@@Meisio Mine was in Mulgore. Peaceful, beautiful, absolutely impossible for a noob like me not to die, ha! My first toon became my main and I was playing mostly Feral when I finally logged out.
And 15yrs later we're still waiting for the next WOW that can even come close to how legendary classic, burning crusad and lich king was. People could sit in elwynn forest for hours and not even notice 3h went by. Agree, brings back great memories from the 2000s.
I sometimes wonder if I wasted precious moments of my life playing this game for so long. Then this music takes me back and all I can think of is the happy memories, the adventures I had, and the friends I made along the way. And I think: No. It wasn't wasted at all.
Even though WoW has lost its grip on things, this will always be very close to me. The memories and nostalgia of playing this game will never leave me.
Of course it will never leave you. But to help with the nostalgia, now you have this channel and Classic WoW coming probably next year :) Thank you for sharing you feelings with us Chris, Meisio
Same man all my friends did was drink do drugs and get into trouble. They always would ask why I always stayed at home playing video games. Pretty sure the game kept me away from a really shitty life style. They are all loser drug addicts that don't even have their own children. Glad I had this game or I would have for sure been out parting doing drugs with low life's and probably would still be stuck in that life style
i could have been out at parties doing drugs, drinking under age and doing stupid shit due to my chaotic mind when i was younger. instead? i stayed in my room with my dimly lit light , had the music calm my mind, while i "got high" on doing shit in the game lol.
@@skyguy1988 Same here. Got involved in a bad crowd and one night one of them broke into a car. But I left that night not because of that, but because I was eager to get my first mount haha. They got bitter about me playing WoW so fell out with them and carried on playing. Best thing that ever happened.
@@s3ra9h1m the people that i unfriended STILL try to get back with me. we are in our 30s now, and they are all washed up alcoholics that look terrible and still party and do stupid shit..... they do NOT take the hint. there is a fucking reason why i stopped hanging out with them when we were 19 and 20 lmao
I absolutely always loved this game. I'll never forget that moment in 2006, my friend had been playing since launch. He told me, "You have to go get it!" I was 20 at the time, i was working at a grocery store unloading trucks while going to college. Stopped at the GameStop just over the hill, saw the original WoW. That thick box containing the books and like 5 CD roms. Went home, downloaded it for a long time. As soon as it was done, my world was changed forever. Talking to the community. All the newbies and I helping each other, friending each other, talking about how awesome the game is. Making ridiculous jokes about everything under the sun while getting killed by Hogger. Life was simple. Fuck politics, social media, and smart phones. None of it mattered. Glad i got classic and am now reliving those times again and damn does it feel good.
@@LarryHazard - Yeah, I know it's cringe to say and maybe because i grew up before smart phones and social media, but i definitely liked the shape of life prior. Not that these things are horrible, but they seemed a bit more restrained before. Now they're practically considered "essentials" when there's truly nothing essential about them.
@@Alstanus When I was playing WoW for the first time I was 12-13, it was 2008-2009 I think and I felt a clear difference between the outside and the digital world. Going outside and going on the internet was more fun. Since the internet became so big, I don't find it fun anymore except for information and content (not the social side like forums and videogames) and in the real world people are a lot more alienated and dumbed down by the internet and social media.
My first character: I create human warrior, unequip my chest and sword, delete my hearthstone (by mistake), ignore the quests and head on punching the wolves like rambo, I get bored, I go exploring, end up in duskwood, get killed by lvl 20 mobs 20x, 21th time a badass lvl 36 nightelf hunter saves me and gives me gold, I get inspired, I delete by character (with the gold) and make a nightelf hunter. And the cycle continues.
I'm a 35 year old man and this music almost brings me to tears. Such nostalgia. I was only 20 when I first began playing. I haven't played for 4 years, but wow. The relationships and friendships I made over the years I played this game..... It's unbelievable. I never imagined I would get to know people as well as I did when I first began playing this game.
.Meat missile..i feel like you..... i love WOW and the lovely music like the following game .. i am a 75 year old woman now and have been from the beginning .. it has made me have had many lovely moments with my children and grandchildren who also play and make good friends in the game. I will not do that. I am so happy with the game and the music.
Can confirm, am 108 years old and I starting playing Vanilla when I was 8. After inventing a time machine, playing Vanilla WoW was some of my best memories.
I feel the same way about the game Civilization. The original was a life changing masterpiece. Some of the sequels had better gameplay, but weren't life changing. (Perhaps CIV II was, however.)
There I was, a young 14 year old lad on his birthday in 2005, my mum finally lets me have a subscription and buy wow after months of hounding her. I install and download the patch, and there it is, the fantastic opening screen. I hastily log in, and create my first character: Solos, the human paladin! What came after is indescribable, an endless adventure with friends old and new, some of which I will never forget. Running into the dead mines and feeling the creepy music and dastardly defias, or maybe the first time I stepped foot into the Scarlet Monastery, all of these moments and memories, firmly locked into the vault of mind, and I will always cherish them. But for all those wonderous memories, the one that shines the brightest, is walking down from Northshire for the first time, looking out into the forest, listening to this music, and taking my first real steps into the World of Warcraft. Have a lovely day everybody.
I was 14 years old too with a human paladin when WoW came out. First year of WoW is probably the best memories I have, and I have a pretty good life. It was like something else. The feeling of exploration in a world that I loved already from Warcraft 3. Fighting with creatures as an avatar of myself, finding unique loot, meeting with people that I talk with on a regular basis to this date. It was challenging, it was rewarding, it forced you to team up with others. As much as I hate the new Actiblizzard now, I'm ethernally thankful to the real Blizzard for making the biggest masterpiece ever that is World of Warcraft.
My wife and I started playing in BC and this music is so nostalgic it’s crazy. Takes me back. This game was our escape from the stress. We still play today.
That was one of those moments I will never forget as well. The feeling it was a dangerous zone that I can't step foot on without certain death when I was ~ level 10 or so.
"Blizzard managers never got a clue that the original Vanilla team was doing." Of course not. They dance to the tune of the stock market now, and that tune is played at a very rapid pace.....
I wish I could feel the way I felt the first time I played wow again. Discovering the world playing a game like this for the first time….before it became easy and you had to work so so hard for everything. The music was epic the friends were epic. Take me back to these days.
There will never be another mmo like this. It hit at the right time. Before mass texting and social media. People still talked, still helped each other, still were willing to work towards goals. 2004-2009 in WoW was incredible and the memories live on to this day. And like I said, it will never be done again.
