I played through a lot of the beta for SWTOR and am taking a break, I am back to WoT.

 

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I had zero problems with lag playing EQ2 back when it first came out.

Edit: i really liked EQ2 but nobody was playing it (finding groups was diffiult) so i ended up quitting. I think the graphics are too old now though..

I played a lot of EQ2 up to about a year ago. It had a lot of good qualities and I'll probably visit again someday. There IS plenty to do solo, but, you really need a group to get the most out of it.

 

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I'm having a lot of fun. The things they did that were definitely punishing time sinks have always had interesting mechanics and systems. It's just that they took way too long. now they have made most things pretty quick.

Their mentoring and chrono systems are great. AA makes a lot of sense and adds a lot of value. there is still a raid tilt to the game that I will probably never get into, but the rest of it seems pretty fun.

I don't understand why your systems are sometimes having trouble. My 5 year old pentium 4 with a 6770 graphics card I bought for like 150 bones a couple years ago plays it just great.

 

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Yeah it's runnable on most hardware just looks and feels boring.
Like playign a graphical MUD.

 

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MMORPGs = The Suq.

 

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EQ2 was overly ambitious at launch. They designed it so that no hardware running at launch could effectively max the game, used famous actors for voicework, impressive orchestrals for the music, and so forth. The problem is that all of this really didn't matter when gameplay was mediocre, and World of Warcraft was picking up steam. I've gone back to it a few times. I enjoy the gameplay of my swashbuckler. Now that it's F2P I might check it out again.

 

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Heh. My main is a swashbuckler, too. I like stealth classes.

I'd say my main problem with EQ2 is all the button mashing. I think my swashie's regular attack sequence involved hitting 14 buttons in order, then do the cool down two step. It just gets to be tedious after a while. My warden, which is also a fun class, didn't have as long a sequence, but, wardens do so little DPS, I'd have to cycle through the sequence 50 times to kill something. Well...maybe not 50 times, but, you get the idea. <g>

But, some of the long quest chains were fun. J-Boots. The magic carpet. The class hat. The incredibly long To Speak As A Dragons series. Great feeling of satisfaction when you finished one of those.

 

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This is one of the most unforgivably bad parts of the game. Each class literally has at least 5-10 abilities that all do basically the same thing, all on 15-30 second cool downs, for aboslutely no reason anyone can fathom.

The only game I've found that was able to involve me enough with pve that I didn't care that it had no pvp was FF11. I did a trial for eq2 years back and wasn't really all too impressed. Especially when you're forced to be a fairy on this little island with no other options. I don't see how they thought that would get people to like the game.

 

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