when i was young i thought you could unlock flying gryphons by taming them as pets as hunters, so i tried leveling one but was confused when i couldn't do it
I feel bad for anyone who didn't experience the early stages of WoW, when the meta was more about world exploration and a fitting into a legit server society. These days the WoW experience feels so much more singular and contrived. I think everyone who says they miss vanilla is actually saying they miss when the game had soul.
Edward Ecker Exactly this. It wasn't the raids or the combat really that made the game it was the people you did them with. I remember just chilling in the starting zone for taurens on my first character making friends by the fireplace. Now everyone might as well be a bot.
Edward Ecker But also take a look to other MMOGs/Games in general. Even on websites it's always the same. As soon as a community creates a hivemind, they turn to shit. In general all online communitys are a pool of idiots today.
Edward Ecker Yea vanilla wasn't just "omg vanilla was great" .... it was more so that WoW was the first of it's kind. With the internet just starting out it was possibly the best mmo out there to get attached with other people.
Edward Ecker True. I think the game lost it when they implemented the cross-server dungeon finder. It's a really nifty tool, granted. But by making it so easy for players to enter instance after instance, they forgot to be grateful for a fitting group of players that accompanied them in their perils and helped them to overcome obstacles. Man, I remember my first time in Blackrock Depths. Back then, we spent a whole day exploring every nook and cranny of that darned place. Today: 2 or 3 separate instance parts, 2 mandatory bosses each and that's it. they even cut out the trash mobs in the in-between passages...
One of my fondest memories was when I was leveling my human rogue in Westfall, and I was handing in some quests at Sentinel Hill, then a wave of level 60 Horde completely decimated the place, it was my first time experiencing enemy players in the outside world, and it was epic seeing level 60 Ally's come and try to help, it gave the world a sense of community and open world.
when i first started wow, aeons ago i preferred thottbot over wowhead. i was like, 8 years old and thought wowhead was to complicated and i was afraid of change, so i stayed with thottbot. good times, real good times.
lol, this has been up a while, so probably no one will see this, BUT my fondest memory was when I first started playing. I started a week before BC was released. I rolled a night elf hunter (after a few failed attempts at other classes). I leveled enough and finally got out of Teledressil and onto Darkshore, I noticed the map went way south and I wanted to see what was out there... so I ran. I ran until I got into Ashenvale, I was mesmerized by all the trees, the music was so soothing and I remember thinking "I didn't know a world this big could exist in a game". Then I got my ass handed to me by an aggressive stag who was ten levels above me... :P
+Leonel Diaz I was healing the rogues with JoL and maintaining an infinite mana pool with 1h SoW while requiring no outside healing. Good luck convincing the guild leader though. I blame the palidans.
It was a time where passion and vision were priority one and money making second. Surely everybody has to get paid for their work, but there is little passion in todays releases most of the time.
In my POV I agree. I was surprised what technology based on silicon transistor can achieve. I always thought about it as new genre of culture. New stories which can be told in the way which was never before even thinkable. I don't this current young generation think about it that way. It was a pure technological magic!
My fondest Vanilla memory: It was a late evening in 2005 at my friends house. I was 15 years old. My friend started talking about World of Warcraft. And me, being the typical "sporty" kid in school who never played video games and was all about playing sports and chasing girls was like "wtf are you even talking about!?" I didn't understand jack shit of what he ranted on about. All these wow terms, raid this and raid that. He then told me it would be easier to see it for myself. He then put on a warcraft pvp movie called "Sorrow Hill 1" By Otherguy, the undead mage. (The inventor or pvp videos). At that moment, I thought to myself; "This is the absolute coolest shit I have ever seen" I bought the game the next day, and created an Undead Mage Here I am, 10-11 Years later. Still playing an Undead Mage. I mean holy shit.
I remember back in 2005-2006, everyone was playing WoW. I was working at a grocery store at the time and i remember this 40yo mother playing WoW. She was working in the deli department and everytime i was walking by she was telling about her hunter lol
Maybe it's just me but WoW's classic zones felt a LOT bigger back then. Maybe the access of flying mounts makes me think that but even when running around on a level 1 in the Night Elf starting area... I just don't feel so lost in the world any more. I miss having to either use a flight path or ride on your mount to different zones. It made us keep contact with areas we barely visited. Now we just fly the feck over. Not the same. Also I hate how Cataclysm changed a lot of areas. I miss the old quests.. I miss Westfall and old school Darkshore!
I think its just because those areas actually got used for multiple things - PVP, looking for groups for dungeons, leveling gathering. There were always people in all the zones doing all sorts of different things, and that made it feel like....a world...of warcraft.
I remember being lvl 7-8 human paladin.standing near the river separating elwynn forest and duskwood and watching those wolves with skulls instead of their lvl in awe.
Their RTS games already leaned heavily on RPG elements via hero mechanics. And there was a thriving mod community building games centered on the RPG elements (such as DotA). So I wouldn't say they really made any huge gambles. More like they correctly identified a huge opportunity and capitalized on it. And they did indeed win.
I was hooked. The game was insane, like nothing I had played before. Seemed like another world I was living in. Made some great friends. Crazy experience
Remember when we would actually build socially interactive relationships when looking for groups to complete quest, do dungeons, raids, and even make guilds? Now that interactive part is automated and numb.
that's exactly it, and putting multiple servers into 1 battlegroup instead of just dropping a few servers and putting players together in the real world...of warcraft.
Since Legion hit, I've actually been doing this a lot. Mythic Dungeons aren't in the queue, so you actually have to get a group together. While I've made no permanent friendships yet, I've had a ton of fun with the people that I now interact with.
Remember when gaming was at a totally different time and if vanilla WoW came out today it would flop? Now that part has adapted and a smart move. Seriously take off your rose tinted glasses for a second and really REALLY think about it. Wildstar tried to be like vanilla WoW endgame and guess what? That killed the game. They had to go F2P because no one gave two fucks about doing lengthy quests just to do a raid. And Wildstar tried its best to pander to Vanilla WoW players. So I think that alone shows how archaic vanilla was and how it was good because of when it came out. Most people who played WoW vanilla were kids or teenagers, meaning they had all the time in the world to play whenever and do all the lengthy shit. Now? Are you seriously saying you would come back after a hard day of work to grind for items all night long? Secondly, the socialization is still there. Youre logic implies the only reason people socialized was because they have to. They had to stand in a town and spam "need a tank/healer". Technically thats still in the game. Its called Mythic+. Mythic+ doesnt use LFG and you need to manually make a group. But your logic is implying people socialized because they wanted to. If this were the case, LFG and LFR would have been a complete utter failure. So your logic doesnt hold up and just to remind you, LFG was made during the time where the game was at its highest number of subs ever (WoTLK). Questing? In Legion, some WQs require a group, but not all. Dungeons and raids? I believe I covered that. Had to make a guild? What would dictate you to make a guild? I dont see why any piece of content would absolutely require you to be in a guild unless of course you were doing Mythic raiding. But other than that? I know vanilla guilds had perks to them. But you have to ask yourself this; are you joining/making a guild for the community? Or the perks it just gives?
