@@Meisio Mine was in Mulgore. Peaceful, beautiful, absolutely impossible for a noob like me not to die, ha! My first toon became my main and I was playing mostly Feral when I finally logged out.
In 15 years I'll be a guy who's 35 and still has ultimate mambo autism kicks. Although I highly doubt that wow makes another 15 years, the engine it too old. I say 3-4 expansions as max but not further. Then I demand something greater for this amazing franchise.... Wow 2 xD
I sometimes wonder if I wasted precious moments of my life playing this game for so long. Then this music takes me back and all I can think of is the happy memories, the adventures I had, and the friends I made along the way. And I think: No. It wasn't wasted at all.
I just resubbed after just over a year away. Now I'm just playing casually. Just be walking around Stormwind. The winter months are the best months to play WoW. Sometimes I'll just /sit outside somewhere in SW and just...take it all in. How the streets used to be filled with so much fun.
Even though WoW has lost its grip on things, this will always be very close to me. The memories and nostalgia of playing this game will never leave me.
Of course it will never leave you. But to help with the nostalgia, now you have this channel and Classic WoW coming probably next year :) Thank you for sharing you feelings with us Chris, Meisio
My first character: I create human warrior, unequip my chest and sword, delete my hearthstone (by mistake), ignore the quests and head on punching the wolves like rambo, I get bored, I go exploring, end up in duskwood, get killed by lvl 20 mobs 20x, 21th time a badass lvl 36 nightelf hunter saves me and gives me gold, I get inspired, I delete by character (with the gold) and make a nightelf hunter. And the cycle continues.
Same man all my friends did was drink do drugs and get into trouble. They always would ask why I always stayed at home playing video games. Pretty sure the game kept me away from a really shitty life style. They are all loser drug addicts that don't even have their own children. Glad I had this game or I would have for sure been out parting doing drugs with low life's and probably would still be stuck in that life style
i could have been out at parties doing drugs, drinking under age and doing stupid shit due to my chaotic mind when i was younger. instead? i stayed in my room with my dimly lit light , had the music calm my mind, while i "got high" on doing shit in the game lol.
@@skyguy1988 Same here. Got involved in a bad crowd and one night one of them broke into a car. But I left that night not because of that, but because I was eager to get my first mount haha. They got bitter about me playing WoW so fell out with them and carried on playing. Best thing that ever happened.
@@s3ra9h1m the people that i unfriended STILL try to get back with me. we are in our 30s now, and they are all washed up alcoholics that look terrible and still party and do stupid shit..... they do NOT take the hint. there is a fucking reason why i stopped hanging out with them when we were 19 and 20 lmao
I feel the same way about the game Civilization. The original was a life changing masterpiece. Some of the sequels had better gameplay, but weren't life changing. (Perhaps CIV II was, however.)
I absolutely always loved this game. I'll never forget that moment in 2006, my friend had been playing since launch. He told me, "You have to go get it!" I was 20 at the time, i was working at a grocery store unloading trucks while going to college. Stopped at the GameStop just over the hill, saw the original WoW. That thick box containing the books and like 5 CD roms. Went home, downloaded it for a long time. As soon as it was done, my world was changed forever. Talking to the community. All the newbies and I helping each other, friending each other, talking about how awesome the game is. Making ridiculous jokes about everything under the sun while getting killed by Hogger. Life was simple. Fuck politics, social media, and smart phones. None of it mattered. Glad i got classic and am now reliving those times again and damn does it feel good.
@@LarryHazard - Yeah, I know it's cringe to say and maybe because i grew up before smart phones and social media, but i definitely liked the shape of life prior. Not that these things are horrible, but they seemed a bit more restrained before. Now they're practically considered "essentials" when there's truly nothing essential about them.
@@Alstanus When I was playing WoW for the first time I was 12-13, it was 2008-2009 I think and I felt a clear difference between the outside and the digital world. Going outside and going on the internet was more fun. Since the internet became so big, I don't find it fun anymore except for information and content (not the social side like forums and videogames) and in the real world people are a lot more alienated and dumbed down by the internet and social media.
I'm a 35 year old man and this music almost brings me to tears. Such nostalgia. I was only 20 when I first began playing. I haven't played for 4 years, but wow. The relationships and friendships I made over the years I played this game..... It's unbelievable. I never imagined I would get to know people as well as I did when I first began playing this game.
.Meat missile..i feel like you..... i love WOW and the lovely music like the following game .. i am a 75 year old woman now and have been from the beginning .. it has made me have had many lovely moments with my children and grandchildren who also play and make good friends in the game. I will not do that. I am so happy with the game and the music.
Can confirm, am 108 years old and I starting playing Vanilla when I was 8. After inventing a time machine, playing Vanilla WoW was some of my best memories.
There I was, a young 14 year old lad on his birthday in 2005, my mum finally lets me have a subscription and buy wow after months of hounding her. I install and download the patch, and there it is, the fantastic opening screen. I hastily log in, and create my first character: Solos, the human paladin! What came after is indescribable, an endless adventure with friends old and new, some of which I will never forget. Running into the dead mines and feeling the creepy music and dastardly defias, or maybe the first time I stepped foot into the Scarlet Monastery, all of these moments and memories, firmly locked into the vault of mind, and I will always cherish them. But for all those wonderous memories, the one that shines the brightest, is walking down from Northshire for the first time, looking out into the forest, listening to this music, and taking my first real steps into the World of Warcraft. Have a lovely day everybody.
I was 14 years old too with a human paladin when WoW came out. First year of WoW is probably the best memories I have, and I have a pretty good life. It was like something else. The feeling of exploration in a world that I loved already from Warcraft 3. Fighting with creatures as an avatar of myself, finding unique loot, meeting with people that I talk with on a regular basis to this date. It was challenging, it was rewarding, it forced you to team up with others. As much as I hate the new Actiblizzard now, I'm ethernally thankful to the real Blizzard for making the biggest masterpiece ever that is World of Warcraft.
