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  • I really wish i could get my time machine workin so i can go back in time and play back in it's prime i miss it so much..

  • anyone else just have a rush of euphoria sweep over them they hear the sound of a spell starting?

  • Those spell sound effects bring back memories... but of my enchanter more than my magician. o.O Been so long. So few memories left.  :(

  • Ah those were the days...

  • Wow, that video really brought back some good memories of my mage hunting in Rathe Mountains. I miss EQ 1, apparently the next EQ, dubbed EQ Next right now, is supposed to be a throwback to the original. The devs say they are taking going to use a modified version of free realms engine but keep game play as close to the original as possible. Wonder if that will actually happen instead of them making an MMO that holds your hand :D

  • those hill giants look a LOT different than the ones i used to kill back in the day.

  • 45 free days if you guys want to relive those memories!!

  • I need clarity and temperance plz! A SoW wouldnt hurt btw!

  • I died many a time here long ago with my mage.

  • i solemnly respect and appreciate how yo didn't put in shitty music. The sounds are the best part of nostalgia

  • Where are Rathe Mountains? I dont think they exist in EQ2?

  • @TommyDaGreat They do exist, just different name. Everything is put into one big group. I'd have to look at the map again to tell you exactly where though.

  • @buddieclub1 Butcherblock Mountains perhaps?

  • @TommyDaGreat It might. I honestly can't remember where Rathe is in EQ1 lol. 

  • Even the sounds bring back memories

  • Ah yes. I've spent hours hunting in Rathe Mnts. So much fun. My brother was a Druid and he'd kite the Giants while I, the Mage, blasted them from the tower on top of the main hill. Good times, for sure.

  • Train to zone!

  • LOL..... SOW PLEASE!

  • Just listening to the sound effects of this really brings me back... thanks for the nastalgia. I spent many a night hunting in Rathe Mountains on my druid. Ahh the good old days.

  • lol why does the hill giants have cyclops heads??? lol

  • that wasnt the head of a hill giant :o what graphic expansion did you d/l ? O_O lol

  • The grandfather of all MMOs...

  • lol i tried to use my mouse wheel to zoom out on your character and scrolled down on the page*slaps head...sighs*

  • I miss my mage and his pet :(

  • AHHH! i miss everquest. 1999-2003 it was happy times. killing hill giants for money..exploration.. i will never be able to enjoy another video game on this level. RIP everquest 1. RIP my awesome charm kiting BARD that ran at 300% run speed all day. thanks for the nostalgia man

  • omfg, i miss playing this game for hours on end in my bestfriends garage with their dad and his brothers. periodicly going back inside for a refill of tea. I miss the sound effects, and blocky graphics. but hell we didn't know much better than that at the time. Its really awesome seeing other people sharing the same kind of memories. It was amazing times, and memories that will live on. This was the father of todays MMO. EQ forever.

  • i remmeber playn thys wen i was like 8 or 9 tht was almost 10 yrs ago boy do i miss those days ...stayn up late n playn EQ runnin around in nexus goin to BC or NH ...most ppl round my age only respect games for there grafics but not me EQ was the mmo that got me started on computer gaming and i still use my main chars name as passwords and usernames

  • @mariobros112 It is up, yes. But not free to play. But if you buy it you will get like 20 expansions or something, so I fail to see how it can't be worth it if you are interested. I am myself playing EQII and I like it a lot, despite some flaws in design, and pretty bad framerate for weird reasons.

  • do ppl still play this?

  • @superfreak3634

    yes, still playing, but not on liveservers.

  • @mailhunter so they have to play by themselves?

  • jeeze, I didn't know mages could kill blue-yellow mobs so damn quick

  • In eq1 you could fly?

  • @stevepcb Float. There are some NPCs that float in Everquest 2 after last expansion, so I suppose it will become possible there too one day, and if not, then the NPCs are there to celebrate it.

  • i remember my ranger back in the day twinkin him out lol lvl 8 soloing in Plundal caverns lvl 8-20 in like 15mins xD

  • wow, that makes me remember good old EQ times

    is lubbed this game so much

    Greetings from Vallon Zek =)

  • they used those giant skellys for that halloween event years back

  • Thank you so much for posting this!!!! From the spell sounds, to the looting sounds, this was a fun trip down memory lane! My wife also reminded me of how fun it was to find things that didn't have the "a" at the beginning of it's name. Fun times indeed. =) Thank you again!