0:49 gloria! Having played warcraft 3, I remember playing this E3 trailer countless of times until the very end of 2004 when i finally got a beta invitation for vanilla :D people had no idea of the game or any strategies back than, it took you months to even reach 60. Everybody was keen to explore every inch of this world, the quests&secrets. It wasnt about efficiency at all, just having fun exploring stuff. Countless hours pvping at tarens mill, endless wipes within the molten core of black rock mountain. The absolut peak of Blizzard. A true masterpiece, truely unique, never played any addon. Private servers got me this nostalgia 12years later, eager to conquer Ahn'quiraj and Naxxramas, thank you lightshope, thank you catalysts! Unfortunately classic could not compete to this nostalgia as I already knew all strategies and areas. I still had fun, but the meta was totally different...
Dandy Candy Yea I know, it's definitely had potential but very poor implementation. If it were me I would have made a housing district, where it populated phases with online players to maximize the sense of population and community, and integrated it with a main city. I would have put way less focus on the "garrison chores" and focused more on customization, and stuff you can interact with... you know RPG things.
I can't even describe of epic it was, seeing teldrassil for the first time as 12 year old, or durotar. It was a feeling i never had since then..why? What was this feeling? The feeling of exploring a game one of a kind, it was new, it was big and there were other players..we were young and didn't know anything about games, til we saw WoW in the TV...
My fondest memory was the day I logged in to my 47 paladin, leveling in the Searing Gorge... Just like any other day, questing, going through the tough 1-60 as a retribution paladin. Hard days, and one of those days just so happened to bring me to an undead, skull level mage. (Skull is 10 levels or higher, so he was level 57 or 60, 60 being maximum at the time.) He saw me, and I saw him, and those were the days when griefing and camping started. I took it upon my alliance self to do my duty and attack him, whether I would live or die. For all of those who have died to gankers and corpse campers. Our fight lasted for nearly fifteen minutes, back and forth, halfway down the map south of Thorium Point. I remember jumping from scaffolding to scaffolding, and going in and out of the mines in order to LoS (Line of Sight) the mage. Fifteen minutes of the most memorable reasons why I loved the game, and why I played alliance. Between the fifteen minute mark and twenty minutes, I killed that sucker, and went on with my day. Shit mage, but hell I killed him. LOL
I remember being an orc in ashenvale, around level 25 I was. Had some higher level alliance on my tail, but he had no mount. He was chasing me for about 20 minutes through the forests. I tried to hide in bushes and behind trees. And after a while i successfully managed to hide away and escape.
It came out when I was 17... had to wait a year to start playing because I couldn't get a credit card as a minor. Started when BC released, such a good time in gaming.
THE ORIGINAL TRAILER! This trailer got me into wow in 2004. I had come off a crazy obsession with Warcraft 2 and 3 previously. Ill never forget this game trailer its my #1 forever. Im one of the few still playing the same retail character, on retail to this day. #ForTheAlliance
Dat feeling when you had to explore to quest, quest to level, and level to explore more. IDK when you guys started playing, but "BACK IN MY DAY", as us old men say, you had no databases or search engines that would give you a position on a map that told you what was good, where certain creatures were, what creep, minion, or boss would drop you a certain ingredient and where that was. You had to ask in chat, or read through pages upon useless, clunky pages in blizzard forums. Or, like me, have buddies who were ahead of you and knew by coincidence where something was. I have so much useless information stored in my head from those days, because helping someone else find something in chat felt great.
HaploidCell You nailed it mate, those were the "little" things what made classic WoW a real massive multiplayer game. Where you had to explore the World of Warcraft, socialise with people. Not this abomination it has became, everyone sitting in freaking instanced solo garrisons.
I can't believe the WoW developers did not preserve the data from the original version of WoW. This is perhaps the most important bit of gaming history right here.
Takashi 125 I specifically recall them (incl. Morhaime) say that one of the biggest issues with legacy servers was in fact that Blizzard had not saved the orginal data, as they had just let it be overwritten as the game progressed. Which is why Nostalrius and every other "Blizzlike" private server had to datamine everything themselves. It's not that I don't believe you, but I would love to hear a source.
I can bet your left nut that they still have the main source and changes they have done, and can easily put it all back together, but it's very time consuming. And Nostalrius didn't datamine anything. People already datamined everything they needed since 2005. They've just fixed bugs and perfected everything else.
the nostalgia is crazy, I got goosebumps. I remember running around looking for an actual group to kill Hogger, now anyone can solo it. I remember needing a group in the fargodeep mine south of goldshire because those damn kobolds came out of nowhere. I remember needing a group to kill the boar Princess because she was a pain. I remember having to literally run to every damn dungeon after hours of searching for a group. I remember meeting amazing people and making incredible connections with complete strangers because you had to interact with the WORLD, with the COMMUNITY. I can honestly say, this game is always gonna be a part of me I'll never forget. Thank You Blizzard! *sobs*.. I'm not crying! you're crying!
When I was standing in a line of a store, waiting with my mother to get my copy of WoW vanilla charged, a guy behind me put a hand on my shoulder. When I turned around I saw a warm smile accompanied by the legendary words: ''Your life is over.'' And he was right. I have over 1200 days /played across my characters in 18 years.
I remember when I got rank 6 and entered the officers barracks. That was so epic. Getting rank 10 and wearing full blue PvP set was so special too. That feelings are forever in my heart.
Imagine going back and seeing this...could anyone have imagined the behemoth of a game this was about to become? The calm before the absolute storm. The imminent addiction, future nostalgia, friends and memories seared in our collective experience... If there is one thing in gaming I could go back and experience for the first time again - it would be this. Take me back D:
My first character troll warrior. His bones dry for many years in barrens wastelands. Second character was beautiful night elf huntress she was super cool figthing spear and bow with her companion. Times when I explored unknown parts of WoW. Everybody where hyped after warcraft 3 masterpice strategy. Amazing times.❤
One of my best memories was when I was playing my Dwarf hunter in Dun Morogh and all of a sudden I saw an orc rogue with armor and glowing daggers, I thought to myself whoaw I need to hide quick, so I hide behind a tree I was so freaking scared, and another memory when I finally went to Ironforge for the first time I ran up the mountain leading to the gates and running past me were these mounted players with tigers and I stopped and thought to myself that whoaw this is so freaking cool, I wonder when I get to have a mount, these are one of the earliest memories I've had when I created my first character, the experience and the feeling has not been felt in another game today, it was truly magical, unique, special and unforgetable.
I still remember up to this day when the game first came out, my friend Hugo had it installed the day after and I went to his place after school and I just sat there the whole evening watching him go through the starting area with a night elf. I couldn't believe it how awesome the game was!
Fondest memory? Got two: Reaching Ashenvale (my favourite zone) and doing my first dungeon as a nelf warrior: Black fathom Deeps. And even when it was a total mess (mage was tanking, i was using 2 h weapon and never using taunts, priest doing dps, hunter using melee...) it was so damn fun, you didnt cared about loot and meeting quotas, you cared about the experience/adventure and seeing new things. And second one: My first Onyxia fight with my Undead Warlock. It was my guilds 1º try, Stygia, second attempt in the entire server. it was a wipe and we wiped many times before downing her, but boy it was epic. Even when you didnt get any loot, it was epic enough to jsut go and do it again. Probably cause you werent worn out of doing heroics for the currency points back then.
