I was one of the last officers of the legendary guild Forces of light back in 1999 although i was 8 this was one of the most inspiring game i have ever had the honor of playing. my character was of the Dwarves of Kaladim i spent my days battleing evil and having epic adventures with my friends and family. i fought the orcs of crushbone the knolls of splitpaw and the many various evils that were but character had to stop playing on luclin and now in EQ II luclin blew up so ends my Everquest tale
I was an original player of EverQuest.. I played into Kunark. I will never forget those days. I came back almost a decade later to try it again.. It is a different beast. I tried Project 1999, man.. I forgot how hard it is to get around as an erudite SK! LOL. The players there are very helpful though, helped me out. I only lasted a few months though, a long term endeavor in EQ was possible when I was 15.. Harder now that I'm 28. What a game, I hope they hit EQNext with a winner.
So many memories. Closing my eyes I can see the many splendors and wonders of Norrath. The people I met. Brings a tear to my eye. I'm playing EverQuest 2, but it will never be the same as when I first played EverQuest.
Ive been reminiscing about this game recently. I'm considering paying the 15 bucks monthly just to log on and walk around and take in the sights and sounds again.
Are there any servers with original EQ and level select and any item selection /w pre-nerf items? I want to try out this game, but I don’t want to start from scratch - I don’t have the time. I also heard the original didn’t require minimum levels for gear & weapons. Is there any free Everquest emu servers that have pre mades with the best gear ever made pre nerfed - God Gear, kerafyrm, etc whatever was the best. I want to play the game in its prime with all the best items and run around killing
@hammuhr SoE didn't even place a loot table on them after people started to kill him? This is the kind of thing I've talking about all a long. SoE has never surprised me with the lack of attention to any game they have ever made. Its all about saving money to them.
@SequelFinalNight He was never supposed to be spawned in the first place. He was only ever spawned a handful of times, and killed on 3 servers. He didn't have a loot table because the only way to kill him was glitching into the ground and bouncing aggro off of rangers. If you don't do it that way, he had a zone wide AOE Death Touch that demolished every NPC and PC in the zone. GMs almost always had to step in to stop it when he was spawned, because it caused too much havoc. They paid, and
@SequelFinalNight still pay a lot of attention to EQ and EQ2. Actually, they even very actively update DC Universe Online. SOE has a bad reputation for a few of their games, but in general it's a very good company and they definitely back their MMO's properly. EverQuest especially, since it's what launched them.
@hammuhr I'm waiting for EverQuest Next. I hope they take a very long time to create it. SoE is making huge profits off of EverQuest ($15 month sub) - they will milk that game forever. Here is a list of SoE MMO's: Star Wars Galaxies, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventure, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Free Realms, PoxNora, Legends of Norrath, Vanguard Saga of Heroes, Cosmic Rift, Infantry, and DC Universe Online. You can see now why EverQuest gets all the special treatment.
There is a server on project 1999 that just launched last week. Classic EQ PvP server - coin loot and exp loss if you die. As of now it is just classic and Kunark will come out in 10 months or so. Then Velious will come out and it will stop there. Also there is a health population... and if you start you will see that you probably wouldn't want anymore playing then there already are heh (Classic is kind of small).
Was it just me or were there varying versions of this theme. I seem to recall that sometime some of the other instruments would drop out and only the french horn would play. It was really beautiful!
@mzeeusiku The full song is about 5 minutes long IIRC. Granted I can only speak for Laura Karpmans version from EQ2, but there's about 3 different versions for it (Which I ASSUME it's a full remake of THIS version). One from the opening theme, one from Character select, and another for other assorted things.
Fun Fact: THIS version has a few cameo's in EQ2 :)
My buddy got me into this game. Can't believe the corpse trail I left of myself when first starting. By the end of my time I had nec, clr, shm, mnk, dru...all lvl75. The game however had lost its appeal when small groups couldn't achieve the highest objectives. Raids were fine but to dedicate all play time to them wasn't my cup of tea after a while. I do miss this game though. I can recall trains, wipes, defeats, victories by the skin of my teeth. So much fun.
@LebronMVP4LIFE There is a surprising number of people still playing this game (my brother included). If you get back into it, you'll want to go to the Firiona Vie server, as it has the healthiest population. Don't mind the "roleplaying" tag for the server, nobody does it. Most everyone's really high-level so you might want to bring a friend or roll a character that's capable of soloing very well like a Necromancer.
Everyone head over to project 1999! It is a free to play Everquest server. It recreates the classic experience up to velious! Kunark was released only 3 months ago!
Playing on project 1999 is easy, although they are not legally allowed to give you torrent download links, goggle eq titanium torrent, the readme included tells you how to work dameon tools and install. Everything is free and the server is great, soloing in karnor's on my bard right now!
The new time locked server is out but i cant play it because ive never played EQ. You had to have previously been a member. I played the 14 day trial and i was like yeah im going live lolz.
@WolfenFoust I always sold my gear at Shady Swashbuckler. Want to know why? Because I was an evil race and people kept training Sergeant Slate and Rinna Lightshadow to the tunnel then leaving so they aggro onto all of the evil races.
Just as the initial chords of midi sweep out from my speakers a single tear rolls down my cheek...a tear in remembrance of so many adventures, so many friends, and so much mystery. I am saddened for I know these things can never come to be again. No experience will ever be quite the same, nay anywhere near the same. Some may think me strange holding such love for another world in what is "just" a game. Let them. I have experienced Norrath. I will hold those memories forever
My guess is that you are one of those WoW babies that want everything handed to them by the GMs that never had a chance to play a true MMO where you actually had to work to get stuff you wanted.
@sadakuno I could not have said it any better my friend. It was my first experience with an mmo and I tried to replace it with other games but nothing will ever come close. R.I.P. 'Stone' - Guild from Zebuxorok server.
