Unregistered HyperCam 2, poor connection speed, blurry screen, poorly timed sounds, and loading issues. This guy knows the vanilla experience better than anyone!
I remember the first character I made was a night elf and I made it my mission to exterminate all the grellkin, but they kept respawning, and I didn't yet know the concept of respawning mobs so I was trying to figure out what was "summoning" them. Since they had a nearby campfire I assumed that was like some kind of ritual to summon them and I tried to use the starting water they give you to put it out-to no avail, of course.
The unique World Design these sharp mountains and theese hidden paths i remember this big cities full of players. The new addons Look so strange everything after wotlk missed the wow feeling
@@spowbits3696 No other game will ever be able to recreate this feeling... mostly because everyone watches youtube for "how to-" and "best way to level" videos... Everythig is perfectly calculated and expected.
@@IntenseDarknessable Facts, plus it's like games are developed with this in mind these days, making it almost impossible to play without it. I miss the days of jumping in WoW and just learning things naturally. What a time
@@anonyoutube825 Yea your right. I still play "classic" with the approach of getting further than I ever did and maybe ill get that feeling just a little lol.
@@IntenseDarknessable Playing with younger people, I notice they get upset when people don't already know all the battles before getting to fights. They've studied the processes to get what they want in games before ever hitting a roadblock in them. It's really weird to me. Why even play the game? Just watch the person in the guide do it and go outside, then.
This is when WOW really was magical. The discovery, the wonder, learning how things worked on your own, it was rewarding and addictive and when you discovered Darnassus was the tip of the iceberg it blew your mind. That feeling will never be replicated in WOW again, or by any other game.
Crazy ain't it dood? So many good memories. Never experienced immersion like I did with WOW back then. I first levelled up a NE Warrior. I levelled it through questing alone. Took me about 4 months of just solid questing.... and I loved every minute of it and never once felt bored. Every moment was fresh and exciting.
@@Brs-od8mx Same. I did leveling without questing. It been 2007 I played on local server and I hadn't the opportunity to searching anything in global internet. I hadn't idea my hunter can comes to trainer and get trained something. It been 18 level or something when my friend told me about class trainer. The moment my hunter got first pet I was happinest man on the planet.
Times man... And although p.servers/classic years later were the best replicates out there, they just couldn't provide that exact feeling. We got to experience WOW at the right time in our lives (speaking for kids/adolescents, not sure about fully grown adults) during an appropriate era for gaming and the internet in general. Only way to replicate that 100% would be to rewind the clock and go back to that point. Times man...
@@jamesharris3667 Nostalrius was as close as it gets & I was completely fine with that. You can never get that last missing piece of a feeling back. It's stayed with the 00s. Internet going global but still in the early stage. Most players had never played an mmo before. We were new to the world, the lore and everything that comes with it. People were noobs & even if you werent you would have a hard time finding only "great" players to play with. People had to be more patient with each other, help each other etc. This fostered a sense of community. Everything was new & intriguing & people actively wanted to be a part of this revolution in gaming & to many it was a second home or simply home. For all those reasons & more we can never get the true classic experience, the vanilla experience but still I'd give a lot to play Nostalrius or an active pserver with the same values because personally I feel the game is just that good if people let it be & unfortunately there aren't many other attractive options on the market
The beauty of gaming before the sweaty UA-cam meta tutorials started flowing, people had to explore and chose exactly what they wanted out of their character, exploring the world not knowing the exact order to complete quests to maximize content. The good ole days
Feel like an old annoying geezer for saying this but the new generation of gamers definitely missed out on a wholesome time for mmo gaming. They have a lot of great single player games but due to the internet being in a different place now compared to then they can't really ever get to experience the game & community the way it originally was. And we who have experienced it will never experience it again (sometimes this almost feels worse). Hopefully the gaming market will surprise me and change my mind this decade
i miss those days. Those days are long gone for any game. People would talk in general chat helping eachother and strong communities formed. Now everyone rushes the game, meta maxes any stat, etc.
Coming from Warcraft III playing as a Night Elf was just the coolest shit back in the day. Knowing the lore, that male soldiers were now a thing, about you turning into a Wisp upon death, how you could still Shadowmeld, how beautiful Teldrassil was... it was simply amazing rolling one for the first time.
@@bartkorol611 there was so much innocence back then, but it's amazing that at that time I was so insanely hyped to play WoW and today I have no desire because of Blizz' so many fuck-ups. Also, growing up and working, I guess.
Same here! I played WC3 since I was a child, and stepping into WoW Cataclysm as a female Night Elf druid just sent me to another dimension. I'd always loved the fact that Night Elf women were the forefront of their faction in WC3, so when the lore stated they were now allowed to be druids as much as men were allowed be priests of Elune, I made sure this was my first character. And I honestly fell in love with the Night Elves again; they were a race that I've always loved.
I created a Night Elf character 2 days after the game was released. I remember the same feeling you try to recreate. The exploration in the magical forest. I remember the feeling of beeing inside this huge world, and i had no idea what was outside of Teldrassil, and what to expect. I wanted to find out where all the great heros of Wacraft 3 where hiding. Where was Malfurion, Tyrande, Illidan, Arthas, Thrall, Jaina and so on.
Man this was my childhood, this is the only reason I still play every now and then, not to raid mythic or do all the crap that one has to do nowadays, just to create a new character and let the nostalgia hit…
@@newnamesameperson397 I feel you, buddy. I'm an altoholic when it comes to old zones. As soon as I hit the current exp with a character I'm not playing it anymore. Even BfA was better than Shadowlands, sadly. Oh, and I give Revendreth a 11/10 for originality and vampire like world, but that's it.
Man. My dad raised my siblings and I off of wow from the very beginning. I was three in 2005. We stopped playing consistently last summer. He always talks about how his first time in teldrassil, he was awestruck. Couldn’t stop staring and exclaiming “what the fuck!”. I remember the feeling I had when I was little, watching my brother and my dad play wow. Getting on their characters just to kill them or run around on their mounts. Being underneath my dads arm on my stepping stool just to press the spacebar to make his character jump while he was playing. Use up their money to use flight points. Being so excited when they got a second computer to play together. Ahhhh. I want to go back.
Same thing for me. I remember hitting level 4 on my first character and exclaiming to my dad that I was the age of my character's level. Sucks the game doesn't feel that way anymore.
