I love it. Brings back a lot of good memories. Sadly, I lost touch with a lot of people I knew back then, but have a couple friends that quit playing that I am still in touch with and care a lot about. I think the game was more social back then as you NEEDED a guild to complete many of these raids and such.
It really was a different time and i appreciate you making these videos as it really brings a smile to all our faces as we were there with you in your journey. Classic
Love your videos. Never played until the end of BC start of Wotlk so I missed vanilla but your videos have done a great job in giving people like me a glimpse into the past. I'm going to play classic but I'm under no illusion, I don't think it will be the same as the first time. Thanks for the wonderful vids. Keep it up.
Hey man I’ve enjoyed all 8 episodes. I know you said Vanilla was a good place to end the series but idk bout everyone else but I wanna hear about your adventures in TBC. I wanna hear about your first steps thru the portal and what your guild was up to and what you all did when you hit 70. Please keep the series going!
yeah the first time going through the dark portal and seeing alliance and horde together fighting endless waves was one of the most memorable moments ever in my opinion
On the earliest space missions, before they had vacuum toilets, they would poop in special bags with a rubber ring on it. The astronauts called it the "ass gasket" x'D
I remember playing in vanilla in the barrens, leveling my tauren Shaman with friends. We were at the crossroads when a huge alliance raid attacked the town. I was invited to a raid group to fight back even though I was level 12 or something. I felt like I got sucked into a battle as a citizen more or less -- I was weak! But I attacked the enemies anyway. There were so many people, way more than 40 on each side. It felt epic. I didn't get any kills but it was a great moment that showed me how things could suddenly turn. It really felt like anything could happen at any moment.
Yeah, in my server I was just going to fly away from crossroads in barrens at lvl 22 as an orc shaman. The alliance had attacked an hour or so before. It must have been around 100+ players (like 3 people with lvl 40 mounts). Everyone started running to ashenvale. People joined the big raging crowd as it ran through barrens and into ashenvale. Then we charged the city astranaar. It was insane, the gaurds just destroying people. lvl 15-25 horde just spam healing the lvl 40+ tanking the gaurds. It was just an unreal battle scene. It will probably not happen again in classic. Becuse there will not be that many noobs :D
when you're a lowbie and you can stick a slow on a lvl 60 farming hillsbrad noobs and the guards pile on to them and they almost get away.. you feel like a god
Back in Vanilla I reached Duskwood and went to explore the zone. I noticed that I’d uncovered everything apart from this blob near the middle. It took me a while and eventually I found a way in and uncovered Twilight Grove. I explored the place for a few minutes, seeing the trees and the strange big portal, but no mobs or quests to find, it felt weird. So I turned to go on my merry way and was shocked to see about 40 toons stomping into the place. They caught sight of me and lost their shit. Chat filled with these angry messages telling me to get out. I had no idea what I’d done to piss these people off, but not fully knowing the rules of the game i didn’t want to stick around in case they killed me (didn’t know that you couldn’t pvp same faction).
Hah they were probably afraid you'd pull the dragon onto them. It was always funny to see low levels just exploring in the area...quite the surprise for many people to get destroyed by a giant dragon in a level 20 zone lol
roskelld I have a similiar experience, except when I got in there the dragon was actually there, and then I was wondering why it *wasn’t* there during later visits. WoW was the first MMO for me, so obviously rare spawns and such were a completely alien concept to me.
Looking back I can see the reasons now, after a long wait for the respawn, the risk of other guilds stomping in knowing it all could come crashing down because some nooby low level derping around. Overall it shows how special world bosses and non-instanced events are to MMOs because they create situations between the places that are dealt with outside of the script of the game and become memories.
Holy shit this brought back a memory! Happened to me as well but not with a raid team. I went there exploring and another low level kept following me telling me to leave I had no idea why. I actually never connected the two together until I read this comment!