  • What lvl is is rathe mountains and also can you still farm for plat and gold there I can't remember

  • Way to get gold and platinum back in the old days =) You were a badass if you could solo these guys hehe

  • im miss the good old days of HG farming on my necro

  • AAAAAAGH COIN SOUND AND BAGS!! T___T

  •  the fucking memories of this game!

  • @xH4RD5TYL3x Amen, I miss old EQ alot.

  • This game still has the most bad ass spell effects.

  • What's a good emulator to use?

  • I remember farming for Forrest Loops back in the day.  Good times!

  • wow there were so many zones i didnt know about, i still go on allakhazam for memories :( what happened to eq...

  • Don't know why (or maybe I do), but EQ1 always felt like more of a living, breathing alternate world than all of the MMOs that came after it. Something was lost when developers tried to streamline the genre for a more casual audience. Of course, MMOs are making a ton more money now than they were back then, so I doubt that's going to change any time soon.

  • Camped there for weeks to get my PP up

  • @Fistfullofnapalm you know that wow was created by avid EQ fans :P

  • the music is so cool

  • ahh the memories

  • Tee hee, as a fellow mage, I automatically checked your mana and your pets health.

    Ah the memories :)

  • thanks alot, buddy :-)

  • wow Everquest has alot of guages and stuff, neat little set-up though, is it hard to play? im thinking of starting but not sure anybody have any motivation for me to join?

    my biggest question is, is there still a decent sized community? on average?

  • no sizeable community nemore :/

  • WoW wouldn't exist if it wasn't for this you dumb fuck little kid.

  • I loved that game! Grouping was easy, people werent dicks all the time-like on wow, and man did we cyber lol. And the toon didnt look retarded.

  • this game freaks me out omg

  • You young little pricks...what game do you think started this online gaming phenomenon? Everquest was the first to do almost everything you see with online games today. And all of these RPG/Online games fantasy sci-fi etc..were all children of Dungeons & Dragons the original paper and dice game, which has been around since the 70's! Where do you think you get things like "Experience Points!" "Attributes", "Enchanted Weapons!" Armor class, "hit bonus" Thac0 ..you young ones really don't know shit

  • @Vroktar2009 FUCKING A RIGHT

  • @Vroktar2009 OMG Thank you for reminding me about Thac0!! =) (don't forget MUDs!!!)

  • @Vroktar2009 Everquest laid the foundation for what many young kids play now, I played everquest when I was VERY YOUNG and I remember old everquest, i remember when Scars of Velious came out, i'm 18 now.. playing wow for 5 years, everquest has never left my mind.

    I also miss Star Wars: Galaxies.. that was amazing

  • @Vroktar2009

    Lol nerd rage.

  • @IggyZadr yet here you are viewing this same video.

    Besides don't you know that 10 years from now when you grow up, you will be working some shit job for a company who's owner / CEO is/was a nerd.

    The Geek shall inherit the earth dude...

  • @Vroktar2009

    Sure, I am viewing the same video, but I am not sitting here in a flustered rage about what came first. As far as where I'll be working in 10 years - you know nothing of my field of study.

    I hope you still work the same shit job, though.

  • @IggyZadr Jesus christ, round and round we go. I am finished with you. I don't even know what were arguing about any more. You don't know me, and I don't know you. We are two people arguing on the Internet about what "Nerd Rage" is and who is the bigger jackasses. We are both still here dicking around with this video, hence we both suck equally. Lets leave it at that.

  • @Vroktar2009

    Who's arguing? I just play a video game. I also laughed at you for raging.

    You're still raging.

  • @IggyZadr you really want to continue this?

  • @Vroktar2009

    Don't back into a corner now, winner.

  • @IggyZadr Ok lets fight for real now. You ever wonder what the people you troll actually look like? Im always curious... who im pissing off and what they look like.

  • @Vroktar2009

    Don't wonder. Don't care. Not worried.

  • @Vroktar2009 umadbro?

  • @ all the haters who enjoy WoW,,,,,the orginal people who made world of warcraft, were on the everquest team.. so you should show some respect for the creators..and this game was amazing

  • @Random54 LOLOLOL no no no never ever were they working with everquest... hhahaha that one made me laugh.

