetSide, Everquest, and Starwars Galaxies, I thought I'd give SOE one more chance to make things right with EQ2. Of course, they failed. What we get is everything that sucked about EQ and nothing good out of it. The world is dull and lifeless. Sure, you can spend 30min customizing your character, but that's about all of the fun I got out of it. The questing system is dull, as are the quests which are based on wasting your time running from one end of the world to the other with very little reward. The forced group play is atrocious.

To all those "Power Gamers" who think that we are just all whining because we are stupid and want everything on a silver plate let me tell YOU something. Just exactly HOW much intelligence does it take to sit at ONE camp for 14 hours and grind the heck out of a group of mobs? Not a lot there buddy. What you think is "EARNING" your level is just a bunch of repetitive grunting and smaking of a mace. Higher forms of intelligence require more to do than simply grinding out tradeskills or xp on mobs. Now, if YOUR brain is so small that all you CAN do is sit there and waste hours of your life online and kill the same thing over and over again like a bug zapper thats fine. However, most normal people will get bored with that and want to move on to other things. There has been alot of WoW bashing that I've seen here and its sad. WoW is a completely well done game that adds so much more to my online experience. Sure its called a MMORPG but I think you groupie fanatics who believe we should all be grouped up constantly and completely sociable, forget the RPG part of it. Maybe I DONT want to be in your stinking group 24/7 every single minute of gameplay? Maybe I want to go check things out on my own? WoW completely wins over EQ2 on this because it gives YOU, the player, the PAYER, the CHOICE to play the game YOUR WAY, not what is dictated by the company. Don't tell me that I need to work on my social skills if I have trouble getting groups. If YOUR social skills were so good, just what the heck are you doing spending 13 hours a day on a GAME? Falling in love with some beautiful woman who is really a 45 year old fat drunk? Pathetic. If you have social skills go out in the real world, but I guess ya don't cause you are on your 50th hour straight of killing spiders outside of Freeport. I loved hearing how these "tough" gamers complain that people are too weak and want stuff too easy. If I was a monkey, I could be one of these people. But I like new quests, new items to craft that are actually something people would USE, not a cruddy sword that takes 40 subcombines to make that would be cheaper to buy from a vendor. NeverQuest is FULL of time sinks that make you want to just vomit. They still have the old "Zoning" system where you have to load each and every new area. As much as I love waiting for a new zone to load I'd still rather have my unmentionables waxed by a butch 40 year old woman named Greta. How is it that WoW can get away with having to only zone between continents and EQ2 is stuck in the dark ages of loading. Talk about losing your immersion. Nothing is as bad as runing to town only to be greeted with the loading and 2 more minutes of life wasted. If I wanted to wait around all day, I'd just pop in my Windows CD and reload that. It would actually be alot more fun than EQ2. Of course, NeverQuest is the more appropriate name for this series. Broken Quests, stupid quests, and boring quests are also in the running. Why subject yourself to hours and hours of mindless labor to yield the crappiest item of all... Whoo hoo! You earned it! Big deal. Congrats on running around the world for 5 real days in order to get a tunic that does absolutely nothing. Do people like you spend 10 hours wandering the local mall looking for a bag of socks only to come back to the first store you were at 10 hours ago and then congratulate yourself on a job well done? No, because its a WASTE OF TIME, just like EQ2 is. Speaking of wastes of time, SOE has got to be the biggest waste of space ever. Their servers constantly crash, yeah so did the WoW servers but at least BLIZZARD comped us some time. 24 hours yeah, big deal, but SOE did jack crap. Another waste of my time.

Invest your time and money elsewhere, play World of Warcraft.

good game, lame customer support

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: April 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've had a lot fun playing this game. The game is full of lore and the questing doesn't seem mechanical and boring like some other online games i've played. There is a variety of quests types to do from heritage quests that require a lot time and puzzle solving that give good rewards to simple quests that require killing a few monsters for some coin. Gameplay is mostly group oriented because some of the mobs require a group to kill, particularly the heritage quests, but being in a good group is a lot of fun. It is possible to complete harder quests solo at a higher level but by that time the rewards are much less useful to you. The latest patch changed some of the group mobs to solo because very few teams would bother with them because the reward wasn't worth it.
Being in a guild is very helpful. You get cheaper prices for mounts and apartments when your guild reaches certain levels, not to mention the comradery that comes with being in a guild. Part of the enjoyment of the game is hanging with your mates.
The game is full of bugs and sometimes a patch that fixes one bug introduces another. Those usually get fixed quickly. The graphics and spell animation are incredible at higher quality settings which require at least a $400 graphics card. Be prepared to buy a computer that costs more than a thousand dollars or be stuck with horrible lag, game crashing, and bland graphics. One of the biggest mistakes made with the game is not freeing up memory when you zone. After a while of playing the game lags so bad in certain zones you can barely move because you don't have enough memory and your comps uses the pagefile even with antivirus programs and other stuff turned off. Other games such as WoW have little zoning and no lag problems at all. Expect to reboot often.
The worst part of the game is the customer support. You submit a GM (Game Master) ticket and only get a response that sounds automated and like it's told to everybody. Then you have to wait sometimes for a few days to get the GM to help. Waiting this long is sad. On one server the GM's are actively taking the time to instigate other players to harass some person because they don't like him in real life. It's funny because everytime you log on you have to agree to not do those things. Time to instigate harassment but not time to help. How can you trust customer support like that?
Overall I would only recommend this game to someone with a good computer and plenty of time to play but it's definately enjoyable.

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