Funny how I haven't played for over 10 years but watched your memories videos with a big smile on my face. When I first started WoW it was like 2006 or 2007 but I didn't play on a real blizz server but rather a private server (as a high schooler, felt bad asking my parents to shell out 15$ a month for a subscription). I played with my friends on a private server and it was pretty hilarious, none of the bosses had any abilities so you could have like 15 ppl downing Ragnaros. One of my biggest memories (and regrets) was rolling need on this one Ragnaros shield that was great for tanking, which one of our warrior tanks had been waiting for months. As a dumbass 15 year old shaman, I thought hurr durr I can use shields too and that was like the first legendary drop that I'd seen that was actually something I could use. So I rolled need, got it, and then immediately felt bad because I realized that the warrior needed it more than me. He was nice about it, but I knew he was crushed since he had wanted it for months. So funny how many memories get born from even private servers that had barely half-working mechanics, and how intense everyone felt about the game). Still everyone loved the game and enjoyed the shit out of it, and we had some real rivalries with the horde on our server (back then I was a shaman and on our server totems didn't work and neither did dual-wield so I literally just ran around with an axe and world-pvp'd all day in Booty bay (we didn't have battlegrounds either, so world pvp was the only pvp we got). Still, I loved every second of it. Went off to college after a year, but I still missed WoW so much that in sophomore year, after a summer of getting some internship money, I finally got a legit subscription and played on a real server. Still have my character to this day, a lvl 80 mage named Aur. I forget the server. I never really got into raiding after I went legit, I think did Wrath naxx a few times, just remember wiping over and over again, so frustrating but yet so satisfying once we finally killed a boss. I don't think I ever ended up doing any more raids after wrath naxx, I think one of my only friends stopped playing at the time and so I stopped as well. Leveled up some alts, but then eventually real life took over and I quit cold turkey in January of 2009. 10 years later, watching your videos, I feel so much nostalgia hit me like waves and it's just crazy how much WoW still connects with my heart. As a teenager going through high school I loved online gaming, I was one of those gamers who could play solo or with a group, I didn't mind if none of my friends were on because I just loved playing the game so much, exploring, questing, pvping. I miss those days but I know I'll never get them back. I'm 30 now and it's pointless to jump back into this game. But watching these videos gives me a small sliver of satisfaction and happiness of a time long past when my life was much more chaotic and I was just a nerdy teenager trying to find a home in life, and certainly found it in the World of Warcraft for close to a year.
thank you for your comment i turn 23 in 3 days and i had similar experiences to yours playing on private servers since i was extremely young because i got into the game thanks to my older brother at the time not understanding anything about it and then bragging to my younger brother about how im max level 40 with a mount time flies and its all just some sweet memories left to reminiscent about
For some reasons, my favorite WoW experience was my very first one. The whole Durotar quest lines, back in Vanilla, here's the story and my thought on it: At the time, I still had fresh memories of Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos & Frozen Throne. It was awesome games to me. I liked them, too much charm. And someday in the school bus, I noticed a lot of my friends were talking about World of Warcraft, I didn't know what it was at the time, probably the next part of the RTS game franchise, where you've got to defeat the Lich King, Kel'Thuzad, Kil'Jaeden.. that kind of stuff. It was getting really popular. So, one day, I went to see a friend of mine, and he was playing WoW, I remember him playing as a troll mage, somewhere in the Barrens. I watched the gameplay, and I immediately liked it. So, what was the next step for me ? Trying the game myself. At first I got a 20 day free-trial, that's what we used to have instead of today with no time limit. Level cap remained at 20 for free-trial. The game proposed me to chose my faction, and...my memories from Warcraft 3 forced me to chose the Horde faction, because Arthas was a jerk and Thrall was the best guy. I shared the values of the Horde, and started as an orc warrior. I saw the introduction cinematic for my race, listening to the narrator, and saw myself spawning in Durotar. I noticed that NPC with the yellow quest mark on its head. It was intuitive for me that it was a Quest giver NPC, because it worked the same in Warcraft 3. and so I started questing, and did what everyone knows: killing boars. It wasn't that bad, and not as easy as today. But it wasn't boring actually. Then I remembered the Quasit mobs and their cave (the blue