I'll never forget a 13 day train ride from Beijing to Moscow, through Mongolia and over 7 days straight of Siberia that looked like nothing but endless ancient giant snow caked pine and spruce and fur and other evergreen trees with snow capped mountains in every direction for as far as the eye could see from horizon to horizon, the Siberian taiga in the heart of January, I felt like I was really in Dun Morogh. One night around midnight a massive full moon bathed the landscape in frosted silver, and I turned on this soundtrack and enjoyed my last bottle of vodka I'd been saving, a memory I'll always treasure thanks to good ol'WOW.
This is making me depressed... I feel sad that I'll never experience that feeling of everything being new again, before all these quest addons, portals, etc you had to run around and explore. You'd spend hrs on one quest looking for something thats possibly on the other side of the zone. Old wow music will forever be a part of me.
I feel sorry for anyone who didn't experience WoW in its prime. This was a gaming experience unlike anything you could ever imagine. But, it can never be replicated, because a big part of it was the time period and the community and how it was all so new to everyone playing it, and we were all witnessing something so amazing for the first time together. I'm sad that it's over but glad to have had such a magical experience to have nostalgia for. Vanilla-WOTLK was something damn near spiritual.
Gaia Earthborn I did too, i remember sitting beside my dad playing wow in... i think late vanilla or early BC, eventually during Wrath my dad got me an account, and we played together whenever we had time. So many great memories. Never will anything match up to that
I fondly remember the time of exploration. How I travelled overseas the first time as a lvl 20 dwarf pala in early vanilla, not knowing anything about the world... Running for hours through swamps, barren lands and thick forests deep within 'enemy' territory where everything kills you, while you marvel at the beautiful diverse landscapes and mysterious places... You came across mysterious ruins and monuments, giants, animals you never saw before, remote villages, places inhibited by scary looking demons... Your first confrontations with horde races... And after hours of travel with possible death around every corner you finally reach a friendly npc camp where you are safe for a moment... You decide to travel further into unknown land and come out in a land full of Tauren and minotaurs and bridges that connect little areas on top of rocks. The lift however is heavily guarded by high lvled tauren so you decide to travel on... And after walking for a while through the area suddenly a huge mysterious salt plain appears for your eyes with a race track on it inhibited by gnomes. And you feel a strange sense of familiarity and mystery. What are they doing there? How did they end up there in an outskirt of the world so far away from home? You only saw them around ironforge and as immigrants in stormwind before. It all adds to the mystery and wondering. You look around for a couple of minutes and decide to run further into the unknown and find yourself in a desert in a strange town called gadgetzan inhibited by goblins with architecture you never seen before. It looks fascinating but it seems to be way too high lvled though so you give up for tonight and hearthstone back to loch modan... The whole journey took you hours and hours and countless deaths, but you had the adventure of a lifetime!
Problem nowadays is that people are trying to find obscure ways to enjoy the game when the only way to enjoy the game is to play it and enjoy the gameplay itself. The enjoyment in WoW for me never came from some simulated progression, nor did it come from a rigid, structured leveling scheme, it came from me wanting to log on and kill things, and get more powerful to kill more things more easily. I wanted to do this because I felt weak in-game, nowadays one would have to pull 6+ mobs to be challenged by the game, and even then one feels immortal, back then pulling 2 mobs was a challenge and 3 was almost certain death. Because of this we felt motivated to get better gear and higher levels, there's no enjoyment to be had from just seeing bigger numbers or the gear itself, the enjoyment comes from seeing what the gear does and how it affects gameplay. Think about a game like Skyrim, what makes people log on to play that? The quest line? Getting higher gear just for the sake of getting better gear? No, people log on to that game to kill monsters and have a great time, I feel as though the developers of WoW have forgotten this. Players need to feel weak and helpless in the wilderness, they need to feel challenged by something other than 25 man heroic raiding. This will make leveling feel more important making players take it more seriously, and it will drive people to work together. In Vanilla and BC there was no such thing as a group quest, there were simply quests that were hard to do alone, that you almost always needed a group for, people discovered a quest to be a group quest by not being able to complete the objective. Why Blizzard doesn't understand this is a mystery to me, why they see fit to make leveling a joke is mind-boggling.
I completly agree, explore and around every corner you feel danger, you feel that at some point you will be dead. Oh gawd, the adreneline, the adrenaline. It is so great back then. Even only agaisn´t one mob you had chances to be killed. More the open world pvp, felt like you could be assassinated by other player at any instant. I feel, that Blizzard and other companies that develop MMORPGs now a days forgot about all this. Is because of this that the genre doesn´t have any sucessfull title, I mean with lots of players playing a recent MMO with at least 1M ppl for 1 year or so? I don´t know, I really loved to know.
