This, to me anyway, is more than just a Machinima. This is a time capsule. This video won't ever age, because the music and feel aren't tied to the latest popular genre like rap, or most current home-animation advance, like the omnipresent SFM battle montages. Even the very models, characters and some of the animations are timeless now, since their eventual removal from the game leaves them standing beyond the passage of expansions. So if we ever want to take a step back, before Garrisons, Pandas, Deathwing shattering the land; if we want to hear the voice that defined a generation of videos; or if we miss the creativity and bonkers imagination that Machinima could mean (and thank you to those who still hold it up, I'm talking about the majority though) - all one need do is load up this video. Vanessa isn't the legacy of Edwin Vancleef. This is.
Nope, I regularly just pop back to this video because I love the style. I've never come across another WMV that just said "hey, you know what, let's just go Disney"
@@fesco4752 Yorik may really be Mr. Smite in disguise. Yorik's aggro quote "You! What are you doing here?" implies he has met the player before, and in a different place. Yorik also has a very similar voice to Mr. Smite, and his clothing and coloration also appear very similar. Most notably of all, Yorik drops  [Mr. Smite's Brass Compass], his possession of which is otherwise hard to explain. Yorik is also found near a treasure chest and a miniature boat, both of which may be references to Mr. Smite being on the Defias juggernaught in the Deadmines.
We did, we just couldn't do anything about it, kind of like how they fucked the game with their greed and they did not listen to the players who foretold the future shithole retail was going to be going this route Even if Blizzard somehow managed to stay a good gaming company, bosses dying canonically is bound to happen if the story and the game evolves
one of my favourite things about this movie is the fact that you incuded the lore about the defias bandits and how they came to be (rebuilding stormwind and then lady prestor/onyxia denying them payment) ended in massive riot and the queen of stormwind ended up dead by accident really one of the best alliance lores there is and to bad it only ended up as a tiny part of alliance level/questing
This video will always hold a special place in my heart because in the 8th grade my friend and I contacted you asking for an instrumental track of this so that we could use it for a school project about Andrew Jackson and, amazingly, you gave it to us. Thank you so much. Ol' Hickory's Life was a hit in our history class; they asked us to sing it twice. We couldn't have done it without your amazing work at this amazing song.
+Digglent ..... Hooooooly shit dude, I didn't even hear that, what the crap. Wow. It's freaking Cox. My mind is so very blown right now. Thank you for pointing that out, don't even know how I didn't hear it....
Any fellow Wrath Classic fresh server enjoyers listening to this while gaming in Deadmines? I love this song, thank you for making this! Deadmines was always one of my favorite dungeons
Time flies doesn't it. I was 18 when I made this, soon 30, crazy to think of it. But it's cute seeing people commenting on this now and then saying it has nostalgic value to them. Appreciate that.
I'm always gonna miss the old deadmines dungeon even if it was a pain in the ass to walk back to. Props to the creator I can't count how many times I find myself randomly humming the song. 😳✨
This is what wow need, I don't mean Deadmines, I mean the community that did things around the game, all the parody music videos, wow PVP machinima with the same shitty software? Yes, those, we need that back, that was the soul of the game its people, not its content. But alas good times don't last, ill always remember that golden time of wow, always in my heart. To you the creator, know this, this video never fails to make me both sad and happy, sad for the memories of the past, and happy to have been part of such an experience. I try to come back yearly, to get a reminder of what TRUE FUN is/was for me. Thank you.
I feel you Antonio. I have made several attempts to fall back in love with WoW as they would drop their new expansions and so on. But I never really felt the same magic as I did when I originally played it. I'm not sure if I've grown out of the game or if the game has grown away from what it used to be. However I am truly happy to hear this video hasn't grown old for you. People enjoying it to this day really means a lot. And I too miss the good old days. Thank you!
Im 14 and i started playing wow for the first time on classic launch, it sucks to see everyone being so down on the game I have no idea what the "good old days" are but im having a ton of fun looking at these old youtube machinamas and songs. Great video!
First day of 20th anniversery in WoW. Queue for Timewalking dungeon. Get Deadmines. Sing this song in your head the entire dungeon. It's still epic, 14 years later!
