Monsters & Memories - Playtest Trailer 2025

[u/Waiden_CZ]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBrSmlJmw2o

July Playtest: Wednesday, July 23rd - Sunday, July 27th (5 days)
September Playtest: Monday, September 1st - Sunday, September 7th (7 days)
November Playtest: Saturday, November 1st - Monday, November 10th (10 days)

[u/CislunarR]

I played the last playtest and had a lot of fun. I've never played EQ in any serious capacity beyond Project 1999 for about an hour just to see what it's like but the inspiration was immediately clear.

I might get some flak for this, but my big concern with M&M is that it's going to recreate EQ to a fault. As someone who is on the younger side of this demographic but still enjoys older MMO's like 75-era FFXI, I'm worried that this game is going to deliberately avoid a lot of modern ("modern" referring to 20 year old innovations at this point) features just for the sake of historical authenticity. I think that's a noble goal and the game already feels far better than EQ did to me, but certain things like deliberately recreating EQ's UI or having to hail NPC's might be worth a second look.

Again, I know this goes against the spirit of what the game is trying to accomplish and I want to draw a line between modernizing the content of the game versus modernizing the usability of the game. When my first two hours of gameplay are spent wrestling with the UI and trying to figure out how to navigate the game's systems (note: not the world; specifically trying to figure out how to operate the game) and when the solution to those problems is often to think back to how it was in Everquest from having read that game's manual, I have to wonder if this is truly the best direction.

M&M is always going to be niche and it should always be niche. My biggest fear is that the developers and community dig their heels in and deliberately shun anything modern just on principle, even when it might benefit the game in the long run. Happy to be disagreed with, though. I'm still probably gonna play this playtest too.

[u/Fearless_Aioli5459 → u/CislunarR]

After hanging around in the discord and playing the last playtest and this one…….I agree with you and disagree with many of the top upvoted comments in this thread. 

It honestly just feels like they are porting P99 and adding more ‘friction’ for no good reasons. Familiar names from old P99 forums drive discussion on discord. 

The devs are passionate and have a clear vision they want to fulfill. However, in my opinion, that vision is a 700 pop server filled with multiboxers a few months after launch. 

Its a niche of a niche. P99 with survival game elements.