I'm a year older than you and had much of the same experience. I remember making a character on my mom's account and my brother would make one on my dad's, good times
I started with a gnome like "well this dude is cute as shit." Pranced around the starting zone with the same wonderment. Made it to Ironforge around lvl 10 only to find out everyone hates gnomes.
I didn't care. My gnome rogue looked cute and badass at the same time,because I was pretty good at pvp,arenas and had the brutal gladiators. Because I started with TBC. At some point I became a celebrity on my server. I used to hang out with horde players near entrance of Orgrimmar without them trying to kill me. Only some of them would try to gank me. I was like 14-15 back then,and maybe it sounds pathetic,but at that time,all that attention made me feel special,what can I say...
I started playing in 2005 so relate to all this lol. Also that noise when someone nudged you in msn and you just pray your computer doesn’t crash whilst in game 😂
Coming from Warcraft 3, my first character was an orc warrior. How could it not be. And I remember being shocked learning that I could SWIM. You can swim in this game guys!!! I got to about level 6, wandered into the Barrens and was murdered by a big angry bird, and decided to try something different. I made a night elf druid and was completely blown away by the starting zone. Don't forget to do the bit where you decide to try jumping off the tree! And then you have to spend half an hour getting to your corpse halfway down the tree, dying again, and then slowly swimming around because you didn't know what hearthstones were yet!
thank you. i actually have tears in my eyes. its a bit like going back to when everything was good. it weren't even 3 whole minutes, but you brought back that feeling of "good".
my first WoW experience ever was with those 10-day trials, around 2005, as a night elf hunter... so many late nights spent exploring teldrassil in silent wonder. so many late nights creeping around auberdine, the dark and scary forest feeling like home to me, as i walked with my bear Cactus along the beach and cobblestone roads, the moonlight making them shiny at a certain angle, the sounds of the water lapping up on the sand, looking inland where the trees start to block your view and being afraid to go too deep within the forest. i will never play anything like this again
I had a friend who couldnt afford wow so he always had a 10 day trial. On one, his Warlock dings level 20 and NOT 5 SECONDS LATER HIS TRIAL ENDED. Was hilarious.
Even now whenever I run around Teldrasil, I feel calm. So many pretty trees, the green air is just the right shade of peaceful, and the music is enchanting. I've done the zone on so many alts, from baby elves to high level members of other races just stopping by for the holiday, that I know just about every nook and cranny. The familiarity doesn't make it any less magical.
A massive part of what makes/made WoW so great is the music and the setting. It's unparalleled to this day. Something about it just makes you feel like you are actually there even though you know you're not. Even over a decade later with all our fancy tech there is no game to match this.. i'm hopeful but also it's kind of impossible to replace this music after so many years of playing.
back when gaming was raw. Now you see 40 clips, 40 youtube guides, watch streamers play beta, see then optimal way to play the game, see how to min/max. All before you even play the game.
Somehow at some point, we all stuck in there, in that low resolution wow, the world before crisis, the sun was brighter and people laugh more. We listen songs with iPod and waiting for a better and maybe best ever era in human history. But that's just a bubble, it's beautiful yet fragile. I know what's happening around this world, but I can't resist the urge to close my eyes and connect to my 2006 dream.
Controlling every little unit in wc3 and having heroes and champions, then changing to WoW and stepping into the actual lore with starting as a unit what youve controlled yesterday and now you can explore a whole massive and mysterious world. That was a huge joy back then. All part of our childhood/younghood that we want to relive.
I remember playing on a cracked Beta server a while before the game came out. My buddy and I were level 2-3 dwarves in the starting zone, and this level 11 troll came into town, and murdered everyone. We were pretty sure he came over the ocean because we found a way over the mountains to the water, and were able to swim out forever till we got bored.
I remember making a night elf when I was like 7, I thought it was the coolest shit ever. Teldrassil looked amazing to me, the whole night elf aesthetic I loved, even though I mained an undead rogue, and mostly rolled horde... I always loved the night elves!
I was playing wow around the same age, i was the same way, me and my buddy always played horde because they looked cool, undead especially with hunters having a black widow as a pet. First time i made a nightelf, Female elves were stripping on mailboxes for gold 🤣
I've always rolled Nelf. That starter music be hittin them nostalgic memories. God, how I wish I could feel that all over again and just be a complete noob.
Teldrassil is still and will always be amongst my favorite zones in this game. The immeasurable beauty of the forests and the music is some of the best in the game, then later discovering that the entire zone rests atop a giant tree, no other game can recreate the sheer sense of adventure this game has.
The very first World of Warcraft character I made was a human warrior. As basic as it could be haha "ohh humans good guys defenders of the world" etc. I was 12 at the time and loved Eminem. My name was Lshadyl because I thought the capital L would be l so it would look like lshadyl. (ooh badass) People called me "Le Shaddle" because of the typo and it just stuck lol. Good times in Vanilla.
I remember starting playing and I chose human. Then I made a night elf friend and I asked him where he started and we made the long trip to Teldrassil from SW. When I saw the location I was wonderstruck. It was beautiful.
Its so funny almost ridiculous videos like these stirring existential angst where we were where we are where we're going...this vid feels like yesterday yet its so far away almost 20 years to be exact...( i know its a parody) but the feels... phew... damn you time you don't play fair! (Great work Azamous).
Coming from WC3 and playing WoW for the first time. I'll never forget walking into Org for the first time in Jan of 2005. Went from looking down at the settlement/city I had built to being a grunt in that city. It was great. A sense of wonderment ill never feel again.
this brings me back to my time when I started in 2004. making a dwarf paladin and goddam I miss those times. thanks for recreating that 2004 feeling again
I have a distinct memory of playing a night elf hunter in the starting zone while the music video for “Dance, Dance” by Fall Out Boy was playing on Fuse. Those were the days
True! :D I think I played until the end of TBC with a very stable 250~ ping. Even have raid footage of my brother's priest on Leotheras the Blind where the cast bar appears slightly after he gives the order to cast... Nowadays it would be a riot.
what's your second language? I bet it's also not hard, but you fuck it up a little bit.... that is, if you have any other languages. Can't let it slide? Why not? It shouldn't be too hard... cmon. Just let it slide....
The night elf starting zone music is the best in the entire game, I remember back in the day when i was around 7 and I played a Night Elf with my dad. I yelled my moms name because I was about to ding, good memories, no worries and no stress, the nostalgia is insane.