"Being a favorite pays"... Having good story pays in becoming a favorite. There's no real "good guys" in the story of the Deadmines, and it works well for it.
If I was blizzard, I would make this version, the classic nostalgic heroic of deadmines, with a few mechanic changes so it'd be harder but keep the same ol nostalgia. This slaps so hard I, just wow. This is perfect, I loved the deadmines when i did it on the classic stress test, and recently discovering this today, it warms my heart. I wish i was there in cata/mop to play and listen to this song. But at least I can remember the good ol days, and listen to some WoW music.
@@AdrianDrott There's a 20 years WoW anniversary and they're doing stuff with old dungeons. BRD is gonna be a raid. People are gonna play Deadmines soon^^
"Like the good old days..." This video... It takes me back. To a time of binging machinima and PvP montages, of browsing the forums until way too late, of lazing around in Wintergrasp or Tol Barad, leaving all worries for tomorrow. I'm not sure I'll fully get over the idea that these days are gone. Looking at this now, it's more than a cool machinima, it's a wistful window to days past, sparkling with creativity and nostalgia. I'm glad I could grow up with stuff like this. If you're still reading these comments... Hope you're doing good!
Thank you for this nice comment, warms my heart! I do still read the comments as it brings me joy as well. I feel you I feel you. I myself started playing wow classic again the other week after not playing since cataclysm. Actually felt quite fun and nostalgic, obviously not the same but it brings back great memories like these.
I never played WoW, and I still think this video really rocks! Thank you for making it back in the day, for us to enjoy today in this time of low creativity.
I haven't touched WoW in 3 years. I haven't heard this song in probably 5. But, still it is one of my most prevalent earworms. Any time my mind wonders it often ends up here. So, I decided to try and find it today. Took a little bit but, here I am.
+BishtrainerTai16 They are :D the 'Outlaw" (renamed/reworked 'combat' spec) artifact quests are on youtube- Nobbel and Preach gaming both did one, and most likely others too. It looks pretty sweet ^.^
The two artifact weapons for the Legion expansion are Luck and Fortune, two Cutlasses wielded by a pirate captain that found them after the Cataclysm. No one knows where they came from or who made them. But one thing's for certain, they're deadly powerful.
Honestly, I think Onyxia had us hanging on her whim. It's her fault that the Defias are angry at Stormwind. Then, somehow, she managed to hide that it was her doing. Onyxia was clever, devious, and deadly dangerous, She would have had Stormwind obliterated if Varian hadn't shown up.
I always played Horde, but spent a good bit of time in Deadmines just for fun. Never did get the cat off of Cookie though. I miss when WoW was new and fun still. Just got a little burnt after 230+ days /played.
Yeah looking for group might of taken care of that,but it made questing obsolete in the process which also makes world pvp less entertaining since people rarely venture out of the capitals thanks to looking for group. In short I wish they would limit how many times a day someone under lvl cap could queue for dungeons. Get people back out in the world and questing again like it was supposed to be :X. But I don't see that happening so oh well xD
why cant they make the lfg to form your groups but without teleporting you? i cant do dungeons anymore without trying to explain how i got there by summoning some random toy item or npc
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This, to me anyway, is more than just a Machinima. This is a time capsule. This video won't ever age, because the music and feel aren't tied to the latest popular genre like rap, or most current home-animation advance, like the omnipresent SFM battle montages. Even the very models, characters and some of the animations are timeless now, since their eventual removal from the game leaves them standing beyond the passage of expansions. So if we ever want to take a step back, before Garrisons, Pandas, Deathwing shattering the land; if we want to hear the voice that defined a generation of videos; or if we miss the creativity and bonkers imagination that Machinima could mean (and thank you to those who still hold it up, I'm talking about the majority though) - all one need do is load up this video.
Vanessa isn't the legacy of Edwin Vancleef. This is.
Well said sir!
Thanks :D
OverEnglishMan Going on a trip dowm memory lane in prep for Legion release?
Nope, I regularly just pop back to this video because I love the style. I've never come across another WMV that just said "hey, you know what, let's just go Disney"
OverEnglishMan Fair enough XD
This is an extremely influential video for me. Classic stuff
Thank you Platinum WoW! Glad to hear that coming from you
I came back here straight after your video about the Defias, I was so glad that to see you were inspired by it!