@sadakuno though i have never actually played EverQuest, i can agree that it is an amazing game that i still feel a lot of nostalgia for. mainly because, when i was just a little kid, my dad would play EQ all the time, and i would usually be in the same room, so i became very accustomed to the sounds of Norrath. i've always wanted to go and play it, at the least as an ode to my childhood and to my dad's favorite game, but i have not yet found the time. i really need to go play :)
@EpicZantetsuken Oh please do! This is the foundation to an epic tale! A son taking up a sword so many years later in remembrance of his father and dear childhood memories of a faraway fantastical world. The thought nearly gives me chills
@Viktir666 The game does indeed still run, but if you've ever played it in its glory days, before Luclin and the like, you'd find it's an entirely different beast. It's impossible to explain if you weren't so fortunate, so I certainly hope you are!
while this game took too much of my youth i don't think there was any other like it. the best was having a girl friend that looked exactly, i mean 100% the same as the cover girl. it was a trip.
As said by plenty of other people the difficulty curve and imersion in this game out ranks any other MMO except ultima online but EQ is still the best i've ever played. No click spam to get through quests, you had to ask the guards for a story!
Hail!
Did you hear about the [squids]?
What squids?
Ahh.... the days :D
Not to mention the time and effort it takes to get 1.0 epic nevermind the others!
I just got the chills. I tried to talk to guards first time I logged on... Then with my first cash I bought a fishing rod and was psyched I fished those sandals with algae on them. I wish someone would invent a "next step" type of game where I would get this same awesome feeling again.
Attention all current and former EQ players. SoE is opening a brand new time locked progression server on Feb 15th. If you love EQ like the rest of us, come join us! Server opens with only Kunark enabled. Come one, come all!
Remembering the first log-in of the day, listening to this music and waiting to finally load in. You can still play EQ but you just can't go back in time.
Oh man. THE best mmorpg ever made in the earlier years. I remember the EPIC journey from Queynos to Freeport, how fun that was. Going through the karanas, trying SO hard just to stay alive because if you died you were all the way back where you started, not 5 feet away at some Spirit Healer like in WoW. Talk about real fun. I remember usually going with a group of people from queynos to freeport and along the way guys would die or get lost, and usually only 1-2 people made the journey. Awesome.
id agree with people being stuck up on eq, or you could put that people didnt like people that couldnt play. that was the beauty, if you sucked people knew it. unlike on wow where you can damn near float through the whole game until the very end. Dont get me wrong, i like wow. And there is stuff on wow that is a bitch, but eq was a real skill game. and if your group sucked there was no chance. if you could even find a group lol
Everyone in this game seemed stuckup. I ended up making a bard because It didn't require me to be a social whore in a world of nonfriendly players. Also money was so hard to make, unless you camped the Ice Giants. Nothing dropped good gold, and people sat around Nexus all day long. I liked it, but didn't miss it when I quit.
@jamescgale You had to have played it before that. There were stuck up people before all that but usually they ended up shutting up ASAP once someone called them out. There were a lot of creatures that dropped platinum coins. Before that entire stupid expansion which completely ruined the game, with the ability for any class to port anywhere, before the bazaar, that is where EQ was really at and it was EPIC. The later expansions just caused this game to turn crappy,
@jamescgale Money was hard to make. I WAS HAPPY money was hard to make. Games these days don't live up to the difficulty level that classic EQ had. Such as, dont get me wrong, I still play, WoW. Gold ..gear ..all of it is sooo easy to make these days, I hate it.
@benjamiy831 is that a joke? Memories of spending countless hours, tired as hell, trying to find a necro to summon my body and a cleric to rez me still haunt me to this day. Losing exp at death was one of the WORST mechanics ever. Outside of that and the possibility of gear-loss if you lose your corpse, the game was awesome.
@rainniu The EXP loss mechanic was implemented to keep players who were bad at the game from advancing until they learned from their mistakes. A little harsh, but do I miss it?
ugh. i wish I didnt have to work and shit and I could just sit around and play this like in highschool. I think my junior summer I lost about 20 pounds and was all pasty white and sickly looking from playing this. ah the joys. so sad.
@Surelog EQ rocks and critics are just zealous haters that parrot classic complaints against the game. It changed the online gaming world more than any other game, including WoW. As for camping? Right, like spending 10 hours running a WoW dungeon over and over to get a piece of gear to drop that actually fits your class isn't worse, and the same applies to nearly every other game. Subscription games <3 time sinks, period. Weak excuse.
10 Hours? lol you obviously really didn't play the game at a competent age. First of WoW sucks too, especially now, but 10 hours of camping was a good day in EQ. You spent your entire game camping.. camping a spawn for experience, camping a mob for an item that would take days sometimes weeks to get... and some times you weren't camping at all, you were waiting... in line... to camp. It was the example of what not to do in a MMO for future Games. I don't parrot, I played it.
@Surelog Oh man, about the camping... Remember when you went to a zone with a group and always started with shouting out "Camp check!"... Damn I say as everyone else, wish I could turn back time!
this game was awesome durin the winter months . when its freezin balls outside and u come home from school and ur house is all warm and u sit down and load eq up and wrap urself in a blankee and play all nite . then u look out ur window and see the snow blowing around and the winds shakin the window bur ur all cozy , then u go back to the warm , green commonlands and fite dervs with a group of gnomes and a troll :(
@jogu78 lol... you have no idea how you just hit home with me..... Mine is more like taking a day off of school even though I'm not sick and its raining outside with the sound of rain hitting my roof, and I'm all cozy in my room and logging on listening to this music and when I get online I do a /who all friends and my RL friends all stayed home from school too and we meet up! LOL funny you explained it the way you did. Winter months of eq rock so hard
so sad i dont have time to play the new realm that is going up. or as far as ive read theres some people playing. i miss this game :(((((( fuck wow, i liked wow. but it wasnt shit compared to eq. i say it all the time
I remember when I started playing this. Me and a friend were completely new to the realm, ported to Erudin and got lost in the woods outside in the middle of the night. Friend says:
You know what was great about this game? The total escapism factor of it. When you went into it, you immersed into it deeply. With today's games like World of Warcraft, the bombardment of conveniences (flight paths, friends lists, queueing for dungeons to name a few) destroys the immersion factor, and sort of makes it a game you multi-task on the side with which robs... uggg I'm high, I'm losing coherence.. i'll just leave it at that.