+Simón Salgueiro Black Fathom Deeps was the first instance I ever did too ! Man how awesome , the part when you get to the beach setting hidden at the top of Ashenvale, and then go past all the naga down the chasm and through the cave to get to the instance ! it really felt like discovering something epic :))
+Simón Salgueiro I was using fury stance and whirlwind with a two-hander at the start in vanilla for tanking, too. The bloody mage still stole aggro from every mob, but i was able to not get everyone else in trouble at least. Then at the end, nobody had any quest. And the mage ninjaed my plate helmet.
first one i ever did was ragefire chasm with a guild group and I was a lock and i thought that only using spells would drain me of mana and i should auto attack the mobs... (why else would i have auto attack and a melee weapon, right?)
Onyxia was my first raid too. It was something special when it first came out and we all had to figure out what the hell we were doing by smashing ourselves into her all night long. LoL :)
Oh my undead warrior... The journey we've made together. My best memory of vanilla is when I tried so many times to complete, Family Crypt. It was when i first asked for help from other players. Now it saddens me to see any noob complete it without anyone's help.
My fondest memory in WoW Taking part in my servers (emerald dream) largest ever raid, I think there's still videos of it but we were in the hundreds, I'm pretty sure I was a lower level player at this point so was pretty clueless but got invited into the raid party because I was in the guild, I had never been in a raid party before and suddenly seeing all these players popping up blew my fucking mind, everyone was in the raid chat yelling over each other, other raid groups were forming and everyone started grouping outside of orgrimmar Everyone was spamming trade chat: WE ARE TAKING SW, EVERYONE OUTSIDE ORGRIMMAR! - and the whole city man.. every player low or high, we were taking up arms, we were going for the alliance and we started to gun towards Ratchet to catch the boat. It was phenomenal, all these players mounted or running, spamming yell, FOR THE HORDE!, I mean I had NEVER experienced something on this level before from games or well anything to be honest. hundreds of players pouring onto the boat in ratchet as we headed into booty bay, I had never even been to the eastern kingdoms at this point so this whole thing was so new to me. we trekked through stranglethorn picking up other horde players from booty bay and onwards and also alerting the alliance to our presence, we destroyed every alliance Homebase we saw en-route to the Elwyn forest, wiping gold shire in moments and preceding to Stormwind, my first time seeing it in game we tore through the city, hundreds of us, some stopping to raid shops, slaying every NPC and PvP enabled player in sight, city guards littered the streets as we finally made it to the palace stairs and up into stormwind keep, we downed the king (cannot for the life of me remember who it was) and killed every alliance player that came to aid their king, it was insanity Im pretty sure I cried. We then, as we were still in the literal hundreds, decided we wouldn't stop there.. oh no, we took every single alliance major city in the game, I had never seen any of these places before, I was given this grand tour of Azeroth whilst we pillaged our way through every city and upon finally returning to orgrimmar after hours of battle and siege we returned to our city and the trade chat exploded, everyone was celebrating people were dancing in the street, setting off fireworks... it was an unforgettable moment, I didn't know a game could achieve so much emotion, it was actually alive, teeming with real people, all really rejoicing and connecting from all across the real world, taking part as a community in this other world Vanilla and TBC for me were just golden, I'll never get it back even with the new vanilla servers blizzard announced, it was a moment in time you can't recapture, a moment of my childhood you know? you'll never really get that back, I've seen the whole game, I've also lived more of my life and it'll never be relived the way it was back then but thats fine, I'm glad I have this memory and so many others of this game of all games.
I’ve been a gamer for almost 40 years and have had some of the best game memories most of you will never get to experience. But I will tell you this, experiencing vanilla wow is by far the best era of gaming I wish I could relive again.
I remember playing an undead rogue near southshore around lvl 20 trying to kill allies. My friend was a druid and would sit down bear form on the road trying to lure allies to attack him, when I would surprise them coming our of stealth. In a few minutes we had full on war. It worked 50% of the time every time.
Warcraft then, and now, it's so funny how times change. I've been playing on a Vanilla server, and for like the first time in ages, I can actually get lost in the game. I could spend hours, and I'll be thoroughly enjoying myself. Even leveling one level at time felt so good, and even finding green items made me feel awesome. Dungeons and questing are a large part of the game, and leave you with stories to tell. It doesn't feel like you are compelled to get to 60 as fast as humanly possible, as a matter of fact, I enjoy leveling to my own speed. Like just going through the dungeons in retail, you just queue up and go through the dungeon, and you won't even say a word to those helping you as you just ram your face into your keyboard. But dungeons in Vanilla, it feels awesome to socialize with everyone, I feel good about giving them random things that I happened to craft. Overall it just feels great. The delayed satisfaction of the climb to level 60 is just awesome, and it allows me to under Warcraft just that much better. Don't get me wrong, I still play retail, and retail still has some awesome elements to it. The raids are very nicely designed (SoO, ToT, HFC), they contain such great boss fights and have a lot of intensity to it. The leveling in Legion looks very high quality and the raids look even better. Overall, then and now are both great in their own elements, but my God, Vanilla is definitely a gem in it's own rite.
I started leveling an orc warrior in early 2005 (UK release) and stayed at the starting zone for absolutely ages killing boars and scorpids. I thought The Den was the entire world. Oh how I was sorely mistaken
Game like this can't exist today. First the audience will complain how there is PVP in open world. Then they complain how many spells there are. Then they complain how they can't compete with gamers. Then they complain how raids are too hard and they can't get same rewards as those who are more experience. Then they complain how their friend is in X faction while they are in Y faction. Once you fix all the complaints you end up is something like Tarisland.
The narrator says "in a land of mighty kingdoms" when the lordaeron banner is shown, where is that meant to be on the map? I feel like its either Menethil Harbour, or southshore, any speculations? Also what was happening/ being done to the orc in Stormwinds keep?
I'm thinking it's Theramore Isle, seen from its entrance facing the Dustwallow Marsh. The building on the left reminds me Foothold Citadel. The banner you talk about shows two symbols: the Lordaeron one is the smaller one in the upper left corner, whereas the symbol at the center (the anchor) represents the nation of Kul Tiras, i.e. the nation where Jaina Proudmoore (whom during Vanilla WoW resided at Theramore) hails from ;)
I don't think anything will ever top the experience this MMO had to offer. I say this not because of nostalgia, but because those were different times where finding a "guide" was much harder or impossible, you had to learn the game yourself, organically explore the game yourself, and no one knew anything about the game. It was truly special, epic and addictive. It really felt like a true adventure especially when playing with your friends, like you entered a new immersive world. So many good memories. I feel fortunate to have lived in such a great era, for me, the best era of online gaming so far. I will always remember the two hours I spent swimming with a friend to reach Westall in the beta.
