Worst MMO Ever? - School of Dragons
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2020
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Fun fact: You didn't get the adult dragon in the first version of the game. So you couldn't fly. You had to just wait for your other dragon to grow up. I stopped playing after about an hour.
I wonder if you still have to pay money for the special dragons. I remember that when I was younger.
Oh fuck I remember.
You can't even use the spam-fire where you level up and age the baby dragon easily anymore
Nowadays I usually start of with this Ice-Island quest because it only costs 500 coins and you can get one of those age-up runes for free.
@@GammaProtogolin You only need to pay for membership if you want the expansion packs and Toothless + Light fury other than that you don't really need to pay. (the expansion packs can be purchased by paying with gems or coins too).
I once played this game. True story; I got a helmet from their cash shop, right? I equipped said helmet and continue to play as normal like nothing happened. I log out for the night and come the next day, I attempt to log in but wait, I can’t? Huh, okay I’ll open a ticket. I wait a couple days and get a response. It turned out that the helmet I had equipped broke the game and would not let me log in. At all. 10/10 game design
They took your money and said funny
No one expected that someone would buy something from cash shop so they didn't bother to test it
Something similar happened to me. I equipped some boots which broke the speed of the game, I contacted the development team so they could fix the problem and oh surprise. More than 2 years later that problem is still present.
dude why did you buy a helmet from a cash shop... I thought these things are put there just to make it look that the cash shop has a lot to offer.
@@nomoyohoo5232 was probably a kid
7:20 I remember when in the earlier versions between traveling there was a mini game. You had loops you had to fly through in order to go faster. If your dragon was still a baby, you'll be flying on Timberjack
Yes it was like a race or something and your name would be shown on leaderboard around the world
It was fun to do too.Taking it away took some charm away for me
I missed those days
I REMEMBER THAT TOO OMG
ahhh good old days
Back when I first played this game it was actually... educational? At the very least it didn't throw you on Toothless and give you some stupid tutorial flight and hand you an adult fucking dragon from the get go. You used to actually have to train your Dragon up, explore the area and do challenges to experience the different mechanics as you needed them. As you progressed your dragon would grow from a Baby that could only fly itself, to a Teenager that you could glide on, and then to an Adult that could fly you anywhere. The feeling of getting your first dragon to that stage and being able to freely fly around the School of Dragons is something I can not commit to words. I miss the old days so much and I really wish I still had my first account.
such true words
This actually sounds fun. I wonder why they decided against that
@@LucyLerma because getting to that point took literal weeks. And that's if you played for quite a while every day. Obviously most kids didn't have the commitment to such a long grind and just wanted to fly a dragon around, so they dropped the game. Devs then gave new players an adult dragon at the start so they could fly on a dragon from the get-go.
@@whowantsfreepizza4507wait, deadass? I was chronically online back when i was 7, so i got the adult dragon by the second day
(For context, that was like, 10 years ago, maybe?
24:30 when the game won't let you use the name "deathwing" but has a whole expansion pack called " call of the death song" ....
@@BlueMageDaisen Are the servers still up? I remember playing it a few years ago, but I had many troubles with logging in.
Back then, I had no idea what was I supposed to do most of the time (because I couldn't speak English very well) but the game was still very fun.
@@BlueMageDaisen Reminds me of my old Habbo Hotel days. You weren't allowed to say "grape" because it had the word "rape" in it. I actually got banned for 24 hours because me and a friend joked about it and kept saying grape to see what would happen.
I mean, roblox has entire languages censored. can't name yourself anything japanese even if the letters are americanized. found this out when my little cousin got upset playing a ninja game on there and it wouldn't let him name himself after any ninjas lol.
@@MsMoonDragoon Roblox has censored the word moa, as in the large extinct flightless north American relative of the emu. No I haven't figured out why.
Edit:bruh these birds are from new Zealand not north America wtf.
@@BlueMageDaisen In Monster Hunter Tri you couldn't use the Word "after" when on a German Console - and talking/writing English, because "After" is a... medical German term for "Ass". o.o
fun fact! there used to be a polygon missing behind one of the waterfalls in the school area. you could go inside the mountain. ahhh, sod...
Lol, I remember hunting for glitches like that in my spare time. There was at least four holes in the school area. When they fixed that I was so disappointed. No more rising out of the lake like a God.
@@taylorbeth9481 4?! damn, my child eyes weren't as perceptive, were they.
@@day_anna_ Lol, it's not like they were in plain sight. You had to find them and that was part of the fun. And I said at least, I can't remember if there were more than four.
Booooi, there were at least 8 holes in the texture of School map (before they added Training Grounds), I remember bonding with random players by showing new openings so you could shoot fireballs at people from behind a wall and confusing them, beautiful times
@@taylorbeth9481 Srsly, why do they just remove all the cool glitches instead of fixing the numerous annoying bugs?
remember when we had to ride a timberjack to get to places instead of just teleporting there? man.
Mmm yes, all aboard the unnecessarily gigantic taxi that made you sit through three minutes of unnecesssry cloud flapping
Man, I loved that. It wasn't perfect, but it was fun
Ngl, it was cool though
i remember too :(
I stopped playing this game before that was even a thing. The only time you could fly timberjacks when I was playing was in challenges
I remember playing when this game exactly first came out, you used to ride Toothless with Hiccup as a flight tutorial and then got your first dragon. I occasionally play now and again for nostalgia, but it's not the same with how membership ridden its become.
Thats not when it first came out
The one with the rings
Worst part is, now that the movie and series is over they've kinda run out of ideas on what to add on. before new locations and dragons in the series or movies would be so beneficial to the devs as it could just implement those to the game but now thats over the have to make up shit like "hybrid dragons" to keep people engaged. im curious to see how long they last until they run out of ideas to keep it alive
i wonder if they got it from titans uprising since that game had hybrids way before SoD added them
@@janicelee8778 Oh yeah they definitely did grab them from Titans Uprising. SoD can't come up with their own original stuff which is why their game sucks. I want to like this game but I can tell that they will never fix the bugs or update the graphics/animations. This is merely a cash grab by JumpStart. If only a different developer had this game.
