You didn’t mention how back in the day, people in maps would form parties and take turns dying to the map boss and goto-ing to take over the fight so that the HP doesn’t reset
To be fair there are still some impromptu parties being formed when facing ultra bosses today, as it was 15 years ago. Having this game exclusively being coded with Flash presented similar challenges of typing the goto command right before the boss dies as it was back in the day when lag was still an omnipresent issue. Imagine being the guy who missed a fight with Azalith.
@@dabikerboy Nah this was before necromancer, and when Necro did release it literally shook the game, you just KNEW someone was a badass if they were walking around with Necro's skeleton pet lmao
Nostalgia when you called for help for red dragon. My fave moment is the "save the dragon from the princess" twist. Also the epic sepy vs king alteon fight
Thanks for this videoman, aqw was 100% my childhood. I dont play anymore but watches content from time to time for that sweet sweet nostalgia. The clips you showed especially the dragonlair red dragon flashes me back to my childhood, and thats an experience that a few things in this world will give me.
Wow, this is honestly one of my favourite video's that's come out all year. It seriously speaks to my autism in the way no other video this year has. The undertaking of going through each storyline as released is just such an amazing way to experience the game in a way that I don't think 90% of the dumb kids playing at that time could've, as at least I was completely unable to follow anything in order when I was playing in like 2013. So having you take us through the quests with such passion and detail is just fucking amazing. ALSO HOLY SHIT YOU JUST HAD TO ADD THE BEST SONG EVER OUT OF NOWHERE????? Like you had to drop specifically the live version of Long Season on us like that?? Like having an amazing script and flawless editing wasn't enough, no even your music throughout this whole video just also had to be fucking incredible as well. Goddamn.
Thanks man, I'm glad I hit the nail with my approach for you. I really wanted to add more songs that I love, but I had to severely turn down the volume on some, which wasn't satisfying, so I switched to OST's in the other parts.
@@bonaquador Yeah you killed it, also good foresight on the audio there. It's really tough using complex Post Rock and shit as background music cuz it's so detailed and captivating that you compromise with the mixing. The ost's work a lot better in that sense lol, but it really doesn't give the video that same personal touch as having your favourite music does.
@@bonaquador Commented after the first 2 min or so. A Dane can always tell apart a Dane haha. Really well English and superb video, gonna watch ep 2 and 3 tmrw morning. Ruined my sleep bcz of this masterpiece
They couldn’t find a solution that felt fair, translates to: “Cysero had a hissy fit when the player base didn’t like his original solution and in a passive aggressive show of power removed all the items” You could tell that what Milt did made a lot of AE’s higher ups mad. Cysero being chief among them. I hated AQW when he ran it and I am glad he is gone. He was a jerk and the majority of the player base dislikes him. Edit: it was a real laggy SShow. Eye was there lol
Aww man this is awesome! I played when it first came out and just recently got back into it and was so sad to see that people don't really play the storyline anymore. I keep dying to the chaos beasts bc of it. So now I'm working towards building my level up so I can solo them hopefully. Kinda sad, but at least we still have players at all!
thanks for making this vid, i honestly forgot about the lore of the game by this point, 10 years after playing this, the lore had so many weird swings and changes and remakes (especially the beginning/tutorial)
This is such an awesome video. I played a lot of AQW on and off through my childhood and I recently got back into it on my original 11 year old account because of the AQWI news
This vid deserves much more than it has. Its crazy, your work is crazy and so entertaining. Please keep it up. Would love to watch more videos from you, even if new vids derive from the lore of aqw. Keep it up mate 🫶🏻
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Wolfwing actually takes you up on the offer if you spare him, but the silver arrow kills him nonetheless.
The 13 lords of chaos was the best then when the mirror realm appeared it blew my goddamn mind i haven’t been on since 2019 damn i just realized I've taken like 8 years off from playing almost
Remember playing this with my dad alongside games like city of hero’s/ Villians. Grew up blessed with a gamer dad always had the access and good internet lol
ah i remember this game was playing it back in 2009 and tried it today with new account because somehow i cant find my old account i think it was banned or maybe hacked. but i noticed something about this game that it has became pay to win but other than that its not bad game if you missed your childhood
Still play on and off to this day, my biggest break was from 2016-18 and yeah that made me rethink what the direction of aqw was heading towards and if I should still play at all. But hear I am still loving the game for what it truly is. Absolutely love this video. NULGATH NATION FOREVER!
I might be few months late But as Someone who played adventure quest and AQW i really love this story breakdown and deatils on the gameplay, looking forward to Watch the next eps after this one!