Glad to know Im not the only one coming back here every 3 years or so xD. Love it
Seen you commenting a fair few WoW music videos these past few months. Glad to see you getting in on the WoW music.
So much nostalgia I'm here from 2024. Hope to come back time and time again lol.
11 years later and this song is still just as great as it was! This song is timeless!
Yep love coming back to it every now and again. Just to find out the lyrics are still in the back of my head and I just start singing along.
Almost 10 years ago, holy shit I feel old
Same... D:
The time between this video and now is way longer than the time between when this video was made and the "good old days"
indeed brohv
feel even older
R.I.P. Edwin van Cleef, the man who is more a hero than a villian
+TobiDyLetsPlay100 THE BROTHERHOOD WILL PREVAIL!
rest in pepperoni
+TobiDyLetsPlay100 OUR CAUSE IS RIGHTOUS
He might be a little more villian than hero considering he tried to destroy Stormwind
he only destroyed SW because their nobles refused to pay him for his efforts in rebuilding from the orc invasion.
26th August.
We're comin' home, Edwin!
Edwin: Oh shit, I thought I was safe.
I've made it to westfall. And I have a shiny two handed holy sword.
And how sweet it is!
Back when everyone didn't realize Cata's revamp of the Deadmines meant all the old bosses were going to be made canonically dead, lol
Mr.Smite lives in Pandaria as a rare under a different name, Yorik Sharpeye.
@@sokarr4779 are you sure about that?
@@fesco4752 Yorik may really be Mr. Smite in disguise. Yorik's aggro quote "You! What are you doing here?" implies he has met the player before, and in a different place. Yorik also has a very similar voice to Mr. Smite, and his clothing and coloration also appear very similar. Most notably of all, Yorik drops  [Mr. Smite's Brass Compass], his possession of which is otherwise hard to explain. Yorik is also found near a treasure chest and a miniature boat, both of which may be references to Mr. Smite being on the Defias juggernaught in the Deadmines.
Cookie survived
We did, we just couldn't do anything about it, kind of like how they fucked the game with their greed and they did not listen to the players who foretold the future shithole retail was going to be going this route
Even if Blizzard somehow managed to stay a good gaming company, bosses dying canonically is bound to happen if the story and the game evolves
14 years later, poor Edwin got response from the costumer Support and got the buff he missed out on. Time to welcome him back to the Deadmines again ❤
And now with Classic, we're all back in the Deadmines, swinging in time with our hips.
one of my favourite things about this movie is the fact that you incuded the lore about the defias bandits and how they came to be (rebuilding stormwind and then lady prestor/onyxia denying them payment) ended in massive riot and the queen of stormwind ended up dead by accident
really one of the best alliance lores there is and to bad it only ended up as a tiny part of alliance level/questing
“VanCleef did nothing wrong!”
@@NevanSlone Pretty sure a bunch of farmers in Westfall and The Peoples Militia would disagree with you there.
Not as crazy as "garrosh did nothing wrong", mind you@@curnott6051
Heard WoW classic is being released today. Have fun with your addiction, I for one say no to drugs!
Holy shit. Your alive.
Ha....you'll come back. And when you do...we'll be waiting.....Welcome to the Deadmines. MuahahaHAHAHAHA
lvl 27 :3
I've ran it like 10 times at least on my rogue and still have yet to get that damned sword from Edwin
I really love this video
This video will always hold a special place in my heart because in the 8th grade my friend and I contacted you asking for an instrumental track of this so that we could use it for a school project about Andrew Jackson and, amazingly, you gave it to us.
Thank you so much. Ol' Hickory's Life was a hit in our history class; they asked us to sing it twice. We couldn't have done it without your amazing work at this amazing song.
This made me emotional lol thats awesome
was in deadmines and was humming it and thought why not play it again and relive the good old days
Same
Edwin finally gets to be level 80 in the deadmines with the 20th anni
About damn time
Oh.
My.
God!
It's been 5 years.. and I never fucking heard that it was Jesse doing the voices. Just heard it today!
Weird how some give him crap for being a bad voice actor right ;)
Some quality voice acting going on here... Oh and the animating on that priest....
+Digglent Omg... Now I just feel stupid for missing that...