This is the game where I learned "Grats" was not an insult to someone... This is the game that introduced me to playing games... After watching my dad play it when I was about 8 or so, I HAD to play it.
Everquest was the best mmorpg that has been or ever will be, it saddens me that my memories fade of it, names and places lost in the mists of time. all of us trading in east tunnel!! and the odd pro soloing shady swashbuckler, they were the days.
@nick0o No idea if our server was different, but on Tunare all the Trading happened in the Greater Faydark - so much fun to lag out at the Bank and fall off the edge and die heh :P
Everquest was literally my introduction into computers. I learned how to type playing this game, and these songs and the game itself just make me happy. I liked the other games like WoW and Camelot very much, but nothing compares to Everquest...
I have to agree. I loved WoW. Had a lot of good years there. But, there is NOTHING like EQ. This music brings back such fond memories of a world that drew me in every day without fail. This cannot be recreated.
i made a vid on how to do it.. zones like Gfay have like 57 people in it, qhills has an average of 14... its back! and no lame expansions. WTB SOW PST!
Miss old Everquest ? Type project1999 in google if you want to play classic Everquest again! Classic, Kunark and Velious! No Luclin or further...its AWESOME! :)
O... M... G... This brings back memories, Ive played others since... no MMO will ever make me feel like this 1 did, a true sense of fantasy and adventure rather than the sell out rpgs of today. By far one of the greatest games ever created.
Brings a tear to my eye ha.....very first MMO ever played, aside from Ultima Online, im upset it died, upset that EQ2 sucked lol, and upset that EQOA: Frontiers died aswell.....I feel like a part of me is missing ha
got to agree with Matamuran, EQ being my first MMO, I was totally taken in. most people forget just how new that concept was and EQ really started it for all the rest to come. don't believe you can ever capture that feeling of your first time, remember most games were 2d and no social interaction, very fond memories. now that i have tried so many other MMO's, EQ still is the first.
@Hammerman24 Guess what, now you can :) Brand new server opening in 2 weeks drawing in ALOT of old players. When it opens, only Kunark will be available, and it is time locked, so we get to actually enjoy the content. Feel free to come on back :)
wow, it has been been 10 years since I first started playing EQ?! Time flies. I still remember the day I was in a shopping mall video game store (game stop?) saw EQ + kunark combo on sale for $29.99, and thought what the hack, I'd give it a try.
And tried it I did, hardcore'd for the next 6 years.
Not only I played like at least 8~10 hours, 16 hours on weekends, I spent almost every minute of my free time on the internet forums discussing stats, spells, bard songs.
@TeIecaster i played with my parents as well as a 15 year old i logged on more hours in the summer then my friends =P just to much fun to go outside when you can be in your own living world in the game
So many realy fantastic memories of playing this Game I only wish i could go back to this, Running around Crush Bone, the commons and not forgetting the city's were you used to get lost as a new player LOL.
I played this Game for 7 years and really only tired of it when it started to change after POK for the worse id say
Oh wow, this brings back memories of sitting in my dad's lap at his office till 10 playing this on a friday night. He got the gold edition with Luclin and an account for me for my 9th birthday......the first day that i grouped with him was two months later in the middle of summer at night, and as a kid I found no better bonding experience than sitting next to him and laughing at the idiots trying to PK me when he popped up and nuked them.
@doritoboy88 Me too dude.. same thing almost.. Except. my dad wasn't involved, it was my mom.. im in 9th grade now.. i played this between 2nd and 3rd grade.. good damn times
@doritoboy88 lol lucky! my dad played so much more than me, and I don't know why but I was stuck at 45-46 on two chars.. while he was always hitting lvl caps and raiding :P sometimes when he was afk i would go find him and wave lol
My first and favorite MMO. Truly a timeless classic.... I got this for my 12th birthday in 2000 and I fell in love with it.... This was the best part of my middle school years.
LOL... I remember you could tell how bad someones internet connection was back then. If you heard this song in its entirety... or if it started over... then you could bet that it was going to be wicked laggy when you finally logged in.
Damn...when I started this game I was about 7 years old in the year 2000. Despite the fact that it caused me to gain weight, lose social relationships and distracted the hell out of me...I miss the fuck out of it. Too bad I was too young to fully experience its potiental.
I can't believe people still play wow... With Eq2, Vanguard, Aion, lineage, guild wars, lotro, RoM ect.... They all out play wow... Wow should be sent to dust just like EQ1
EQ1 is not dead, 11th years later, there's still lot's of people playing, grouping, raiding here. They merge servers 2 in 1 soon, so there will be like 10 full servers still up.
Here, it is my once passion.
keisk1980 2 weeks ago
I was one of the last officers of the legendary guild Forces of light back in 1999 although i was 8 this was one of the most inspiring game i have ever had the honor of playing. my character was of the Dwarves of Kaladim i spent my days battleing evil and having epic adventures with my friends and family. i fought the orcs of crushbone the knolls of splitpaw and the many various evils that were but character had to stop playing on luclin and now in EQ II luclin blew up so ends my Everquest tale
TornadoAssassin 2 weeks ago
I was an original player of EverQuest.. I played into Kunark. I will never forget those days. I came back almost a decade later to try it again.. It is a different beast. I tried Project 1999, man.. I forgot how hard it is to get around as an erudite SK! LOL. The players there are very helpful though, helped me out. I only lasted a few months though, a long term endeavor in EQ was possible when I was 15.. Harder now that I'm 28. What a game, I hope they hit EQNext with a winner.
sparc500 2 weeks ago
So many memories. Closing my eyes I can see the many splendors and wonders of Norrath. The people I met. Brings a tear to my eye. I'm playing EverQuest 2, but it will never be the same as when I first played EverQuest.
EmeraldGardevoir 1 month ago
I know this is just midi, but I have always like the original better than the updated/EQII versions.