I wouldn't say never, just look at what Star Citizen has been able to do. If you've never seen that game before then your mind will be blown away, and I'm not throwing that word around. If you have seen that game before then you also probably know the reason why it looks that good yet has such a small community. Just imagine what a proper game studio would be able to create if Roberts Space Industries is able to create something as mind blowing as Star Citizen? I think within the next 12 years we might actually see a massive mmo like WoW yet again that gets everybody on board. In VR. Just look at Apple's VR headset, within the next 12 years there's going to be headsets that make that one look like a dumb phone in comparison which is affordable to everybody. I also just wanted to make it clear I don't think Apple's headset is the holy grail, but there's nothing on the market like it. It uses 12(?) cameras inside the frame which monitors your eye movement, you just look at what ever you want to click on and the screen focuses on it. That's next level intuitive, then imagine combining something much better than that with a massive mmorpg world, oh man...
@@casual_citizen This is so true, we've only scratched the surface of what video games can do. But it takes so long for this potential to be unlocked; people keep creating the same games over and over instead of exploring what can be accomplished (Star Citizen is a good exception to this as you mention). A good example is the RTS/FPS hybrid genre which has huge potential but only Natural Selection which was released 20 years ago ever realized some of it. And for VR games people seem to agree only Half-Life: Alyx is the only must-buy title. And, of course, no MMO has matched WoW still after all these years. But, every now and then we get a diamond in the rough that give a small hint of the possibilities. (Imagine if Outer Wilds had a $300 million dollar budget)
Heartbreaking. It's hard to explain that feeling. October of 2005, for me. I was 29. I grew up with Ataris and Nintendos, PCs and PlayStations. It was like the final culmination of everything we'd ever been promised. I only stopped playing a couple of months ago. What a ride, what an incredible addition to the human experience! I don't know whether I cried or shit myself when I entered the gates of Stormwind for the first time and the music changed, the drums crashing in my headphones. We remember every note, we heard these songs for weeks or months at a time. I entered that world a cheerful, goofy, big mouthed human paladin, and left it a cynical, tired, angry, silent Nelf rogue. But the music remains, and still pulls on my heart.
i'm sorry man i really wish you had stopped during legion before it got too bad like i did... i miss the game terribly but at least my memories of it are INTACT! and if my nostalgia gets REALLY bad i can just fire up my own private vanilla but ofc it's not the same, no more blissful ignorance of not knowing EVERY last single thing there is to know about the game and being an actual noob anymore :( rip vanilla wow and rip my friends from it
oh man this music hit different when you were alone at night in the game at that special hour when everyone went to bed and logged off and there were barely anyone anywhere. There were some special places like that, like The Barrens, Thousand Needles, Stranglethorn Vale and Tanaris.
Yes!!! Where have you been, friend!?! Google "Classic WoW'. Blizzard announced that they are bringing back Classic/Vanilla WoW servers. It's going to be released Summer of 2019.
I am 35 and started in vanilla, I quited 3 years ago and started playing again since 6 months. Everything overwhelmed me and made me feel like I am in a differend time back again. I realy missed it. Im glad I started again. Besides work and all the must and don'ts this game is relieving me from hatred and this sick world.
Everytime i'm coming back to this video i am reading through the comments 150th time and sharing tear of nostalgia with everybody here. I Love you friends that i have never met, but share same memories!
First I played undead, then playerd orc, but I stopped after 10 level. Only after creating human character I played to 60 lvl. Elwynn-Westfall-Redridge-Duskwood is the best chain in game.
Makes me want to log in and just wander around Elwynn Forest and try to recapture how amazing it was when I first played almost 15 years ago. Exploring and checking out every building in Stormwind. Remembering how terrifying Duskwood was when I ran their to find Mayor Ebonlocke to get help for Lakeshire. Funny thing was I would never have known about it except some kids were selling magazine subscriptions to raise money, I bought Maxim and in the first issue was an introduction disc to wow. I played the 20 levels with three different characters before I admitted I was hooked. Tried a decent number of games since then, but nothing captured my imagination like WoW. Unfortunately for me "progress" didn't mean better. Quit eight years ago.
10 years and 360 days of played, that was it for me between 2004-2014 in the World of Warcraft. For the whole time the same guild and same friends, unforgettable moments and great adventures. The feeling of being part of something great, a community larger than the guild itself. It was another life inside a game.
Going through my first big heart break. My high school sweetie left me, I was a 21 year old small town boy, living in a big city, and I was familiar with warcraft, via Warcraft 2 and warcraft 3. I remember having just a couple bucks left, and I went to an EB games store, and asked if they had any more copies of WoW. The dude said I got lucky, said someone just returned a copy because they didn't like it, and I bought the last one. I did the grueling install process, patched it up, and fired it up. I remember making a paladin instantly, because I liked Arthas and the Paladin class in WC3. Soon as the music starts, I'm totally captivated by the art style, music, and totally stoked I get to play a Paladin. After a couple of hours of getting a feel for the game and learning how to chat/interact, I meet a priest. One of my first people I meet in-game, little did I know we'd get to know each other very well, and he invited me to their guild. Through this guild, many friendships were made that still exist today. While playing this game, interacting with new friends, learning spells and feeling like my Paladin was becoming even more powerful, it helped me cope and forget about my big heartbreak for awhile. Wow has really helped me through some tough times, and that was the catalyst of why WoW would mean so much to me. I don't play it like I used to, but damn, I'll never forget the moment this music kicked in, and a brand new, fresh noob Paladin was born.
Saturday Just before 7:00am Cold winter morning Quiet morning A fresh hot cup of coffee on the desk Nothing planned for the day No pressing business A level 2 alt in goldshire abbey Ready for familiar and comfortable quests This is the vibes elwynn forest gives me, such a cozy place.
This soundtrack inspires to me feelings of stillness and calmness that I cannot achieve easily in other ways. The memories of the time spent in that virtual forest are still strong after 15 years…
I was barely starting college when this came out. I miss being a naive newb aimlessly wandering about where I'm not supposed to. That blissful ignorance can only be enjoyed once. This will always tug away at my heartstrings.
The amount of memories I have of WoW are so numerious. I could lose a day reminincing and not even scratch the surface. It was more than an escape for me as a kid. It helped so much on top of being a new definition of fun.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Defias thugs in the Northshire vineyards. I watched the stars glitter in the dark near the Westbrook Garrison. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Although I never had the chance to experience vanilla, it seems so nostalgic, and I tip my hat to all of you vanilla players. I will always respect the ‘good ole days’, but I’m pretty satisfied with what we have now. Congrats to those who’ve been from vanilla to now, I look up to you guys.