There will never be another mmo like this. It hit at the right time. Before mass texting and social media. People still talked, still helped each other, still were willing to work towards goals. 2004-2009 in WoW was incredible and the memories live on to this day. And like I said, it will never be done again.
I wouldn't say never, just look at what Star Citizen has been able to do. If you've never seen that game before then your mind will be blown away, and I'm not throwing that word around. If you have seen that game before then you also probably know the reason why it looks that good yet has such a small community. Just imagine what a proper game studio would be able to create if Roberts Space Industries is able to create something as mind blowing as Star Citizen? I think within the next 12 years we might actually see a massive mmo like WoW yet again that gets everybody on board. In VR. Just look at Apple's VR headset, within the next 12 years there's going to be headsets that make that one look like a dumb phone in comparison which is affordable to everybody. I also just wanted to make it clear I don't think Apple's headset is the holy grail, but there's nothing on the market like it. It uses 12(?) cameras inside the frame which monitors your eye movement, you just look at what ever you want to click on and the screen focuses on it. That's next level intuitive, then imagine combining something much better than that with a massive mmorpg world, oh man...
@@casual_citizen This is so true, we've only scratched the surface of what video games can do. But it takes so long for this potential to be unlocked; people keep creating the same games over and over instead of exploring what can be accomplished (Star Citizen is a good exception to this as you mention). A good example is the RTS/FPS hybrid genre which has huge potential but only Natural Selection which was released 20 years ago ever realized some of it. And for VR games people seem to agree only Half-Life: Alyx is the only must-buy title. And, of course, no MMO has matched WoW still after all these years. But, every now and then we get a diamond in the rough that give a small hint of the possibilities. (Imagine if Outer Wilds had a $300 million dollar budget)
My wife and I started playing in BC and this music is so nostalgic it’s crazy. Takes me back. This game was our escape from the stress. We still play today.
Yes!!! Where have you been, friend!?! Google "Classic WoW'. Blizzard announced that they are bringing back Classic/Vanilla WoW servers. It's going to be released Summer of 2019.
"Blizzard managers never got a clue that the original Vanilla team was doing." Of course not. They dance to the tune of the stock market now, and that tune is played at a very rapid pace.....
I wish I could feel the way I felt the first time I played wow again. Discovering the world playing a game like this for the first time….before it became easy and you had to work so so hard for everything. The music was epic the friends were epic. Take me back to these days.
That was one of those moments I will never forget as well. The feeling it was a dangerous zone that I can't step foot on without certain death when I was ~ level 10 or so.
I still remember my brother and I bought this game during our lunch break at work, getting home that evening, and it finally being installed about 9pm. We spent the whole next day talking about the game and many years after that. Special memories.
Everytime i'm coming back to this video i am reading through the comments 150th time and sharing tear of nostalgia with everybody here. I Love you friends that i have never met, but share same memories!
oh man this music hit different when you were alone at night in the game at that special hour when everyone went to bed and logged off and there were barely anyone anywhere. There were some special places like that, like The Barrens, Thousand Needles, Stranglethorn Vale and Tanaris.
whoever played this game back in the day is extremely privileged to have been part of such an adventure. What an experience this was... it cannot be reproduced in any way anymore
Heartbreaking. It's hard to explain that feeling. October of 2005, for me. I was 29. I grew up with Ataris and Nintendos, PCs and PlayStations. It was like the final culmination of everything we'd ever been promised. I only stopped playing a couple of months ago. What a ride, what an incredible addition to the human experience! I don't know whether I cried or shit myself when I entered the gates of Stormwind for the first time and the music changed, the drums crashing in my headphones. We remember every note, we heard these songs for weeks or months at a time. I entered that world a cheerful, goofy, big mouthed human paladin, and left it a cynical, tired, angry, silent Nelf rogue. But the music remains, and still pulls on my heart.
i'm sorry man i really wish you had stopped during legion before it got too bad like i did... i miss the game terribly but at least my memories of it are INTACT! and if my nostalgia gets REALLY bad i can just fire up my own private vanilla but ofc it's not the same, no more blissful ignorance of not knowing EVERY last single thing there is to know about the game and being an actual noob anymore :( rip vanilla wow and rip my friends from it
Saturday Just before 7:00am Cold winter morning Quiet morning A fresh hot cup of coffee on the desk Nothing planned for the day No pressing business A level 2 alt in goldshire abbey Ready for familiar and comfortable quests This is the vibes elwynn forest gives me, such a cozy place.
I am 35 and started in vanilla, I quited 3 years ago and started playing again since 6 months. Everything overwhelmed me and made me feel like I am in a differend time back again. I realy missed it. Im glad I started again. Besides work and all the must and don'ts this game is relieving me from hatred and this sick world.
I was barely starting college when this came out. I miss being a naive newb aimlessly wandering about where I'm not supposed to. That blissful ignorance can only be enjoyed once. This will always tug away at my heartstrings.
I feel this in my heart and soul. This shit hits hard. Wish there was a way to go back to the good ole days… so many memories countless years given to Azeroth & wouldn’t change it for the world.
Going through my first big heart break. My high school sweetie left me, I was a 21 year old small town boy, living in a big city, and I was familiar with warcraft, via Warcraft 2 and warcraft 3. I remember having just a couple bucks left, and I went to an EB games store, and asked if they had any more copies of WoW. The dude said I got lucky, said someone just returned a copy because they didn't like it, and I bought the last one. I did the grueling install process, patched it up, and fired it up. I remember making a paladin instantly, because I liked Arthas and the Paladin class in WC3. Soon as the music starts, I'm totally captivated by the art style, music, and totally stoked I get to play a Paladin. After a couple of hours of getting a feel for the game and learning how to chat/interact, I meet a priest. One of my first people I meet in-game, little did I know we'd get to know each other very well, and he invited me to their guild. Through this guild, many friendships were made that still exist today. While playing this game, interacting with new friends, learning spells and feeling like my Paladin was becoming even more powerful, it helped me cope and forget about my big heartbreak for awhile. Wow has really helped me through some tough times, and that was the catalyst of why WoW would mean so much to me. I don't play it like I used to, but damn, I'll never forget the moment this music kicked in, and a brand new, fresh noob Paladin was born.
