This game has the best social experience of any MMO I've ever played. The fact that it forces you at higher levels to find other players to cooperate with breeds friendships that lasts for years. Also the intense rivalries you can form with other players in the pvp room. Ragnarok pvp is one of the funnest things to do in any game.
I don't know how it fared in the US and other Western countries, but RO was HUGE in the Philippines. It was a phenomenon that rivaled Counter-Strike in public computer shops and attracted mainstream media attention.
The same here in Malaysia. You would see Cyber Cafes fully decorated with RO stuff (banners, wallpapers, posters etc) and EVERYONE you know, was playing. Sadly game turned extremely sour after the massive amounts of BOTS that flooded the game. God I miss those days where I'd go to Payon ask if anyone wants to party up and venture into Payon Dungeon.
It's the music that keeps me coming back to the game, as well the as the experience of hanging out in Prontera South while checking all the shops to find some stuff I may want to buy.
@@fredveefrqc4072 Nah, music wise RO is probably in the top 3 MMOs, i'd even go so far as to call out any other MMO for not having good cycled music, specially WoW. SoundTemp is really great at what they do.
Ragnarok's Freedom where everything is just a side quest is beautiful. It makes you feel that it's your own adventure and not pre-determined fate. As of now. there's no MMORPG able to emmulate that feeling.
This. I love how RO was like "Here's the world, have fun!" You were free to do anything and go almost anywhere at any time. The lore is immense and carefully thoughout, from lighthearted to incredibly dark content, if you wish to explore it but it doesn't shove it down your throat with tales of "the chosen one". I haven't found the same feeling with any mmo ever again
So much nostalgia packed in this video! Thank you! I've met amazing and interesting people from all walks of life from across the world many who were significantly older that I looked up to when I was a kid while playing this game (10-20 years ago) such as; US soldiers who binged on this game between training and deployments, newly wed couples, LGBT groups, a Dutch hardware store worker, a Chinese-American humanities grad student, a car magazine model, etc. The community in RO basically raised me to be the open minded person I am and as an adult looking back, I'm grateful that there was a place where a dorky weird kid with good intentions who have little in common to those around him in the real world can still connect with people even if its within a fantasy world.
It's really amazing how much of a positive influence games (especially MMOs) can have, especially to bring people together. I'm glad it had such a good impact on your life.
It was a wonderful game with very nice Music and Gameplay. And the World was awesome and great. I love and play it since 15 Years now on Fun Servers. I played on Iro Servers in the Matrix Guild
I absolutely LOVED this game! 🤩 Wow... I spent soo many hours inside RO that it basically became my second home! I would give anything to bring back the feeling I had while playing this game back in the days. It was perfect 👌
You speak my language T_T. I used to spend so much time logging 5 buffs for my main character daily. Nostalgia is a major vibe whenever the name Ragnarok appears in my head
I played iRO for about 6 years from the late 2000's to about 2011-12, starting when I was in high school. I met a lot of my best friends there. I quit when they merged Ymir and the other pay to play servers into Valkyrie, the free one. Because they did nothing to address the botted zenny problem rampant in Valk before that, zenny became worthless and it completely destroyed the market in the process (and my project of buying a Meg with it). A few weeks ago I was feeling that pang of nostalgia and decided to check in on my first MMO, and was shocked to see it was not only still alive, but still relatively active. Unfortunately it's been bastardized beyond all redemption by the cash shop and pay to win account services, even more so than it was when I left over a decade ago. The first thing I noticed is the Novice Grounds are gone and they drop you in Izlude instead, and everything revolves around this quest journal thing now. I didn't stay long, it's just too different now.
The fact that RO is mindlessly grindy is the actual reason I love and continue to love it - I hate MMOs today that are so story driven, having no restrictions allows you to create your own path and story with your friends.
Myself and a few of my old friends played this game. It was very active back in the day. We joked my one friend was living on Korea time He also has a gf ingame who we were convinced was a dude
lol there were TONS of guys using female sprites and pretending to be female (and 'dating' in game). I think it was just an easy outlet for them since this was like 2002~2005 and video caming and vent wasn't a thing. When i went back to play like 2008ish for fun and ran into old friends, I found out by using vent lol but they didn't care anymore
@@iamnemoo I was one of them, and i married some pinoy guy, so i can use his ice pick :3 he reaally thought i was a woman though. GIRL= GUY IN REAL LIFE XD
RO was also my first MMORPG ever. Started in highschool... played for maybe 4 years until I get bored. I remember having actual IRL school friends to play with, and my 2 brothers also play. It was fun! Of course we experiment with both the national server (idRO) and private server, even hosting our own private server for a couple of months. I remember going to internet cafe to buy the subscription card, and also tried buying zeny with real money a few times (damn that was expensive). i remember getting hacked and losing my items. I remember the drama with guild and deciding to quit the guild. So many instances where people just kill steal my items :( I remember exploring map to find pretty places to get a screenshot. Also remember having an official printed guide (with item database, skill database), planning your build on an online calculator, and having a poster of the world map in my room to use as reference when travelling. Selling warps as a priest. Changing into my merchant toon to vend instead of logging out at night to sleep. Having to register as female just so I can play as female toon... I logged in and wait during christmas and new year's eve in prontera just to wish the map seasons greetings. So many memories!!