As a twenty odd something bloke back in vanilla wow… completing a 40 man raid to Molten Core successfully with my guild back then (filled with some of my IRL friends) still feels like one of the if not the most meaningful lesson in how a large group of people can come together and achieve great things. Somehow in my professional life after that everything always felt and feels competitive. I have never reached the same level of feeling integrated to a whole as I did there… maybe that is a sad testimony to the state of my life or IRL in general… It could also just be a testimony to how absolutely breathtaking ‘that’ which this game provided to all of us back then really was… Solace, peace, acceptance, purpose, excitement, wonder, friendship and a sense of belonging… ‘May your blades never dull!”❤
Sometimes when i want to play,, i just subscribe for a month just to explore the old town and listen to the musics. I am 40 this April,, miss the old days played with the old buddies,,
I feel this in my heart and soul. This shit hits hard. Wish there was a way to go back to the good ole days… so many memories countless years given to Azeroth & wouldn’t change it for the world.
Sometimes I think, I'm lucky to live to 110, and I'm lying on my deathbed, and know that my last few moments have come, I want this music to drift away to. Let my last thoughts of walking through Elwyn take me to my eternity.
I still remember my brother and I bought this game during our lunch break at work, getting home that evening, and it finally being installed about 9pm. We spent the whole next day talking about the game and many years after that. Special memories.
42 male human warrior main alliance here. Played mainly during end of BC and through WotLK. Wow was an amazing adventure for me and many friends both in game, guild and RL. It truly was another world/life, and to finally down LK... amazing.
As a Horde main, I've never really had the Alliance atmosphere to have nostalgia with. The only times I'd here the music and explore the zones is during world PvP. Elwynn forest and Stormwind have always had great sounds and music. The closest we got to this style of music was Hilsbrad, which since Cata is just different. The old tracks are still there, just only in the non-plagued areas. There aren't much of those.
Yes, _Elwynn Forest_ track is mostly an Alliance track, much like is the _Barrens Dry_ track dedicated to the Horde. Very limited choice when it comes to music in Vanilla, but they were all extremely good. :) Salutations, Meisio
Honestly, the ambiance of Alliance was the reason I played it. I tried to play Horde, and knew all the better players did so, but everything was dead, tribal, or diseased. I just couldn't get into it. I wanted lush forests and castles and sweeping music more than I wanted to win battlegrounds.
@@Leelabean I Had my own alliance pvp guild a well populated and well geared one to boot I would love to be the one in denial about the horde winning more at least not against us my main was a shaman healer.
i was almost 18 in 2005 when i started playing wow, this music reminds me of the good times and gameplay of yesteryear, where society was very different in video games.
I still remember the excitement of logging in and choosing what character I wanted and beginning questing for the first time...human mage...good times. This video takes me back. Thanks for making a 3 hr video!
Lol remember making human rogue when game just started. Didn’t know there was AH till level 25, trash vendored everything. Had leather pants with +5 to healing thinking it’s helping me heal faster. Will never forget the awe inspired by first time stepping trough gates of Stormwind and that epic music kicking in. Or the time I encountered horde for first time and pvp... I was in Westfall and I saw this strange cow looking thing named Willford with some kind of orb around its body and shiny golden shield, so I decided to stab it in the back, surprisingly nothing happened. Willford stood up looked down and emoted: No not gonna happen! And then sent me to my first death.
Absolute nostalgia right there. I still get goosebumps listening to this and seeing these images. Loved this game for so long, would definitely go back to it if I had the time to play it. Good times.
I spent a lot of time on this game, always feeling guilty that it was time wasted and I was missing out on real life. Now I look back and those were the best moments of 2004-2008 for me, and it was real life that was truly crap (at the time).
whoever played this game back in the day is extremely privileged to have been part of such an adventure. What an experience this was... it cannot be reproduced in any way anymore
I'll never forget the emotion I had fifteen years ago when I killed my first kobold near the Northshire abbey. May he rest in peace. 🙏 Thanks for this video, so many amazing memories.
I remember my summer job, I worked right next to a castle, serving customers at a bow/crossbow shooting range. I was staying in a room about half an hour walk away, so I always listened to WoW music when walking there and back. One morning I was near the castle, listening to the music as I walked, and just as the majestic castle gate came into my view, the Stormwind intro theme started playing. That hit beautifully.
It was one the best gaming experiences I ever had when I played WoW the first time back in 2007 or so. I was absolutely stunned. God I miss that feeling.
For the Alliance and for the Seven Kingdoms! May Stormwind, Gilneas, Lordaeron, Stromgarde, Dalaran, Alterac and Kul Tiras stand forevermore reunited once again! :)
So many memories… Imagine that - memories of a simulated world. Blizzard did something right, something amazing, that will go down in the annals of history. And I couldn’t be happier being a part of it.
My brother got me into wow, played so many years together and alone.. Wow was truly my happy place & his, but I didn't think that this world would be the last time we would see each other in.
I am 32 and played WoW all throughout high school and a few years after. I occasionally go back to WoW every so often for like 3 days just to relive it, but it's not the same.
Господи,как же это было приятно, после рейдов встречаться с согильдийцами и идти в кафе, все эти обсуждения игровых моментов, любовь и дружба, это не забываемо
I remember being 9 years old. The only other games I'd really played much where age of empires and stronghold crusader, and a few console games. Most games that had music, it was just plinky plonky 8 bit "background noise" that you barely even notice during intense arcadey style gaming. And boom. You find yourself getting dropped into a world (of warcraft), you hear insects buzzing, a slight wind through the trees, some birds tweeting even quieter behind the wind, and suddenly a clarinet just blasts out. And that's it. Immersion achieved.
5:17 This part produces a sensation in my whole body that I can not explain, it is like an avalanche of nostalgia and good memories of me leaving the city of stormwind towards the elwyn forest, seeing how houses appeared in the distance Sometimes I just wish all my memories of wow would go away so I could relive this amazing experience again (I'm sorry, i use translator)
Being an addict, and also a kid with tons of free time, I leveled every class and character. Durotar was by far my least favorite of the starter zones, I think my favorite Horde one was Tirisfal. Least favorite Alli was Teldrassil, even though I loved the atmosphere of it, favorite was Elwynn, but that was nostalgia, idk how it would rank if it wasn't my first character.
Oh wow ! How I miss playing my elf Hunter. My sister was playing it in England. And she called me and told me you gotta get this game. So I did. When I first came on my sister was Petra. She came running up on a cat. She waved to me.. and blew me a kiss. And I was so blowed away !! We played for many years. And we met so many wonderful friends! This game is brillant. This video is making me want to play again.