I died at the msn sounds :D Loved it. And yeah, this is why classic was “not the same”. And it never will be. This is what people wanted. This can not be retrieved by simply re-releasing the game.
I rolled Nelf first time out. Played Alliance, and it seemed that most stuck to a faction back then. Later on I rolled an Undead Rogue to see the other side of the game. I had an RL friend who played Horde only. At around level 9 I death ran to Teldrassil and he came along on his Tauren Druid. As we were trying to get through Darnassus, he started freaking out when he saw the giant ancients, lol. He had never seen them before. We went site seeing around the zone. I actually ended up ganking some level 2's and 3's who somehow flagged themselves, lol. On a side note, my main was a Nelf War and, man, did the furbolgs at Starbreeze Village mess me up, lol.
I got the game before I had internet access and I remember the time waiting for my ISP to connect my line. I was reading the manual that you got with the physical copy of the game all day. When the time finally came (after a "good" research) I decided to create a human Warrior named Ranage. Killing wolves in Elwynn, looting, talking to people made my days. Then, one day I met a fellow human warrior who was about the same level as me ( /played 10 days and I'm stuck at lvl 8). I kind of made friends with him, we played for a few days and were getting along. Fast forward he deleted his character because I was whispering him all the time and I'd say I was being annoying with all the questions about the game. Since he was offline for a week or so and I was playing alone, I made a choice to make a night elf hunter and boy Teldrassil was amazing. Wasted so much time there exploring stuff and figuring out how to get tf out of the island :)
I also remember before I really knew how to play I would make characters of each race so I could do each starting zone. Teldrassil and Azuremyst were my favorite :)
Azuremyst was my favorite for a really funny reason, I had a really great pizza the day that I got to first explore it. Now, whenever i think great pizza, a little memory of that starting zone comes to mind!
I started playing Wow when I was 5 years old. I played a night elf rogue on my mom’s account. I didn’t know wtf I was doing but I enjoyed the hell out of it. I kept playing through TBC and Wrath and never hit max level. I would just explore everything and run around doing whatever I wanted. Those were the times.
This was exactly my experience. ~16 years old, making my Night Elf Hunter as my first toon. THE GAME WAS SO PURE AND INNOCENT. Only difference was that I had 8-12fps on my HP laptop.
It was 2006 for me. It was the most amazing gaming experience I'd ever had. The whole world (of Warcraft) was just so beautiful and immersive. When Classic WoW came out, I was one of those who thought I could recreate that first experience with WoW but, nope. It will never happen again.
Your videos hit hard. Back then I had a crap dell computer, if I logged into stormwind it took forever to login, I didn’t make a human first I made a night elf warrior, and their starting area was magical. Coming from RuneScape, I didn’t even care about the low FPS lol. My brother came home one day and he had played WoW at a friends house, and came home and begged our mom to buy WoW for us, (we were both in our teens) she got it, he played for about a month literally begging me to play, I wanted to but I had so much in RuneScape going for me that I didn’t want to. I finally gave in, and within 5 minutes on my Nelf warrior named Chiton (pronounced kite en, from an old Metroid video involving space pirates), I dropped RuneScape, and I’m still playing today. No I haven’t pre ordered or bought Dragonflight, but I do miss these days simply because I had all the time in the world to play it, I have so many memories with WoW with so many in game friends and some real life friends that are now dead…I’ve also geared 2 or 3 toons in one expansion while tweaked out on things I shouldn’t have been on, while in my using days. In my mid 20s. I’m almost 4 years clean now, bought a new gaming pc downloaded WoW, came back after not playing since WoD, having the best possible geared rogue, Druid, hunter and Warrior possible at that time and continued on. With just my Druid. So I could experience the missed expansions. Currently i only have my druid geared as much as I can. and WoW has simply become something over time, it’s just something that I try to enjoy, when I have time 😞 almost every time I logon, I think of my IRL hunter friend named Roley in game, that I decided to rename my hunter to his name so it could live on, and it’s hard to kick ass anymore in PvP, on any of my characters. Basically this is a long ass rant of how much I love WoW, the old days, and how much I don’t enjoy the newest expansion. And how much the death of a close friend IRL that you have countless priceless memories with can affect you. Maybe I should go to classic. Sorry I’m watching this and have had quite a few drinks. Usually I don’t pour out my soul like this
Did not know anything about warcraft or mmorpg's when i bought the game back in 2005. First character i made was a night elf and having the beautiful nature and atmosphere of Teldrassil be my first introduction to it all was trully stunning, magical and fully immersed me into the world.
Brought me to tears… i had a troll shaman that time, I was 10 years old, trying to learn english, not really understanding what a massive multiplayer online game was. are these real people from all over the world? i turned alliance shortly after. the feeling you brought to this video reminds of so much, brotha. Thank you for the beautiful content!
First time I tried levelling a night elf I HATED the starting zone (I seem to remember a frustrating quest with a time limit). I spent probably a whole day walking to Elwynn at probably level 3, taking the boat, dying more times that I could possibly count. I had no idea that mage portals were a thing.
The nostalgia makes my heart feel like it's about to burst. I stopped playing WoW during BFA, just hated what the game became. Haven't touched it since and moved on to FFXIV a few years later. But nothing can ever replicate that feeling of when I first entered Azeroth all those years ago.
Aza you mastered the capturing of the old feeling! 🤩👍🏼 4:3 resolution, background sounds from chatrooms, ~20 fps, bad mic, unregistered hypercam, the will to explore rather then speedrun through the world, just chill and hang out…oh god, I miss those times 👍🏼 you did a great job!
Early 2008 was when i played first time. Jeez nostalgia, i remember spending days in Teldrassil and every day you learned and found new things. WoW was very special before Cata..
This hit deep dude. The MSN sound from the messages in the background made even more of an impact and nostalgic. I had forgotten MSN and how everyone was there in the past. Good times.
I remember falling off one of the branches on the edge of the map, dying, and not knowing how to get back to my corpse. I didn't know what spirit healers did either. That character is still dead to this day. I ended up making another character instead.
Me and my father’s first characters were both night elf’s. This guy captured the wonderment from the first creation and exploring the starting zone perfectly to the T. Man I miss old WoW
TRUE STORY: I was but a little kid when i created my first night elf character and i remember it was night time, big mistake! I was so scared of the environment. I moved her to the first village after a while, logged out and didn't touch her for more than a year. 😅
A night elf warrior was my first ever character in WoW and the cheer wanderlust I felt running through Teldrassil has never been captured again by any other game.