This video is AMAZING! I've necer seen a video of this quality that resumes so well the story of AQW even with the events that i didn't even remembered were part of the story lika Nythera's! Amazing work!
I recently got back into AQW after several years of not playing. It's great to see this videoseries to remind me of the good times, as well as the story beats that I had forgotten. I had thought about starting a new account and documenting all of the releases in order, but it looks like I wont have to do that now.
miltonius and dage were the reason aqw never died in 2011-2013, it literally brought soo much joy to the game as a miltonius fan, it was the best era in aqw that had hard quests to farm also.
Hey I'm thinking about coming back to this game and play (invest my time). Do you think it's worth it? Cause some others were saying the game is no more good as the cash grabbing is getting even more ridiculous
From my experience, the game plays like it did back in 2008, and I think that type of gameplay has aged poorly. The game was special because of the time we played it. I don't think I missed the game, I just missed the good memories I had of being a kid and playing it. As for the hate of microtransactions, I don't think it's warranted. There is a lot of it, but it is purely cosmetic, and has always been the business model, to keep it free to play. The modern hardcore fanbase seems to be the predominant voice of the community. Sadly, many are very toxic and misogynistic towards the staff. So should you invest time? You can if you want to, but I don't recommend dedicating too much of it. If you get too invested, you risk joining the hate mob who'll never be satisfied. It's best to just enjoy it for what it is, and not expect more.
@@bonaquador I disagree about the microtransactions. It is one thing when there are things you can buy for real money, which is of course fine, since they need to make money - but it is not fair when it affects the free stuff. Look into how the items and shops and events developed over the years. The amount of "free" items (drops, items for gold) is wayyyy lower. It is usually like like 2 or 3 items from from a shop now, if that, and they are mostly just "side items", worse quality than the rest.
Interestingly the account of dage666 is in the void, meaning nobody has played on her long enough to go inactive, while dages dage the evil acc is lv 40 and active. Beleen, ai no miko, rolith, tomix, ezio, zazul, randor the red current and former employees accounts are also into the void.... Which shows you how much they care for their own games.
Bear in mind, a lot of those staff members are either not working on AQW anymore, or have functions in the company that exist entirely outside of the game.
@@bonaquador i do, but not logging in, into your acc for that long till it goes in the void.... cysero's acc is functional i just think that not logging in god forbid once a year is insane
@@bonaquador While true, none of the staff actually playing the game is a bad sign. Not to mention they used to actually play their own game back in the day.
You didn’t mention how back in the day, people in maps would form parties and take turns dying to the map boss and goto-ing to take over the fight so that the HP doesn’t reset
The good old days when people needed to socialize, form parties and play like a team to beat bosses
As soon as i got one soloing class, it was over
To be fair there are still some impromptu parties being formed when facing ultra bosses today, as it was 15 years ago. Having this game exclusively being coded with Flash presented similar challenges of typing the goto command right before the boss dies as it was back in the day when lag was still an omnipresent issue. Imagine being the guy who missed a fight with Azalith.
Back when necromancer was the best solo class
@@dabikerboy Nah this was before necromancer, and when Necro did release it literally shook the game, you just KNEW someone was a badass if they were walking around with Necro's skeleton pet lmao
Nostalgia when you called for help for red dragon. My fave moment is the "save the dragon from the princess" twist. Also the epic sepy vs king alteon fight
I remember asking for help at red dragon....
Thanks for this videoman, aqw was 100% my childhood. I dont play anymore but watches content from time to time for that sweet sweet nostalgia. The clips you showed especially the dragonlair red dragon flashes me back to my childhood, and thats an experience that a few things in this world will give me.
Wow, this is honestly one of my favourite video's that's come out all year. It seriously speaks to my autism in the way no other video this year has. The undertaking of going through each storyline as released is just such an amazing way to experience the game in a way that I don't think 90% of the dumb kids playing at that time could've, as at least I was completely unable to follow anything in order when I was playing in like 2013. So having you take us through the quests with such passion and detail is just fucking amazing. ALSO HOLY SHIT YOU JUST HAD TO ADD THE BEST SONG EVER OUT OF NOWHERE????? Like you had to drop specifically the live version of Long Season on us like that?? Like having an amazing script and flawless editing wasn't enough, no even your music throughout this whole video just also had to be fucking incredible as well. Goddamn.
Thanks man, I'm glad I hit the nail with my approach for you. I really wanted to add more songs that I love, but I had to severely turn down the volume on some, which wasn't satisfying, so I switched to OST's in the other parts.