imps in Durotar), then I went out of the valley through that wall that stopped me from seeing what was outside...and I saw the Sen'jin village, and the echo Isles. I liked the reference to Warcraft 3, with that stupid witch-doctor that does ludicrous stuff...I remember that awesome struggle against Zalazane and the other mobs surrounding him. It was an awesome challenge at the time for a beginner. Then there was razorhill (I thought it was Orgrimmar at the first sight)...the Tiragarde Dungeon quest line was interesting, the harpies and razormanes in the canyons... I liked all of that, but here's my best memory about that: Seeing the Dranosh'ar Barricade for the first time, the Wall of Orgrimmar in all its majesty. A massive structure, a symbol of the strenght of the Horde. I knew I made it to the Gate of Orgrimmar, finally I knew what I had in mind now, entering the city, and meeting Thrall, my favorite character at the time. So I went through the gate, and entered the first valley of Orgrimmar, with the old bank and auction house, the zeppelin tower, etc... and I saw the chatbox with people selling their stuff (I thought blue and purple stuff was impressive at the time) Also, I spoted in the chat that before everyone's nicknames, there was written "General", and I thought ""holy shit, tons of people are Generals, so there must be Officers and Soldiers... this game must be overpopulated then... Yes I was clueless at the time. Pardon me I was young at the time. But I liked that experience. Seeing all these fascinating players running everywhere, some with mounts and shiny magic stuff... I wanted to be like them, so I continued to play. I really felt rewarded once I reached Orgrimmar. Durotar was a really nice memory for me.
LOL I still remember making it out of the Orc/Troll starting area, making my way to Razor Hill. Immediately on setting out on the main road, I see 2 level 2 Gnomes named "Donthitme" and "Notintheface" swim up on shore and just kinda chill by the roadside. Being a Rogue, I of course hit them. In the face.
I played "Warcraft - Orcs and Humans" back in the day and every since played all expansions of "old Warcraft", followed the storyline and play World of Warcraft since Patch 1.x (I think .5, but I am no sure). I share many of the memories you talk about in your videos. Thanks a lot for bringing them up again. :-)
I'm so sad that this is the last one you are making man. I really enjoyed listening to each video, maybe more than one time, while I played and raided. I hope to hear your monotone voice over some WoW content again. Seeing your channel pop up a few weeks back and hearing your knowledge and the feeling you put into each video was very touching. I didn't expect at around 15:25 to actually kind of tear up about you talking through your experience of this game. Thanks for making this series! It was great to listen to, and I really want to see your channel make more content. It was so genuinely nice to hear you reminisce over your experiences. Might have said this before but I await the notification that your channel has uploaded a new video.
What a journey it has been. Thanks for these videos. Still remember seeing the first episode in my recommended feed, and thus finding your channel. Thank you for the memories
Madseason just want you to know I’ve played WOW for like 20 minutes round my friends house back in like 2008. Never showed interest in playing it. But after stumbling across your channel it’s really made me want to play the game so I’ve saved up for a PC. Keep up the great content. Gonna miss this series.
That is awesome! It is people like you that will contribute to making Classic even better, because you are new to the game you will have a different experience than us "wow-veterans". You should feel lucky, to get to experience the game in this form, even though it's 14 years old at this point... This rant became bigger that expected, anywho, see ya in Classic! :D
Take the one chance you now have, and don't play until Classic releases. You are one of the few people who has a second chance to experience Vanilla without having dealt with the previous expansions. I envy your position.
I know you said you were ending the series here at the end of vanilla but I really think you should continue it into BC. This series has made me remember my own experences in vanilla as I watched along - such as from this video with the farming all the pre-naxx rewards mostly from Azshara that I still have on the shaman I did them on. Even if you have less memories from BC to share and only release a couple of videos instead of 8 - I'm sure I'm not the only person who would love to hear more about them.
This series has been great. Brought me back to the first time experience of WoW, particularly that early game experience. I never did a lot of the raids (did MC and Onyxia with a guild I was in, we might have done the ZG when that came out a bit, but definitely only dipped my toes as a pickup to fill spaces with other guilds we sometimes assisted once or twice in the other raids with exception of Naxx). Those were some fun but wild times. Thanks for this series and the huge nerdy nostalgia this brought on!