Sometimes I think, I'm lucky to live to 110, and I'm lying on my deathbed, and know that my last few moments have come, I want this music to drift away to. Let my last thoughts of walking through Elwyn take me to my eternity.
First I played undead, then playerd orc, but I stopped after 10 level. Only after creating human character I played to 60 lvl. Elwynn-Westfall-Redridge-Duskwood is the best chain in game.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Defias thugs in the Northshire vineyards. I watched the stars glitter in the dark near the Westbrook Garrison. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Makes me want to log in and just wander around Elwynn Forest and try to recapture how amazing it was when I first played almost 15 years ago. Exploring and checking out every building in Stormwind. Remembering how terrifying Duskwood was when I ran their to find Mayor Ebonlocke to get help for Lakeshire. Funny thing was I would never have known about it except some kids were selling magazine subscriptions to raise money, I bought Maxim and in the first issue was an introduction disc to wow. I played the 20 levels with three different characters before I admitted I was hooked. Tried a decent number of games since then, but nothing captured my imagination like WoW. Unfortunately for me "progress" didn't mean better. Quit eight years ago.
10 years and 360 days of played, that was it for me between 2004-2014 in the World of Warcraft. For the whole time the same guild and same friends, unforgettable moments and great adventures. The feeling of being part of something great, a community larger than the guild itself. It was another life inside a game.
i was almost 18 in 2005 when i started playing wow, this music reminds me of the good times and gameplay of yesteryear, where society was very different in video games.
First character ever played on started back in 08 was my human mage. Still play on him to this day. This area will always make me feel like I'm at home in an odd way haha.
18 years ago my classmate gave me some money to buy my first wow game box. Things were better that days, internet was better, people were interested to explore. Still playing classic from time to time.
I remember being 9 years old. The only other games I'd really played much where age of empires and stronghold crusader, and a few console games. Most games that had music, it was just plinky plonky 8 bit "background noise" that you barely even notice during intense arcadey style gaming. And boom. You find yourself getting dropped into a world (of warcraft), you hear insects buzzing, a slight wind through the trees, some birds tweeting even quieter behind the wind, and suddenly a clarinet just blasts out. And that's it. Immersion achieved.
42 male human warrior main alliance here. Played mainly during end of BC and through WotLK. Wow was an amazing adventure for me and many friends both in game, guild and RL. It truly was another world/life, and to finally down LK... amazing.
A moment of silence for all the new players joining WoW since 2020 who now get forced into Exile's Reach and BFA content instead of experiencing the iconic starting zones of Azeroth
I remember my summer job, I worked right next to a castle, serving customers at a bow/crossbow shooting range. I was staying in a room about half an hour walk away, so I always listened to WoW music when walking there and back. One morning I was near the castle, listening to the music as I walked, and just as the majestic castle gate came into my view, the Stormwind intro theme started playing. That hit beautifully.
There is a certain type of person that this game created. Special, unique, and one in a million. I have no idea how, but for those who played this games, and I mean actually played this game.... their is a brotherhood, a creed, a certain way that this game impacted us that left us all the same way. To this day, if I could live in any world, it would be this one.
As a twenty odd something bloke back in vanilla wow… completing a 40 man raid to Molten Core successfully with my guild back then (filled with some of my IRL friends) still feels like one of the if not the most meaningful lesson in how a large group of people can come together and achieve great things. Somehow in my professional life after that everything always felt and feels competitive. I have never reached the same level of feeling integrated to a whole as I did there… maybe that is a sad testimony to the state of my life or IRL in general… It could also just be a testimony to how absolutely breathtaking ‘that’ which this game provided to all of us back then really was… Solace, peace, acceptance, purpose, excitement, wonder, friendship and a sense of belonging… ‘May your blades never dull!”❤
Ahhh the nostalgia of having nothing else better to do than making alts as a kid with friends and staying up all night questing and making it to westfall and then logging off for the night.
@Marco ottone don´t worry, the unique constellation of talented creators will surely form in the future. But it is a rare occasion, otherwise it would not be that magical.
Although I never had the chance to experience vanilla, it seems so nostalgic, and I tip my hat to all of you vanilla players. I will always respect the ‘good ole days’, but I’m pretty satisfied with what we have now. Congrats to those who’ve been from vanilla to now, I look up to you guys.
This soundtrack inspires to me feelings of stillness and calmness that I cannot achieve easily in other ways. The memories of the time spent in that virtual forest are still strong after 15 years…
The amount of memories I have of WoW are so numerious. I could lose a day reminincing and not even scratch the surface. It was more than an escape for me as a kid. It helped so much on top of being a new definition of fun.
I'll never forget the emotion I had fifteen years ago when I killed my first kobold near the Northshire abbey. May he rest in peace. 🙏 Thanks for this video, so many amazing memories.
It was one the best gaming experiences I ever had when I played WoW the first time back in 2007 or so. I was absolutely stunned. God I miss that feeling.
Lol remember making human rogue when game just started. Didn’t know there was AH till level 25, trash vendored everything. Had leather pants with +5 to healing thinking it’s helping me heal faster. Will never forget the awe inspired by first time stepping trough gates of Stormwind and that epic music kicking in. Or the time I encountered horde for first time and pvp... I was in Westfall and I saw this strange cow looking thing named Willford with some kind of orb around its body and shiny golden shield, so I decided to stab it in the back, surprisingly nothing happened. Willford stood up looked down and emoted: No not gonna happen! And then sent me to my first death.