I would say that Rise of Berk, Wild Skies, and HTTYD 1 on the wii/xbox are the best games. Luckily there is a fan game in development called Dragons of the Edge and you get to play as a dragon. I'm excited for it to have more dragons added but unfortunately there is only one dude working on the whole project.
There’s still several paths they can do to keep making new dragons. I’m sure they’ll continue to make more hybrids, but they could also steal dragons from the original book series, or use existing parts of current dragons to make original ones like the sand wraith/ woolly howl (ripped off toothless). I wouldn’t say it’s too far a stretch either for them to try and use the dragons from Rescue Riders eventually.
But this is all assuming they continue to update the game for much longer. Personally I feel the game doesn’t have much more longevity as the How to Train your Dragon series fades into obscurity.
@@sole7023 I've read the books and there are quite a few dragons they could definitely take inspiration from or implement them into the game. That'd be pretty cool actually. Also I have hardly seen any dragons from the Rescue Riders but I remember them looking all the same from a couple clips I saw. Therefore I am going off of a whim that I think that the show in general is kinda cringe and an insult to the HTTYD community. But since this game is for kids they probably will like it. Maybe it will make SoD interesting but it also will break the entire universe that SoD is based around. I don't see the game staying around for much longer.
They already have...
DUDE THIS GAME WAS FIRE. Back in 2016, I used to play this game all the time. My sister actually was one of the top racers in like.. 2019. She grinded so hard in that game, finished every quest, and raced until three platinum stars. This game has the most foggy nostalgia filter of all time for me. it makes me laugh out loud every time it gets ripped to shreds
To this game's credit, in any other MMO, that first quest with the hobgobblers would have consisted entirely of you having to kill 10 of them even though all they'd be doing is peacefully wandering around.
36 bear asses, please
I played this as a child, and really never got anywhere. I just spent the entire time flying on my dragon.
Sounds fun
@@w0s0griffin Lol cute
Lmao same 😂
@@southparkfirefly what did he/she wrote ?
Me too! I am being attacked by nostalgia right now. I loved flying around and exploring so much, didnt really care about anything else
Man, i remember this game and when it was good... (5 years ago) Idk how they ruined it that hard.
Edit: Before the game was pretty good for its time, there was a small, but very good selection of dragons you can tame and it was less Gacha oriented. The quest were fun and there were no 10000 pay'd DLC's
Yeah tell us how ? Even i dont play this game, i just want to know...
They were desperate to keep the game alive and they ruined it
They forgot quality since their game was so popular they started charging you a lot and quality went down. Now they try to keep it alive with their hybrid dragons.
Yeah and i didn't love the dragons they are creating like we just want the movies and series dragons that we know
any game that is tied to movie will always fail, its always a cash grab, why i always stay away from these
Who was here when the taxi was just a timberjack you flew through hoops to get from map to map?
i was so mad when i couldn't fly him anymore😩
YEAH PLS
i was so disappointed best boi taxi got deleted
U got me
I almost forgotten about it until I saw your comment 💀
"This is the in game audio not altered in any way"
_ad plays_
ah, i see
I feel obligated to post this every time Tidus’ laugh is brought up:
It was *supposed to sound fake* - if you actually watch the scene, Tidus and Yuna are attempting to get themselves to laugh as a means of relieving stress. In fact, 20 seconds before that, he actually laughs, and it sounds really good. Similarly, both of their actual laughs at Tidus’ antics are really good as well.
It is always infuriating when that scene and that scene ALONE is brought up as "proof" that FFX was bad. I Know in this Video here it was just used as a joke, bad laugh for bad jokes and all. But that one scene is misused SO GODDAMN MUCH that one can't take anyone seriously who actually tries to use that to proof anything about the game.
I literally just talked about this with my friend when this part of the video popped up-
I feel validated after reading your comment haha
No it doesn't prove it was bad. Though it was a bit offputting first hearing it. Though you know WHAT is bad? DODGING ZEUS 200 TIMES OR A FREAKING PART TO A WEAPON! XD This is coming from beating Omega in 15....it was fair , he was hard and you got something somewhat good for beating him. But dodging those damned 200 bolts and not failing is a reason that almost every FFX player now has carpal tunnel. That combined with the chocobo racing ( 0.02 seconds and cries in frustration at hours lost , made me just move on. FF13 had a better way to get the ultimate weapons and i LOVED it. it was hard but you were rewarded for both beating the harder monsters and getting the materials , allowing you to get a shit ton of chrystarium points WHILE getting the materials needed to upgrade. So it didn't really seem like a chore...more of killing 2 birds with one stone. Unlike FFX where you were greeted with teeth numbing bouts of frustration at the inability to dodge a bird or Zeus chucking his bolts.
@@Zarryon12 well, I agree that dodging lightning is bs but it doesn't devalue the game even one bit. You don't need Ultimate Weapons to beat the game. It's still one of the best FF out there.
T H A N K Y O U
M Y M O O D K I N D R E D
Oh man, watching this video was a trip. (Enjoyable series, by the way!) Just seeing how DIFFERENT the opening hours of the game were for you in comparison to when I played seven years ago was just staggering. As it is now, your rating is absolutely correct, a shallow cashgrab trying to bite your wallet at every turn. It's a shame, really.