Your post is amazing and so relatable. - I remember going to Glastheim way earlier than I should. Grouping together near the entrance with other noobs, sort of a strength in numbers strategy. Casting my Storm Gust that took 10 years to cast. - I remember my first character and he was completely useless, stats all over the place. I didn't know the difference between a tank and a DPS Knight, so he became a mish-mash, too frail to be a tank and too weak to be a DPS. - My Hunter was the first one that had a correct build. It was the first time I killed somebody in PVP. - I remember advertising for party members, looking for a tank and a priest. That was the most exciting part for me even though I'm just sitting down in the town square. I think it's because of the anticipation and the companionship.
The music of ragnarok is unironically fantastic, and some of the best music I've heard from any mmo. Most of them choose to be silent for the majority of gameplay anyway. What I do have to say though... is that the official server is horrible. The exp you get from monsters is terribly unbalanced, to the point that you are almost entirely dependent on clearing the tedious missions on the board. Which eventually run out and you are left with no other option than the most mindless grinding. Each hour being just a few percent points which can be lost instantaneously if you die. The server is designed to bore you to death until you decide to pay. It is quite sad... since the official server is the most populated and the best maintained but gives you maybe the worst experience I've had playing RO.
what I also loved about RO is that you char can evolve similar to pokemon, the feeling of not only leveling up but also changing class and seeing the difference and getting new skills was really addictive to me :-P
You know what would've brought more nostalgia to us the viewers? hearing RO's AMAZING Soundtrack !! God I miss that game but I don't feel like replaying it consistently so for now it continues to live on in my memories 🧡
Even tho i did not experience the old ragnarok, it was fun playing with my friend on a low rate private server i experienced alot of things like manually picking up mob drops, walking just to get to a map, spamming my fly wings just to get closer to the portal that i needed to enter, meeting a lot of nice players and party up to grind levels and etc. Ragnarok was the best game i ever played.
It’s eerie just how deep this game touched people. God level nostalgia 😅. The enjoyment and all round satisfaction and addictive power this game had on me was just great man../
6 years on eRO and never got to rebirth a char :D i loved sitting in front of pron and just chatting :D plopping the occasional branch and just creating new chars just to delete on level 80 and start another char all over again :D
I used to play iRO back in the day, would love hitting up WoE with my guild Fatty Chubby Kitties, still to this day i have really fond memories of the game, hell I still play from time to time to this day.
Loved playing this game when I was a teenager. Looking back, with the benefit of hindsight, it wasn't really the best MMORPG around, but somehow it brought a lot of people together like no other game did. The lack of readily available information forced people to group up to level up and figure out things, and everyone was very friendly and sociable. I am still friends with some of the folks I met on RO, 15 years later, which is amazing, to say the least. I've always cherished my RO memories, but when I tried getting back into RO last year, I realized I've spent the last decade looking at it with rosy retrospection. I didn't really enjoy the grinding aspects of the game, or how bots soon took over and ruined everything, but it was definitely a lot easier to make friends in-game than in today's games. Everything has been dumbed down and soloing the entire game is now doable, which forces interaction to a minimum.
I don't think it's rosy retrospection. RO will always have a place in my heart and a spot as my favorite game of all time. I think RO today (in most servers although there are some really good ones) is different than it was back in the day. This game was brutal and really fun. You pretty much logged in and the instructions were "do whatever you feel like, lol", endgame was what you wanted it to be: be a pvp god, be a woe master in a top guild, hunt mvps, clear "dungeons", be the richest merchant in the server (I remember some people did a merchant conglomerate lol), discover lore, making it to 99/70, etc. Information was meant to be found out by players as they discovered the world they were taking part in and this brought people together, nothing was handed to you or blocked from you (you could as a novice 1/1, explore almost the entire world and even choose to face an mvp and get absolutely messed up). Nowadays the MMO market follows the same model that just holds your hand, through a series of senseless chores that you can pretty much do by yourself to get to endgame material. And RO has changed in this direction. You can solo pretty much any content, one-shot MVPs that would have made you shit your pants in the past, a lot of servers let you use multiple accounts at the same time, etc. The entire experience feels as you said dumbed down and forced if you follow the meta. In any case, the game is still fun as hell provided you find the correct server for what you want :)
Used to play in 2006 and still remember my character names: Schimiter!, Aegis! and Excalibur lol for my Priest, high wizard and assassin class :D. Forgot my merchant name though...
This was the game that got the wife and I to get to know each other. Exploring the world, sitting around in payon chatting and grinding on soils for gold and easy mage exp.
