ragnarok is the best game ever. no game will ever make me want to come back as much as ro, the nostalgia is real, the playstyle, the monsters, the bgm, everything is just perfect
Partly because MMO like this was still new for most people when it came out. There's just something different about the MMO experience when it was still fresh for everyone.
@@belldrop7365partially but it also had a lot of soul and love poured into it, awesome stat, skill character systems that allowed you to experiment with builds, a good world, great music, timeless graphics, and partying with, meeting people and forming long relationships was a result of the game
@@tiefblau2780 Trade and TP out (some do this for a living back then. shame! -- but I gotta admit, I think a lot of us have tried doing these childish stuff back then to some degree). Nostalgia hits hard when we remember stupid stuff while messing around with friends :D
I'm still friends with some people I met in-game. At the time I probably seemed old to some of them (mid to late-20s back then) but now I'm 44 and they are in their 30s so we're all on equal footing.
Well, I am 49 and I still miss this game I played 20 years ago. Sometimes I need to see a video with prontera and the music to feel that everything will be ok
32 year old Filipino here. I have a lot of core memories from this game, especially with its vast world and its unforgettable soundtrack. I fondly remember buying stacks of prepaid ISP cards and using a crappy modem with like 50 kbps just to be able to play this game. Taking my first few steps crossing that bridge in the novice area with "One Step Closer" playing in the background was quite magical. I'd imagine that's how being isekai'd would feel. I started out in Payon, hung around Payon Dungeon and kept partying up with a lot of people like me who didn't even know what we were supposed to be doing other than killing porings and zombies to level up. Loved the social aspects when the game just started and everyone was just vibing. When I got into high school, I bought official guide books of this game and would nerd out with my classmates. I was also quite the naive and idealistic kid at the time, so it was quite a frustrating experience getting introduced to online scammers, chiksilogs, and other scummy people for the first time, lol. I had like 2 phases with the game: during its initial release/run (like 2004-2012) and later on in my mid 20s (2017s?) when I started playing on the Ragnarok RE:Start server. During the latter, I was more knowledgeable of the game and so I was able to engage more with its end-game stuff like boss hunting, forging, peddling, selling leeching services, and of course the War of Emperium sieges while vibing to my fave track from the game "Wanna Be Free!!." God those were such fun days, hanging out with my guildmates after WoE and just trolling/fooling around in West Prontera (/gg). Just sad that people sometimes have to drift apart cuz of life. Even sadder that I don't really have anyone irl to share these core memories of mine with. Anyways, quite happy that I stumbled upon this video. Thank you for your amazing work, taking me on a very nostalgic trip down memory lane.
I'm still with the man I met 15 years ago on iRO. He took me as I was, never asking me to make a bomber or a champ to be more efficient. We worked together with what we had to achieve our goals. When we finally made our first hundred million zeny and dropped our first MvP card, we decided to give it a try for real, to find out if we worked as well in real life as we do in-game. It turns out we did, and now every day I wake up thinking, "Just another day in Jawai (paradise)" Sitting and reminiscing with him over this video has been so much fun. The memories feel so real. It reminds me of why I fell in love with him to begin with. From stories I've heard around the internet, it seems RO is especially conducive to romance and relationship building, moreso than other MMOs it seems. I wonder why that is. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this as well as their own love stories - even if they were only fleeting ❤
RO was my second mmo at the time, just to relax from my hardcore playing in EQ. Havent met anyone myself, but had several friend couples that met in game. There's something about the old school mmos that really got people together.
I met a couple of suitors in RO in 2006 and 2007, our online romance ended not long after but I still met up with those two people in real life and we were friends for about 10 years before we naturally lost touch :)
Ive always said a similar thing. I do feel like after so many years this is becoming a serious thing that members of rune midgard really have life changing or altering experiences under their belt. I used to tell people back then but with the community so fractured, it was hard to meet anyone who could confirm my insane allegations. It all just sounds typical fan boy from the outside but in this case it's an unspoken IYKYK of indescribable proportions, just like the disturbingly heavy nostalgia no other media, game, or event has ever left. I give iRo credit for providing the environment i am most proud to be apart of. I'm more an iRo kid than a 90s kid, and im pretty damn 90s so that's heavy. Thank you for scratching the urge to leave a comment because it reminds us, the experienced, that we were never alone in the novel experience of having fallen into what i think was really the closest vision of an MMORPG and what could happen through community-based gaming. I know a lot of ppl jumped ship to WoW, but we all know it was a rebound game and lots of folks got married to the rebound out of spite and familiarity. Nothing is ragnarok and after 20 years, i have to tell people im from "the old internet". My biggest regret was thinking things would only get better into the future, and not realizing it was the bitcoin of gaming. Get on early, dont miss the airship to Juno(or Yuno, your choice) a flash in the pan, and a whole lifetime of intimate personal development squashed into a couple fast and DEDICATED years. (For those who dont understand the difference; in WoW you are pushed by time constraints and game mechanisms to pull hours and be consistent, you HAD to be there, the game punished laziness. In ragnarok we'd spend 18 hours on the computer just to hang in town and be with friends, maybe level or hunt cuz were bored or feeling frisky, but the game barely had a story, MVP monsters spawned regularly each day, no pressure to do anything at ALL. And yet we pulled hours that would make people sick today.) Ive never been able to convey to an outsider the accurate rendition, but seeing a 15 year partnership forged in iRo is so completely unsurprising to me, "well, yeah, of course." Thanks for making it to the end of what was supposed to be a "lol i remember" comment. This always happens lol.
I recommend FFXIV. You can still forge connections there. There's a lot of MMO's that's come close and even surpassed RO in that sensation. I don't recommend Star Trek Online though. It's not pay to win but the game is surviving entirely on the back of whales.
Everyone in the comments has such an emotional reaction to this game. I love it. This is how you know you have had a great experience playing something.
@@nicolasportela5513 As far as I can tell there is nothing for Europe. And I can't log into my old account, or register on iRO, because it seems to be ip locked. The only thing I had available, maybe officially, was something that felt like a High Rate private server, just that the high rates only applied to monsters, not players. Feels like Gravity is chasing me off to private servers.
@@ColdRolandYeah, on the one hand, I understand it's their IP. On the other hand, if you're not going to maintain the game... leave the private servers alone ):
This game taught me how to do business like buying blue gemstones for 300 zeny and go to the southwest of Prontera and put up a pub that says "Warp GH for 1,000 zeny". That was 20 years ago and it's still fresh in my mind.
Absolutely amazing content. Miss the old days where playing RO and studying were just about all I had to worry about in life, simpler times those were, lol. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Doddler!
@@johnnyMcSheep I would say the feeling of exploration coupled with how "new" it all felt. It was my first MMO, and I reckon it was the same for a lot of people, and the game's nature of being grindy lent itself so well to just meeting new people and trying out weird things and reaching new areas almost accidentally. Exploring without markers telling you where you should go was a blast.
@@johnnyMcSheepim hijacking this comment but for me it was really all about meeting new people, forming friendships and comraderies. i liked the game of course, but the people first and foremost are what made it so special to me. im still friends with some people i met almost 20 years ago in this game lol
Makes me tear up as well... it was soooo wonderful! But I strongly believe, there will be times in which we will find a new home again, or be able to get back to the good old home that we loved the most, one day... there are so many possibilities. Just don't give up on finding the home our hearts desire! :)
@@tobimaruleetrust me bro, RO chromosome was infested in to mine, your and them have no way to delete that beautiful memories out of us😊😊😊 RO will always be there, inside us🤧
I was looking for this comment! When Morroc was destroyed and playing the game then after spending so much time there, that feeling was like never being able to go home for me.