It wasn't really 'good' as an MMO...ever, but when it first released the educational angle and bonding with your dragon friend was a big deal. When you started you were just at the school, there to get your new dragon friend and learn together. Hiccup (movie one version) gave you a lift, and you got to use Toothless for a bit, but that was very very temporary. You got your own little dragon, named them and THAT'S IT. That is your One Dragon Buddy For life, now lets go learn some science facts and do some experiments with cute little animations with your dragon helping heat things for reactions and whatnot. Playing minigames for XP, using the farm for alternate ways of food and doing quests helped you get that little guy to a proper adult so you could finally fly freely instead of just right off the bat be able to go anywhere.
Back then, you could only really buy outfits to play viking dressup, or fancy saddles for your dragon/warpaints. The 'perks' for being a member were only getting to use the rental dragons in the flying minigame or if you made a new viking on the same account, you could pick from the limited Thunderdrum and Whispering Death. (so if you had one other players could angrily shoot at you for flaunting your ability to spend money on the game! because your Special Friend was 'rarer' than theirs. People would complain about it in chat and the forum, it was hilarious.)
But then the educational sorts of quests started to dry up. They made a mobile port which disabled a lot of keys for some goddawful reason. Clearly this whole angle wasn't profitable enough with more movies on the way. Toothless became a membership bonus dragon, and then the big update happened. You could now have multiple dragons! your additional Vikings are now basically pointless! after all, one toon can hold all the dragons you need if you fork out the dough.
I still enjoyed it well enough, I could still raise my new dragons to flight capability and enjoy it (as i'm an easily entertained simpleton. dragon go fly with soundtrack music, me happy)...but then they started cutting away all ways of making EXP while introdcing more and more stuff gated by paywalls, buffs and boosts for the pvp games and then making 'Titan' dragons which have such absurd exp requirements that it became tedium incarnate. I stopped playing when raising dragons became a chore instead of a fun past-time. The fact the sound mixing seems even WORSE than it used to be is just...yikes.
I put a decent bit of money in the game as a member, so I didn't realize it showed non members quests THEY CAN'T DO. That's just terrible. x-x. Thanks for the video!
Really glad you're enjoying the series, hopefully ill put out more episodes once the otherland series is wrapped up :)
this comment brought me to the good ol' times! Also dont forget when vikings couldnt have names but instead what have a bunch of random letters and numbers. plus the HUGE amount of players and dragons being glorified. typically toothless would be followed around A LOT while skrill dragon would be hated and shot with fire continuously. good times.
What an evolution
I remember the time before Toothless was ridable. People would pick a dragon (usually a hideous zippleback or deadly nadder) and color it pitch black to resemble a night fury lmao
@@terra_zina3181 ughh ikr, remember when new dragons came out, and sand wraith was soooo popular for looking like toothless
"Can I watch the whole movie before the queue pops?"
- Loads up movie
- Loads up Runescape
Something about the fact you load up Runescape while waiting on the queue just speaks volumes about School of Dragons. lol
Weird this doesn't allow Deathwing when it was a considered name for a dragon in the tv show
Paywalls suddenly blocking exciting quests on a child-focused MMORPG based on a film is infuriating. This should be illegal ! Exploiting young players by producing a rip-off mmo, _while they have a Hollywood budget !_ At least other freemium games have an _excuse_ for greedily grabbing cash while feigning they aren't.
Also, epic music while fetching eggs 🤦♂️
I do wanna say that this game was firstly made as a fan thing
@@why5857 Oh, my bad ! Then it's even sadder than I thought: the og devs couldn't monetize it while the big money people did and made it freemium because it used to be free ? 🤔
P.S.: Oh nvm it was explained in the comments, my bad again 😅
heh, you accidently let slip that you're 100. Call that Strife lore
I think i played when it first came out, was the best back then.
I remember playing it on launch. Those were the good old days
Damn so many memories
I remember that i was so mad at this game because i can't play with toothless or get new dragons i was addicted to this game it was just berk(the 2 parts) training grounds lookout wildsomething and i think one other island like expansion
My shit had a more effective stench then it does now. Doesn't mean it's not still shit.
Same
Does anyone here remember Loki's maze? And jeez the games changed since I last played
I remember i got an egg, and went to hatch it, i forgot about the egg and didn't played for few days, when i log back the egg was gone
Man this game used to be so nice. They really made you bond with your one little dragon buddy back then and you had to raise him/her first. I remember it being really cool when I finally got to fly when she grew up. Also they must have f-ed the controls with the mobile port because I remember flying actually being quite nice.
They even had a semi-easteregg credit island with a nice sunset where I made a screenshot of me and my dragon and used it as a profile pic for years. Good times :')
All i can say is it is such a waste. They were able to put in that many mechanics in just a small file size. If they're gonna be greedy with microtransactions, at least make a compelling gameplay and story line. They already have a foundation. They were able to put interesting things such as turn based combat and jumping puzzles but they made it too easy just to cater to children. Missed opportunity to put player housing. There is so much potential if they aren't just blinded by their greed.
to be fair there is actually a cohesive storyline, althoug behind a pay wall and its pretty engaging. That is if you paly it in order, something he didn't do, but which i also cannot blame him for as theres no place in the game where it gives you an order to the quests, you gotta search it up on google.
Beyond the expansions the free quests can be pretty fun, if you complete them rather than take on a bunch and not finish any of them. Which i can also understand, as the game is pretty confusing.
There is also housing in the game, not that compelling as you can only decorate it, and decorations can be pretty expensive, but housing nonetheless.
The only reason I still play this game is because of my nostalgia bias
*I’m in this comment and I don’t like it*
Tbh I agree lol
Especially with quarantine, boredom has taken me back to this game
@@arlyduran1510 thanks to Coviod I came back to his game on it's 10th anniversary and to my surprise... It was the exact same buggy mess it has been from the beginning and yet the keep promising change?!? Shdhshdhdh the potential that is being waisting here almost drives me insane when I think about it.
@@mullberrymouse5038 I KNOW RIGHT? Literally five minutes ago I’m trying to play a Dreadfall Dragon Tactics level and it freezes mid game then crashes
My computer was built for gaming so..