SuperDoppo Mobs are not only hard because they hit hard,they're hard because of other aspects aswell.Social behaviour in example.One mob sees you fight another mob and comes in to defend,one mobs sees another mob fleeing from you and shouts to his mates to group up to try to kill you.Mobs that heal low health mobs,mobs that dispel,mobs that cc chain,mobs that enrage after seeing you kill one of them,mobs that use more then 2 spells,mobs that have 30 minute patrols,mobs that don't reset after 1 disengage. So many mobs and so few like the average mob of the past.All easy.
4:10 ... Dear god. When I listen to this music it... it's just so tranquil and beautiful I can't help but just be entranced by it. Absolutely love this game
anxiousbreath and back then you had to take a boat to Menethil Harbor and run thru Wetlands...and at level 5 that was im-freakin-possible. ahhh, the good ole days! (corpse runs ftw! rofl) Being a healer, by the time I reached level 20 I knew nearly every graveyard in the zone!
what a great escape this was for me. i was going through a divorce and i would just shut the door and forget it all in this game. then 4 years went by. hahaha
The world is a special and beautiful place when the unknown is around every corner. How funny it is that we all sought to discover every corner and in doing so ruined the mystery and adventure. My heart will always have a special place for this game and the memories I made discovering with friends
If you listen to this music during winter time in real life, and just stare out of the window in the forest full of snow, you get a feeling i can't describe, its just pure magic & nostalgia. And just fits the moment perfectly. I'm crying how beautiful can music be? And make you think about a forgotten time like wow is.. i miss 2006 and i have goose bumbs right now bcs this is just outstanding art right here. No words.
One of my better memories was a group of friends and I walking naked down the long road thru stranglethorn to Booty bay.. We held weapons only and slow walked the entire thing.... Wall walking for the first time.. Seeing the world from the top of a previously unreachable height , amazing...
Indeed. There is no experience in this world that can replicate living in another world so closely. Those years of playing it, the adventures I had, the friends I made...I will remember them the rest of my life.
This brings me back to my bachelor days. I began my WoW time in Dun Morogh. It was late fall outside, cooling off. I had the freedom to stay up late and play this, before bills, work, etc. Plus in the mid-aughts this was a new release MMORPG with unprecedented polish. Great music, fun times.
I know exactly what you mean. It's the same for me. The feeling when I first entered the Barrens as a Tauren shaman was and is still undescribable. It was so vast and huge, the quests were exciting and told a story. It felt somehow alive and in a certain way real. You didn't know what came next.
I'm glad to see so many other WoW players who actually acknowledge the game's marvelous music. From the simple and nostalgic tunes of Vanilla, to the dramatic and lovely melodies that came with all the new expansions. Argue what you want about how the game became too casual and rushed, you cannot help but stand in awe at the game's excellent music, no matter what zone, dungeon or battleground. . Thank you for the memories, World of Warcraft, we all wish to go back, but those days are gone...
This is my favorite music piece in the game. The first character I ever created was a gnome, and all I remember was how different Dun Morogh was from the other starting areas. The music is so fitting! Each time I hear it, I imagine killing a Trogg, haha. This is truly, in my opinion, the best combination of music and zone in WoW. Nothing beats Dun Morogh as far as a leveling experience goes. Once I leave, it's never the same.
So much nostalgia here. I've been playing this game for the last 10 years. And this just brings me back.. I remember hearing this as I leveled by troll hunter. Getting lost as hell in winter spring being attacked by yetis polar bears and the grizzly peoplexD I miss old wow!!! Itll never be the same!!
Feel like WOW is something forgotten, long time forsaken, but, it will never die .. because of the music, the fact that we played this game younger, the fairy ambience ... It's like a part of our life.
This game is forever part of my life and is a piece of my identity. The exploration of every new zone would excite me like a feeling I can't describe. Almost nothing can compare and only previous WoW members know what I'm trying to get at. Elwynn/Dun Morogh Forest meandering...never knowing what was around the corner
Good vibes to you man.. All those late nights questing in starry Tanaris, foggy mornings of Dun Morogh, to the fires of Blackrock mountain and the snowy peaks of winterspring.... nobody can take those memories from us, not even Blizzard/Activision.
My first char was a dwarf hunter... Just being in such a beautiful world, full of adventure and possibility for the first time was overwhelming... And now it's all lost. Now the game is all about the newest epic/legendary gear and who beats raids the fastest... And the areas that bring such nostalgia now are lost forever.
A gnome mage, around level 12. Mother shouts "son, hurry up. Tennis lessons start in a few mins". Dying to a bear...logging out...memories of bygone times - 11 years ago.
