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Summary: PLEASE!!
Review: Sorry had to give it a one star to balance out the fun to life draining ratio. I wouldn't reccommend eq, your just getting yourself into something that you will spend years trying to get your self out of. If your lucky like me maybe you will actually get bored of it as I did. This game does get boring fast, it's just a very long level up game, that's all it is, level up. No story, overrated items, impossible challenges and lot's of things will anger you off becaus yes this is a massive online multi game. If you already have eq , i reccomend not starting the new race to lvl up to 60, your just sucking more life out of yourself. I will probably buy it, walk around see the new items then never play till the next expansion. This game isn't really fun, it's addicting because things are always JUST out of your reach and you keep thinking you can accomplish the next step. The truth is, there are never ending steps so the game is really never ending which makes it a vicious cycle. Whenever i bad mouth this game people on eq get mad, why defend something that takes your life and money. This game IS a real role playing game because you literally become it, which is bad. If you play eq I hope you come to realize this soon or you are forever doomed to become a prisoner of eq. So far I have only found one cure to defeating the addiction of eq: -Deleting your character-
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Summary: Being Level 60
Review: I have several characters, one of which is level 60 and has some of the best equipment. Many quests have been done, many hours spent every day just to get that next item or better weapon. I wont say EQ isnt fun. Some times it has its fun moments, guild raids/taking down things that are just too godly for you to even look at. The problem comes when you begin to get competitive with other people and to have the best items. This is where the expansions come in. Once all the hardcore players have the best items from one expansion they begin to get bored and either quit or twink as its called(give a level 10 character level 60 items)
So the breakdown of what this game is really about?1. You sit in one spot kiling monsters over and over and over and over so that you can get that NEXT level (again so you can be competitive with friends and keep up with them) all so you can kill bigger monsters over and over and over to get the next
higher level..thus the term levelquest. 2. Kill gods/dragons so you can get better items so you can kill bigger things and thus get even better items. Eventually you run into the point where the items do not get any better. The only thing that gives the game its fun factor is doing this stuff with friends and seeing them get better. Of course there are loot whores. but that is something you see commonly at high level. One warning about Verant, the customer service will do very very little to help you in many situations. I have explained things till I was blue in the face and had the customer service rep in game (aka guide) just not get it/ not care. Think of it like this, you kill gods/dragons and spend 3 months doing 1 quest all to have it be bugged and not work. You have customer service tell you: sorry cant help you, start over! dont want to believe it? call me a liar? you will see. this is just one of many many examples I could give.
The game is good but just remember: MODERATION IS THE KEY (dont stop taking showers/eating..i know ppl who have)
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Summary: Wait.... Don't do it!
Review: If you plan on buying this new expansion to the Everquest saga then read on my friend. Read on. I have heard many people say this game should be called "Evercrack." Let me tell you... IT IS!!! If you want a life or plan on staying involved in a serious relationship outside your online gaming life DON'T BUY THIS GAME. The original game was and is highly addictive. I can not imagine just how much more imersive the new game will be. And I mean "new" game. Although the concept is the same. Venture through many lands that can take upwards of hours to walk to in real life time. Fight a ton of differnt monsters. Go on epic quests to "save the world". And even strike fear into the hearts of the gods. The new graphics engine will make the game that much more intense. I've seen the new screenshots. I've seen the game engine in action. And being an addict all I can say is, "Super killer sweet!" The new graphics are great! And as Verant's ever lasting drive to perfect this neverending world continues I can only imagine how much better it will be even after this expansion comes out. So like I said. Don't buy this game if you have never played EQ. Don't think twice about clicking the "back" button on your browser in moving slowly away from your computer. Because this is one seriously addictive game. But for those addicts out there... I know your pain my brothers and sisters. I know your pain.
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Summary: Everquest is an outstanding value!