Yea I agree- but nothin beats nostalgia honestly
@@arlyduran1510 yeah the dreadfall events have been extremely buggy as usual, this combined with the fact that I get logged out every 10 mins practically has deterred me from wanting to participate in the dreadfall event
@@mullberrymouse5038 exactly, it's really annoying- especially cause I'm a game completionist so I want to be able to grind 'till I get it. Quests lag a lot, the racing kicks me out, and the limited time events don't tell me when I can get the candies from it so I play every other hour just to get nothing- but eh, still better than remote school
this game is gone now. they had to shut down. it got better. and now its gone. despite its flaws and dents, it was a part of a lot of childhoods. im glad this video is here to remind me, that no matter how broken it was, we could never really be mad
search up "school of dragons: project edge"
We could, given the greed 🤣
Yeah apparently they're making a new game, sadly it's going to be a generic gacha game that has the candy crush gameplay,
@@raisypaisy5020
They aren't as jump-start, the company behind sod, is over.
No offence, but you definitely _should_ be mad, and players like you are often the reason why terrible gaming studios and companies are doing so well nowadays despite making terrible choices. Because if you aren't mad, and you just allow them to take advantage of you solely because you like the concept of the game and feel it's special to you, then they will do just that, take advantage of your love for it. And they did.
Gamers really deserve better treatment, and players who say "I don't care! I love it anyway!" and continue to support them are allowing them and enabling them further. Game studios nowadays really need to see they *can't* treat the people who are giving them money badly and poorly. You wouldn't keep going to the same restaurant if it gave you food poisoning every time, just because you like the theme of the restaurant/food, would you?
This entire video was laughingly accurate but...ahh...I really wish there was a way for him to see what the game was. What it used to be. It used to be fantastic, the light of my childhood, what I played when I was down, and I had such a strong bond with my dragon - entire stories, in fact - and now it's just...gone. Along with any form of greatness and fantastic-ness this game once had.
Edit: Of course I'm going to have childhood goggles on. Of course it was probably worse than I remember. But it made up a lot of my early life, taught me things I would've otherwise gone a while without knowing, and created a lot of positive memories with a person I now have lost. I will still go on and fly around once in a while - that's what I practically always did. I enjoyed the game for the silly story, the dragons (which, by the way, I had nothing to compare it to), and the stories I made with it myself. It was never perfect, but you know what? Nothing is. It's gotten worse and worse, to the point where - even if it was a cash grab originally - it is undeniably and unignorably so now. It was - in my opinion - good when it started. I was one of the people who played practically from the start (I was a month or two late) and found the game extremely enjoyable - it cheered me up. I had fun. And what it was still imprints my life today - and, in fact, I learned some pretty fun stuff from it that school never taught me.
(Yes, I learned more from a dragon game than school, but shhh.)
It also was repetitive at times and once you finished all the quests there wasn't as much to do (which I did after a couple of years) but I improvised, and made stories, and enjoyed it nonetheless. I picked up skills and ideas from this game I never would've had otherwise. So, yes, I see it as good at that point (although the chat moderation was a bit too slack, now it's way too strict, but whatever). And if I had the chance, I'd bring it back to where it was.
That's my ramble over, sorry if I ranted and repeated myself. Please don't argue in the replies ^^
Ahh....the game was always shit.
@@Ergeniz yeah but it's more shit now than it was back then
He's always inaccurate, he does this exact same thing with every game
i feel like variations of this comment appear in every mmo video of his, how the game was great originally before being ruined
either its nostalgia or mmo's are invariably screwed
@@brunoslybruno It's people not wanting to realize they wasted their time on a piece of shit game, like PearlJan over there making excuses for this horrible game.
u were saying that u cant fire with a key, its actually "F" to shoot.
Makes sense
F
The game is probably using Unity because of the logo fade
@@tylern6420 its cuz it is a unity game
@@SD-N that explains the low quality
OK does anyone born in the 90s remember jumpstart games? Those really basic cd rom educational games organized by grade? I just found out thats who's running this game. It explains so much.
I have a weird obsession with how much wasted potential this thing has. Every time I remember it exists I can't stop thinking about what it could be. So sad. Great review.
It could have been an epic game indeed, that was something I will always be kinda sad about because this game is tied to a lot of nostalgia
I never played the original 90s games but I did play the death out of the World of Jumpstart MMO! That was my childhood! That and Math Blasters. That being said, they have experience with MMO's which makes this even sadder.
World of Jumpstart is still up and everything! I just went on (had to login with my MOMS email) and checked out all of my old stuff! So much of our money went into that game, same with School of Dragons which I actually found THROUGH Jumpstart because they were advertising it ingame.
@@dinodare1605 no wonder SoD gave me such strong jumpstart vibes when i tried it, wow. you could even raise dragons there too, i remember that was my favorite thing to do. i played that game SO much as a kid as well, i've thought a lot about checking it out again to see how much has changed since i last played... a decade ago, geez. anyway, really made me happy to see someone else who played that, you're the first one i've seen!
I played the World of Jumpstart and Math Blasters MMOs too! Even as a kid though I remember those games were so glitchy... I loved it though. The main thing I did was raise those mythie guys in the enchanted sanctuary or whatever... such good memories
I actually still have one of those jumpstart cds stored underneath my bed right now
It has questions aimed at young children it also has premium currency aimed at said young children.
The game was not originally developed as a mobile game. It was developed as a browser game. The jump buttons and many others weren't added until much later as a result of the game going onto mobile. For some reason, they kept those buttons.. on the PC version.
The game was never well-developed and always had a multitude of bugs, broken features, clumsy mechanics, and a huge cheating & hacking issue. The graphics didn't age well either, and I doubt the engine itself was made to create a game of this scale. I played this game when I was younger and a worse company to develop this game couldn't have been chosen. Jump Start DOES NOT KNOW how to deal with games of this scale. They do NOT CARE as long as they are making money.