When I played this I was 13... that was 20 years ago.. when i posted this message it was 2023, but i miss this game like it was 2100 already. Idk why no other game has made me feel such nostalgia, its the only game i break when i hear the music. Wonderful. Gravity what i could pay you if you remastered this...
@@johnnyMcSheep I cannot really put it into text, its like the whole thing. I guess it's better felt with an excerpt (sorry, it will be long, i get very emotional when writting about Ro): " Imagine being at school, its almost leaving time, your parents come pick you up. You lunch extra fast and run to the computer room, you turn on that windows XP and while MSN messenger is loading you don't hesitate to double click on the ragnarok online desktop icon, its going to take a while to load, but you know it will be worth it. You hear the nifelheim song while you login into your account, you hear the "bell" SFX and load your lvl 23 archer into the entrance of payon dungeon, right where you left it the past night. You start receiving the "hello messages" from all the guild members while you hear the payon theme (29:30), someone invites you to a party of 2, an acolyte and a thief. You all buff yourself outside of the dungeon and enter to kill some skeletons, poporings, and the usual zoombie while the intense music plays. After a while, you go to payon dungeon level 2 (theme at 31:40) to just get your first Appe O' Archer hat! Now its getting late, your parents are calling you to dinner, but you decide to take the sandwitch to the room, you eat it while everybody in the party is sitting around payon dungeon level 2, you're chatting about that rare Skeleton Soldier card the thief wants to get once he's an assasin, or dream about participating in your guild War of Emperium once you all get the level for it. Its almost sleep time by now, and you got to level very close to be a hunter with the party, the acolyte decides to go to make her class change quest, and you decide to go with the thief to level up at Toy Factory level 1, to try to kill some gift boxes. You miss a lot and sometimes the box hits you like 1K and kills you. Decide to go back to payon city and just chill for the rest of the day.... You go to sleep, thinking how cool the priest was when helping, how hard your double strafe was hitting at level 10 and how much difference that apple O' archer was doing by giving you that extra Dexterity. Tomorrow is a good day again..! "
it really won't be the same. none of us would be able to just sit down at random spots chatting for hours. my spot was the floating mushroom island thing in the sky outside of geffen. i remember there would be one shining plant there too haha edit: omg its at 14:50 ToT
For me this game is the best MMORPG ever made, Whenever I played Ragnarok online I was happy, this game never made me sick or sad, not even the community did that to me, I will always have Ragnarok online in my heart!!!
I'm not crying, you're crying 😭 It is shocking to me how well my mind remembers the layout of these areas. 35 year old here, and both found parts of myself and a lot of lifelong friends in private servers of this game in like... '04? '05? Nothing beats RO with your buddies. I wouldn't trade these memories for anything. Thank you so much for uploading this warm, nostalgic trip to my youth.
I played this during some pretty bad times in my youth and I was able to just escape into a different world for hours. Boy, I miss all the adventures, discoveries, and even just grinding with my friends. I don't think a thing like RO can ever happen again. So let's all cherish what we had!
Im 33 years old now and i played euRO from age 15 onwards. Throughout my twenties and even to this day i keep coming back via private servers and iRO. This game has a special place in my heart. Nothing comes close to the MMORPG feeling back in those days in the early to mid 2000s. The sheer amount of content, the complex class system, the sense of exploration in a big world with many dangers, the rarity of many items/cards/equips... All of this makes the content of games like this a true achievement. There was a whole buzzing economy going on. I spent days farming, checking stores and prices, selling/trading with other people. I was a real ingame-hustler:) Especially during autumn/halloween and christmas time this game was so magical man... Nothing comes close to these gaming experiences. Im playing WoW Season of Discovery now and its very fun, yet deep in my heart i would really just love to play RO again with a little modernization and quality of life changes. Im from EU/Austria btw.
The theme of Prontera is so etched deep in my bones that no matter how life turned out to be, I will always remember I was a part of this wonderful city.
I love reading these comments, like others than me are still nostalgic about this game. I have such great memories on it. I'm still in touch with one of my closest friend who also played Ro, and sometimes we just talk about it, like how we used to lead WoE with our little guild, back in the days. Honestly, I'm not sure there will be another game like that one. I loved the PvE, but it was nothing like how good the PvP et GvG were.
The only MMO that I actually invested a huge amount of time into. I was never incredibly good at the game, but I’d be so happy just walking around with my Archbishop and “living” in the world. 😊 Thank you for this! This moment of reminiscing is precious.
This was the most peaceful game with the best community ever. In no game after RO have I ever encountered strangers randomly and just teamed up for a party this easily. If you were out of MP you sat down together and just small talked forever. Nowadays people just want to reach the end asap and sitting down together and just chat is considered a waste of time. Today MMO's are more designed to divide the community than bring them together like RO, or most old-school MMOs, did. I will never have this much fun in any MMO again.
It was absolutely massive, and every inch was handcrafted. It felt like you could explore for hours and still find some knick knack or wall hanging someone placed with thoughtful care. Every monster was hand drawn and animated, every track composed with love and attention. Logging into Ragnarok Online was like descending into a beautiful dream, there was nothing like it before it and nothing like it after.
I played on a private server in my early teens, going through a lot of health issues. I spent hours in bed playing this- for the longest time I had a screenshot of my name being announced as who defeated another guild's Emperium! It was a silly little accomplishment. I even remember ragnarok being the first place I did Art commissions... I wish it was easier to jump back into this game. But now with everything going on in my life... And so many people that dedicated their time to this being so far ahead... This video truly brought a tear to my eye. Remembering my Wanderer and her little pet Lunatic, My Assassin X squashing presents in the Toy Factory. First being shown the Heart on Jawaii. There are so many memories, and what hurts most is not having the time to get back into it.
As soon as the Prontera City song kicked in I ugly cried irl a mix of happier days but also so many MANY regrets and old wounds. Thank you regardless. EDIT: Now I vented at myself on how much past me was a better person and how I let him down. welp... step 1 for healing is acceptance, I NEEDED this, badly.
I know how you feel, I used to be a very kind and gentle individual but usually all the hate I've been around when growing up as an adult allowed me to develop but also sometimes driven to feelings of hatred that I needed some self reflection that "This isn't how I was". this self reflection can help you accept that you are indeed walking a wrong path and action needs to be taken. Hope you do find light in your journey.
I'm staring at a stranger faint in the mirror He's looking like a ghost in human form That used to be my head but the occupant has fled Lord, where's the good man gone? My eyes are like two troopers in a foxhole I'm doing things I used to know were wrong I've hurt all my friends and I'll do it again Lord, where's the good man gone? ...
We all go through different experiences and these experiences change and shape us whether we like it or not. I hope you find your happy place again soon.
Every time i look up ragnarok online content i read these wholesome comments. People who look back on the good old times. Makes me so happy that i wasnt the only one who feels that ragnarok online was not just a game, but truly something special.
Can't believe it's been 20 years since I first played the game. I remember sitting in Geffen just to listen to the music. Running Mag parties in Glastheim. Selling my first Emperium for big bucks.