There is a certain type of person that this game created. Special, unique, and one in a million. I have no idea how, but for those who played this games, and I mean actually played this game.... their is a brotherhood, a creed, a certain way that this game impacted us that left us all the same way. To this day, if I could live in any world, it would be this one.
With Wrath of the Lich King Classic out now, I have gone back to the game again. Seems to me whenever I go back these days, it's only for the Classic versions. Nothing like wandering around Azeroth questing, getting that much needed nostalgia. I don't really do anything else in the game, not interested in raiding, pvp or anything else anymore, I'm just satisfied questing and grinding and exploring all of Azeroth.
18 years ago my classmate gave me some money to buy my first wow game box. Things were better that days, internet was better, people were interested to explore. Still playing classic from time to time.
I know this land is a home to a lot of the noobs human, and I remember my first time I visited this place.. as a Tauren Warrior. Was too big and too strong for low levels to compete with me, but I didn't come as an enemy. I was too amazed of this beautiful picture and just wanted to relax and enjoy the views
I first started playing having just graduated and was an unemployed Actor in 2007 / 08 ! Straight to the RP servers of course. Incredibly immersive and kept my creativity going during that period of my life. I havent played for over a decade. I tried a couple of years ago but it wasn't the same. I wonder where all my old friends are now.
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@@Meisio thank you so much for this...
a very thoughtful treasure to so man🧝🏻♂️
Nothing will ever come close to that feeling I had when logging in for the first time in Elwynn Forest, will never forget it.
My first experience was in Teldrassil. But the feeling was incredible.
@@Meisio Mine was in Mulgore. Peaceful, beautiful, absolutely impossible for a noob like me not to die, ha! My first toon became my main and I was playing mostly Feral when I finally logged out.
This is so completely nostalgic. I am in bliss.
I hope you'll come back in the game Brenda. Azeroth needs you!
Spirit of the Wolf I remember it like it was yesterday. I was so hooked by being in this fantasy world.
King's honor, friend.
For the Alliance!
Well met.
Keep yer feet on the ground!
No expert here, but that's a dwarf saying :-) it's okay, there are some dwarves in Elwynn :-)
Salutations!
Greetings!
15 years later .. am a 40 year old woman now.. this makes me tear up and sentimental. So many fond memories. 🤎✨🙌🏽
And 15yrs later we're still waiting for the next WOW that can even come close to how legendary classic, burning crusad and lich king was. People could sit in elwynn forest for hours and not even notice 3h went by. Agree, brings back great memories from the 2000s.
Yes... So many memories... So many... Like tears... In... Rain...
Story of my life... Started after an week it came out.. 2004. And i still can't stop! Warrior for life...
Me too. And I'm 78 now. Still choked up.
Even if I only listen to this music
My heart hurts from homesickness
I sometimes wonder if I wasted precious moments of my life playing this game for so long. Then this music takes me back and all I can think of is the happy memories, the adventures I had, and the friends I made along the way. And I think: No. It wasn't wasted at all.
@Julio Cesar I agree. I wouldn't regret any time spent doing something that truly makes you happy.
For the alliance.
@Julio Cesar Wow. That was far more profound than I expected. Beautifully said.
To quote John Lennon: "Time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted time."
@@TheGlassPhantom Beautiful
@@TheGlassPhantom Just perfect.
Playing WoW on December, it's midnight and it's raining/snowing outside, exploring the map with your character. Nothing else matters.
Even though WoW has lost its grip on things, this will always be very close to me. The memories and nostalgia of playing this game will never leave me.
Of course it will never leave you. But to help with the nostalgia, now you have this channel and Classic WoW coming probably next year :)
Thank you for sharing you feelings with us Chris,
Meisio
and there are always private servers to scratch that itch, neh? Wotlk seemed like the sweet spot for me.
would be awesome if blizz ever introduced wrath servers again. I'd resub in a quick minute.
I don't encourage it for obvious reasons :-)
But everyone is free to do what it likes.
Salutations Dahun! :-)
Thank you for these videos. Some many great memories of when i played the game before it fell apart
Hearing this music literally feels like hugging a long lost friend.
If you are literally feeling a hug you belong in an asylum. You meant to say figuratively.
hi there
me with barrens music T.T
This game saved me from going down a very dark path. It will forever have a place in my heart.
Same man all my friends did was drink do drugs and get into trouble. They always would ask why I always stayed at home playing video games. Pretty sure the game kept me away from a really shitty life style. They are all loser drug addicts that don't even have their own children. Glad I had this game or I would have for sure been out parting doing drugs with low life's and probably would still be stuck in that life style
I have the same passion and love like you ♥️
i could have been out at parties doing drugs, drinking under age and doing stupid shit due to my chaotic mind when i was younger. instead? i stayed in my room with my dimly lit light , had the music calm my mind, while i "got high" on doing shit in the game lol.
@@skyguy1988 Same here. Got involved in a bad crowd and one night one of them broke into a car. But I left that night not because of that, but because I was eager to get my first mount haha. They got bitter about me playing WoW so fell out with them and carried on playing. Best thing that ever happened.
@@s3ra9h1m the people that i unfriended STILL try to get back with me. we are in our 30s now, and they are all washed up alcoholics that look terrible and still party and do stupid shit.....
they do NOT take the hint. there is a fucking reason why i stopped hanging out with them when we were 19 and 20 lmao
I absolutely always loved this game. I'll never forget that moment in 2006, my friend had been playing since launch. He told me, "You have to go get it!" I was 20 at the time, i was working at a grocery store unloading trucks while going to college. Stopped at the GameStop just over the hill, saw the original WoW. That thick box containing the books and like 5 CD roms. Went home, downloaded it for a long time. As soon as it was done, my world was changed forever. Talking to the community. All the newbies and I helping each other, friending each other, talking about how awesome the game is. Making ridiculous jokes about everything under the sun while getting killed by Hogger. Life was simple. Fuck politics, social media, and smart phones. None of it mattered.
Glad i got classic and am now reliving those times again and damn does it feel good.
Something changed between 2008 and 2012 when people started using facebook to the point that the internet became like the outside world
@@LarryHazard - Yeah, I know it's cringe to say and maybe because i grew up before smart phones and social media, but i definitely liked the shape of life prior. Not that these things are horrible, but they seemed a bit more restrained before. Now they're practically considered "essentials" when there's truly nothing essential about them.