The part most people don't realize about nostalgia for old games isn't that the game itself was particularly better in some way, it was the level of information available to the player. You didn't know what was over the next hill, in some random cave, or what gear was going to drop from a boss. You didn't have a meta build and rotation optimized to perfection by the game's elite super tryhards, speedclearing guides, or video tutorials for everything imaginable. You had to learn, adapt, and work with players to solve and overcome challenges. That's all gone, and has been for about a decade. WOW in particular (vanilla vs classic) is an excellent case study for how access to near perfect information can transform the same content into an unrecognizably different experience. It's also a good look into how automation can disrupt an economic system designed for purely manual work, but that's another issue entirely.
This is what singleplayer open-world RPGs is doing for me these days now that I'm older. I've never played Fallout 4 until 2020 for the first time ever. It was this large open world to just explore and run around in. I guess I'm always seeking this original experience again. Hoping some form of curiosity and discovery can be felt again. Playing a Night Elf Druid was my first wow character. I spent WAY to long in the starting zone and I just logged onto the game and had a notebook I'd write down notes. I would write down what I'm going to do later on. How I'm going to eventually get to max level and be there with the pros... I never actually did that. But it was that attempted journey by myself. I never got there and yet I enjoyed myself. I remember those days and I think nothing will ever be like that ever again.
I still remember how when I made my nelf, my drivers weren't up to date and the sky in the horizon constantly flashed all different colors as I walked around. I knew it was probably not intentional, but it was cool.
Why must you hit me with the nostalgia like that? My first ever wow character was a blood elf, and I was so enraptured by the world It's a feeling nothing in my life has managed to replicate precisely That sense of wonder...
2008, when i played BC for the first time as a druid. My god, i feel the nostalgia in my gut as well now. Exiting the starting zone for the first time was so scary. And seeing the capital gates and ancients was awe inspiring. I will never forget those first hours of gameplay
Check out the full "It's 2005" playlist here: bit.ly/3vylGcI
Do a let’s play of Classic as this new player in 2004 character. It’s so funny and I need more nostalgia. Cheers
This video filled me with many warm feeling that I forgot how they felt.
Thank you. : )
Unregistered HyperCam 2, poor connection speed, blurry screen, poorly timed sounds, and loading issues. This guy knows the vanilla experience better than anyone!
We've been there Gandalf we've been there at the beginning of times! 🔥
Don't forget the Messenger sound lol
@@josedavidmunozmartinez4722 facts, I was waiting for the game to crash
wait till you learn about africans, they are gaming in the super vanilla experience
and most importantly naming your elf character " legolas "
I remember the first character I made was a night elf and I made it my mission to exterminate all the grellkin, but they kept respawning, and I didn't yet know the concept of respawning mobs so I was trying to figure out what was "summoning" them. Since they had a nearby campfire I assumed that was like some kind of ritual to summon them and I tried to use the starting water they give you to put it out-to no avail, of course.
What a great story.
this is so cute thank you sm for sharing
This is exactly the opposite of “nobody asked”. Thank you! What a great memory))
Wow... Such a roleplaying beauty..
average nagatoro enjoyer
This nostalgia is unreal. Love the starting zone.
The nostalgia Israel 😳😳😳
The yahoo messenger notification really adds more to the nostalgia
oh man; being 13, listening to incubus while just shooting shit with my bow in teldrassil is what I imagine memberberries taste like
This was way better. Than now, just boosting to max level and raiding for max gears.
What made me WoW lover.
This is pretty much exactly how my first Night Elf experience went. Then a few hours later, I learned that I was in a giant tree the whole time.
omg literally the exact same lmfao!!!
wtf I didnt even know that
Same played like 12 hrs straight first toon and accenditally got on the boat to darkshore 😅 blew my mind
This is what people miss when thinking of “classic”. This feeling of discovery and wonder.
The unique World Design these sharp mountains and theese hidden paths i remember this big cities full of players. The new addons Look so strange everything after wotlk missed the wow feeling
@@spowbits3696 No other game will ever be able to recreate this feeling... mostly because everyone watches youtube for "how to-" and "best way to level" videos... Everythig is perfectly calculated and expected.
@@IntenseDarknessable Facts, plus it's like games are developed with this in mind these days, making it almost impossible to play without it. I miss the days of jumping in WoW and just learning things naturally. What a time
@@anonyoutube825 Yea your right. I still play "classic" with the approach of getting further than I ever did and maybe ill get that feeling just a little lol.
@@IntenseDarknessable Playing with younger people, I notice they get upset when people don't already know all the battles before getting to fights. They've studied the processes to get what they want in games before ever hitting a roadblock in them. It's really weird to me. Why even play the game? Just watch the person in the guide do it and go outside, then.
This is when WOW really was magical. The discovery, the wonder, learning how things worked on your own, it was rewarding and addictive and when you discovered Darnassus was the tip of the iceberg it blew your mind. That feeling will never be replicated in WOW again, or by any other game.
That's true man. I'm crying now can u believe that
Crazy ain't it dood? So many good memories. Never experienced immersion like I did with WOW back then.
I first levelled up a NE Warrior. I levelled it through questing alone. Took me about 4 months of just solid questing.... and I loved every minute of it and never once felt bored. Every moment was fresh and exciting.
@@Brs-od8mx Same. I did leveling without questing. It been 2007 I played on local server and I hadn't the opportunity to searching anything in global internet. I hadn't idea my hunter can comes to trainer and get trained something. It been 18 level or something when my friend told me about class trainer. The moment my hunter got first pet I was happinest man on the planet.
Times man...
And although p.servers/classic years later were the best replicates out there, they just couldn't provide that exact feeling. We got to experience WOW at the right time in our lives (speaking for kids/adolescents, not sure about fully grown adults) during an appropriate era for gaming and the internet in general. Only way to replicate that 100% would be to rewind the clock and go back to that point.
Times man...
