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MMORPG.com gets sneak peek at Everquest Next at E3. Calls it best of show.
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The original for comparison. Brings back the memories. Always had great art for the original game and expansions.
This gives me an old-school D&D feeling.
So good.
That TenTonHammer thing.... wat
What in the world!? Keith Parkinson was the shit.
Based on that quote, if it's something other than a beta invite, I would be surprised and annoyed. haha
It will be streamed on twitch, SoE confirmed this the other day, I'll look for the source in a bit.
It's on their facebook page: "On Friday, August 2, 2013, SOE will stream the worldwide debut of the highly anticipated EverQuest Next live on Twitch.tv!"
Well here's the thing. Smedley said they would get the game in our hands before the end of the year. What the hell does that even mean, no one knows.
Judging by how Planetside 2 was handled SOE will release an early version to the public and develop it as an ongoing process...
Vestal
Gold Member
the reimagine looks too cartoony which makes it lose the epic feeling
yo_soy_el_topo
Member
Yea dunno what to think about this new art. I'm saddened.
And the orc looks like it was ripped straight out of WoW...
Yep. It's just this artist's rendition of the game, not official artwork. Something to celebrate EQ Next coming... soon!
WetPotatoBread
Banned
That's what i'm thinking get the Beta/Alpha out before the end of the year possibly after PS4 launch if it comes to the PS4.
This is what I expect to happen as well.
I think beta is coming very soon after this reveal.
Which is probably the fastest any MMO has ever revealed and went into Beta.
There are just too many hints that it will happen. I'm trying not to get too hyped (EQ was my first mmo GF and it was a messy breakup) but Smedley's many ramblings, mixed with Georgeson talking about not wanting to tip off their competitors too soon, so they wanted to keep the game in a "black box" until they were closer to release, and also Georgeson mentioned that marketing has big plans which should start around SoE Live.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
That's a relief.
Escape Goat
Member
What a wonderful birthday present.
My greatest fear for this game is that Georgeson will turn it into a macrotransaction theme park like he did with EQ2. Want some cool armor or weapons? Tough shit. Go buy it on the marketplace. And forget about raiding with him at the helm. Hopefully they learned their lesson this time and didn't build themselves a lemon of a graphics engine.
My greatest fear for this game is that Georgeson will turn it into a macrotransaction theme park like he did with EQ2. Want some cool armor or weapons? Tough shit. Go buy it on the marketplace. And forget about raiding with him at the helm. Hopefully they learned their lesson this time and didn't build themselves a lemon of a graphics engine.
1. sandbox
2. marketplace was changed for the better recently. Also, the matrix will not be the same.
3. raiding will be in, not sure where you got the idea that he ruined raiding.
4. Forgelight is a good engine.
Escape Goat
Member
EQ2 raiding is atrocious. Its gone downhill before georgeson took over but he really put the final nails in the coffin.
That's really not Georgeson's fault.
shin_velcro
Neo Member
Oh my days, that is ment to be Lord Naggy in that pic. Please don't mess it up SoE 
Escape Goat
Member
Sure it was. He was senior producer for the game. He made the marketplace crap a success though which is why I think he is still around.
I'm curious, do you actually raid?
Georgeson is a tad busy with EQ Next, and has been for the past 2 years. I highly doubt he has much to do with raids. =p
Escape Goat
Member
I did. Hes not senior producer for EQ2 now anyways. They've had a couple since he left, but I haven't played the game for quite some time. The servers are dead.
Artemis-Thoth
Member
The Forgelight engine can handle some tremendously large battles in PS2, so I think a lil raid will be just fine.
Brad is back on EQ, but I couldn't find anything about whether that was on EQ1 or on Next. I'd like to think its Next, waste of his talent of they got him working on the original game.
Escape Goat
Member
Raid mechanics are a whole other story. Instead of creating fun, dynamic raid content they just threw in instant fail curses and dots. Improperly designed raid gear also made raids near impossible before they adjusted, and reorganized the whole adornment system.
Hopefully the increase in power helps open up new avenues for gameplay instead of replacing skill with instant wipe mechanics to give the illusion of difficulty or the need for skilled players.
ZombieSupaStar
Member
will fansy return?
He's on EQ1.
Yeah, they're going for the D&D/Pathfinder new art direction (that kobold is a dead giveaway).https://www.everquestnext.com/
This is a re-working of one of Keith Parkinsons original. You all probably recognise it. Looks like the artist has never played Everquest. Firiona Vie with a big ass scimitar and a bow? And her face is all kinds of messed up. Terrible.
Fingers crossed this doesn't hint at the art direction for EQNext. I don't want shoulderpads bigger than my head and cartoon characters.
The Keith Parkinsons Larry Elmore influenced style fits EQ so much better.
Azzurri
Member
Yea, those eq2 models were such ugly crap.
Murder. She Wrote
Member
All my mmo hopes are riding on this game. I'm not really sure I can get interested in another themepark mmo after ffxiv.
I mean Wildstar looks good, but I played that game already, you know what I mean?
I mean Wildstar looks good, but I played that game already, you know what I mean?
Yeah. WS isn't bad, it just isn't offering many new ideas.
Vestal
Gold Member
last I heard he went back to consulting on vanguard for the f2p push then got moved to EQ team.
hope he has a hand in eqn. I want the VISION(tm) back
Boss Man
Member
Dat ass
The original for comparison. Brings back the memories. Always had great art for the original game and expansions.
https://www.everquestnext.com/
This is a re-working of one of Keith Parkinsons original. You all probably recognise it. Looks like the artist has never played Everquest. Firiona Vie with a big ass scimitar and a bow? And her face is all kinds of messed up. Terrible.
Fingers crossed this doesn't hint at the art direction for EQNext. I don't want shoulderpads bigger than my head and cartoon characters.
holy hell, this is awful.
yea and if this is the concept art they're using as a foundation to build EQ Next on, in practice it's probably going to look even more like WoW. it's possible that when they said their game was originally shaping up to be a WoW-clone, they were completely serious and when they decided to shake the game up all they had time to do was work on the core gameplay systems instead of re-doing all of the assets they created. just really disappointing. i can except sub-par art direction in normal 5-6 hour games but in MMOs i need a good balance between the two.
It's not. It's been said many times in this thread that it's not.
Open Source
Banned
The original EQ didn't look very much like the original painting, so I'm not too worried.
Wasn't a huge fan of the original painting - stylistically, sure, but the Erudite's philospher pose looking away in the middle of battle, FV and the dark elf looking at the viewer directly? And no sense of motion.
The new one is better in these regards but really blows it with FV and the orc.
Wasn't a huge fan of the original painting - stylistically, sure, but the Erudite's philospher pose looking away in the middle of battle, FV and the dark elf looking at the viewer directly? And no sense of motion.
The new one is better in these regards but really blows it with FV and the orc.
Even if it is, this could turn out to look completely different and more realistic in engine with Forge Light's shaders.
Yeah, but it is SoE's fault though, releasing this artwork when we have no in game screenshots (unless you count that model with the giant armor which validates some people's worries), just leads to speculation. Bad SoE!