It just seems more grand, especially the very beginning.
The good ole days... /tear
JuliskaCat 1 month ago
Ive been reminiscing about this game recently. I'm considering paying the 15 bucks monthly just to log on and walk around and take in the sights and sounds again.
Morphicc 2 months ago
This song is my childhood.
ThraxxNecro 2 months ago
Are there any servers with original EQ and level select and any item selection /w pre-nerf items? I want to try out this game, but I don’t want to start from scratch - I don’t have the time. I also heard the original didn’t require minimum levels for gear & weapons. Is there any free Everquest emu servers that have pre mades with the best gear ever made pre nerfed - God Gear, kerafyrm, etc whatever was the best. I want to play the game in its prime with all the best items and run around killing
SequelFinalNight 3 months ago
@SequelFinalNight Kerafyrm didn't even drop anything - it was never supposed to be killed.
There's private servers out there, but most of them are advancement servers and are probably back into Kunark by now.
hammuhr 2 months ago
@hammuhr SoE didn't even place a loot table on them after people started to kill him? This is the kind of thing I've talking about all a long. SoE has never surprised me with the lack of attention to any game they have ever made. Its all about saving money to them.
SequelFinalNight 2 months ago
@SequelFinalNight He was never supposed to be spawned in the first place. He was only ever spawned a handful of times, and killed on 3 servers. He didn't have a loot table because the only way to kill him was glitching into the ground and bouncing aggro off of rangers. If you don't do it that way, he had a zone wide AOE Death Touch that demolished every NPC and PC in the zone. GMs almost always had to step in to stop it when he was spawned, because it caused too much havoc. They paid, and
hammuhr 2 months ago
@SequelFinalNight still pay a lot of attention to EQ and EQ2. Actually, they even very actively update DC Universe Online. SOE has a bad reputation for a few of their games, but in general it's a very good company and they definitely back their MMO's properly. EverQuest especially, since it's what launched them.
hammuhr 2 months ago
@hammuhr I'm waiting for EverQuest Next. I hope they take a very long time to create it. SoE is making huge profits off of EverQuest ($15 month sub) - they will milk that game forever. Here is a list of SoE MMO's: Star Wars Galaxies, Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventure, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Free Realms, PoxNora, Legends of Norrath, Vanguard Saga of Heroes, Cosmic Rift, Infantry, and DC Universe Online. You can see now why EverQuest gets all the special treatment.
SequelFinalNight 2 months ago
@SequelFinalNight
There is a server on project 1999 that just launched last week. Classic EQ PvP server - coin loot and exp loss if you die. As of now it is just classic and Kunark will come out in 10 months or so. Then Velious will come out and it will stop there. Also there is a health population... and if you start you will see that you probably wouldn't want anymore playing then there already are heh (Classic is kind of small).
coberling 2 months ago
TRAINNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Verris54321 3 months ago
@duxmode woohoo Eastern Commonlands :)!!! oh god waves of nostalgia >>>>____>>>>
Verris54321 3 months ago
i prefer the eqoa version. Then again i started there so...
wolfmoon2682 3 months ago
Would rather hear that than the current and would pay to do so.
RebelRadius 4 months ago
Come to Loc 182 -2999 lol dam good times getting lost.
SaberTanker22 4 months ago
EverQuest classic is alive again, come play at project1999
Download the client from thepiratebay . org/torrent/3894156/EverQuest_Titanium
bieberlings 4 months ago
Was it just me or were there varying versions of this theme. I seem to recall that sometime some of the other instruments would drop out and only the french horn would play. It was really beautiful!
mzeeusiku 4 months ago
@mzeeusiku The full song is about 5 minutes long IIRC. Granted I can only speak for Laura Karpmans version from EQ2, but there's about 3 different versions for it (Which I ASSUME it's a full remake of THIS version). One from the opening theme, one from Character select, and another for other assorted things.
Fun Fact: THIS version has a few cameo's in EQ2 :)
NonnagLava 4 months ago
My buddy got me into this game. Can't believe the corpse trail I left of myself when first starting. By the end of my time I had nec, clr, shm, mnk, dru...all lvl75. The game however had lost its appeal when small groups couldn't achieve the highest objectives. Raids were fine but to dedicate all play time to them wasn't my cup of tea after a while. I do miss this game though. I can recall trains, wipes, defeats, victories by the skin of my teeth. So much fun.
Drydoc2 5 months ago
Man I miss this game maybe I'll start playing again. Got a retired mage on project 1999
nightmarefaust 5 months ago
do people still play this game? i want to start playing it again if enough people play to have fun with it. :)
LebronMVP4LIFE 6 months ago
@LebronMVP4LIFE There is a surprising number of people still playing this game (my brother included). If you get back into it, you'll want to go to the Firiona Vie server, as it has the healthiest population. Don't mind the "roleplaying" tag for the server, nobody does it. Most everyone's really high-level so you might want to bring a friend or roll a character that's capable of soloing very well like a Necromancer.
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Falinique 6 months ago
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Falinique 6 months ago
Everyone head over to project 1999! It is a free to play Everquest server. It recreates the classic experience up to velious! Kunark was released only 3 months ago!
Kurtanius21 6 months ago
@iamaladycanyousaveme Same here man,easily some of the best moments i have ever had in a game, stumbling across kethlin for first time = priceless
begeura 7 months ago 2
wow this brings back some hardcore memories, TRAIN INC TO ZONE!!!!
begeura 7 months ago
shards of dalaya.
google it.
fuzzypiano 7 months ago
oh dear.. that brings back good old memories... played EQ1 for around 4 years...
Anyamar666 7 months ago
Playing on project 1999 is easy, although they are not legally allowed to give you torrent download links, goggle eq titanium torrent, the readme included tells you how to work dameon tools and install. Everything is free and the server is great, soloing in karnor's on my bard right now!
jp1mp1n1313 8 months ago
1 dislike? I thought Osama was killed.
codysutton7 8 months ago 3
This may have become the best video on youtube. Ever.
dmberreth 8 months ago
@duxmode i always used to pull the SK guild master to the tunnel and kill all the nubs!