I want them to bring back the world that made us talk and explore with each other. Not this grind from 1 - 100 so I can farm gear and then stand around bored.
SaltyShanker Best times. It died with Lich King. Cataclysm ruined everything, not just the world, but the need to actually work with other players. From and indepth mmorpg with social interactions and player driven world to a pseudo rpg with click a button and you get everything for free. *Sigh*.
SaltyShanker Best times. It died with Lich King. Cataclysm ruined everything, not just the world, but the need to actually work with other players. From and indepth mmorpg with social interactions and player driven world to a pseudo rpg with click a button and you get everything for free. *Sigh*.
It was good for as long as it lasted. Loved every moment of my 9 year long ride. Will forever be a part of my life. No matter what bad decisions were made along the way it was truely an epic journey, and I am glad that I took part in it.
Wait until they come up with something to extend the universe. Soon it's all going to be master plan of Jailer's evil trans brother who then turns to be actually good, it's just he was manipulated by some elden void dragon murlocks.
I recently found an MMO that made me feel the way i felt back in 2004 when i was 14 playing WoW for the first time. The sense of exploration, not caring about the end game but just enjoying the journey, meeting random people along the way and ending up becoming friends... for a very long time i haven't felt like that playing a game, but one game changed that for me and im so happy and i savour every moment, because i know eventually it will go away too.
@@minimemarcus88 it's Star Citizen, not sure if you've played it, it's basically set to be a space mmo. It has an insane sense of scale, like many others i started playing WoW because it was this huge open world online game where you can explore freely and seamlessly different zones and also meet other players along the way, now WoW is very automated and i don't have that urge to just explore like i did in mid 2000s i've tried many games and they are good but nothing special, BUT boy when i decided to buy star citizen last December i almost felt like im 14 playing WoW exactly because of the reasons mentioned above. The sense of exploration and scale is fantastic, no loading screens, planets and moons are full size, no invisible sky box to hit or wall, just a huge game, space ships are not just tools to get from A to B faster, they are your second home with beds, loading bay, man turrets etc. The game goes for realism as much as possible and it made me not care about end game, i just enjoyed the simplest of stuff to do... amazing. And the community is very nice, there is a general chat that kind of remined me of the barrens chat back in the day. But the game is still in Alpha due to the insane size of the project.
seriously what the fuck was going on in this video? tons of worgen in gurubashi arena? archaedas in gurubashi arena? was it initially some sort of endless-waves thing? also nice touch with the human hunters
I love how they made gryphon taxis look like flying mounts
Probably alot of guys got fooled for that.
when i was young i thought you could unlock flying gryphons by taming them as pets as hunters, so i tried leveling one but was confused when i couldn't do it
gryphon taxis?......really?.....who tf even says that!
you must be new here
They actually had planned to have flying mounts at launch
I feel bad for anyone who didn't experience the early stages of WoW, when the meta was more about world exploration and a fitting into a legit server society. These days the WoW experience feels so much more singular and contrived. I think everyone who says they miss vanilla is actually saying they miss when the game had soul.
Edward Ecker Well said.
Edward Ecker Exactly this. It wasn't the raids or the combat really that made the game it was the people you did them with. I remember just chilling in the starting zone for taurens on my first character making friends by the fireplace. Now everyone might as well be a bot.
Edward Ecker But also take a look to other MMOGs/Games in general. Even on websites it's always the same. As soon as a community creates a hivemind, they turn to shit.
In general all online communitys are a pool of idiots today.
Edward Ecker Yea vanilla wasn't just "omg vanilla was great" .... it was more so that WoW was the first of it's kind. With the internet just starting out it was possibly the best mmo out there to get attached with other people.
Edward Ecker True. I think the game lost it when they implemented the cross-server dungeon finder. It's a really nifty tool, granted. But by making it so easy for players to enter instance after instance, they forgot to be grateful for a fitting group of players that accompanied them in their perils and helped them to overcome obstacles.
Man, I remember my first time in Blackrock Depths. Back then, we spent a whole day exploring every nook and cranny of that darned place. Today: 2 or 3 separate instance parts, 2 mandatory bosses each and that's it. they even cut out the trash mobs in the in-between passages...
this hurts my heart... it actually pains... so many memories... early-teen years.. awwwww
I hear you brother.. I do..
***** Yeah, its over and wont come back :(
***** Nostalrius
Argionelite >implying that's the same
Illnathftfw >assuming im implying its the same
"Blizzard entertainment proudly invites you" I just got goosebumps.
When they still had pride...
Careful, you might get sexually assaulted
Yes me 2 - such words will never be said again (and meant)...
8 years after this post it's "Blizzard entertainemt doesn't give a fuck, give us your addiction money ASAP scrub"
Yep. that shot of the priest at 0:58 is what made me roll a priest main back in 2004 which i still play today.
One of my fondest memories was when I was leveling my human rogue in Westfall, and I was handing in some quests at Sentinel Hill, then a wave of level 60 Horde completely decimated the place, it was my first time experiencing enemy players in the outside world, and it was epic seeing level 60 Ally's come and try to help, it gave the world a sense of community and open world.
man Sentinel Hill!!! We ganked so much over there lol
Optimus Prime presents: World of Warcraft
Dick Blister most lovely comment ever.
LOL i was thinking the same thing
Bleex he voiced Orgrim in Warcraft adventures.
damn you beat me to it
I was just gonna say "Optimus is that you?" lol XP
If you remember Thottbot you're real guy.
BrahUAware ouch, that hurts noob.
lmao
when i first started wow, aeons ago i preferred thottbot over wowhead. i was like, 8 years old and thought wowhead was to complicated and i was afraid of change, so i stayed with thottbot. good times, real good times.
Spent waaay too much time on Thottbot
I was really happy to see the Quest Helper in BC. Thottbot did make me get a second screen tho ^^
lol, this has been up a while, so probably no one will see this, BUT my fondest memory was when I first started playing. I started a week before BC was released. I rolled a night elf hunter (after a few failed attempts at other classes). I leveled enough and finally got out of Teledressil and onto Darkshore, I noticed the map went way south and I wanted to see what was out there... so I ran. I ran until I got into Ashenvale, I was mesmerized by all the trees, the music was so soothing and I remember thinking "I didn't know a world this big could exist in a game".
Then I got my ass handed to me by an aggressive stag who was ten levels above me... :P
Ashenvale had that effect on a lot of folks. Myself included. Be well cujoedaman
Wondering into duskwood as a lvl 5 human and aggroing ghouls from a hundred yards away. Good times
haha exactly. Or having no clue and travel from the barrens to the Tanaris at level 13. Traveling and swimming along the east coast.
travel 18 lvl from Duskwood to Booty Bay, dying from animals, undeads, gorrilas... Those days~~
i remember the harvest golems that would aggro from 30 light years away
Oh yeah, you didn't care what level you were, you just ran anywhere and died a couple 100 times just to explore new cool places
It was fun and exciting.
why was that paladin swinging his sword and not buffing me.
Leonel Diaz KICK EM FROM THE GROUP.
+Leonel Diaz I was healing the rogues with JoL and maintaining an infinite mana pool with 1h SoW while requiring no outside healing.