I feel horrible for the developers who probably have to make the game shittier and shittier year by year due to greedy management. I cannot wait for this game to shut down so we can have an actually GOOD HTTYD MMO.
It's shutting down this month
I remember playing this as a browser game years ago. Was way better back then.
@@Leaf__22 all because of Jumpstart but this is life whoever came needs to go away too
"I cannot wait for this game to shut down so we can have an actually GOOD HTTYD MMO."
What an odd, twisted way to look at it. There's a 0% chance the HTTYD franchise will end up with another MMO, likely there won't be another 3D game either.
I argee that the gameplay is realy not good... I just play it because I want a dragon... kinda sad that this is all we have...
Its a good game if its not pay to play. Ive played this for 2 years and heres what i got(note im not a pro):
Expansion packs are everywhere and there are a lot of them. 2 expansion packs are available without paying real money but then nothing else. U get dragons for each expansion pack though(sometimes 2) but its 1000- 1275(i think) gems per expansion pack.
Collecting dragons and caring for them is hard. When it was the first time i was playing getting money is hard and i was broke(u cant do stable quests with a high success rate because u have 2 dragons and big money usually comes from these quests) u get a boulder stable (4 spaces) ( 3000 gold and its hard grinding it)and then the rest u pay with gems. Collecting the dragons are hard too. U only get groncicle (ice gronckle) and an armorwing fron the expansion packs u buy with coins, a whispering death from a quest (level 40) and the rest u either grind coins( u can get the rest of the starter dragons but the eggs cost 3000 or higher) or using gems. Most of the islands in sod are locked because of the expasion packs. U try to go to another with a lock sign and its stops u and says "Buy the expansion pack to unlock".
There are titan dragons to unlock by getting 50 titan runes and u get these by stable quests. These quest are incredibly hard and long(or have a small transaction of 500 gems). There are battle events but in reality its just shooting boats until the hp bar is down. There bronze silver and gold rewards by a mystery chest. Since there are other people competing gold is not easy. Gold rewards are farmer decor, buildings(like sheep pens and turtle ponds) gems(usually 20-200 gems) and dragon eggs. So heres the result from me.
4-10 stars.
-too much paywalls
-not a lot of content
-for free2play players its usually the first 2 expansion packs and then they leave
-too much glitches
@@timothytobing7212 you are right and I have to be honest I had a membership for like three monts so I did put a bit of money into it. I was enjoing my time but yea it is a bit to expensive for what you get.
@@timothytobing7212 uhm actually it is pay to play. You gotta pay a lot of gems to unlock certain locations and then do the missions
@@v4lio its more pay to access
Dragon Adventures on ROBLOX is a good alternative.
Despite the fact that I’ve played this for YEARS, its a terrible pay-to-win game. It’s only good if you pay, unfortunately. All the developers care about is money, and it shows.
You can play it well without money, but it’s defiantly better when you pay
You'd think if all they cared about was money they'd make a good game that actually makes them money lol
at this point i'd say it's pay-to-play
Wasn't really
This was the game that defined my childhood. We didnt know english so we selected all dialogue options randomly and didnt even really know how to play but it was still fire
Making the obligatory "Tidus laugh is awkward on purpose in context and Mr Taylor is a wonderful voice actor" comment
Completely with you with the accessability options. I usually turn subtitles on anyway, just so I can turn down the sound a little so it doesn't interfere with my voice chat.
The only option that should be turned off by default and have to be activated that I can think about is "colorblind-mode".
as someone with ADD, I agree wholeheartedly. My hearing is just fine, but I usually have either a video playing in the background or im not paying attention to whats being said so I usually leave on subtitles so I can read the things being said.
@@goombanr3411 correct term is adhd, add hasn't been used since the late 90's I believe
@@julien_mglhs imagine correcting someone on something they themselves are saying they have
@@TheDsRequiem I have adhd you nitwit.
I remembered when this game used to be good the first year like the cgi,sfx, and the animation used to be better but after not playing it for 6 years it looks complete garbage like even ludia's dragons rise of berk is better despite some of the animations being changed in a bad way after 3 years
Rise of berk is actually pretty good, it's just a mobile game.
this just tie in mobile game
rise of berk is a pay to win mobile game, that came out several years later, tho. Not even compareable. Well, SoD is pay to win, too, now. But eh.
I played this game in elementary school before the second movie ever came out and not only was it super engaging (it took me a couple of weeks to finish everything that a non-member could do) but once I convinced my dad to let me have a year's worth of membership, I was absolutely hooked to it. This game was marvelously engaging for hours upon hours, and even if the quests got exhausting, you could go and have a good time memorizing the tracks in the racing mini-game. Really sucks that companies these days are hyper-focused on porting to mobile :(
Ah yes, kid me fucking loved this game. Still remember getting super excited about them adding the Boneknapper dragon back in the day, was super happy about getting one, called him Rattlebones.
Many years later i decided to log back in to see how things have changed and lemme tell you.....it was super shitty.
Chat sucked, it seemed nearly every other word was considered "bad".
The new UI sucked ass, was super unintuitve and clunky. Couldn't figure out what to do for a bit
It's kinda sad to see this game got even shittier over time.
i eventually stopped playing because theres barely any improvement in graphics or gameplay after so long
I really wished I didn't get attached to this game because of my favorite dragons and the night lights. So many issues to this day, loading screens lasting forever, multiple glitches and bugs, annoying controls, high prices, no lifetime memberships, etc
Yall must be on drugs or have a potato pc cause the games fine for me
This game is a dumpsterfire! But, it's a dumpsterfire i love lmao
same. I'll always be there wishing good luck before battle events!