Bruh, nostalgia is right. I can't go back to the game and deal with that grind again. I did my time grinding a Wizard to High Wizard, even though I never got that High Wizard to lv99 lol, I think highest I got was lv95 or 96. Still it was years of fun, despite the grind. I loved War of Emperium. I only regret that I could never get into killing boss monsters. I didn't have the patience to grind up a Guillotine monk or the gear for an MVP sniper.
OMG I've spent days away playing this game when I was growing up in Brazil. Our stories are alike. I even still have bRO on my laptop and I pay VPN to access it. Hahaha And Occasionally I log in to see my Character sometimes. Great times... I miss them...
I played this game waaay back before it even launched. It was still in beta. Had an lv70 assassin, quit came back to iRO after playing pRO, got a lv99 Wizard right as they were opening WoE. Good times.
mannn same thing...tbh i think its the vibe the game has. the music, the graphics, its unique for mmorpgs and it almost ingrained on my brain, differently from one of the thousand full 3d rpgs out there
One of the things I love about this game is that it's fast paced and hard as f***. The only RPG when you can die in 2 seconds from regular mobs. And they are often QUICK
coming at this video 2 years late but even 2 years ago, RO has a story. It's just not really until you're transcendant and about to go to 3rd job that it's worth starting. Once there though it has quite a lot of story building up to the newer areas and expansions starting with the Onward to the New World.
thats what a game gave Big impact in my Life.. as my 2nd world! while lot of my friends since my childhood time, 2 of our friends are now got married - beco'z of this game!
there is a lot of story, even before quest log and eden is a thing. Bio Lab is the saddest and left most impression. if you talk to on of the priest girl in Prontera Church, she will tell you that she is still waiting Margaretha to return from her adventure, never knowing she is already dead
I still remember botting on the game and watching my bot working, to stop it when people stood around it, calling it a bot. It'd stop moving and I'd use console commands to tell 'em "I'm not a bot damnit. I'm just efficient and don't like talking." That usually shut them up or we talked for a bit, them in game, me using a botting program to talk to them in game. You could use the damn thing to change your characters gender somehow, I even showed my friends when I changed mine. Never got caught lolololol.
I once made six bot accounts and ran them all at the same time and had them grinding for mummy cards in that pyramid dungeon 😂😂😂, I respect your craft. Ps I left it on overnight and got caught and all 6 accounts banned. Meanwhile I had another bot getting deadbranches that was 99/70 sniper that I just left on all the time and I also used the console command to reply to people……bot?
Great vid! My start with the game was pretty similar, including starcraft being my main multiplayer experience prior lol Dunno if I'm allowed to suggest this, but I started playing again on Asgard Legends p-server. Worth trying since they fixed SO many of the problems with the original, and reworked every class/rebirth system.
Long time RO player. Loved the video, although I don't agree with your 5:07 complains, that's how they managed to make jobs, builds, and skills so unique back in the day. Character controls are not unresponsive at all, you are talking about "after-attack delay" and "hit-lock", an Alchemist won't attack-and-move as fast as a Hunter or a Rogue, a bow has a long recoil so it takes long to attack again, but a dagger allows you to hit and run quickly, also the AGI stat reduces the after-attack delay, which allows you to use skills and move after each attack, you can actually cast a skill after every attack if you time it well enough. Along with that, "hit-lock" is what prevents you from moving when you get hit, something like the "opportunity attack" from Dungeons and Dragons, you can prevent this by using Endure or having high Flee, Perfect Dodge, or even high movement speed. So get gud m8 no hate. But I agree, the game really is grindy as hell, and the windows are annoyingly small, playing on 1x does have a charm but most people just play on 50x or higher servers.
I've actually been getting hit with the Nostalgia wave once every 1-2 years for this game since 2014... friend showed me RebirthRO in 2009, couldn't play it for some reason, and then went on to EarthboundRO (ebRO has a rap song you should check it out lol). It shutdown and came back 3 times from 2011-2014. Great times... especially playing Nazi Zombies hourly event. Been playing on Shining-Moon.
it's all good except the fact that They can't update all official RO equally the same patch If you can't imagine Let's think about this... You and your friend from different country pay the same price for Fifa game But You get Fifa 2013 update while Your friend get Fifa 2021 update
The number of times I'd go down to seals to grind away. I'd always find BR players lying dead on the beach hitting me with a "Ressumiplx" Ragnarok Online back in those days, truly was built different.
I remember "pranking" on the entrance to Payon dungeon with my stalker one. I would click chase walk near portal then walk a bit further across the portal and then click again that skill. Sitting there then open pub... hahaha... many novices that awe how I get there... :D
Non existing story???... I mean... come on man the main story quest were pretty dope. Yeah they are mostly text dialogs and descriptions with some visual effects here and there but that was part of the fun, you had to use your imagination too. Its pretty much like a visual novel format and i like those so i guess my opinion is a little bias but most of my favorite memories of the game where doing quest and learning the mysteries of the world, doing Rachel santuary quest or the cursed princes or the one to enter where the belzebub is. It was like reading a book while you play and i never had such experience in any other game. Oh and de BGM... best game music ever period
I remember having an assassin with 100% or at least near to 100 crit rate attacking very fast the numbers blasting off in a row like the cards when you win in patience.
now I wonder how many years it'll be when I can level my main, a Rebellion, past 100... yes, my avatar is a Gunslinger from said game. (Well, really, one of the spinoffs, Ragnarok Odyssey)
3:26 i guess thats talonro im still playing it one of the nest servers ever 4:00 lol im that HN who sitting there btw if u needed any help just pm me xD
I remember selling my MVP card for $1300. My friend and I can't believe it dropped. This game is insane; if only companies are not greedy on how they manage their servers. I wonder if there's a private/official server that is actually good rn.