@@jamesharris3667 Nostalrius was as close as it gets & I was completely fine with that. You can never get that last missing piece of a feeling back. It's stayed with the 00s. Internet going global but still in the early stage. Most players had never played an mmo before. We were new to the world, the lore and everything that comes with it. People were noobs & even if you werent you would have a hard time finding only "great" players to play with. People had to be more patient with each other, help each other etc. This fostered a sense of community. Everything was new & intriguing & people actively wanted to be a part of this revolution in gaming & to many it was a second home or simply home. For all those reasons & more we can never get the true classic experience, the vanilla experience but still I'd give a lot to play Nostalrius or an active pserver with the same values because personally I feel the game is just that good if people let it be & unfortunately there aren't many other attractive options on the market
Since it was years I heard the MSN sound, i still reacted to it and was ready to answer the message
I thought it was AIM at first lol
haha i was like oh shit is that mine? no i don't have that anymore wth lol
nostalgia hit
I thought he was gonna alt+tab out and crash his PC
Same lol
The beauty of gaming before the sweaty UA-cam meta tutorials started flowing, people had to explore and chose exactly what they wanted out of their character, exploring the world not knowing the exact order to complete quests to maximize content. The good ole days
Feel like an old annoying geezer for saying this but the new generation of gamers definitely missed out on a wholesome time for mmo gaming. They have a lot of great single player games but due to the internet being in a different place now compared to then they can't really ever get to experience the game & community the way it originally was. And we who have experienced it will never experience it again (sometimes this almost feels worse). Hopefully the gaming market will surprise me and change my mind this decade
Back when people didn't optimise the fun out of every game and turn it into a another job/machine.
i miss those days. Those days are long gone for any game. People would talk in general chat helping eachother and strong communities formed. Now everyone rushes the game, meta maxes any stat, etc.
@@sepsam4556 true. I really hate that about todays gaming. It completely ruins it.
The future is now old man!
Coming from Warcraft III playing as a Night Elf was just the coolest shit back in the day. Knowing the lore, that male soldiers were now a thing, about you turning into a Wisp upon death, how you could still Shadowmeld, how beautiful Teldrassil was... it was simply amazing rolling one for the first time.
Yeah, Warcraft 3 was just the best stepping stone for WoW, the lore you can immerse into was a great.
@@bartkorol611 there was so much innocence back then, but it's amazing that at that time I was so insanely hyped to play WoW and today I have no desire because of Blizz' so many fuck-ups. Also, growing up and working, I guess.
Same here! I played WC3 since I was a child, and stepping into WoW Cataclysm as a female Night Elf druid just sent me to another dimension. I'd always loved the fact that Night Elf women were the forefront of their faction in WC3, so when the lore stated they were now allowed to be druids as much as men were allowed be priests of Elune, I made sure this was my first character. And I honestly fell in love with the Night Elves again; they were a race that I've always loved.
I played a NE hunter called CoilNovaNoob coming from WC3!
@@sffb8295 ew cata
I created a Night Elf character 2 days after the game was released. I remember the same feeling you try to recreate. The exploration in the magical forest.
I remember the feeling of beeing inside this huge world, and i had no idea what was outside of Teldrassil, and what to expect. I wanted to find out where all the great heros of Wacraft 3 where hiding. Where was Malfurion, Tyrande, Illidan, Arthas, Thrall, Jaina and so on.
Man this was my childhood, this is the only reason I still play every now and then, not to raid mythic or do all the crap that one has to do nowadays, just to create a new character and let the nostalgia hit…
Same bruv. Same
Leveling characters and doing old content is the most fun I have with retail nowadays.
@@newnamesameperson397 why not in classic since its nostalgia that u want lvl a char to 60 in ur own time Best experience with wow i ever had
@@newnamesameperson397 I feel you, buddy. I'm an altoholic when it comes to old zones. As soon as I hit the current exp with a character I'm not playing it anymore. Even BfA was better than Shadowlands, sadly. Oh, and I give Revendreth a 11/10 for originality and vampire like world, but that's it.
Look up Ascension wow and Conquest of Azeroth. It will change your life.
Man. My dad raised my siblings and I off of wow from the very beginning. I was three in 2005. We stopped playing consistently last summer. He always talks about how his first time in teldrassil, he was awestruck. Couldn’t stop staring and exclaiming “what the fuck!”. I remember the feeling I had when I was little, watching my brother and my dad play wow. Getting on their characters just to kill them or run around on their mounts. Being underneath my dads arm on my stepping stool just to press the spacebar to make his character jump while he was playing. Use up their money to use flight points. Being so excited when they got a second computer to play together. Ahhhh. I want to go back.
Same thing for me. I remember hitting level 4 on my first character and exclaiming to my dad that I was the age of my character's level. Sucks the game doesn't feel that way anymore.
Me and my brother had to share 30 minutes at a time to play😭😭 eventually it turned to 1 hour each… good times🤣
Incredible childhood man, you have a good father
I'm a year older than you and had much of the same experience. I remember making a character on my mom's account and my brother would make one on my dad's, good times
You were 3 in 2005? Wtf lmao
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them"
:'(
We did know we were in the 'good old days' we just didn't know they would end so fast
Sounds corny but maybe treat everyday like its the good days because in another 20 year you might look at back at today and think the same thing.
you look outside , it's daylight, look again and it's dark because it's 3 am
@@chza1181 but my days arent good lmfao
@@laurin1494 Then make them good, just change your standard of what is good to match your days, i just do that and live happier.
I started with a gnome like "well this dude is cute as shit." Pranced around the starting zone with the same wonderment. Made it to Ironforge around lvl 10 only to find out everyone hates gnomes.
What's it's got in it's nasty little pocketzes!
Not gnomes but its players, most gnome players are weirdos
I didn't care. My gnome rogue looked cute and badass at the same time,because I was pretty good at pvp,arenas and had the brutal gladiators. Because I started with TBC.
At some point I became a celebrity on my server. I used to hang out with horde players near entrance of Orgrimmar without them trying to kill me. Only some of them would try to gank me. I was like 14-15 back then,and maybe it sounds pathetic,but at that time,all that attention made me feel special,what can I say...
@@aarondaniel4489 🤣🤣🤣 if we wins we eats it whole.
I played other mmos first and having a tiny thing do magic was so funny to me. That's why I started with a gnome mage lol
Elf zones always have the best music, regardless of elf race.
Suramar > Eversong Woods > Ashenvale ( in my opinion )
@@Λυκάων i wanna say mine. Nazjatar ( market) > suramar > eversong > ashenvale > Winterspring. :D
all races
💯
All of the above!!
I started playing in 2005 so relate to all this lol. Also that noise when someone nudged you in msn and you just pray your computer doesn’t crash whilst in game 😂
it was times wasn't it..
@@Roundgoggles Those were the days…
@@DeniTRK simp
we had no idea life had already peaked.