Oh wow ! How I miss playing my elf Hunter. My sister was playing it in England. And she called me and told me you gotta get this game. So I did. When I first came on my sister was Petra. She came running up on a cat. She waved to me.. and blew me a kiss. And I was so blowed away !! We played for many years. And we met so many wonderful friends! This game is brillant. This video is making me want to play again.
the first time I played this, I was already an adult, wrath was just about to be released. I smoked some weed and then started a human warrior and was so enthralled by this game that I almost regretted making fun of my friends playing it for the past 2 years.
So many memories… Imagine that - memories of a simulated world. Blizzard did something right, something amazing, that will go down in the annals of history. And I couldn’t be happier being a part of it.
I still remember the excitement of logging in and choosing what character I wanted and beginning questing for the first time...human mage...good times. This video takes me back. Thanks for making a 3 hr video!
I am 32 and played WoW all throughout high school and a few years after. I occasionally go back to WoW every so often for like 3 days just to relive it, but it's not the same.
this music makes me want to melt into a little puddle of happiness and then just explore every square inch of Elwyn Forest (even though I already know it like the back of my hand).
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@@Meisio thank you so much for this...
a very thoughtful treasure to so man🧝🏻♂️
Nothing will ever come close to that feeling I had when logging in for the first time in Elwynn Forest, will never forget it.
My first experience was in Teldrassil. But the feeling was incredible.
@@Meisio Mine was in Mulgore. Peaceful, beautiful, absolutely impossible for a noob like me not to die, ha! My first toon became my main and I was playing mostly Feral when I finally logged out.
This is so completely nostalgic. I am in bliss.
I hope you'll come back in the game Brenda. Azeroth needs you!
Spirit of the Wolf I remember it like it was yesterday. I was so hooked by being in this fantasy world.
King's honor, friend.
For the Alliance!
Well met.
Keep yer feet on the ground!
No expert here, but that's a dwarf saying :-) it's okay, there are some dwarves in Elwynn :-)
Salutations!
Greetings!
15 years later .. am a 40 year old woman now.. this makes me tear up and sentimental. So many fond memories. 🤎✨🙌🏽
Yes... So many memories... So many... Like tears... In... Rain...
Story of my life... Started after an week it came out.. 2004. And i still can't stop! Warrior for life...
Me too. And I'm 78 now. Still choked up.
Even if I only listen to this music
My heart hurts from homesickness
In 15 years I'll be a guy who's 35 and still has ultimate mambo autism kicks. Although I highly doubt that wow makes another 15 years, the engine it too old. I say 3-4 expansions as max but not further. Then I demand something greater for this amazing franchise.... Wow 2 xD
I sometimes wonder if I wasted precious moments of my life playing this game for so long. Then this music takes me back and all I can think of is the happy memories, the adventures I had, and the friends I made along the way. And I think: No. It wasn't wasted at all.
@Julio Cesar I agree. I wouldn't regret any time spent doing something that truly makes you happy.
For the alliance.
@Julio Cesar Wow. That was far more profound than I expected. Beautifully said.
To quote John Lennon: "Time you enjoyed wasting wasn't wasted time."
@@TheGlassPhantom Beautiful
@@TheGlassPhantom Just perfect.
Playing WoW on December, it's midnight and it's raining/snowing outside, exploring the map with your character. Nothing else matters.
I just resubbed after just over a year away. Now I'm just playing casually. Just be walking around Stormwind. The winter months are the best months to play WoW. Sometimes I'll just /sit outside somewhere in SW and just...take it all in. How the streets used to be filled with so much fun.
Even though WoW has lost its grip on things, this will always be very close to me. The memories and nostalgia of playing this game will never leave me.
Of course it will never leave you. But to help with the nostalgia, now you have this channel and Classic WoW coming probably next year :)
Thank you for sharing you feelings with us Chris,
Meisio
and there are always private servers to scratch that itch, neh? Wotlk seemed like the sweet spot for me.
would be awesome if blizz ever introduced wrath servers again. I'd resub in a quick minute.
I don't encourage it for obvious reasons :-)
But everyone is free to do what it likes.
Salutations Dahun! :-)
Thank you for these videos. Some many great memories of when i played the game before it fell apart
My first character: I create human warrior, unequip my chest and sword, delete my hearthstone (by mistake), ignore the quests and head on punching the wolves like rambo, I get bored, I go exploring, end up in duskwood, get killed by lvl 20 mobs 20x, 21th time a badass lvl 36 nightelf hunter saves me and gives me gold, I get inspired, I delete by character (with the gold) and make a nightelf hunter. And the cycle continues.
Hahaha, I laughed so hard :D
😂😂😂 we all started somewhere haha
Awesome haha. I think I have a story like that too
The first period when we are noobs are the best experiences and the most complete immersion in the world so beautifully handcrafted.
@@Conscript83 you mean new players not noobs and nobody uses that word anymore its 2019
"Don't be sad it is gone and forgotten, be happy it ever happened to begin with." - Hogger
This game saved me from going down a very dark path. It will forever have a place in my heart.
Same man all my friends did was drink do drugs and get into trouble. They always would ask why I always stayed at home playing video games. Pretty sure the game kept me away from a really shitty life style. They are all loser drug addicts that don't even have their own children. Glad I had this game or I would have for sure been out parting doing drugs with low life's and probably would still be stuck in that life style
I have the same passion and love like you ♥️
i could have been out at parties doing drugs, drinking under age and doing stupid shit due to my chaotic mind when i was younger. instead? i stayed in my room with my dimly lit light , had the music calm my mind, while i "got high" on doing shit in the game lol.
@@skyguy1988 Same here. Got involved in a bad crowd and one night one of them broke into a car. But I left that night not because of that, but because I was eager to get my first mount haha. They got bitter about me playing WoW so fell out with them and carried on playing. Best thing that ever happened.
@@s3ra9h1m the people that i unfriended STILL try to get back with me. we are in our 30s now, and they are all washed up alcoholics that look terrible and still party and do stupid shit.....
they do NOT take the hint. there is a fucking reason why i stopped hanging out with them when we were 19 and 20 lmao
Hearing this music literally feels like hugging a long lost friend.