There definitely still are servers and people playing surprisingly. Such a good game. Check out 'Unnamed Account' as he still plays RO on a server (look in comments on latest video, he mentions this 2 months ago).
I play ro at 15 now im 28 still playing but switch from server after server since its hard to stick with one server bcoz server close after they juice out people with cash and BUGzzard. Overall RO is FUN
I dont even know how this got into my recommendations but DAMN, I am not alone! I've been playing RO on and off for years now, because I just cant let go. I started playing RO when I was 7 years old and took a break at the age of 14 because my home-server at the time went down. Literally trying to convince everyone I know to play RO with me, but its rather unsuccessful, mostly based on the graphics being "outdated" in their opinion. Glad to know that I ain't the only one taking a trip down memory lane every now and again.
bRO (Brasilian Ragnarok Online) is still pretty much the MOST populated server up to date, it has exclusive mechanics that other servers don't have like, the bigger your party is the more EXP you get to counterbalance the EXP division so a lot of famous grinding spots are full of players looking and inviting for parties Tho' I really don't like how the F2P integration turned the game into a P2W model and how easy it is to make bots, the bots destroyed the economy pretty bad so new players that don't cheat or don't want to actually spend money will have a pretty rough time playing it..
Putting nostagia aside, I think the only thing that made RO popular was it aggrasive free to play marketing and bringing the online multiplayer experience to the masses. The gameplay was stupidly clunky and grindy as you said. Poeple stayed for the social interaction. Playing with your middleschool friend from home at night was the shit back then. WoW was a waaaaaaay better game but here in SEA only people live in cities with broadband and deep pockets could afford iplay it.
This game has the best social experience of any MMO I've ever played. The fact that it forces you at higher levels to find other players to cooperate with breeds friendships that lasts for years. Also the intense rivalries you can form with other players in the pvp room. Ragnarok pvp is one of the funnest things to do in any game.
I don't know how it fared in the US and other Western countries, but RO was HUGE in the Philippines. It was a phenomenon that rivaled Counter-Strike in public computer shops and attracted mainstream media attention.
It were so nice when they released a Remaked Version on other Plattforms. I would play it Years and Years
The same here in Malaysia. You would see Cyber Cafes fully decorated with RO stuff (banners, wallpapers, posters etc) and EVERYONE you know, was playing. Sadly game turned extremely sour after the massive amounts of BOTS that flooded the game. God I miss those days where I'd go to Payon ask if anyone wants to party up and venture into Payon Dungeon.
Its was insanely big in Brazil as well.
i somehow missed this game completely
apparently same in chile and latinamerica, it even got featured a few times in prime time news
It's the music that keeps me coming back to the game, as well the as the experience of hanging out in Prontera South while checking all the shops to find some stuff I may want to buy.
nostalgia !
@@fredveefrqc4072 Nah, music wise RO is probably in the top 3 MMOs, i'd even go so far as to call out any other MMO for not having good cycled music, specially WoW. SoundTemp is really great at what they do.
Ragnarok's Freedom where everything is just a side quest is beautiful. It makes you feel that it's your own adventure and not pre-determined fate. As of now. there's no MMORPG able to emmulate that feeling.
This. I love how RO was like "Here's the world, have fun!" You were free to do anything and go almost anywhere at any time. The lore is immense and carefully thoughout, from lighthearted to incredibly dark content, if you wish to explore it but it doesn't shove it down your throat with tales of "the chosen one". I haven't found the same feeling with any mmo ever again
"You don't quit RO, RO quits you."
I just came back to it xD and it's still epic!
So much nostalgia packed in this video! Thank you! I've met amazing and interesting people from all walks of life from across the world many who were significantly older that I looked up to when I was a kid while playing this game (10-20 years ago) such as; US soldiers who binged on this game between training and deployments, newly wed couples, LGBT groups, a Dutch hardware store worker, a Chinese-American humanities grad student, a car magazine model, etc. The community in RO basically raised me to be the open minded person I am and as an adult looking back, I'm grateful that there was a place where a dorky weird kid with good intentions who have little in common to those around him in the real world can still connect with people even if its within a fantasy world.
It's really amazing how much of a positive influence games (especially MMOs) can have, especially to bring people together. I'm glad it had such a good impact on your life.
I played aRO and spent like all day every day for years on it....made a lot of friends and enjoyed it the most out of other mmos I’ve tried today.