Good luck convincing the guild leader though. I blame the palidans.
KRASHIM WTFFFF
Leonel Diaz more importantly was the the sword of a thousand truths?
/gkick
I would gladly turn back time and reset my memory just to experience those days again.
Kronos
Turn back time, don't reset memory. Tell Blizzard to never release anything after Wrath, or BC.
The way you use to have to play the game back then you'd have to regain your virginity as well
elysium-project.org/ Server launching December 17th
as if he lost it
Man the early 2000s were really the golden age of technology. I miss those times
The mid 90s to the end of the 2000s was a grand time to be a gamer
@@kaydee66781 Yes I agree. Grand time to be alive as well, lol
Agreed 98-2008 was the best decade
It was a time where passion and vision were priority one and money making second. Surely everybody has to get paid for their work, but there is little passion in todays releases most of the time.
In my POV I agree. I was surprised what technology based on silicon transistor can achieve. I always thought about it as new genre of culture. New stories which can be told in the way which was never before even thinkable. I don't this current young generation think about it that way. It was a pure technological magic!
My fondest Vanilla memory:
It was a late evening in 2005 at my friends house. I was 15 years old. My friend started talking about World of Warcraft. And me, being the typical "sporty" kid in school who never played video games and was all about playing sports and chasing girls was like "wtf are you even talking about!?" I didn't understand jack shit of what he ranted on about. All these wow terms, raid this and raid that. He then told me it would be easier to see it for myself. He then put on a warcraft pvp movie called "Sorrow Hill 1" By Otherguy, the undead mage. (The inventor or pvp videos). At that moment, I thought to myself; "This is the absolute coolest shit I have ever seen"
I bought the game the next day, and created an Undead Mage
Here I am, 10-11 Years later. Still playing an Undead Mage.
I mean holy shit.
i hope you laid some chicks tho?
I remember back in 2005-2006, everyone was playing WoW. I was working at a grocery store at the time and i remember this 40yo mother playing WoW. She was working in the deli department and everytime i was walking by she was telling about her hunter lol
Good. U got ur shit together. No more chasing girls and sport lol
You still playing UD mage?
Maybe it's just me but WoW's classic zones felt a LOT bigger back then. Maybe the access of flying mounts makes me think that but even when running around on a level 1 in the Night Elf starting area... I just don't feel so lost in the world any more. I miss having to either use a flight path or ride on your mount to different zones. It made us keep contact with areas we barely visited. Now we just fly the feck over. Not the same. Also I hate how Cataclysm changed a lot of areas. I miss the old quests.. I miss Westfall and old school Darkshore!
And that's why there wont be flying in Dreanor!
Bjorn van Gelder..for a month
Sam E But the Barrens was so big it had to be split into 2!
i agree completely.
I think its just because those areas actually got used for multiple things - PVP, looking for groups for dungeons, leveling gathering. There were always people in all the zones doing all sorts of different things, and that made it feel like....a world...of warcraft.
I remember being lvl 7-8 human paladin.standing near the river separating elwynn forest and duskwood and watching those wolves with skulls instead of their lvl in awe.
lol i have the same memory
Sacrificed way too many college semesters playing Vanilla and TBC. And I would do it all over again.
I see Optimus Prime likes abit of gaming after kicking ass
+Martin Snoeij damm, i've just comment this and not saw your comment before XD i'll not gain likes
well no shit lol
Optimus Prime approves this game!
In 2003, Blizzard rolled the dice that people would want to experience their RTS as a RPG.
I say they won that bet.
Too bad they've removed just about all their RPG elements in favor of convenience.
Dalton Joshua true dat.
But i have 57 jobs 12 kids and only one microsecond to play! Make the game progressable for me!
Their RTS games already leaned heavily on RPG elements via hero mechanics. And there was a thriving mod community building games centered on the RPG elements (such as DotA).
So I wouldn't say they really made any huge gambles. More like they correctly identified a huge opportunity and capitalized on it. And they did indeed win.
I was hooked. The game was insane, like nothing I had played before. Seemed like another world I was living in. Made some great friends. Crazy experience
100% Game was amazing
only kids born in 80s or 90s know this feeling
I was born in the 70's and know this feeling ;)
@@butcherjsy8then you werent a kid
@@lotusroot4087 But I know the feeling!
Remember when we would actually build socially interactive relationships when looking for groups to complete quest, do dungeons, raids, and even make guilds? Now that interactive part is automated and numb.
that's exactly it, and putting multiple servers into 1 battlegroup instead of just dropping a few servers and putting players together in the real world...of warcraft.
Since Legion hit, I've actually been doing this a lot. Mythic Dungeons aren't in the queue, so you actually have to get a group together. While I've made no permanent friendships yet, I've had a ton of fun with the people that I now interact with.
Orion Crawford
Same, I've been playing with all my old friends. It's like we never left the game.
Remember when gaming was at a totally different time and if vanilla WoW came out today it would flop? Now that part has adapted and a smart move.
Seriously take off your rose tinted glasses for a second and really REALLY think about it. Wildstar tried to be like vanilla WoW endgame and guess what? That killed the game. They had to go F2P because no one gave two fucks about doing lengthy quests just to do a raid. And Wildstar tried its best to pander to Vanilla WoW players. So I think that alone shows how archaic vanilla was and how it was good because of when it came out.
Most people who played WoW vanilla were kids or teenagers, meaning they had all the time in the world to play whenever and do all the lengthy shit. Now? Are you seriously saying you would come back after a hard day of work to grind for items all night long?
Secondly, the socialization is still there. Youre logic implies the only reason people socialized was because they have to. They had to stand in a town and spam "need a tank/healer". Technically thats still in the game. Its called Mythic+. Mythic+ doesnt use LFG and you need to manually make a group. But your logic is implying people socialized because they wanted to. If this were the case, LFG and LFR would have been a complete utter failure. So your logic doesnt hold up and just to remind you, LFG was made during the time where the game was at its highest number of subs ever (WoTLK).
Questing? In Legion, some WQs require a group, but not all. Dungeons and raids? I believe I covered that. Had to make a guild? What would dictate you to make a guild? I dont see why any piece of content would absolutely require you to be in a guild unless of course you were doing Mythic raiding. But other than that? I know vanilla guilds had perks to them. But you have to ask yourself this; are you joining/making a guild for the community? Or the perks it just gives?
FYI I'm playing Legion and I'm really enjoying it as much as I did BC...
0:49 gloria! Having played warcraft 3, I remember playing this E3 trailer countless of times until the very end of 2004 when i finally got a beta invitation for vanilla :D people had no idea of the game or any strategies back than, it took you months to even reach 60. Everybody was keen to explore every inch of this world, the quests&secrets. It wasnt about efficiency at all, just having fun exploring stuff. Countless hours pvping at tarens mill, endless wipes within the molten core of black rock mountain. The absolut peak of Blizzard. A true masterpiece, truely unique, never played any addon. Private servers got me this nostalgia 12years later, eager to conquer Ahn'quiraj and Naxxramas, thank you lightshope, thank you catalysts! Unfortunately classic could not compete to this nostalgia as I already knew all strategies and areas. I still had fun, but the meta was totally different...
