Elwynn, Westfall, Redridge... they feel like home. Like a child growing up, learning how to deal with the world. Then you get send across the continent to continue your developing, as a 18 year old moves out and starts living on his own. The higher level you get (mid level zones), the less players you see, you feel more lonely, on your own. Starting a new character and going through the starting zones again always felt warm.
I might be addicted to this game, but in a good way. This game made me happy for 2 years, after Wrath of the Lich King came out I stopped playing because it wasn't what it used to be. Now in Cata and MoP you can fly around the world, then you had to get to every corner of map to finish your quest or explore some territory. I think we all should be thankful and say it to Blizzard, what they've accomplished nobody will. I miss old WoW days, but you can't go back in time.
That my friend is the sound music of innocence. Finding a new world waiting to be explored and looking all around you, afraid and excited of what is about to happen...
I quit playing World of Warcraft over two years ago. Nothing but the music, and the music alone, makes me want to play this game again. I went after server firsts in vanilla and TBC and seeing the new raids doesn't make me want to play any. This music though....it's makes me so emotional. I just want to cry.
I stopped played world of warcraft for 4 years ago. I haven't heard this music in 4 years but now, it was there. Like I heard it yesterday and it's lovely! :'(
I know my first time in elwynn forest. My sister has found a warlock and he ported me to this area. Of course I was such a noob but this times were the best and I´ll always remeber them. Now I´m playing horde and I´ve much experience but I´ll never forget the great time of Azeroth, not important alliance or horde.
That music is so emotional, I can't believe how deep is the nostalgia it brings to me.. Now everything is empty and old friends got almost 10 years more.. so do I.. We could call this wasted years but damn it was so good!!!
My mind has so many memories from this amazing music..When i made my mage and started doing quests in Elwyn forest, i heard this music for first time ..it was so beautiful..
Even though I've always preferred playing the Forsaken, the first bit of in-game WoW music I heard was the Elwynn Forest track and ever since 2006 it always made me feel happy. Really subtle yet powerful stuff. Makes me glad I'm alive. Jason Hayes, you're the fucking man.
So many memories of first starting, id kill to go back to first starting one of the best games ever made. Nothing touches the feeling of exploring the world for the first time and immersing yourself in the music of each zone, truly epic.
Dude, I loved Auberdine also, and hurted a little when I first saw death wing turning it to ashes in the cataclysm cinematic, but the whole world was being destroyed at that time, something had to go. And I´m still glad they didn´t changed the starting zones.
god this brings back so many memories. I remember back in 2007(when i first started playing WoW) i would wake up at 3 in the morning and play it. At that time of the night Elwynn Forest was really quiet so i kept listening to this til it was stuck in my head.
I remember, when I first started playing WoW, I was a Night Elf and my brother was a Human. He told me that he was leveling in Elywnn Forest. I spent hours trying to find the boat that took me to him. When I finally found him, I remember seeing him dancing in the middle of goldshire waiting for me :') This song is definitely one of the best songs in World of Warcraft.
that feel you start playing WoW for the first time, level 8 paladin running around, fighting level 10 mobs that feels like fighting a boss...fuuuck, strong nostalgia god damn
this was the first piece of music i heard when i started WoW. it stunned me due to the combination of landscape and music that fitted so well together. i shivered for the whole duration. lol
The only thing I can think of now, when hearing this nostalgic music which brings so many memories back is; I wanna relive it all over again, but, how? It's all over my mind :(
Same here, quit a few days before Wrath and had an extreme nostalgia backlash last year. Went through the old movies, music and screenshots and likewise, it was as if I had only signed out the night before. It aroused a lot of fond memories and feelings, which some would consider pathetic, but I don't care, would've resubbed in a heartbeat had there been classic/tbc server, but it was not be.
I remember, back in summer 2004, there was a little web site that gave a preview of what WoW would look like, and one part was showing some regions, and we could download a bit of music from thoses regions, I still have them
@adriangutt boy the memories i have from this music, the times i heared it most was when i was questing round lvl 20 in hillsbrad foothills trolling the farmers there as a rogue, messing with the ally's, shouting at the damn game when some guards passed by, etc etc the memories i put in this games are so endless and it makes me wanna play again on a private server just to see everything how it was in the good days CATA.FUCKED. IT. ALL .UP
Music is the same as in Dun morogh, it feels like i was born there :] good damn memories, spending all my afternoon just leveling from 22 till 25. Gooood times.
i just cant resist my nostalgia..... oh fuck.... I got double 14 ranks pvp (high warlord), doble top 1 arena in Wotlk, 6 years of playing from vanilla.... This game is so much for me in life....... And it doesnt matter that i dont play anymore... ooooh...