Wow the nostalgia 😭 like if you’ve gotten married on RO
Played this game nonstop back in college back when it was still in beta from about 2002-2004. Man those were the days.
It was a wonderful game with very nice Music and Gameplay. And the World was awesome and great. I love and play it since 15 Years now on Fun Servers.
I played on Iro Servers in the Matrix Guild
You forgot the command for autoloot?
Definitely loved the game!!
Married and then scammed you your your god tier items 😂😂
I actually met and married a friend in-game to whom I still talk to this day.
...I wish that I could marry her irl.
I absolutely LOVED this game! 🤩
Wow... I spent soo many hours inside RO that it basically became my second home!
I would give anything to bring back the feeling I had while playing this game back in the days. It was perfect 👌
Okey I have to reintroduce this game into my life. I NEED it!
You speak my language T_T. I used to spend so much time logging 5 buffs for my main character daily. Nostalgia is a major vibe whenever the name Ragnarok appears in my head
waaa nostalgia T_T... got my first online friends and eventually became real life friends till today... what a memory.
Same thing here. I eventually met up with a few cool guys though RO. It's really hard to explain why I have so many good memories of this game.
I will forever be in love with game.
I played iRO for about 6 years from the late 2000's to about 2011-12, starting when I was in high school. I met a lot of my best friends there. I quit when they merged Ymir and the other pay to play servers into Valkyrie, the free one. Because they did nothing to address the botted zenny problem rampant in Valk before that, zenny became worthless and it completely destroyed the market in the process (and my project of buying a Meg with it).
A few weeks ago I was feeling that pang of nostalgia and decided to check in on my first MMO, and was shocked to see it was not only still alive, but still relatively active. Unfortunately it's been bastardized beyond all redemption by the cash shop and pay to win account services, even more so than it was when I left over a decade ago. The first thing I noticed is the Novice Grounds are gone and they drop you in Izlude instead, and everything revolves around this quest journal thing now. I didn't stay long, it's just too different now.
The fact that RO is mindlessly grindy is the actual reason I love and continue to love it - I hate MMOs today that are so story driven, having no restrictions allows you to create your own path and story with your friends.
I met 3 good friends that got me into anime.(Full Metal Alchemist) When my mom passed away, they were the first ones I told.
Myself and a few of my old friends played this game. It was very active back in the day. We joked my one friend was living on Korea time
He also has a gf ingame who we were convinced was a dude
lol there were TONS of guys using female sprites and pretending to be female (and 'dating' in game). I think it was just an easy outlet for them since this was like 2002~2005 and video caming and vent wasn't a thing. When i went back to play like 2008ish for fun and ran into old friends, I found out by using vent lol but they didn't care anymore
@@iamnemoo I was one of them, and i married some pinoy guy, so i can use his ice pick :3 he reaally thought i was a woman though. GIRL= GUY IN REAL LIFE XD
Played this when I was in 4th grade. Watched Lazy Town on Nick Jr. at this time so I end up putting them together in my nostalgia.
RO was also my first MMORPG ever. Started in highschool... played for maybe 4 years until I get bored. I remember having actual IRL school friends to play with, and my 2 brothers also play. It was fun! Of course we experiment with both the national server (idRO) and private server, even hosting our own private server for a couple of months. I remember going to internet cafe to buy the subscription card, and also tried buying zeny with real money a few times (damn that was expensive). i remember getting hacked and losing my items. I remember the drama with guild and deciding to quit the guild. So many instances where people just kill steal my items :( I remember exploring map to find pretty places to get a screenshot. Also remember having an official printed guide (with item database, skill database), planning your build on an online calculator, and having a poster of the world map in my room to use as reference when travelling. Selling warps as a priest. Changing into my merchant toon to vend instead of logging out at night to sleep. Having to register as female just so I can play as female toon... I logged in and wait during christmas and new year's eve in prontera just to wish the map seasons greetings. So many memories!!
Your post is amazing and so relatable.
- I remember going to Glastheim way earlier than I should. Grouping together near the entrance with other noobs, sort of a strength in numbers strategy. Casting my Storm Gust that took 10 years to cast.
- I remember my first character and he was completely useless, stats all over the place. I didn't know the difference between a tank and a DPS Knight, so he became a mish-mash, too frail to be a tank and too weak to be a DPS.
- My Hunter was the first one that had a correct build. It was the first time I killed somebody in PVP.
- I remember advertising for party members, looking for a tank and a priest. That was the most exciting part for me even though I'm just sitting down in the town square. I think it's because of the anticipation and the companionship.
The music of ragnarok is unironically fantastic, and some of the best music I've heard from any mmo. Most of them choose to be silent for the majority of gameplay anyway.
What I do have to say though... is that the official server is horrible. The exp you get from monsters is terribly unbalanced, to the point that you are almost entirely dependent on clearing the tedious missions on the board. Which eventually run out and you are left with no other option than the most mindless grinding. Each hour being just a few percent points which can be lost instantaneously if you die.
