Shameless plug for EVE Online (neat vids inside)

As a long time player of EVE Online I occasionally like to sing its praises.

Below I have listed a few of the user community created videos for EVE Online. The production values alone make these worth watching. Some amazing skill is present in the playerbase on this count.

Some videos are political in nature (in-game politics) which will be lost on most people however it is worth noting these power struggles are real and complex lending EVE something few other online games have…genuine political intrigue.

These all stream if you have Flash installed.

For starters:

This is EVE: PLayer created tribute to EVE Online. Feels like a professional it was professionally done by the Developers. Good introduction to EVE.

Empyrean Age Teaser: This one is produced by the Developers as a means to introduce Faction Warfare (which brings the NPC factions into conflict allowing more reasons for players to mix it up).

Episode_I: Player created video making up a prelude for Faction Warfare (very stylized video and I like the music he picked…note this was filmed with the old graphics engine but still looks sexy).

No Other Destiny: Another Developer created vid. Best one they have done although all of theirs are good (also old graphics engine).

Tortuga: Details political machinations and the split between once allies (among the biggest in EVE) and one ally’s new venture. Great vid although IMO they spend too long on the lead-in. Second half has some great action.

Clear Skies: Ok…this one is different. It is a 40 minute long video (really) and took the player 2 years to complete. Nevertheless he achieved a wonderful piece of machinima combining EVE Online and the Half-Life engine. Genuinely entertaining. If you’ve got 40 minutes worth a look (you do not even need to know anything about EVE, story stands alone). Funny too.

Enjoy! :cool:

Just watched the Clear Skies video, and it was great!
Now you’ve made me want to play Eve again. Think I’m gonna have to reactivate that account… :slight_smile:

If you do decide to come back let me know. I’m shamelessly trying to pilfer other Dopers to my corp. Even if you want no part of that I’m glad to help in any way I can.

FYI join the “Teeming Millions” chat channel in game. Where some of us from here hang out.

And yeah…Clear Skies is great. I think it would be genuinely entertaining to anyone…not just EVE players although some of the jokes are more funny if you understand EVE (such as them opining their Tempest battleship is what you get in an explosion in a girder factory :smiley: ). The guy did a bangup job on that.