@JeremyEversTV i dont want to play again, 3 years from classic release was enough, but i happily reflect on this time when i started as young hero full of wonders, underlined with this perfect piece of music.
and well, the music that begins at 0:14.. I felt like my heart melted when I heard it.. I already wanted to make a human before hearing it, but after, I knew my destiny was to be a human :P and my main is still that human paladin that I created little less than a year after hearing that music :)
No matter how much I dislike the current state of WoW, I have to thank Blizzard for giving me an experience as epic as vanilla wow. Even listening to this music gives me the weirdest state of nostalgia, happiness and sorrow.
this was the first thing i heard when i logged into wow for the first time december 2007. honestly i wish it were still that wat, i miss old wow :( players now a days dont know how beautiful it really was back in the day, they got the cata panda filled wow. no one wants that.
Darkshore one is epic, first leveled a night elf so it brings back the memories, i remember killing crabs on the beach for ages because i thought they gave good money and xp haha good times.
I think peoples' yearning for class WoW is understandable but I don't think anyone can say that WoW is now a failure. It's given millions of people something to enjoy and it's still an awesome world to step into. Things might be totally different today but if WoW never changed, it wouldn't be alive today. To me, WoW has given me alot of fun times and some great memories. Even if it declines to nothing someday, I for one will still remember my days in the world of Azeroth!
@adriangutt i totally understand you, though i quitted wow a while ago me and my friends still have some awsome and fun memories in zones with this neutral music
it was one of the best and peaceful time in my life. and i mean it seriously! this was the time and place were i feelt good (although i have a realife (for those who wanna say that i haven't))
I would like to play WoW with you, questing, exploring, grinding and dinging like in old WoW days... But I won't, I want it to stay like this so I can remember all the things I've been doing while playing Pre-BC and BC expansions...
Yeah I never really got into wow (I had two lvl 40s before I ended up quitting) but I always enjoyed the music in the game, probably my favorite video game soundtrack of all time, basically the only things that kept me in the game were the music and exploring places you weren't suppose to go (Old Ironforge, Ironforge Airport, under Stormwind).
It's funny because it seems like at least 90% of the people who play WoW on my server all say they were playing since beta. I find it hard to belive but nevertheless I started playing a few months before the orginal Naxx was released in the EPL. :D
Darkshore is the reason why i started fishing, It's just something in that place that makes me want to sit at the computer all day and be in that very place, Until Cataclysm came...
@FlameDragon400 a tranquil, calm zone to relax.... No such place in WoW except for those "secret" places along the coastline that have nothing on them... Every other single place is either gridded with your mobs or theirs.
I miss it sometimes. I'll never come back though. I loved Darkshore. Running up and down that beach a hundred times sucked, but makes me look back and laugh. If Blizzard made dedicated servers to older patches and expansions, they'd make a killing. Today's game is far to different than what I enjoyed.
+DIEDave Nostal got taken down by blizzard.They ran the servers with their own money they barely managed to collect.They didn't even recieve any proffit from the servers...They did it out of love and nostalgia for the game.Blizzard killed our hope.
@Posterdude95 ..and now I sound like a grumpy old man. "Back in MY day, we had to RUN everywhere! We didn't have flightpoints every few hundred yards!"
It was a lot better then because players actually had to earn there epics. The quality of player was also a lot better. I do agree that they have improved a lot of features to make the game easier to play. That is what took away from what made the game so good though. It will never be the same as it was the first few years up until level 80.
@BillF1967 Lol, yeah. Every time I remember how something was....and how much it's changed since then: I feel really old. :P But then again...with Warcraft, some things will always be changing, but the original feeling will always remain.
i remeber this after i made my night elf i got him to level 18 then i saw a rogue so i was like let me make a human rogue i made on and played him and no hes level 55 and my night elf is level 30 i remember the music so much
true dat when you say blizz you mean the entire team where the main composers are Jason Hayes Tracy W. Bush Derek Duke Glenn Stafford We must not forget their impact of millions and millions peoples game experience ^^
@ROULERS1 wow, I must agree with you. I miss the 'old' WoW, before any expansions came out. :( It was the best game ever, now it's all ruined and messed up. If only I could re-live those memories. Dalaran, no more! :'( it's sad to think about really
@FlameDragon400 well, goldshire gets a flight path and that logging camp gets one too. But the music changes. And the new music tries it's best to be epic. In a bad way.