  • @xkruulx The *Original* Development team for WoW consisted largely of EQ players. This was no secret. The Dev team for WoW needed a perfect perspective for an online world interaction. Since EQ done it first and Warcraft was solely a Real Time Strategy game they need that perspective to bridge the gap between the two.

    While they wasn't working with the Dev team for EQ, they worked with the players from EQ. -Kud

  • @KudendarX007 So basically what your saying is, your first comment was complete bullshit? THE CAKE WAS A LIE!?

  • @xkruulx Um...Sir. Are you retarded? No offense but the post you just replied too Was my first one...

  • @KudendarX007 I guess soo, but will it blend?

  • @xkruulx Lol that actually made me laugh. Nice portal reference by the way. Just finished Portal 1 today. (Already done it before) but i had a twitch to go play it again.

  • WOW IS AN EVERQUEST 2 CLONE.

  • your retarded,you havnt even played it,people who think the looks of it is retarded,just play the demo and maby you will like it,i had thoughts and i loved it

  • i remeber in 2000s i played my dads maxed necro hah straight up farming for hours to give to meh lower noobs ahh good times

  • How come the hill giants have the cyclops graphic?

  • i remeber when i used to play i would go up tthere a wipe the whole place out with just my 73 rouge. his name was christoba on the seventh hammer server... well those were the good days going to start playing soon tho cant wait

  • you cant wait??? thts a bit sad :p

  • considering it came out about 4 years prior than wow and set the stepping stones for all mmorpg's it was ground breaking and every bit of an adventure.

    if you get into games like these, classic eq dominates wow, and also takes skill to play.

    everquest started looking like garbage after luclin.

  • Your opinions mean nothing.

    I had an infinite more amount of fun in Everquest then I ever did, or ever will in World of Poorcraft.

  • this was good for its time though

  • I remember back in the day, those hill giants didn't look like retarded cyclops, and they dropped like 30plat per kill, rofl. until it got nerfed to 3plat or something gay

  • what did they used to look like? I hope you dont mind me asking.

  • I don't really know how to explain it. There aren't any videos on youtube that show them, and I lost all my screenshots from back in the EQ days so I can't show them either. The best I can describe them - Imagine dwarfs in EQ, beards and all. The hill giants had faces like that, but more hill gianty, LOL. they had weapons and different looking clothes. This video was after they changed EQ's graphics a couple times though.

  • ahh good days kite about 4 of them giants non stop with my druid

  • I still remember the days with my necro when I would have bag fulls of mandolins from killing bards. Would stop by the Rathe Mtns to charm those giant skellies and give them a mandolin then it would be a huge mandolin on a giant skellie heh.

  • Ahh, the old spell casting sound effect...perfection.

  • do people still play this

  • Why does the hill giant have a cyclops head?

  • wow. really?

  • do you think over 11 million people are playing wow right now because of the graphics?

  • I actually like the graphics in wow I know they are terrible compared to Oblivion or other games but I like them.

  • The thing is that Blizzard has an incredible art team, so the art direction allows them to do some pretty wild stuff with a 5 year-old engine. SOE never really had that, if you ask me.

  • Man, those were the days... I miss my Bard...got rich kiting everything off that hil.

  • they con red to you but you kill them so easy??

  • i played/recorded it NOT on a live server.

  • for one thing< being a magician is boring,

    had a lvl 60, its boring caz you just sit back and let your pet do everything for you while you nuke the hell out of all the monsters

  • Graphics don't make the game. Gameplay does. Too bad people don't know the difference.

  • I agree. Other games may be pretty (EG Vanguard), bu the game play really really sucks. Not to mention some games (EG WoW) are ruined more by the player base than the actual game itself.

  • Umm.. actually Vanguard is a great game. It's still hardcore, trust me.

  • then you haven't played eq recently it blows..its very gay now

  • @Vekkuza Amen. Everquest had such a special aspect to it. I love WoW and have played it since 2005 when I left Eq, but I so badly miss the comaraderie that EQ had as well as the learning curve. In EQ if you didn't get smarter, get better at your class, you died and lost xp...You didn't advance. You had to get better. I miss a lot from EQ. =)

  • @Vekkuza ha yeah too bad the gameplay was plagued with objectively bad design ideas

  • @Akakios69 like what.

  • @Gypscrew like making you camp mobs for 8 hours

  • for some of you, what im saying may look like shit, but it reminds flyf

  • evan runescape is better than everquest i play wow

  • isnt this the first one? so the second one is much much better than this

  • the graphic on this game are horible but are better that rs

  • this game looks retarded ffs....