What I want to know is how we went from this amazing world with loads of other players to pissing about in a Garrison on our own.
Hubert Benmeratherdinghat III Activision, probably and sadly.
Hubert Benmeratherdinghat III Because player housing has been in demand since WoW Beta.
Michael Broetje
I can assure you Facebook App was not what we had in mind.
Dandy Candy Yea I know, it's definitely had potential but very poor implementation. If it were me I would have made a housing district, where it populated phases with online players to maximize the sense of population and community, and integrated it with a main city. I would have put way less focus on the "garrison chores" and focused more on customization, and stuff you can interact with... you know RPG things.
Michael Broetje I have been wanting this since vanilla. Like a guild lounge with the very essential vendors within the major cities.
I can't even describe of epic it was, seeing teldrassil for the first time as 12 year old, or durotar. It was a feeling i never had since then..why? What was this feeling? The feeling of exploring a game one of a kind, it was new, it was big and there were other players..we were young and didn't know anything about games, til we saw WoW in the TV...
You can only smoke crack the first time once.
i was there! ❤2005 ❤ the feeling playing wow those days can’t be explained.. I miss it so bad
My fondest memory was the day I logged in to my 47 paladin, leveling in the Searing Gorge... Just like any other day, questing, going through the tough 1-60 as a retribution paladin. Hard days, and one of those days just so happened to bring me to an undead, skull level mage. (Skull is 10 levels or higher, so he was level 57 or 60, 60 being maximum at the time.) He saw me, and I saw him, and those were the days when griefing and camping started. I took it upon my alliance self to do my duty and attack him, whether I would live or die. For all of those who have died to gankers and corpse campers. Our fight lasted for nearly fifteen minutes, back and forth, halfway down the map south of Thorium Point.
I remember jumping from scaffolding to scaffolding, and going in and out of the mines in order to LoS (Line of Sight) the mage. Fifteen minutes of the most memorable reasons why I loved the game, and why I played alliance. Between the fifteen minute mark and twenty minutes, I killed that sucker, and went on with my day.
Shit mage, but hell I killed him. LOL
+Corbin “Dunshin” McGhee tl;dr
I remember being an orc in ashenvale, around level 25 I was. Had some higher level alliance on my tail, but he had no mount. He was chasing me for about 20 minutes through the forests. I tried to hide in bushes and behind trees. And after a while i successfully managed to hide away and escape.
Corbin McGhee this is not a true story
Paladins, back then, were hard to kill. Lay on hands was crazy op, balanced only by forbereance wich lasted 20 25 min, if i remember corectly
+crashyburny MIT there was no forbearance )
It came out when I was 17... had to wait a year to start playing because I couldn't get a credit card as a minor. Started when BC released, such a good time in gaming.
Kids will never know what an adventure that was.
THE ORIGINAL TRAILER! This trailer got me into wow in 2004. I had come off a crazy obsession with Warcraft 2 and 3 previously. Ill never forget this game trailer its my #1 forever. Im one of the few still playing the same retail character, on retail to this day. #ForTheAlliance
Years later... Still gives me goosebumps.
Dat feeling when you had to explore to quest, quest to level, and level to explore more.
IDK when you guys started playing, but "BACK IN MY DAY", as us old men say, you had no databases or search engines that would give you a position on a map that told you what was good, where certain creatures were, what creep, minion, or boss would drop you a certain ingredient and where that was.
You had to ask in chat, or read through pages upon useless, clunky pages in blizzard forums. Or, like me, have buddies who were ahead of you and knew by coincidence where something was.
I have so much useless information stored in my head from those days, because helping someone else find something in chat felt great.
HaploidCell You nailed it mate, those were the "little" things what made classic WoW a real massive multiplayer game. Where you had to explore the World of Warcraft, socialise with people. Not this abomination it has became, everyone sitting in freaking instanced solo garrisons.
I have no idea how those "garrison" things work, what they are, or what they do. And I'm not even sure I want to find out. ;D
HaploidCell This was true for only a while before Thottbot became a thing.
well we had thot bot remember
Vaguely ^^ I remember trying to use it .....
The best gaming experience I've ever had ♥️
Wow classic literally has a part of my soul.
I can't believe the WoW developers did not preserve the data from the original version of WoW. This is perhaps the most important bit of gaming history right here.
Dude they've already confirmed that they have kept it preserved.
Takashi 125 When?
Back when everyone was going crazy over legacy servers earlier this year.
Takashi 125 I specifically recall them (incl. Morhaime) say that one of the biggest issues with legacy servers was in fact that Blizzard had not saved the orginal data, as they had just let it be overwritten as the game progressed. Which is why Nostalrius and every other "Blizzlike" private server had to datamine everything themselves. It's not that I don't believe you, but I would love to hear a source.
I can bet your left nut that they still have the main source and changes they have done, and can easily put it all back together, but it's very time consuming. And Nostalrius didn't datamine anything. People already datamined everything they needed since 2005. They've just fixed bugs and perfected everything else.
the nostalgia is crazy, I got goosebumps. I remember running around looking for an actual group to kill Hogger, now anyone can solo it. I remember needing a group in the fargodeep mine south of goldshire because those damn kobolds came out of nowhere. I remember needing a group to kill the boar Princess because she was a pain. I remember having to literally run to every damn dungeon after hours of searching for a group. I remember meeting amazing people and making incredible connections with complete strangers because you had to interact with the WORLD, with the COMMUNITY. I can honestly say, this game is always gonna be a part of me I'll never forget. Thank You Blizzard! *sobs*.. I'm not crying! you're crying!
Vanilla WoW, the golden age of online gaming. Definitely some of the best years of my life.
amen brother 💯 nothing comes close !
Damn this game is going to be awesome when it comes out!
Took me 7 days to install all 5 discs on my VPR Matrix with my 256kb/s modem, boy how times have changed.
When I was standing in a line of a store, waiting with my mother to get my copy of WoW vanilla charged, a guy behind me put a hand on my shoulder. When I turned around I saw a warm smile accompanied by the legendary words: ''Your life is over.''
And he was right. I have over 1200 days /played across my characters in 18 years.
back in the day we would say this looks better than real life lal
And now; the cinematics *actually do* look better than real life.
@@DeathComesQuick666but the game isnt and will never be again..
I remember when I got rank 6 and entered the officers barracks. That was so epic.
Getting rank 10 and wearing full blue PvP set was so special too. That feelings are forever in my heart.
Imagine going back and seeing this...could anyone have imagined the behemoth of a game this was about to become? The calm before the absolute storm. The imminent addiction, future nostalgia, friends and memories seared in our collective experience...
If there is one thing in gaming I could go back and experience for the first time again - it would be this. Take me back D:
Tears of sorrow everywhere first time i seen this and still, even now goosebumps everywhere. Peter Cullen saying World of Warcraft "shudder"
The Game of the century, to say the least
1:24 head moving was only added in 7.2, 14 years later.
