this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
24 points (100.0% liked)

games

20946 readers
79 users here now

Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.

Rules

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Kind of funny how the better graphics give her giant double-D's awooga boys my eyes are up HERE.

all 11 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] AFineWayToDie@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started playing EQ a few months before the Luclin models were added, so they don't feel "wrong" to me like they seemed to with everyone else. The extra customization was nice, too.

EQ was clunky, imbalanced, broken, inaccessible, and confusing. But you generally needed a solid group to see most of it, so it stressed community more than anything I'd played before or since. I'll always have a soft spot for it.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, when I played Luclin just got introduced but I didn't have it so I couldn't make my character a high poly model, only the cat race. Thankfully now most of it is soloable thanks to the mercenary system and I think you're allowed to multi-box too.

[–] AFineWayToDie@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankfully now most of it is soloable thanks to the mercenary system and I think you're allowed to multi-box too.

That kinda killed it for me. By making it solo-able, it just felt like another outdated MMORPG at a time where there were more to choose from, riding on nostalgia and sunk cost. I'd rather the game encourage co-operation and making friends right from the beginning.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's not everyone's cup of tea, thankfully that's why private servers like P99 exist and live does time locked progression servers (charge for it sadly) to encourage this.

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember my dad being nonplussed that I would now need a separate piece of PC hardware to handle gfx because of this expansion

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah my dinky ati card couldn't handle the Luclin models.

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I was just running everything through a pentium 4 at the time, to be fair there's a hell of a lot more triangles on them luclin models to calc. The best thing about project 1999 was showing people what it was like back then and telling them "and we absolutely loved it"

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Darn tootin

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the tradition of wizards being dressed in a provocative manner. Like, if you got got magic powers you can likely afford a glammer and some nice clothes. Warrior classes are getting too dirty to keep the blood and dirt off their tunics.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah EQ for sure does the sexy wizard shtick