I remember how back in the day, people, were making groups for caves or quest areas where they would have needed to fight with more than 2 mobs at 1 time if they were alone. Also, the elites that existed back then, the epic Stranglethorn vale pages business and the epic PvP in STV together with many other great areas. The feeling of entering Winterspring, Western Plaguelands, having the feeling of being close to level 60... that feeling doesnt exist anymore and only farming PvE and PvP exists.
Couldn't agree more. I have a huge collection of the soundtrack's from Wow on my iPod. Even though I dont play nearly as much as I use to do, listening to those songs brings back a huge nostalgic feeling. Then I suddenly get the urge to play again, experience the great atmosphere this game has and relieve some wonderful memories. The game has changed over the years, but I still find it worth playing and the music is a big reason for that.
I feel you. :) WoW isn't some online game for addicts, its an experience, and those of us who played this game for the adventure, the feel, and the freedom away from reality will keep that experience. So many people wont understand, but those of us who do, can easily say that this was something special. :3
In a way I hate having the Explorer title, it means there is nothing left to explore :( I will never again think "I wonder what's over this hill" because I already know, there is no feeling quite like when I found Ironforge for the first time, shit was cash.
It was a fantastic, gigantic and mystical feeling most of us experienced while discovering the amazing lands of Azeroth. Being an orc or dwarf or Tauren dwelling the lands in search for quests, loot or other surprises......you never know what you would find in that cave or in that forest, it would never end.
For me it was even just finding the tower of Azora, that was big enough. Or finding orcs in Redridge, where you thought you were safe from any "real" high level danger. Good shit.
This is the first in game song that I distinctly remember when I first started playing I made a Gnome Rogue as my first character and this song always plays in the starting zone. I remember sneaking on my dad's computer an hour before I had to leave for school just to get that extra playtime. Good times, man.
I listened to this on my headphones while taking a train through the Siberian taiga, 5 days of nothing but pine forest and snow in January at 40 below zero. Reminds me of 3am on the train under the full moon with a bottle of vodka as the moon light lit up the snow and icy trees, looked just like the game.
...this music reallly brings memories alive....I miss the time I had in wow. Stopped for over a year now after playing for 6 years (since classic). I loved my time in wow, meeting new friends, discovering new places and having great adventures and laughs. Magical.
Just LISTENING to this song gets me cold. There's some sort of shiver behind these notes that literaly runs up my spine. I get a beautiful image from this music when I close my eyes. Long live vanilla WoW!
4:10-5:10 is my fav ambient theme from Dun Morogh. kinda reminds me of the days i quested through the area back in Wrath. i was still new to the game, didn't understand all that much, but i still enjoyed playing WoW at the time.
The first 1-20 levels of playing WoW, the first time you set foot in Azeroth, is one of the best gaming experiences I've had in my life. Nothing can match up to that feeling of exploration, danger, and mystery.
Running around...getting ingredients for a good drink to warm yourself by the fire in the only tavern for miles... after fighting the Frostmane trolls in the area...and barely surviving a pack of wolves
As nerdy as it is, it kills me on the inside knowing I'll never be able to sit in my room and wander the world of warcraft as I once did :( Vanilla WoW was some of the best years of my life.
Reading thro all these comments here bring such a nostalgia its almost making me cry xD I totally can relate. The time I logged on my first char which was a undead warrior, just exploring the world, being total noob. You just don't get that feeling anymore. In fact, no game has ever given me that feeling except for WoW. I do still enjoy it somewhat, but not nearly as much. Sad thing is, no private server can bring back that feeling. It just isn't the same :l
no doubt, it´s the greatest alternative reality ever created, I think calling Wow 'a game' is an understatement, because it´s more then just a game, it´s a whole new breathing universe.
I exactly feel what you feel man. But I think it was about our emotions when we were a noob. Everything was mysterios and undiscovered. And everybody around us were like us and we were the people in an undiscovered virgin world. year by year it changed. But it must change. it cannot stay the same. I m just missing those days
Out of all games, WoW has struck me with biggest nostalgia strike I have ever witnessed. Just even thinking about those old days and listening to this music gives that big nostalgia feeling in your guts.
It really is...I used to think that you couldn't play as the Horde for some reason and so my first character was a dwarf warrior...ah, the good old days...
when i first started WoW, i tried every race and made dif classes for each one, when i was a gnome rogue this place made my jaws drop, i didnt know if i wanted to be a dwarf or an undead, but in the end i was a troll shaman cus thats the last thing i tried and i was board of switching back and forth
Oh my, my VERY first character, a gnome warlock. This sure brings back memories of my friend helping me.. I only reached level 14 and started as undead, but man do I miss Dun Morogh!
