Comments on: Please redo Everquest (et al) as massively SINGLE player games

By: Squeakie

Squeakie — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:38:31 +0000

This is a great idea. Just to be able to virtually visit old locations would be amazing.

By: Exe

Exe — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:49:44 +0000

I love this idea, just needs to have LAN and online coop.

By: Captain Awful

Captain Awful — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:21:43 +0000

It’ll definitely require reworking the leveling system. It’d probably end up being as boring as single-player Diablo though.

By: EverQuest And Accessibility « The Ancient Gaming Noob

EverQuest And Accessibility « The Ancient Gaming Noob — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:05:26 +0000

[...] Or hope, at least, that they’ll call up Tipa and let her run with her idea. [...]

By: rmckee78

rmckee78 — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:22:17 +0000

If only they could do all that and get boats working again…for the first time. It would be a perfect single up to 6 player game.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:50:53 +0000

I swear, they’d sell 500,000 copies like *that*.

The weird part is, there are already people making alternate games using the EQ client. I haven’t had a chance to check them out yet, and of course they risk being shut down by SOE at any time, but a server could be written that would do exactly that. Then it would be a matter of combining the server with the client to make a single game.

By: illovich

illovich — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:38:30 +0000

That’s hilarious! I just said this to a co-worker this morning (who emailed me and asked if I had written this)

In my vision, you could make as many characters as you wanted, and there would be a Neverwinter Nights style group interface (but more suited to the EQ game under discussion). The idea would be you could start a character and then fill your party with either “stock” (i.e. pre-rolled) characters or your own alts. Alternatively, you could network up to 5 people via a server (host or separate computer) which would synchronize the zones the different players were in.

What’s cool about doing it this way is the entire game could be available, but you could play all the different ways that you can play EQ. The main work for the developers would be retuning
combat mechanics and loot to be more consistent with a single-player game, and maybe some zone touchups like the recent zone updates so it doesn’t look so 1994. (which, aren’t they doing that anyway?)

Combine the expansion from the 15 to 5, make a “dungeon creator set” (like roll your own LDON instances) and you probably have the best Computer RPG for the next 5 years.

By: rmckee78

rmckee78 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:31:44 +0000

I have often thought about this myself. I would love to see this done with some of the older MMOs. What I would love to see even more would be multiplayer in these games. Not massively multiplayer, but I would love to play EQ1 or FFXI with 2 or 3 friends and be able to take everything on and level 5 times faster.
Hopefully they will do this sort of thing when they turn off the lights in Norrath and Vanadiel. I would hate to think that no one would ever run in fear from that giant Ram in the Highlands again.
Heck even if they just turned the assets over to the community it could be done.
I’d love to see it.

By: Tipa

Tipa — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:53:12 +0000

If you log in, you’ll be seeing LFGs all over for some of the oddest zones. These are the monthly high experience zones. Combine those with the daily half hour of double experience veteran rewards (if your account is old enough), and you actually level quite quickly if you’re grouping in the right places.

Of course, I said “grouping” and “right places”. You won’t get far soloing, or going to the WRONG places. And finding enough people to group with at low levels can be a bother, since nearly everyone powerlevels through them now.

EQ1 can never be what it once was. But it can become something new that will last forever — sort of a living monument to a wonderful game — as a single player game.

SOE, if you’re reading this and have any plans to do something like this — HIRE ME TO WORK ON IT!!!! Seriously. I’m a maintenance developer. I figure out other people’s spaghetti code and mystery features and fix ‘em every day.

Or failing that, just give me a nod and a wink and I’ll understand and wait happily.

By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:38:29 +0000

All that lore fading away slowly as the population on EQ diminishes… it makes me sad.

I hope SOE will do something with it.

I’ve been feeling the itch to see pre-cataclysm Norrath again. I wish they would do something to let a more casual class of gamer (older me) see the world again. Roll me a double…make that triple… exp server SOE so I can level up and go places again. My old account is gone.