The server is designed to bore you to death until you decide to pay.
It is quite sad... since the official server is the most populated and the best maintained but gives you maybe the worst experience I've had playing RO.
This. This is exactly how I feel playing RO today after a long break from back in 2008
what I also loved about RO is that you char can evolve similar to pokemon, the feeling of not only leveling up but also changing class and seeing the difference and getting new skills was really addictive to me :-P
Such nostalgia....and the soundtrack is memorable
Prontere's theme struck me hard i cried.
You know what would've brought more nostalgia to us the viewers? hearing RO's AMAZING Soundtrack !!
God I miss that game but I don't feel like replaying it consistently so for now it continues to live on in my memories 🧡
maan.. RO always hits differently, your journey sounds a lot like mine, really cool vid, maybe i'll give RO a visit after almost 10 years
The fact that Ragnarok Online is nearly 20 years old and still going strong just proves how awesome 2000's anime shit was.
I understand your feels! Thanks for sharing this. I miss my days as a High Priestess!!
Still the best mmorpg available online
Even tho i did not experience the old ragnarok, it was fun playing with my friend on a low rate private server i experienced alot of things like manually picking up mob drops, walking just to get to a map, spamming my fly wings just to get closer to the portal that i needed to enter, meeting a lot of nice players and party up to grind levels and etc. Ragnarok was the best game i ever played.
It’s eerie just how deep this game touched people. God level nostalgia 😅. The enjoyment and all round satisfaction and addictive power this game had on me was just great man../
6 years on eRO and never got to rebirth a char :D i loved sitting in front of pron and just chatting :D plopping the occasional branch and just creating new chars just to delete on level 80 and start another char all over again :D
I used to play iRO back in the day, would love hitting up WoE with my guild Fatty Chubby Kitties, still to this day i have really fond memories of the game, hell I still play from time to time to this day.
damn some of the best gaming moments.. i played aero around 2002
Its 5am here in the PH. Good old days!
Wow, I remember having a Shield Devotion Crusader.
Loved playing this game when I was a teenager. Looking back, with the benefit of hindsight, it wasn't really the best MMORPG around, but somehow it brought a lot of people together like no other game did. The lack of readily available information forced people to group up to level up and figure out things, and everyone was very friendly and sociable. I am still friends with some of the folks I met on RO, 15 years later, which is amazing, to say the least.
I've always cherished my RO memories, but when I tried getting back into RO last year, I realized I've spent the last decade looking at it with rosy retrospection. I didn't really enjoy the grinding aspects of the game, or how bots soon took over and ruined everything, but it was definitely a lot easier to make friends in-game than in today's games. Everything has been dumbed down and soloing the entire game is now doable, which forces interaction to a minimum.
I don't think it's rosy retrospection. RO will always have a place in my heart and a spot as my favorite game of all time. I think RO today (in most servers although there are some really good ones) is different than it was back in the day. This game was brutal and really fun. You pretty much logged in and the instructions were "do whatever you feel like, lol", endgame was what you wanted it to be: be a pvp god, be a woe master in a top guild, hunt mvps, clear "dungeons", be the richest merchant in the server (I remember some people did a merchant conglomerate lol), discover lore, making it to 99/70, etc. Information was meant to be found out by players as they discovered the world they were taking part in and this brought people together, nothing was handed to you or blocked from you (you could as a novice 1/1, explore almost the entire world and even choose to face an mvp and get absolutely messed up).
Nowadays the MMO market follows the same model that just holds your hand, through a series of senseless chores that you can pretty much do by yourself to get to endgame material. And RO has changed in this direction. You can solo pretty much any content, one-shot MVPs that would have made you shit your pants in the past, a lot of servers let you use multiple accounts at the same time, etc. The entire experience feels as you said dumbed down and forced if you follow the meta.
In any case, the game is still fun as hell provided you find the correct server for what you want :)
wayback 2003 when I started playing ragnarok. so much nostalgia and experiences best MMORPG
Used to play in 2006 and still remember my character names: Schimiter!, Aegis! and Excalibur lol for my Priest, high wizard and assassin class :D. Forgot my merchant name though...
This was the game that got the wife and I to get to know each other. Exploring the world, sitting around in payon chatting and grinding on soils for gold and easy mage exp.
Bruh, nostalgia is right. I can't go back to the game and deal with that grind again. I did my time grinding a Wizard to High Wizard, even though I never got that High Wizard to lv99 lol, I think highest I got was lv95 or 96. Still it was years of fun, despite the grind. I loved War of Emperium. I only regret that I could never get into killing boss monsters. I didn't have the patience to grind up a Guillotine monk or the gear for an MVP sniper.
There was a point in time in Philippines that RO is the biggest MMO game.
Part of the reason I personally was able to endure the grind for so long was because the music.
We never quit RO, we just go afk for a long time.
OMG I've spent days away playing this game when I was growing up in Brazil. Our stories are alike. I even still have bRO on my laptop and I pay VPN to access it. Hahaha And Occasionally I log in to see my Character sometimes. Great times... I miss them...
