I met one of my best friends in the open world of Ultima Online. He was my neighbor in the game. Turns out years later of friendship he helped to get a new job to change my career and now 4 years later I moved to Germany from Brazil to lead a team. And my mom used to say playing Ultima Online wouldn't take me anywhere.. Totally legendary game.
Over 20 years later and this still makes me just as happy as it did when I was a kid. I wouldn't trade those days for anything. What an amazing experience and time it was.
@@Riedochse So as it turns out you want to burn his eye after all, huh? At you place, I believe Des Por would amend this little incident in good order. Make sure you climb on your house's roof before attempting such a feat.Or even, its antinomy, Uus Por, provided Sipo has toilet paper at his disposal, of course! Well, I'm pretty sure it's too late anyway. Poor thing must have trespassed away in smoke by now. :'( So, that's how sulfurous ash in the eye feel like..
This song makes me so sad and angry at the same time. The last gasp of an era, before the dark times, before EA and the like destroyed so much of the golden age of gaming. The mystery, the magic of gaming back then... lost... and this lingering song it's epitaph. Before tea bagging and microtransactions. Before FPS gluts. Back in a day when brilliant people made the game they wanted, not the game marketing research department. When the limitations fueled imagination. When quality game play mattered most. Good bye Bullfrog, Westwood, Origin, and the greats in their prime Sid Meier and team, Peter Molyneux and Will Wright. Carmack and Romero and of course Lord British himself. Too many greats to list. Xeen and Ultima, the gold box games, and age past it seems. Yet the corporate machine change some of them, crushed others, and those who simply walked away from what it was becoming. Someday I'll be laid to rest and at my wake I hope this song will play, a gamer's final lullaby.
Not to mention, the other great IPs Origin alone had that 'went down with the ship'. Crusader: No Remorse was a great game in it's own right, then you've got Wing Commander...
Well said man. We were lucky enough to witness the golden age of gaming in its prime. I would add Looking Glass Studios to the legendary list. How I miss the 90s, take care friends.
I have listened to this so many times, and it still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck more often than not. Sometimes, when life is too much, or things are simply moving too fast, I just sit and play this video. That's when I come back to happiness, and I see the circle of stones in my back yard. The blue gate shimmering amongst the trees. Thank you for your beautiful rendition of my all-time favorite song.
This got me in my feels.. im 36 years old.. I skipped school just to play UO... Those days will forever be imbedded in my memories and always looked back as a milestone in my life.. first monster slain.. running away because i didnt know what healing was... first skill to GM.. first house ever bought.. then came EA....😪😰😭
2020 and I have to listen to this again. UO has such a special place in my memory. Things you know will never come back, but you can remember them so clearly, like if they happened yesterday. Good times. No... Great times!
My brother and dad were playing Ultima III, which was, I think, the first computer game I attempted to play as a kid. These were the DOS based games made before video games had these fancy “tutorials” you see today. We had to actually read the instruction booklet, or better yet, just figure it out as we played. 😜 “Back in my day” old man rant over.
My childhood distilled into one song. Ultima IV on the NES was the first game I ever played; I couldn't have been more than 3-4 years old, at the time. Everybody else was talking about saving Peach or Zelda, or playing games I'd never get to even see on the SNES. To say I had a difficult life would be an understatement. I genuinely stopped taking joy in most things after I started middle school, but gaming was one of the few things left I liked and chief among them was the Ultima series. It was one of the few things on which my dysfunctional family agreed; even my mom appreciated it, despite not being into games, herself. I learned more about how to be a good person from those games than I did almost any other source aside from my parents. No matter how worn down I got by everything, no matter how badly bullied I got or how little the useless school administrators cared, I could always find some measure of peace in this series. Even today, as a 30 year-old married man, just hearing this song can drive away the dark thoughts that plague me to this day. Maybe, one day, I can meet Lord British in person and thank him for helping to bring my family together.
Iolo taught me this song way back in the early 80s before Ultima became A Thing, and it's been part of my repertoire since. This is a lovely version. (The strings sound kind of synthy-y.)
Stones is one of the first videogame's theme I've fell in love with. It's so perfect that it made me love Ultima even more. Thanks to Iolo and @ChequerChequer
I can remember sitting in brit and just letting the music play... warm fuzzy feelings... Also is sad because ill never be able to go back to exactly how it felt..