Hatinonthehaters 8 months ago
Ruining our own lands
Lonelan 8 months ago 3
It's a little hard to play on P1999 when copies of Titanium are almost non-existant, and the ones on Amazon are price gouged.
Jenartik 8 months ago
@Jenartik There may be a torrent out there. Ouch, there is something in my eye; I must wink a bunch. Wink. Wink. Wink.
Then again, there may be no seeds anymore.
Gavither 8 months ago
I bet this game was epic... but it wasn't in my time, I was about 8 when this game came out & I never knew about mmos until about 14.
SteffersFavourites 8 months ago
@SteffersFavourites jees I was about that old when I started playing this game. 18 now and I still play some.
codysutton7 8 months ago
I used to listen to this one and a half times waiting for my dial up connection to get me into the server. 1999 for the win! lol
geogenetic 9 months ago 3
The new time locked server is out but i cant play it because ive never played EQ. You had to have previously been a member. I played the 14 day trial and i was like yeah im going live lolz.
Marasg89 9 months ago
There's a time-locked progression server out right now! I just re-joined it and as far as I know Kunark isn't released yet.
imadxhatter 9 months ago
Anyone who didn't play EQ before Luclin has no idea what they missed and never will.
BrutalPics 10 months ago 23
@BrutalPics I started right when Luclin came out...still had so many great times, though....
CaptainFleet 1 month ago
@BrutalPics Amen, brother. Amen.
rhubbard1821 1 month ago
@BrutalPics Chillaxin, peddling wares at T2 in the tunnel in EC.
WolfenFoust 1 month ago
@WolfenFoust I always sold my gear at Shady Swashbuckler. Want to know why? Because I was an evil race and people kept training Sergeant Slate and Rinna Lightshadow to the tunnel then leaving so they aggro onto all of the evil races.
Viktir666 1 month ago
@BrutalPics Really now? I played starting with the release of Kunark and I don't remember Luclin changing much. Just the best farming spots, really.
n3cr0fil3 1 month ago
love it
SymbolicSoliloquy 10 months ago
I miss the old EQ, the newer stuff kind of killed it for me
79 Druid Quellious Server
DragonSwordMagician 10 months ago
This is the bestest game lover!!!!!!!!!!
videogamelover3456 10 months ago
Just as the initial chords of midi sweep out from my speakers a single tear rolls down my cheek...a tear in remembrance of so many adventures, so many friends, and so much mystery. I am saddened for I know these things can never come to be again. No experience will ever be quite the same, nay anywhere near the same. Some may think me strange holding such love for another world in what is "just" a game. Let them. I have experienced Norrath. I will hold those memories forever
sadakuno 11 months ago 51
@sadakuno
Psst...there is life after SoE EQ...its called Project1999. Check it out! It is old school EQ at its finest!
xXGreenLegendRanXx 11 months ago
outdated graphics, clunky combat describes eq best
wsrhw 10 months ago
@wsrhw
My guess is that you are one of those WoW babies that want everything handed to them by the GMs that never had a chance to play a true MMO where you actually had to work to get stuff you wanted.
xXGreenLegendRanXx 10 months ago
@xXGreenLegendRanXx
lol, look at you getting butthurt over EverFail bitch
wsrhw 10 months ago
@wsrhw
On the contrary. Seems to me you are the one that's hurt: now resorting to curse-laden replies.
xXGreenLegendRanXx 10 months ago
@sadakuno I could not have said it any better my friend. It was my first experience with an mmo and I tried to replace it with other games but nothing will ever come close. R.I.P. 'Stone' - Guild from Zebuxorok server.
bingload 2 months ago
@sadakuno though i have never actually played EverQuest, i can agree that it is an amazing game that i still feel a lot of nostalgia for. mainly because, when i was just a little kid, my dad would play EQ all the time, and i would usually be in the same room, so i became very accustomed to the sounds of Norrath. i've always wanted to go and play it, at the least as an ode to my childhood and to my dad's favorite game, but i have not yet found the time. i really need to go play :)
EpicZantetsuken 2 months ago
@EpicZantetsuken Oh please do! This is the foundation to an epic tale! A son taking up a sword so many years later in remembrance of his father and dear childhood memories of a faraway fantastical world. The thought nearly gives me chills
sadakuno 2 months ago
@sadakuno This. So much, this.
mastertuck 1 month ago
@sadakuno EQ isn't gone is it? I thought it was still going.
Viktir666 1 month ago
@Viktir666 The game does indeed still run, but if you've ever played it in its glory days, before Luclin and the like, you'd find it's an entirely different beast. It's impossible to explain if you weren't so fortunate, so I certainly hope you are!
sadakuno 1 month ago
@sadakuno July 1999 to about 2007ish then never turned back because each new expansion got dumber and dumber.
Viktir666 1 month ago
@sadakuno Im fortunate enough to know what you mean.
zombe08 2 weeks ago
@sadakuno I was there! There is always Project 1999!
nholmes 2 weeks ago
while this game took too much of my youth i don't think there was any other like it. the best was having a girl friend that looked exactly, i mean 100% the same as the cover girl. it was a trip.
vomhausjames 11 months ago
As said by plenty of other people the difficulty curve and imersion in this game out ranks any other MMO except ultima online but EQ is still the best i've ever played. No click spam to get through quests, you had to ask the guards for a story!
Hail!
Did you hear about the [squids]?
What squids?
