"Old Maplestory was once in a life time experience" -some dude in comment section. I completely agree. Even if they revert the game back, the experience will never be the same. The world has changed. People has changed. the magic is now forever gone. It's a little bit of everything that create the old Maple; MMORPG was still pretty new, social media was not popular. Everything was so new to us back then.
@@anstjsdlr We were not invaded by bots. Every action became something, an adventure. Going back to the same place was never the same thing. Man, the secret Ribbon Pig map, i lived countless adventures JUST there... I'm so sad :/
+Peter Quill I found that dude! He was Paragonza! He appeared in a reply of a comment in the video ‘Missing you’. ‘Can we recreate this experience?’ ‘...Maplestory was once in a life time experience...’
absolutely agree, I remember back in the day MSN was the only social way to contact others online, no facebook nothing, I am playing mapleroyals now and then but it's not the same, bringing the game back won't bring back the feeling we all once experienced, i'd rather go back in time instead..
the fact that you can get stuck in a game and still have a blast was what made it great. True MMO especially when everyone else was playing back then. Now it's all about flashy and easy power levels
im playing a game called legends of idleon with maplestory music in the back. i dont like what maples become and im too buys nowadays but idleon has been nice while i have time over summer
There really was something magical about old MS. And no, this isn't just my nostalgia talking, you had to be there to understand what I mean. It was not just the game. It was an amalgam of many things: the times, the internet culture, the people, the world, and then finally the game itself that was a true lighting in a bottle. It all blended so perfectly together and created one of the most immersive experiences ever. You know nowadays all those isekai anime where people get reborn in fantasy worlds? That is genuinely how it felt to play this game back then. I am both extremely happy I got to experience it, and at the same time extremely sad because I know it is never going to happen again, no matter how many times they reboot the game.
For a lot of people, this was their first time in an online world where you could talk with others and make friends from behind your computer screen, and it really did feel magical back then.
without a doubt. I was like 7 or 8 when i first got into Maplestory (even learned perfect english because of it) and im 26 now just reminiscing on how good those days were. i lost my mother when i was about 13 and thats when i stopped playing. I tried to get back into it a few years ago and man, its not even close to what i remember.... I tried Maple legends but ended up sticking to DreamMS and the amount of nostalgia i felt was unreal. I quit a day after i hit lvl 200 but I will go back to those private servers again some day, i just hope people will still be around to play it with!
I remember my friend I'm Highschool was so addicted to MS to where he once told me it took 12 hours or something to go somewhere on a ship , never knew what he meant
A very old friend of mine just died. We met because of maplestory, he was asking for help to install the game in a group. This was his favourite BGM. I'm in my worst right now, I will always remember him. He was an older brother to me, who saw me grow, graduate, and live the life I live now. Kimbap96, I will always remember you. Let this song be a memory item of our friendship and let this comment make you eternal.
Sorry for your loss, but we will all join him soon. Wise words I will give you is seek God, repent of your sins, and do good so you can be in eternity with God in heaven and not in hell. Hope your friend did what I'm telling you to. God bless
I remember stepping onto Victoria Island for the first time, opening the map and being blown away by how big the world was. It took me weeks to grind my thief to level 16, but the game is so streamlined now that your explorer class is level 30 by the end of the tutorial. It breaks my heart that new players won't get to experience that "my journey starts here" feeling that I'm sure a lot of us got when hearing this song for the first time, or the trek to the town where you get your first job before the six-path crossway was there and seeing all of the new enemies and scenery and hearing the music change between regions, or the dopamine hit when you've finally killed enough slimes/snails/stumps/mushrooms/snakes to gain one level. It was really something special.
Man is spent years to get to level 80, and then suddenly after a major update the exp required to level dropped by like 2/3s. I actually felt really bad knowing that i created a 2nd character and reached that within a month. Ofcourse having more mesos, better equipment and understanding of the game and areas helped, but its just sad
Oh gosh...yea...I miss the old days of guild chat. Discord is nice and all but there was something special about in game guild chat, maybe it was just that you didn't see eachother all the time so the moments you did see guildies online were just more special. I never realized how much I missed "wb" and "gratz" until this comment.
It's so cool that so many people share this same feeling! And to think it was ours generation and only ours that will ever have this experience... I miss it so much!
Maaaaan. You can never forget the first time you got off the Beginner island and landed at Lith Harbor. I remember there was a group of about 4 other players that all started around the same time, so in a way we had all trained and leveled together on that island, and ended up entering Lith Harbor at the same time. We all marveled at the art and the colors, and how excited we were to pursue our individual classes. Then we all said our goodbyes and split ways, never to see one another again.
Me too, soo much. I could write a book out of this game. Listening to all these maple songs, makes me feel so sad. It makes you want to have a timemachine and go back in time just to go and play this game :'(. So many iconic things about this game, goosebumps of nostalgia.
i try not to cry at the end when the bass guitar comes in, but then the horn comes in & i cry everytime. i hear the snails, i hear the jumps, the mesos being picked up. i wish i could go back to 2007. i miss these days. i didnt appreciate the music to this magnitude back then. but hearing it makes me remember everything. it hurts. the early 2000's were a dream.
Me: Leveling first time 1-10, get away from newbie island, get dropped off near lith harbor, stay there for hours, get ready for job change to mage, go through the long process to switch to fire mage using fire arrow. Leveling took days of dedication or weeks if playing during the summer.... long if higher levels. airship rides to Orbis wasn't instant you had to wait.... time was so much slower back then.
This is going to be lame as hell, but my son was born last night and now I’m with him witnessing his first sunrise looking out the window at palm trees and the sky. I decided to play this song and everything feels right. I hope he gets to experience the feeling I had when I first arrived at Lith Harbor, no matter where it ends up coming from.
Wow, I just noticed these replies. Thanks everyone! The little one’s doing great. I actually had another blast from the past again last night and realized I’m closer to turning 40 than I am to the day I started playing Maple 15 years ago.
and the pig hidden street i guess not that many people figured out. (you know.. back when teh game was about looking around, and NOT power fantasy quite yet...)