Absolutely excellent series! I just watched the whole series. I felt your pain when I went in wc not knowing I was a druid healer and doing damage instead....I deleted the toon as soon as I got called out for being a noob. I can not say again how much I lived this series in anticipation of classic. So many things I forgot that I'm looking forward to.
I'm gonna really miss this series. This was great man. I love hearing about Gaming History, especially from people who experienced it first hand. Experiencing it vicariously through your stories is the closest we can get to ever living through it. We may get WoW Classic, but there is inevitably going to be something different, or absent, from its initial launch.
A poop sock is a terrible idea because poop is mostly liquid so it will start to leak out between the threads of the sock, much better to use a bottle with it's top portion cut with scissors or a knife to widen the hole.
@@CarrowMind Better off using a container to poop in not a drinking one they are to small since you can then put the toilet paper on top of the poop which reduces the smell after you wipe your ass with it.
I love you for making this series.... and all your wow content honestly. i wish there was enough for 100 of these. I didn't play classic but started right at the end of bc. I only played with 1 friend at the time but once he quit I started meeting new ones and even got other friends to join me. I remember me and him playing like 3 days straight with only a couple naps. One of my favorite memories. We had no idea what was happening those few days before wotlk when zombies were running around everywhere. It was so chaotic and confusing for us considering we didn't know any lore and were still learning the basic mechanics. Man i miss those days so much. Being younger and more carefree certainly helped. Thanks for making these videos.
“Just one more quest wait theirs school tomorrow I think I feel a cold coming on” man that’s relatable I can’t tell you how many times I used the sick card to stay home and play WOW
Hey Mad, i really wanna thank you for the series. Got me through tough times. Ive noticed people still wanna know about your tbc and later adventures. I know its a mess to make videos with this quality, but you could record like a podcast where you storytell all remaining adventures we yet have to learn from you. Greetings and a big hug from México
I love your vids. I started playing WoW Feb. 3-4 2007, just missed the pre-patch, but I did the WotLK pre-patch. Holy crap.... the memories are flooding back. Thank Very Much for you doing what you do..!
Hands down your best series by far I enjoyed it so much I’m sad to see it be over for sure. I personally still play on private vanilla servers today and it’s because of your videos that made me wanna try it because I wasn’t even born when it all came out but I played retail so now I love vanilla more than I did retail because it you feel so relatable to what your putting in your videos and it’s truly amazing how a video game unites people. Thank you for this amazing series.❤️👍
"Wait, I have school tomorrow? I think I feel a cold coming on".. that was SO me in 2007-2008!! For the first time in 10 years, someone has been able to sum up my experience with WoW in "one" sentence! My English teacher in 2007/2008 sucked, and that increased my motivation for staying home and discovering "that other continent to the east". Being a noob was the best. Wotlk remains my favourite game of all time (I only played at max level for 2-3 months during BC). I only have good memories of playing this game with my friends back then from 2007 to 2011.
I'm definitely sorry to see this series end. I've really enjoyed looking back at classic/vanilla WoW as I spend a huge amount of time there. Thanks for posting these videos. Lots of good memories were brought back.
I sadly started playing in cataclysm, so I missed all the really cool and more difficult aspects of wow. I loved this series and the views of how the world was different, and it makes me wish I was there during classic even more. Thank you Madseason, for getting me to feel included.
I really enjoy your videos. I have watched most of them and I appreciate your quality, wit, dedication, and attention to detail. Even my wife likes them and she never played WoW.
Would be nice to see some "WoW memories: Special Edition" where you talk about memorable moments of the expansions. Jesus i'm so sad to see that series end, it has been a great warm up for building up my nostalgia for classic jajaja. Thanks for your content, Mad. I don't watch EVERY video you make, but when I do it I enjoy it till the last second of the video. As always, thumbs up and see you soon dear friend.