Thank you for this....It brings back great memories of my youth. I remember playing Ultima Online with my best friend, Mike. We would play for hours. In fact, my family had to get a second phone line in order for me to play(which i paid for). The world was so original. Everywhere was an adventure, you truly had no idea what you might encounter. Here's to simpler times.....Cheers.
It's not an ultima Online track! It's an Ultima Saga track. All you guys get to enjoy is a compressed MP3 that was composed something like 15 years before UO flourishes in this crazed mind obsessed with dooming its creation before Elizabeth and Abraham put their dirty claws on it. But this song? It has a history that goes back eons before you were born. It's about... It's about Zog, feeling oneness for the first time, solitude. The melancoly that is reaching at your heart while you are listening to this. Now, a little key secret detail no one ever managed to understand, all dumbed down by the Mmo that ever was: Zog IS the Avatar, and time and space most definitely ARE a function of firepower. And that song is the windmill in your mind. That's exactly what you're feeling right know, without being able to transcribe said feelings into pronoucable words. That is also why it leaves you speechless. So that you may remain silent while the Wisps finally get to speak plainly. Britannia is a symphony composed by wisps and interpreted by a quatuor of most excellent and dashing musicians, not by thousands of adventurer wannabes who can't even bother reading a dialogue option that contains more than three words! And yes, Iolo is one of them musicians, obviously. """"""Ultima Online"""""" Yeah.
three words sir, OUT F**KING STANDING!!! claps.. I first heard this tune many many moons ago, and now to hear it so well played, brings warmth to this old heart :)
The pleasure of pressing the same buttons for years without getting bored was different, the purpose was the same, but the pleasure was different, as beautiful and temporary as dreams, just like life. Even though they are shelved like old parchments, their crumbs are everywhere. To ancient and beautiful days. greetings.
This is the best version of "Stones" I have ever heard, thank you. I play it on loop when playing "Legends of Aria" on the 5040 server. (Thanks Stimwalt for the link)
You just threw me back 10 years ago man. Such nostalgia and good times that I had playing on UO and I probably owe this game some friends that I have today if not the majority simply by knowing those friends through friends that I knew from Ultima Online. Again, thank you for this awesome nostalgia! It brought me some tears. ^^''
This brings back so many emotions and memories. I started playing this game on my brother's account when I was 13? 14? He paid me a small bit of money to farm resources for him. I enjoyed it so much when I finally got old enough I made my own account. I started gaming here and no other MMO will compare. This game was my gateway into D&D and dungeon mastering.
My first, maybe last, comment in youtube for the sake of almost 12-13 years of my life. You are awesome bro. You took me back to that years. There is no game else is like UO
Amazing cover of the Stones theme, brought back so many memories playing UO and think back to all the friends I made that I still wish I could have stayed in contact with.
Wow this brings me back. I remember when the game first came out and times when i would just leave the login screen up to listen to this song over and over. Beautiful cover!
Started playing Ultima Online last week, and though I'm a bit late I'm enjoying it a lot. Immediately loved the log-in screen music, didn't know it belonged to another Ultima game. Wholesome, beautiful cover, it goes deep
When I feel well, and I hear this again, it brings back very pleasant feelings of love. Something I haven't experienced in a long time and hope to feel again in my lifetime.
Ultima V was the very first game my brother and i played so many good memories i was 7 and he was 4 and as we grew up we played all of them to completion together some of my favorite memeories were staying up all night on summer vac and taking turns playing ultima 7 thank you for this!
I've decided to take up guitar, specifically classic guitar. Some day I hope to play this, and other songs from the Ultima Series. It's such beautiful music. Anyone would be moved by it.
This song reminds me of so many wonderful memories of the Ultima games even before it went online. which was a masterpiece of an rpg for its time. You did an outstanding Job of giving this old song new life.
Dear sir of masterful skill, I am helpless to the profound feeling of love that I find once my eyes feast on the glory that you create here, even more-so when it lands ever so gently upon thy ears. I know you not, but I love you sir. This most certainly has made my day. Peace to you throughout all of yours.
Dear kind viewer of gentle heart and sensible ears, I am helpless to the profound feeling of gratitude when I bestow my eyes upon such a dearly typed comment on my video. I thank thee for such generosity in your words, which fills me with joy.