+Digglent ..... Hooooooly shit dude, I didn't even hear that, what the crap. Wow. It's freaking Cox. My mind is so very blown right now. Thank you for pointing that out, don't even know how I didn't hear it....
same lol
wowcrendor is in there as well
Who's here in 2024 watching because classic timewalking is out ?
Me...
Meeee
Me
See you guys in other 20yrs 😊
I come back every year to see this video
Any fellow Wrath Classic fresh server enjoyers listening to this while gaming in Deadmines? I love this song, thank you for making this! Deadmines was always one of my favorite dungeons
Plays on repeat while I run with my boys through Deadmines on Season of Discovery
14 years later and while I don't play the game anymore I'll still go back to vids like this.
An absolute masterpiece
I remember listening to this on a loop when I was 12.
And I keep coming back, even almost 10 years later... pure gold :D
Time flies doesn't it. I was 18 when I made this, soon 30, crazy to think of it. But it's cute seeing people commenting on this now and then saying it has nostalgic value to them. Appreciate that.
Wow, you make me feel so old
I'm always gonna miss the old deadmines dungeon even if it was a pain in the ass to walk back to. Props to the creator I can't count how many times I find myself randomly humming the song. 😳✨
It's 2024, it's the WoW anniversary and WE'RE BACK AGAIN!
Come back to watch this every now and then :D what a classic
+takeshiC1 same here
So much Jessie Cox in one video...Vancleef, Gnome (tank), Paladin, Healer chick, Sneed, "Hammer Time" goblin, amazing.
+Bada Bling Jesse *was* a voice actor before he made his youtube channel.
Young Savage Jesse was a history teacher before he made his youtube channel.
Hammer Time goblin is Gilnid, pretty sure he was replaced with Foe Reaper 5000 as of Cata
If you go back and watch a lot of old machinimas you'll see he was in a shit ton of them
This is what wow need, I don't mean Deadmines, I mean the community that did things around the game, all the parody music videos, wow PVP machinima with the same shitty software? Yes, those, we need that back, that was the soul of the game its people, not its content.
But alas good times don't last, ill always remember that golden time of wow, always in my heart.
To you the creator, know this, this video never fails to make me both sad and happy, sad for the memories of the past, and happy to have been part of such an experience. I try to come back yearly, to get a reminder of what TRUE FUN is/was for me.
Thank you.
I feel you Antonio. I have made several attempts to fall back in love with WoW as they would drop their new expansions and so on. But I never really felt the same magic as I did when I originally played it. I'm not sure if I've grown out of the game or if the game has grown away from what it used to be. However I am truly happy to hear this video hasn't grown old for you. People enjoying it to this day really means a lot. And I too miss the good old days. Thank you!
:')
This is such a beautiful comment! I miss these days so bad!
I can't believe we're back at the old deadmimes
"Welcome to the Deadmines" is still to this date the best wow song I've ever heared/seen. Amazing job guys! Kudos from sweden 👍
still cool 5 years later
agh :) Nostalgia !
Even 7 years later!
even 8 years :P
I remember first starting out, and looking for WoW content. This video is one of the first ones I watched. It will stick with me forever.
This has become even more amazing with classic!
This video is a time capsule, watched it again after so many years... ahh the feelings 😊🥰
Its like it was yesterday, i miss these Times 😢
Man Jesse has a range of voices.
Just completed the dead mines in classic, a 2 hour ordeal. Good times
Watching this a day before 2020 starts and I still love it
Welcome back to my recommended you glorious old video!
Im 14 and i started playing wow for the first time on classic launch, it sucks to see everyone being so down on the game I have no idea what the "good old days" are but im having a ton of fun looking at these old youtube machinamas and songs. Great video!
Enjoy it man, I would love to go back and play it again with fresh eyes.
I used to play as a kid, Smith and mining trolls with wow vanilla(originally when you had to choose phone or game
Ahhh memories, see y'all in a few years :P
For season of rediscovery.
>"Hammer Time!"
>Uses Mace.
Just listened to this running the 20th anniversary version of it, still holds up all these years later!