Elwynn, Westfall, Redridge... they feel like home. Like a child growing up, learning how to deal with the world. Then you get send across the continent to continue your developing, as a 18 year old moves out and starts living on his own. The higher level you get (mid level zones), the less players you see, you feel more lonely, on your own. Starting a new character and going through the starting zones again always felt warm.
dude, from a level 1 draenei just starting again, to a level 90 with a reputation, it was a long journey.
I might be addicted to this game, but in a good way. This game made me happy for 2 years, after Wrath of the Lich King came out I stopped playing because it wasn't what it used to be. Now in Cata and MoP you can fly around the world, then you had to get to every corner of map to finish your quest or explore some territory. I think we all should be thankful and say it to Blizzard, what they've accomplished nobody will. I miss old WoW days, but you can't go back in time.
Behold, the Sword of a Thousand Truths.
That my friend is the sound music of innocence. Finding a new world waiting to be explored and looking all around you, afraid and excited of what is about to happen...
King's honor friend
Light be with you
Zug zug.
I quit playing World of Warcraft over two years ago. Nothing but the music, and the music alone, makes me want to play this game again. I went after server firsts in vanilla and TBC and seeing the new raids doesn't make me want to play any. This music though....it's makes me so emotional. I just want to cry.
Nostalgia kicks me right in the gut. Good times.
I stopped played world of warcraft for 4 years ago. I haven't heard this music in 4 years but now, it was there. Like I heard it yesterday and it's lovely! :'(
I know my first time in elwynn forest. My sister has found a warlock and he ported me to this area. Of course I was such a noob but this times were the best and I´ll always remeber them. Now I´m playing horde and I´ve much experience but I´ll never forget the great time of Azeroth, not important alliance or horde.
That music is so emotional, I can't believe how deep is the nostalgia it brings to me.. Now everything is empty and old friends got almost 10 years more.. so do I.. We could call this wasted years but damn it was so good!!!
I got tears in my eyes remembering those good old times.
My mind has so many memories from this amazing music..When i made my mage and started doing quests in Elwyn forest, i heard this music for first time ..it was so beautiful..
the first zone they built ... the best zone of all
Even though I've always preferred playing the Forsaken, the first bit of in-game WoW music I heard was the Elwynn Forest track and ever since 2006 it always made me feel happy. Really subtle yet powerful stuff. Makes me glad I'm alive.
Jason Hayes, you're the fucking man.
Without this I couldn't have survived my youth...
3:20 Warcraft 3 Cinematic :')
Memories... I was so soothed by the music
Eastern Kingdoms > Kalimdor, there's just something special about Hillsbrad, Silverpine, Tirisfall, Hinterlands and other zones in that area.
yea, they stick to the roots of fantasy that Warcraft derived from. :)
Nostalgia :'(
So many memories of first starting, id kill to go back to first starting one of the best games ever made. Nothing touches the feeling of exploring the world for the first time and immersing yourself in the music of each zone, truly epic.
Dude, I loved Auberdine also, and hurted a little when I first saw death wing turning it to ashes in the cataclysm cinematic, but the whole world was being destroyed at that time, something had to go. And I´m still glad they didn´t changed the starting zones.
This was the best thing ever… then along came pandaria and cata
I LOVE Blizzards music. They make it so...whats the word....god-like.
god this brings back so many memories. I remember back in 2007(when i first started playing WoW) i would wake up at 3 in the morning and play it. At that time of the night Elwynn Forest was really quiet so i kept listening to this til it was stuck in my head.
The beginning after the voices. It's sounds like it's morning. And everything is starting to wake up as the sun slowly rises over the horizon. :]
I remember, when I first started playing WoW, I was a Night Elf and my brother was a Human. He told me that he was leveling in Elywnn Forest. I spent hours trying to find the boat that took me to him.
