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I'd like to add that my most memorable experience(s) with PvP would have been Shadowbane, DAOC and AC:DT.
Shadowbane was fucking awesome in that there were no level restrictions... At level 50 Barbarian I would actually look for groups of lower level people fighting something, then not only slaughter them all but take their loot from their prized 'fight' as well.
The best part is they actually faught back, it was so fun to watch. Sure, I could have been considered a griefer, except when I found out that all those people were alts of others in a huge guild - and I pretty much submit an application to death for the rest of my Shadowbane days.
DAOC well, I am sure you all know how the realm vs realm stuff worked. It was epic to see hundreds of enemies come barreling from over the top of a hill to clash with us. It was so ahead of its time.
AC:DT - I can't even put this into perspective for people. I am basically left speechless at how fucking exciting the PvP was in this game.
Back then, while playing these MMOs... what really did it for me, the submersion and everything.. was the day/night cycles. For some reason, it added so much for me. Daoc Realm vs Realm at night time was sooooo awesome, I don't know why.
Walking through Halas in EQ as a level 1-5 Barbarian at night was fucking scary. I am sorry. I was terrified, if another player walked by me I would STOP them to make conversation so I didn't feel so doom3closet'd. Thinking back in EQ pre-expansion days, running through any area.. South Ro, Commonlands, O M F G Kithicor was it? Where the rogue epic boss is? The zone outside of Commonlands? Holy shit, terror. Complete terror. Hoping I had a lightstone with me, even then....
Now? It's like.. oh it is day time? Oh, it is night time? I don't know if we are spoiled and take it for granted but all I do now is compare compare compare, and rarely ever actually 'take it all in'.
Back then, people always talked in /say or /local channels, if you had a question or something you would physically walk up to a player and /say to them. Now it's like.. players don't even talk. It is all OOC or Global chat/tells.. the /say world is completely dead.
Back then you would actually see someone running by, and say.. "Where the fuck am I?" --- "Which way to blah blah blah?" ---- and they would help you out.
Now it is like, go to thottbot, or.. omfg lolo newb.
Now they have auction houses and shit. GFAY FOR LIFE. In EQ we used to broadcast what we were selling in hopes to get bidders. It was awesome, "Meet at bank". etc.
I've got BAGS of SHIT to sell, come HAIL me to see them!
Asheron's call was awesome. I loved how the world was so huge, but there was always a main road to follow. LOL ... then, it starts getting dark out and rainy, nobody around and you see this trail going into a huge forest up ahead. What was happening to my insides in real life is exactly what would happen to me in real life if I came into a situation like that. It was like, a few butterflies mixed with 'DO I OR DON'T I'
I am alot older now and stuff and don't get such 'feelings' but we have been so spoiled by games, technology and multiplayer stuff that these little things mean nothing anymore.
Walking through Freeport in EQ and some high lvl opened a trade with me, gave me a WHOLE SUIT OF BRONZE ARMOR.. I was so fucking ecstatic thinking it was like winning the lottery, I put this poor soul on my friends' list and asked them all kinds of questions for the rest of my newbie life. Continually thanking them everyday for that sweet gesture, when to them.. it was junk. LOL. To me, it was gold.
Same thing in AC, some high level jumps out of a portal from somewhere and hands me some rare Ruby Takuba.. poor soul ended up on my friends list and I remember even running around town showing people my new Takuba.
Now? so different. No more of that 'intense, what is behind door number 3' feeling. I just breeze through and don't pay attention to these small details. I am still unsure whether it was because I was so young and these games were pioneers for their age, OR... if we have just been spoiled to the point where we don't notice these things anymore.
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