Whenever I think about this game I almost want to reinstall it, knowing full well that with the busy life that I have, I shouldn't. I'll always fondly remember my characters and the friends I made along the way.
It is the best MMO I have ever seen and played. The classic 1-1 and 2-1 classes was the best experience ever, with so many builds and combinations without any real META yet. This game was amazing because people made it awesome! There was very little grinding need and money greed back then, very social often sitting and chatting by campfire and in towns for hours and hours. Building up your guild, helping friends level or gear up, it was all so organic, so nice and pure... filled with emotions and love. Every map is etched with tons of memories for all the players combined and all the characters they ever played. The card drop hunting was the best edition which never made old content die out. We will never see something as beautiful as Ragnarok again, it was truly a gift and a treasure for our childhood !
RO was absolutely money greed here in indonesia, back then you have to pay some kind of login fees everytime you play/login in, and its only last long for several hours, after that you have to pay another pennies to extend your playing time, not to mentioning how hard is to level up and the penalty exp you had when died is so fucking heartbreaking, however im still loving this damned game, got a lot of friend that i never met but good memories, even until know im still playing on some private server just for pvp-woe
This guy right here, absolutely gets it. Around 5 years ago, I made a simple Flash SWF, where 4 Poring-types would hop around on a random timer, just to enjoy the sounds of the game, whilst listening to the BGMs (E.g. Peaceful Forest), but I wish I could- or someone else, would do a slow-pan over the maps, with the sounds and the respective BGMs and... here we are, half a decade later, you, answering a humble old prayer. 🙏😊 I had still only just gotten through the Prontera area of this video, before realizing this was a 2½ hour treat! I love the low-angle shots, taking off for an overhead view, seeing the world and it's monsters, having "Mini-bosses" and MVP bosses roam about, ready to be spotted, bringing back memories of the various encounters I've had and all the cool loot I'd found occasionally. 😁 This is absolutely astonishing! Thank you very much for taking your time to create this. ❤ *One final edit:* While loving the player-free environment, I DO enjoy the occasional little cameos, like the two Swordies at 2:20 chilling to the calm BGM, sound of water and an occasional Poring hopping by. But the one that absolutely cracked me up, was the Glast Heim Graveyard cameo at 2:15:20 🤣 ANYONE who leveled Acolyte, knew exaaaactly what this was about, right here. Fantastic 👏 Shoutout to my favorite little sh1t 🦊 right here. 35:34 Running around, ringing that big bell-ona-stick of hers. Good times.
One of the things ive missed from RO is the background music setting the mood, as well as the huge and varying landscapes that make the world feel vast and mysterious. Nowadays, most games are relatively small in size, and do not have the same difference in atmosphere. In RO you can go from a happy go lucky city, to a hidden labyrinth, to a modern lab where ghosts of the past kill anything on site, to towers to face gods, and down to hell to face literal satan. RO was one of a kind, and ive honestly played a ton of games in trying to capture the same type of feel but nothing compares. That being said, i can without the horrific grind and some clunky systems, as well as relatively low ceiling for skill expression. Wish they made a real RO successor.
RO was a canon event for a lot of milennials/boomer here. -From 0 to 100 spam clicks when there's card drops. -Spending 300z for blue gemstone to warp people to dungeons on spawn point. -Got killed by Greatest General? blame lag -The massive grind on Payon dungeon 4 (1x exp server)
Thank you so much ❤❤❤I’ve been missing this all my life. Two decades ago when I was first introduced to RO …met three wonderful people here who stole my ❤and met three of them in real life , isn’t that crazy ?! One in 🇯🇵, the other in the 🇺🇸 while I was traveling there during the Christmas season and in the 🇵🇭. They are all part of my RO life and RL memories❤❤❤.i love this moving video 💜You made my memory lane forever alive. So much appreciated.
Till today this game is still be my top MMORPG of all times. I still played the games, still doing video of the games, still new things I've learn in the games. From Classic to Pre Renewal and now Renewal. So much things happened for past 20 years of it life span. Old memories will lived, new memory created.
2003 playing this game. I ever wish live in this world with all my memories and friends. 34 years old, 1 daughter, till now i still play MMO. I hope everyone here have a good life.
Ragnarok is something I regret not growing up with. It looks like amazing nostalgia fuel. I didn't even play or know it existed and just by looking at it, i feel nostalgic for it. Imagine that feeling if I did play it. I was runescape and maplestory.
Yeah I played all of those, just think back to Henesys and Kerning City and Perion, riding the boat with your friends to El Nath/Ludi.. it was a simpler time.
Every MMO has it's story. If you look at old WoW videos, we who played WoW share our memories there. If you look at FFXI zone videos, we who played FFXI share our memories there. If you look at RO videos, yes indeed, we who played share our RO memories there as well. Same with Runescape, Maplestory, Fly, Rose Online, Anarchy Online, Matrix Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Auto Assault, Scarlet Blade, Ultima Online and many many many more. There's still MMO's around today and you can still make new and beautiful memories in them. I am making good memories with friends in FFXIV currently ^^ 20 years of MMO's and still going. So don't feel regret for what you didn't experience. You surely have stories others don't. They would feel equally about that ^^
Man.. I was quite young when RO came out. There was like this tacit hype for the game IRL; the dweebs were on Runescape and meatheads were on Tibia, but the REAL Gs somehow managed to get the pocket money to play RO. I was an anime fan so you can imagine how badly I wanted to get into literally the first anime-themed MMO I had ever seen, especially after seeing how beautiful the art was/is and seeing all the cool promo material. Unfortunately I was poor and couldn't play. One day though they launched a free trial pass for like a week or two. I can't even begin to describe how magical it was diving into Rune-Midgard. Diving into it I was already on cloud nine just launching the client with ADSL. While I was killing the slimes I felt like I was in that one episode of Chobits which was a Dragon Quest throwback. Felt like "yeah, finally I'm here. I'm finally experiencing that same culture that I've loved so much for the first time". Even trying to figure out the mysterious UI was wonderful-- who knows what's hiding behind the next button? But the most striking thing was walking into the city for the first time and seeing all the people there with their stalls, chatting and having fun. It was so overwhelmingly exciting, this sense of discovering a whole new world full of friends and adventure. That particular moment is something that I won't be able to forget for the rest of my life.
Cant believe Doddler is still around! And RO is so nostalgic because it had the best socialization potential, other MMOs feel like grinding and nothing more
I've played several mmorpgs during my adolescence, but every time people ask me, which one is the best? I answer "Ragnarok", this game has something special and magical that makes it unique, ragnarok has always been and will always be the best, thank you forever Ragnarok ❤
I love everything about this experience. Watched it with my wife over the span of a week and we shared so many memories in the process. While you expressed how long this project was, I would like to selfishly request it continue with even more areas of RO, shown in this fashion. And if that's not possible, then I whole heartedly thank you for putting this together.
I keep searching for a game that has the same pull this had on me and I still haven't found one. Dragon Nest is the only other thing anywhere close to it, and even then it isn't as pronounced or vivid and nostalgic for me. This game had me in such an incredible death grip, I swear to God. Even now the music calms me down when I feel overwhelmed or depressed or had a bad day. I loved the first server I ever played on so much that when it went down forever I made an entire fic for it that was supposed to be 5 chapters and ended up having over 150 and spanned years of writing without ever getting tired of it. I still remember every pet I had, what every character looked like, the friends I made, the names of monsters and their specific tp map names, what their cards did, the names of each song for each map...GOD I wish I could go back and play it for the first time all over again.