@@bonaquador Yeah you killed it, also good foresight on the audio there. It's really tough using complex Post Rock and shit as background music cuz it's so detailed and captivating that you compromise with the mixing. The ost's work a lot better in that sense lol, but it really doesn't give the video that same personal touch as having your favourite music does.
Great work, hopefully this gets the attention it deserves.
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I did not know that a 1 minute 17 video could let me take a 12 year journey to the past. I missed this game so much
back then it wasnt Miltonius Nation but Miltonius Minion, but later it changed into Nulgath, thus Nulgath Nation.
Man those inquisitor gears looks dope man cant even
Cool to see a Dane covering AQW content :)
Wow, how could you tell?
@@bonaquador Commented after the first 2 min or so. A Dane can always tell apart a Dane haha. Really well English and superb video, gonna watch ep 2 and 3 tmrw morning. Ruined my sleep bcz of this masterpiece
Was looking for this comment. ;)
You are the man for making this vid dude.. you brought my child hood back to life
They couldn’t find a solution that felt fair, translates to:
“Cysero had a hissy fit when the player base didn’t like his original solution and in a passive aggressive show of power removed all the items”
You could tell that what Milt did made a lot of AE’s higher ups mad. Cysero being chief among them. I hated AQW when he ran it and I am glad he is gone. He was a jerk and the majority of the player base dislikes him.
Edit: it was a real laggy SShow. Eye was there lol
I remember when necromancer was the best class ❤
Aww man this is awesome! I played when it first came out and just recently got back into it and was so sad to see that people don't really play the storyline anymore. I keep dying to the chaos beasts bc of it. So now I'm working towards building my level up so I can solo them hopefully. Kinda sad, but at least we still have players at all!
Hey I’m trying to go through the story as well if you want to play sometime my username is xTotal Chaosx
this is amazing video it recapped everything so much nostalgia ❤
Awesome, seeing it really makes me feel nostalgic, I didn’t remember most part of the lore,good to see this game isn’t dead.
I heard the Slint playing at 1:03! I love spiderland
thanks for making this vid, i honestly forgot about the lore of the game by this point, 10 years after playing this, the lore had so many weird swings and changes and remakes (especially the beginning/tutorial)
The server wide fight was fun but characters were unloading fireballs from what I remember
It was a one off release forsure, it was very cool at the time
This is such an awesome video. I played a lot of AQW on and off through my childhood and I recently got back into it on my original 11 year old account because of the AQWI news
I think you missed a point about the chaos twins: IIRC Drakath did a switcheroo with a mirror world twin so he actually has 2 evil twins.
That isn't revealed until the Bloodtusk Ravine storyline. I cover it in part 2 of the retrospective
Thankyou so much for making this! It's exactly what I was looking for
5:18 Lord_Incubus aye hail the LEGION
This vid deserves much more than it has. Its crazy, your work is crazy and so entertaining. Please keep it up. Would love to watch more videos from you, even if new vids derive from the lore of aqw.
Keep it up mate 🫶🏻
Wolfwing actually takes you up on the offer if you spare him, but the silver arrow kills him nonetheless.
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The 13 lords of chaos was the best then when the mirror realm appeared it blew my goddamn mind i haven’t been on since 2019 damn i just realized I've taken like 8 years off from playing almost
Remember playing this with my dad alongside games like city of hero’s/ Villians. Grew up blessed with a gamer dad always had the access and good internet lol
when you said icon, I was thinking of nulgath and dage but never artix and undoubtedly not cysero either.
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I remember how long soloing the mana golem took
Holy shit never seen anybody else reference chibi knight before when talking ab flash games.
39:25 i guess i can never truly escape from kglw can i?
I remember when the main farm was red dragon.. some mech and some knight in citadel that would drop some op mace
ah i remember this game was playing it back in 2009 and tried it today with new account because somehow i cant find my old account i think it was banned or maybe hacked. but i noticed something about this game that it has became pay to win but other than that its not bad game if you missed your childhood
Still play on and off to this day, my biggest break was from 2016-18 and yeah that made me rethink what the direction of aqw was heading towards and if I should still play at all. But hear I am still loving the game for what it truly is. Absolutely love this video. NULGATH NATION FOREVER!
Honestly great guide for new players too!
I thought the MechQuest takes place in the past of DragonFable because of all the mechs and tech laying around.
