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
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.
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
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 ):
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!!!
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.
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 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!
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.
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 remember being excited seeing one of those plants that change colour hoping it'll drop that leaf accessory lol. My favorite part of the game was getting an unidentified loot and using a magnifying glass to identify it
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.
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.
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 ❤
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.
2:26:04 The War of Emperium Theme ❤❤❤ I remember my first WoE, I encountered an Assassin and luckily, his sonic blow missed. He then tasted the power of my Extremity fist a.k.a. Asura Strike! I miss RO so much!
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
The song at 1:24:33 is my favorite song in the entire game; I remember listening to it on my MP3 player.. God the complete joy this song invokes is unmatched!! its the Ultimate adventure music!!
Prontera and the Outskirts are taking me back to 20 years ago at 2004. I cannot express how i missed that time. This game soundtrack are absolutely good. Each song really representing each area.
So many good memories with this game, boy does RO just hit different than so many other mmo's and games I've played. I remember meeting so many good people on this game, creating a crew that used to sit in south Payon near the cliffs on IRO. Shooting the shit, most of us weren't exactly amazing at the game, we weren't top tier MVP killers or WoE addicts, it honestly felt so different to how most gamers approach games now, we had things we enjoyed, levelling alts, making money, helping others, farming items. Hell even just exploring. I can remember playing the game for years yet when I realised I had barely explored the games world at all, so many dungeons, zones, even towns I'd never touched until much later, that kept the game feeling fresh and mysterious. The worst part is I'd love to login one more time and check my characters, relive some nostalgia but I can't even login to the official servers anymore since I live in the EU and those servers got shut down a good while back. Hopefully one day I'll be able to go back.
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.
So much nostalgia for this game. My first ever mmorpg and still my mmorpg love. Wish they remaster this game for the controls to be more fluent and less posi bugs. Leave everything else as it is. Just today I've been listening to a bgm playlist and as soon as the login screen music hits I'm back 20 years ago.
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.
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.
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.
best game MMORPG online pertama gw tahun 2000an... grafik biasa, tp berkesan.. ga bisa lupa setiap momennya... walaupun klo sekarang main ya cuma buat mengenang aja.. the best pokoknya.. 👌👌
Still remember and feel that im playing this game, even though it’s been 15+ years. The music still got me. Sometimes when im feel sad or alone, I played this song and imagine that im in this game, chatting and relax with random people. Tried to play the mobile version but still different because what I seek is not only the game but the people, I don’t like grinding all day long and how they make us login everyday just to do the daily quest. I need chill, relax, and friendly game that we can just choose where and when to go in the game.
ahh yes payon dungeon, I forgot the feeling of hearing that BGM :D So many hours in so many years leveling my acolyte and then helping others as a priest :)
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.
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.
My love for Ragnarok Online will never end. It's a game, but it's like a life experience for me. 34 years old here, started on EURO, moved on private servers some years later.
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.
I spent so many hours on this game back in the day. I only remember bits and pieces of the actual gameplay but very much remember the friends I made and the interactions with the guild. I wish I could remember any of their names or even the guild itself to see how life has been for everyone. I remember working on an area (maybe it was a seasonal dungeon?) like a christmas workshop theme. Fighting skeletons, farming slimes and hunting mvp cards.
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.
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.
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.
My first actual mmorpg and it was really magical moment at that time, iam still... What? Highschool? Trying to connect the game with 56K modem, logging in, and then greeted with this theme.. I just sit down in front of prontera gate, seeing endless crowd of players going in and out.... Then one join me, we just chatting, then another one join, another one, until it become a crowd itself, and we just sit, we didnt do anything, we just sit and chat how amazing this is I never forget that moment, that was the purest joy i ever feel, wish i can go back to that time again and feel it
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.
Wow. I did not expect a wave of emotions to run through me like this. Even right from the beginning, to hear the Pupa's sound... My favorite though has to be the Morroc desert, probably because I started in Morroc and that was the music I heard fighting in the field for what seemed like weeks/months.
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.
