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Summary: Great Game
Review: If you really want to go any where in the EverQuest PC, interactive online game you need everything up to Planes of Power. The legends of Yeksha expansion is brand new, however it is very easy to play the game without it, but dont take me wrong, this game is NOT for all you people who just want to take an hour or two out of the night to get on your computer. No, this game does take alot of time and dedication, not for the light hearted gamers! You should only purchase beyond Ruins of Kunark if you are positive that you will be dedicated in playing this game, otherwise I strongly advise against it. (note: this game does require a online fee for server time, it's approxametly 120$ a year, however the new Legends server is quite a bit more, but isn't as widely used as the original servers, but much more reliable.)
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Summary: The fun is up to you.
Review: If you don't already own everquest, this is not for you. Not because it's bad, but as every review I have seen thus far forgets that you NEED a copy of EQ to run it. It's an expansion pack. However, what this does do is give you more ground to cover, 2 moons to be exact, brings the graphics up to today's standards (and well beyond any other mass multiplayer game to date), improved game play by changing the windows look and adding a transparent look to unused sub-windows, and advanced leveling options for level 50 and up (you can finally change your base stats!). All in all, if you already play and like EQ, this is a good expansion to get. However, the idea that a Dungeons and Dragons rip-off going to the moon is almost as scary as the Dungeons and Dragons movie, so therefore I give it a 4 out of five stars. If you like the idea of teleporting off a planet then jump it up to 5 stars, because online mass multiplayer games are what you make of it, and nothing more.
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Summary: Disgrace
Review: Everquest is a disgrace to the mmorpg genre. The graphics are years outdated and the gameplay is horrid. If you're interested in a good mmorpg, go for Dark Age of Camelot.
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Summary: A Must have for EverQuest Fans
Review: Shadows of Luclin is an expansion pack with some excellent new features that is essential for any Everquest player. Probably the most exciting feature of this expansion is the new character models. These models are drastically more detailed than the previous models. In addition to that, new customization features have been introduced. You can customize virtually anything, from eye color to hair style. On the down side, though, your friends running the old character models will not get to see all the nifty customizations that you have made. Also, the new models take some getting used to. Trolls are now more upright, Ogres look more fierce and less stupid and elves are more refined (facial-feature-wise). Just because there are a lot more details doesn't mean that you may neccessarily like the new models. One of my favorite features is armor is no longer just a texture, but it actually adds new polygons to give your armor girth. In addition to that, Shadows of Luclin introduces the moon of Luclin, a mystical moon of Norrath that previously remained hidden in the night sky. There is a wide variety of zones to play in that add a new flavor to EverQuest, from the dank Paladual caverns to the empty void known as "the Grey" and exotic arabic styled city of Shar Vahl. Relatively speaking, each zone is 200% more detailed than the original EverQuest zones. Also, this expansion introduces the playable race known as the Val Shir. These are basically giant cat-like men who are roughly related to the Kerrans and have been estranged on this moon for a long time. This playable race introduces the new class called the beastlord (which can be played by various other races). Now you can have a warder (an animal friend) who fights for you. Unfortuantely, this new little buddies often get lost, so you need to make sure they are right behind you. The Val Shir are well detailed, giving you a variety of different fur patterns to pick from (tiger stripes, leopard spot, etc.) In addition to that, there has been a variety of excellent additions introduced since Shadows of Luclin, including the great Bazaar (in which hundreds of player gather in one place and use an interface to trade with one another). A brand new interface that is skinnable, an MP3 player and an out of game messenger so you can check in on your buddies when you can't make it in the game. Of course these are standard to regular EQ players as well. With all the features, its hard not to get excited. Previous SOL was plagued with stability problems, but these are thing of the past. Despite the extensive memory requirements (which probably aren't so extensive anymore as of this writing), there are vitually no drawbacks to buying this game. However, if you do not like the mechanics of EQ, than chances are this expansion will not change your mind as they are all still there.
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Summary: Love it.
Review: This is one of the best expansions to one of the best games I have ever played. Wonderful!
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Summary: Revives an old game..
Review: I was starting to get tired of playing EQ, but this expansion does so much to make it fun again! It not only adds a new world, race, and profession- it also redoes the graphics of characters and gives you much more custome options in character creation. And there's horses now!!!