@@Alstanus When I was playing WoW for the first time I was 12-13, it was 2008-2009 I think and I felt a clear difference between the outside and the digital world. Going outside and going on the internet was more fun. Since the internet became so big, I don't find it fun anymore except for information and content (not the social side like forums and videogames) and in the real world people are a lot more alienated and dumbed down by the internet and social media.
@@LarryHazard - Yeah, i know the feeling.
@Bolek Lolek - Thank you!
My first character: I create human warrior, unequip my chest and sword, delete my hearthstone (by mistake), ignore the quests and head on punching the wolves like rambo, I get bored, I go exploring, end up in duskwood, get killed by lvl 20 mobs 20x, 21th time a badass lvl 36 nightelf hunter saves me and gives me gold, I get inspired, I delete by character (with the gold) and make a nightelf hunter. And the cycle continues.
Hahaha, I laughed so hard :D
😂😂😂 we all started somewhere haha
Awesome haha. I think I have a story like that too
The first period when we are noobs are the best experiences and the most complete immersion in the world so beautifully handcrafted.
@@Conscript83 you mean new players not noobs and nobody uses that word anymore its 2019
I'm a 35 year old man and this music almost brings me to tears. Such nostalgia. I was only 20 when I first began playing. I haven't played for 4 years, but wow. The relationships and friendships I made over the years I played this game..... It's unbelievable. I never imagined I would get to know people as well as I did when I first began playing this game.
.Meat missile..i feel like you..... i love WOW and the lovely music like the following game .. i am a 75 year old woman now and have been from the beginning .. it has made me have had many lovely moments with my children and grandchildren who also play and make good friends in the game. I will not do that. I am so happy with the game and the music.
Dude come play, we have robot gnomes, for real
Can confirm, am 108 years old and I starting playing Vanilla when I was 8. After inventing a time machine, playing Vanilla WoW was some of my best memories.
reading ur comment 3 years later. internet still blows my mind
Io ne ho 34 quest'anno ❤ 🇮🇹 stessa cosa
Classic WoW was a culturally revolutionary piece of art, a masterpiece. The current state of the game doesn't hold a candle to this.
Tots agree...the community is dead compared to what it once was
I feel the same way about the game Civilization. The original was a life changing masterpiece. Some of the sequels had better gameplay, but weren't life changing. (Perhaps CIV II was, however.)
and they had it, and then fucked it up again by doing "classic expansions" -_- blizzard is stupid af LOL
Classic hc to the rescue!
i mean there is WOW Classic so you can stil get a taste of it
"Don't be sad it is gone and forgotten, be happy it ever happened to begin with." - Hogger
There I was, a young 14 year old lad on his birthday in 2005, my mum finally lets me have a subscription and buy wow after months of hounding her. I install and download the patch, and there it is, the fantastic opening screen. I hastily log in, and create my first character: Solos, the human paladin! What came after is indescribable, an endless adventure with friends old and new, some of which I will never forget. Running into the dead mines and feeling the creepy music and dastardly defias, or maybe the first time I stepped foot into the Scarlet Monastery, all of these moments and memories, firmly locked into the vault of mind, and I will always cherish them. But for all those wonderous memories, the one that shines the brightest, is walking down from Northshire for the first time, looking out into the forest, listening to this music, and taking my first real steps into the World of Warcraft.
Have a lovely day everybody.
Actual tears reading this
Then you accidently walked into moonguard goldshire and became scard for life.
i always play in horde but always always i love people from alliance 👍👍👍👍❤❤ tears down. childhood memories is here.this soundtracks amazing.
I was 14 years old too with a human paladin when WoW came out. First year of WoW is probably the best memories I have, and I have a pretty good life. It was like something else. The feeling of exploration in a world that I loved already from Warcraft 3. Fighting with creatures as an avatar of myself, finding unique loot, meeting with people that I talk with on a regular basis to this date. It was challenging, it was rewarding, it forced you to team up with others. As much as I hate the new Actiblizzard now, I'm ethernally thankful to the real Blizzard for making the biggest masterpiece ever that is World of Warcraft.
this was so incredibly written and speaks perfectly for me, thank you my friend RIP vanilla
almost hurts to listen.... like a old friend who has passed.
a part of you
Il passato fa parte di noi ❤
51:49 I will never forget this moment when sitting in awe inside Stormwind and hearing this music for the first time. Such good times...
variiiii selaiiiii varaaa seresooo vari selaiii veresaaaa
Me too 😌
boooodyyyyy chereeeee olaaaaaa menesootaaa biii cheereeee
Agreed. Although my mind attaches it to infinite strings of quest turn-ins and class and prof trainers lol
18 years ago... and still have goose bumps when i hear Elwynn forest
Dude i qas teenager running around the world discovering stuff, now ppl have an npc driving them around
My wife and I started playing in BC and this music is so nostalgic it’s crazy. Takes me back. This game was our escape from the stress. We still play today.
same here
Looking from elwynn forest across the river into duskwood always got me, looked so dark and powerfull over there.
not even the bravest low level would try to venture over there. even going into westfall felt like you did not belong.
i remember seeing the skull on the duskwood mobs. It was so astonishing.
Astrotombie I looooove that river so much, it’s really crazy which impact wow had on me. Those feelings are incredible, still. And I’m 32 now :)
@@tobik2627 Same here. I remember I used the river to prevent them from coming closer when I aggroed. Didn't go back until I felt ready.
That was one of those moments I will never forget as well. The feeling it was a dangerous zone that I can't step foot on without certain death when I was ~ level 10 or so.
15 years and still the same feelings.
Blizzard managers never got a clue that the original Vanilla team was doing.
They got rid of these masters.
"Blizzard managers never got a clue that the original Vanilla team was doing."
Of course not. They dance to the tune of the stock market now, and that tune is played at a very rapid pace.....
@ross from britain Um, yes it is.
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A moment of silence for the original dream team.
I wish I could feel the way I felt the first time I played wow again. Discovering the world playing a game like this for the first time….before it became easy and you had to work so so hard for everything. The music was epic the friends were epic. Take me back to these days.
There will never be another mmo like this. It hit at the right time. Before mass texting and social media. People still talked, still helped each other, still were willing to work towards goals. 2004-2009 in WoW was incredible and the memories live on to this day. And like I said, it will never be done again.