My childhood right here. Nothing will ever be like Ragnarok back in the day. The gameplay, the classes, the freaking music, the setting...all uniquely it's own. And let's not forget about the Kafra girls :D
Miss the old time when one was innocent yet energized to explore the world of ragnarok, making friends even into real life friends, learn microenomics, deceit and honesty, happy and sad, make social connection and relationship. Truly, unforgotten moment when first exploring the digital online world. It may be virtual, it holds precious and nostalgic memories
My childhood My sweet memories My adventure My businessman My guild and friendship My everything You can make new Ragnarok but they Will never be same And i Will remember those memories
Probably the closest thing to a time machine. Whenever I hear the BGMs of towns or playing it, it brought me back to my happiest, innocent days of my life. No depression, just pure joy, a special memory ❤️ The adventure, the community, I never played a game this immersive.
I love this game so much I could not let go of it, I play it to this day via private servers. Yet this brings me so much nostalgia for it will never be the same it once was, or perhaps I'm the one who changed.
Back then the internet was still new, so when joining in games it was a experience with the uknown nowadays people make guides about everything and datamine everything it becomes too much of a min/max experience and we also grown used to that comodity
Dammit Doddler I hate the fact that you just made me feel old as hell, but by god if this is not absolute BRILLIANCE!!!! This brings back so many WONDERFUL times playing this game, and your knowledge was always so valuable for all of us. Thank you friend, for your love and dedication to this great game!!!!!
this game to me never aged. The nostalgia is really real. I can feel and smell the internet cafe i used when i did my first hit in-game. truly, an incomparable game even to this generation.
This game gave me so many memories that I can't even count them. When I see all of these maps, I have memories on almost every one of these. I will never forget this amazing time. So many emotions. I found my wife and many of my friends there.
Oh boy does this bring me back. This was the kind of miracle that can only happen once in a lifetime. I might have to make a video on this one day, it's so dear to my heart. :
When im depressed and life’s been hard, I always come back to this is to reminisce all the fun and loving memories ive had with people and to go back to that feeling when we were just kids playing all day n night without any struggles in life or worries. All the stuff just hits me finishing endless tower going for mvp hunts pvps and competing in war of emperium then going back to where u guild’s safe place and talk with people is so mind refreshing. There will never be another game that can replace ragnarok and i know a lot of you will relate.
This video nearly made me cry when it started. All the memories, all the friends... simpler times. I wish I could enjoy that happiness again of discovering this world with friends and not a worry in the world. I will forever love Ragnarok Online, the best game that ever came to be.
it didn't brighten up my day. this just killed me back to bed, crying and reminiscing the nostalgia brought about as if i am walking in this world again. i miss my friends 😢
The nostalgia just hits me on every town that my heart always remembers. Geffen, Prontera, Aldebaran, Lutie, Morocc, Alberta, Payon, Izlude, Yuno... All these places. Ragnarok Online is and will foerver be the best game I've played. Nothing beats the memories shared by the playerbase.
Stuff like this makes me want to go back, but it's never the same. The magic, the friends, the experiences, they're all in the past. Even the server I once made and was super proud of, gone like dust in the wind. My name is Ozymandias, King of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair.
Im 33 this year. Ragnarok will be forever a game that will be instilled in my mind and heart. This game proves that adventure knows no limits. And friends along the way is the cherry on top that makes the game more fun and the grind so addicting.
Meu deussss, que vontade de chorar escutando essas músicas. Anos 2000 foi bom de mais, msn,Ragnarok, MTV. Boas lembranças que não volta mais. Saudades.
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This game will forever be a core memory for me in my early teen years. No MMO has ever come close to how I feel for this game.
ragnarok is the best game ever. no game will ever make me want to come back as much as ro, the nostalgia is real, the playstyle, the monsters, the bgm, everything is just perfect
Partly because MMO like this was still new for most people when it came out. There's just something different about the MMO experience when it was still fresh for everyone.
@@belldrop7365partially but it also had a lot of soul and love poured into it, awesome stat, skill character systems that allowed you to experiment with builds, a good world, great music, timeless graphics, and partying with, meeting people and forming long relationships was a result of the game
We old now but still core.
I was going to comment this.
As soon as Prontera's theme hits I instantly hear buffs and warps spamming in my head.
I remember selling warp to Glast heim as acolyte and a way to earn expenses for my hunter
😂😂😂
And the metal clanking sound for the upgrades.
@@tiefblau2780 Trade and TP out (some do this for a living back then. shame! -- but I gotta admit, I think a lot of us have tried doing these childish stuff back then to some degree). Nostalgia hits hard when we remember stupid stuff while messing around with friends :D
Even if you stopped playing half your life ago, you never truly outgrow Ragnarok.
- A fellow 30-year-old Ragnarok boomer.
I remember selling warp to Glast heim as acolyte and a way to earn expenses for my hunter
I still play today
28 year old Ragnarok boomer and this video is unlocking forgotten memories
I'm still friends with some people I met in-game. At the time I probably seemed old to some of them (mid to late-20s back then) but now I'm 44 and they are in their 30s so we're all on equal footing.
Well, I am 49 and I still miss this game I played 20 years ago. Sometimes I need to see a video with prontera and the music to feel that everything will be ok
As a 40yrs old man, this is whats making me relax. So many core memories..
Likewise, fellow adventurer 😉
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40y too ,music and game make me releax ,
32 year old Filipino here. I have a lot of core memories from this game, especially with its vast world and its unforgettable soundtrack. I fondly remember buying stacks of prepaid ISP cards and using a crappy modem with like 50 kbps just to be able to play this game. Taking my first few steps crossing that bridge in the novice area with "One Step Closer" playing in the background was quite magical. I'd imagine that's how being isekai'd would feel. I started out in Payon, hung around Payon Dungeon and kept partying up with a lot of people like me who didn't even know what we were supposed to be doing other than killing porings and zombies to level up. Loved the social aspects when the game just started and everyone was just vibing. When I got into high school, I bought official guide books of this game and would nerd out with my classmates. I was also quite the naive and idealistic kid at the time, so it was quite a frustrating experience getting introduced to online scammers, chiksilogs, and other scummy people for the first time, lol.
I had like 2 phases with the game: during its initial release/run (like 2004-2012) and later on in my mid 20s (2017s?) when I started playing on the Ragnarok RE:Start server. During the latter, I was more knowledgeable of the game and so I was able to engage more with its end-game stuff like boss hunting, forging, peddling, selling leeching services, and of course the War of Emperium sieges while vibing to my fave track from the game "Wanna Be Free!!." God those were such fun days, hanging out with my guildmates after WoE and just trolling/fooling around in West Prontera (/gg). Just sad that people sometimes have to drift apart cuz of life. Even sadder that I don't really have anyone irl to share these core memories of mine with.
Anyways, quite happy that I stumbled upon this video. Thank you for your amazing work, taking me on a very nostalgic trip down memory lane.
I'm still with the man I met 15 years ago on iRO.
He took me as I was, never asking me to make a bomber or a champ to be more efficient.