Ahh those are the sweet memories i share as well. It's late night and you are just taking a stroll with your char to explore a whole new interesting zone. love it. the feeling smell and best of all music atmosphere
i know that it is....little magic moment in mi life. the music, the wolrd, all magic things that we see. i never forgot that magic moment. i love with my soul the "world of warcraft" that world is other life, one life that i wanna live but the real life crash every day......the real life that i can't leave
My first Character was an Orc, i never got him past level 4... my second character, the one i stuck with for most of the time, forever a noob however, was my dear Hunter, a dwarf named Oakenrifle at the Hellscream-server. I loved the game back then, as i was only 12 years. Perchance it could be said that I was too stupid to be of use; I died houndreds of times, didn't know where to go, how to get money, didn't know anything. My english was that bad... But i was always enthrilled by the music.
The feelings....entering WoW.. starting lvl 1... & then being close to 60 & lvling in these mountains... the feelings.... I think we cant feel them anymore because it was the 1st good mmo, now there are 5000 mmo's & its just not the same feeling as in wow cuz we have used dem feelings FOR WoW
This brings back memories of my first gnome warlock, I only played it to lvl 11 for some reason, but still... I had a friend of the maelstrom aswell. Iggy. He's the one who made me play, though he was lvl 60 and I was just a noob. Vanilla wow ftw, ahn'qiraj opening ftw!
BTW, I listen to world of warcraft music while playing minecraft.. And this is perfect since my new works my base is situated amongst hundreds of snow covered mountains.
Good times for anyone who enjoyed the game. Yeah, the orcs at Redridge came as a bit of a shock for a lvl 15 hunter. I wasn't expecting them. (Shakes head and laughs at myself) good times.
@Kaarlo If this was my alarm I'd never get up. Hit snooze and pull those that sheet on your ear. I kinda miss the snow and cold, I was born and raised in Sweden but live in California now.
I'll never forget a 13 day train ride from Beijing to Moscow, through Mongolia and over 7 days straight of Siberia that looked like nothing but endless ancient giant snow caked pine and spruce and fur and other evergreen trees with snow capped mountains in every direction for as far as the eye could see from horizon to horizon, the Siberian taiga in the heart of January, I felt like I was really in Dun Morogh. One night around midnight a massive full moon bathed the landscape in frosted silver, and I turned on this soundtrack and enjoyed my last bottle of vodka I'd been saving, a memory I'll always treasure thanks to good ol'WOW.
Just the mental image of that makes me feel like cracking open my last vodka...
Na zda-ró-vye!
Hа здоровье!
Which technically isn't a toast but whatever.
For Khaz Modan!
evilyig I should probably add doing that to my list of things to do before dying.
evilyig давай давай! :]
evilyig EPIC
This is making me depressed... I feel sad that I'll never experience that feeling of everything being new again, before all these quest addons, portals, etc you had to run around and explore. You'd spend hrs on one quest looking for something thats possibly on the other side of the zone. Old wow music will forever be a part of me.
this is the same thing us old timers say about EQ (everquest) and how WOW was too easy. lol
ay brah vanilla out tho
In a way, you're reliving the experience through this music. It's a bittersweet feeling, but a happy memory altogether 😊
I loved my Dwarf warrior Burly😢
I feel sorry for anyone who didn't experience WoW in its prime. This was a gaming experience unlike anything you could ever imagine. But, it can never be replicated, because a big part of it was the time period and the community and how it was all so new to everyone playing it, and we were all witnessing something so amazing for the first time together. I'm sad that it's over but glad to have had such a magical experience to have nostalgia for. Vanilla-WOTLK was something damn near spiritual.
Pepe Chikan cries*
Pepe Chikan yea i literally grew up on azeroth
Pepe Chikan For me, that period was WotLK -- I don't think the game was ever any better. And then....Cata happened :(
Gaia Earthborn I did too, i remember sitting beside my dad playing wow in... i think late vanilla or early BC, eventually during Wrath my dad got me an account, and we played together whenever we had time. So many great memories. Never will anything match up to that
+Pepe Chikan I have to agree. You cannot replicate what this game was when it was new. But the music is still here to bring us back.