I met one of my best friends in the open world of Ultima Online. He was my neighbor in the game.
Turns out years later of friendship he helped to get a new job to change my career and now 4 years later I moved to Germany from Brazil to lead a team.
And my mom used to say playing Ultima Online wouldn't take me anywhere..
Totally legendary game.
Que top mano, conheci muitos amigos também, mas jogava em servidor pirata. Mas sempre bate saudade daquela época
Over 20 years later and this still makes me just as happy as it did when I was a kid. I wouldn't trade those days for anything. What an amazing experience and time it was.
i still hear the sound of pickaxes
year: 2017, age: +35, eyes: crying.
good old memories. the best game ever.
I agree
@ yapma be reis
Cast a Energy bolt +Explosion + Flame Strike combo on you, haha
me too hehehehe time pass my friend
Ever , ever ,ever ... The best !!!!
I'm not crying, there's Sulfurous Ash in my eyes :'(
love this comment
Do something against it. VAS LOR could help, but it uses Sulphurus Ash. In case nothing else works... use VAS KAL AN MANI IN CORP HUR TYM.
@@Riedochse So as it turns out you want to burn his eye after all, huh? At you place, I believe Des Por would amend this little incident in good order. Make sure you climb on your house's roof before attempting such a feat.Or even, its antinomy, Uus Por, provided Sipo has toilet paper at his disposal, of course!
Well, I'm pretty sure it's too late anyway. Poor thing must have trespassed away in smoke by now. :'(
So, that's how sulfurous ash in the eye feel like..
My set of game manual got spider silk on it.
@@Riedochse dude those are not even real spell words
This song makes me so sad and angry at the same time. The last gasp of an era, before the dark times, before EA and the like destroyed so much of the golden age of gaming. The mystery, the magic of gaming back then... lost... and this lingering song it's epitaph. Before tea bagging and microtransactions. Before FPS gluts. Back in a day when brilliant people made the game they wanted, not the game marketing research department. When the limitations fueled imagination. When quality game play mattered most. Good bye Bullfrog, Westwood, Origin, and the greats in their prime Sid Meier and team, Peter Molyneux and Will Wright. Carmack and Romero and of course Lord British himself. Too many greats to list. Xeen and Ultima, the gold box games, and age past it seems. Yet the corporate machine change some of them, crushed others, and those who simply walked away from what it was becoming. Someday I'll be laid to rest and at my wake I hope this song will play, a gamer's final lullaby.
Not to mention, the other great IPs Origin alone had that 'went down with the ship'. Crusader: No Remorse was a great game in it's own right, then you've got Wing Commander...
You summed it all up my friend.... When not every idiot had access to the internet ... a civilized time!
Well said man. We were lucky enough to witness the golden age of gaming in its prime. I would add Looking Glass Studios to the legendary list. How I miss the 90s, take care friends.
Wow, you write really well. This expresses what I feel as well.
EA already had their tentacles around Origin at this point. There is a grave in U5 that reads "Origin: We Created Worlds."
I have listened to this so many times, and it still makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck more often than not. Sometimes, when life is too much, or things are simply moving too fast, I just sit and play this video. That's when I come back to happiness, and I see the circle of stones in my back yard. The blue gate shimmering amongst the trees.
Thank you for your beautiful rendition of my all-time favorite song.
This got me in my feels.. im 36 years old.. I skipped school just to play UO... Those days will forever be imbedded in my memories and always looked back as a milestone in my life.. first monster slain.. running away because i didnt know what healing was... first skill to GM.. first house ever bought.. then came EA....😪😰😭
This is, without question, the best rendition of Stones there is.
Thank you so so much!
After 20+ years, this song still hits like any other!
Reading through the comments makes my heart full. Such an incredible game. It united so many people. Nothing else came close.
The most and important game I ever played....
Nostalgia kicks in and it's super Effective, right?
Amen
More games need to teach positive things like the eight virtues.
Ultima 4 Wuest of the Avstar was my first Ultima I played and I was hooked after that.