Review: My wife and I have played everquest for over two years and I agree that players can spend a great deal of time online playing this game, but people spend a lot of time pursuing less engaging forms of entertainment. The value of EQ is outstanding when compared to other forms of entertainment. Consider this, the average American watches 3 to 4 hours of TV per day, and EQ players can easily spend that amount of time on line. EQ Costs a fraction of what it costs to run Dish 500 TV or something similar. Also, it is more expensive for my wife and I to go to one movie a month than to have our EQ accounts. On a cost / hour basis EQ is a steal, and in EQ players must interact solve problems etc. When watching movies as well as sports or sit coms people are passively entertained. How one spends his free time is a relative thing it boils down to what one you enjoy doing. If you are a couch potato or an EQ Fanatic do try to get out and get some physical activity. Variety is the spice of life!
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Summary: Wonderfully Addicting
Review: To start, I must agree with most everyone else, EQ is extremely addicting. But, as you would reason, there are reasons for it being addictive. No, obviously it isn't little chemicals floating out of your computer's sound system drugging you, it's that EverQuest is incredibley involving world. The game is entertaining, provides dozens of options in who you are, and because it's an online multi-player game, human interaction. Sure, it isn't going out and spending direct time with someone, but you can still meet people and talk. The great thing is that the people aren't always ones sharing your culture, thoughts, and location. I have met people from Alberta (Can.), from Sweden, the UK, and several other places quite distant from New York. Secondly, the game quality is impeccable. There are hundreds of goals to strive for. If you have a fairly nice computer system, images aren't too bad. I personally have a cable connection to the internet, so I don't get any lag. I don't recommend getting started with EQ if you have a modem. Lag will be bad, and you probably will have high fees from being on quite often. As I said, EQ is addictive. That's just my thoughts on the game though. Buy EQ. Buy the expansions, especially this one. I can't wait until it comes out, I think it will add a whole new dimension to the game. Karaina
Monk in her 14th Season
Lanys T'Vyll
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Summary: A whole new world!
Review: Everquest, (Some refer as Evercrack), is defently the best game I've ever had the chance to play. With its amazing multiplayer action and fun factor, it totally blows through the roofs. I've always been a fan of RPG's, and if you have the time and money, I would strongly suggest buying this game. I must warn you, if you get addicted, which will happen if your a true RPG gamer, you will end up finding yourself struggling to get things done. I'm talking about stuff realated to your job, school work, Girlfriends, and lack of sleep. So if you have all these going good for you, I really wouldn't recoment buying EQ. On further note, when I first bought EQ, and actually got on and played it, it was like a whole new world. Your mind is totally focused towards EQ, Your heart beats literaly twice as fast, all because it's a new experience. This effect will honestly last about 6 months. Then it's to the point where your so addictided, it comes natural for you to get on and play. It may not give the same effect as it did the first 6 months you played, but you will still enjoy playing it. This is the reason I only gave it a 4 star rating, Everquest does get old, or should I say it becomes a routine. Same thing day after day, that is really the only main problem with EQ. I'm Hoping SoL will change things, but I'm sure it will only for a while. So if you don't have this game, I really suggest you buy it and try it out. It is literally a Whole New World.
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Summary: Verant and Sony bring us another winner.
Review: Verant and Sony, 4 years ago, brought us Everquest. Since the past few years they have expanded the game from Everquest: The Ruins of Kunark, to now Everquest: The Shadow's of Lucilin. Lucilin looks like the #1 RPG (role-playing game) for the computer when it comes to graphics and gameplay. Now, when I first heard about the game from an Everquest website, I looked at some pictures from the game and they look fantastic. A totally new compatible race and class is open to explore and adventure with, along side a new moon of the Everquest world of Norrath. I have played Everquest for almost a year now, it has not cease to amaze me with its new wonders and horizons there are to explore. Lucilin should probably be a big hit, but there is one catch to it... Older computers may not be able to hold all the memory that this game may require. Therefore I shall not be purchasing this game until my parents decide to buy a newer computer =) I hope this review helped with your decision on buying this game.
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Summary: This by far the best expansion to date hands down.