I fondly remember the time of exploration. How I travelled overseas the first time as a lvl 20 dwarf pala in early vanilla, not knowing anything about the world... Running for hours through swamps, barren lands and thick forests deep within 'enemy' territory where everything kills you, while you marvel at the beautiful diverse landscapes and mysterious places... You came across mysterious ruins and monuments, giants, animals you never saw before, remote villages, places inhibited by scary looking demons... Your first confrontations with horde races... And after hours of travel with possible death around every corner you finally reach a friendly npc camp where you are safe for a moment... You decide to travel further into unknown land and come out in a land full of Tauren and minotaurs and bridges that connect little areas on top of rocks. The lift however is heavily guarded by high lvled tauren so you decide to travel on... And after walking for a while through the area suddenly a huge mysterious salt plain appears for your eyes with a race track on it inhibited by gnomes. And you feel a strange sense of familiarity and mystery. What are they doing there? How did they end up there in an outskirt of the world so far away from home? You only saw them around ironforge and as immigrants in stormwind before. It all adds to the mystery and wondering. You look around for a couple of minutes and decide to run further into the unknown and find yourself in a desert in a strange town called gadgetzan inhibited by goblins with architecture you never seen before. It looks fascinating but it seems to be way too high lvled though so you give up for tonight and hearthstone back to loch modan...
The whole journey took you hours and hours and countless deaths, but you had the adventure of a lifetime!
Reading this just made me almost want to cry :')
4:11 the nostalgia hurts
4:10
+Atremis Every time
I've been looking for that part for I don't know how long. Finally found it.
Amazing stuff!
The feels, they are too many
Problem nowadays is that people are trying to find obscure ways to enjoy the game when the only way to enjoy the game is to play it and enjoy the gameplay itself.
The enjoyment in WoW for me never came from some simulated progression, nor did it come from a rigid, structured leveling scheme, it came from me wanting to log on and kill things, and get more powerful to kill more things more easily.
I wanted to do this because I felt weak in-game, nowadays one would have to pull 6+ mobs to be challenged by the game, and even then one feels immortal, back then pulling 2 mobs was a challenge and 3 was almost certain death. Because of this we felt motivated to get better gear and higher levels, there's no enjoyment to be had from just seeing bigger numbers or the gear itself, the enjoyment comes from seeing what the gear does and how it affects gameplay.
Think about a game like Skyrim, what makes people log on to play that? The quest line? Getting higher gear just for the sake of getting better gear? No, people log on to that game to kill monsters and have a great time, I feel as though the developers of WoW have forgotten this.
Players need to feel weak and helpless in the wilderness, they need to feel challenged by something other than 25 man heroic raiding. This will make leveling feel more important making players take it more seriously, and it will drive people to work together.
In Vanilla and BC there was no such thing as a group quest, there were simply quests that were hard to do alone, that you almost always needed a group for, people discovered a quest to be a group quest by not being able to complete the objective.
Why Blizzard doesn't understand this is a mystery to me, why they see fit to make leveling a joke is mind-boggling.
THIS RIGHT HERE
I completly agree, explore and around every corner you feel danger, you feel that at some point you will be dead. Oh gawd, the adreneline, the adrenaline. It is so great back then. Even only agaisn´t one mob you had chances to be killed. More the open world pvp, felt like you could be assassinated by other player at any instant. I feel, that Blizzard and other companies that develop MMORPGs now a days forgot about all this. Is because of this that the genre doesn´t have any sucessfull title, I mean with lots of players playing a recent MMO with at least 1M ppl for 1 year or so? I don´t know, I really loved to know.
SuperDoppo
Mobs are not only hard because they hit hard,they're hard because of other aspects aswell.Social behaviour in example.One mob sees you fight another mob and comes in to defend,one mobs sees another mob fleeing from you and shouts to his mates to group up to try to kill you.Mobs that heal low health mobs,mobs that dispel,mobs that cc chain,mobs that enrage after seeing you kill one of them,mobs that use more then 2 spells,mobs that have 30 minute patrols,mobs that don't reset after 1 disengage.
So many mobs and so few like the average mob of the past.All easy.
Your right man. I love the old Wow like it was :( it was such an awesome game....
The game is not what it used to be because it is TEN fucking years old. Its old. People move on and do different things, It will eventually get stale.
4:11 and on is easily my favorite moment of the entire WoW soundtrack. Fantastic.
4:10
... Dear god. When I listen to this music it... it's just so tranquil and beautiful I can't help but just be entranced by it.
Absolutely love this game
"how the hell do i get to ironforge and stormwind from teldrassil?"
Get the ship to menethil and run through some wetland ?? lvls. :D
You just take the ship to Stormwind from Rut'theran, then in Stormwind, take the subway to Ironforge
endovius Except he's quoting issue from times when there was no ship bay in SW :p
anxiousbreath and back then you had to take a boat to Menethil Harbor and run thru Wetlands...and at level 5 that was im-freakin-possible. ahhh, the good ole days! (corpse runs ftw! rofl) Being a healer, by the time I reached level 20 I knew nearly every graveyard in the zone!