Agreed
懐かしい記憶の中にある音楽をありがとう。オンラインの世界に初めて踏み入れ、世界観に感動し幾年も、UOの世界で過ごしました。思い出の音楽に感謝いたします。
The memories this game holds for us can never be beaten. Amazing game, amazing memories, amazing music. I wish it would come back again. xxxx
ahhh... me too man.... To relieve those times, I am considering making an ep, only guitar and ocarina of the main songs of this game
I barely graduated from high school because of this game and I never regret.
GED for me. 🤘🏼
reading this comment made me LOL. I would skip classes so I could roll up on IDOC's and champ spawns with the boys haha. Good times!
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Same here :)
Same
Aged 40 and openly weeping for the first time in a long time. Thanks for doing this cover.
This is one of the greatest things on all of RUclips.
2020 and I have to listen to this again. UO has such a special place in my memory. Things you know will never come back, but you can remember them so clearly, like if they happened yesterday. Good times. No... Great times!
Indeed
UO is the best MMORPG in the universe.
Still revives memories... Such an iconic master piece.
I agree. Fantastic!
Holy shit, it's him.
Shame you screwed SOTA :/
As a lover of Ultima, I say he sold his soul to EA. He will never be forgiven.
My brother and dad were playing Ultima III, which was, I think, the first computer game I attempted to play as a kid.
These were the DOS based games made before video games had these fancy “tutorials” you see today. We had to actually read the instruction booklet, or better yet, just figure it out as we played. 😜
“Back in my day” old man rant over.
Don't normally bother to comment, but this was fantastic
My childhood distilled into one song. Ultima IV on the NES was the first game I ever played; I couldn't have been more than 3-4 years old, at the time. Everybody else was talking about saving Peach or Zelda, or playing games I'd never get to even see on the SNES.
To say I had a difficult life would be an understatement. I genuinely stopped taking joy in most things after I started middle school, but gaming was one of the few things left I liked and chief among them was the Ultima series. It was one of the few things on which my dysfunctional family agreed; even my mom appreciated it, despite not being into games, herself. I learned more about how to be a good person from those games than I did almost any other source aside from my parents. No matter how worn down I got by everything, no matter how badly bullied I got or how little the useless school administrators cared, I could always find some measure of peace in this series.
Even today, as a 30 year-old married man, just hearing this song can drive away the dark thoughts that plague me to this day. Maybe, one day, I can meet Lord British in person and thank him for helping to bring my family together.
This is exactly to be moved to tears for UO players :) thanks...
from old, old novus opiate seclorum when i was still a kid, fuck yes. loved this song in the login page.
Ultima V players too
easily the most beautiful piece of music from a video game.
Iolo taught me this song way back in the early 80s before Ultima became A Thing, and it's been part of my repertoire since. This is a lovely version. (The strings sound kind of synthy-y.)
this breaks my heart. UO was my first mmorpg and the best one i've ever played. Thanks for bringing back good old memories ;)
I just downloaded UO Renaissance because of this. Thanks.
Stones is one of the first videogame's theme I've fell in love with. It's so perfect that it made me love Ultima even more. Thanks to Iolo and @ChequerChequer
Thank you! :D
I can remember sitting in brit and just letting the music play... warm fuzzy feelings... Also is sad because ill never be able to go back to exactly how it felt..
Thank you for this....It brings back great memories of my youth. I remember playing Ultima Online with my best friend, Mike. We would play for hours. In fact, my family had to get a second phone line in order for me to play(which i paid for). The world was so original. Everywhere was an adventure, you truly had no idea what you might encounter. Here's to simpler times.....Cheers.
Wow Lord British himself said this version is amazing. And i agree, i fell on this today and it reminded me of my young days strolling in Britannia.
One of the better covers of this i've heard. You're magic with that ocarina, and I know a thing or two about magic. LONG LIVE LORD BRITISH.
agree.
just amazing! this is the best and beautiful cover of ultima online track i've ever heard! thank you a lot!!!
+ded yllka Wow, I feel flattered! I thank you so much! :D
It's not an ultima Online track! It's an Ultima Saga track. All you guys get to enjoy is a compressed MP3 that was composed something like 15 years before UO flourishes in this crazed mind obsessed with dooming its creation before Elizabeth and Abraham put their dirty claws on it. But this song? It has a history that goes back eons before you were born. It's about... It's about Zog, feeling oneness for the first time, solitude. The melancoly that is reaching at your heart while you are listening to this.