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 ^^
Even though I didn't reach aura level at that time, I still love everything about this game 💛 I hope my comment find you all are always healthy and happy 😊 PS: especially you, Shojo The Priest (I.M, West Java) happy to see you have a wonderful life now 😊
I remember using a lot of dead branches in the entrances of WOE zones portals, it was against the server rules (private server), they never caught me, it was fun seeing a lot of dead players even before entering the zone. The game masters were really angry about it.
All the background musics in this game never dies through time and age. very nostalgic and memorable. I wonder how is my RO friends back then now. and really miss to meet them even thought never met them with eyes. Im lucky always get party with very good teamwork members, support each other and help me leveling until level 99. Glast Helm dungeon, Abbey dungeon, Odin temple, Thor dungeon, Niff will always be my memories. Hugel city is the place I would find many good and pro friends. This memories & emotion of leveling my characters now I really apply it to real life for my career build. what to do? I raise and get mature along with this game🤷
I come back to this at least once a year... The joy, the emtoion, the passion behind each and every piece of BGM I have, I'm sure I'm not the only one either, knowing each and every note... I wish I had the chance to experience this with more friends in real life too, but I was lucky enough to have my brother, two of my neighbors and a great friend we met online who ventured with us through our life in RO. This game, many years later, still brings a tear to my eye, I'm not sure why... Community...? The unknown at the time? It was even enjoyable playing by myself, which I did for many years too... Now I have a family, which I'd love for my children to experience the same passion for something like RO, if not RO itself Aldebaran, will always be my home, I have began to learn the Theme of Aldebaran on acoustic guitar... This game is still trying to get to me, ahah. Thank you for this great content! Love from, Melbourne, Australia!
I remember getting lost while exploring somewhere (forgot the name) and I just hit one of the grasshoppers who was carrying a violin and yup because my level was low (trying to level up by slaughtering poring and monsters in the starting village) then I ran away and yeah I died :D and also I went on an adventure by taking off all my equipment XD. And met someone nice he taught me all about ragnarok, and we became good friends, when we were both online he took me to complete dungeons and taught me how to beat minibosses. he even taught me how to become a great archer, even though his class is a knight T_T is so nostalgic brooo T_T /sad
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
Many an hour were spent on the ro doddler character calculators back in the day, took me a minute to remember where I recalled that name from! Amazing video, thanks for putting this together.
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.
This is more than a game... It represent every aspect of my childhood, not just with fellow gamers... But with parents scolding for playing too much. LOL. Also the times when we had to sneak out to computer shops just to play the game... The memories of being young... The memories when your parents were still around... Thanks for this video.
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
2:15:22 when I see the little aco my heart get so empty feeling… used to be there with the same ppl all day more than 7 years. Thank you so much to put it there.
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.
My favorite game :) back in 2005
Me tooooo 2003-2007
man, i discovered internet in 2007 and my first game was gunbound while browsing friendster 😂
me tooo 2006
2004 pRO odin server. 😭
6:04 Behind the bench on the right was the meetup spot for my friends and I after school
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 ,
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.
Payon music will always be my favorite
I am very touched. ❤
I met my husband 20 years ago in Morroc.
Now We have a child and we are very happy.
Ragnarok is my favorite game.
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。
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
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.
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 ):
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
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。
Best years of my life.
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!!!
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
@@RahulBajaj-ov3hz Talon Tales in it's current form is terrible. UaRo is better tbh
伝えたい事が伝わってくるかのようなカメラワークとクオリティの動画のおかげで、心が熱くなりました。ありがとう。
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 cannot put in words how I miss those days... if I could travel time...
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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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.
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。
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 remember being excited seeing one of those plants that change colour hoping it'll drop that leaf accessory lol. My favorite part of the game was getting an unidentified loot and using a magnifying glass to identify it
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.
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.
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。。
Damn the music take me back to memory lanes.thank you.
もうやめて10年以上たつのにどんな音楽やBGMより脳に響いてくる…本当に楽しい日々だったなぁ…
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 ❤
Bro made ragnarok online content for 17 years already, mad dedication ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for this video. It bring me to the precious memory。
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.