  • this game died after PoP.

    Ykesha was acceptable and LDoN was OKAY, not good but okay, but everything else besides the first 4 were terrible pieces of shit that fucked up the game

  • lol i was thinking about goin form wow to this but DAMN the graphics r HORRIBLE

  • People PLAYED this game, which was released in 1999 so comparing it graphics-wise to anything today would be ridiculously stupid. Kids these days...

  • kids these days eh ?

    seems like you're just too retarded and took my comment seriously

    grow up (get the irony ?)

  • Why did that hill giant have a cyclops head? You're not doing it right :X

  • wrong setting, cause this has been played and recorded on a Emulator

  • OK this game better be good im installing it right now so

  • Wow is good for PvP , not having to go and look for your corpse ( i.e. corpse run for those who know what I am talking about), and yea the graphics may be a bit better, BUT once you have actually earned your epic ( no i dont mean the shortcut way or soloing raid mobs, I mean really earning it), then it is hard to just walk away and let the toon rot.I preordered EQ when it came out and I still play it when I am tired of the childish arguing and whining in trade chat in Wow.

  • im still addicted 2 this game=p

  • EverQuest was the best till it came out with all the expansions... it was like after DoN expansion all the good things from the other expansions were useless....... man i missed the days of PoP and below...........=( now i play Perfect World so much better and its free

  • OMG I miss Everquest! DMF! SOW!

    I'm playing WOW right now, it's all good and stuff, but nothing compare to EQ! Everquest was the root of all games!

  • EQ was the first epic adventure MMO, but the first MMO that gave you an epic community feeling was UO. Both were awesome games, and you can't really compare them to each other since they did different things. UO let you exist in a world and craft your own being in that world while heavily interacting with others, Everquest sent you on epic journeys more like a traditional RPG.

  • can someone tell me what server is good to go back to? - I got on my old 7th hammer server and NO ONE was there

  • Miss this game a lot. Its a shame no one plays much anymore. I tried playing again a couple of months back but everything is so much easier now then I remember. I got into WoW after though, but I'll never forget EQ.

  • Haha WoW is shit man and plenty of people still play, they are opening a new server everyone starts from scratch it's going to be a lot of fun. Dont be a mindless cash cow for Blizzard WoW blows.

  • What and you think this is good? You MUST be joking

  • EQ is way better than WoW, but people keep thinking WoW is better cause of graphics.

  • Wow has more to do mate more people to be with and more quests and fuck loads of other stuff

  • Do you know the year difference?

  • Do i give a shit ?

    Wow is better imo and there difo is more to do in wow

  • How do you know WoW has more stuff to do in it?

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  • your name is megaman you fucking hypocrite.

  • @megaman8484 Hey its been 2 years since that comment, have you grown up any?

  • u watched the video dude

  • yea my bad

  • yea your right EQ is past it's prime but it's still a better game than WoW

  • And yet you still live in denial.

  • No ones in denial, WoW wouldnt exist if it wasnt for EQ dumb ass. Still a ton of people that play it to, WoW gets so boring.

  • You still think that EQ is better than wow. It's not, get over it.

  • is the game like wow?

  • yeah, except its 100x more complex.

  • tyvm

  • im playing the 14 day free trial and im liking it

  • WoW is Everquest for dummies.

  • @ItalianoLatino82 you mean downies

  • The audio in this game would drive my parents mad, hehe.

  • MY GOD, WHAT AN EXCITING AND IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCe.

  • lol! been hearing that for 2 years.

  • I've recently started playing 'classic' EQ1 after trying every other MMO out there from LORTO, COH, EVE and WHO. EQ1 still beats them all in terms of depth, challenge and fun. Simply put EQ1 is the best MMO ever made.

  • Don't forget that this video isnt from 2001 back when most people killed Hill Giants. killing a RED hill giant as a classic EQ mage was not very easy back then.... it was impossible.

  • COME JOIN US!!!

    We will relive classic EQ and eventually Kunark and Velious.

    eqclassic DotOrg (take note of the DotOrg)

    Come visit us in the IRC listed at the website. We hang out there daily. I look forward to seeing each and every one of you everquest classicers in the IRC chat channel! Come join us in the IRC, and eventually on the classic server when it is released! :)