Review: This is by far best expansions for any lvl 46+ toon.this is must expansion get you 65 still alot zones that are live.Kiteing grps best two zones is Halls Of Honor or Planes Of Valor.Any pet class 55+ will get godly exp in these two kiteing groups all the way lvl 65.This is my favorite expansion to date.
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Summary: EQ: Shadows of Luclin: A low point for EverQuest
Review: Note: This review is ONLY about the "Shadows of Luclin" add-on to Everquest, and not the game itself. After the triumph that was the "Scars of Velious," it was probably inevitable that "Shadows of Luclin" (SoL) was to be something of a disappointment. But instead, it was a crushing disappointment, wildly incomplete and buggy when it launched, and still bafflingly unfinished even today, almost two years later. Whereas Velious gave us a three way war between the dwarves, giants and dragons, Luclin promised to plunge players into the ongoing civil war of the lost Combine Empire. But instead of the difficult (and game-changing) choices Velious offered, players for the most part could move between the two warring sides freely, and many players, even now, had no idea the two sides WERE at war. There are hints at it, but this much-touted aspect of the expansion feels perhaps 1/3 finished. That feeling of things being unfinished permeates the whole expansion: There is a colony of gnomes in a cavern, including the teasingly named King of Above and King of Below, neither of whom speak, and who are surrounded by equally mute courtiers, except for a single historian whose dialogue has been broken for two years. Who are they? What are they there for? Where are their kingdoms? We may never know. The storyline of the expansion, if you have the patience to tease it out of a dozen zones of all levels, involves the goddess of shadow, Luclin herself, keeping the Combine refugees trapped on the moon. One of them, the boss of the Grieg's End zone, even exhorts you to kill her in revenge for what he has done to him and his people when you defeat him. So where is she? Where is the Plane of Shadow? Not in the game, and SOE shows no interest in finishing this content. (One can speculate that all of this is linked to the departure of the game's lead developer, but whatever the cause, the fact remains that the expansion remains blatantly and frustratingly unfinished.) The allegedly improved graphics engine that shipped with Luclin is nice, if you have a far more robust machine than their system specifications indicate. Even with a gig of RAM, expect a great deal of lag, even in almost empty zones, and look forward to models with strange proportions (male and female humans alike were given the male hands, with predicatable results) and some outright ugly new models. The announced every-weapon-style-gets-its-own-animation improvement never happened, and instead, the new graphics engine boasts fewer animated emotes than the original engine, and more of these are shared with other emotes. The expansion does add a new race and class, and while the Vah Shir cat men are of only middling popularity, the beastlord is a popular and powerful class. (The Vah Shir city, Shar Val, is perhaps the zone that shows off the new graphic engine's problems the most, routinely grinding even the most powerful workhorse systems to a near-halt when running through the beautiful Arabian-inspired environs.) The expansion also features (adding it six months after release) the Bazaar zone that lets players trade with other players by turning their characters into Non-Player Character units, able to be shopped at like any merchant, even when the player isn't at the keyboard (although the computer needs to remain logged in to Everquest). While this disappointed some of the wheelers and dealers in the player community, this is inarguably one of the biggest selling points of the expansion. If the Bazaar were located elsewhere -- or its technology used to create one on every continent on Norrath -- along with the player-purchaseable horses for sale there, and the beastlords were simply added to the game, along with the new Alternate Abilities (new abilities that characters level 51+ can buy with experience instead of just picking up character levels), there would be no reason to buy "Shadows of Luclin." As it is, with this small amount of important content, I give this expansion only the most grudging recommendation. Better to pick this one up free in one of the regular Everquest compilation packs -- without a doubt, this is the low point in the history of Everquest.
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Summary: great game do not buy it used it wont work
Review: this is an awsome game if you are any kind of a rpg player youll love it. but i worn you dont buy it used it will not work it says right on the box cant be reselled. why once the game is regestered on soe.com it is there forever if you try to reregister it they will think it is a fake or a copy so ya the price looks good but it dont fall for it thnx
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