If you are literally feeling a hug you belong in an asylum. You meant to say figuratively.
hi there
me with barrens music T.T
Classic WoW was a culturally revolutionary piece of art, a masterpiece. The current state of the game doesn't hold a candle to this.
Tots agree...the community is dead compared to what it once was
I feel the same way about the game Civilization. The original was a life changing masterpiece. Some of the sequels had better gameplay, but weren't life changing. (Perhaps CIV II was, however.)
and they had it, and then fucked it up again by doing "classic expansions" -_- blizzard is stupid af LOL
Classic hc to the rescue!
i mean there is WOW Classic so you can stil get a taste of it
I absolutely always loved this game. I'll never forget that moment in 2006, my friend had been playing since launch. He told me, "You have to go get it!" I was 20 at the time, i was working at a grocery store unloading trucks while going to college. Stopped at the GameStop just over the hill, saw the original WoW. That thick box containing the books and like 5 CD roms. Went home, downloaded it for a long time. As soon as it was done, my world was changed forever. Talking to the community. All the newbies and I helping each other, friending each other, talking about how awesome the game is. Making ridiculous jokes about everything under the sun while getting killed by Hogger. Life was simple. Fuck politics, social media, and smart phones. None of it mattered.
Glad i got classic and am now reliving those times again and damn does it feel good.
Something changed between 2008 and 2012 when people started using facebook to the point that the internet became like the outside world
@@LarryHazard - Yeah, I know it's cringe to say and maybe because i grew up before smart phones and social media, but i definitely liked the shape of life prior. Not that these things are horrible, but they seemed a bit more restrained before. Now they're practically considered "essentials" when there's truly nothing essential about them.
@@Alstanus When I was playing WoW for the first time I was 12-13, it was 2008-2009 I think and I felt a clear difference between the outside and the digital world. Going outside and going on the internet was more fun. Since the internet became so big, I don't find it fun anymore except for information and content (not the social side like forums and videogames) and in the real world people are a lot more alienated and dumbed down by the internet and social media.
@@LarryHazard - Yeah, i know the feeling.
@Bolek Lolek - Thank you!
almost hurts to listen.... like a old friend who has passed.
a part of you
Il passato fa parte di noi ❤
I'm a 35 year old man and this music almost brings me to tears. Such nostalgia. I was only 20 when I first began playing. I haven't played for 4 years, but wow. The relationships and friendships I made over the years I played this game..... It's unbelievable. I never imagined I would get to know people as well as I did when I first began playing this game.
.Meat missile..i feel like you..... i love WOW and the lovely music like the following game .. i am a 75 year old woman now and have been from the beginning .. it has made me have had many lovely moments with my children and grandchildren who also play and make good friends in the game. I will not do that. I am so happy with the game and the music.
Dude come play, we have robot gnomes, for real
Can confirm, am 108 years old and I starting playing Vanilla when I was 8. After inventing a time machine, playing Vanilla WoW was some of my best memories.
reading ur comment 3 years later. internet still blows my mind
Io ne ho 34 quest'anno ❤ 🇮🇹 stessa cosa
There I was, a young 14 year old lad on his birthday in 2005, my mum finally lets me have a subscription and buy wow after months of hounding her. I install and download the patch, and there it is, the fantastic opening screen. I hastily log in, and create my first character: Solos, the human paladin! What came after is indescribable, an endless adventure with friends old and new, some of which I will never forget. Running into the dead mines and feeling the creepy music and dastardly defias, or maybe the first time I stepped foot into the Scarlet Monastery, all of these moments and memories, firmly locked into the vault of mind, and I will always cherish them. But for all those wonderous memories, the one that shines the brightest, is walking down from Northshire for the first time, looking out into the forest, listening to this music, and taking my first real steps into the World of Warcraft.
Have a lovely day everybody.
Actual tears reading this
Then you accidently walked into moonguard goldshire and became scard for life.
i always play in horde but always always i love people from alliance 👍👍👍👍❤❤ tears down. childhood memories is here.this soundtracks amazing.
I was 14 years old too with a human paladin when WoW came out. First year of WoW is probably the best memories I have, and I have a pretty good life. It was like something else. The feeling of exploration in a world that I loved already from Warcraft 3. Fighting with creatures as an avatar of myself, finding unique loot, meeting with people that I talk with on a regular basis to this date. It was challenging, it was rewarding, it forced you to team up with others. As much as I hate the new Actiblizzard now, I'm ethernally thankful to the real Blizzard for making the biggest masterpiece ever that is World of Warcraft.
this was so incredibly written and speaks perfectly for me, thank you my friend RIP vanilla
There will never be another mmo like this. It hit at the right time. Before mass texting and social media. People still talked, still helped each other, still were willing to work towards goals. 2004-2009 in WoW was incredible and the memories live on to this day. And like I said, it will never be done again.
I wouldn't say never, just look at what Star Citizen has been able to do. If you've never seen that game before then your mind will be blown away, and I'm not throwing that word around. If you have seen that game before then you also probably know the reason why it looks that good yet has such a small community. Just imagine what a proper game studio would be able to create if Roberts Space Industries is able to create something as mind blowing as Star Citizen? I think within the next 12 years we might actually see a massive mmo like WoW yet again that gets everybody on board. In VR. Just look at Apple's VR headset, within the next 12 years there's going to be headsets that make that one look like a dumb phone in comparison which is affordable to everybody. I also just wanted to make it clear I don't think Apple's headset is the holy grail, but there's nothing on the market like it. It uses 12(?) cameras inside the frame which monitors your eye movement, you just look at what ever you want to click on and the screen focuses on it. That's next level intuitive, then imagine combining something much better than that with a massive mmorpg world, oh man...
I would love to be proven wrong. And I agree about the apple vr. Looks amazing.