When I finally found him, I remember seeing him dancing in the middle of goldshire waiting for me :')
This song is definitely one of the best songs in World of Warcraft.
that feel you start playing WoW for the first time, level 8 paladin running around, fighting level 10 mobs that feels like fighting a boss...fuuuck, strong nostalgia god damn
The theme starting at 1:10 is so amazing. I stop whatever I'm doing and just listen to that part whenever I'm in Hinterlands or Hillsbrad foothills.
this was the first piece of music i heard when i started WoW. it stunned me due to the combination of landscape and music that fitted so well together. i shivered for the whole duration. lol
The only thing I can think of now, when hearing this nostalgic music which brings so many memories back is; I wanna relive it all over again, but, how? It's all over my mind :(
That spot at 00:19 :')
This music makes me want to just forget about all the raiding, all the pvp, and gearing and such, and just go run around in the woods
I cant believe its been since 2004 since i heard this when WoW first came out. Best high playing for the first time ever
nostalgia of a once good game
Same here, quit a few days before Wrath and had an extreme nostalgia backlash last year. Went through the old movies, music and screenshots and likewise, it was as if I had only signed out the night before. It aroused a lot of fond memories and feelings, which some would consider pathetic, but I don't care, would've resubbed in a heartbeat had there been classic/tbc server, but it was not be.
I remember, back in summer 2004, there was a little web site that gave a preview of what WoW would look like, and one part was showing some regions, and we could download a bit of music from thoses regions, I still have them
i remember listening to this music when i first started playing WoW, the quests were so simple back then
These were the days of WoW.
Damn, this just took me to old days :/
Right in the feels..
@adriangutt boy the memories i have from this music, the times i heared it most was when i was questing round lvl 20 in hillsbrad foothills trolling the farmers there as a rogue, messing with the ally's, shouting at the damn game when some guards passed by, etc etc the memories i put in this games are so endless and it makes me wanna play again on a private server just to see everything how it was in the good days
CATA.FUCKED. IT. ALL .UP
Nostalgia is such a bittersweet feeling D:
u took the words right out of my mouth man
Music is the same as in Dun morogh, it feels like i was born there :] good damn memories, spending all my afternoon just leveling from 22 till 25. Gooood times.
i just cant resist my nostalgia..... oh fuck....
I got double 14 ranks pvp (high warlord), doble top 1 arena in Wotlk, 6 years of playing from vanilla....
This game is so much for me in life....... And it doesnt matter that i dont play anymore...
ooooh...
Not the same game... but it was one of the best soundtracks ever created.
@JeremyEversTV i dont want to play again, 3 years from classic release was enough, but i happily reflect on this time when i started as young hero full of wonders, underlined with this perfect piece of music.
and well, the music that begins at 0:14.. I felt like my heart melted when I heard it.. I already wanted to make a human before hearing it, but after, I knew my destiny was to be a human :P and my main is still that human paladin that I created little less than a year after hearing that music :)
The first part always reminds me of the south park episode xD
First piece of wow music I ever heard, on the site before the game had even been release... I new it would be special
Ah, pure bliss.
This makes me realize why growing up sucks! 2005 was a very good year!
No matter how much I dislike the current state of WoW, I have to thank Blizzard for giving me an experience as epic as vanilla wow. Even listening to this music gives me the weirdest state of nostalgia, happiness and sorrow.
ahhh the memories :)) so relaxing.
I miss this time so much :(
Darkshore is so shady and sombre. The music fits perfectly. Surely not a heartwarming place.
this was the first thing i heard when i logged into wow for the first time december 2007. honestly i wish it were still that wat, i miss old wow :( players now a days dont know how beautiful it really was back in the day, they got the cata panda filled wow. no one wants that.
Darkshore one is epic, first leveled a night elf so it brings back the memories, i remember killing crabs on the beach for ages because i thought they gave good money and xp haha good times.
I think peoples' yearning for class WoW is understandable but I don't think anyone can say that WoW is now a failure. It's given millions of people something to enjoy and it's still an awesome world to step into. Things might be totally different today but if WoW never changed, it wouldn't be alive today.
To me, WoW has given me alot of fun times and some great memories. Even if it declines to nothing someday, I for one will still remember my days in the world of Azeroth!
@adriangutt i totally understand you, though i quitted wow a while ago me and my friends still have some awsome and fun memories in zones with this neutral music
dear fellows, this song brings back memories from the beginning =D agree?
the music is like a bridge that glues Wow together.
it was one of the best and peaceful time in my life. and i mean it seriously! this was the time and place were i feelt good (although i have a realife (for those who wanna say that i haven't))
I would like to play WoW with you, questing, exploring, grinding and dinging like in old WoW days... But I won't, I want it to stay like this so I can remember all the things I've been doing while playing Pre-BC and BC expansions...