I wouldn't say never, just look at what Star Citizen has been able to do. If you've never seen that game before then your mind will be blown away, and I'm not throwing that word around. If you have seen that game before then you also probably know the reason why it looks that good yet has such a small community. Just imagine what a proper game studio would be able to create if Roberts Space Industries is able to create something as mind blowing as Star Citizen? I think within the next 12 years we might actually see a massive mmo like WoW yet again that gets everybody on board. In VR. Just look at Apple's VR headset, within the next 12 years there's going to be headsets that make that one look like a dumb phone in comparison which is affordable to everybody. I also just wanted to make it clear I don't think Apple's headset is the holy grail, but there's nothing on the market like it. It uses 12(?) cameras inside the frame which monitors your eye movement, you just look at what ever you want to click on and the screen focuses on it. That's next level intuitive, then imagine combining something much better than that with a massive mmorpg world, oh man...
I would love to be proven wrong. And I agree about the apple vr. Looks amazing.
@@casual_citizen This is so true, we've only scratched the surface of what video games can do. But it takes so long for this potential to be unlocked; people keep creating the same games over and over instead of exploring what can be accomplished (Star Citizen is a good exception to this as you mention). A good example is the RTS/FPS hybrid genre which has huge potential but only Natural Selection which was released 20 years ago ever realized some of it. And for VR games people seem to agree only Half-Life: Alyx is the only must-buy title. And, of course, no MMO has matched WoW still after all these years. But, every now and then we get a diamond in the rough that give a small hint of the possibilities. (Imagine if Outer Wilds had a $300 million dollar budget)
Heartbreaking. It's hard to explain that feeling. October of 2005, for me. I was 29. I grew up with Ataris and Nintendos, PCs and PlayStations. It was like the final culmination of everything we'd ever been promised. I only stopped playing a couple of months ago. What a ride, what an incredible addition to the human experience! I don't know whether I cried or shit myself when I entered the gates of Stormwind for the first time and the music changed, the drums crashing in my headphones. We remember every note, we heard these songs for weeks or months at a time. I entered that world a cheerful, goofy, big mouthed human paladin, and left it a cynical, tired, angry, silent Nelf rogue. But the music remains, and still pulls on my heart.
i'm sorry man i really wish you had stopped during legion before it got too bad like i did... i miss the game terribly but at least my memories of it are INTACT! and if my nostalgia gets REALLY bad i can just fire up my own private vanilla but ofc it's not the same, no more blissful ignorance of not knowing EVERY last single thing there is to know about the game and being an actual noob anymore :( rip vanilla wow and rip my friends from it
oh man this music hit different when you were alone at night in the game at that special hour when everyone went to bed and logged off and there were barely anyone anywhere. There were some special places like that, like The Barrens, Thousand Needles, Stranglethorn Vale and Tanaris.
30 years old now.... remember logging in first time when I was 14.... hearing this music. Best times of my life, take me back
i want to go back
Back in time? For now impossible. But at least we can play it soon! :-)
Classic WoW is on the horizon!
@@Ren3gade What do you mean? Like Blizzard is going to have Classic realms?
Yes!!! Where have you been, friend!?! Google "Classic WoW'. Blizzard announced that they are bringing back Classic/Vanilla WoW servers. It's going to be released Summer of 2019.
@@Ren3gade Woah I had no idea! Thank you :') Crazy I haven't played since I was like 17
Time flies so fast, just be kind to each other y'all, nothing really matters but the joy.
I am 35 and started in vanilla, I quited 3 years ago and started playing again since 6 months. Everything overwhelmed me and made me feel like I am in a differend time back again. I realy missed it. Im glad I started again. Besides work and all the must and don'ts this game is relieving me from hatred and this sick world.
Everytime i'm coming back to this video i am reading through the comments 150th time and sharing tear of nostalgia with everybody here.
I Love you friends that i have never met, but share same memories!
I know exactly what you mean my brother.
Was about to write exact the same things Brothers! Those were the best years and days.. damn the memories and the nostalgia.
In regards to music at least, its universal. Doesn't matter who you are you can appreciate the same music. That said, im not your friend.
I love you too.
The beginning....whenever I'm in Elwynn Forest....with this music...it just seems so peaceful...tranquil...
I have not played this game for over ten years... WHY DOES IT STILL HIT SO HARD HEARING THIS MUSIC? +dreamy sigh+
First I played undead, then playerd orc, but I stopped after 10 level. Only after creating human character I played to 60 lvl. Elwynn-Westfall-Redridge-Duskwood is the best chain in game.
I'd argue that bc the cataclysm version of Trisifal and Silverpine were pretty good
I think that Mulgore-Barrens-Ashenvale-Stonetalon Mountains chain is also worth mentioning :-)
I don
t like Duskwood, it is spooky, like Deadwind Pass..
Makes me want to log in and just wander around Elwynn Forest and try to recapture how amazing it was when I first played almost 15 years ago. Exploring and checking out every building in Stormwind. Remembering how terrifying Duskwood was when I ran their to find Mayor Ebonlocke to get help for Lakeshire. Funny thing was I would never have known about it except some kids were selling magazine subscriptions to raise money, I bought Maxim and in the first issue was an introduction disc to wow. I played the 20 levels with three different characters before I admitted I was hooked. Tried a decent number of games since then, but nothing captured my imagination like WoW. Unfortunately for me "progress" didn't mean better. Quit eight years ago.
I remember being VERY scared of Duskwood!!
10 years and 360 days of played, that was it for me between 2004-2014 in the World of Warcraft. For the whole time the same guild and same friends, unforgettable moments and great adventures. The feeling of being part of something great, a community larger than the guild itself. It was another life inside a game.
Going through my first big heart break. My high school sweetie left me, I was a 21 year old small town boy, living in a big city, and I was familiar with warcraft, via Warcraft 2 and warcraft 3. I remember having just a couple bucks left, and I went to an EB games store, and asked if they had any more copies of WoW.
The dude said I got lucky, said someone just returned a copy because they didn't like it, and I bought the last one. I did the grueling install process, patched it up, and fired it up. I remember making a paladin instantly, because I liked Arthas and the Paladin class in WC3.
Soon as the music starts, I'm totally captivated by the art style, music, and totally stoked I get to play a Paladin. After a couple of hours of getting a feel for the game and learning how to chat/interact, I meet a priest.
One of my first people I meet in-game, little did I know we'd get to know each other very well, and he invited me to their guild. Through this guild, many friendships were made that still exist today. While playing this game, interacting with new friends, learning spells and feeling like my Paladin was becoming even more powerful, it helped me cope and forget about my big heartbreak for awhile. Wow has really helped me through some tough times, and that was the catalyst of why WoW would mean so much to me. I don't play it like I used to, but damn, I'll never forget the moment this music kicked in, and a brand new, fresh noob Paladin was born.