Patrick Owers man that stuff caused nightmares haha
what a great escape this was for me. i was going through a divorce and i would just shut the door and forget it all in this game. then 4 years went by. hahaha
What did you eat for 4 years??
my ex-wife's dead body
Craig Hall
Wow she sure was fat
+Craig Hall it wasn't sarcastic, y u heff to be mad
The divorce may have something to do with ti.
The world is a special and beautiful place when the unknown is around every corner. How funny it is that we all sought to discover every corner and in doing so ruined the mystery and adventure. My heart will always have a special place for this game and the memories I made discovering with friends
If you listen to this music during winter time in real life, and just stare out of the window in the forest full of snow, you get a feeling i can't describe, its just pure magic & nostalgia. And just fits the moment perfectly. I'm crying how beautiful can music be? And make you think about a forgotten time like wow is.. i miss 2006 and i have goose bumbs right now bcs this is just outstanding art right here. No words.
I know what you mean
One of my better memories was a group of friends and I walking naked down the long road thru stranglethorn to Booty bay.. We held weapons only and slow walked the entire thing.... Wall walking for the first time.. Seeing the world from the top of a previously unreachable height , amazing...
I cry manly tears every time I listen to this soundtrack.
Indeed. There is no experience in this world that can replicate living in another world so closely. Those years of playing it, the adventures I had, the friends I made...I will remember them the rest of my life.
This brings me back to my bachelor days. I began my WoW time in Dun Morogh. It was late fall outside, cooling off. I had the freedom to stay up late and play this, before bills, work, etc. Plus in the mid-aughts this was a new release MMORPG with unprecedented polish. Great music, fun times.
I know exactly what you mean. It's the same for me. The feeling when I first entered the Barrens as a Tauren shaman was and is still undescribable. It was so vast and huge, the quests were exciting and told a story. It felt somehow alive and in a certain way real. You didn't know what came next.
I'm living in Finland and actually used to have this as my morning alarm at wintertimes before. It was always good start for cold day. :)
I'm glad to see so many other WoW players who actually acknowledge the game's marvelous music. From the simple and nostalgic tunes of Vanilla, to the dramatic and lovely melodies that came with all the new expansions.
Argue what you want about how the game became too casual and rushed, you cannot help but stand in awe at the game's excellent music, no matter what zone, dungeon or battleground.
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Thank you for the memories, World of Warcraft, we all wish to go back, but those days are gone...
This is my favorite music piece in the game. The first character I ever created was a gnome, and all I remember was how different Dun Morogh was from the other starting areas. The music is so fitting! Each time I hear it, I imagine killing a Trogg, haha. This is truly, in my opinion, the best combination of music and zone in WoW. Nothing beats Dun Morogh as far as a leveling experience goes. Once I leave, it's never the same.
So much nostalgia here. I've been playing this game for the last 10 years. And this just brings me back.. I remember hearing this as I leveled by troll hunter. Getting lost as hell in winter spring being attacked by yetis polar bears and the grizzly peoplexD I miss old wow!!! Itll never be the same!!
Feel like WOW is something forgotten, long time forsaken, but, it will never die .. because of the music, the fact that we played this game younger, the fairy ambience ... It's like a part of our life.
This game is forever part of my life and is a piece of my identity. The exploration of every new zone would excite me like a feeling I can't describe. Almost nothing can compare and only previous WoW members know what I'm trying to get at. Elwynn/Dun Morogh Forest meandering...never knowing what was around the corner
I am like waist deep in nostalgia right now. My first gnome mage . . . didn't know what I was doing but I was having fun. Made some great friends.
i wish i could re-experience WoW in its prime once more....
"I can't carry anymore." That's it. :D
Inventory is full
the music and voice acting in this game is top notch, one of the best i've seen tbh.
Good vibes to you man.. All those late nights questing in starry Tanaris, foggy mornings of Dun Morogh, to the fires of Blackrock mountain and the snowy peaks of winterspring.... nobody can take those memories from us, not even Blizzard/Activision.
My first char was a dwarf hunter... Just being in such a beautiful world, full of adventure and possibility for the first time was overwhelming... And now it's all lost. Now the game is all about the newest epic/legendary gear and who beats raids the fastest... And the areas that bring such nostalgia now are lost forever.
There is no more ambient and subtle music like this in WoW.
A gnome mage, around level 12. Mother shouts "son, hurry up. Tennis lessons start in a few mins". Dying to a bear...logging out...memories of bygone times - 11 years ago.