I'm pretty sure I remember watching this on TV
Now this brings back some seriously fun memories. Thank you for posting this little nugget from nearly twenty years ago Old Frawns.
To this day, This trailer looks 10x better than the wow we have today.
This trailer is showing so much that never existed like that in the 2004 release.
My first character troll warrior. His bones dry for many years in barrens wastelands. Second character was beautiful night elf huntress she was super cool figthing spear and bow with her companion. Times when I explored unknown parts of WoW. Everybody where hyped after warcraft 3 masterpice strategy. Amazing times.❤
I miss when hillsbrad foothills world pvp
One of my best memories was when I was playing my Dwarf hunter in Dun Morogh and all of a sudden I saw an orc rogue with armor and glowing daggers, I thought to myself whoaw I need to hide quick, so I hide behind a tree I was so freaking scared, and another memory when I finally went to Ironforge for the first time I ran up the mountain leading to the gates and running past me were these mounted players with tigers and I stopped and thought to myself that whoaw this is so freaking cool, I wonder when I get to have a mount, these are one of the earliest memories I've had when I created my first character, the experience and the feeling has not been felt in another game today, it was truly magical, unique, special and unforgetable.
I still remember up to this day when the game first came out, my friend Hugo had it installed the day after and I went to his place after school and I just sat there the whole evening watching him go through the starting area with a night elf. I couldn't believe it how awesome the game was!
Fondest memory? Got two: Reaching Ashenvale (my favourite zone) and doing my first dungeon as a nelf warrior: Black fathom Deeps. And even when it was a total mess (mage was tanking, i was using 2 h weapon and never using taunts, priest doing dps, hunter using melee...) it was so damn fun, you didnt cared about loot and meeting quotas, you cared about the experience/adventure and seeing new things. And second one: My first Onyxia fight with my Undead Warlock. It was my guilds 1º try, Stygia, second attempt in the entire server. it was a wipe and we wiped many times before downing her, but boy it was epic. Even when you didnt get any loot, it was epic enough to jsut go and do it again. Probably cause you werent worn out of doing heroics for the currency points back then.
+Simón Salgueiro Black Fathom Deeps was the first instance I ever did too ! Man how awesome , the part when you get to the beach setting hidden at the top of Ashenvale, and then go past all the naga down the chasm and through the cave to get to the instance ! it really felt like discovering something epic :))
+Simón Salgueiro I was using fury stance and whirlwind with a two-hander at the start in vanilla for tanking, too. The bloody mage still stole aggro from every mob, but i was able to not get everyone else in trouble at least. Then at the end, nobody had any quest. And the mage ninjaed my plate helmet.
first one i ever did was ragefire chasm with a guild group and I was a lock and i thought that only using spells would drain me of mana and i should auto attack the mobs... (why else would i have auto attack and a melee weapon, right?)
I remember the first time I did wailing caverns when the game had came out. I think it took like 3 hours or something. It was a fucking mess.
Onyxia was my first raid too. It was something special when it first came out and we all had to figure out what the hell we were doing by smashing ourselves into her all night long. LoL :)
Oh my undead warrior... The journey we've made together. My best memory of vanilla is when I tried so many times to complete, Family Crypt. It was when i first asked for help from other players. Now it saddens me to see any noob complete it without anyone's help.
and here i am still playing. anyone else??
OMG I've been looking for this trailer for 20 years and finally I re watched it again, and memories came to my mind when I was just a kid
can't even put into words how much I miss THIS wow
Still remember how unbelievably excited I was waiting for this to launch. Fond memories ❤️
My fondest memory in WoW
Taking part in my servers (emerald dream) largest ever raid, I think there's still videos of it but we were in the hundreds, I'm pretty sure I was a lower level player at this point so was pretty clueless but got invited into the raid party because I was in the guild, I had never been in a raid party before and suddenly seeing all these players popping up blew my fucking mind, everyone was in the raid chat yelling over each other, other raid groups were forming and everyone started grouping outside of orgrimmar
Everyone was spamming trade chat: WE ARE TAKING SW, EVERYONE OUTSIDE ORGRIMMAR! - and the whole city man.. every player low or high, we were taking up arms, we were going for the alliance and we started to gun towards Ratchet to catch the boat. It was phenomenal, all these players mounted or running, spamming yell, FOR THE HORDE!, I mean I had NEVER experienced something on this level before from games or well anything to be honest. hundreds of players pouring onto the boat in ratchet as we headed into booty bay, I had never even been to the eastern kingdoms at this point so this whole thing was so new to me. we trekked through stranglethorn picking up other horde players from booty bay and onwards and also alerting the alliance to our presence, we destroyed every alliance Homebase we saw en-route to the Elwyn forest, wiping gold shire in moments and preceding to Stormwind, my first time seeing it in game we tore through the city, hundreds of us, some stopping to raid shops, slaying every NPC and PvP enabled player in sight, city guards littered the streets as we finally made it to the palace stairs and up into stormwind keep, we downed the king (cannot for the life of me remember who it was) and killed every alliance player that came to aid their king, it was insanity Im pretty sure I cried.
We then, as we were still in the literal hundreds, decided we wouldn't stop there.. oh no, we took every single alliance major city in the game, I had never seen any of these places before, I was given this grand tour of Azeroth whilst we pillaged our way through every city and upon finally returning to orgrimmar after hours of battle and siege we returned to our city and the trade chat exploded, everyone was celebrating people were dancing in the street, setting off fireworks... it was an unforgettable moment, I didn't know a game could achieve so much emotion, it was actually alive, teeming with real people, all really rejoicing and connecting from all across the real world, taking part as a community in this other world
Vanilla and TBC for me were just golden, I'll never get it back even with the new vanilla servers blizzard announced, it was a moment in time you can't recapture, a moment of my childhood you know? you'll never really get that back, I've seen the whole game, I've also lived more of my life and it'll never be relived the way it was back then but thats fine, I'm glad I have this memory and so many others of this game of all games.
Miss these days so hard. Really want to go back to this time :(
I remember being in a guild with my step dad but now he passed
+Da Lich king I'm sorry for your loss.
+Da Death Wing oi
least he doesnt have to suffer the whats to become of the game of now
THE END
::)
lol
+Skabbalabba dingdong you have problems
Skabbalabba dingdong
oi
YOUR MOTHER IS A MOTHERLESS GOAT!!1
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA
THE END
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The greatest days of my life. Those were real adventures.
bro its 2024 and this thing just dropped in recomended videos🤩
I can't believe this was 60 years ago.
I was 14-15 in 2005, i biked home frome school to lvl my warr in the Wetlands on my lunch break for 30min and then i biked back 😄
I can't wait until this game comes out in 2020! Over 15 years of waiting!
I was there, Gandalf...
I watched this trailer over 50 times on my VHS where I recorded it from a german game-show back then, right before the game came out.
Remember: you don't miss the game, you miss that part of your life and the experiences attached to it that have passed and will never return
:,(
So true. I feel that way about many things
wrong.
Nah, I think it's both chief.
Best gaming experience ever. 2004-2006.