Rag was very famous in Brazil back in the day, me and a lot of friends used to play it. it helped that it was easy on the computer
Lol my server was qRO not many Brazilians but every now and again I’m in Gonryun grinding for dead branches and someone walks up to me…….BR?
Man I loved this game, it's like Gunz or Zelda games back then, just Legendary!
I played this game waaay back before it even launched. It was still in beta. Had an lv70 assassin, quit came back to iRO after playing pRO, got a lv99 Wizard right as they were opening WoE. Good times.
as someone who never played RO, I wish I got to play it back when it was really popular as it reminds me a lot of ffxi which I loved playing x3
mannn same thing...tbh i think its the vibe the game has.
the music, the graphics, its unique for mmorpgs and it almost ingrained on my brain, differently from one of the thousand full 3d rpgs out there
One of the things I love about this game is that it's fast paced and hard as f***. The only RPG when you can die in 2 seconds from regular mobs. And they are often QUICK
coming at this video 2 years late but even 2 years ago, RO has a story. It's just not really until you're transcendant and about to go to 3rd job that it's worth starting. Once there though it has quite a lot of story building up to the newer areas and expansions starting with the Onward to the New World.
RO Online supported my highschool life by selling Zenny's.
Sometimes it's just nice to get into battle without story and just enjoy all the monsters encountered.
thats what a game gave Big impact in my Life.. as my 2nd world!
while lot of my friends since my childhood time, 2 of our friends are now got married - beco'z of this game!
there is a lot of story, even before quest log and eden is a thing.
Bio Lab is the saddest and left most impression.
if you talk to on of the priest girl in Prontera Church, she will tell you that she is still waiting Margaretha to return from her adventure, never knowing she is already dead
I still remember botting on the game and watching my bot working, to stop it when people stood around it, calling it a bot. It'd stop moving and I'd use console commands to tell 'em "I'm not a bot damnit. I'm just efficient and don't like talking." That usually shut them up or we talked for a bit, them in game, me using a botting program to talk to them in game. You could use the damn thing to change your characters gender somehow, I even showed my friends when I changed mine.
Never got caught lolololol.
I once made six bot accounts and ran them all at the same time and had them grinding for mummy cards in that pyramid dungeon 😂😂😂, I respect your craft.
Ps I left it on overnight and got caught and all 6 accounts banned. Meanwhile I had another bot getting deadbranches that was 99/70 sniper that I just left on all the time and I also used the console command to reply to people……bot?
Great vid! My start with the game was pretty similar, including starcraft being my main multiplayer experience prior lol Dunno if I'm allowed to suggest this, but I started playing again on Asgard Legends p-server. Worth trying since they fixed SO many of the problems with the original, and reworked every class/rebirth system.
Wish I could go back in time 😢
Long time RO player. Loved the video, although I don't agree with your 5:07 complains, that's how they managed to make jobs, builds, and skills so unique back in the day. Character controls are not unresponsive at all, you are talking about "after-attack delay" and "hit-lock", an Alchemist won't attack-and-move as fast as a Hunter or a Rogue, a bow has a long recoil so it takes long to attack again, but a dagger allows you to hit and run quickly, also the AGI stat reduces the after-attack delay, which allows you to use skills and move after each attack, you can actually cast a skill after every attack if you time it well enough. Along with that, "hit-lock" is what prevents you from moving when you get hit, something like the "opportunity attack" from Dungeons and Dragons, you can prevent this by using Endure or having high Flee, Perfect Dodge, or even high movement speed. So get gud m8 no hate.
But I agree, the game really is grindy as hell, and the windows are annoyingly small, playing on 1x does have a charm but most people just play on 50x or higher servers.
I use to play Legend RO private server. Good times.
I still had the top up card for RO dated 2003.. still play it tho..
I was nodding all the time with what you all said
I've actually been getting hit with the Nostalgia wave once every 1-2 years for this game since 2014... friend showed me RebirthRO in 2009, couldn't play it for some reason, and then went on to EarthboundRO (ebRO has a rap song you should check it out lol). It shutdown and came back 3 times from 2011-2014. Great times... especially playing Nazi Zombies hourly event.
Been playing on Shining-Moon.
why can't I stop crying
it's all good except the fact that They can't update all official RO equally the same patch
If you can't imagine Let's think about this...
You and your friend from different country pay the same price for Fifa game
But You get Fifa 2013 update while Your friend get Fifa 2021 update
The number of times I'd go down to seals to grind away. I'd always find BR players lying dead on the beach hitting me with a "Ressumiplx"
Ragnarok Online back in those days, truly was built different.