I remember how back in the day, people, were making groups for caves or quest areas where they would have needed to fight with more than 2 mobs at 1 time if they were alone. Also, the elites that existed back then, the epic Stranglethorn vale pages business and the epic PvP in STV together with many other great areas. The feeling of entering Winterspring, Western Plaguelands, having the feeling of being close to level 60... that feeling doesnt exist anymore and only farming PvE and PvP exists.
Couldn't agree more. I have a huge collection of the soundtrack's from Wow on my iPod. Even though I dont play nearly as much as I use to do, listening to those songs brings back a huge nostalgic feeling. Then I suddenly get the urge to play again, experience the great atmosphere this game has and relieve some wonderful memories.
The game has changed over the years, but I still find it worth playing and the music is a big reason for that.
2:53 this sends shivers down my spine EVERY time I hear it in game.
Nobody ever bring up Dun Morogh when talking about zones. Low key one of the best starting zones.
Not to level in, the flow was awful, not as bad as Teldrassil though.
Dun Morogh and Loch Modan are my favourite zones
I feel you. :) WoW isn't some online game for addicts, its an experience, and those of us who played this game for the adventure, the feel, and the freedom away from reality will keep that experience. So many people wont understand, but those of us who do, can easily say that this was something special. :3
Damn i wish i could rewind time
+MrBlackzzter YES PLS
Sigh. Same mate
Your wish has been granted
In a way I hate having the Explorer title, it means there is nothing left to explore :( I will never again think "I wonder what's over this hill" because I already know, there is no feeling quite like when I found Ironforge for the first time, shit was cash.
And I do remember you, Weedboss hehe the guild raids, and so much more. Have a nice life. Emos priest. NE.
It was a fantastic, gigantic and mystical feeling most of us experienced while discovering the amazing lands of Azeroth.
Being an orc or dwarf or Tauren dwelling the lands in search for quests, loot or other surprises......you never know what you would find in that cave or in that forest, it would never end.
For me it was even just finding the tower of Azora, that was big enough. Or finding orcs in Redridge, where you thought you were safe from any "real" high level danger.
Good shit.
4:43 of this song feels sad, as if it was everything was lost. :'(
I think it rather sounds beautiful like a wonderful dream.
This is the first in game song that I distinctly remember when I first started playing I made a Gnome Rogue as my first character and this song always plays in the starting zone. I remember sneaking on my dad's computer an hour before I had to leave for school just to get that extra playtime. Good times, man.
I listened to this on my headphones while taking a train through the Siberian taiga, 5 days of nothing but pine forest and snow in January at 40 below zero. Reminds me of 3am on the train under the full moon with a bottle of vodka as the moon light lit up the snow and icy trees, looked just like the game.
...this music reallly brings memories alive....I miss the time I had in wow. Stopped for over a year now after playing for 6 years (since classic). I loved my time in wow, meeting new friends, discovering new places and having great adventures and laughs. Magical.
This is my favorite starting area
Just LISTENING to this song gets me cold. There's some sort of shiver behind these notes that literaly runs up my spine. I get a beautiful image from this music when I close my eyes. Long live vanilla WoW!
A dwarf hunter... Instant flashback of the cinematic of the one with the bear.
This music and the Teldrassil music bring back memories...
4:10-5:10 is my fav ambient theme from Dun Morogh. kinda reminds me of the days i quested through the area back in Wrath. i was still new to the game, didn't understand all that much, but i still enjoyed playing WoW at the time.
The first 1-20 levels of playing WoW, the first time you set foot in Azeroth, is one of the best gaming experiences I've had in my life. Nothing can match up to that feeling of exploration, danger, and mystery.
Running around...getting ingredients for a good drink to warm yourself by the fire in the only tavern for miles... after fighting the Frostmane trolls in the area...and barely surviving a pack of wolves
As nerdy as it is, it kills me on the inside knowing I'll never be able to sit in my room and wander the world of warcraft as I once did :( Vanilla WoW was some of the best years of my life.
All you have to do is take a leisurely stroll on the ground in WoW to appreciate it again.
omg that start... go away tears.
Reading thro all these comments here bring such a nostalgia its almost making me cry xD I totally can relate. The time I logged on my first char which was a undead warrior, just exploring the world, being total noob. You just don't get that feeling anymore. In fact, no game has ever given me that feeling except for WoW. I do still enjoy it somewhat, but not nearly as much. Sad thing is, no private server can bring back that feeling. It just isn't the same :l
I grew up on this game damnit...and i wish it would come back to the way it was :'(
no doubt, it´s the greatest alternative reality ever created, I think calling Wow 'a game' is an understatement, because it´s more then just a game, it´s a whole new breathing universe.