I’ve been a gamer for almost 40 years and have had some of the best game memories most of you will never get to experience. But I will tell you this, experiencing vanilla wow is by far the best era of gaming I wish I could relive again.
same bro, same.
I remember playing an undead rogue near southshore around lvl 20 trying to kill allies. My friend was a druid and would sit down bear form on the road trying to lure allies to attack him, when I would surprise them coming our of stealth. In a few minutes we had full on war. It worked 50% of the time every time.
Warcraft then, and now, it's so funny how times change.
I've been playing on a Vanilla server, and for like the first time in ages, I can actually get lost in the game. I could spend hours, and I'll be thoroughly enjoying myself. Even leveling one level at time felt so good, and even finding green items made me feel awesome. Dungeons and questing are a large part of the game, and leave you with stories to tell. It doesn't feel like you are compelled to get to 60 as fast as humanly possible, as a matter of fact, I enjoy leveling to my own speed. Like just going through the dungeons in retail, you just queue up and go through the dungeon, and you won't even say a word to those helping you as you just ram your face into your keyboard. But dungeons in Vanilla, it feels awesome to socialize with everyone, I feel good about giving them random things that I happened to craft. Overall it just feels great. The delayed satisfaction of the climb to level 60 is just awesome, and it allows me to under Warcraft just that much better.
Don't get me wrong, I still play retail, and retail still has some awesome elements to it. The raids are very nicely designed (SoO, ToT, HFC), they contain such great boss fights and have a lot of intensity to it. The leveling in Legion looks very high quality and the raids look even better. Overall, then and now are both great in their own elements, but my God, Vanilla is definitely a gem in it's own rite.
I want to go back to this...
I started leveling an orc warrior in early 2005 (UK release) and stayed at the starting zone for absolutely ages killing boars and scorpids. I thought The Den was the entire world. Oh how I was sorely mistaken
lol
Early WoW was just magical
Game like this can't exist today. First the audience will complain how there is PVP in open world. Then they complain how many spells there are. Then they complain how they can't compete with gamers. Then they complain how raids are too hard and they can't get same rewards as those who are more experience. Then they complain how their friend is in X faction while they are in Y faction. Once you fix all the complaints you end up is something like Tarisland.
the power of friendship and family!
stake your claim, live the legend
“Live the Legend” - it was truly a Legend
I miss vanilla/TBC!
A slice of life we'll never get back.
The narrator says "in a land of mighty kingdoms" when the lordaeron banner is shown, where is that meant to be on the map? I feel like its either Menethil Harbour, or southshore, any speculations? Also what was happening/ being done to the orc in Stormwinds keep?
I'm thinking it's Theramore Isle, seen from its entrance facing the Dustwallow Marsh. The building on the left reminds me Foothold Citadel. The banner you talk about shows two symbols: the Lordaeron one is the smaller one in the upper left corner, whereas the symbol at the center (the anchor) represents the nation of Kul Tiras, i.e. the nation where Jaina Proudmoore (whom during Vanilla WoW resided at Theramore) hails from ;)
I don't think anything will ever top the experience this MMO had to offer. I say this not because of nostalgia, but because those were different times where finding a "guide" was much harder or impossible, you had to learn the game yourself, organically explore the game yourself, and no one knew anything about the game. It was truly special, epic and addictive. It really felt like a true adventure especially when playing with your friends, like you entered a new immersive world.
So many good memories. I feel fortunate to have lived in such a great era, for me, the best era of online gaming so far. I will always remember the two hours I spent swimming with a friend to reach Westall in the beta.
dude sounds like optimus prime, is it the same voice actor?
yes
Good old days, I started when I was in high school this brings up a tons of good memories..unfortunately the world has long gone
i really wish i could go back and experience all of this
I remember switching to maces and had to spend an house hitting stuff with maces before i missed
Usually just went into the vault in Stormwind until it was lvl 200, hoping for rare drops to sell to pvp twinks lvl 19 - 29 . Oh these days.
Goosebumps!
I want them to bring back the world that made us talk and explore with each other. Not this grind from 1 - 100 so I can farm gear and then stand around bored.
And what an invitation it was! 😍😍😍😍
R.I.P World of Warcraft. 2004-2010
SaltyShanker Best times. It died with Lich King. Cataclysm ruined everything, not just the world, but the need to actually work with other players. From and indepth mmorpg with social interactions and player driven world to a pseudo rpg with click a button and you get everything for free. *Sigh*.
SaltyShanker Best times. It died with Lich King. Cataclysm ruined everything, not just the world, but the need to actually work with other players. From and indepth mmorpg with social interactions and player driven world to a pseudo rpg with click a button and you get everything for free. *Sigh*.
Dandy Candy Yeah :(
Dandy Candy Wotlk ruined that, not Cataclysm ;P
*****
LFD was introduced in the last patch of wotlk. Everything else came in cataclysm.
I still remember this like it was yesterday.
Remember when you got a mount at 40? And it took months to get there? Remember when you first flying mount was 60%? Good times...
mastuhcowz yes and it felt good
No because I played a warlock and got my free ground mounts. Lololol :D
KiyokaMakibi warlock in classic?
R00KIET yes, Warlock, warrior, priest, mage, paladín, shaman, druid, rogue and hunter. Vanilla classes
It was good for as long as it lasted. Loved every moment of my 9 year long ride. Will forever be a part of my life. No matter what bad decisions were made along the way it was truely an epic journey, and I am glad that I took part in it.
Don't forget, this was all the Jailers plan.
Wait until they come up with something to extend the universe. Soon it's all going to be master plan of Jailer's evil trans brother who then turns to be actually good, it's just he was manipulated by some elden void dragon murlocks.
I recently found an MMO that made me feel the way i felt back in 2004 when i was 14 playing WoW for the first time. The sense of exploration, not caring about the end game but just enjoying the journey, meeting random people along the way and ending up becoming friends... for a very long time i haven't felt like that playing a game, but one game changed that for me and im so happy and i savour every moment, because i know eventually it will go away too.
What game
@@minimemarcus88 it's Star Citizen, not sure if you've played it, it's basically set to be a space mmo. It has an insane sense of scale, like many others i started playing WoW because it was this huge open world online game where you can explore freely and seamlessly different zones and also meet other players along the way, now WoW is very automated and i don't have that urge to just explore like i did in mid 2000s i've tried many games and they are good but nothing special, BUT boy when i decided to buy star citizen last December i almost felt like im 14 playing WoW exactly because of the reasons mentioned above. The sense of exploration and scale is fantastic, no loading screens, planets and moons are full size, no invisible sky box to hit or wall, just a huge game, space ships are not just tools to get from A to B faster, they are your second home with beds, loading bay, man turrets etc. The game goes for realism as much as possible and it made me not care about end game, i just enjoyed the simplest of stuff to do... amazing. And the community is very nice, there is a general chat that kind of remined me of the barrens chat back in the day. But the game is still in Alpha due to the insane size of the project.
seriously what the fuck was going on in this video? tons of worgen in gurubashi arena? archaedas in gurubashi arena? was it initially some sort of endless-waves thing? also nice touch with the human hunters
Love how Optimus prime is giving the speech