News Everquest Next revealed

A new Everquest game featuring fully destructible terrain has been revealed by SOE.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2013/08/05/everquest-next-revealed/1

 

so its 2nd life then ?

 

Finally, a Modern MMO that does what Ultima Online has been doing for 16 (??) years. If it's 1/4 as good as UO or Half as good as GW2, I'll give it a go.

 

I loved UO, which was the first MMO I played, then went onto EQ. I have to admit I had very enjoyable experiences playing both and felt kind of nostalgic when I read this. I hope SOE manage to pull this off, if so then this will bring an interesting new dimension to a market saturated with cloned MMO's that currently lack originality an depth.

I will await this new version of EQ with anticipation, good luck SOE I hope you pull it off.

 

MMO's are great fun, but they are too much of a life-suck. I haven't picked up an MMO in years and plan to keep it that way because they consume you if you let them.

 

I loved EQ... Went back to it a few years back and it's full of boxers... One guys using 5-6 accounts with third party software and camping loot whilst afk. I have high hopes for the Landmark software and might get drawn back in. Been sketching things I want to make already!

 

Considering the amount of time needed to personally invest in to an MMO to develop a character, gaming relations with other players and to get the most out the game as a whole I think I will just hold off getting involved in anything as I await the release of The Elder Scroll Online early next year.

 

If you can destroy things, and the changes are permanent, does no one see that getting abused like mad?

 

Agree with "sixfootsideburns" mmo's are great and they really do suck the life out of you - nothing becomes more important than the next epic/level/achievement...far too addictive in a repetitive kind of way.

Ultimately they're all animated spreadsheets based on numbers and probabilities - the sooner you can accept them for that the richer life becomes without them.

I don't regret banking 500days play in World Of Warcraft before I finally quit,because it was so much fun - but I often wish I'd never started playing it in the first place, life's priorities get proper stuffed up when you commit to playing an MMORPG, I missed a lot of real life (and sleep).

 

I absolutely agree, and ultimately this seems to be the same idea. My hope is (for the sake of future games) is that they are going to arrange those spreadsheets in a new way that hasn't been done yet. It sounds like they are on the right track based on some of the Debut videos, but with such grandiose plans I'm apprehensive of how accurate the final product will be to what they describe. I think we can all remember Spore (ughh)...

Again though, as much as the game sounds like it has serious potential for the sake of the rest of my life I think I will probably pass.

 

The changes are not permanent, they get reset in time, and through game events like earthquakes. So it's more like the rifts in Rift, only on a bigger scale.

The permanent changes are what you make with the design tools which is basically an advanced version of minecraft. You then submit this to SOE and they can use it in the game world if they like it. So you can make an entire city or dungeon and it can end up in the game if it is good enough. You can also make objects like a tower or whatever, and then sell this to other players for real money, and they can use your object in their own creations, if they buy it. And then if they sell their creation, you will get a percentage based on your item.

The technology is all quite impressive because the building tools is AAA standard, not like the very simple Minecraft. But it can attract the same type of people. So basically they will have advanced Minecraft players make half of their game, and then future content. Also the destruction of the world is legit, not just a gimmick that sounds cool but is bad in reality.

So far so good. The massive downside from my point of view though, is that the gameplay has been completely changed too. It is now League of Legends in an MMO world. The classes are not really classes any more, they are like heroes. You can pick whichever you want and change whenever you want, so it's not a permanent class, it's just your current 'pick'. And they work the same in combat too and are all balanced for PVP. The combat basically works just like LoL or DOTA or HoN or whatever.

It also has a bit of Guild Wars 2 blended in, in that you get 4 abilities based on your currently chosen hero/class, and another 4 based on the current weapon you have chosen.

The combat is very fast and actiony. It could be really good fun, although it is a big disappointment to anyone who wanted something that resembled Everquest, because it is nothing like that.

There are rumours that they may make an EverQuest 3 at some point, but that is anyones guess. For now, this is EQ Next, and it is called that for a reason.

 

I've already been sketching out some of the things I'd like to make! Qeynos Sewers with a Ratonga outpost and some landscapes involving sand dunes and inverted pyramids... The design element has got me hooked. I might not actually play the main part but spend my time designing... I never got into minecraft!