@@casual_citizen This is so true, we've only scratched the surface of what video games can do. But it takes so long for this potential to be unlocked; people keep creating the same games over and over instead of exploring what can be accomplished (Star Citizen is a good exception to this as you mention). A good example is the RTS/FPS hybrid genre which has huge potential but only Natural Selection which was released 20 years ago ever realized some of it. And for VR games people seem to agree only Half-Life: Alyx is the only must-buy title. And, of course, no MMO has matched WoW still after all these years. But, every now and then we get a diamond in the rough that give a small hint of the possibilities. (Imagine if Outer Wilds had a $300 million dollar budget)
My wife and I started playing in BC and this music is so nostalgic it’s crazy. Takes me back. This game was our escape from the stress. We still play today.
same here
i want to go back
Back in time? For now impossible. But at least we can play it soon! :-)
Classic WoW is on the horizon!
@@Ren3gade What do you mean? Like Blizzard is going to have Classic realms?
Yes!!! Where have you been, friend!?! Google "Classic WoW'. Blizzard announced that they are bringing back Classic/Vanilla WoW servers. It's going to be released Summer of 2019.
@@Ren3gade Woah I had no idea! Thank you :') Crazy I haven't played since I was like 17
15 years and still the same feelings.
Blizzard managers never got a clue that the original Vanilla team was doing.
They got rid of these masters.
"Blizzard managers never got a clue that the original Vanilla team was doing."
Of course not. They dance to the tune of the stock market now, and that tune is played at a very rapid pace.....
@ross from britain Um, yes it is.
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A moment of silence for the original dream team.
Time flies so fast, just be kind to each other y'all, nothing really matters but the joy.
I wish I could feel the way I felt the first time I played wow again. Discovering the world playing a game like this for the first time….before it became easy and you had to work so so hard for everything. The music was epic the friends were epic. Take me back to these days.
18 years ago... and still have goose bumps when i hear Elwynn forest
Dude i qas teenager running around the world discovering stuff, now ppl have an npc driving them around
Looking from elwynn forest across the river into duskwood always got me, looked so dark and powerfull over there.
not even the bravest low level would try to venture over there. even going into westfall felt like you did not belong.
i remember seeing the skull on the duskwood mobs. It was so astonishing.
Astrotombie I looooove that river so much, it’s really crazy which impact wow had on me. Those feelings are incredible, still. And I’m 32 now :)
@@tobik2627 Same here. I remember I used the river to prevent them from coming closer when I aggroed. Didn't go back until I felt ready.
That was one of those moments I will never forget as well. The feeling it was a dangerous zone that I can't step foot on without certain death when I was ~ level 10 or so.
I have not played this game for over ten years... WHY DOES IT STILL HIT SO HARD HEARING THIS MUSIC? +dreamy sigh+
I still remember my brother and I bought this game during our lunch break at work, getting home that evening, and it finally being installed about 9pm. We spent the whole next day talking about the game and many years after that. Special memories.
Everytime i'm coming back to this video i am reading through the comments 150th time and sharing tear of nostalgia with everybody here.
I Love you friends that i have never met, but share same memories!
I know exactly what you mean my brother.
Was about to write exact the same things Brothers! Those were the best years and days.. damn the memories and the nostalgia.
In regards to music at least, its universal. Doesn't matter who you are you can appreciate the same music. That said, im not your friend.
I love you too.
oh man this music hit different when you were alone at night in the game at that special hour when everyone went to bed and logged off and there were barely anyone anywhere. There were some special places like that, like The Barrens, Thousand Needles, Stranglethorn Vale and Tanaris.
51:49 I will never forget this moment when sitting in awe inside Stormwind and hearing this music for the first time. Such good times...
variiiii selaiiiii varaaa seresooo vari selaiii veresaaaa
Me too 😌
boooodyyyyy chereeeee olaaaaaa menesootaaa biii cheereeee
Agreed. Although my mind attaches it to infinite strings of quest turn-ins and class and prof trainers lol
whoever played this game back in the day is extremely privileged to have been part of such an adventure. What an experience this was... it cannot be reproduced in any way anymore
im 37 years old, but this music makes me feel like it's 2004 all over again. ty for posting this.
33 year old here, with 3 daughters (8,8 and 7 years old).... till this day I send music links to my friends with whom we played WoW :D
Heartbreaking. It's hard to explain that feeling. October of 2005, for me. I was 29. I grew up with Ataris and Nintendos, PCs and PlayStations. It was like the final culmination of everything we'd ever been promised. I only stopped playing a couple of months ago. What a ride, what an incredible addition to the human experience! I don't know whether I cried or shit myself when I entered the gates of Stormwind for the first time and the music changed, the drums crashing in my headphones. We remember every note, we heard these songs for weeks or months at a time. I entered that world a cheerful, goofy, big mouthed human paladin, and left it a cynical, tired, angry, silent Nelf rogue. But the music remains, and still pulls on my heart.
i'm sorry man i really wish you had stopped during legion before it got too bad like i did... i miss the game terribly but at least my memories of it are INTACT! and if my nostalgia gets REALLY bad i can just fire up my own private vanilla but ofc it's not the same, no more blissful ignorance of not knowing EVERY last single thing there is to know about the game and being an actual noob anymore :( rip vanilla wow and rip my friends from it
Saturday
Just before 7:00am
Cold winter morning
Quiet morning
A fresh hot cup of coffee on the desk
Nothing planned for the day
No pressing business
A level 2 alt in goldshire abbey
Ready for familiar and comfortable quests
This is the vibes elwynn forest gives me, such a cozy place.
I am 35 and started in vanilla, I quited 3 years ago and started playing again since 6 months. Everything overwhelmed me and made me feel like I am in a differend time back again. I realy missed it. Im glad I started again. Besides work and all the must and don'ts this game is relieving me from hatred and this sick world.
thanks Bro for doing this...
Playing this in October 2006, after college graduation.. its cold outside.. the sun just came up.. good times.