Beautiful, thank you ;D
Saturday
Just before 7:00am
Cold winter morning
Quiet morning
A fresh hot cup of coffee on the desk
Nothing planned for the day
No pressing business
A level 2 alt in goldshire abbey
Ready for familiar and comfortable quests
This is the vibes elwynn forest gives me, such a cozy place.
Even after 15 years, this still brings back memories. Thank you Vanilla.
This soundtrack inspires to me feelings of stillness and calmness that I cannot achieve easily in other ways. The memories of the time spent in that virtual forest are still strong after 15 years…
This is how i get my Warcraft fix now.. Just this tune....
It has problems, my cross-overs are not really good. Apologies, I was a the beginning with video editing. I will remake it at some point! :)
I was barely starting college when this came out. I miss being a naive newb aimlessly wandering about where I'm not supposed to. That blissful ignorance can only be enjoyed once. This will always tug away at my heartstrings.
@@firstLast-jw7bm Maybe it’s the same with our whole life. After we get older and know more life becomes boring and meaningless
The amount of memories I have of WoW are so numerious. I could lose a day reminincing and not even scratch the surface. It was more than an escape for me as a kid. It helped so much on top of being a new definition of fun.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Defias thugs in the Northshire vineyards. I watched the stars glitter in the dark near the Westbrook Garrison.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Although I never had the chance to experience vanilla, it seems so nostalgic, and I tip my hat to all of you vanilla players. I will always respect the ‘good ole days’, but I’m pretty satisfied with what we have now. Congrats to those who’ve been from vanilla to now, I look up to you guys.
As a twenty odd something bloke back in vanilla wow… completing a 40 man raid to Molten Core successfully with my guild back then (filled with some of my IRL friends) still feels like one of the if not the most meaningful lesson in how a large group of people can come together and achieve great things. Somehow in my professional life after that everything always felt and feels competitive. I have never reached the same level of feeling integrated to a whole as I did there… maybe that is a sad testimony to the state of my life or IRL in general… It could also just be a testimony to how absolutely breathtaking ‘that’ which this game provided to all of us back then really was… Solace, peace, acceptance, purpose, excitement, wonder, friendship and a sense of belonging… ‘May your blades never dull!”❤
Sometimes when i want to play,, i just subscribe for a month just to explore the old town and listen to the musics. I am 40 this April,, miss the old days played with the old buddies,,
32 this year , This bring me back to a simpler time... Fills my heart with warm gold every time I listen to this.
I feel this in my heart and soul. This shit hits hard. Wish there was a way to go back to the good ole days… so many memories countless years given to Azeroth & wouldn’t change it for the world.
I'm almost 60 and I still love playing WoW. I'll stop when Bliz stops putting out expansions. 😜
Sometimes I think, I'm lucky to live to 110, and I'm lying on my deathbed, and know that my last few moments have come, I want this music to drift away to. Let my last thoughts of walking through Elwyn take me to my eternity.
fuck yeah man thats incredible same here
or you could be cool and choose the music that plays when you died and recover your corpse
BROTHER
Lmao this comment is hilarious and yet so trure
33 year old here, with 3 daughters (8,8 and 7 years old).... till this day I send music links to my friends with whom we played WoW :D
I use this as background noise when I'm working. It's very calming in a nostalgic way. It brings back old memories.
Me too!
I still remember my brother and I bought this game during our lunch break at work, getting home that evening, and it finally being installed about 9pm. We spent the whole next day talking about the game and many years after that. Special memories.
42 male human warrior main alliance here. Played mainly during end of BC and through WotLK. Wow was an amazing adventure for me and many friends both in game, guild and RL. It truly was another world/life, and to finally down LK... amazing.
As a Horde main, I've never really had the Alliance atmosphere to have nostalgia with. The only times I'd here the music and explore the zones is during world PvP. Elwynn forest and Stormwind have always had great sounds and music. The closest we got to this style of music was Hilsbrad, which since Cata is just different. The old tracks are still there, just only in the non-plagued areas. There aren't much of those.
Yes, _Elwynn Forest_ track is mostly an Alliance track, much like is the _Barrens Dry_ track dedicated to the Horde. Very limited choice when it comes to music in Vanilla, but they were all extremely good. :)
Salutations,
Meisio
Honestly, the ambiance of Alliance was the reason I played it. I tried to play Horde, and knew all the better players did so, but everything was dead, tribal, or diseased. I just couldn't get into it. I wanted lush forests and castles and sweeping music more than I wanted to win battlegrounds.
@@Leelabean I Had my own alliance pvp guild a well populated and well geared one to boot I would love to be the one in denial about the horde winning more at least not against us my main was a shaman healer.
@@runningoutofideas2319 alliance shaman healer in vanilla xd
@@nickstarling2992 lol wasn't in vanilla I just like elwin forest
im 37 years old, but this music makes me feel like it's 2004 all over again. ty for posting this.
i was almost 18 in 2005 when i started playing wow, this music reminds me of the good times and gameplay of yesteryear, where society was very different in video games.
those memories bring tears to my eyes
15 years later and this still gives me chills. god DAMN that was a good game
its not that was its that is good game even know world of warcraft is best game ever
1:42 - 3:00 the feels man....
Reminds me of redridge mountains.. can't wait for classic
So long ago. I was a different person and WoW was a different game. It was a match made in heaven, but now it feels like a memory from another life.
I still remember the excitement of logging in and choosing what character I wanted and beginning questing for the first time...human mage...good times. This video takes me back. Thanks for making a 3 hr video!
Lol remember making human rogue when game just started. Didn’t know there was AH till level 25, trash vendored everything. Had leather pants with +5 to healing thinking it’s helping me heal faster. Will never forget the awe inspired by first time stepping trough gates of Stormwind and that epic music kicking in. Or the time I encountered horde for first time and pvp...
I was in Westfall and I saw this strange cow looking thing named Willford with some kind of orb around its body and shiny golden shield, so I decided to stab it in the back, surprisingly nothing happened. Willford stood up looked down and emoted: No not gonna happen! And then sent me to my first death.
Sweet, sweet nostalgia...If only I could relive those moments today. This was such a big part of my teenage years.
Absolute nostalgia right there. I still get goosebumps listening to this and seeing these images. Loved this game for so long, would definitely go back to it if I had the time to play it. Good times.
I spent a lot of time on this game, always feeling guilty that it was time wasted and I was missing out on real life. Now I look back and those were the best moments of 2004-2008 for me, and it was real life that was truly crap (at the time).
whoever played this game back in the day is extremely privileged to have been part of such an adventure. What an experience this was... it cannot be reproduced in any way anymore
I'll never forget the emotion I had fifteen years ago when I killed my first kobold near the Northshire abbey. May he rest in peace. 🙏
Thanks for this video, so many amazing memories.