Now, a little key secret detail no one ever managed to understand, all dumbed down by the Mmo that ever was: Zog IS the Avatar, and time and space most definitely ARE a function of firepower. And that song is the windmill in your mind. That's exactly what you're feeling right know, without being able to transcribe said feelings into pronoucable words. That is also why it leaves you speechless. So that you may remain silent while the Wisps finally get to speak plainly. Britannia is a symphony composed by wisps and interpreted by a quatuor of most excellent and dashing musicians, not by thousands of adventurer wannabes who can't even bother reading a dialogue option that contains more than three words! And yes, Iolo is one of them musicians, obviously.
""""""Ultima Online"""""" Yeah.
Extraordinarily beautiful rendition of the original.
Perfect. So many memories
yes. miss it.
To be played at Dupre's funeral....
I have almost never cried that much in a game. Until Ultima 9........
Best of best!
From. Korea (arirang server)
three words sir, OUT F**KING STANDING!!! claps.. I first heard this tune many many moons ago, and now to hear it so well played, brings warmth to this old heart :)
Thank you so much!
I'm not crying, YOU'RE CRYING!
I'm about tired of these damn ninjas cutting onions in my room!
This is heartbreakingly beautiful... Thank you for posting this!
The pleasure of pressing the same buttons for years without getting bored was different, the purpose was the same, but the pleasure was different, as beautiful and temporary as dreams, just like life. Even though they are shelved like old parchments, their crumbs are everywhere.
To ancient and beautiful days. greetings.
This is the best arrangement and performance I've heard of the piece. 'Tis said to be one of Britannia's finest!
Oh my god! This is incredible. I can't think of a piece of gaming music that has remained with me as immovably as this. *Wipes tear*
This is the best version of "Stones" I have ever heard, thank you. I play it on loop when playing "Legends of Aria" on the 5040 server. (Thanks Stimwalt for the link)
Thank you so much!
Definitely brings tears to my eyes. These were the best times of my life. Thank you for this.
You just threw me back 10 years ago man. Such nostalgia and good times that I had playing on UO and I probably owe this game some friends that I have today if not the majority simply by knowing those friends through friends that I knew from Ultima Online. Again, thank you for this awesome nostalgia! It brought me some tears. ^^''
And that’s all it takes to be transported back to UO (Baja). Thank you for sharing!
So love this. Ah, the days of Ultima. Thank you for the amazing music.
Você é um deus! UO é demais! Conheci o game aos 8 anos de idade, hoje tenho 21, pura nostalgia.
Muito obrigado!!
God I need an An Corp after that, because it feels like I've died and went to Heav-..OoOooOOooooOoOooooOoOOOOooO
Hahaha, thanks dude!
Good. Thank you. I am a Korean. When I played Ultima, I were a High school student.
The only people that understand my emotions when hearing this song are all of you who know but can’t describe it
This brings back so many emotions and memories. I started playing this game on my brother's account when I was 13? 14? He paid me a small bit of money to farm resources for him. I enjoyed it so much when I finally got old enough I made my own account. I started gaming here and no other MMO will compare. This game was my gateway into D&D and dungeon mastering.
closing my eyes listening to this, really brings back memories of the 90s and early 2000s
My first, maybe last, comment in youtube for the sake of almost 12-13 years of my life. You are awesome bro. You took me back to that years. There is no game else is like UO
Thank you so much! I really apreciate it!
Amazing cover of the Stones theme, brought back so many memories playing UO and think back to all the friends I made that I still wish I could have stayed in contact with.
Awesome man! Thank you so much! Nostalgia is always a good thing... try finding your friends! cheers!
I know this is almost a year old, but you brought me back to better times. Thank you my friend.
timeless music, the sound tracks of ultima are so good, i've never seen any game come close to it
I started playing Ultima in the 1990s with U7
Always loved the music Exspecialy "Stones "
Oscober 15, 2021: Still loving this tune.
I can't find a better cover for this song, excellent job on the cover.
すばらしいですね この曲、演奏、魂を感じますね
多くのありがとう！
Wow this brings me back. I remember when the game first came out and times when i would just leave the login screen up to listen to this song over and over. Beautiful cover!