Ahh.... the days :D
Not to mention the time and effort it takes to get 1.0 epic nevermind the others!
steepzoid 11 months ago 2
I just got the chills. I tried to talk to guards first time I logged on... Then with my first cash I bought a fishing rod and was psyched I fished those sandals with algae on them. I wish someone would invent a "next step" type of game where I would get this same awesome feeling again.
alexdd01 11 months ago
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Attention all current and former EQ players. SoE is opening a brand new time locked progression server on Feb 15th. If you love EQ like the rest of us, come join us! Server opens with only Kunark enabled. Come one, come all!
zionpc1 11 months ago
Remembering the first log-in of the day, listening to this music and waiting to finally load in. You can still play EQ but you just can't go back in time.
ocerg1111 11 months ago
Oh man. THE best mmorpg ever made in the earlier years. I remember the EPIC journey from Queynos to Freeport, how fun that was. Going through the karanas, trying SO hard just to stay alive because if you died you were all the way back where you started, not 5 feet away at some Spirit Healer like in WoW. Talk about real fun. I remember usually going with a group of people from queynos to freeport and along the way guys would die or get lost, and usually only 1-2 people made the journey. Awesome.
JohnFl211 1 year ago
well there ever be a game like this again before i die? cry cry...
moontoot 1 year ago
WOW SOMEONE MISSED THE LIKE BUTTON !!!!!!!1..... you better kill them
drelk5546 1 year ago
id agree with people being stuck up on eq, or you could put that people didnt like people that couldnt play. that was the beauty, if you sucked people knew it. unlike on wow where you can damn near float through the whole game until the very end. Dont get me wrong, i like wow. And there is stuff on wow that is a bitch, but eq was a real skill game. and if your group sucked there was no chance. if you could even find a group lol
11bravo1789 1 year ago
Everyone in this game seemed stuckup. I ended up making a bard because It didn't require me to be a social whore in a world of nonfriendly players. Also money was so hard to make, unless you camped the Ice Giants. Nothing dropped good gold, and people sat around Nexus all day long. I liked it, but didn't miss it when I quit.
jamescgale 1 year ago
@jamescgale You had to have played it before that. There were stuck up people before all that but usually they ended up shutting up ASAP once someone called them out. There were a lot of creatures that dropped platinum coins. Before that entire stupid expansion which completely ruined the game, with the ability for any class to port anywhere, before the bazaar, that is where EQ was really at and it was EPIC. The later expansions just caused this game to turn crappy,
Gypscrew 1 year ago
@jamescgale Money was hard to make. I WAS HAPPY money was hard to make. Games these days don't live up to the difficulty level that classic EQ had. Such as, dont get me wrong, I still play, WoW. Gold ..gear ..all of it is sooo easy to make these days, I hate it.
Skabur123 1 year ago
WTS 2x Centi Longswords behind Jade, PST.
You sit.
Kurairyu 1 year ago
There's nothing like nostalgia for the greatest MMORPG ever made. WoW just doesn't even come close.
benjamiy831 1 year ago
@benjamiy831 is that a joke? Memories of spending countless hours, tired as hell, trying to find a necro to summon my body and a cleric to rez me still haunt me to this day. Losing exp at death was one of the WORST mechanics ever. Outside of that and the possibility of gear-loss if you lose your corpse, the game was awesome.
rainniu 1 year ago
@rainniu The EXP loss mechanic was implemented to keep players who were bad at the game from advancing until they learned from their mistakes. A little harsh, but do I miss it?
Horribly.
KarasawaL30 1 year ago
Took me forever and two days to get from Halas to Quenos.
Fattious 1 year ago
Pain and Suffering and Nostalgia try to hit YOU, but misses!
Pain and Suffering and Nostalgia try to hit YOU, but misses!
You have died.
Returning to home point...
LOADING...
KarasawaL30 1 year ago 4
@KarasawaL30 LOL awesome dude.
Need cleric for rez pls. Can someone help me to get my corpse.?
dinglenutzz 1 year ago
You can download the entire music from Everquest here:
mirsoft.info/wogm_download.php?data=YToyOntpOjA7czo0OiIxNjg2IjtpOjE7aToxMjkxMjI4NTA4O30=
bY Jay Barbeau
HannyCheung 1 year ago
omg, the nostalgia, it's killing me! i really shouldn't listen to this.
Dubb1eSlice1040 1 year ago
I want someone to do some sort of animation to the EQ sound track. Some of the scores are just too epic not to. Especially some of the PoP stuff.
GoodLizardlicks 1 year ago
The only time in my life when I was happy was when I was playing this game. Where's a time machine when you need one?
Brumur 1 year ago
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VirtualAutonomy 1 year ago
You have become better at Nostalgia! (287)
Archedgar 1 year ago 70
@Archedgar LOL
ironhenge7 9 months ago
@Archedgar
Oh wow. I can't upvote this enough
Lanarchy 6 months ago
ugh. i wish I didnt have to work and shit and I could just sit around and play this like in highschool. I think my junior summer I lost about 20 pounds and was all pasty white and sickly looking from playing this. ah the joys. so sad.
justinnjulie 1 year ago
The only piece of music able to bring a tear to my eye
lindyan 1 year ago
Epic..just epic
jojjimbo 1 year ago
The only people who could possibly miss EQ are the people that weren't competent (like you were 5 years old) to remember it.
It was Absolutely horrible, I want my life back from camping that Paw of Opolla so long.
If you actually played Everquest at a decent rate back then you would never want to go back to it when newer and better MMO's have come out since.
not to mention Verrant was an ass.
Surelog 1 year ago
@Surelog EQ rocks and critics are just zealous haters that parrot classic complaints against the game. It changed the online gaming world more than any other game, including WoW. As for camping? Right, like spending 10 hours running a WoW dungeon over and over to get a piece of gear to drop that actually fits your class isn't worse, and the same applies to nearly every other game. Subscription games <3 time sinks, period. Weak excuse.
EQ rocks and is a legend. /tear
ispumpkinking 1 year ago
@ispumpkinking
10 Hours? lol you obviously really didn't play the game at a competent age. First of WoW sucks too, especially now, but 10 hours of camping was a good day in EQ. You spent your entire game camping.. camping a spawn for experience, camping a mob for an item that would take days sometimes weeks to get... and some times you weren't camping at all, you were waiting... in line... to camp. It was the example of what not to do in a MMO for future Games. I don't parrot, I played it.
