EQ2 2002 Alfa Footage

E3 2002 presentation of Everquest 2

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Entertainment

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• eq2
• beta
• alpha
• presentation
• 2002
• e3
• everquest

[Asamof]

Just so you EQ2 players know... (which you should since you play the game already..) EQ2 looks nothing like this. The graphics got a SERIOUS downgrade before it went live because these were too intense for everyone to handle, and the game looks atrocious now.

[SISLA]

Ofcourse it would, you were not expecting to run graphics more or less like Crysis on machines of 4 years ago, right?

[LunaGer]

Most machines still could not display eq2 as it was meant to be displayed. If they'd released it like this, people would simply have complained of system req's and lag.

If you prefer realism (as I do), EQ2 is still the best looking game out there. WoW, while fun, just doesn't compare.

[Zheff73]

A top-end machine is just now - 6 years later - starting to do this demo justice, and only if you use top settings. And you will still get crap framerates in a raid. These guys deserve some credit for creating a game in 2002 that is still past the state of the art visually.

[ArknineYT]

@SISLA

Especially with EQ2's laughably horrible engine.

If it had an halfway appropriate render it'd be possible to make it look fairly decent.

[ArknineYT]

Shame they cocked up the engine so badly and shitkicked the graphics on top of it.

[jcodbf2]

If only SOE didnt design their engine as CPU heavy.. Even now a 3.7ghz Quad Core struggles. Atleast they were able to put in shader 3.0 after all these years.

[chrisworld2]

Also notice when he mentions about "you design your character's looks, race etc.." and just jump into the game, worry about class specific decisions later. EQ2 used to be this way but it isn't anymore and infact the original starting area is now gone of the latest update.

[chrisworld2]

While this was pretty state of the art in 2002, they have really neglected the coding quite a bit over the years. EQ2 still only runs at it's best on a single core P4 with high clock speeds which was more popular back then. Today, multicore CPU's which are basically all that they have in the only PC's available anymore can't even run this game as well as it should because the coding just dosen't run good on them.

[danmarcl30]

If EQ2 didnt screw up on its armor design and implimented this sytem , EQ2 would have alot more people playing it.

[stab234]

Why doesn't EQ2 look like this now?

The cool looking armor like in this vid. We just got the same boring sets.

[Paronomastic]

Opinions are opinions..

[Cornicer1]

Sorry, but the fact is that EQ2's animations are all exactly the same with the obvious exceptions of Sarnak, and Fae/Arasai; they're just adjusted to fit the scale of the model.

Is EQ2 more realistic? Of course. Are it's animations better? Yeah. Are they more unique between races? Absolutely not.

[Paronomastic]

What? eq2 has not only more animations but it also feels more unique because of the fact the animations look real thanks to the better graphics and fluid movement. Wow has horrible graphics and choppy movement. The jump function in wow is ridiculous also..