I wish we could all go back 10 years to be together in MapleStory again. I'll never know any of you irl but I'm sure anyone with the nostalgia to come back here and read this wishes for those times. The dream is dead but you and I made it possible when it was and our memories will remain for a lifetime. Thank you guys. Life sucks but you helped make it a little less so.
31 here, and going trough a pretty tough time... Man life was just so careless back in the days, coming home from school, starting the pc and waiting 2 minutes before it actually loading. This game was so good for its time, it had everything. Eventuelly quit it since i played very early from the Netherlands and then they split maple Europe and USA which i was playing on. Couldnt play with any friends and didnt wanted to start all over again. Even emailed then to transfer my account to Europe but versions of the game didnt match or something... So sad
I started in 2005 on Broa with a Warrior and I quit shortly after the Big Bang in 2011 on Broa with my Bishop . I'm honestly happy I didn't start with WoW. This game taught me so much patience I can level in any game and hear people trying to complain about not getting all of their levels in a week and just chuckle. I'm just happy I got to enjoy the game in its younger days.
nostalgia is getting stronger as I am listening through the playlist 1 by 1 ... the tune itself brings back images in the head I don't even know existed . 1 thing for sure is they are precious memories I had when maple was still a social game where you learn how to be nice and strive to take each tiny step towards your big goals
At around 2007, i remember when i first landed at lith harbour, i met a fellow beginner who mentioned his dad passed away from war in iraq or something. I hope he's doing alright
Yooooo, I remember the first time I managed to kill that thing. I was SO proud of myself lol. Me and my cross-eyed warrior who was missing 80% of his attacks. Good times.
remember the pig hidden map in the giant map near ellinia? The old maps were really cool. they have a special place in my heart, i still remember how all of them looked before big bang.
+Alan Burgueño I pretty much feel exactly the same way when I hear this music. This game was so good when it first came out, and has become complete trash.
I've had a traumatic childhood and Maplestory was a place where I felt safe. Most of the amazing memories I've had as a child were through Maplestory. The community is something I cannot find in the real world and I struggle to assimilate. I remember how when your friends logged in everyone would say "WB" short for welcome back, or "sup bro" as in what's up bro. It was easy to talk to people without feeling scared and meeting people from all works of life. From America to Australia, Australia to Europe, it was funny at the time that depending on what time you play you'll meet people from these walks of life. For example in the morning before school i met a lot of American kids, but after school it was a lot of Australians and school friends and relatives. Now that I have grown it's amazing to reflect back on how young and stress-free from the chaotic world I was. Not a single worry and no bills to pay, just my parents always nagging me to do some homework or go outside and exercise. I remember when Maplestory implemented the timer that said you have been playing for 1 hour and have a break. I remember i always played over 10 hours a day during the holidays. Gosh they were the good old days. Time went fast.
Why are we not talking about how, musically, these are all really diverse and well structured songs. These songs are literally more well written than 99% of new music today.
I feel like no one appreciates the art and music of MS enough. Sure it's a goofy pay-to-win MMO but it's genuinely one of the best looking and sounds games out there.
in the old days, this is a freaking nostalgia place where everyone stepped in from maple island, walking to each town to have their first job advancement
I remember coming home from school playing Maplestory everytime, meeting new people, taking the flight to Orbis with strangers and just talk about life and Maplestory. I miss the good old days, everyone that was part of my journey I hope you all are having a wonderful life now, full of joy, I will never forget the amazing memories Maple gave me.
Is it just me？ or does this song really suit the entire setting？ imagining urself as a level 10 beginner. Leaving maple island, arriving at lith harbor and the music starts playing. The music sounded like hope, sounded like a new adventure and now sounds like a distant memory😭
I get so lost in my memories of maplestory times i tend to end up sleeping and woke up the next day, leaving a great and wonderful dream of me wielding my polearm and adventuring. I still remember a random guy guided me throughout the beginning parts until we part ways in Henesys. Sometimes i just wish to relive all my memories and actually never wake up (thats how depressing my reality is...)
That guy at the harbor gives you a quest that you just have to answer some questions, and talk to the job master... and boom free exp right after you advance 1st job!
@@SleepySnaiI agreed, and sadly I didn't know the game that much before the big-bang and didn't get to play it :( There is probably a private server of the pre-big bang version, but I'm too lazy to search.
@@SleepySnaiI level 200+ in 1 day* So yeah I also play ML By the way private servers improved a lot over the years. No more buggy messes, and the PQs actually work.
Being a low level player with shitty gear was somehow a magical experience in this game... i will never forget the first time i wandered into elinia for the first time, such a beautiful region
1st, i was redirected by thomas frank to studying while listening to soft musics. but then, while music genlty played, my tears came out unconciously, in my head, all i has is that music on Maple story login page. and i started to cry more. My online friends, no matter where are you, what youre doing now, who you with, I just hope that you;re doing fine and wish you all the best in what you aiming for..... MS SEA, Cassiopeia. 2005 ~ 2008
Played since 2005. Of all the multiplayer/MMORPG games I have played, I would argue that this was the best. Purely because of the unintentional magic that it was able to make us feel. Even the developers don't understand. It was an experience that was more than just a game. Maybe it was just a glorified chatroom back in the day. But i would kill to have those days back. Nostalgia aside, the community was more closely connected, and the game was better because of it.
> Had a couple stressful days att work. > Comes home. > See a random tweet about Maplestory BGM. > Realise it was a long time since I last listened to it. > Start a list. > This song comes up. > Flashback to me and my old friends playing it together. > Legit cry a bit. Man those where some good times.