30 years old now.... remember logging in first time when I was 14.... hearing this music. Best times of my life, take me back
I was barely starting college when this came out. I miss being a naive newb aimlessly wandering about where I'm not supposed to. That blissful ignorance can only be enjoyed once. This will always tug away at my heartstrings.
@@firstLast-jw7bm Maybe it’s the same with our whole life. After we get older and know more life becomes boring and meaningless
This is how i get my Warcraft fix now.. Just this tune....
It has problems, my cross-overs are not really good. Apologies, I was a the beginning with video editing. I will remake it at some point! :)
I feel this in my heart and soul. This shit hits hard. Wish there was a way to go back to the good ole days… so many memories countless years given to Azeroth & wouldn’t change it for the world.
So long ago. I was a different person and WoW was a different game. It was a match made in heaven, but now it feels like a memory from another life.
Going through my first big heart break. My high school sweetie left me, I was a 21 year old small town boy, living in a big city, and I was familiar with warcraft, via Warcraft 2 and warcraft 3. I remember having just a couple bucks left, and I went to an EB games store, and asked if they had any more copies of WoW.
The dude said I got lucky, said someone just returned a copy because they didn't like it, and I bought the last one. I did the grueling install process, patched it up, and fired it up. I remember making a paladin instantly, because I liked Arthas and the Paladin class in WC3.
Soon as the music starts, I'm totally captivated by the art style, music, and totally stoked I get to play a Paladin. After a couple of hours of getting a feel for the game and learning how to chat/interact, I meet a priest.
One of my first people I meet in-game, little did I know we'd get to know each other very well, and he invited me to their guild. Through this guild, many friendships were made that still exist today. While playing this game, interacting with new friends, learning spells and feeling like my Paladin was becoming even more powerful, it helped me cope and forget about my big heartbreak for awhile. Wow has really helped me through some tough times, and that was the catalyst of why WoW would mean so much to me. I don't play it like I used to, but damn, I'll never forget the moment this music kicked in, and a brand new, fresh noob Paladin was born.
Beautiful, thank you ;D
Sometimes I think, I'm lucky to live to 110, and I'm lying on my deathbed, and know that my last few moments have come, I want this music to drift away to. Let my last thoughts of walking through Elwyn take me to my eternity.
fuck yeah man thats incredible same here
or you could be cool and choose the music that plays when you died and recover your corpse
BROTHER
Lmao this comment is hilarious and yet so trure
You close your questing log and run towards your next destination accompanied by the sound of your boots hitting the road
Nicely said. I can almost feel it. :-)
First I played undead, then playerd orc, but I stopped after 10 level. Only after creating human character I played to 60 lvl. Elwynn-Westfall-Redridge-Duskwood is the best chain in game.
I'd argue that bc the cataclysm version of Trisifal and Silverpine were pretty good
I think that Mulgore-Barrens-Ashenvale-Stonetalon Mountains chain is also worth mentioning :-)
I don
t like Duskwood, it is spooky, like Deadwind Pass..
15 years later and this still gives me chills. god DAMN that was a good game
its not that was its that is good game even know world of warcraft is best game ever
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Defias thugs in the Northshire vineyards. I watched the stars glitter in the dark near the Westbrook Garrison.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
I'm almost 60 and I still love playing WoW. I'll stop when Bliz stops putting out expansions. 😜
For so long, this was my happy place
I miss these times so much. Was 30 years old when it came out, and just have the most amazing memories. 😢
I remember having people who understood me better that i never met irl in thus game then actually in real life... thank you warcraft
Almost as nostalgic as RS music. Straight in the feels.
The beginning....whenever I'm in Elwynn Forest....with this music...it just seems so peaceful...tranquil...
I remember this very much, that year, 2004 I was 15 years old.... Now I am 77....time flies...
Makes me want to log in and just wander around Elwynn Forest and try to recapture how amazing it was when I first played almost 15 years ago. Exploring and checking out every building in Stormwind. Remembering how terrifying Duskwood was when I ran their to find Mayor Ebonlocke to get help for Lakeshire. Funny thing was I would never have known about it except some kids were selling magazine subscriptions to raise money, I bought Maxim and in the first issue was an introduction disc to wow. I played the 20 levels with three different characters before I admitted I was hooked. Tried a decent number of games since then, but nothing captured my imagination like WoW. Unfortunately for me "progress" didn't mean better. Quit eight years ago.
I remember being VERY scared of Duskwood!!
10 years and 360 days of played, that was it for me between 2004-2014 in the World of Warcraft. For the whole time the same guild and same friends, unforgettable moments and great adventures. The feeling of being part of something great, a community larger than the guild itself. It was another life inside a game.
i was almost 18 in 2005 when i started playing wow, this music reminds me of the good times and gameplay of yesteryear, where society was very different in video games.
First character ever played on started back in 08 was my human mage. Still play on him to this day. This area will always make me feel like I'm at home in an odd way haha.
18 years ago my classmate gave me some money to buy my first wow game box. Things were better that days, internet was better, people were interested to explore. Still playing classic from time to time.
LOVE that there's a range of ages here who play(ed) from 30's - 70's. Hands down my favorite starting zone
those memories bring tears to my eyes
I remember being 9 years old. The only other games I'd really played much where age of empires and stronghold crusader, and a few console games. Most games that had music, it was just plinky plonky 8 bit "background noise" that you barely even notice during intense arcadey style gaming. And boom. You find yourself getting dropped into a world (of warcraft), you hear insects buzzing, a slight wind through the trees, some birds tweeting even quieter behind the wind, and suddenly a clarinet just blasts out. And that's it. Immersion achieved.
42 male human warrior main alliance here. Played mainly during end of BC and through WotLK. Wow was an amazing adventure for me and many friends both in game, guild and RL. It truly was another world/life, and to finally down LK... amazing.
I was waiting for "mrglmrglmrglmrglmrgl" sound.
The most iconic thing Tracy Bush (wow composer) did :-D
Sorry, I didn't add it as a special effect. :-)
ACCK!!! RROOOO ACKKKK!