Started playing Ultima Online last week, and though I'm a bit late I'm enjoying it a lot. Immediately loved the log-in screen music, didn't know it belonged to another Ultima game. Wholesome, beautiful cover, it goes deep
When I feel well, and I hear this again, it brings back very pleasant feelings of love. Something I haven't experienced in a long time and hope to feel again in my lifetime.
Flawless! I was just playing Ultima V last night and needed to hear a good Stones cover. Man, did you have just the thing I needed. Bravo! 🤙
brings back memories of when ultimate first came out, this is awesome!!!!!!
Outstanding. Makes me want to cry from nostalgia.
Bu oyun yüzünden yıllarım boşa gitti diyemiyorum lan değdi resmen oynadığıma... :))
This is just what I needed today and all the other days I've pulled it up. Thank you!
Thank you so much! Brought memories from after school afternoons, playing U6!
This brings back so many memories :) - fantastic cover :)
Ultima V was the very first game my brother and i played so many good memories i was 7 and he was 4 and as we grew up we played all of them to completion together some of my favorite memeories were staying up all night on summer vac and taking turns playing ultima 7 thank you for this!
You rock man. Thanks so much for posting this. This is literally part of my identity .
I've decided to take up guitar, specifically classic guitar. Some day I hope to play this, and other songs from the Ultima Series. It's such beautiful music. Anyone would be moved by it.
Very well done. I really miss this game (Pre UO Renaissance)
Great job. I still love UO (free shards) but damn, UO will never die for me.
Thanks!!
Thanks man, was looking for this old favourite of mine and found this awesome remake
This song reminds me of so many wonderful memories of the Ultima games even before it went online. which was a masterpiece of an rpg for its time. You did an outstanding Job of giving this old song new life.
Nice cover, thanks...
You know what I'm going to say: AMAZING! You're so good at making quiet covers with classical guitar, it feels so soothing.
megalomania29 Thanks! :) It pleases me that you like them!
Fucking amazing. OoooOo OooOoo Ooo OooooOOooo Ooooo.
An Corp
love it. I spent half my game time as ghost. hehe.
It's timeless music like this that helped me find a UO Elite shard to play on a week ago...
yea.. i wont cry from ultima online memories but such tremndous melancholy
Uo is the best game ever! Miss it so bloody much.
Awesome talent that brings back so many memories, and as I listen, I'm sitting at tavern night on Catskills.
Dear sir of masterful skill, I am helpless to the profound feeling of love that I find once my eyes feast on the glory that you create here, even more-so when it lands ever so gently upon thy ears. I know you not, but I love you sir. This most certainly has made my day. Peace to you throughout all of yours.
Dear kind viewer of gentle heart and sensible ears, I am helpless to the profound feeling of gratitude when I bestow my eyes upon such a dearly typed comment on my video. I thank thee for such generosity in your words, which fills me with joy.
This brings back so many memories playing UO as a kid. Good times. i miss it. Awesome cover
Thank you so much!
Absolutely beautiful. Excellent choice of instruments.
Holy shivers, Batman! Thank you!
Beautiful. My thanks to you for this wonderful trip down memory lane. I am in awe! Your skill is truly amazing.
Thank you!! I am glad you are happy with my work! :D
Wonderful. I've loved UO in the T2A age and played it a lot.
What a beautiful rendition of this Ultima favorite. Fantastic job! Bravo!!! Now I must get back to meditating...
Thank you!!"
Wow... This is really beautiful; by far the best version of Stones I've ever heard.
Wow, thank you so much!!
This song gives me shivers for the beautiful memories of OU. You reproduced it perfectly. Thank you!
Thank you so much!!
What on earth. Dude... Wow. I'm glad Richard noticed it, I just tweeted it at him before reading the commentS! LOL
Not just that, he is my Patreon!! I couldn't even believe when I realized it!! Thank you!!
I couldn't believe it when I read it. So I can only image your surprise! :O Keep up the amazing work!
Tribute to my lost youth。Music sounds, full of memories……Thx❤❤
Very well played. This brings back memories. I think I will add this to the babies playlist.
Beautiful! Such fond memories of this song from the Ultima games.
Long before Skyrim and songs such as the Dragon born. This was true RPG game music. Plus all the music by Ken Arnold for Ultima 3 through 5.