When I first heard of this in MapleStory as a kid, I felt it's like a breeze of wind, gives me a feeling a relaxation and chill, while now over 1 decade later, I'm 23, sitting in the Stanford Engineering library on this Sunday to complete a homework for my final semester as an undergraduate student, I can easily close my eyes and all those simple joy and fun came back to me, they might have been buried under the piles of memory, but they shall never be abandoned. What a game, played it for nearly a decade throughout my childhood and teenagehood in China, those were the times when I could easily rejoice over simple things, laugh and dedicate without distractions of smartphones, enjoy my free time and wonder why time flies while playing games, naively thought that is life and nothing will ever change, never thought I would get older and have much more things to worry about. Just like that Sean's famous line in "Secret Life of Walter Mitty", "if I like a moment, ......, I just want to stay in it.". Beautiful music, MapleStory easily refreshes my childhood memory.
Today is May 10, 2022, I’m in Tivat, Montenegro. Life has been great since I started my own contracting business in July 2020, after struggling a hard year and work on my business, I still appreciate this music, as much as I appreciate the time, experiences and knowledge I acquired since I wrote down the initial comment in the fall of 2019, my final semester.
Maple Story is such a wonderful journey. Ton of memories along the way. Some of us might already stop playing, even myself can’t find time to play it. But the memories, I hope it will stay for a long time before it start to fade.
Where it all began. An unforgettable journey. Friends were made. Friends were lost. Love was found and hearts were broken. As time has gone by and we've grown older, we've wrote the final chapter of our Maple Story.
I have to say, this is probably one of the happiest songs I've ever heard, like a nice 'welcome back' kind of feeling. I listen to this and it always makes me happy. MS had some great music
MapleStory allowed me to meet such amazing friends who saved me during the darkest chapter of my life. I always loved the how the smallest things led to such meaningful encounters and bonding moments, whether that'd be spending hours training together on a map, organising parties to fight bosses/do PQs, dying together in FM, joining parties to celebrate major milestones...etc. I also miss the times such as how we all used to be available and staying up late just to talk to/hang out with friends in different time zones. I retired from the game a decade ago mainly because my friends started to stop playing, and I don't like the path the game took, alongside with how it's managed anymore (the Unleashed update ruined it for me). However, I am incredibly lucky to have started in 2005 and be part of the generation who played & grew up with this game during its golden age which IMO, it'd be pre-BB for me (the remaining years were still just as significant due to my friends who stuck around in the long run). This was truly one of my happiest times in my life and I wouldn't have grown as a person and also be here today without it. P.S. For anyone who also cherished their times with MapleStory and likes anime, I highly recommend watching Recovery of an MMO Junkie, Belle (not exactly based around an MMO and it's a movie, but it very much follows a similar concept), and Loving Yamada at Lv999!
Its mid 2000s, you just spent 30 minutes to 2 hours on maple island depending on your class. You arrive in Lith Harbor and this beat hits you. Your Maple Adventure starts now.
I used to play this game with my brother, cousin, and friends. We had a guild and my cousin was dating a girl from our guild. They actually met in real life, and she was at our house. She came all the way from Poland to our country to meet us. Crazy how things turned out.
this and ragnarok were my mmos after aoe2 rts. probably one of the best eras of gaming before fps took over. it almost felt more than a game. a social hub. these places unfortunately are ghost towns now. and we come back for the bgm that hits nostalgia in waves
I will say this, in the prime of this game this was THE best game. I believe this because of the friends I met, the fun I had and the memories. It was like stepping out of the jail cell of real life into this free and magical land where people from all over the world meet and train together. I still in 2020 miss the feeling of this game in its prime.
Staying up and playing games isn't the same anymore. I have a hard time socializing. Like, I have a lot of friends, but.. I don't know. Listening to this just makes me realize how much time I spend doing things by myself.
Ive tried so many times to find a private server based on classic MS, but the feeling never lasts. "Optimization" clouds my enjoyment, everyone wants to level up fast and blow through rhe early game. Back when MS was new, the game felt like an infinite adventure. My friends and I would spend time exploring hidden maps and circling around Victoria. I'd hang out in the sauana for hours, playing Omok or just talking to random people. The Cash Shop hadn't been launched so no one looked like an overdesigned cutsey nightmare, we all just wore the awkward class armrors. This is rambling and incoherent but I guess my point is that I'll never forget early GMS and I'll always value the feeling of adventure and excitement I felt every time I logged on.
Indeed very very nostalgic, but for me, I don't want to go back to those years. Even played it for about 5 years, Old Maple is just a little part of my life. Thinking about going back means I will have to lose other wonderful parts I've met in my life after those old maple times, so my personal answer is a no. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. We have other possibilities in our lives.
Take that back, rip maple 2006 - N/A Nostalgia got me by the balls, tried maplestory again, Really easy to level, but still fun as hell. It's less pay to win, and There are actual ways to earn mesos other than Grinding or selling fame.
***** Huge disgust. It's still the same charming game, but witch huge changes that kind of lose the feel of what really made the game connected... Nonetheless it's still a pretty fun game. I will not wish for the old maple, as it is dead and if you really wanted it back, you could just use a private server.
I don't know if anyone would believe this. I played maple when I was very young I remember I fought horntail (not sure if it is an event) spawned at the end of the map at Lith Harbor. I swear I'm not lying :( I was at MapleSEA server Delphinus ch12. That time I was only a level 33 i/l. I hid in the potion store to avoid keep on dying and met a few friends there. Good times. I don't know if they will still remember me
Tic Tac aquila msea player here and I think it was a few days before big bang, I remember seeing horntail's left head in henesys and balrog in perion too, they were on a specific cc for both maps, I think a gm spawned them?
back than when there was no social media the fun way to interact and make friend was maplestory those were the best years of my life so much nostalgia hearing this today xD
Thanks to this Lith Harbour song I started palying Maple Story, I used to come in the game to listen to this beautiful music and to see around background scenes such as sea, snails, pigs etc. Sometimes sipping a cup of coffee with my character be sitted on the chair.
No matter how often I hear this soundtrack, I always have a flashback to my childhood. I could remember how hard it was to get the game to run, but when it did, oh did that hit.
wow 😭😭 i can still vividly remember the maple island map, the very last map where you do quests for the people in that town right before you move to lith harbor. It’s been over 10 years but it’s still fresh af in my head
+2ATT 60% glove scroll, one portal over was a cool spot where higher level skills were shown off enlightening the beginners, pig beach down the street as a hidden map... Cohorts Generation X and Generation Y made a great online community in this game. Wizet sold it to Nexon down the line and everything began deteriorating I believe...