It does; video was wrong about that
I might be few months late But as Someone who played adventure quest and AQW i really love this story breakdown and deatils on the gameplay, looking forward to Watch the next eps after this one!
your music taste is fucking INCREDIBLE
may algorithm gods be with you
This video is AMAZING! I've necer seen a video of this quality that resumes so well the story of AQW even with the events that i didn't even remembered were part of the story lika Nythera's!
Amazing work!
Youre a bit too dramatic for my tastes
Bring this game back!
Great vid bro!! Feel like I personally know you😅 can you make a GTA V retrospective?
I recently got back into AQW after several years of not playing. It's great to see this videoseries to remind me of the good times, as well as the story beats that I had forgotten. I had thought about starting a new account and documenting all of the releases in order, but it looks like I wont have to do that now.
I went evil side too I wanted the skull knight only thing that came as close to being as cool as a beta zerker
Childhood
Aqw omg death_element here loved it.
Love this so much! Amazing nostalgia
OMG, the 4. Lord of Chaos ist the Shredder from TMNT! Illiminati :D
OG forsure i will play till i die idc 🧡
miltonius and dage were the reason aqw never died in 2011-2013, it literally brought soo much joy to the game as a miltonius fan, it was the best era in aqw that had hard quests to farm also.
gj bro
Bludrutbrawl used to be super active in 2014-2016 era! I remember full lobbies around the clock on the Safiria server
Commenting at 0:28 into the video so I've barely started and I CAN ALREADY FEEL LIKE IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT VIDEO
Can you keep making AE related videos? They make me feel very nostalgiac I would appreciate
So wild theyve done breakingn benjamin for aq3d
Im gonna cry man, i just got my 15 year bonus shop items and this popped up on my recommended
Apart from your cringe god-awful wrong pronunciation of O-Dokuro's name, this video was pretty decent.
amazing video! keep making those lore explaining aqw content!
Nice video bro keep going
the 13 lords of chaos bears a striking resemblance to wheel of time stories
Why this has so few views? Amazing work!
This is amazing thank you for making this, it brings me all the way back to the good ole days:)
The nostalgia is overflowing as I'm watching this
Its not dated. It was relevant for its time. 🤷🏾
Thanks for the trip down memory lane
Omg, another comment for the algorythm
the amount of nostalgia, i still play it but wow.
Great work. Honestly.
Commenting for algorythm
Actually Mech Quest takes place before Dragonfable
Oh word? My fault OG. That's what I get for just reading the wiki-article on the game for the synopsis😅
This was a great watch! had a lot of fun.
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I'm sad as fuck
Hey I'm thinking about coming back to this game and play (invest my time). Do you think it's worth it? Cause some others were saying the game is no more good as the cash grabbing is getting even more ridiculous
From my experience, the game plays like it did back in 2008, and I think that type of gameplay has aged poorly. The game was special because of the time we played it. I don't think I missed the game, I just missed the good memories I had of being a kid and playing it.
As for the hate of microtransactions, I don't think it's warranted. There is a lot of it, but it is purely cosmetic, and has always been the business model, to keep it free to play.
The modern hardcore fanbase seems to be the predominant voice of the community. Sadly, many are very toxic and misogynistic towards the staff.
So should you invest time? You can if you want to, but I don't recommend dedicating too much of it. If you get too invested, you risk joining the hate mob who'll never be satisfied. It's best to just enjoy it for what it is, and not expect more.
@@bonaquador I disagree about the microtransactions. It is one thing when there are things you can buy for real money, which is of course fine, since they need to make money - but it is not fair when it affects the free stuff.
Look into how the items and shops and events developed over the years. The amount of "free" items (drops, items for gold) is wayyyy lower. It is usually like like 2 or 3 items from from a shop now, if that, and they are mostly just "side items", worse quality than the rest.
crazyyyy
Fun video
Nice video
Love it !!!!!
First
Been hoping for a video series like this
I know right? But it never came, so I had to do it myself.
Whens part 2?
When its done
Interestingly the account of dage666 is in the void, meaning nobody has played on her long enough to go inactive, while dages dage the evil acc is lv 40 and active.
Beleen, ai no miko, rolith, tomix, ezio, zazul, randor the red current and former employees accounts are also into the void.... Which shows you how much they care for their own games.
Bear in mind, a lot of those staff members are either not working on AQW anymore, or have functions in the company that exist entirely outside of the game.
@@bonaquador i do, but not logging in, into your acc for that long till it goes in the void.... cysero's acc is functional i just think that not logging in god forbid once a year is insane
@@ThepokedekBeleen got done dirty. I wouldn't log in either
@@bonaquador While true, none of the staff actually playing the game is a bad sign. Not to mention they used to actually play their own game back in the day.