Keepers of Fortitude - Saryrn / Bertoxxulous

Nice to hear from you Aire. Even better to hear things are going well. Did you try PvP in WoW? I took the plunge and went to a PvP server when I started WoW, and surprisingly loved it. Aside from the battlefields, always having to watch for the enemy, or setting up ambushes for them was a new source of giggles on my end.

Well with any luck, we'll find a game we can enjoy as much as early EQ.

Zax

Holy crap the board is still alive! Awesome!  Glad to hear Colmir is back from the war and is ok.

Ok I gave up on games for a while, went to EQ2 with some other Keepers briefly but my computer hated it.  Couple months later got upgrades and dove back in to EQ2 levelled up to around 50 on one of my chars, was an officer in the guild I joined.  Got busy with family and work like usual so I quit yet again, then recently I decided to finally try WoW... pretty cool, nice for soloing (you are right though.. lots of kids) all the games are really lacking the umph we used to have in the old days... I don't know maybe we are just getting old :)

Miss you all, glad to hear you doing well.  Thanks Ching for keeping this site alive, that is awesome.

Happy Holidays everyone from your old Queen Nerd.

After my last post, I went and did some digging myself through the forums. It seems to be exactly as you say. I'm looking at $300 of upgrades, so I can pay x-amount/month. If I knew ahead of time that there would be the same or better community as EQ1 I'd really have to think about it.

I really enjoyed WoW, mainly as a solo break away from EQ (not that I didn't do my share of soloing there as well). But the overwhelming majority of immature players, whether just plain kids, or adults reliving their childhood, drove me away. Wow is fun from the point of view, that it's not as much as a challenge as EQ was. Kinda like the easy reading you take to the beach or pool. It was fun, but it didn't last a year.

There are a lot of aspects of EQ1 that I miss, and it would be nice if Vanguard could replace that.

FWIW the Open Beta did start, and most folks can get their prepaid copy at Best Buy or EB games. After reading the forums, I'm going to wait at least a week, maybe 2 to see how aggressively they attack the bugs. If SoE is running it, then I'd rather wait on the sideline to see if they fall on their face. If Sigil is truly calling the shots, maybe it will work out.

I'd love to see ya in game Ching (and any of Keepers) if it does work out.

vanguard needs a sturdy computer. that's about all i know so far from first hand experience. they've definitely made a game that will look good in a few years, once people have hardware that can display it at the highest settings.  this is different from eq, which looked poor when compared to other games at release, and for the years after. can you believe they still haven't addressed the horrible luclin models?

everything else in vanguard is just going to be brad compromising on his crazy ideals. just browsing on forums shows that he's caved in on some of his "vision" ideas.  these things just aren't fun, so it's glad that they go away.

i think beta is about to go fully open, so everyone will be able to play it in the next few weeks.  like all games, some of it will be garbage, some will be fun, but if you have some friends along the way, the game will be tolerable.

playing warcraft certainly didn't foster much community spirit in me. the game was solo for the most part, and people only grouped to finish off the elite dungeon parts of their solo quest arcs.

i'm rambling, but i'll start a vanguard thread here once i get outta the newbie area and get an understanding of what's going on.

I like the Holiday look.

I was just in Best Buy grabbing my bi-annual upgrade to Quicken and this years Turbo-Tax, and I strolled through the games section purely by habit. I gave up on WoW (great game, too many fuggin kids though) and I never bothered with EQ 2, Guild Wars or NWN. I did see the advance copies of Vanguard though, and it looked interesting.

Ching, if anyone could possibly know the word on the street about this game (from Beta players) it would be you. Is this going to be worth buying?

I hope everyone had a great Holiday season.

Zax

in the admin interface, looking at the login names sorted by last activity going back nearly 5 years is a wacky trip in a time machine.

Quote from: Zaxboan on November 27, 2006, 06:39:50 PM
I like the fact that Ching has kept this up so long, very kind of him.

I can keep this site running indefinitely.  I've thought about sending an email to everyone with a pointer back here, but i'm not sure if that's rude or not.  I suspect there are people who lost track when the eqkeepers.net domain was let go.

We may all be in different games by now, but this site will always be a common ground where we can check in, say hello, and reminisce about entire saturdays spent raiding the plane of hate.

behold! snowflakes and xmas lights

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Merry Yule, Happy Kwanza... !!!

Love you all! :biggrin:

/wink Loh!

That's awesome to hear Zax about Col returning home safe.  It's great to see you two!