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Summary: Cost/benefit
Review: I have been playin EQ since 2001, so I am not as old school or 'uber' as many hardcore EQers out there. Initially I bought the origional EQ, with no expansions, and a 90 day card just to try it out. Immediately this game drew me in, but I stuck to the old world for several months before reaching a point of utter frustration at the time spent searching for groupmates, compared to the actual time fighting. I was so close to giving up, but instead started playing a solo class, the druid. Eventually I started grouping with regular friends, and my experience became much better. Once we leveled into the 30's my friends wanted to move on to Velious, so I went out and bought the trilogy. It was a great buy, the content for that level range is much larger with only a few select zones. I quickly leveled to the late 40's and then took some time away from the game. Now a few months later I have returned, and the first thing I did was buy SoL. My experience on the moon is limited to 2 zones, the Nexus and the bazaar. These two zones alone are well worth the money spent for SoL. With the Nexus now any character regardless of porting abilities has many more places they can zap too without taking a boat. The nexus is also great for finding groups, nice buffs like KEI and ports to anywhere in the world. The real boon of SoL is the bazaar. One of the things I had a love/hate relationship in EQ was the necessity of bartering goods with other players. Basically it came down to sitting in the EC tunnel trying to read the auctions as they flew by. Learning all the acronymns was hard, and selling things back was such a long and tedious task that I either sold things at a great loss or just plain gave them away for the sake of my sanity. The bazaar has made all these problems disappear. Any time of the day it is possible to enter the bazaar and search for any piece of equipment you need and can afford. Yes, there is lag and it is bad, but who cares? Instead of wasting time and money in ECbay trying to find an upgrade the procees is much simpler. You can browse the wares at your own leisure, compare prices, and discover items you never knew existed. Also the nature of the bazaar itself has depreciated a lot of the mid-range gear. Everyone tries to undercut the rest, making it very easy and rewarding to twink a new class. I started a warrior and bought gear for maybe 5kpp that would have cost 50k and 100s of hours prebazaar.
Like I said, the other content is unknown to me. I will soon begin to explore these zones, but the bazaar itself was well worth the one time cost of purchase of this game. It is almost a requirement, as the old way of buying and selling is all but dead. Very shrewd, Verant. As much as people like to complain about Sony, I think it is great how mush the game keeps imroving over time. New zones, newbie quests, new mobs, new spells; keep it up, your fans aren't going anywhere. EQ: the best and worst thing that has happened to me in years. Love it, and dispair =).
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Summary: TOO LAGGy
Review: OK I love the graphics in this expansion and stuff like that but just to tell you the truth this expansion LAGS on a 2.2Ghz 1Gb RAM Geforce 4 Ti 4600 with 128 megs, and this is no joke. I would recommend to get thsi expansion only for the bazaar feature because it is very convinient.
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Summary: Horrible Frame Rate, semi-okay expansion
Review: First, do NOT get drawn in by the graphics. They may look somewhat decent, but, I assure you that you'll "never" get the chance to fully enjoy them. On systems with video cards with 128 MBs of video ram, the frame rate STILL lags. No, I'm not joking! It's that bad. Varant has historically done horrible with their 3D engine. That said, there are some very, very nice looking zones in the expansion. Some areas down right beautiful and you'll find yourself enjoying the scenery for awhile. Of course, you may be enjoying them at the same speed you enjoy a screen shot if your clipping plane is out all of the way so you CAN take in the full view, but, there's a few very impressive ones none the less. Content is so-so. Newbies will love this (Paludal Caverns) as level up experience is insane. For higher levels, if you don't sink ENORMOUS ammounts of time (Vex Thal key) for raiding, you'll experience semi-decent zones. The story is okay. There is a great deal of it in here, but, it never really comes out in game play. From the few quests I've seen, they're a little interesting. There are newbie quest items (Twilight Sea) & higher end (that "evil shaman" skull shield quest, name escapes me), yet nothing that really jumps out at me. The (as current) stumping Zevfeer quest seems like it could, though suspicion exists that it's broke (and some parts currently are, with a certain NPC poofing instead of responding to quest-related text). The Bazaar zone has 500 people in it, on average. I don't care how good your computer is, you will be staring at the floor or the wall, or you'll have a screen shot slide show (ultra low frame rate). :D All in all, if you do get this, you will be using it for: Bazaar trader zone, leveling your newbies, and camping hours in each luclin zone for the VT key "quest" (the current end-game raiding zone). Outside of that you can get some good loot in zones like The Grey if you're higher level and/or have a good group, but, it's ultimately a so-so experience. Use a top end (2Ghz, 1+GIG RAM, 128 MB card) system if you plan on doing anything remotely resembling adventuring in this, or you'll be stuck with a 15% or so viewing radius and/or options turned off like the rest of us. ~Mysk
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Summary: They lost the recipe.
Review: Don't expect this to be an expansion to EQ as you know it. It is nothing like EQ, Kunark, and the Velious expansion. They changed the recipe - and is isnt for the better. They lost something in this expansion. Some zones in it are very nice, and others are just plain 'intolerable' for a 'pay-for-play'game. The bazaar is a nice feature, as well as being more independant on porting yourself around the game universe, but the gameplay - has me shaking my head sometimes. Advice...quit neglecting that poor dog and take him for a walk.
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