Rooting for your success brother 👊
2:26:04 The War of Emperium Theme ❤❤❤
I remember my first WoE, I encountered an Assassin and luckily, his sonic blow missed. He then tasted the power of my Extremity fist a.k.a. Asura Strike!
I miss RO so much!
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.
YOUR WORK OF REVIVING OUR BELOVED GAME, IN A WHOLE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE, IS BEAUTIFUL BROTHER. THANK YOU!!
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
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
Life was way simpler back when I used to only play Ragnarok everyday. Really miss those good old days as a kid.
The song at 1:24:33 is my favorite song in the entire game; I remember listening to it on my MP3 player.. God the complete joy this song invokes is unmatched!! its the Ultimate adventure music!!
I am watching this with tears falling down.
Prontera and the Outskirts are taking me back to 20 years ago at 2004. I cannot express how i missed that time.
This game soundtrack are absolutely good. Each song really representing each area.
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！
So many good memories with this game, boy does RO just hit different than so many other mmo's and games I've played. I remember meeting so many good people on this game, creating a crew that used to sit in south Payon near the cliffs on IRO. Shooting the shit, most of us weren't exactly amazing at the game, we weren't top tier MVP killers or WoE addicts, it honestly felt so different to how most gamers approach games now, we had things we enjoyed, levelling alts, making money, helping others, farming items. Hell even just exploring. I can remember playing the game for years yet when I realised I had barely explored the games world at all, so many dungeons, zones, even towns I'd never touched until much later, that kept the game feeling fresh and mysterious.
The worst part is I'd love to login one more time and check my characters, relive some nostalgia but I can't even login to the official servers anymore since I live in the EU and those servers got shut down a good while back. Hopefully one day I'll be able to go back.
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.
So much nostalgia for this game. My first ever mmorpg and still my mmorpg love. Wish they remaster this game for the controls to be more fluent and less posi bugs. Leave everything else as it is. Just today I've been listening to a bgm playlist and as soon as the login screen music hits I'm back 20 years ago.
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....
You're right it's been 20 years already. lol
how wonderful would it be to be able to go back in time and experience this game for the first time again
Gyatdayum, the nostalgia hits differently when it's your childhood core memory. Ahhh the goosebumps on the back of my head.
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.
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.
I remember being taught how to sell apples in the Townsquare. I didn't make much, but, it was awesome.
best game MMORPG online pertama gw tahun 2000an...
grafik biasa, tp berkesan.. ga bisa lupa setiap momennya... walaupun klo sekarang main ya cuma buat mengenang aja..
the best pokoknya.. 👌👌
Still remember and feel that im playing this game, even though it’s been 15+ years. The music still got me. Sometimes when im feel sad or alone, I played this song and imagine that im in this game, chatting and relax with random people. Tried to play the mobile version but still different because what I seek is not only the game but the people, I don’t like grinding all day long and how they make us login everyday just to do the daily quest. I need chill, relax, and friendly game that we can just choose where and when to go in the game.
this game is my childhood memory. miss it so much . Ragnarok.
ahh yes payon dungeon, I forgot the feeling of hearing that BGM :D So many hours in so many years leveling my acolyte and then helping others as a priest :)
Watch RO videos with the soundtrack is the absolutely peak nostalgia a human can felt, 100%
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.
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.
My love for Ragnarok Online will never end. It's a game, but it's like a life experience for me.
34 years old here, started on EURO, moved on private servers some years later.
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.
I spent so many hours on this game back in the day. I only remember bits and pieces of the actual gameplay but very much remember the friends I made and the interactions with the guild.
I wish I could remember any of their names or even the guild itself to see how life has been for everyone.
I remember working on an area (maybe it was a seasonal dungeon?) like a christmas workshop theme. Fighting skeletons, farming slimes and hunting mvp cards.
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.
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.
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! 💕
My first actual mmorpg and it was really magical moment at that time, iam still... What? Highschool? Trying to connect the game with 56K modem, logging in, and then greeted with this theme..