We worked together with what we had to achieve our goals.
When we finally made our first hundred million zeny and dropped our first MvP card, we decided to give it a try for real, to find out if we worked as well in real life as we do in-game.
It turns out we did, and now every day I wake up thinking, "Just another day in Jawai (paradise)"
Sitting and reminiscing with him over this video has been so much fun. The memories feel so real. It reminds me of why I fell in love with him to begin with.
From stories I've heard around the internet, it seems RO is especially conducive to romance and relationship building, moreso than other MMOs it seems.
I wonder why that is. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this as well as their own love stories - even if they were only fleeting ❤
RO was my second mmo at the time, just to relax from my hardcore playing in EQ. Havent met anyone myself, but had several friend couples that met in game. There's something about the old school mmos that really got people together.
I met a couple of suitors in RO in 2006 and 2007, our online romance ended not long after but I still met up with those two people in real life and we were friends for about 10 years before we naturally lost touch :)
If I remember correctly RO had a fairly prominent "marriage system" that was a bit uncommon in MMOs at the time. I'm sure that helped!
How cute! Merry Christmas to you both.
Ive always said a similar thing. I do feel like after so many years this is becoming a serious thing that members of rune midgard really have life changing or altering experiences under their belt. I used to tell people back then but with the community so fractured, it was hard to meet anyone who could confirm my insane allegations. It all just sounds typical fan boy from the outside but in this case it's an unspoken IYKYK of indescribable proportions, just like the disturbingly heavy nostalgia no other media, game, or event has ever left.
I give iRo credit for providing the environment i am most proud to be apart of. I'm more an iRo kid than a 90s kid, and im pretty damn 90s so that's heavy. Thank you for scratching the urge to leave a comment because it reminds us, the experienced, that we were never alone in the novel experience of having fallen into what i think was really the closest vision of an MMORPG and what could happen through community-based gaming.
I know a lot of ppl jumped ship to WoW, but we all know it was a rebound game and lots of folks got married to the rebound out of spite and familiarity. Nothing is ragnarok and after 20 years, i have to tell people im from "the old internet". My biggest regret was thinking things would only get better into the future, and not realizing it was the bitcoin of gaming. Get on early, dont miss the airship to Juno(or Yuno, your choice) a flash in the pan, and a whole lifetime of intimate personal development squashed into a couple fast and DEDICATED years.
(For those who dont understand the difference; in WoW you are pushed by time constraints and game mechanisms to pull hours and be consistent, you HAD to be there, the game punished laziness. In ragnarok we'd spend 18 hours on the computer just to hang in town and be with friends, maybe level or hunt cuz were bored or feeling frisky, but the game barely had a story, MVP monsters spawned regularly each day, no pressure to do anything at ALL. And yet we pulled hours that would make people sick today.) Ive never been able to convey to an outsider the accurate rendition, but seeing a 15 year partnership forged in iRo is so completely unsurprising to me, "well, yeah, of course." Thanks for making it to the end of what was supposed to be a "lol i remember" comment. This always happens lol.
So many million people on this planet and no one creates a game that comes close... after so many years.
The system is different. Its a subscription, games nowadays is in pay to win or gacha system
I recommend FFXIV. You can still forge connections there.
There's a lot of MMO's that's come close and even surpassed RO in that sensation.
I don't recommend Star Trek Online though.
It's not pay to win but the game is surviving entirely on the back of whales.
world of warcraft. Its the other way around.
I remember selling warp to Glast heim as acolyte and a way to earn expenses for my hunter
Tree of Saviors was the closest one at the start, then management crapped all over the gam, now is dead garbage.
引退して10年近く経つけど、ログインゲームだったころが何気に一番楽しかったな。どこも人に溢れてて、攻城戦もシミュレーションゲームみたいに重くてさ。
本当にいい時代でしたね。
Everyone in the comments has such an emotional reaction to this game. I love it. This is how you know you have had a great experience playing something.
And then they drove it into the ground AND then took any way to play it away from us. Fucking Gravity.../omg
Ya right? It's one of those games that has moved an entire generation of player, love to see everyone had such a good time :D
@@ColdRoland Is the official server gone? if so you can still play on private servers
@@nicolasportela5513 As far as I can tell there is nothing for Europe. And I can't log into my old account, or register on iRO, because it seems to be ip locked.
The only thing I had available, maybe officially, was something that felt like a High Rate private server, just that the high rates only applied to monsters, not players.
Feels like Gravity is chasing me off to private servers.
@@ColdRolandYeah, on the one hand, I understand it's their IP. On the other hand, if you're not going to maintain the game... leave the private servers alone ):
This game taught me how to do business like buying blue gemstones for 300 zeny and go to the southwest of Prontera and put up a pub that says "Warp GH for 1,000 zeny". That was 20 years ago and it's still fresh in my mind.
and logging out!!
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@@extraordinarydave teleport is easier 🤭
@@RahulBajaj-ov3hz can you send me the link
Absolutely amazing content. Miss the old days where playing RO and studying were just about all I had to worry about in life, simpler times those were, lol. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Doddler!
What one thing about RO would you say you enjoyed the most? Combat? Exploration? Hoarding loot?
I am playing RO Landverse now. There are a lot of People there
@@johnnyMcSheep I would say the feeling of exploration coupled with how "new" it all felt. It was my first MMO, and I reckon it was the same for a lot of people, and the game's nature of being grindy lent itself so well to just meeting new people and trying out weird things and reaching new areas almost accidentally. Exploring without markers telling you where you should go was a blast.
Damn spoiled parasitic kids with parents...
@@johnnyMcSheepim hijacking this comment but for me it was really all about meeting new people, forming friendships and comraderies. i liked the game of course, but the people first and foremost are what made it so special to me. im still friends with some people i met almost 20 years ago in this game lol
I cannot put in words how I miss those days... if I could travel time...
makes you tear up. you really can never go home again
Makes me tear up as well... it was soooo wonderful!
But I strongly believe, there will be times in which we will find a new home again, or be able to get back to the good old home that we loved the most, one day... there are so many possibilities. Just don't give up on finding the home our hearts desire! :)
@@tobimaruleetrust me bro, RO chromosome was infested in to mine, your and them
have no way to delete that beautiful memories out of us😊😊😊
RO will always be there, inside us🤧
I was looking for this comment! When Morroc was destroyed and playing the game then after spending so much time there, that feeling was like never being able to go home for me.
Ragnarok will forever be in my heart.
saludos del anti cristo 666
When I played this I was 13... that was 20 years ago.. when i posted this message it was 2023, but i miss this game like it was 2100 already. Idk why no other game has made me feel such nostalgia, its the only game i break when i hear the music. Wonderful.
Gravity what i could pay you if you remastered this...
It's the music.
Same bruh 😂
The music is so naive. Just like the game's composer. Heard he was 12 when he composed the OST in the original ep 1 RO.😢😅
What one thing about RO would you say you enjoyed the most? Combat? Exploration? Hoarding loot?
@@johnnyMcSheep I cannot really put it into text, its like the whole thing. I guess it's better felt with an excerpt (sorry, it will be long, i get very emotional when writting about Ro):
"
Imagine being at school, its almost leaving time, your parents come pick you up. You lunch extra fast and run to the computer room, you turn on that windows XP and while MSN messenger is loading you don't hesitate to double click on the ragnarok online desktop icon, its going to take a while to load, but you know it will be worth it.
