Love the content Fading and team. Keep it up!

Another great video! Thanks Fading.

This show is great and makes my week. Appreciate all the effort you put into it.

Thank you for this! I always want to run home and get on one of my old characters after watching your videos!

Love this, thanks for spending so much time doing this for us

These episodes and this channel are very important for the preservation of old-school games. There's so much to Everquest. When people hear or talk about old-school MMOs, it's always stuff like FF11 or WoW. Thank you for the Everquest content. Thank you to everyone who worked and to those who continue to work on the game.

The fact that you get nothing out of this besides the joy of it, really shows on your face with that ear to ear grin. Fading, thank you so much for what you do in your spare time. I hope one day that this can be your job, if that's your wish. I could easily listen to you on a podcast or just talk about anything my dude. You rock and I was so heartbroken when I thought the show was gone for years, it really is a pandemic miracle seeing you return and with more vigor than ever!

Great Episode!

Super-duper episode. THIS is the stuff that EQ is built on. Fading, your work is so appreciated. Thank you!

Best game ever IMO.

Bards rock! My very very first character was a Vah bard when I started playing with my then boyfriend when he wanted to play EQ (again) after SoL launched. From some bad experiences with MUDs, I was very wary of the inclusion of PvP and so didn't pick up the game prior to him bringing me into it. I have fond memories of the first weeks of playing and figuring out the bard. When FV opened a few months later, we decided to try characters there in a group that he had met on The Newbie Zone of the forums (veteran players who would help the newbies). I rolled a ranger and stayed on that server. Since it was 1 character per account then, I had moved on from bard at that time. I left the game a few years later. After returning in 2020, I started playing a bard again on FV (now the same number of characters per account as all other servers) and she is now my main and I love her to bits. There have been A LOT of changes in how bards work but also a lot of core things have remained.

Rick talks about making the orcs and other monster models recognizable from a distance. I am glad that they thought about things like that as it adds to the game! It feels pretty good when you are running around in the wilds of one zone or another and off in the distance, you see your target! The game is so much better thanks to those little details that they add just because they thought about how we the players would either benefit or how the characters could "fit" together! So much fun to watch these! Thank you, Fading!

Hell yes, new episode!

LOVED this episode. Schmitz's and Zatkin's fingerprints are all over EQ. What wonder they created. Pure creativity and passion! They are so good at what they do.

Im sad to imagine that this show will some day end and we cant get any more info and Background on the Game that molded me greatly to who i am today. Those infos are valuable and its great that you present them to a wider audience because otherwise they would get lost. keep up the great show !

I was 18 when I started playing EQ back in 1999. Watching these videos instantly takes me back to simpler days and the joys that were found losing myself into a new world. EQ was my introduction into the world of MMORPGs and will always hold a special place in my heart. I'm sure that I'm not alone when I say thank you for for doing this series and bringing some forgotten joy back into the world.

Great episode Fading!!! Boy did that man have talent...wow..it's so cool to see the people behind EQ and all the work they did and how they still seem very proud to be a part of making a great game. Thanks again Fading for all the work you put into these so we can enjoy them, can't wait to see the upcoming episode!

Ah yes, time to kick back and enjoy my weekly dose of nostalgia, followed by the crushing feeling of never feeling like this game made me feel again. So many feels! Love it, keep em coming!

Love the episode! Definitely got chills at the 3 Qeynos comparison and the music updates over time... Always so interesting to hear commentary from the super intelligent and creative designers that made up the world we play in.

Great episode as always. Love the Geoffrey Zatkin interview because the EQ class interdependence has always fascinated me most about the game, great getting to hear a little bit about how some of that came to be. Also really happy my favorite mobs of all time the lizardmen got a feature!

Love the show! Thanks for the time and effort you put into it. It is so much fun getting the backstories on the creation of EQ. I would love to see an interview with the person/team that created the sound effects to the mobs. Back in the beginning, the spell book would be shown when you were sitting medding up. You had no idea what was near you. I vividly remember the terror I would feel in East Karana hearing the clacking sounds on the spiders as they roamed by me. Still makes me shudder.

So many feels, so much nostalgia. Played the game at launch in '99 and was a daily player/raider up to PoP. So many wonderful memories! Thank you for doing this!

Absolutely love this, never missed an upload, thank you!

Great episode. Knowing about Rick Schmitz and the animator is amazing. Smaller world with this duo! Thanks for this!!!

Thank you Fading

Good episode!!

Great episode. Really like the interviews and being able to see all the early art.

Great channel, thanks.

Great stuff as always! 👍

So his daughter was the model for Quellious, but I wonder what persons IRL he based the Trolls/Ogres on!

awesome, more interviews! Thanks!

Glad you got back into making these Kitt they are awesome!

Another great episode. Love to see the OG developers. Thanks Fadding, keep up the great work!

i love this man, please never stop

Thank you for the show ❤

"It's Cthulhu. It's a lot to do with a Cthulhu monster. It was inspired by Cthulhu." Thanks for settling an argument I had with some folks in my guild 20 years ago. lol They were adamant that the Amygdalian Warriors were not inspired by Cthulhu at all, but were based on Mind Flayers. I was like "Mind Flayers were based on the look of Cthulhu..." lol

My favorite episode so far. I could spend hours listening to the designers discussing their creative process. Everquest is solely the reason I learned to make digital art (I started out making forum signatures), and now 2 decades later I enjoy a career as a concept artist. I owe these guys a round of Minotaur Hero's Brew. 🍺

Amazing episode! I loved the segment about designing the gameplay mechanics. EQ managed to reach a wonderful balance accross different classes and gameplay dynamics, and now I know who was the genius mind behind it :) Thanks!

Thank you for making these videos. They are fantastic

Love this show almost as much as I love EQ! Please keep up the great work ❤️

we need everquest 3

Enjoyed seeing that time lapse of Qeynos, hope to see more of that in the future since I never got to play EQOA or the Champions of Norrath games. All these interviews makes me wonder how many hours of interview footage you have that you're just waiting to tie in with subjects and release lol. Good episode!

Damn I missed the premiere!

I saw some people I know from Agnarr! :)

I want to play EQOA soooo bad!

Enchanter for the win!

"for the enchanter, i was going to create a class that had nothing to do with damage" proceeds to make the highest dps class in the game

Are you going to do a video about the post that you posted on the fourms about asking daybreak questions?

“I made a class that had nothing to do with damage.” *looks at charm* 🤣

Hmm. Ask him about monks. Not the masters of melee dps anymore (that just duplicates berserkers) and pulling in raids is a thing of the distant, distant past. Might have thought it had something to do with ripostes (turning an opponent's strength back upon them) but that's not really a thing either.

Funny hearing him talk about bards being terrible solo...best kiter and eph hour there right up there with enchanters being able to control other monsters wow. And to reduce damage to make there pets even last longer

Fading, what servers have you played on?

"the bard was designed to be terrible at soloing but invaluable in groups" hahahahaa. did anyone show him a bard swarm kiting and gaining an entire level in 30 minutes?

Classes that aren't JUST DPS are such a missing link in games these days - having roles that enable and empower others or manipulate the game in other ways is so very interesting and such a lost art.

What i don't understand your doing this for the love of the game, why is Daybreak games not backing your steam with even more items to say hey this game is being backed and we just won't go down. For the love of this game why not back the content supporters like Fading.

The legend behind enchanter, best crowd control class in any mmo out there even decades after