MMORPG.com features a fantastic interview today with original lead designer and producer of EverQuest Brad McQuaid, in which he provides some interesting backstory on the inspiration and development of the game. This is great fun to read for a longtime fan, but as someone who enjoyed (read: suffered through) the olden days of “The Vision,” I [...]
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An Interview with Brad McQuaid
Posted in EverQuest, MMOs, tagged ambition, turning leisure time into a chore, video games on January 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Happy Birthday, EQ
Posted in EverQuest on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Happy (belated) Birthday, EverQuest! The game is 12 years old this month. See the announcement at EverQuest Players.
Achievements Great and Small
Posted in EverQuest on March 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been kind of a hectic few weeks, but I’ve managed to squeeze in a bit of elf time here and there. The most exciting news to share is that after a fair amount of camping and collecting odds and ends from all over the world, Leafkin got his Leafblower. (Also known as “the original [...]
City of Ruins, City of Giants
Posted in EverQuest on February 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week saw a trip to the City of Mist, a dungeon introduced along with The Ruins of Kunark, EQ’s first expansion which debuted back in 2000. Astonishingly, many denizens of the Kunark-era dungeons are so tough that they can even chew through a current-era (read: way overgeared for the content) tank mercenary. How anyone [...]
Return to Castle Mistmoore
Posted in EverQuest on February 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This week, Leafkin and I decided to pay a visit to Castle Mistmoore and say hello to the vampires. This was a fun trip for me because I’d never actually made it into the castle proper, so I was pretty excited to finally have a chance to explore it. There is only one entrance to [...]
Baywatch this ain’t
Posted in EverQuest on February 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So, I made it onto Fippy on day one, but I didn’t get my screenshots. I rolled a half-elf bard with Qeynos citizenship, intending to run straight out into the newbie yard glory in the chaos and killstealing drama. In my haste and excitement, I misstepped and fell into the pond which conceals the entrance [...]
GRRRRR! BARK!
Posted in EverQuest on February 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fippy Darkpaw is live and everyone’s abuzz! In theory, at least. My plan was to pop in and take a few poignant screenshots of the carnage, but then this happened: For the full multimedia experience, load this in a new tab.
These boots were made for journeying
Posted in EverQuest on February 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The theme this week was exploration — visiting some favorite old spots and blazing a trail to some new ones. It’s been really fun to revisit the icy zones of Velious, especially since wandering aggro (& there is a lot of it) doesn’t mean certain, miserable death in this day and age. In ye olde [...]
EverQuest Players announcement – welcome back free
Posted in EverQuest on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t miss the announcement on EverQuest Players today — former players are welcome back gratis from Feb 10 – Feb 21, so if you’re on the fence about trying your hand at old-style gameplay on the new Fippy Darkpaw server, waffle no more! It won’t cost you anything but the time to patch the game.
To the Great White North
Posted in EverQuest on February 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So our intrepid mage chose to brave the depths of Miragul’s Menagerie, one of the “Lost Dungeons” of Norrath in the frozen northern reaches of Antonica. The Lost Dungeons expansion was released well after my initial EQ career was done, so this was an all new adventure for me and my first experience with instancing [...]