Damn murlocs always ruining the gameplay XD
Save the Murlocs
I freaking hate murlocs. lol
A moment of silence for all the new players joining WoW since 2020 who now get forced into Exile's Reach and BFA content instead of experiencing the iconic starting zones of Azeroth
I remember my summer job, I worked right next to a castle, serving customers at a bow/crossbow shooting range. I was staying in a room about half an hour walk away, so I always listened to WoW music when walking there and back.
One morning I was near the castle, listening to the music as I walked, and just as the majestic castle gate came into my view, the Stormwind intro theme started playing. That hit beautifully.
The most fire mix while pumping reps at the gym
Boy, do some us miss the Vanilla days... this brings it all back.
There is a certain type of person that this game created. Special, unique, and one in a million. I have no idea how, but for those who played this games, and I mean actually played this game.... their is a brotherhood, a creed, a certain way that this game impacted us that left us all the same way. To this day, if I could live in any world, it would be this one.
As a twenty odd something bloke back in vanilla wow… completing a 40 man raid to Molten Core successfully with my guild back then (filled with some of my IRL friends) still feels like one of the if not the most meaningful lesson in how a large group of people can come together and achieve great things. Somehow in my professional life after that everything always felt and feels competitive. I have never reached the same level of feeling integrated to a whole as I did there… maybe that is a sad testimony to the state of my life or IRL in general… It could also just be a testimony to how absolutely breathtaking ‘that’ which this game provided to all of us back then really was… Solace, peace, acceptance, purpose, excitement, wonder, friendship and a sense of belonging… ‘May your blades never dull!”❤
Even after 15 years, this still brings back memories. Thank you Vanilla.
00:12 .. i am home.
2005 memories come flooding back, fuuuuuck. Simpler times man.
I was Horde, but listening to that first 5 seconds of opening was breathtaking and special.
Ahhh the nostalgia of having nothing else better to do than making alts as a kid with friends and staying up all night questing and making it to westfall and then logging off for the night.
42 Horde (only) here. There is So much in this Music! So many adventures past. Pure masterpiece!
What a magical time it was, my friends. Maybe one day we will meet again in another mmo
@Marco ottone don´t worry, the unique constellation of talented creators will surely form in the future. But it is a rare occasion, otherwise it would not be that magical.
WOW music calms my anxiety and brings me back to those days
I use this as background noise when I'm working. It's very calming in a nostalgic way. It brings back old memories.
Me too!
Although I never had the chance to experience vanilla, it seems so nostalgic, and I tip my hat to all of you vanilla players. I will always respect the ‘good ole days’, but I’m pretty satisfied with what we have now. Congrats to those who’ve been from vanilla to now, I look up to you guys.
This soundtrack inspires to me feelings of stillness and calmness that I cannot achieve easily in other ways. The memories of the time spent in that virtual forest are still strong after 15 years…
The amount of memories I have of WoW are so numerious. I could lose a day reminincing and not even scratch the surface. It was more than an escape for me as a kid. It helped so much on top of being a new definition of fun.
I'll never forget the emotion I had fifteen years ago when I killed my first kobold near the Northshire abbey. May he rest in peace. 🙏
Thanks for this video, so many amazing memories.
if i had time, i would still play WoW. Miss all people :( so many memories!
It was one the best gaming experiences I ever had when I played WoW the first time back in 2007 or so. I was absolutely stunned. God I miss that feeling.
*Insert member berries here.*
1:42 - 3:00 the feels man....
Reminds me of redridge mountains.. can't wait for classic
This is the sound of my happy place
feels so long ago now ...and feels like everything that has really come since has just been a shadow of what it was.
32:08 is so important to me. It is like be in home.
:) You might want to see my next movie. It's from my new "Factions" series. It will be called Humans of Vanilla.
Nice to meet you Murphy!
I can relate
EcceMurphy : Totally ;-)
a weary warrior returning to stormwind to sell all the shit he picked up throughout his travels.
On point
Lol remember making human rogue when game just started. Didn’t know there was AH till level 25, trash vendored everything. Had leather pants with +5 to healing thinking it’s helping me heal faster. Will never forget the awe inspired by first time stepping trough gates of Stormwind and that epic music kicking in. Or the time I encountered horde for first time and pvp...
I was in Westfall and I saw this strange cow looking thing named Willford with some kind of orb around its body and shiny golden shield, so I decided to stab it in the back, surprisingly nothing happened. Willford stood up looked down and emoted: No not gonna happen! And then sent me to my first death.
Oh wow ! How I miss playing my elf Hunter. My sister was playing it in England. And she called me and told me you gotta get this game. So I did. When I first came on my sister was Petra. She came running up on a cat. She waved to me.. and blew me a kiss. And I was so blowed away !! We played for many years. And we met so many wonderful friends! This game is brillant. This video is making me want to play again.
Nothing like original WOW is ever going to happen again. It was a product of a different world, and it was really something special to be a part of.
the first time I played this, I was already an adult, wrath was just about to be released. I smoked some weed and then started a human warrior and was so enthralled by this game that I almost regretted making fun of my friends playing it for the past 2 years.
So many memories… Imagine that - memories of a simulated world. Blizzard did something right, something amazing, that will go down in the annals of history. And I couldn’t be happier being a part of it.
I still remember the excitement of logging in and choosing what character I wanted and beginning questing for the first time...human mage...good times. This video takes me back. Thanks for making a 3 hr video!
the nights i used to spend on this game...
splendid memories of my life :)
I am 32 and played WoW all throughout high school and a few years after. I occasionally go back to WoW every so often for like 3 days just to relive it, but it's not the same.
It’s never quite the same, but it’s fun to never truly say goodbye and pop in every now and again.
What a nostalgia. I have great memories about this game.. It will always be in my heart.
this music makes me want to melt into a little puddle of happiness and then just explore every square inch of Elwyn Forest (even though I already know it like the back of my hand).