I exactly feel what you feel man. But I think it was about our emotions when we were a noob. Everything was mysterios and undiscovered. And everybody around us were like us and we were the people in an undiscovered virgin world. year by year it changed. But it must change. it cannot stay the same. I m just missing those days
This makes me wanna go to my grandmas house in the middle of the winter (She lives in a typical, nordic forest) and just run into the woods.
4:10 that few notes can sum up the whole Dwarven world of warcraft
Out of all games, WoW has struck me with biggest nostalgia strike I have ever witnessed. Just even thinking about those old days and listening to this music gives that big nostalgia feeling in your guts.
It really is...I used to think that you couldn't play as the Horde for some reason and so my first character was a dwarf warrior...ah, the good old days...
Cheer up everyone. Make new memories.
for some reason, this makes me miss the old vanilla wow we used to play so much.
this music gives me chills from all the memories
good ole study music :D
This is why I fell in love with this game! Very few games can match the atmosphere of Blizzard games.
when i first started WoW, i tried every race and made dif classes for each one, when i was a gnome rogue this place made my jaws drop, i didnt know if i wanted to be a dwarf or an undead, but in the end i was a troll shaman cus thats the last thing i tried and i was board of switching back and forth
Oh my, my VERY first character, a gnome warlock. This sure brings back memories of my friend helping me.. I only reached level 14 and started as undead, but man do I miss Dun Morogh!
Ahh those are the sweet memories i share as well. It's late night and you are just taking a stroll with your char to explore a whole new interesting zone. love it. the feeling smell and best of all music atmosphere
i know that it is....little magic moment in mi life. the music, the wolrd, all magic things that we see. i never forgot that magic moment. i love with my soul the "world of warcraft" that world is other life, one life that i wanna live but the real life crash every day......the real life that i can't leave
I remember getting killed by those damn level 8-10 trolls on the ridge while looking for lotuses for the quest.
My first Character was an Orc, i never got him past level 4...
my second character, the one i stuck with for most of the time, forever a noob however, was my dear Hunter, a dwarf named Oakenrifle at the Hellscream-server. I loved the game back then, as i was only 12 years. Perchance it could be said that I was too stupid to be of use; I died houndreds of times, didn't know where to go, how to get money, didn't know anything. My english was that bad... But i was always enthrilled by the music.
this was the first music that i heard in WoW when i started 4 years ago :)
I love this music
The feelings....entering WoW.. starting lvl 1... & then being close to 60 & lvling in these mountains... the feelings.... I think we cant feel them anymore because it was the 1st good mmo, now there are 5000 mmo's & its just not the same feeling as in wow cuz we have used dem feelings FOR WoW
this video was posted in 2009, that's beautiful. thank you
I had this playing on my ipod one night when all the stars were out and the moon was full. just as the piano kicked in at 4mins sorta time. PERFECT
when i was 8 and used to quest in dun morogh this music would freak me out lol
This brings back memories of my first gnome warlock, I only played it to lvl 11 for some reason, but still... I had a friend of the maelstrom aswell. Iggy. He's the one who made me play, though he was lvl 60 and I was just a noob. Vanilla wow ftw, ahn'qiraj opening ftw!
2:54 !
memories...so sad...:S
Ahhhh this music brings me back.
Definately perfect music for a snowy area with tall mountains. :3
I feel high.
I don't play anymore, but this music makes my heart hurt.
BTW, I listen to world of warcraft music while playing minecraft..
And this is perfect since my new works my base is situated amongst hundreds of snow covered mountains.
i like the fact how everyones first char a dwarf was hunter :D
It's hard to realize that we don't have the technology to make a time machine in this century, else I know for certain what I would use it for.
I am lucky i didn't played WOW!
Now i can buy it and put my self into a great adventure :)
nothing will beat wow, how it used to be but we cant get this first time experience again
R.I.P Vanilla WoW
The exact reason im playing a dwarf hunter on dalaran 3.3.5 wow..
Good times for anyone who enjoyed the game. Yeah, the orcs at Redridge came as a bit of a shock for a lvl 15 hunter. I wasn't expecting them. (Shakes head and laughs at myself) good times.
Remember when i started wow, it was so good.
The music is nice and peacefull
I'd sneak my Horde characters into this area to just sit around and enjoy the place. Only other place I can remember that had this magic was Mulgore.
@Kaarlo If this was my alarm I'd never get up. Hit snooze and pull those that sheet on your ear.
I kinda miss the snow and cold, I was born and raised in Sweden but live in California now.
ohh, those elite dragonkins in winterspring!
man i remeber first making a gnome in 2004 good ol days
so glad my first char was a dwarf hunter. fucking epic, geeky but epic, times.
You gotta play this music when it's like winter and it's very snowy out