![[MapleStory BGM] Ellinia: When the Morning Comes](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gfgBDs8z6WE/mqdefault.jpg)
"Old Maplestory was once in a life time experience" -some dude in comment section. I completely agree.
Even if they revert the game back, the experience will never be the same. The world has changed. People has changed. the magic is now forever gone. It's a little bit of everything that create the old Maple; MMORPG was still pretty new, social media was not popular. Everything was so new to us back then.
Completely agreed. Even just watching people come and go was fun back then.
@@anstjsdlr We were not invaded by bots. Every action became something, an adventure. Going back to the same place was never the same thing. Man, the secret Ribbon Pig map, i lived countless adventures JUST there...
I'm so sad :/
@@KaemghinBeardwulf maybe it is beautiful because it wont come again. Hidden street pigs beach. Brother you make me sad...
+Peter Quill I found that dude! He was Paragonza! He appeared in a reply of a comment in the video ‘Missing you’.
‘Can we recreate this experience?’
‘...Maplestory was once in a life time experience...’
absolutely agree, I remember back in the day MSN was the only social way to contact others online, no facebook nothing, I am playing mapleroyals now and then but it's not the same, bringing the game back won't bring back the feeling we all once experienced, i'd rather go back in time instead..
When I came there I didnt know how to do the 1st job advancement. I ran around the map, took the VIP taxi and ended up being stuck in sleepywood.
+Tuấn Long Vũ Damn you must've been rich as hell to take that taxi. It took years until I even considered taking that taxi.
we've been there
well looting for a full week in henesys hunting ground 1 with all the bishops spamming genesis wasn't that hard xD
Dude bought mesos before playing kek
the fact that you can get stuck in a game and still have a blast was what made it great. True MMO especially when everyone else was playing back then. Now it's all about flashy and easy power levels
TAKE ME BACK PLEASE. THIS WAS THE BEST TIME.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who gets super nostalgic for this game every now and then 😅
I went back and made an account.
im playing a game called legends of idleon with maplestory music in the back. i dont like what maples become and im too buys nowadays but idleon has been nice while i have time over summer
02:57 Heart so painful bro
Where is the stop crying button? 😢
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened
:')
Wow what a good word
Beta player here. Good times were had indeed.
brrrruuuuuhhhhhh
Best comment in any MapleStory OST video comment section 👍👍
There really was something magical about old MS. And no, this isn't just my nostalgia talking, you had to be there to understand what I mean. It was not just the game. It was an amalgam of many things: the times, the internet culture, the people, the world, and then finally the game itself that was a true lighting in a bottle. It all blended so perfectly together and created one of the most immersive experiences ever. You know nowadays all those isekai anime where people get reborn in fantasy worlds? That is genuinely how it felt to play this game back then. I am both extremely happy I got to experience it, and at the same time extremely sad because I know it is never going to happen again, no matter how many times they reboot the game.
For a lot of people, this was their first time in an online world where you could talk with others and make friends from behind your computer screen, and it really did feel magical back then.
@@paulhoffman1677we will never get a game like this again. I miss videos games but they aren’t what they used to be.
without a doubt. I was like 7 or 8 when i first got into Maplestory (even learned perfect english because of it) and im 26 now just reminiscing on how good those days were. i lost my mother when i was about 13 and thats when i stopped playing. I tried to get back into it a few years ago and man, its not even close to what i remember.... I tried Maple legends but ended up sticking to DreamMS and the amount of nostalgia i felt was unreal. I quit a day after i hit lvl 200 but I will go back to those private servers again some day, i just hope people will still be around to play it with!
I remember my friend I'm Highschool was so addicted to MS to where he once told me it took 12 hours or something to go somewhere on a ship , never knew what he meant
Same brother. Agree 100% glad i was there at the start
A very old friend of mine just died. We met because of maplestory, he was asking for help to install the game in a group. This was his favourite BGM.
I'm in my worst right now, I will always remember him. He was an older brother to me, who saw me grow, graduate, and live the life I live now. Kimbap96, I will always remember you. Let this song be a memory item of our friendship and let this comment make you eternal.
Sadge
Sorry for your loss, but we will all join him soon. Wise words I will give you is seek God, repent of your sins, and do good so you can be in eternity with God in heaven and not in hell. Hope your friend did what I'm telling you to. God bless
sorry for your loss
hes still enjoying that theme on the sky tho!
Even if it's from an internet rando, my condolences for your loss.
🎋 you'll be fine, be sure to carry on his happiness too
I remember stepping onto Victoria Island for the first time, opening the map and being blown away by how big the world was. It took me weeks to grind my thief to level 16, but the game is so streamlined now that your explorer class is level 30 by the end of the tutorial. It breaks my heart that new players won't get to experience that "my journey starts here" feeling that I'm sure a lot of us got when hearing this song for the first time, or the trek to the town where you get your first job before the six-path crossway was there and seeing all of the new enemies and scenery and hearing the music change between regions, or the dopamine hit when you've finally killed enough slimes/snails/stumps/mushrooms/snakes to gain one level. It was really something special.
Man is spent years to get to level 80, and then suddenly after a major update the exp required to level dropped by like 2/3s. I actually felt really bad knowing that i created a 2nd character and reached that within a month. Ofcourse having more mesos, better equipment and understanding of the game and areas helped, but its just sad
Back when the only thing that mattered in life was coming home from school, booting up the computer, logging in, and seeing the chat say "wb!" 😭😭
Oh wow, I've been watching your League videos for months, really cool to know you played MS too. Good ol times... Best community ever.
@@EonarOWNS saaame
Oh gosh...yea...I miss the old days of guild chat. Discord is nice and all but there was something special about in game guild chat, maybe it was just that you didn't see eachother all the time so the moments you did see guildies online were just more special.
I never realized how much I missed "wb" and "gratz" until this comment.
