Take a visual tour of EverQuest II: The Shadow Odyssey's new dungeons

by Samuel Axon Aug 30th 2008 at 8:00PM

Filed under: Fantasy, Screenshots, EverQuest II, Expansions, Wallpapers

EverQuest II's The Shadow Odyssey expansion is set to launch this November. In addition to heritage quests and the shard reward system, the expansion will add an EverQuest classic -- the dungeon of Guk. And in the days leading up to the launch, EQ2 players will get to start exploring another dungeon: Veksar.

To build up anticipation, SOE is rolling out articles, screenshots, and concept art related to the two new dungeons. For Guk it put together a series of lore-oriented postcards and images explaining what the place is all about, culminating in some concept art wallpapers. The Veksar article is a little more traditional in its presentation, but the substance is all there. We've put together in a gallery all the images from both of those tours.

SOE also released concept art for guild halls, which will be implemented soon. Guild halls date back to Meridian 59 and text MUDs before it, but for some reason they've been out of vogue in the 21st century.

Gallery: EverQuest II: The Shadow Odyssey Dungeons

Well met, fellow Norrathian! Make sure to check out all of our coverage of the next EverQuest II expansion, The Shadow Odyssey as well as Seeds of Destruction, the next expansion to EverQuest!

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Tony said on 12:32AM 8-31-2008

Dr. Zoidberg?

Doom said on 9:16PM 8-31-2008

Not completely out of vogue... City of Heroes/Villains have super bases which are like that, and I'm pretty sure guild wars has guild halls. UO had it as well, as a part of the game world; its too bad more games don't do THAT.

Samuel Axon said on 3:35AM 8-31-2008

It seems to be coming back into style. The Lord of the Rings Online added kinship halls a while back, and Age of Conan takes it a step further with guild cities.

But very few games of the past two generations of MMOs shipped with the feature, and none (save perhaps AoC, in theory) made it as central to gameplay as did Meridian 59 and other games of the 90s.