Everquest II BETA signup announced (finally)

[Raedon]

May 12th at 10am pst you can put in an application.

http://everquest2.station.sony.com/beta.jsp

[Ed Oscuro]

Should make for a lot of happy people/zombies :P

Don't really want to drege up the WoW/EQ2 debate again, but I just want to say that the screenshots I've seen look unnatural. No shading to speak of on the characters, so they look like they're taking a screencap out of the modeling system. Hopefully screenshots out of beta will take that impression and turn it around.

[Raedon]

they have had several videos online with the game in action

[Epicenter]

Eww. I can't stand Everquest, though I'm a bit slanted because I am not fond of RPGs, especially the online variety. But that aside-- Everquest's gameplay was never anything too amazing to speak of. You didn't even have the freedom to fight other players if you wanted to without going to some fancy 'PVP' server. All the screenshots, even of the newest game, look like they were shot on the sun due to the lack of ANY shadows on the world or characters. Even *QUAKE 1* had that. And it came out around 1994!

Either this, or the last expansion pack .. had test copies that came with 512 MB sticks of RAM. It needed all of that because it's so horrifically inefficient-- coded like absolute garbage. And it still looks terrible .. plays terrible .. ugh. And don't even get me started on the lemmings! (Though it's their fault, not the game's. People just should not let themselves play RPGs if they are of an addictive personality type.)

But yeah. I can't bring myself to be too excited :P

[Epicenter]

On a more positive note, I'd play THIS online RPG. ;) http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/chipndale.php