It's so cool that so many people share this same feeling! And to think it was ours generation and only ours that will ever have this experience... I miss it so much!
im not crying you're crying
Maaaaan. You can never forget the first time you got off the Beginner island and landed at Lith Harbor. I remember there was a group of about 4 other players that all started around the same time, so in a way we had all trained and leveled together on that island, and ended up entering Lith Harbor at the same time. We all marveled at the art and the colors, and how excited we were to pursue our individual classes. Then we all said our goodbyes and split ways, never to see one another again.
DAMNNNNN
this was heartbreaking
Damn ninjas cutting onions...
damnnnnnnn I'm sobbing bro
BULLSEYE, RIGHT IN THE FEELS
I miss the old days so much
Me too, soo much. I could write a book out of this game. Listening to all these maple songs, makes me feel so sad. It makes you want to have a timemachine and go back in time just to go and play this game :'(. So many iconic things about this game, goosebumps of nostalgia.
Maurice Mijnders I wishhh.....
ugh, those days were just so easy and carefree. Come home from a day of school and just worry about whether or not your friends could log on.
xshobux miss those days..
LeSweetpea it's sad, cuz back then it was all you knew, and took it for granted. Years later you wish you could have fun like that again...
i try not to cry at the end when the bass guitar comes in, but then the horn comes in & i cry everytime. i hear the snails, i hear the jumps, the mesos being picked up. i wish i could go back to 2007. i miss these days. i didnt appreciate the music to this magnitude back then. but hearing it makes me remember everything. it hurts. the early 2000's were a dream.
Everyone who returns to this bgm, no matter the lv, be it lvl 8 or 200.
Here we're all family.
Hey we all were that noob selling our maple items we found from snails to 100+ lvls for like 60k!
We will all hear this music when we die 🥲
Me: Leveling first time 1-10, get away from newbie island, get dropped off near lith harbor, stay there for hours, get ready for job change to mage, go through the long process to switch to fire mage using fire arrow. Leveling took days of dedication or weeks if playing during the summer.... long if higher levels. airship rides to Orbis wasn't instant you had to wait.... time was so much slower back then.
We’re family 😊
This is going to be lame as hell, but my son was born last night and now I’m with him witnessing his first sunrise looking out the window at palm trees and the sky. I decided to play this song and everything feels right. I hope he gets to experience the feeling I had when I first arrived at Lith Harbor, no matter where it ends up coming from.
cute
here come the tears.....congrats on your baby boy!
So nice man! :,)
New beginnings :)
Wow, I just noticed these replies. Thanks everyone! The little one’s doing great. I actually had another blast from the past again last night and realized I’m closer to turning 40 than I am to the day I started playing Maple 15 years ago.
"We didn't realize we were making memories, we were just having fun." - Winnie the Pooh
Wanna know who the Black Mage is? The manager of Nexon.
+ArcanEye- DawnVeilMS lmfao!
+Dban1 LOL come on man XD
+ArcanEye- DawnVeilMS rip extalia :'(
I wish Black Mage hadn't showed up :/
Dban1 yeah they just shut down my favorite moble game RIP MONSTER SQUAD 2016
Can't forget how difficult to hunt for pig ribbon by the beach..
MegaMarcus999 omg that fcking and sweet Pig Ribbon omg * i wont cry * :C
and the pig hidden street i guess not that many people figured out. (you know.. back when teh game was about looking around, and NOT power fantasy quite yet...)
I'm 24 now and I don't play MMORPGs anymore simply because I know that no MMO will _ever_ have a bigger impact on me than old school MapleStory
We are the same age I wish we played together since I could place the exact same comment
2023 still missing this . This will forever be in my heart
I wish we could all go back 10 years to be together in MapleStory again. I'll never know any of you irl but I'm sure anyone with the nostalgia to come back here and read this wishes for those times. The dream is dead but you and I made it possible when it was and our memories will remain for a lifetime. Thank you guys. Life sucks but you helped make it a little less so.
I was like 11 or 12 when I first started this game now I'm pushing 30 time flies and nostalgia hits hard
I played regularly 2005-2012, I was right there with ya. Maybe even saw you in it back in the day.
married? have kids?
31 here, and going trough a pretty tough time... Man life was just so careless back in the days, coming home from school, starting the pc and waiting 2 minutes before it actually loading. This game was so good for its time, it had everything.
Eventuelly quit it since i played very early from the Netherlands and then they split maple Europe and USA which i was playing on. Couldnt play with any friends and didnt wanted to start all over again. Even emailed then to transfer my account to Europe but versions of the game didnt match or something... So sad
this song really does capture the starting of a hopeful adventure
it also capture that melancholy feeling of the same hopeful adventurer returning back to re-live the same moment a century later
I started in 2005 on Broa with a Warrior and I quit shortly after the Big Bang in 2011 on Broa with my Bishop . I'm honestly happy I didn't start with WoW. This game taught me so much patience I can level in any game and hear people trying to complain about not getting all of their levels in a week and just chuckle. I'm just happy I got to enjoy the game in its younger days.
nostalgia is getting stronger as I am listening through the playlist 1 by 1 ... the tune itself brings back images in the head I don't even know existed . 1 thing for sure is they are precious memories I had when maple was still a social game where you learn how to be nice and strive to take each tiny step towards your big goals
Wilfrid Chua True words
Hey, it's 7 years later. Time to remember again.
At around 2007, i remember when i first landed at lith harbour, i met a fellow beginner who mentioned his dad passed away from war in iraq or something. I hope he's doing alright
let's hunt blue snails
+김규범 marriage words
Let's throw some snail shells!!
*SNAIL DEATH SOUNDS FOR NEXT 8 HOURS*
달팽이 잡던시절이 그립다.
예전으로 돌아가면 그냥 게임안했을텐데
Had to collect some for that shell throwing skill lmao
I'm going to cry forever now. Been a player since 2005
I am with you bro... same times.... *tries to not to cry and ran away*
Hardest try not to cry challenge yet..