Thank you for making this series. This was a TON of fun to listen to, and the effort you put in to editing the videos is absolutely evident! Hearing all of your memories throughout this series definitely took me back to all of the great memories I've had from playing this game throughout the years. This series was nostalgic, memorable, and hilarious. I'm sad to see it end, but I can't wait to re-watch it all over again. You've created something amazing here! Thank you, MadSeason.
Anyone else get emotional in the ending of this video? Not only because the series is over but just connecting the ending of Classic WoW and all of our memories we each individually had. I think this series was my all time favorite because as you reminisced about your vanilla wow memories I also would reminisce about mine watching this series. Although World of Warcraft is beyond its heyday I still very much miss classic. Thanks for the series!
Hi Madseason! Was eagerly watching and waiting for this episode, after my guild actually cleared through the OldNaxx raid we kind of popped from massive fatigue and a lot of us left throughout BC with the biggest leave happening in Black Temple. As a result of my nostalgia I seek out and collect Naxx items on my new account. Thank you for this series, and thank you for sharing your memories with us!
What. A .Game. This series brought back great memories, the game that started it all for me as I never considered my self a gamer before. I started playing when I was like 13 on New years eve like a month right before TBC in 2006. I remember staying up that night playing on my brothers laptop from college & he goes to bed from a party that night like "Your still up playing?!". I was hooked! I persuaded my parents for a PC I shared with my other brother for school ;) & we quested, played together, & started one of the biggest guilds on our server for a few years. We bonded & got really close. We haven't been as close since those years. Look forward to reliving and going back with both my brothers & experience the endgame I never got a chance to experience in Classic WoW.
I could listen to your stories for houres... so much nostalgia even if i did not play vanilla, started at the beginning of BC, but still so good memories.
Man just got done binge watching your wow memories series and it really brings back some old memories of my own when I first started playing (although it was in tbc rather than vanilla) I still play my old blood elf warlock which was my first character I got to max level, to this day. Although much more casually ; ) thanks for these videos and I look forward to seeing more of your other content. I can't wait till classic wow releases so I can experience some of these things as well.
Just finished watching the series, awesome man! Loved it, made me remember so many different people I played with and adventures we shared. I can't wait for Classic. Please keep the nostalgia flowing ;)
Ive watched all these videos multiple times, they bring me back to a time where wow was magical and every zone really felt like a new chapter. I started a classic character on lights hope and had a fantastic time! Meeting people, exploring the old zones, taking my time with the zones and understanding all the places with high mob density was super interesting to look back on, who could forget dying 50 times a session hahahaha. Once I logged I was level fifteen with at least five friends who I played with for the entire day! I know you’ve done so much content on Vanilla mad but they’re by far my favorite series thank you!
What a great story. I listened to this at work and kept smiling as your descriptions took me back to my years playing through vanilla. Seriously, great job.
It’s weird, I was a 11 year old kid who had JUST started to learn English when I started playing in 2005 now I’m 24 almost done with university. I remember my dad bought the game for my birthday and I was so hyped! We were big Blizzard fans in the family, hell he even bought me a Warcraft atlas with npc locations or coordinates. I ended up playing this game almost religiously with friends from school. Funny thing is, it was almost a taboo to even speak about WoW at school because we didn’t want people to think we were nerds but still we couldn’t help ourselves. We found a place at the back of the school library where we could talk about all the stuff we saw or experienced, or asked each other for tips. It was always a goal to get home as soon as possible so I could immerse myself in the game, and that is quite frankly some of the most cherished gaming memories I have to this day. It’s really hard to express the feeling in words. I sat on Limewire one evening just to download random WoW videos and saw Nogg Aholic which to this day is still my favorite WoW movie, and I was stunned. I glitched myself into mount hyjal from a video I saw and it was breathtaking! I remember doing my wetlands run on my NE and getting lost and ending up at the gates of grim batol and found a lot of angry red drakes, they were max level I think, so I died so many times I lost count, but I was still determined to get to the end, just to see what was there. Your first zone, your first trinket, your first mount everything was a good damn adventure. The weird thing is it doesn’t matter if it’s Nixxiom or asmongold or any of the 1000 videos which have twice the amount of comments talking about how amazing the OG experience was, nothing really rekindles my nostalgia except for your videos... I don’t know what it is you do but everything you show, combined with the music and your stories really takes me back into the mindset and memories of what was back then and I thank you for that a lot! And BTW Shield Wall, Recklesness, and Retaliation had a 30min CD not 60, did you even play in Vanilla???? JK please continue your amazing work ;)
Vanilla was truly a magnificent experience. If someone didn't play wow back then, I feel sorry for them. It was unlike any other game I had played because of how inclusive and involved it was. It was an adventure, it was truly a magical experience. No other game do I look back on as fondly and it was unique in that way compared to other games. I went from playing RTS's and counter strike to wow. My brother started playing it and tried to get me into it. I finally played and ended up playing all night and I vividly remember being in awe every time I'd get to a new zone. I remember grinding for weeks and farming the Giants in winterspring to finally get from 58-60. I cried when I hit 60. I also cried when I got my first epic in MC. It was truly a once in a lifetime experience. No game had such an impactful influence on me. I remember doing the quests to get my mount on my warlock, having fun with friends and all the crazy shenanigans we'd get ourselves into. I can't wait to play vanilla again to see if I can stir up some of that old nostalgia from classic.