Your content never ceases to give all the nostalgia.
+1 for MSN. Where did time go..
MSN 😭😭😭😭😭
My first 15 minutes in WOW; "Woah I can jump in this game?!" *proceeds to jump on and off fence in Northshire Abbey for 15 minutes*
Better than mine. I was so impressed I could sit that I just sat down everywhere. That and swimming XD
Coming from Warcraft 3, my first character was an orc warrior. How could it not be. And I remember being shocked learning that I could SWIM. You can swim in this game guys!!! I got to about level 6, wandered into the Barrens and was murdered by a big angry bird, and decided to try something different. I made a night elf druid and was completely blown away by the starting zone. Don't forget to do the bit where you decide to try jumping off the tree! And then you have to spend half an hour getting to your corpse halfway down the tree, dying again, and then slowly swimming around because you didn't know what hearthstones were yet!
Still to this day, nobody can convince me any other starting zone will give such an amazing first impression to wow 10/10
All of the starting zones are excellent. You're 100% correct.
Tauren starting zone is just meme.
A field for cows 🤣🤣🤣
The dwarf starting zone was also something :) Such a magnificient land to explore
i loved the blood elf starting zone sm until level 10 or so.
Nothing beats the nostalgia of elwyn forest
thank you. i actually have tears in my eyes. its a bit like going back to when everything was good. it weren't even 3 whole minutes, but you brought back that feeling of "good".
my first WoW experience ever was with those 10-day trials, around 2005, as a night elf hunter...
so many late nights spent exploring teldrassil in silent wonder. so many late nights creeping around auberdine, the dark and scary forest feeling like home to me, as i walked with my bear Cactus along the beach and cobblestone roads, the moonlight making them shiny at a certain angle, the sounds of the water lapping up on the sand, looking inland where the trees start to block your view and being afraid to go too deep within the forest. i will never play anything like this again
Zuckerberg: "Hold my beer"
I had a friend who couldnt afford wow so he always had a 10 day trial. On one, his Warlock dings level 20 and NOT 5 SECONDS LATER HIS TRIAL ENDED. Was hilarious.
I was expecting you to choose the character's name " legolas " . And yeah you did it . You are such a nice guy .
saaaame lol. dudes spot on with his history
2004 hype! 2004 hype!
Not trying Legolass or Legolaz make me think its a fake video
@@Monster-gr8on Légolàs is the way to go.
I wouldn’t go around calling people a nice guy; “kind man,” my friend, kind man....
Even now whenever I run around Teldrasil, I feel calm. So many pretty trees, the green air is just the right shade of peaceful, and the music is enchanting. I've done the zone on so many alts, from baby elves to high level members of other races just stopping by for the holiday, that I know just about every nook and cranny. The familiarity doesn't make it any less magical.
lol that fucking MSN sound
A massive part of what makes/made WoW so great is the music and the setting. It's unparalleled to this day. Something about it just makes you feel like you are actually there even though you know you're not. Even over a decade later with all our fancy tech there is no game to match this.. i'm hopeful but also it's kind of impossible to replace this music after so many years of playing.
The slow screen, old looking graphics and bad mic make this feel like I’m in a Vent chat talking to someone. This is good 🤣
back when gaming was raw. Now you see 40 clips, 40 youtube guides, watch streamers play beta, see then optimal way to play the game, see how to min/max. All before you even play the game.
Somehow at some point, we all stuck in there, in that low resolution wow, the world before crisis, the sun was brighter and people laugh more. We listen songs with iPod and waiting for a better and maybe best ever era in human history. But that's just a bubble, it's beautiful yet fragile. I know what's happening around this world, but I can't resist the urge to close my eyes and connect to my 2006 dream.
much better times. More Sane and less tech
This gives me such a wave of nostalgia. I still remember how I felt at 10 years old barely understanding what's going on in the game.
Controlling every little unit in wc3 and having heroes and champions, then changing to WoW and stepping into the actual lore with starting as a unit what youve controlled yesterday and now you can explore a whole massive and mysterious world.
That was a huge joy back then. All part of our childhood/younghood that we want to relive.
Oh. Yes.
Never played Warcraft, I started straight with Wow. Kinda bummed I couldn't get to experience this
I remember playing on a cracked Beta server a while before the game came out. My buddy and I were level 2-3 dwarves in the starting zone, and this level 11 troll came into town, and murdered everyone. We were pretty sure he came over the ocean because we found a way over the mountains to the water, and were able to swim out forever till we got bored.
Oh man, these videos bring warmth to my heart
yeah
1:58 “ooh my stomachs gone all funny!” Is such a delightful and true detail.
I remember making a night elf when I was like 7, I thought it was the coolest shit ever. Teldrassil looked amazing to me, the whole night elf aesthetic I loved, even though I mained an undead rogue, and mostly rolled horde... I always loved the night elves!
Spoken like someone that picks Night Elf
I was playing wow around the same age, i was the same way, me and my buddy always played horde because they looked cool, undead especially with hunters having a black widow as a pet. First time i made a nightelf, Female elves were stripping on mailboxes for gold 🤣
Is 7.
Plays horde.
Checks out
Carlos ! Ya bro back then I thought playing as undead was the coolest shit lol
I was 20 and felt exactly the same.
I literally spent almost a whole month in the Night Elf starting zone as a Druid. I just kept melee'ing everything too with my staff.
Yooooo, this MSN Message sound just unlocks a forgoten memory....thank you Sir for this and this Video!
Brings tears to my eyes. I have no emotions to describe that first feeling. It was a time of no worries or adult burden.
I've always rolled Nelf. That starter music be hittin them nostalgic memories. God, how I wish I could feel that all over again and just be a complete noob.
Teldrassil is still and will always be amongst my favorite zones in this game. The immeasurable beauty of the forests and the music is some of the best in the game, then later discovering that the entire zone rests atop a giant tree, no other game can recreate the sheer sense of adventure this game has.
The very first World of Warcraft character I made was a human warrior. As basic as it could be haha "ohh humans good guys defenders of the world" etc. I was 12 at the time and loved Eminem. My name was Lshadyl because I thought the capital L would be l so it would look like lshadyl. (ooh badass) People called me "Le Shaddle" because of the typo and it just stuck lol. Good times in Vanilla.
i had a rogue named whatsapw which stood for whats a pass word cause i can pick locks but my name was decreed to be "what sap" for all of my days
You can still name it , just type " i " first letter, it will uppercase it and look like " l "
That feeling playing wow in 2005 for the first time was magical…. It was truly game changing experience.