Same here man. My favorite little trash heap
Its not an "139mb game", the game downloads extra resources when you open it
I agree
I really like the picture you have of toothless and hiccup together
The real size of this game is about 2GB 😂
@Caleb Comer It's just information...
@@dinooro1365 bruh call of duty mobile used to be at that size…
2:05 I have struggled through most of my life being patronized by companies that think I can’r handle a damn maze. 5 year old me was asking about the differences between insurances, I think I can handle a maze or a riddle. Its nice that you acknowledge that children aren’t stupid. I always ended up playing more mature games because they never patronized. When I was 10, I started playing WoOw and got to endgame, and I know a lot of other kids could probably do the same
I picked up School of Dragons today because I felt like playing a self indulgent bad game and the Fireball Frenzy quest completed just from the training mode or whatever that was lol
I'd be really interested to hear you speak about Star Stable Online, another "kid's MMO" that I personally think is actually pretty good.
Also, I remember when this game came to mobile! It was always a PC game, it's just that badly controlled.
I would like to see him talk about Star Stable too! But considering the current state of the game I think he would consider it one of the worst MMOs he's played 😆
Yess me too, thats my nostalgia game :0
unfortunately u played about 3 years to late, it used to be really good then they just made it absolute shit
what was different?
your taste in games just changed
@@lucyandecember2843 not as buggy, devs cared abt the game, chat wasnt shit, many things
@@jackskrill2483 You are just spilling facts... now they are just milking night lights and those hybrids
Clans died too and the OG players quit, look at WARZONE i saw this clan everywhere now it died.
24:27 Wait you can't call your dragon deathwing because of the word death but you can buy the Death Song DLC with Death Song dragons on Deathsong island.
I can't believe they managed to ram all those assets in 130 something MB. They must have done some Super Mario -level trickery.
if you're a spanish kid or person, and you even try to play this, Thing? good luck, not even the tutorial is correctly translated, or even translated to say something
The German version is also just translated by Google.
You should've rated it fake-FF10-laugh/10. A game, that tries to invoke joy in fans of the franchise but clearly appears as a shallow-hollow experience... like a fake pretending to be the original but can't manage to convince anyone.
23:35 THE CUTSCENE GLITCHED LMAOOO
Hiccup in School of Dragons is voiced by the person responsible for voicing Tidus (aka The Guy With The Best Laugh In Gaming History)
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH
Feels like there’s a lot of people with nostalgia glasses on about this game, I played it years ago on mobile and it was everything you described, I couldn’t even get into the game sometimes without crashing.
Great video man, summed up my thoughts on this game pretty well, you’ve definitely gained a new subscriber.
nah it was faster back then and it had a more active community, I remember playing it through facebook on my sister's shitty, virus filled laptop with shitty wifi reception too and it loaded well enough, like 10 minutes for the game to start was really good considering how slow the laptop was (it had like 3gb ram)
Now I log into my 500€ 8 ram/intel i5/geforce mx140 laptop (decent enough for gaming) and it takes an equal amount, that's just- no
edit: nvm my sister's old laptop is a 1gb ram laptop, so you can imagine
Literally everyone claiming to have nostalgia for this game is acknowledging it's faults, you're attacking a strawman.
Nobody is white-knighting for this game.
@@dinodare1605
The person above you is a perfect example, there is no straw man.
@@bookbad2356
Saying something positive to the game in contrast to you saying something negative doesn't make them blinded by "nostalgia glasses." That would be if they were ignoring the games faults in favor of not having something that they loved held to scrutiny, there's next to none of that in this comments section and pretending there is both dishonest and disrespectful to the communities surprisingly mature reaction.
@@dinodare1605 "attacking a strawman"
There's literally someone with 200 upboats saying this game was good for its time... in 2016
In what parallel reality do they live in where this was the standard of games five years ago? There's no strawman, you're just trying to divert criticism over nostalgia goggles.
oh, the game is not in the catagory of education yes. but the game was targetting mostly younglings and it was quite adorable to see them learning sience in a not school-like way. aside from expansion packs most of the quests are about sience and nature.
as someone who grew up with this being my first real foray into...gaming in general (I was not a very smart child okay) it was nice to have the freedom to run around and figure out things, play games and go fishing and do all the things kids wish they could do with their dragons... I got out around the time expansion packs started and good LORD it was a nightmare, you have a bunch of butt-ugly reskins and hybrids that looked like Dreamworks sharted and they did bugger all for the actual game. peeps I hung out with to do dumb stuff started obsessing over collecting them all...to this day, I regret begging my parents to let me become a member because toothless. not worth it.
Man you needed some of that educational gameplay with the way you typed
@@ngastakvakis4425 if you're telling me, English is my third language. As someone who is in their senior year, not only I know four languages I am for sure good at them. I am certain that I didn't *needed* this game, yet enjoyed playing.
@@ngastakvakis4425 cringe
@@countryhumansreuploads523 Cringe
I vaguely remember playing this in a time before the second movie came out and man, it’s crazy how my memory of this game doesn’t match up to its current version. I don’t even think I played for more than a day (not for any particularly bad reason, I just lost interest… which is saying a lot as someone who was absolutely in the target age-range and was a super fan of httyd) so kudos to you for getting further and giving me this odd sense of nostalgia and “oh thank god I didn’t get too into this”
man I remember playing this game years back, I wanted to get a rumblehorn so bad but never did and replayed it again later only to find out they can give you one for free now
I only ever loved it for the dragon riding, otherwise it's.... not that great and now it's incredibly reliant on paying real money to be fun
@DCM I didn't even remember this comment but you have a chance of getting one as a starter dragon now
Omg- they changed so much about the game since I played it many years ago. I remember when it didnt even have that combat stuff. Its so weird to see how it changed
I wish there would be much better game based on this movie where you can feel like one of the characters and ride every species of dragon you want to :/ this game is so awful..
o.o
There was a ps3 game...i remember you can get 4 dragons and compete in a tournament and it had pretty cool combat.