I just sit down in front of prontera gate, seeing endless crowd of players going in and out.... Then one join me, we just chatting, then another one join, another one, until it become a crowd itself, and we just sit, we didnt do anything, we just sit and chat how amazing this is
I never forget that moment, that was the purest joy i ever feel, wish i can go back to that time again and feel it
tears of nostalgia. I miss my friends ((
US Sakray / Loki alumni here. Thank you for dropping this new angle on all of the worlds we've all explored! Thank you so much.
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.
Wow. I did not expect a wave of emotions to run through me like this. Even right from the beginning, to hear the Pupa's sound... My favorite though has to be the Morroc desert, probably because I started in Morroc and that was the music I heard fighting in the field for what seemed like weeks/months.
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.
Thank you so much. Danke für deine Mühe. Ich habe es vor 20 Jahren gespielt. Es weckt gute Erinnerungen.❤😊
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 ^^
this bring back a very good memories
20 лет уже прошло, но все равно для меня это лучше мморпг за все время... столько воспоминаний. Ностальгия нахлынула
what a blast from the past, i used to check out all your old RO stuff, so to see this pop up was amazing
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.
Even though I didn't reach aura level at that time, I still love everything about this game 💛 I hope my comment find you all are always healthy and happy 😊
PS: especially you, Shojo The Priest (I.M, West Java) happy to see you have a wonderful life now 😊
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。
I remember using a lot of dead branches in the entrances of WOE zones portals, it was against the server rules (private server), they never caught me, it was fun seeing a lot of dead players even before entering the zone. The game masters were really angry about it.
All the background musics in this game never dies through time and age. very nostalgic and memorable. I wonder how is my RO friends back then now. and really miss to meet them even thought never met them with eyes. Im lucky always get party with very good teamwork members, support each other and help me leveling until level 99. Glast Helm dungeon, Abbey dungeon, Odin temple, Thor dungeon, Niff will always be my memories. Hugel city is the place I would find many good and pro friends. This memories & emotion of leveling my characters now I really apply it to real life for my career build. what to do? I raise and get mature along with this game🤷
I come back to this at least once a year... The joy, the emtoion, the passion behind each and every piece of BGM I have, I'm sure I'm not the only one either, knowing each and every note...
I wish I had the chance to experience this with more friends in real life too, but I was lucky enough to have my brother, two of my neighbors and a great friend we met online who ventured with us through our life in RO.
This game, many years later, still brings a tear to my eye, I'm not sure why... Community...? The unknown at the time? It was even enjoyable playing by myself, which I did for many years too...
Now I have a family, which I'd love for my children to experience the same passion for something like RO, if not RO itself
Aldebaran, will always be my home, I have began to learn the Theme of Aldebaran on acoustic guitar... This game is still trying to get to me, ahah.
Thank you for this great content! Love from, Melbourne, Australia!
I remember getting lost while exploring somewhere (forgot the name) and I just hit one of the grasshoppers who was carrying a violin and yup because my level was low (trying to level up by slaughtering poring and monsters in the starting village) then I ran away and yeah I died :D and also I went on an adventure by taking off all my equipment XD. And met someone nice he taught me all about ragnarok, and we became good friends, when we were both online he took me to complete dungeons and taught me how to beat minibosses. he even taught me how to become a great archer, even though his class is a knight T_T is so nostalgic brooo T_T /sad
I have an emotional connection to this game.
Especially the bgm songs can bring me back in time.
31:40 - This was the place of inspiring Priest/Monk builds. This is where we started our journey.
this is such a great idea for a video, incredible project, thank you!
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
Many an hour were spent on the ro doddler character calculators back in the day, took me a minute to remember where I recalled that name from! Amazing video, thanks for putting this together.
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.
This is more than a game... It represent every aspect of my childhood, not just with fellow gamers... But with parents scolding for playing too much. LOL. Also the times when we had to sneak out to computer shops just to play the game...
The memories of being young...
The memories when your parents were still around...
Thanks for this video.
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
2:15:22 when I see the little aco my heart get so empty feeling… used to be there with the same ppl all day more than 7 years. Thank you so much to put it there.
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。