Looking back, this was the last time we had a great machinema winner at Blizzcon..
can't believe this was from 5 years ago...still feels like yesterday when this came out...we're all getting old :(
this is an absolute relic , loved it when wow was so big
First day of 20th anniversery in WoW. Queue for Timewalking dungeon. Get Deadmines. Sing this song in your head the entire dungeon. It's still epic, 14 years later!
Wow's 20th anniversary!! Good o'l old Deadmines timewalking.
"Being a favorite pays"... Having good story pays in becoming a favorite.
There's no real "good guys" in the story of the Deadmines, and it works well for it.
That's real interesting and I fully agree
Welcome BACK to the Deadmines
10 years and still awesome. Who loved running low levels thru here back in the day.... great times.
The Girl dancing is hilarious.She is like" i have no idea what's going on but i like it" lol
lol :D
*_Girl_* of course. *cough*
I remember my dad showing me this when I was 11 and we just had a blast watching it together
That's very sweet :)
This video still basically feels new to me, even though when it was released, the Deadmines were half as old as this video is now. Jeez...
8 Years later and still watching...this Video is a LEGENDARY!
If I was blizzard, I would make this version, the classic nostalgic heroic of deadmines, with a few mechanic changes so it'd be harder but keep the same ol nostalgia. This slaps so hard I, just wow. This is perfect, I loved the deadmines when i did it on the classic stress test, and recently discovering this today, it warms my heart. I wish i was there in cata/mop to play and listen to this song. But at least I can remember the good ol days, and listen to some WoW music.
Jesse Cox being a voice here was a pleasant surprise. :)
Who did he play anyhow? Vancleef?
Yeah.
Sturm Novahl Thought so. he's got a good singing voice.
yinyang452 + About 3 others xD
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he at least also did Sneed
Suddenly relevant again
@@elout680 lol how? Sorry, not up to date.
@@AdrianDrott Classic Deadmines will be returning as a Timewalking dungeon
@@SirJorb riiight, thanks! :)
@@AdrianDrott There's a 20 years WoW anniversary and they're doing stuff with old dungeons. BRD is gonna be a raid. People are gonna play Deadmines soon^^
To this day..I cry watching this..not for sad. But for a day lost to time. Thank you!
Even after 11years.. still an awesome song and video =D
Omg this is exactly my first dungeon xD
The Guy who was tank but didnt even know what it is.
Omg this vid has 10 years
It’s been 13 years
I did this dungeon today for the 20years and I had to come back listen this incredible song :D
There is an offical HS Deadmines song now btw.
This video hits me with a nostalgia hammer every time I watch it.
I now...miss the old Deadmines...Thanks...
Hearing someone in a 14 year old video sing "like in the good old days" makes me feel old on a Medusa-level
"Like the good old days..."
This video... It takes me back. To a time of binging machinima and PvP montages, of browsing the forums until way too late, of lazing around in Wintergrasp or Tol Barad, leaving all worries for tomorrow. I'm not sure I'll fully get over the idea that these days are gone. Looking at this now, it's more than a cool machinima, it's a wistful window to days past, sparkling with creativity and nostalgia.
I'm glad I could grow up with stuff like this. If you're still reading these comments... Hope you're doing good!
Thank you for this nice comment, warms my heart! I do still read the comments as it brings me joy as well.
I feel you I feel you. I myself started playing wow classic again the other week after not playing since cataclysm. Actually felt quite fun and nostalgic, obviously not the same but it brings back great memories like these.
Randomly remembered this song this morning. Didn't realize it's now 10 years old
Makes you feel old doesn't it. D:
Ah shit, here we go again...
SoD spike incoming!
I never played WoW, and I still think this video really rocks!
Thank you for making it back in the day, for us to enjoy today in this time of low creativity.
Don't play WoW but this is in my Villain Songs playlist.
This must have been hell to edit. Worth it though :D
Last I seen this, Was in fact 2010! Still great!
This is the last official record of Edwin VanCleef and his crew.
R.I.P. Originals. You will be missed.
I haven't touched WoW in 3 years. I haven't heard this song in probably 5. But, still it is one of my most prevalent earworms. Any time my mind wonders it often ends up here. So, I decided to try and find it today. Took a little bit but, here I am.
Oh and it is as good as I remember.
2019 wow classic is released and the first thing I find on RUclips is This XD Still the best
Now I really hope they push the pirate theme for combat rogues in Legion.