I remember "pranking" on the entrance to Payon dungeon with my stalker one. I would click chase walk near portal then walk a bit further across the portal and then click again that skill. Sitting there then open pub... hahaha... many novices that awe how I get there... :D
the concept of naofumi using a shield where he gets xp from his teammates were inspired from this game ragnarok online
Non existing story???... I mean... come on man the main story quest were pretty dope. Yeah they are mostly text dialogs and descriptions with some visual effects here and there but that was part of the fun, you had to use your imagination too. Its pretty much like a visual novel format and i like those so i guess my opinion is a little bias but most of my favorite memories of the game where doing quest and learning the mysteries of the world, doing Rachel santuary quest or the cursed princes or the one to enter where the belzebub is. It was like reading a book while you play and i never had such experience in any other game. Oh and de BGM... best game music ever period
the story is there. the game has the most interesting quests ever that are not just "go kill X", "gather Y"
But no one gives a shit because it was poorly implemented. Bad dev is bad.
@@TheTickyTickyTicky Can say of what it now, but Ragnarok lore was f*cking unique, the story also implied in items information just like Dark Soul.
I remember having an assassin with 100% or at least near to 100 crit rate attacking very fast the numbers blasting off in a row like the cards when you win in patience.
OMG!!! I MISSED THIS SO MUCH!!!!
now I wonder how many years it'll be when I can level my main, a Rebellion, past 100...
yes, my avatar is a Gunslinger from said game. (Well, really, one of the spinoffs, Ragnarok Odyssey)
3:26 i guess thats talonro im still playing it one of the nest servers ever
4:00 lol im that HN who sitting there btw if u needed any help just pm me xD
Cash Shop was added _before_ it went F2P on most servers btw.
My world of warcraft guilds know this game really well since our guild master quit to play this...all good tho we managed to complete all raids
I remember selling my MVP card for $1300. My friend and I can't believe it dropped. This game is insane; if only companies are not greedy on how they manage their servers. I wonder if there's a private/official server that is actually good rn.
There definitely still are servers and people playing surprisingly. Such a good game. Check out 'Unnamed Account' as he still plays RO on a server (look in comments on latest video, he mentions this 2 months ago).
Great video! i really miss my time with this game
WoE was my love in RO
I play ro at 15 now im 28 still playing but switch from server after server since its hard to stick with one server bcoz server close after they juice out people with cash and BUGzzard. Overall RO is FUN
that's why keep stick to private server
Really miss paradiseRO. Those were the days.
Gosh. I still have the ost on flac
I love Ragnarok I took a break from it though. This year 2021, I think I will play it again😊
That sounds like a great idea!
RO for life still playing it in mobile.
Ahhhh how crazy is it that I saw myself in this video.
Which character was yours? :)
@@JRPGFanatic the clown sitting right above you in prontera
@@lordbodie Haha cool, nice hat btw
How famous is this game? I still play its BGM to relax after 17 yrs
Uhh, depends on what you mean by famous. I would say a lot of people know about it, but not many people play it in comparison to other MMOs.
I dont even know how this got into my recommendations but DAMN, I am not alone!
I've been playing RO on and off for years now, because I just cant let go.
I started playing RO when I was 7 years old and took a break at the age of 14 because my home-server at the time went down.
Literally trying to convince everyone I know to play RO with me, but its rather unsuccessful, mostly based on the graphics being "outdated" in their opinion.
Glad to know that I ain't the only one taking a trip down memory lane every now and again.
outdated graphics lol. I like that you put it in quotes. The look is one of the reasons RO is so appealing!
WE ARE STARS!!!
private servers usually have an autoloot function ^^
agree.
Novice WoE sounds hilariously fun.
Try out the server I'm playing on ShiningMoon RO. I'm sure you'll find it at the very least interesting :)
This game does honestly look so fun. How many people are on this server??
@@SWITCHNSTEAM It's basically two servers in one
Niflheim - kRO, jRO, iRO and many QoL
Helheim - kRO ONLY + minor QoL
Total population is around 500+
Still, I'm playing shining moon ro to this day
anybody know how can i play this classic RO on my macbook air? i don like the mobile chibi version...
bRO (Brasilian Ragnarok Online) is still pretty much the MOST populated server up to date, it has exclusive mechanics that other servers don't have like, the bigger your party is the more EXP you get to counterbalance the EXP division so a lot of famous grinding spots are full of players looking and inviting for parties
Tho' I really don't like how the F2P integration turned the game into a P2W model and how easy it is to make bots, the bots destroyed the economy pretty bad so new players that don't cheat or don't want to actually spend money will have a pretty rough time playing it..
I love steam version less punishment for the player than the old one. Sadly no available in my region
do you have any lag issues? im connecting from perth and it is abit laggy
Putting nostagia aside, I think the only thing that made RO popular was it aggrasive free to play marketing and bringing the online multiplayer experience to the masses. The gameplay was stupidly clunky and grindy as you said. Poeple stayed for the social interaction. Playing with your middleschool friend from home at night was the shit back then. WoW was a waaaaaaay better game but here in SEA only people live in cities with broadband and deep pockets could afford iplay it.
The high lvl PvP is pretty bonkers tho
If some kind soul would fix the positional lag of the game it would be close to perfect.
I love thes gaem
Yea as someone he just turned 34, the whole concept of "close friends" dies. I feel the older I get the less I want to see people while I game.