Surelog 1 year ago
@Surelog Oh man, about the camping... Remember when you went to a zone with a group and always started with shouting out "Camp check!"... Damn I say as everyone else, wish I could turn back time!
magglas 1 year ago
@magglas Holy crap!
I forgot about CC!
Haha...people would yell D'vinn!
Throne room!
Slavers!
Cabin!
...Aaah =')
GalryZ 1 year ago
WTB Fungi Tunic
Scottyl35 1 year ago 3
Miss this game. Anyone from Ayonae Ro? The FarEastwood...
Biggs097 1 year ago
WTS Rubicite Chestplate - 50k
CheeseburgerWithMayo 1 year ago
@CheeseburgerWithMayo WTS Rubicite Breastplate 49k
PunksDIY 1 year ago
Contrary to popular belief, Frogloks do NOT taste like chicken.
MrSovietEngland 1 year ago
this game was awesome durin the winter months . when its freezin balls outside and u come home from school and ur house is all warm and u sit down and load eq up and wrap urself in a blankee and play all nite . then u look out ur window and see the snow blowing around and the winds shakin the window bur ur all cozy , then u go back to the warm , green commonlands and fite dervs with a group of gnomes and a troll :(
jogu78 1 year ago 6
@jogu78 lol... you have no idea how you just hit home with me..... Mine is more like taking a day off of school even though I'm not sick and its raining outside with the sound of rain hitting my roof, and I'm all cozy in my room and logging on listening to this music and when I get online I do a /who all friends and my RL friends all stayed home from school too and we meet up! LOL funny you explained it the way you did. Winter months of eq rock so hard
PunksDIY 1 year ago 4
@PunksDIY lol aint that the truth i use to lie and act like im sick just so i could play this game
lordzabuzar 1 year ago
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CRITOG LIVES!!!!!
bdsnsc 1 year ago
CRITOG LIVES!!!!!
bdsnsc 1 year ago
google project1999
MikeyNFO 1 year ago
LOADING, PLEASE WAIT...
sabizmal420 1 year ago
i remember those days and fell homesick :(
rbsraudi 1 year ago
probably the greatest game ever especially this one.It was called evercrack for a reason!!
andos8888 1 year ago
This music makes me homesick.. I miss these days.
rumpleseq 1 year ago
@mchlor how so?
cooleobrad1337 1 year ago
so sad i dont have time to play the new realm that is going up. or as far as ive read theres some people playing. i miss this game :(((((( fuck wow, i liked wow. but it wasnt shit compared to eq. i say it all the time
justinnjulie 1 year ago
Sweet, sad nostalgia.
I remember when I started playing this. Me and a friend were completely new to the realm, ported to Erudin and got lost in the woods outside in the middle of the night. Friend says:
"Umm, I'm scared..."
Hahaha, good times :D
Barzok73 1 year ago
You know what was great about this game? The total escapism factor of it. When you went into it, you immersed into it deeply. With today's games like World of Warcraft, the bombardment of conveniences (flight paths, friends lists, queueing for dungeons to name a few) destroys the immersion factor, and sort of makes it a game you multi-task on the side with which robs... uggg I'm high, I'm losing coherence.. i'll just leave it at that.
Jukalig 1 year ago 5
The game where I learned to love rogues.
Amashkitotamoes 1 year ago
Wow! This is so nostalgic.
KathrynB621 1 year ago
This is the game where I learned "Grats" was not an insult to someone... This is the game that introduced me to playing games... After watching my dad play it when I was about 8 or so, I HAD to play it.
wkunzelman1 1 year ago
Everquest was the best mmorpg that has been or ever will be, it saddens me that my memories fade of it, names and places lost in the mists of time. all of us trading in east tunnel!! and the odd pro soloing shady swashbuckler, they were the days.
nick0o 1 year ago 2
@nick0o No idea if our server was different, but on Tunare all the Trading happened in the Greater Faydark - so much fun to lag out at the Bank and fall off the edge and die heh :P
KubaxKristallmond 1 year ago
Everquest was literally my introduction into computers. I learned how to type playing this game, and these songs and the game itself just make me happy. I liked the other games like WoW and Camelot very much, but nothing compares to Everquest...
SunBathedAngel 1 year ago
Aw mah gosh, the late 90s were such an innovative time, in terms of video games.
rakunishu 1 year ago
Christ, I was in elementary when I first heard this. I long to go back to that time just for one more day.
EricToTheScionti 1 year ago
I have to agree. I loved WoW. Had a lot of good years there. But, there is NOTHING like EQ. This music brings back such fond memories of a world that drew me in every day without fail. This cannot be recreated.
Dehnyen 1 year ago
@Dehnyen Yes it can - within one's memories it'll last for a long time, until death finally wipes it away forever. Everything is finite in the end...
KubaxKristallmond 1 year ago
you can play the OLD EQ AGAIN FOR FREE!!!!!!
i made a vid on how to do it.. zones like Gfay have like 57 people in it, qhills has an average of 14... its back! and no lame expansions. WTB SOW PST!
StingChameleonREMIX 1 year ago
Dvinn is out! Choochoo Train to Zone!
abugina 1 year ago
I will never forget that black horse in lesser faydark. That was some crazy AI. Unpredictable. Demonic. Awesome.
bratfix 1 year ago
Miss old Everquest ? Type project1999 in google if you want to play classic Everquest again! Classic, Kunark and Velious! No Luclin or further...its AWESOME! :)
Nedala88 1 year ago 24
@Nedala88 sers nedala, wies aussieht haben wir die gleiche idee ;o) (mitic)
classic everquest is still there!!!!
come visit: project1999 (dot) org
see you in norrath!
diLuca77 1 year ago
MY MSN nick is:
I loved it when mages would drag mob pets into the tunnel, it was like rats on a sinking ship lol
cheer up for the magicians!!!!
Enanon 1 year ago
O... M... G... This brings back memories, Ive played others since... no MMO will ever make me feel like this 1 did, a true sense of fantasy and adventure rather than the sell out rpgs of today. By far one of the greatest games ever created.