You hear the nifelheim song while you login into your account, you hear the "bell" SFX and load your lvl 23 archer into the entrance of payon dungeon, right where you left it the past night. You start receiving the "hello messages" from all the guild members while you hear the payon theme (29:30), someone invites you to a party of 2, an acolyte and a thief.
You all buff yourself outside of the dungeon and enter to kill some skeletons, poporings, and the usual zoombie while the intense music plays. After a while, you go to payon dungeon level 2 (theme at 31:40) to just get your first Appe O' Archer hat!
Now its getting late, your parents are calling you to dinner, but you decide to take the sandwitch to the room, you eat it while everybody in the party is sitting around payon dungeon level 2, you're chatting about that rare Skeleton Soldier card the thief wants to get once he's an assasin, or dream about participating in your guild War of Emperium once you all get the level for it.
Its almost sleep time by now, and you got to level very close to be a hunter with the party, the acolyte decides to go to make her class change quest, and you decide to go with the thief to level up at Toy Factory level 1, to try to kill some gift boxes. You miss a lot and sometimes the box hits you like 1K and kills you. Decide to go back to payon city and just chill for the rest of the day....
You go to sleep, thinking how cool the priest was when helping, how hard your double strafe was hitting at level 10 and how much difference that apple O' archer was doing by giving you that extra Dexterity.
Tomorrow is a good day again..!
"
it really won't be the same. none of us would be able to just sit down at random spots chatting for hours. my spot was the floating mushroom island thing in the sky outside of geffen. i remember there would be one shining plant there too haha
edit: omg its at 14:50 ToT
if Isekai is real this is the world I like to be transported to.
Hell yeah!
and ended up in GH 🤣
For me this game is the best MMORPG ever made, Whenever I played Ragnarok online I was happy, this game never made me sick or sad, not even the community did that to me, I will always have Ragnarok online in my heart!!!
I'm not crying, you're crying 😭
It is shocking to me how well my mind remembers the layout of these areas. 35 year old here, and both found parts of myself and a lot of lifelong friends in private servers of this game in like... '04? '05?
Nothing beats RO with your buddies. I wouldn't trade these memories for anything. Thank you so much for uploading this warm, nostalgic trip to my youth.
I played this during some pretty bad times in my youth and I was able to just escape into a different world for hours. Boy, I miss all the adventures, discoveries, and even just grinding with my friends. I don't think a thing like RO can ever happen again. So let's all cherish what we had!
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Im 33 years old now and i played euRO from age 15 onwards. Throughout my twenties and even to this day i keep coming back via private servers and iRO. This game has a special place in my heart. Nothing comes close to the MMORPG feeling back in those days in the early to mid 2000s. The sheer amount of content, the complex class system, the sense of exploration in a big world with many dangers, the rarity of many items/cards/equips... All of this makes the content of games like this a true achievement. There was a whole buzzing economy going on. I spent days farming, checking stores and prices, selling/trading with other people. I was a real ingame-hustler:) Especially during autumn/halloween and christmas time this game was so magical man... Nothing comes close to these gaming experiences. Im playing WoW Season of Discovery now and its very fun, yet deep in my heart i would really just love to play RO again with a little modernization and quality of life changes. Im from EU/Austria btw.
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My favorite game :) back in 2005
Me tooooo 2003-2007
31:40 - This was the place of inspiring Priest/Monk builds. This is where we started our journey.
Bro made ragnarok online content for 17 years already, mad dedication ❤️❤️❤️
The theme of Prontera is so etched deep in my bones that no matter how life turned out to be, I will always remember I was a part of this wonderful city.
6:04 Behind the bench on the right was the meetup spot for my friends and I after school
I love reading these comments, like others than me are still nostalgic about this game. I have such great memories on it. I'm still in touch with one of my closest friend who also played Ro, and sometimes we just talk about it, like how we used to lead WoE with our little guild, back in the days. Honestly, I'm not sure there will be another game like that one. I loved the PvE, but it was nothing like how good the PvP et GvG were.
The only MMO that I actually invested a huge amount of time into. I was never incredibly good at the game, but I’d be so happy just walking around with my Archbishop and “living” in the world. 😊
Thank you for this! This moment of reminiscing is precious.
This was the most peaceful game with the best community ever. In no game after RO have I ever encountered strangers randomly and just teamed up for a party this easily.
If you were out of MP you sat down together and just small talked forever. Nowadays people just want to reach the end asap and sitting down together and just chat is considered a waste of time. Today MMO's are more designed to divide the community than bring them together like RO, or most old-school MMOs, did.
I will never have this much fun in any MMO again.
It was absolutely massive, and every inch was handcrafted. It felt like you could explore for hours and still find some knick knack or wall hanging someone placed with thoughtful care. Every monster was hand drawn and animated, every track composed with love and attention. Logging into Ragnarok Online was like descending into a beautiful dream, there was nothing like it before it and nothing like it after.
There's been plenty like it after. Every MMO has it's story and people.
@@Zeithri Nothing like RO.
I played on a private server in my early teens, going through a lot of health issues. I spent hours in bed playing this- for the longest time I had a screenshot of my name being announced as who defeated another guild's Emperium! It was a silly little accomplishment. I even remember ragnarok being the first place I did Art commissions...
I wish it was easier to jump back into this game. But now with everything going on in my life... And so many people that dedicated their time to this being so far ahead...
This video truly brought a tear to my eye. Remembering my Wanderer and her little pet Lunatic, My Assassin X squashing presents in the Toy Factory. First being shown the Heart on Jawaii.
There are so many memories, and what hurts most is not having the time to get back into it.
Life was way simpler back when I used to only play Ragnarok everyday. Really miss those good old days as a kid.
Best years of my life.
自分が唯一ハマったMMOであるROで過ごした時間は色褪せる事はないしリアルの思い出と同じくらいに大事なものだよ。
concordo
プロ東でポリンをアコライトで叩く音を思い出したり、ゲフェンタワーや炭鉱のBGMが好きだったり、ソルスケc深淵cを狙ったこと、GvGで鯖対抗もしたことすべてが懐かしくいい思い出。
接近に失敗しました。
As soon as the Prontera City song kicked in I ugly cried irl a mix of happier days but also so many MANY regrets and old wounds. Thank you regardless.
EDIT: Now I vented at myself on how much past me was a better person and how I let him down. welp... step 1 for healing is acceptance, I NEEDED this, badly.
I know how you feel, I used to be a very kind and gentle individual but usually all the hate I've been around when growing up as an adult allowed me to develop but also sometimes driven to feelings of hatred that I needed some self reflection that "This isn't how I was". this self reflection can help you accept that you are indeed walking a wrong path and action needs to be taken. Hope you do find light in your journey.
hey, it sounds like you're on a journey with some demons to fight, just want to wish you all the best
I'm staring at a stranger faint in the mirror
He's looking like a ghost in human form
That used to be my head but the occupant has fled
Lord, where's the good man gone?
My eyes are like two troopers in a foxhole
I'm doing things I used to know were wrong
I've hurt all my friends and I'll do it again
Lord, where's the good man gone?
...
We all go through different experiences and these experiences change and shape us whether we like it or not. I hope you find your happy place again soon.