My vanilla Guild 'only' got as far finishing BWL just prior to the 2.0 patch but it was one heck of a ride and the nerdgasms on the voice chat when nef bit the dust is legend to this day. I'm actually hesitant as to wanting to play Classic as the memories are so much nostalgia that a redo simply cant recapture it Great run of vids
I found this series today and binged it all the way in one sitting. I started with WoW a few days after TBC release, so i´m very interested in classic content, as i never saw it myself. That´s why i found your account, and this series in particular made me even more hyped for the classic release. Got to admit, i wasn´t far from tearing up at the end there. Keep up the great content, it´s a blast and a pleasure to watch your videos.
My first toon was also a holy paladin in full ret mindset. I remember the first time it clicked in my mind dedicated healers were a thing when I was invited to a RFD run and they said "You can come along, just heal us".. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
This was such a great series it really gave me some nostalgia and made me remember some of my early WoW memories. I remember when me and my friends first started we were level 20 or so and thought we would level super fast if we could kill something much higher level than us. So we went to the Burning Steppes through Redridge dying many times trying to get through the pass and then spent hours trying and failing to kill this one elemental.
The nostalgia and emotions I'm feeling from watching your vids is amazing thank you so much for doing this. The guild I belonged to cleared AQ 40 such fun
The whole series was so amazing dude. I enjoyed every second of it! And I have to say I love your voice man, its so calming. I think you´re the most underrated WoW content creator ever. (which makes me a little sad) Best wishes for you and your content in the future!
MadSeason, thank you for the wonderful video! Not making this up, my favorite thing is when I come back from work at 02:00 AM to find you release a new video and watch it when going to bed.
I remember all this, and I participated in all of it. The attunement for Naxx, I was so close to exalted on my druid I spent time getting the rep while other guildies spent their time getting gold and crystals. We went in a couple times, never got any bosses down, and then gave up because BC was going to be out too soon. I had always wished we tried harder, but too many of our group was just not into it. I remember being so hooked on WoW that I would read up on lore and strategies, etc. when I was at work and had nothing to do. I just could not get enough. Thanks for sharing.
This is such an excellent series, seriously. I don't know what it is about it, maybe nostalgia, maybe the matter-of-factness of presentation, but it is great.
I almost cry with the end. Great videos! Honestly, classic was the mos enjoyful moments of this game. Then, for me, WotLK, cause there were so many people playing that i ended up knowing and meeting many nowaday friends. But classic its in the heart of all who experienced it back in the day.
I love your videos so much, i was there from when you grew so big over the few months, i just cant stop watching your videos :). Thanks so much for keeping your channel up!
Awesome video, I lament hanging onto Everquest as long as I did and missed WoW's early days. I joined and level capped a few months before BC. And they're relatively quick time I met people that would stay friended into WotLK. Good times.
With classic release coming soon I’ve been on a nostalgia binge. I’m old now, my adventures mostly long past me. I still think back to the best game I’ve ever played. Thanks for helping me remember.