Dang how many girls you pull?
Same! Player since 2006 :)
time flies
I’m 27 now,Maplestory represents my childhood.
omg it's iron hog everyone run!
Yooooo, I remember the first time I managed to kill that thing. I was SO proud of myself lol. Me and my cross-eyed warrior who was missing 80% of his attacks.
Good times.
LOL cross-eyed warrior. HA
Someone can give me potion of mp please@@@@@@ f4 ....good times :3
remember the pig hidden map in the giant map near ellinia? The old maps were really cool. they have a special place in my heart, i still remember how all of them looked before big bang.
best gamer moments in my life. i was like... 14 when i first played this. now im 25. what a long, strange trip it's been. this music is timeless.
i love your words on this
this is painful to listen to I MISS IT
i am listening to this song while my bro is playing maple… lols
omg
u are not alone, the memories bind all old players together, let the memories tell everything
I wanna cry
Hahah, after 4 years i feel the same. Maple is the best game i ever played.
The time when my character was lv. 4 and had to carefully strat out to avoid death by slime.
August le Aborto What do you mean? Like MC servers? Minecraft has never gave me that feeling that Maplestory did
i can see where ur coming from but then even mc went bad...
those pigs were deadly back then xD
This piece of music is quite magical, even without the nostalgia.
That empty feeling in my stomach...
+Alan Burgueño I pretty much feel exactly the same way when I hear this music. This game was so good when it first came out, and has become complete trash.
+Alan Burgueño Time is remorseless.
Sonnenmann8 no u
+Sonnenmann8 lets all do it. In 3..2....1
+Alan Burgueño same :(
3:26
that bass, man. Hits you right in the feels
*YES IT DOES.* 🥺❤🥲
damn...
It does. With the trumpet progressions - takes my breath
I've had a traumatic childhood and Maplestory was a place where I felt safe.
Most of the amazing memories I've had as a child were through Maplestory. The community is something I cannot find in the real world and I struggle to assimilate. I remember how when your friends logged in everyone would say "WB" short for welcome back, or "sup bro" as in what's up bro.
It was easy to talk to people without feeling scared and meeting people from all works of life. From America to Australia, Australia to Europe, it was funny at the time that depending on what time you play you'll meet people from these walks of life. For example in the morning before school i met a lot of American kids, but after school it was a lot of Australians and school friends and relatives.
Now that I have grown it's amazing to reflect back on how young and stress-free from the chaotic world I was. Not a single worry and no bills to pay, just my parents always nagging me to do some homework or go outside and exercise.
I remember when Maplestory implemented the timer that said you have been playing for 1 hour and have a break. I remember i always played over 10 hours a day during the holidays. Gosh they were the good old days. Time went fast.
The thrill of stepping off that ship and realizing there was a whole world ahead of you worth exploring. Good times indeed...
Why are we not talking about how, musically, these are all really diverse and well structured songs. These songs are literally more well written than 99% of new music today.
They fit the game aesthetic very well.
I feel like no one appreciates the art and music of MS enough. Sure it's a goofy pay-to-win MMO but it's genuinely one of the best looking and sounds games out there.
in the old days, this is a freaking nostalgia place where everyone stepped in from maple island, walking to each town to have their first job advancement
+jason teh ugh miss it so muchh
everyone because it was a game everyone played. Loved it. Too many MMOs now
That's what oldschool servers like SlimeTales are for.
Yeah...
I remember coming home from school playing Maplestory everytime, meeting new people, taking the flight to Orbis with strangers and just talk about life and Maplestory. I miss the good old days, everyone that was part of my journey I hope you all are having a wonderful life now, full of joy, I will never forget the amazing memories Maple gave me.
Is it just me？ or does this song really suit the entire setting？ imagining urself as a level 10 beginner. Leaving maple island, arriving at lith harbor and the music starts playing. The music sounded like hope, sounded like a new adventure and now sounds like a distant memory😭
I get so lost in my memories of maplestory times i tend to end up sleeping and woke up the next day, leaving a great and wonderful dream of me wielding my polearm and adventuring. I still remember a random guy guided me throughout the beginning parts until we part ways in Henesys. Sometimes i just wish to relive all my memories and actually never wake up (thats how depressing my reality is...)
not depressing.
I agree, Mayro
dw Odyssey, many of us feel that way
That guy at the harbor gives you a quest that you just have to answer some questions, and talk to the job master... and boom free exp right after you advance 1st job!
ohai, random popular verified youtuber no one has noticed yet
@@SleepySnaiI agreed, and sadly I didn't know the game that much before the big-bang and didn't get to play it :(
There is probably a private server of the pre-big bang version, but I'm too lazy to search.
@@NulTheSkull MapleLegends is an amazing server
@@miqou45 Oh thank you! I might try it sometime
@@SleepySnaiI level 200+ in 1 day*
So yeah I also play ML
By the way private servers improved a lot over the years. No more buggy messes, and the PQs actually work.
I remember that I would intentionally go to this place just to listen to its soundtrack. Amazing game.
don't forget the ship ride music!
MexLuigi that music is , ‘Upon the sky’ - a music that is used during a ship ride between Elinia and Orbis.
It's 2020 and I'm still doing this...
i hope to see you all in another life. all of us playing maplestory as kids and just exploring
Don't cry don't cry don't cry... *cries a waterfall*
wow... this nostalgia trip. Forever will love the good old maple
Best game ever, and it won't change
Maurice Mijnders it was like living in our own anime world. Nothing will beat this game for me.
I really miss these days. So many great memories
taylorxboyx Ikr :(, I miss it soo much
we all started the journey here.
Being a low level player with shitty gear was somehow a magical experience in this game... i will never forget the first time i wandered into elinia for the first time, such a beautiful region
2:57 I love that part. it sounds so raw without the other instruments in the background
2:11 really hits the spot. Literally shivers down my spine. Ah the memories.
Totally agree with you. And also 02:57
1st, i was redirected by thomas frank to studying while listening to soft musics.
but then, while music genlty played, my tears came out unconciously, in my head, all i has is that music on Maple story login page. and i started to cry more.