I miss this so much
The msn ding LOL
Even the nudge. Amazing. It’s like a recording of 11 year-old me.
0:55 and 1:26 the MSN messenger sound effects... *Chef's kiss*
Should have gone for Lëgôlás instead like the rest of the elf Hunters in 2005
I remember starting playing and I chose human. Then I made a night elf friend and I asked him where he started and we made the long trip to Teldrassil from SW. When I saw the location I was wonderstruck. It was beautiful.
Damn the memories... Everything, every animal, monster, city, it seemed so great and felt like living the LOTR game I always wanted.
Its so funny almost ridiculous videos like these stirring existential angst where we were where we are where we're going...this vid feels like yesterday yet its so far away almost 20 years to be exact...( i know its a parody) but the feels... phew... damn you time you don't play fair! (Great work Azamous).
The music and atmosphere when you first enter Teldrassil....pure nostalgia
Coming from WC3 and playing WoW for the first time. I'll never forget walking into Org for the first time in Jan of 2005. Went from looking down at the settlement/city I had built to being a grunt in that city.
It was great.
A sense of wonderment ill never feel again.
this brings me back to my time when I started in 2004. making a dwarf paladin and goddam I miss those times. thanks for recreating that 2004 feeling again
the ICQ chat beeping in the background, everything about this video is amazing.
amazing
"Oo someone messaged me, I wonder who it is" (continues to play as alt'tabbing could crash the computer) :'D
I have a distinct memory of playing a night elf hunter in the starting zone while the music video for “Dance, Dance” by Fall Out Boy was playing on Fuse. Those were the days
Moving from W3 to this was mindblowing 😭 so many memories
1:53 im still dying over the jump whyd you have to say "my stomach feels funny" i cant dude
I love the effort into making this look like it's genuinely from 2004. Keep it up man.
"There is a cave! I think ill go explore it!" - that is what made people happy back in the day. That is all it took
Where did we go so wrong.
Feels very authentic but the ping bar should be yellow :D
True! :D I think I played until the end of TBC with a very stable 250~ ping. Even have raid footage of my brother's priest on Leotheras the Blind where the cast bar appears slightly after he gives the order to cast... Nowadays it would be a riot.
Oof them feels!! This is exactly how my journey started back in 2006. Nightelf hunter. I'll never forget that feeling. Chills.
These videos are just make my day.
English isn't hard.
They are just the day making
Really brought me back to childhood, if but just for a moment
what's your second language? I bet it's also not hard, but you fuck it up a little bit.... that is, if you have any other languages. Can't let it slide? Why not? It shouldn't be too hard... cmon. Just let it slide....
@@cristhianmlr it is though.
Yeeting off the big tree is just mandatory. 10/10
The first half of the video triggered like 20 memories. All of them nostalgic.
The night elf starting zone music is the best in the entire game, I remember back in the day when i was around 7 and I played a Night Elf with my dad. I yelled my moms name because I was about to ding, good memories, no worries and no stress, the nostalgia is insane.
I died at the msn sounds :D Loved it.
And yeah, this is why classic was “not the same”. And it never will be. This is what people wanted. This can not be retrieved by simply re-releasing the game.
I rolled Nelf first time out. Played Alliance, and it seemed that most stuck to a faction back then. Later on I rolled an Undead Rogue to see the other side of the game. I had an RL friend who played Horde only.
At around level 9 I death ran to Teldrassil and he came along on his Tauren Druid. As we were trying to get through Darnassus, he started freaking out when he saw the giant ancients, lol. He had never seen them before.
We went site seeing around the zone. I actually ended up ganking some level 2's and 3's who somehow flagged themselves, lol.
On a side note, my main was a Nelf War and, man, did the furbolgs at Starbreeze Village mess me up, lol.
That was all the most accurate feels ever. Ever.
‘My stomachs gone all funny’ does this happen to anyone else when falling a long distance in vanilla WoW? Haha
I love these videos. Truly amazing concept and execution, thank you! :D
I got the game before I had internet access and I remember the time waiting for my ISP to connect my line. I was reading the manual that you got with the physical copy of the game all day. When the time finally came (after a "good" research) I decided to create a human Warrior named Ranage. Killing wolves in Elwynn, looting, talking to people made my days. Then, one day I met a fellow human warrior who was about the same level as me ( /played 10 days and I'm stuck at lvl 8). I kind of made friends with him, we played for a few days and were getting along. Fast forward he deleted his character because I was whispering him all the time and I'd say I was being annoying with all the questions about the game. Since he was offline for a week or so and I was playing alone, I made a choice to make a night elf hunter and boy Teldrassil was amazing. Wasted so much time there exploring stuff and figuring out how to get tf out of the island :)
I also remember before I really knew how to play I would make characters of each race so I could do each starting zone. Teldrassil and Azuremyst were my favorite :)
Azuremyst was my favorite for a really funny reason, I had a really great pizza the day that I got to first explore it. Now, whenever i think great pizza, a little memory of that starting zone comes to mind!
I started playing Wow when I was 5 years old. I played a night elf rogue on my mom’s account. I didn’t know wtf I was doing but I enjoyed the hell out of it. I kept playing through TBC and Wrath and never hit max level. I would just explore everything and run around doing whatever I wanted. Those were the times.
This was exactly my experience. ~16 years old, making my Night Elf Hunter as my first toon. THE GAME WAS SO PURE AND INNOCENT. Only difference was that I had 8-12fps on my HP laptop.
pure and innocent... how i miss it. thank you
It was 2006 for me. It was the most amazing gaming experience I'd ever had. The whole world (of Warcraft) was just so beautiful and immersive. When Classic WoW came out, I was one of those who thought I could recreate that first experience with WoW but, nope. It will never happen again.