This is what happens when you let a game get away with too much.
I remember when skrill and thunderdrum were LUXURY dragons.
Or how people used to get around chat restrictions so for example instead of one (1) they typed "won", instead of two (2) "too" ect. This chat allowed me to make some friends from all around the world along the way. It was fun.
The game died for me when they made chat restrictions even more ridiculous. When it started banning for DAYS for using normal words. And from that point on it only got worse.
Today i just wanted to check how game changed after quite a long break and i discovered they removed the possibility of playing with your dragon. That was my main way of leveling dragon up. If im correct you can only get a dragon to a "broad wing stage" by paying 500 gems now.
This game is not only dead for me, i hope it fu*king disappears from this world. I wish people responsible for its downfall get a job in a different industry and leave games the f*ck alone.
(or perhaps they could just restore files from around 2015 and we will all forget about the little extended 1 april fools that happened between 2015 and 2021)
Ikr fuck all this, I just wish for a similar game to come out and dirt them. For now I'll just play sky which is infinitely better lol
Actually you can get them to broadening by getting them to level 10 or 15 if I remember right. You have to go to the lava pool at the hatchery.
It’s annoying.
I play this game, if they remove it I'm going to sue. They can't just do that. You need to think about the people who like the game, ok? Not everyone wants all their progress to be deleted.
@@Mothobius My wishing wont affect reality. You may want the game to go on, i want it to disappear. We both have the right to have our own feelings about it.
@@atlanthydadragon1770 Yes but imagine your doing something and making progress on a game, and then its just randomly deleted. That wouldn't be cool would it?
I’ve played this game since launch and honestly, my nostalgia for the movies/TV series just won’t let me leave it. I now have 71 dragons.
Omgg
if you have any self respect, please don't give the game anymore money
@@gummyfox7386 too bad you can’t tell me what to do
Same. Nostalgia and roleplaying has me in a vice grip and I might be stuck here until the game is taken down lmao
I have about 25. Yesterday i _kinda_ abused the achievements and got 500 gems and a new Changewing (one of my favorite dragons, which i finally got after 4 years of wishing)
y'all remember when racing was a huge deal?
4:25 I remember the funniest thing I heard about that laugh was
Daniel! Text to speech Daniel! I loved your voice acting in Final Fantasy X!
I had the honor to meet James Arnold Taylor when I was in high school. Some how my school got him and someone else come down to talk to us about voice acting. I still have my signed picture. Great guy!
This game's sole intent is to make children cry. Pure evil.
It’s not but pop off
I remember playing this game and crying my ass off because my dragon couldn't fly normally.
@@adoptmebean9750 pop off? This is the one I got from the house! 🌈
Personally I think the game is super fun, but it’s painfully obvious that the developers only care about the money. It’s a shame
“You’re not allowed to say ‘death’” meanwhile the official series has dragon species like the Whispering Death lmao
I remember this game. Me and my younger sister used to be super into the How to Train Your Dragon franchise so we would play this game on mobile devices and it was bad but it was fun. I picked the one mystery class dragon you could start off with and I made him a really cool purple color but I forgot what I named him. The raids were funny though, a viking ship would come and everyone would be waiting on a hill or in the air and when it would get close enough you'd have like 30 dragons shooting fireballs at the ship in a free for all. Such fun times
you can turn off the arrow from the settings menu, yet just like you said without it finding where to go is quite impossible...
I really laughed out loud at the waterfall part. Brilliant transition
I personally think this game is a perfect interpretation of the film. It has fucking nothing to do with the medium it adapted from.
35:02 I am actually quite pleased that he took the time to come up with a dragon pun.
FINALLY! a video that rips this game apart
Not sure if you only do PC MMOs but I’d recommend Sky: children of the Light on mobile
The game sucks nowadays
@Euphoria the game itself is alright at best but the devs and community are only getting worse and it won’t be long until it collapses under it’s own weight.
@@pyroflame04 Can you tell me what's happening with the game? Haven't heard about it in a long time
@@micok5534 I can. Pyro is talking about things in the upcoming beta of Sky COTL. Sky holds quarterly events called "seasons", they vary in content, story and such but what you need to know is that you can buy cosmetics and such or you can get them for free. TGC (the company who were behing Journey and this game) makes most cosmetics free but puts some behind a paywall, so you pay once and get the opportunity to earn both free and paid cosmetics. They don't actually DO anything (the game is quite simple) and you don't have to pay to complete the event, but they are a nice added bonus. The most recent season TGC is planning, from what I heard from beta, has very expensive cosmetics where hardly any are given to f2p players. In addition to this, after you pay once to unlock the paid cosmetics, you then have to buy them yourself - a pay wall behind a paywall. It used to cost just $10 for one player to get access to every cosmetic, but now the estimate is around $100 to complete a season. That's WAY more than it's worth even if you split the cost with friends (which wasn't more than $30 to share with two other people). People are angry, people are complaining and they have the right to feel frustrated with the blatant inflation - BUT TGC never pulled a stunt like this before, otherwise they have treated their playerbase well and not made things too expensive overall even when raising money for charities. I'm sure other people will disagree and they're free to, but my point is that it shouldn't be the end of the world and the backlash should make the devs realise what a ridiculous idea this was. Portraying them as evil money grubbing villains won't help. It paints them in a bad light but I do not believe it's unforgivable if they make amends.
TLDR: game costs some money for optional stuff, devs planned to make optional stuff cost far more than it should, still in beta so there's time to rectify this but not great overall. that's all the tea I got 👌
Oh lord, the dad-tier jokes and the Tidus laughtrack.
it's like a sitcom from Hell.
And I LOVE IT!
the different quest fontsize is actually due to a simple reason. Instead of the background adjusting size to quest name lenght, the background is static and instead the quest names change size to stay inside the backgrounds border.