My online friends, no matter where are you, what youre doing now, who you with,
I just hope that you;re doing fine and wish you all the best in what you aiming for.....
MS SEA, Cassiopeia. 2005 ~ 2008
pennyfish89 Amen, I think we all feel the same way!
I think I remember that username from something lol
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days, before you've actually left them." - Andy Bernard
MS SEA, Bootes 2006 here :D
Played since 2005. Of all the multiplayer/MMORPG games I have played, I would argue that this was the best. Purely because of the unintentional magic that it was able to make us feel. Even the developers don't understand.
It was an experience that was more than just a game.
Maybe it was just a glorified chatroom back in the day. But i would kill to have those days back. Nostalgia aside, the community was more closely connected, and the game was better because of it.
Same here 2005 open beta
Oh sweet memories ❤
> Had a couple stressful days att work.
> Comes home.
> See a random tweet about Maplestory BGM.
> Realise it was a long time since I last listened to it.
> Start a list.
> This song comes up.
> Flashback to me and my old friends playing it together.
> Legit cry a bit.
Man those where some good times.
To me, this was the sound of Maplestory. Its the perfect blend of emotional, fun, uplifting, adventures music out there
Never fails to make me feel a sense of optimism for what’s to come and what’s out there in the world.
Don't f4 because it's over, f2 because it happened
When I first heard of this in MapleStory as a kid, I felt it's like a breeze of wind, gives me a feeling a relaxation and chill, while now over 1 decade later, I'm 23, sitting in the Stanford Engineering library on this Sunday to complete a homework for my final semester as an undergraduate student, I can easily close my eyes and all those simple joy and fun came back to me, they might have been buried under the piles of memory, but they shall never be abandoned. What a game, played it for nearly a decade throughout my childhood and teenagehood in China, those were the times when I could easily rejoice over simple things, laugh and dedicate without distractions of smartphones, enjoy my free time and wonder why time flies while playing games, naively thought that is life and nothing will ever change, never thought I would get older and have much more things to worry about. Just like that Sean's famous line in "Secret Life of Walter Mitty", "if I like a moment, ......, I just want to stay in it.". Beautiful music, MapleStory easily refreshes my childhood memory.
Now 1 year has passed, what a hard year after I graduated.
God bless in your life
@@전전-m6f God bless you my friend!
Today is May 10, 2022, I’m in Tivat, Montenegro. Life has been great since I started my own contracting business in July 2020, after struggling a hard year and work on my business, I still appreciate this music, as much as I appreciate the time, experiences and knowledge I acquired since I wrote down the initial comment in the fall of 2019, my final semester.
@@tommy0814 Hope you periodically come back to find solace in this music. Even if we don't play anymore, those memories will never fade away.
어릴때 메이플을하면서 자주놀았던 리스항구 귀에 쏙쏙꽂히는 추억의 멜로디,,돌아가고싶지만 시간이 흘러가도 아직 Bgm만큼은 아름답게 들리네,,
MS will always have a special place in my heart because of how cozy it was.
To this day, I am still impressed how MS was able to created such a beautiful piece... heavenly, majestic, and beautiful!
Back then, Ribbon Pig was actually a hard monster to take down.
I would always use my favorite technique.
Alt + Control!
The MMO community was so much more amazing back then. Made some online friends in this game. Those were the days.
the most beautiful maplestory track!
Stimulus Pact 2:56 best part
play it at my funeral
Maple Story is such a wonderful journey. Ton of memories along the way. Some of us might already stop playing, even myself can’t find time to play it. But the memories, I hope it will stay for a long time before it start to fade.
Where it all began. An unforgettable journey. Friends were made. Friends were lost. Love was found and hearts were broken. As time has gone by and we've grown older, we've wrote the final chapter of our Maple Story.
Home after school, WinXP, MSN Messenger and MapleStory. Miss those times.
1990th birth? Good luck my friend
I have to say, this is probably one of the happiest songs I've ever heard, like a nice 'welcome back' kind of feeling. I listen to this and it always makes me happy. MS had some great music
this might be the most nostalgic song in the world to me
MapleStory allowed me to meet such amazing friends who saved me during the darkest chapter of my life. I always loved the how the smallest things led to such meaningful encounters and bonding moments, whether that'd be spending hours training together on a map, organising parties to fight bosses/do PQs, dying together in FM, joining parties to celebrate major milestones...etc. I also miss the times such as how we all used to be available and staying up late just to talk to/hang out with friends in different time zones.
I retired from the game a decade ago mainly because my friends started to stop playing, and I don't like the path the game took, alongside with how it's managed anymore (the Unleashed update ruined it for me). However, I am incredibly lucky to have started in 2005 and be part of the generation who played & grew up with this game during its golden age which IMO, it'd be pre-BB for me (the remaining years were still just as significant due to my friends who stuck around in the long run).
This was truly one of my happiest times in my life and I wouldn't have grown as a person and also be here today without it.
P.S. For anyone who also cherished their times with MapleStory and likes anime, I highly recommend watching Recovery of an MMO Junkie, Belle (not exactly based around an MMO and it's a movie, but it very much follows a similar concept), and Loving Yamada at Lv999!
Its mid 2000s, you just spent 30 minutes to 2 hours on maple island depending on your class. You arrive in Lith Harbor and this beat hits you.
Your Maple Adventure starts now.
I used to play this game with my brother, cousin, and friends. We had a guild and my cousin was dating a girl from our guild. They actually met in real life, and she was at our house. She came all the way from Poland to our country to meet us. Crazy how things turned out.
this and ragnarok were my mmos after aoe2 rts. probably one of the best eras of gaming before fps took over. it almost felt more than a game. a social hub. these places unfortunately are ghost towns now. and we come back for the bgm that hits nostalgia in waves
I will say this, in the prime of this game this was THE best game. I believe this because of the friends I met, the fun I had and the memories. It was like stepping out of the jail cell of real life into this free and magical land where people from all over the world meet and train together. I still in 2020 miss the feeling of this game in its prime.
