SUWT #12

Shut Up, We’re Talking! #12 is up. I had the pleasure of being part of it, along with Grimwell (SOE EQ2 Community Manager) and Tom-Tom from Gamer’s Mind. Thanks, Darren, for being such an awesome host! Darren really knows how to keep the discussion going and moving to interesting places. I was positive I’d have … Read more

EQ2 Screenshot Throwdown!

Syncaine over at Hardcore Casual thinks EQ2 is “flat, boring and lifeless”, and as examples, puts up some rather poor EQ2 screenshots (which he got from the official site so you’d expect better, though I suspect he got at least one of them from a player-submitted shot). Sure enough, in comparison, EQ2 suffers. Well, comparing … Read more

EQ Nostalgia #2: Karnor’s Castle

One of the draws EQ2 has for all of us old EQ players is the nostalgia, especially for those of us who were there from the beginning. It’s hard to overstate just the kind of impact Kunark had on us all. Never before and very rarely since had a company so completely matched an expansion … Read more

The Deep Ones

And yet I saw them in a limitless stream – flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating – urging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare. And some of them had tall tiaras of that nameless whitish-gold metal … and some were strangely robed … and one, who led the way, was … Read more

Remembering Kunark

The Butcherblock shuttles with the ship to Kunark waiting offshore They don’t have boats in Everquest any more. I guess it’s faster to zip around the world via the Plane of Knowledge, or the translocator gnomes now. Back in the first couple of years of Everquest, you went from place to place in boats. I … Read more