One of many dragon games that i tracked down for Meg, given she loves dragons. Istaria and Time of Dragons ended up being her favorites. This one.. not so much. I dont remember why we stopped playing so quickly, though.
I'm going to have to remember that. "If you're an edgelord you're like a pizza cutter - all edge, no point." Thanks Josh
"Apparently the word "death" is not allowed" ... opens up map that has a "Death Song Island" ...
There's a "beginner quest" where you can only complete if you pay the monthly membership and you can't quit quests so it's gonna always be there telling you BUY THE MEMBERSHIP NOW
37:12 "How to Train A Dragon Warrior" What's that cover? Is this India cover film? Or Fanmade film? Or it was official released?
Its a cheap knock off film, probably indian
@@JoshStrifeHayes also, there's no dub English voice cast version released?
@@arocomisgamusclademork1603 the world of knock off films is strange.
@@JoshStrifeHayes I know word Knock off more like Bootleg media released. So what are you saying "Strange" after word Knock off? I seen films Knock off by Video Brinqedo and Spark Plug Entertainment and other word named Studios than just word Entertainment at the end of Title.
I'll leave this link drive.google.com/file/d/1CW2Fsrtt9I-KnJdX042d1HQaYALSNF6G/view?usp=drivesdk
Ah yes, I remember cutting down trees for 10 minutes to max level my dragons.
About two years ago, when I tried the game again, the nerfed that to about 30 minutes which ain't too shabby.
I was 13 when this game first launched. As a huge HTRYD fan I was extremely excited to play it. It realessed as what was clearly intended as a beta (but not stated.) The game it is today is vastly different than was it was at launch. I absolutely loved this game as a kid and even had a membership to it. But by the second year of its release, they had completely ruined then game when non sense stuff. It originally had storyline and recurring original characters. The game developers never fixed any glitches so they just pilled up until the game was so laggy it was unplayable. By then I had mostly stopped playing it. After a couple months they released the mobile version. From watching this video it’s clear to me that they strapped the original game and converted the mobile version by into a computer version. The interface used to me completely different, as well as key bindings.
It’s honestly really sad to see how such a promising start of a game turned into this monstrosity.
I used to play this game endlessly after the second movie came out the only reason I stopped was because my level got reset out of no where from 43 to 7 and because of how blatantly pay to win it became. I still do remember it fondly though, and I miss the old days of trying to figure out how to get the cool dragons and wishing I could do the expansions without saving up for a year or doing battles all the time.
I found about this game few years back and was so excited to play it and fly around freely on a dragon. I honestly did have fun for over the one year i played, even with some problems. I got a membership as a gift, I got over 200 dragons even, found good friends, and even raced a lot. However, the game did get worse to the point where I couldn't play it anymore and fell out of love for it. Despite how much I love the Httyd series and I do miss my dragons a little, but I can't bring myself to play again anytime soon if ever. It's nice to fly around on your own dragon, but isn't great as the series it's based upon.
Childhood game. Played it for days. Never was good at it. I just liked to explore it
I don't remember much about my time in this game, but i do have a handful of memories! The opening used to be different, Grimmel wasn't a thing. I think it was just generic dragon hunters that I rescued my Rumblehorn from. My hatchery dragon was a Gronckle. And, there actually is a way to tell if a quest will get paywalled, it's just stupidly inconspicuous: All quests with paywalls have icons containing exclamation points in them. I remember that before I realized this, I started the Deathsong quest, and since I had no way to cancel it, the village was just left covered in globs of amber for the entire rest of the time I played the game. I also think I started getting my Gronckle to Titan Wing with slowly-earned gems or I at least was saving up to do it. I also got an egg for a dragon I can't remember the name of via a promo code. Once, I tried getting my mom to play the game with me, and the game suspended me from saying anything in chat for some amount of time that I forgot because, as a test message to show her how the game's chat systems worked, I messaged her something along the lines of "I had cheese for lunch." To this day I have no clue why it did that to me for such an innocuous statement. I eventually ran out of non-member quests, so the endless clambering around the map I tended to do in any and all 3D games became my entire gameplay experience. I didn't really have much of a sense for quality during the years I played it a lot, but I do remember 10-year-old me finally having amassed enough braincells to realize how shoehorned in the Hidden World felt when they introduced it post-HTTYD3 release. Funnily enough, I remember the graphics looking a lot better - it must just be nostalgia blindness lmao
It’s almost uncanny how his face doesn’t change the whole time he’s watching the movie
Underrated channel that deserves more attention, subbing and sticking by your side to watch you blow tf up
Thanks Aurene, i appriciate that. Ill be making more mmo stuff and eventually some general gaming stuff :)
They got "How to train your Dragon" as a basis to build on, and they still ruined it...
I wish he had caught the “Call of the *Death* Song” part.
Irony.
Also reminder that before the movies How To Train Your Dragon was a series of (really good) BOOKS. I had an audio book of one of them narrated by David Tennant
i spent way too much money on a game like this. sigh couldnt even enjoy the expansions with all the glitches. but the memories i had overpowers the bad ones. they needa major update
Damn that FFX Tidus laugh. Big memories.
Why is it when he made the Astrid beside herself joke the guy running by made it sound like the Titus laugh was coming from him. And it made me laugh so hard
Sorry, the way you say "boop on the snoot" is so sickeningly cute that I had to replay it several times.
I remember a different httyd game it was on cartoon networks website
You actually had to find a dragon in the wild and there was better graphics and better flying mechanics
I 100% agree with you. Almost forgot this game existed as I got bored in 44 seconds of playing the game
That loading screen that said "Looking for adventure" was very on the nose
Fun Fact: The same guy who created the Lilo and Stitch franchise also was behind the DreamWorks How to Train Your Dragon movies.