Staying up and playing games isn't the same anymore. I have a hard time socializing. Like, I have a lot of friends, but.. I don't know. Listening to this just makes me realize how much time I spend doing things by myself.
Bring back my memory of the Summer of 2006...When I finished elementary school, got the whole summer playing maple story at home....Thank you
時々聞きに来たくなる、そして涙が出そうになる・・・時々今でもメイプルストーリーをやってみても昔のわくわくした冒険や、楽しさはもうない。昔を思い出し涙が出そうになる和やかでもある曲でもあり、寂しさのある曲・・
涙が出ますね。。
This harbor represents the start of adventure for everyone.
Ahh so much memories!
Cannoneer is far from ''ol school'' but I get your point, nice story mate.
ギルドを作り始めた時周りのレベル帯の人たちを誘わないでリスにやって来た初心者達を一斉に勧誘していた。自分以外はみんなレベルが10~20Lvの低レベルだった。自分が4次転職をした時に皆おめでとう！マスターおめでとう！と祝してくれた。自分の我が子のように思ってたメンバーも気づけば自分と同じレベルに上がってきた時は赤の他人なのに｢大きくなったなこの野郎｣と親目線になっちまって感極まって泣いた。それでも脱退してく人もチラチラといる訳で、自分はまた何度もリスに来て初心者勧誘をしてた。まだビッグバンアップデートのなかった頃。それくらいに思い入れのある音楽。
Ive tried so many times to find a private server based on classic MS, but the feeling never lasts. "Optimization" clouds my enjoyment, everyone wants to level up fast and blow through rhe early game. Back when MS was new, the game felt like an infinite adventure. My friends and I would spend time exploring hidden maps and circling around Victoria. I'd hang out in the sauana for hours, playing Omok or just talking to random people. The Cash Shop hadn't been launched so no one looked like an overdesigned cutsey nightmare, we all just wore the awkward class armrors. This is rambling and incoherent but I guess my point is that I'll never forget early GMS and I'll always value the feeling of adventure and excitement I felt every time I logged on.
Indeed very very nostalgic, but for me, I don't want to go back to those years.
Even played it for about 5 years, Old Maple is just a little part of my life.
Thinking about going back means I will have to lose other wonderful parts I've met in my life after those old maple times, so my personal answer is a no.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. We have other possibilities in our lives.
rest in peace 2003 ~ 20XX Maplestory good bye....
02:57 Heart so painful. OMG, Nostalgic
Oh the damn memories... GAH
***** rip maple 2006-2011
+Austin Schneider Woa, Cygnus Knight update was in 2010?
Take that back, rip maple 2006 - N/A Nostalgia got me by the balls, tried maplestory again, Really easy to level, but still fun as hell. It's less pay to win, and There are actual ways to earn mesos other than Grinding or selling fame.
The right track to confess your guilt to the guild for spend a larger sum of meso's.
*****
Huge disgust. It's still the same charming game, but witch huge changes that kind of lose the feel of what really made the game connected... Nonetheless it's still a pretty fun game. I will not wish for the old maple, as it is dead and if you really wanted it back, you could just use a private server.
I don't know if anyone would believe this. I played maple when I was very young I remember I fought horntail (not sure if it is an event) spawned at the end of the map at Lith Harbor. I swear I'm not lying :( I was at MapleSEA server Delphinus ch12. That time I was only a level 33 i/l. I hid in the potion store to avoid keep on dying and met a few friends there. Good times. I don't know if they will still remember me
Tic Tac aquila msea player here and I think it was a few days before big bang, I remember seeing horntail's left head in henesys and balrog in perion too, they were on a specific cc for both maps, I think a gm spawned them?
They were special events where GMs would spawn bosses at the major cities. It was a major lag fest, but truly a spectacle to behold
back than when there was no social media the fun way to interact and make friend was maplestory those were the best years of my life so much nostalgia hearing this today xD
This is where my story began. Holy I missed those days. I could live in this world without sleep. Buying new clothing every day
Thanks Real Daddy
Noobie arriving from Maple Island: mesos pl0x! :3
F4
Ah yes the infamous "pl0x".
*sigh* Never thought I would long for the time when a noob asked me for mesos. I really miss those days...
@@ShippuudenSeries Those were the days :3 I miss those times f4
Thanks to this Lith Harbour song I started palying Maple Story, I used to come in the game to listen to this beautiful music and to see around background scenes such as sea, snails, pigs etc. Sometimes sipping a cup of coffee with my character be sitted on the chair.
The nostalgia is real my dudes. It'll never be the same
I miss all this so much, childhood was rough, this was one of the few fond nostalgic memories that came out of it
추억의 노래... 마음이 편안해짐 또 옛날이 그립고...ㅠ
first time playing this game was 2007, and I was in second grade at that point, now I'm already 20, good old memories..
언제나 그리운 게임...그와 동시에 한국인들에게는 향수를 불러오는 게임..
Nope this for all the world player..
그리고 사람은 다 똑같네요
다들 그때가 그립고 다시 돌아가고 싶다는글이 많음
I feel everyone born should have this song played.
No matter how often I hear this soundtrack, I always have a flashback to my childhood. I could remember how hard it was to get the game to run, but when it did, oh did that hit.
Ah, this song when you saw Lith Harbor for the very first time. 💜💔 I love this song, it portrays being limitless, carefree, and adventurous.
wow 😭😭 i can still vividly remember the maple island map, the very last map where you do quests for the people in that town right before you move to lith harbor. It’s been over 10 years but it’s still fresh af in my head
aha.. Thanks Thomas Frank for putting this nostalgic music in your Ultimate Study Playlist. Appreciate it very well ! (:
Haha I didn't know Thomas Frank played maple too
+2ATT 60% glove scroll, one portal over was a cool spot where higher level skills were shown off enlightening the beginners, pig beach down the street as a hidden map... Cohorts Generation X and Generation Y made a great online community in this game. Wizet sold it to Nexon down the line and everything began deteriorating I believe...