EverQuest 2 Beta Confirmed, Producer Quizzed 43
Kemanorel writes "After a couple years of development, several months of hints and previews, and four weeks worth of drooling after a live demo in Vegas, Sony Online announced that EverQuest 2 Beta sign-ups begin next Monday. Minimum specs are 1 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, and a DX9 compatible video card with at least 64 MB of memory - not too bad. Get in line now!" There's also an interview with EverQuest II producer John Blakely over at GameSpot in which he mentions: "Currently we have over 80 people working on the EQII development team", before arguing that the sequel shouldn't necessarily siphon players from the original: "EQII is being designed to complement EQ in terms of the gameplay experience. EQII is a game that will focus most of our content on the individual and smaller groups, while EQ's endgame encourages large raid forces to play the high-level content."
Specs (Score:1)
translation (Score:5, Funny)
Translation: the EQ2 client/server chokes on large number of people in the same place at the same time.
They are lying through their teeth (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:They are lying through their teeth (Score:2, Insightful)
Actually, that's precisely what I was thinking. Whether you love them or not, Sony is pretty good at what they do, plus they have EQ under their belts. I'm going to wait and see how tightly they can optimize it before I make up my mind on how it will run on my box.
Re:They are lying through their teeth (Score:1)
Parent is lying through his teeth. (Score:1)
Re:They are lying through their teeth (Score:1)
Re:They are lying through their teeth (Score:2)
I have a gig of ram, a Geforce 4 video card, and a broadband connection and I still lag in SWG when I'm just running around out in the middle of nowhere with no one around me.
Yet another MMORPG (Score:5, Interesting)
But what will happen in the market?
Will all the EQ players upgrade to EQ2?
Will nobody upgrade to EQ2?
Or will all the players feel rich and buy time on both EQ and EQ2?
What about all the other MMORPG's coming out? Will they steal time off EQ? Is the MMORPG market saturated yet?
And, here's the one I really want to know about, will the open source community make their own sleek, efficient and free MMORPG that runs efficiently on a 286?
Re:Yet another MMORPG (Score:4, Insightful)
The problem with the concept of opensource MMORPGs is that it makes it extremely easy for players to write their own bots to play the game for them, or a trainer of some sorts (speed hack, teleporting, seeing players through walls). Script kiddies will definitely ruin the game for anyone who wants to play without having XsploitsX's latest trojan infected trainer.
Combine these two and you'll have a game that no one will want to play because it's lagging because it is hosted on some guy's webserver that he is running on his cable connection.
Re:Yet another MMORPG (Score:2)
Sounds more like an improperly designed MMORPG. There are plenty of closed source ones that already have those problems. Bots aren't evil. The server shouldn't allow speed hacks, or teleporting, and if the client isn't supposed to see it, the server shouldn't include it in the
Re:Yet another MMORPG (Score:2)
Re:Yet another MMORPG (Score:2)
Nothing much, yes, no, no, who cares, maybe, probably not, and ha ha.
Re:Yet another MMORPG (Score:1)
never. next?
Re:Yet another MMORPG (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yet another MMORPG (Score:1)
happend before. (Score:1)
This just means the gfx engine can't handle the amounts of people it requires to create anything what made EQ great.
Jesus, it also looks ghastly [gamespot.com].
With the behemoth World of Warcraft looming over the genre I forsee that the only reason this project might not flop would be the well known IP.
Re:happend before. (Score:2, Interesting)
AC1 matches EQ in amount of content and plays like an action game ( you can actually jump over arrows and dodge war magic ! )
AC2 looks leagues better then EQ judging from screenshots.
AC2 is great for soloing and grouping and has a fun endgame and the newly released City of Heroes has casual written all over it.
( give that one a try, its a ton of fun )
Re:happend before. (Score:1)
Re:happend before. (Score:1)
Female avatars are bound to look good (Score:1)
All of those screenshots you linked to are of women. Is it really suprising that the programmers took a little extra time to make the female avatars look good?
I interpreted the original comment that the game looks ghastly to be a reflection on the "style" of the game.
For example:
EQ2 trees [gamespot.com]
WoW trees [blizzard.com]
Basically I see this as a problem I had when I was taking art classes: I'm a perfectionist. I love everything to have nice sharp lines.
That's the EQ2 way (from what I've seen).
Conversly I can't describ
Re:Female avatars are bound to look good (Score:1)
Re:happend before. (Score:2)
watch some of the videos. look at some of the other screenshots released recently on www.eqii.com - yeah, they've had some bad ss picks, but in person, the game looks great.
bah never go my minimum (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:bah never go my minimum (Score:4, Insightful)
Fortunately, with a game like EQ[2], frame rates just aren't that big of a deal. It's not a twitch situation. So, if one is willing to put up with the duller graphics I'm sure that the minimum configuration will be fine (assuming one enjoys the gameplay, of course).
Re:bah never go my minimum (Score:1)
Fan Faire Demo (Score:4, Interesting)
It looked awsome, and no choppiness with quite a few people all together fighting.
They also accidentally ran it on a 512 mb system, on which is was a little choppy. But looks isn't everything.
Re:Fan Faire Demo (Score:2)
The min specs are really nothing too bad... maybe except for the ram requirement. Everything else is pretty much 'standard' by now.
Just dont assume you can buy an MX440 and run the game.
No flash? (Score:3, Informative)
Game experience may change during online play... (Score:1)
Re:Game experience may change during online play.. (Score:1)
Re:Game experience may change during online play.. (Score:2)
EQ is an Online Community (Score:1, Insightful)
The most important aspect of a game like EQ or EQ II is the sense of "community" one gains while playing it. EQ has possibly the worst graphics of all the popular online role playing games, except for the oldest and largest of them which are completely text-based, so obviously cutting edge 3D graphics isn't as important a selling point as everyone here seems to think because EQ is still one of the most popular, if not the most popular, games in
Eq is flawed (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Eq is flawed (Score:2)
It may be a stupid premise (to you) but it is obviously fun for enough people to make it profitable for other people. MMORPGs are not going away, and not for a long time.
NeverQuest2 (Score:2)
Oh yes, I can't wait to see what a clusterfuck Neverquest2's launch will be, but I'll watch from the sidelines this time.
Just like that one episode of Reboot! (Score:1)
Press Release (Score:1)