βテストから10年弱やってたけど本当に楽しかった…戻りたいあの頃に🥲感動的な動画をありがとうございます。。
Every time i look up ragnarok online content i read these wholesome comments. People who look back on the good old times. Makes me so happy that i wasnt the only one who feels that ragnarok online was not just a game, but truly something special.
BGMがいいんだよな。頭に色付けられてるからあの頃の思い出がすぐよみがえる。
Can't believe it's been 20 years since I first played the game. I remember sitting in Geffen just to listen to the music. Running Mag parties in Glastheim. Selling my first Emperium for big bucks.
that feel when you go to GH just to hunt and farm abyssmal knight together with random people or your friends....
Payon music will always be my favorite
Whenever I think about this game I almost want to reinstall it, knowing full well that with the busy life that I have, I shouldn't.
I'll always fondly remember my characters and the friends I made along the way.
haha I did and it is as you say... first day 8 hours straight
@@MarvelMaster be sure not to ruin your private live! hehe.
It is the best MMO I have ever seen and played. The classic 1-1 and 2-1 classes was the best experience ever, with so many builds and combinations without any real META yet.
This game was amazing because people made it awesome! There was very little grinding need and money greed back then, very social often sitting and chatting by campfire and in towns for hours and hours. Building up your guild, helping friends level or gear up, it was all so organic, so nice and pure... filled with emotions and love.
Every map is etched with tons of memories for all the players combined and all the characters they ever played. The card drop hunting was the best edition which never made old content die out.
We will never see something as beautiful as Ragnarok again, it was truly a gift and a treasure for our childhood !
RO was absolutely money greed here in indonesia, back then you have to pay some kind of login fees everytime you play/login in, and its only last long for several hours, after that you have to pay another pennies to extend your playing time, not to mentioning how hard is to level up and the penalty exp you had when died is so fucking heartbreaking, however im still loving this damned game, got a lot of friend that i never met but good memories, even until know im still playing on some private server just for pvp-woe
Nailed it!
This guy right here, absolutely gets it.
Around 5 years ago, I made a simple Flash SWF, where 4 Poring-types would hop around on a random timer, just to enjoy the sounds of the game, whilst listening to the BGMs (E.g. Peaceful Forest), but I wish I could- or someone else, would do a slow-pan over the maps, with the sounds and the respective BGMs and... here we are, half a decade later, you, answering a humble old prayer. 🙏😊
I had still only just gotten through the Prontera area of this video, before realizing this was a 2½ hour treat! I love the low-angle shots, taking off for an overhead view, seeing the world and it's monsters, having "Mini-bosses" and MVP bosses roam about, ready to be spotted, bringing back memories of the various encounters I've had and all the cool loot I'd found occasionally.
😁 This is absolutely astonishing! Thank you very much for taking your time to create this. ❤
*One final edit:* While loving the player-free environment, I DO enjoy the occasional little cameos, like the two Swordies at 2:20 chilling to the calm BGM, sound of water and an occasional Poring hopping by. But the one that absolutely cracked me up, was the Glast Heim Graveyard cameo at 2:15:20 🤣 ANYONE who leveled Acolyte, knew exaaaactly what this was about, right here. Fantastic 👏
Shoutout to my favorite little sh1t 🦊 right here. 35:34 Running around, ringing that big bell-ona-stick of hers. Good times.
Omg is this real Daniel Renard? Huge fan of your animations dude!
@@arrashishiv1591 It's Mystia Guy! 💕
Why?!!!!! Nostalgic!!!!! ❤ I miss everything!
One of the things ive missed from RO is the background music setting the mood, as well as the huge and varying landscapes that make the world feel vast and mysterious. Nowadays, most games are relatively small in size, and do not have the same difference in atmosphere. In RO you can go from a happy go lucky city, to a hidden labyrinth, to a modern lab where ghosts of the past kill anything on site, to towers to face gods, and down to hell to face literal satan. RO was one of a kind, and ive honestly played a ton of games in trying to capture the same type of feel but nothing compares.
That being said, i can without the horrific grind and some clunky systems, as well as relatively low ceiling for skill expression.
Wish they made a real RO successor.
Watch RO videos with the soundtrack is the absolutely peak nostalgia a human can felt, 100%
tears of nostalgia. I miss my friends ((
You can't go back, but you can always look back fondly. Thank you.
RO was a canon event for a lot of milennials/boomer here.
-From 0 to 100 spam clicks when there's card drops.
-Spending 300z for blue gemstone to warp people to dungeons on spawn point.
-Got killed by Greatest General? blame lag
-The massive grind on Payon dungeon 4 (1x exp server)
I'm back in 2003 again. Good times! Thank you for this masterpiece.
Thank you so much ❤❤❤I’ve been missing this all my life. Two decades ago when I was first introduced to RO …met three wonderful people here who stole my ❤and met three of them in real life , isn’t that crazy ?! One in 🇯🇵, the other in the 🇺🇸 while I was traveling there during the Christmas season and in the 🇵🇭. They are all part of my RO life and RL memories❤❤❤.i love this moving video 💜You made my memory lane forever alive. So much appreciated.
Till today this game is still be my top MMORPG of all times. I still played the games, still doing video of the games, still new things I've learn in the games. From Classic to Pre Renewal and now Renewal. So much things happened for past 20 years of it life span. Old memories will lived, new memory created.
2003 playing this game.
I ever wish live in this world with all my memories and friends. 34 years old, 1 daughter, till now i still play MMO.
I hope everyone here have a good life.
Ragnarok is something I regret not growing up with. It looks like amazing nostalgia fuel. I didn't even play or know it existed and just by looking at it, i feel nostalgic for it. Imagine that feeling if I did play it. I was runescape and maplestory.
Yeah I played all of those, just think back to Henesys and Kerning City and Perion, riding the boat with your friends to El Nath/Ludi.. it was a simpler time.
Every MMO has it's story.
If you look at old WoW videos, we who played WoW share our memories there.
If you look at FFXI zone videos, we who played FFXI share our memories there.
If you look at RO videos, yes indeed, we who played share our RO memories there as well.
Same with Runescape, Maplestory, Fly, Rose Online, Anarchy Online, Matrix Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Auto Assault, Scarlet Blade, Ultima Online and many many many more.
There's still MMO's around today and you can still make new and beautiful memories in them.
I am making good memories with friends in FFXIV currently ^^ 20 years of MMO's and still going.
So don't feel regret for what you didn't experience. You surely have stories others don't.
They would feel equally about that ^^
Man.. I was quite young when RO came out. There was like this tacit hype for the game IRL; the dweebs were on Runescape and meatheads were on Tibia, but the REAL Gs somehow managed to get the pocket money to play RO. I was an anime fan so you can imagine how badly I wanted to get into literally the first anime-themed MMO I had ever seen, especially after seeing how beautiful the art was/is and seeing all the cool promo material. Unfortunately I was poor and couldn't play. One day though they launched a free trial pass for like a week or two. I can't even begin to describe how magical it was diving into Rune-Midgard.
Diving into it I was already on cloud nine just launching the client with ADSL. While I was killing the slimes I felt like I was in that one episode of Chobits which was a Dragon Quest throwback. Felt like "yeah, finally I'm here. I'm finally experiencing that same culture that I've loved so much for the first time". Even trying to figure out the mysterious UI was wonderful-- who knows what's hiding behind the next button?