+BishtrainerTai16 you can pre order legion already, awesome right, im gonna level my disc priest to lv100 then maybe boost a lock to 100
+BishtrainerTai16 They are :D the 'Outlaw" (renamed/reworked 'combat' spec) artifact quests are on youtube- Nobbel and Preach gaming both did one, and most likely others too. It looks pretty sweet ^.^
That doesnt sound bad 🙂
The two artifact weapons for the Legion expansion are Luck and Fortune, two Cutlasses wielded by a pirate captain that found them after the Cataclysm. No one knows where they came from or who made them. But one thing's for certain, they're deadly powerful.
bet you regret that :P outlaw was terrible in legion
This is my first exposure to awesomeness that is Jesse Cox
Same here, and I will never regret going to his channel!
9 years. i can't believe i have forgotten this song. i loved it so much back then and still love it.
Cookie was the star of this one, clearly.
Honestly, I think Onyxia had us hanging on her whim. It's her fault that the Defias are angry at Stormwind. Then, somehow, she managed to hide that it was her doing. Onyxia was clever, devious, and deadly dangerous, She would have had Stormwind obliterated if Varian hadn't shown up.
Would be awesome if the entrance to a mythic dungeon was something similar to 2:56 animation and all
With the new timewalking event coming up it seems being a favorite really does pay.
I miss Edwin VanCleef...
SomethingLethal same
ur in luck my guy
I know the lyrics by heart.
This has some Danny Elfman energy, and I mean that as the highest compliment.
I remember when this came out.. i'm so old.
We are not old. xD
As a Edwin Van Cleef loyalist I approve this
JESSE COX WAS IN ON THIS AS WELL GOOD ON YA HE DID A VERY GOOD JOB AT HIS ROLES :D HOW CAN I GIVE THIS 900000000 MORE LIKES ?
TheBronf ok
Who else here after wow classic came out and ready for classic deadlines to come back?
I love being a new player and have my RUclips recommend me the best time capsule videos for my new obsession. Amazing job!
I miss this good old version
Let's play: "Count all the characters Jesse voiced"
After i heard it was jesse, i can really hear it.
I love the „being a favourite pays“ line so much because everyone instantly takes deserter when this thing pops up. Ah, deadmines.
5 hours to go till i can see Van cleef again
I miss the old deadmines so much.... ~Nostalgia-boner...~
I always played Horde, but spent a good bit of time in Deadmines just for fun. Never did get the cat off of Cookie though. I miss when WoW was new and fun still. Just got a little burnt after 230+ days /played.
***** Would've been better if we had the original Deadmines as the Normal one and the new one as Heroic. Would've felt like a story then, no?
There is a Vanilla server launching soon. (Kronos-WoW.com/)
Henry M. There are shitstorms of vanilla servers.
Sulfirion And every single one sucks :)
The Deadmines was my absolute, AND I MEAN ABSO-FUCKING-LUTE, favorite dungeon to run before Cata fucked it up. I miss VanCleef so fucking much....
Why did cata have to get rid of Mr. Smite?!
Justin Dawson They gave him an item for his memory, though.
Justin Dawson Because you killed him?
Why did cata fucked it up? it's still great, atleast imo
Sulfirion The last boss is a complete joke. Actually all the Vanilla dungeons suck now, so boring, not challenging in the slightest, ughhhh
here i am once again, years n years later... we need more of this stuff
Oh man i missed the time when you've to spend hours yelling lfg on global channel and have to walk all the way to the dungeons..
Yeah looking for group might of taken care of that,but it made questing obsolete in the process which also makes world pvp less entertaining since people rarely venture out of the capitals thanks to looking for group. In short I wish they would limit how many times a day someone under lvl cap could queue for dungeons. Get people back out in the world and questing again like it was supposed to be :X. But I don't see that happening so oh well xD
why cant they make the lfg to form your groups but without teleporting you? i cant do dungeons anymore without trying to explain how i got there by summoning some random toy item or npc
HOW DOES 90% OF THE VIDEO HAS THAT MOST REPEATED THING ON THE TIMELINE LMAO
that means 90% of the video people just watch it from start without skipping anything
when you know this song by heart you know you have a problem
this dungeon is back in retail WoW with the classic timewalking