Comments on: Favorite Zones

By: Pennie

Pennie — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:21:43 +0000

Oh… oh… that’s bad. That’s very bad. That’s like going to the town you grew up in and finding out that they razed your childhood home to build a minimart.

By: Kasul

Kasul — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:58:13 +0000

They did this to East Freeport:

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/scenery/freeporteast-pool.jpg

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/scenery/freeporteast-priest.jpg

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/scenery/freeporteast-crier.jpg

The redesign of the city is just so ugly.

By: RichY

RichY — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:01:45 +0000

I remember spending days in East Freeport hanging around the bank in my ‘new’ Bronze Armour, feeling like Achilles! Priceless…
Does anyone actually still play Eq1? I’d love to go back now that I have some willpower & the ability to turn the damn thing off now & again….
But is it worth it? As I said before, I imagine the magic was my guildmates & the whole naivety of it all. Are all of the old zones ghost towns, anyone have any (positive) experiences with Dalaya or EqProject? Apologies for the tangent Sg. Please delete if it’s too much.

By: Pennie

Pennie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:50:38 +0000

What did they do to East Freeport? And.. oh man.. yeah. Freeport felt like the big city, the way that Raymond Chandler, Jack Kerouac, and Bukowski tell it: gritty and mean and almost a living being itself, so you’d better watch yourself!

By: Kasul

Kasul — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:43:47 +0000

I think my favorite zone was Halas in the old EQ. It wasn’t a big zone, or a very highly populated zone but it had so much character. A hardy tribe living just off the frozen wastes of Everfrost, led by their spiritual gurus from the Chantry of Justice, a temple carved into the mountainside. Or maybe the true leaders of the tribe are the shadowy rogues who have a hideout in the backroom of the bank… pulling strings from the shadows. It’s a great zone, and I think it really makes the atmosphere of the Barbarian race.

Of course, if I’m going by pure nostalgia I’d have to say East Freeport in EQ… the old East Freeport, before they took it away from us. I miss it, it had just as much character and intrigue as Halas does. I remember coming to Freeport for the first time and having that overwhelming sense that I was in the big city now.

By: Caladwen

Caladwen — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:50:31 +0000

Stormhold and Unrest in EQ2! They are both fun zones and hold a lot of fond memories for me.

By: Olde English Gaz

Olde English Gaz — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:08:24 +0000

For me it is Unrest and Loping plains in EQ2 for that Vincent price B movie horror feel ,awsome atmosphere in both zones I can run em over and over.

By: Pennie

Pennie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:58:44 +0000

Oh, I’ll bet you get a lot of good responses with from this post, lady.

For myself:

EQ, 98-99-ish, first time I loaded up an MMO, my first class was a scout which meant I was in Freeport without a clue what I was doing, except knowing that scouts are sneaky. My first real trip was getting invited to go to blackburrow. I asked for directions, and I was told to go through Nek Forest, and then Highhold Pass (if I’m remember the zone names correctly). By the time I found Nek Forest, it was dark, and everything was eager and overly-able to kill me. I asked advise and was told I should wait for daylight. I started down the path anyway. After 15 heart-stopping minutes, I made it to Highhold where, as I recall, the first thing that happened was I got killed by a guard.

By the time I made it to blackburrow, the friend who had invited me had logged off. But that was when I decided that eq was the game for me. While I still played, I spent a lot of time in Nek and Highhold/keep. Those were the zones that I gravitated toward even though there was nothing to do there.

When I migrated to EQ2, I got the same sense of fun (without the adrenaline rush) grouping in Thundering Steppes, pre-DoF. If this were the game it was back then, I’d probably still be there, happily slaughtering giants. As is, I still run through and kill all the giants I can find, just for old time’s sake.

By: David

David — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:43:58 +0000

I think I would have to go with Unrest in EQ2. I love the story, I find the sound deeply atmospheric, and it is a zone in which every adventure we undertake gives us great fun. Our guild group has some great shared experiences in there.
Nek Castle in EQ2 would probably be number two

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:15:23 +0000

I loved Runnyeye in EQ2. The lore, the design, the music, it was just perfect. I spent hours and hours and hours in there and loved those levels. It was just the perfect dungeon for me