Your videos hit hard. Back then I had a crap dell computer, if I logged into stormwind it took forever to login, I didn’t make a human first I made a night elf warrior, and their starting area was magical. Coming from RuneScape, I didn’t even care about the low FPS lol. My brother came home one day and he had played WoW at a friends house, and came home and begged our mom to buy WoW for us, (we were both in our teens) she got it, he played for about a month literally begging me to play, I wanted to but I had so much in RuneScape going for me that I didn’t want to. I finally gave in, and within 5 minutes on my Nelf warrior named Chiton (pronounced kite en, from an old Metroid video involving space pirates), I dropped RuneScape, and I’m still playing today. No I haven’t pre ordered or bought Dragonflight, but I do miss these days simply because I had all the time in the world to play it, I have so many memories with WoW with so many in game friends and some real life friends that are now dead…I’ve also geared 2 or 3 toons in one expansion while tweaked out on things I shouldn’t have been on, while in my using days. In my mid 20s. I’m almost 4 years clean now, bought a new gaming pc downloaded WoW, came back after not playing since WoD, having the best possible geared rogue, Druid, hunter and Warrior possible at that time and continued on. With just my Druid. So I could experience the missed expansions. Currently i only have my druid geared as much as I can. and WoW has simply become something over time, it’s just something that I try to enjoy, when I have time 😞 almost every time I logon, I think of my IRL hunter friend named Roley in game, that I decided to rename my hunter to his name so it could live on, and it’s hard to kick ass anymore in PvP, on any of my characters. Basically this is a long ass rant of how much I love WoW, the old days, and how much I don’t enjoy the newest expansion. And how much the death of a close friend IRL that you have countless priceless memories with can affect you. Maybe I should go to classic. Sorry I’m watching this and have had quite a few drinks. Usually I don’t pour out my soul like this
Did not know anything about warcraft or mmorpg's when i bought the game back in 2005. First character i made was a night elf and having the beautiful nature and atmosphere of Teldrassil be my first introduction to it all was trully stunning, magical and fully immersed me into the world.
My first beta character was a night elf male hunter. ....so that's nice.
Brought me to tears… i had a troll shaman that time, I was 10 years old, trying to learn english, not really understanding what a massive multiplayer online game was. are these real people from all over the world? i turned alliance shortly after. the feeling you brought to this video reminds of so much, brotha. Thank you for the beautiful content!
First time I tried levelling a night elf I HATED the starting zone (I seem to remember a frustrating quest with a time limit). I spent probably a whole day walking to Elwynn at probably level 3, taking the boat, dying more times that I could possibly count. I had no idea that mage portals were a thing.
Back in the days the were no portal haha, it was always a adventure to go to storming as a night elf XD
@@crossedfuneral Wetlands (Vietnam flashbacks)........
I shudder
@@crossedfuneral :)
@@Jinx1349 that road was a death trap, just this one road to ironforge they said, It doesn't take that long... Gators don't like level 6s
Nothing will ever compare to playing wow for the first time. I was addicted af. Great nostalgia. Still remember all the starting zone quests lol
The nostalgia makes my heart feel like it's about to burst. I stopped playing WoW during BFA, just hated what the game became. Haven't touched it since and moved on to FFXIV a few years later. But nothing can ever replicate that feeling of when I first entered Azeroth all those years ago.
Aza you mastered the capturing of the old feeling! 🤩👍🏼 4:3 resolution, background sounds from chatrooms, ~20 fps, bad mic, unregistered hypercam, the will to explore rather then speedrun through the world, just chill and hang out…oh god, I miss those times 👍🏼 you did a great job!
At 2:30 I think he had to cut the footage because he forgot to turn off GM so he can actually die lol
Early 2008 was when i played first time. Jeez nostalgia, i remember spending days in Teldrassil and every day you learned and found new things. WoW was very special before Cata..
This hit deep dude. The MSN sound from the messages in the background made even more of an impact and nostalgic. I had forgotten MSN and how everyone was there in the past. Good times.
I remember falling off one of the branches on the edge of the map, dying, and not knowing how to get back to my corpse. I didn't know what spirit healers did either.
That character is still dead to this day. I ended up making another character instead.
Me and my father’s first characters were both night elf’s. This guy captured the wonderment from the first creation and exploring the starting zone perfectly to the T. Man I miss old WoW
TRUE STORY:
I was but a little kid when i created my first night elf character and i remember it was night time, big mistake!
I was so scared of the environment.
I moved her to the first village after a while, logged out and didn't touch her for more than a year. 😅
A night elf warrior was my first ever character in WoW and the cheer wanderlust I felt running through Teldrassil has never been captured again by any other game.
The part most people don't realize about nostalgia for old games isn't that the game itself was particularly better in some way, it was the level of information available to the player. You didn't know what was over the next hill, in some random cave, or what gear was going to drop from a boss. You didn't have a meta build and rotation optimized to perfection by the game's elite super tryhards, speedclearing guides, or video tutorials for everything imaginable. You had to learn, adapt, and work with players to solve and overcome challenges. That's all gone, and has been for about a decade.
WOW in particular (vanilla vs classic) is an excellent case study for how access to near perfect information can transform the same content into an unrecognizably different experience. It's also a good look into how automation can disrupt an economic system designed for purely manual work, but that's another issue entirely.
This is what singleplayer open-world RPGs is doing for me these days now that I'm older.
I've never played Fallout 4 until 2020 for the first time ever. It was this large open world to just explore and run around in. I guess I'm always seeking this original experience again. Hoping some form of curiosity and discovery can be felt again.
Playing a Night Elf Druid was my first wow character. I spent WAY to long in the starting zone and I just logged onto the game and had a notebook I'd write down notes.
I would write down what I'm going to do later on. How I'm going to eventually get to max level and be there with the pros... I never actually did that. But it was that attempted journey by myself. I never got there and yet I enjoyed myself. I remember those days and I think nothing will ever be like that ever again.
Why is this so cute? The AIM messenger sounds are the cherry on top lol
He sound like stoned but the nostalgia is nostalgia
okay that music in the starting zone hit me hard
0:55 The fact that I looked for the message automatically... My consciousness from 2000 was resurrected for a sec.
I still remember how when I made my nelf, my drivers weren't up to date and the sky in the horizon constantly flashed all different colors as I walked around. I knew it was probably not intentional, but it was cool.
Why must you hit me with the nostalgia like that?
My first ever wow character was a blood elf, and I was so enraptured by the world
It's a feeling nothing in my life has managed to replicate precisely
That sense of wonder...
*THE FUCKING MESSENGER NOTIFICATION SOUND OMFG*
This is more than vanilla this is my childhood
The MSN chat notification is the best part of this.
You have successfully recreated the newbie experience.
2008, when i played BC for the first time as a druid. My god, i feel the nostalgia in my gut as well now. Exiting the starting zone for the first time was so scary. And seeing the capital gates and ancients was awe inspiring. I will never forget those first hours of gameplay