MrBuggaLugs 1 year ago
Brings a tear to my eye ha.....very first MMO ever played, aside from Ultima Online, im upset it died, upset that EQ2 sucked lol, and upset that EQOA: Frontiers died aswell.....I feel like a part of me is missing ha
GTrain94 1 year ago
Every time I play another MMO Its just not the same and I always go back to Eq1.
chad911TT 1 year ago
got to agree with Matamuran, EQ being my first MMO, I was totally taken in. most people forget just how new that concept was and EQ really started it for all the rest to come. don't believe you can ever capture that feeling of your first time, remember most games were 2d and no social interaction, very fond memories. now that i have tried so many other MMO's, EQ still is the first.
Zuaiko 1 year ago
Every time you heard this song, there was always the whisper in the back of your mind, "I wonder what will happen to me today?"
davidr64yt 1 year ago 2
Raise your hand if you want to go back to the first days of Kunark. *raises hand*
Hammerman24 1 year ago 107
@Hammerman24 *raises hand*
lindyan 1 year ago
@Hammerman24 Guess what, now you can :) Brand new server opening in 2 weeks drawing in ALOT of old players. When it opens, only Kunark will be available, and it is time locked, so we get to actually enjoy the content. Feel free to come on back :)
zionpc1 11 months ago
@Hammerman24 I really miss those days..... Sniff.
TheTrueNinja12 11 months ago
@Hammerman24
Great news for you Hammerman...March 25th Kunark opens on Project1999!!
xXGreenLegendRanXx 10 months ago
wow, it has been been 10 years since I first started playing EQ?! Time flies. I still remember the day I was in a shopping mall video game store (game stop?) saw EQ + kunark combo on sale for $29.99, and thought what the hack, I'd give it a try.
And tried it I did, hardcore'd for the next 6 years.
Not only I played like at least 8~10 hours, 16 hours on weekends, I spent almost every minute of my free time on the internet forums discussing stats, spells, bard songs.
onicEQ 1 year ago 3
Tears of nostalgia
Barzok73 1 year ago
Ahh, brings back memories. I remember playing this with my parents back in 1999, having so much fun, really wish EQ2 wasn't such a bad game.
TeIecaster 1 year ago
@TeIecaster i played with my parents as well as a 15 year old i logged on more hours in the summer then my friends =P just to much fun to go outside when you can be in your own living world in the game
SaberTanker22 1 year ago
google project 1999
whycantirem 1 year ago
Goddamn, nostalgia
lindyan 1 year ago
So many realy fantastic memories of playing this Game I only wish i could go back to this, Running around Crush Bone, the commons and not forgetting the city's were you used to get lost as a new player LOL.
I played this Game for 7 years and really only tired of it when it started to change after POK for the worse id say
Dysan314 1 year ago
@Dysan314 i quit after PoK, so i can't say much. i do miss it, though. was my first MMO, and definitely will always be my favorite.
yourmumisepic 1 year ago
Oh wow, this brings back memories of sitting in my dad's lap at his office till 10 playing this on a friday night. He got the gold edition with Luclin and an account for me for my 9th birthday......the first day that i grouped with him was two months later in the middle of summer at night, and as a kid I found no better bonding experience than sitting next to him and laughing at the idiots trying to PK me when he popped up and nuked them.
doritoboy88 1 year ago
@doritoboy88 Me too dude.. same thing almost.. Except. my dad wasn't involved, it was my mom.. im in 9th grade now.. i played this between 2nd and 3rd grade.. good damn times
jezzon2376 1 year ago
@doritoboy88 lol lucky! my dad played so much more than me, and I don't know why but I was stuck at 45-46 on two chars.. while he was always hitting lvl caps and raiding :P sometimes when he was afk i would go find him and wave lol
buddieclub1 1 year ago
My first and favorite MMO. Truly a timeless classic.... I got this for my 12th birthday in 2000 and I fell in love with it.... This was the best part of my middle school years.
NuNegus 1 year ago
Ahh memories. Train!!! *run run run* Zoning.. please wait. Train!!! Oh crap. Zoning... please wait. Trapped between 2 zone's trains. Good times.
fengofts 1 year ago
@fengofts lol i hated that lol leave one mans train to run in to some noobs monster train coming right at you with orcs and goblins
SaberTanker22 1 year ago
LOL... I remember you could tell how bad someones internet connection was back then. If you heard this song in its entirety... or if it started over... then you could bet that it was going to be wicked laggy when you finally logged in.
rkallen09 1 year ago
ZONING..... PLEASE WAIT
mooglemania06 1 year ago
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Oriztomakilaz123 1 year ago
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Oriztomakilaz123 1 year ago
so agree with Matamuram
llyrae 1 year ago
Damn...when I started this game I was about 7 years old in the year 2000. Despite the fact that it caused me to gain weight, lose social relationships and distracted the hell out of me...I miss the fuck out of it. Too bad I was too young to fully experience its potiental.
kems789 1 year ago
Entering Crush bone..... /ooc TRAIN TO ZONE!!!!!!
Gindaas 1 year ago
EPIC!!!! Miss this game so much.
LordCobraX7134 1 year ago
this kind of reminds me of the grandia theme ( watch?v=LGiNEaNxOxo ) it's different but has that same epic feeling.
xxGing 1 year ago
Damn really brings back memories waiting to log in and something killing me as i logged in lol
zerofreeze3000 1 year ago
I can't believe people still play wow... With Eq2, Vanguard, Aion, lineage, guild wars, lotro, RoM ect.... They all out play wow... Wow should be sent to dust just like EQ1
Laxmaster72 1 year ago
@Laxmaster72
EQ1 is not dead, 11th years later, there's still lot's of people playing, grouping, raiding here. They merge servers 2 in 1 soon, so there will be like 10 full servers still up.
Vaan08 1 year ago
@Vaan08
So theres actually people still playing?
Oriztomakilaz123 1 year ago
Funny part is, I could recognize the area of the song that I would usually load in the game around!
InversedLogic 1 year ago