I bursted into tears. :'(
This actually reminds me of Loch Modan... That place was nice, and was only improved by this relaxing music...
Well we can't go back in time, I wish we can, and stay there forever.
Yeah I never really got into wow (I had two lvl 40s before I ended up quitting) but I always enjoyed the music in the game, probably my favorite video game soundtrack of all time, basically the only things that kept me in the game were the music and exploring places you weren't suppose to go (Old Ironforge, Ironforge Airport, under Stormwind).
I quit playing, but when i hear this sound....I would like to play again!
Thumbs Up if you think the same ^^
It's funny because it seems like at least 90% of the people who play WoW on my server all say they were playing since beta. I find it hard to belive but nevertheless I started playing a few months before the orginal Naxx was released in the EPL. :D
Darkshore is the reason why i started fishing, It's just something in that place that makes me want to sit at the computer all day and be in that very place, Until Cataclysm came...
Know what you mean, I stopped playing at WoTLK too. I miss old WoW, and playing when I was younger. Good times..
@FlameDragon400 a tranquil, calm zone to relax....
No such place in WoW except for those "secret" places along the coastline that have nothing on them... Every other single place is either gridded with your mobs or theirs.
I miss it sometimes. I'll never come back though. I loved Darkshore. Running up and down that beach a hundred times sucked, but makes me look back and laugh. If Blizzard made dedicated servers to older patches and expansions, they'd make a killing. Today's game is far to different than what I enjoyed.
I just found out about Nostalrius. I'm not sure if its free but I miss vanilla too.
+DIEDave Nostal got taken down by blizzard.They ran the servers with their own money they barely managed to collect.They didn't even recieve any proffit from the servers...They did it out of love and nostalgia for the game.Blizzard killed our hope.
God i miss the days when this music was the 1st thing u heard...
@Posterdude95 ..and now I sound like a grumpy old man. "Back in MY day, we had to RUN everywhere! We didn't have flightpoints every few hundred yards!"
Damn you Cataclysm!
@Skandalos one word: nostalgia.
Such a sorrowful melody...
Ahh, I see myself as a 8 yr Old XD, logging in at 07:00 am,
Getting some lvls meeting friends,
i am 16 now :P
Best song in wow. So relaxing
best memories ever !
HNNNNNNG, SO MUCH NOSTALGIA!
As much as I hated the Alliance, I gotta admit... I loved being in Elywnn forest hearing this music. Nostalgia........ a powerful thing it is.
You mean you love Jason Hayes composing :) he made wc3 and ft music too ofc ^^
i dont have much time to play it anymore but i hope you enjoy playing it
It was a lot better then because players actually had to earn there epics. The quality of player was also a lot better. I do agree that they have improved a lot of features to make the game easier to play. That is what took away from what made the game so good though. It will never be the same as it was the first few years up until level 80.
OHHHHHHHHH Childhood.......................
The only thing, the ONLY thing about elwynn is jerods landing, holy hell was it hard
The Game changed yes but its far away from being bad. But i must say that i miss the old days too.
@bob2yoy well you have a point there some zones have become more interresting because of cata
Darkshore broke my heart. ;_; I didn't have it in me to keep going after that.
@BillF1967 Lol, yeah. Every time I remember how something was....and how much it's changed since then: I feel really old. :P But then again...with Warcraft, some things will always be changing, but the original feeling will always remain.
i remeber this after i made my night elf i got him to level 18 then i saw a rogue so i was like let me make a human rogue i made on and played him and no hes level 55 and my night elf is level 30 i remember the music so much
i had cried.
Ahh smells like alliance blood on my hands, haha. Good old times ;).
true dat when you say blizz you mean the entire team where the main composers are Jason Hayes
Tracy W. Bush
Derek Duke
Glenn Stafford
We must not forget their impact of millions and millions peoples game experience ^^
i like 1:42 and forward :) reminds me of the newbie days
@ROULERS1 wow, I must agree with you. I miss the 'old' WoW, before any expansions came out. :( It was the best game ever, now it's all ruined and messed up. If only I could re-live those memories. Dalaran, no more! :'( it's sad to think about really
play this at my funeral
@FlameDragon400
well, goldshire gets a flight path and that logging camp gets one too. But the music changes. And the new music tries it's best to be epic. In a bad way.