I remember my summer job, I worked right next to a castle, serving customers at a bow/crossbow shooting range. I was staying in a room about half an hour walk away, so I always listened to WoW music when walking there and back.
One morning I was near the castle, listening to the music as I walked, and just as the majestic castle gate came into my view, the Stormwind intro theme started playing. That hit beautifully.
LOVE that there's a range of ages here who play(ed) from 30's - 70's. Hands down my favorite starting zone
I miss these times so much. Was 30 years old when it came out, and just have the most amazing memories. 😢
The most fire mix while pumping reps at the gym
It was one the best gaming experiences I ever had when I played WoW the first time back in 2007 or so. I was absolutely stunned. God I miss that feeling.
*Insert member berries here.*
For so long, this was my happy place
Almost as nostalgic as RS music. Straight in the feels.
This brings the water to my eyes.. The good times, the adventure.. Unforgettable fire.. Cheers
WOW music calms my anxiety and brings me back to those days
I remember having people who understood me better that i never met irl in thus game then actually in real life... thank you warcraft
For the Alliance and for the Seven Kingdoms! May Stormwind, Gilneas, Lordaeron, Stromgarde, Dalaran, Alterac and Kul Tiras stand forevermore reunited once again! :)
So many memories… Imagine that - memories of a simulated world. Blizzard did something right, something amazing, that will go down in the annals of history. And I couldn’t be happier being a part of it.
My brother got me into wow, played so many years together and alone.. Wow was truly my happy place & his, but I didn't think that this world would be the last time we would see each other in.
What a nostalgia. I have great memories about this game.. It will always be in my heart.
I am 32 and played WoW all throughout high school and a few years after. I occasionally go back to WoW every so often for like 3 days just to relive it, but it's not the same.
It’s never quite the same, but it’s fun to never truly say goodbye and pop in every now and again.
Господи,как же это было приятно, после рейдов встречаться с согильдийцами и идти в кафе, все эти обсуждения игровых моментов, любовь и дружба, это не забываемо
После рейдов обычно люди спали)
не всегда,молодыми были и сил хватало на многое))@@SuperDgap
I remember being 9 years old. The only other games I'd really played much where age of empires and stronghold crusader, and a few console games. Most games that had music, it was just plinky plonky 8 bit "background noise" that you barely even notice during intense arcadey style gaming. And boom. You find yourself getting dropped into a world (of warcraft), you hear insects buzzing, a slight wind through the trees, some birds tweeting even quieter behind the wind, and suddenly a clarinet just blasts out. And that's it. Immersion achieved.
5:17 This part produces a sensation in my whole body that I can not explain, it is like an avalanche of nostalgia and good memories of me leaving the city of stormwind towards the elwyn forest, seeing how houses appeared in the distance
Sometimes I just wish all my memories of wow would go away so I could relive this amazing experience again
(I'm sorry, i use translator)
Hands down, Elwynn Forest is the best track out of all the soundtracks to date. It's perfection.
You spelled Ashenvale funny
2005 memories come flooding back, fuuuuuck. Simpler times man.
32:08 is so important to me. It is like be in home.
:) You might want to see my next movie. It's from my new "Factions" series. It will be called Humans of Vanilla.
Nice to meet you Murphy!
I can relate
EcceMurphy : Totally ;-)
a weary warrior returning to stormwind to sell all the shit he picked up throughout his travels.
On point
You close your questing log and run towards your next destination accompanied by the sound of your boots hitting the road
Nicely said. I can almost feel it. :-)
I feel sorry for all the Horde players. They never got to experience this wonderful, charming, relaxing zone music.
Being an addict, and also a kid with tons of free time, I leveled every class and character. Durotar was by far my least favorite of the starter zones, I think my favorite Horde one was Tirisfal. Least favorite Alli was Teldrassil, even though I loved the atmosphere of it, favorite was Elwynn, but that was nostalgia, idk how it would rank if it wasn't my first character.
Sure we did,😁 some of us swam across the sea and explored West fall and Elwynn. Well at least I did.
@@forsakenjones4695 I forgot! Horde used to raid SW.
ehh, we use to hunt pink skinns in pvp server in this sone. we manage to get ally to leave the server, so we won that server.
@@DrewPicklesTheDarkdid you manage to come back to reality in the end?
Oh wow ! How I miss playing my elf Hunter. My sister was playing it in England. And she called me and told me you gotta get this game. So I did. When I first came on my sister was Petra. She came running up on a cat. She waved to me.. and blew me a kiss. And I was so blowed away !! We played for many years. And we met so many wonderful friends! This game is brillant. This video is making me want to play again.
There is a certain type of person that this game created. Special, unique, and one in a million. I have no idea how, but for those who played this games, and I mean actually played this game.... their is a brotherhood, a creed, a certain way that this game impacted us that left us all the same way. To this day, if I could live in any world, it would be this one.
With Wrath of the Lich King Classic out now, I have gone back to the game again. Seems to me whenever I go back these days, it's only for the Classic versions. Nothing like wandering around Azeroth questing, getting that much needed nostalgia. I don't really do anything else in the game, not interested in raiding, pvp or anything else anymore, I'm just satisfied questing and grinding and exploring all of Azeroth.
Boy, do some us miss the Vanilla days... this brings it all back.
18 years ago my classmate gave me some money to buy my first wow game box. Things were better that days, internet was better, people were interested to explore. Still playing classic from time to time.
I know this land is a home to a lot of the noobs human, and I remember my first time I visited this place.. as a Tauren Warrior. Was too big and too strong for low levels to compete with me, but I didn't come as an enemy. I was too amazed of this beautiful picture and just wanted to relax and enjoy the views
Arriving home after school, logging on and to hear those first notes of Elwynn forest music, back at the original WoW before any expansion.
Oh boy...
2005 Just classic WoW
I first started playing having just graduated and was an unemployed Actor in 2007 / 08 ! Straight to the RP servers of course. Incredibly immersive and kept my creativity going during that period of my life. I havent played for over a decade. I tried a couple of years ago but it wasn't the same. I wonder where all my old friends are now.
I was waiting for "mrglmrglmrglmrglmrgl" sound.
The most iconic thing Tracy Bush (wow composer) did :-D
Sorry, I didn't add it as a special effect. :-)
ACCK!!! RROOOO ACKKKK!
Damn murlocs always ruining the gameplay XD
Save the Murlocs
I freaking hate murlocs. lol