Soldato
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I remember Everquest 2 and World of Warcraft being reviewed in the same issue of PC Zone, about 6years ago.
They both scored 95%.
Everquest 2 was a more deeper and serious mmorpg with a proven pedigree. I also found out it had a fantastic mature community (never met a complete ass once).
I went for that as the demo was great.
It was my first mmorpg if I remember correctly and I was amazed by it, apart from the fact that even a super computer at the time couldn't run it on full settings it was mint.
The crafting was a joy to behold, the combat required lots of skill, which I loved. Little things like buying your first house and furnishing it with your own built furniture using the materials you gathered yourself was a great diversion.
I was a dark elf monk, who left freeport and settled in the high elf city(the good guys) after completing the betrayal quest. This made my character stand out a bit, and since a dark elf can't become a monk in freeport because he is of evil alignment I got a lot of tells laughing about my character selection.
I joined a guild in freeport, which I really liked to join a guild with the good guys, a tough decision but it had to be done. Many other great adventures folled including massive raids with involved tons of players from various guilds.
One day I tried WoW as a hunter and trained a wolf, I was a dwarf. I really liked this idea. But after trying the crafting, combat and having a few chats I give up and concluded it was massively overrated. No skill in combat req. Ditto with crafting and a, lets say a community that resembled a nursery. I didn't like the graphics either, or the lack of variety in the character creation.
I went back to EQ2 quickly. Eventually because of other commitments I left EQ2 and sold my character on fleebay (I still regret it).
Couple of years later I had time again, went back to EQ2 and just didn't have the energy to level up again, it is much harder or takes longer to level than WoW does. I went to WoW. got into and spent some time playing it, and eventually, even though it was different I really enjoyed it. Crafting, Character creation, lack of skill for combat and a sort of snobbish attitude to raid requirements at the end of game was a joke though. "at least 5800 GS, less and you will get booted" what a shocking attitude.
I've give up both.
The point of this post is this. Everquest 2 in a somewhat restricted form(like LoTRO) is available as free to play. The graphical problems have been sorted, and it runs in flash (as far as I can tell) which is an amazing achievement. No massive disk space loss.
I highly recommend it. In my opinion PC Zone was the best and most trustworthy PC magazine that ever existed, and it didn't give out a score of 95% for nothing.
If you've got the time I recommend you give it a blast:
Everquest 2 - Free to Play
They both scored 95%.
Everquest 2 was a more deeper and serious mmorpg with a proven pedigree. I also found out it had a fantastic mature community (never met a complete ass once).
I went for that as the demo was great.
It was my first mmorpg if I remember correctly and I was amazed by it, apart from the fact that even a super computer at the time couldn't run it on full settings it was mint.
The crafting was a joy to behold, the combat required lots of skill, which I loved. Little things like buying your first house and furnishing it with your own built furniture using the materials you gathered yourself was a great diversion.
I was a dark elf monk, who left freeport and settled in the high elf city(the good guys) after completing the betrayal quest. This made my character stand out a bit, and since a dark elf can't become a monk in freeport because he is of evil alignment I got a lot of tells laughing about my character selection.
I joined a guild in freeport, which I really liked to join a guild with the good guys, a tough decision but it had to be done. Many other great adventures folled including massive raids with involved tons of players from various guilds.
One day I tried WoW as a hunter and trained a wolf, I was a dwarf. I really liked this idea. But after trying the crafting, combat and having a few chats I give up and concluded it was massively overrated. No skill in combat req. Ditto with crafting and a, lets say a community that resembled a nursery. I didn't like the graphics either, or the lack of variety in the character creation.
I went back to EQ2 quickly. Eventually because of other commitments I left EQ2 and sold my character on fleebay (I still regret it).
Couple of years later I had time again, went back to EQ2 and just didn't have the energy to level up again, it is much harder or takes longer to level than WoW does. I went to WoW. got into and spent some time playing it, and eventually, even though it was different I really enjoyed it. Crafting, Character creation, lack of skill for combat and a sort of snobbish attitude to raid requirements at the end of game was a joke though. "at least 5800 GS, less and you will get booted" what a shocking attitude.
I've give up both.
The point of this post is this. Everquest 2 in a somewhat restricted form(like LoTRO) is available as free to play. The graphical problems have been sorted, and it runs in flash (as far as I can tell) which is an amazing achievement. No massive disk space loss.
I highly recommend it. In my opinion PC Zone was the best and most trustworthy PC magazine that ever existed, and it didn't give out a score of 95% for nothing.
If you've got the time I recommend you give it a blast:
Everquest 2 - Free to Play
