Everquest MysteriesFollow

That's awesome.

Good question. I'd guess Temple of Solusek Ro, off the top of my head. Remember the whole video is Old World Norrath. The maker says that he hasn't even started on Kunark.

Edited, Apr 5th 2016 2:37pm by Sippin

Great video! Totally makes me wanna make a new character and explore places. Or just use my current toon and continue doing the Hero's Journey.. perhaps there's some weird stuff along my way in completing those annoying quests. =P

Yeah, EQ is unique among such games in this respect. Most games have "Easter eggs" but the stuff shown in this video are not Easter eggs They're just extra content semi-hidden into the game purely for fun and to add elements of mystery and intrigue. It's a good simulation of RL where everything isn't cookie cutter and you stumble on unusual mysteries from time to time. I played WoW for awhile and I remember my interest started to decline in that game when I played it long enough to realize that a lot of the design was from a smallish group of patterns that got recycled throughout their world. For example, cave structures would be built with EXACTLY the same tunnel configuration and arrangement, regardless of whether it was in zone with giants or with goblins or with skeletons. This kind of design practice totally destroys the player's sense of immersion. Of course, EQ sometimes does this, such as with mob animations and mob speech. But there's enough unique material throughout Norrath to offset a lot of that kind of recycling.

Isn't that the definition of Easter Egg? :)



WoW did have some totally awesome Easter Eggs, though. My favorite was out in Area 52 (a spaceport, natch). The leader of the camp was Remi Dodoso. The humor is that, the theme song for Close Encounters was the notes Re Mi Do Do So :)

Tat

The eyes...

The kicking snakes kept the coins in their boots :)

I keep going back and running this video again, it's so much fun. I wish the creator would make more!

Remains of drunken fishermen who fell in the water and drowned.

I have often wondered on this one myself!

Presumably INVISIBLE gnomish tubes since I don't see them!

That's a safe room. Sometimes called a "cat room", because in some places, some dev put pictures of his cat on the walls (seriously, google "everquest cat room" and look at the images). Every zone (at least in the older expansions) has a room that's outside the normal reachable area of the zone itself. They will tend to have coordinates on some of the walls (and sometimes cats), so they may have been originally used for dev and testing of the zone designer tool or some such. In actual practice, it's like they are some kind of default starting spot in the zone layout (but not attached to any other part of the zone you can go in or out of), so when something goes catastrophically wrong (hah! Cat-astrophically. I kill me!), you'll end up there. This happens when the zone can't handle some position condition with your character.

I've been in them twice. Once was back in the day when zoning out of Befallen would sometimes pop you in EC about 100 feet NE from the befallen zoneline. If a bunch of people all zoned at once, and there was lag, people would stack on top of each other (say if a train happened). If enough people get stacked, it can't handle it and you get poofed to the safe room. The other time was when I tried to zone into a zone for a new expansion, but hadn't yet downloaded the zone file (or I had, but hadn't yet activated the expansion? Don't remember).

Through random chance, both occurrences I was playing my wizard and was able to gate out. If you were playing a non caster character back in the day before convenient gate/port items, or the "home" button in the login screen, the only way out was to petition a gm and wait to be saved.

I always remember one time long ago I ported into Butcherblock Mountains and found myself very high up in the air above the druid ring. I mean IMPOSSIBLY high, so high I thought I could see the TOP of the sky. BELOW ME! And then I started falling... really really fast. I don't remember if I had Flight of Eagles on, this might have been before that spell got introduced. Anyway I fell so fast and hard I was sure I'd be dead upon landing. But instead I fell right thru the ground and ended up dead literally underground. I mean IMPOSSIBLY deep underground. I hired a necro to look for my corpse and the best he could tell me he was detecting my corpse UNDER the druid ring area.

I had to petition and a GM showed up in about 10 minutes (you can tell right from this statement that this happened LOOOOOOOOONG ago) and he told me to wait and he'd look for my corpse. A few minutes he dragged my corpse to my feet and gave me 100% rez, apologies and some milk and cookies. He said evidently through some glitch I had ported into BB at coordinates "outside" the zone's contents and this caused me to fall to my death, also outside of the zone's contents.

I've ported into zones probably 10,000 times since and never seen this bug again. Thank Karana.


Edited, Sep 23rd 2016 1:02pm by Sippin