But the most striking thing was walking into the city for the first time and seeing all the people there with their stalls, chatting and having fun. It was so overwhelmingly exciting, this sense of discovering a whole new world full of friends and adventure. That particular moment is something that I won't be able to forget for the rest of my life.
Remember spending days straight in the argiope map, and the hode, and goblin map, good memories Thanks Mr oracle.
Cant believe Doddler is still around! And RO is so nostalgic because it had the best socialization potential, other MMOs feel like grinding and nothing more
普段見知ったマップのはずなのに、違う視点から見るととても感動してしまう。
世界がつながってるのは素晴らしい！
I've played several mmorpgs during my adolescence, but every time people ask me, which one is the best? I answer "Ragnarok", this game has something special and magical that makes it unique, ragnarok has always been and will always be the best, thank you forever Ragnarok ❤
I love everything about this experience. Watched it with my wife over the span of a week and we shared so many memories in the process. While you expressed how long this project was, I would like to selfishly request it continue with even more areas of RO, shown in this fashion. And if that's not possible, then I whole heartedly thank you for putting this together.
I keep searching for a game that has the same pull this had on me and I still haven't found one. Dragon Nest is the only other thing anywhere close to it, and even then it isn't as pronounced or vivid and nostalgic for me. This game had me in such an incredible death grip, I swear to God. Even now the music calms me down when I feel overwhelmed or depressed or had a bad day. I loved the first server I ever played on so much that when it went down forever I made an entire fic for it that was supposed to be 5 chapters and ended up having over 150 and spanned years of writing without ever getting tired of it. I still remember every pet I had, what every character looked like, the friends I made, the names of monsters and their specific tp map names, what their cards did, the names of each song for each map...GOD I wish I could go back and play it for the first time all over again.
My childhood right here. Nothing will ever be like Ragnarok back in the day. The gameplay, the classes, the freaking music, the setting...all uniquely it's own.
And let's not forget about the Kafra girls :D
思い出がよみがえりました。10年以上前このゲームにとてつもない時間をかけていました。転生と上位二次職の実装後の1年後くらいにやめてしまいました。なにもかもが懐かしい。
it's weird how much I wanted this. I needed to see the world again. I know those roads.
My home for many years. Great memories...
Even though I haven't played Ragnarok Online myself, the soundtrack evokes a sense of nostalgia regardless...
マップ全体を俯瞰的に見れるようにしてくださりありがとうございます。
Miss the old time when one was innocent yet energized to explore the world of ragnarok, making friends even into real life friends, learn microenomics, deceit and honesty, happy and sad, make social connection and relationship. Truly, unforgotten moment when first exploring the digital online world. It may be virtual, it holds precious and nostalgic memories
My childhood
My sweet memories
My adventure
My businessman
My guild and friendship
My everything
You can make new Ragnarok but they Will never be same
And i Will remember those memories
20 лет уже прошло, но все равно для меня это лучше мморпг за все время... столько воспоминаний. Ностальгия нахлынула
I love the nostalgia. Imagine playing this the first time in 2000s. Playing with random friends.
Probably the closest thing to a time machine. Whenever I hear the BGMs of towns or playing it, it brought me back to my happiest, innocent days of my life. No depression, just pure joy, a special memory ❤️ The adventure, the community, I never played a game this immersive.
Man...good times with this game. A time we can never get back to...
I love this game so much I could not let go of it, I play it to this day via private servers. Yet this brings me so much nostalgia for it will never be the same it once was, or perhaps I'm the one who changed.
Back then the internet was still new, so when joining in games it was a experience with the uknown nowadays people make guides about everything and datamine everything it becomes too much of a min/max experience and we also grown used to that comodity
this game is my childhood memory. miss it so much . Ragnarok.
Dammit Doddler I hate the fact that you just made me feel old as hell, but by god if this is not absolute BRILLIANCE!!!! This brings back so many WONDERFUL times playing this game, and your knowledge was always so valuable for all of us. Thank you friend, for your love and dedication to this great game!!!!!
Childhood memory and still remember all names of pre-renewal mobs. Will always come back for the wonderful BGM.
Gyatdayum, the nostalgia hits differently when it's your childhood core memory. Ahhh the goosebumps on the back of my head.
this game to me never aged. The nostalgia is really real. I can feel and smell the internet cafe i used when i did my first hit in-game. truly, an incomparable game even to this generation.
This game gave me so many memories that I can't even count them.
When I see all of these maps, I have memories on almost every one of these. I will never forget this amazing time. So many emotions. I found my wife and many of my friends there.
Oh boy does this bring me back. This was the kind of miracle that can only happen once in a lifetime. I might have to make a video on this one day, it's so dear to my heart. :
Never got anywhere in game but it have a place in my heart. Fave spot was outside the Morroc palace just eating ice cream, before the city got ruined.
This game's OST sounds a lot like those 90s boyband music. I love that vibes!
When im depressed and life’s been hard, I always come back to this is to reminisce all the fun and loving memories ive had with people and to go back to that feeling when we were just kids playing all day n night without any struggles in life or worries. All the stuff just hits me finishing endless tower going for mvp hunts pvps and competing in war of emperium then going back to where u guild’s safe place and talk with people is so mind refreshing. There will never be another game that can replace ragnarok and i know a lot of you will relate.
You know you played a good game when the sprites themselves are recognisable.
This video nearly made me cry when it started. All the memories, all the friends... simpler times. I wish I could enjoy that happiness again of discovering this world with friends and not a worry in the world. I will forever love Ragnarok Online, the best game that ever came to be.
My brother introduced me to ragnarok online when i was a little kid back in 2003 no other game has such a special place in my heart as RO
Fucking masterpiece, this game was my world for so many years and this is just the thing i needed to brighten my day. Thank you.
it didn't brighten up my day. this just killed me back to bed, crying and reminiscing the nostalgia brought about as if i am walking in this world again. i miss my friends 😢
The nostalgia just hits me on every town that my heart always remembers. Geffen, Prontera, Aldebaran, Lutie, Morocc, Alberta, Payon, Izlude, Yuno... All these places. Ragnarok Online is and will foerver be the best game I've played. Nothing beats the memories shared by the playerbase.
That video makes me want to cry... Ragnarok Online is so beautiful, and the nostalgia that goes with it... It hurts...
Stuff like this makes me want to go back, but it's never the same. The magic, the friends, the experiences, they're all in the past. Even the server I once made and was super proud of, gone like dust in the wind.
My name is Ozymandias, King of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair.
I see you, Ozymandias.
Thanks friend. It was fun. When some day the universe ends, we still will have shared this memory.
I am watching this with tears falling down.
this is what your character sees when you transcend
Im 33 this year. Ragnarok will be forever a game that will be instilled in my mind and heart. This game proves that adventure knows no limits. And friends along the way is the cherry on top that makes the game more fun and the grind so addicting.
Meu deussss, que vontade de chorar escutando essas músicas. Anos 2000 foi bom de mais, msn,Ragnarok, MTV. Boas lembranças que não volta mais. Saudades.
4:30 this intro always bring nice memories.
ありがとうございます。胸の奥がギュっとなり 痛み 懐かしくなりました。
Thanks for this video. It bring me to the precious memory。
I literally have the online name Lunati because I was killed by a Lunatic one map south of Payon. Good to see you still around, RO is truly special.