Brilliant video. Have so many brilliant memories. Making my first guild in 06 and doing our monthy guild meetup in the dwarven district town hall, changed into the bank I think. And a final note was to a guildie of mine that passed away in surgery. Played our secondary tank. Its thinking about stuff like this when you realise that gaming isn't just locking yourself in a dark room, slamming keyboards and shouting at people to get out the fire. Its an experience, making true friendshios and sometimes experiencing actual loss other than people just quitting the game. These avatars may be the soldiers, but the players, they're the soul
I loved this series and I'm definitely sad to see it end. I got a bit misty eyed there at the end of the video. I was hoping you'd continue it, but I understand you feeling like this was a good place to end at!
A great series thanks very much, with Classic now back this has helped me to remember all the fantastic Attunements/Resist farming/Raids we have ahead of us again. I for one can't wait! :)
thanks for taking your time to share this with us! started to play in tbc but was pretty much terrible(procastinated ingame instead of lvling etc haha) and couldn't do some of the things that are not ingame anymore. keep going man your channel is amazing
Aww, that was a good ending. Brought back plenty of nostalgia and memories for me, now im really looking forward to do all the things I never did in classic wow.
Just finished watching your entire series and dude that brings back tons of memories of my Experience in WOW Vanilla. Thanks for sharing and I cant wait to go back to classic as I also quit in WOTLK.
Aw man so sad to see the series go, it was definitely my favourite! Awesome job, happy to listen to folk talk about WoW in its early days, especially when it's someone's own adventure in the game
Very nice. My main memories are similar to yours, raiding and exploring classic while it was still a new experience. My fondest memory was the first time some high level Paladin, level 60, took my little level 9 character from Stormwind, through Ironforge (and my first time in the tram), through loch modan and the wetlands at night (one of the first times I experienced night in the game). The wetlands was dangerous for me, but I loved it. Then we hopped on a boat to Darnassus, my first time seeing that blew me away. We ended up travelling further through the Barrens. For a low level character travelling with a level 60, which new players looked up to with their epic mounts etc... was something you didn't forget. I didn't raid as much at the time, got some easy gear and levels through PVP (and a Master Seargent rank). I did more raiding in WotLK actually where we had a blast, especially when they brought back Naxxramus which we cleared. ICC was awesome. I am looking forward to Classic again and I hope it is a huge success and spawns similar ideas. I know I have talked to newer players who also really want Classic as they never experienced it. But, it won't be the same as back then honestly, you can't bring back that feeling when the game was new, but hopefully some will grow to appreciate some of the systems back then. Sadly, the easiness of the game now may spoil any chance of that as players don't like the challenge and have grown used to having everything handed to them. I can see many rage quitting the first time they think they can gather up a group of murlocs and one shot them.... and they are the ones who end up getting one shotted. :)
Awesome series man. Brought back a lot of memories as well. I remember my first character was a dwarf paladin that I got to 60 and of course like everyone else, i didn't know how to play the game. Right before Burning Crusade came out, i got tricked by one of those hackers when they whisper you telling you that we'll level your character for free and blah blah blah. A short while after that my account got permanent ban so I couldn't experience the launch of BC.
Actually made me tear up towards the end of the video, I feel literally blessed to be able and relate to all of this! A new adventure awaits even more people when classic finally rolls out!
I regret missing this experience so much :( Watching your videos I understand that I'd love the game back then. But my parents would never pay for such a thing. Thanks for sharing, man.
You should definitley continue a BC/Wotlk memories series, even if its not as long/detailed, im sure everyone would still love to hear about it! Otherwise its been a great series so far, good job Madseason
Thanks for watching this series for so long. I hope you enjoyed watching it as much as I enjoyed making it!
I love it. Brings back a lot of good memories. Sadly, I lost touch with a lot of people I knew back then, but have a couple friends that quit playing that I am still in touch with and care a lot about. I think the game was more social back then as you NEEDED a guild to complete many of these raids and such.
It really was a different time and i appreciate you making these videos as it really brings a smile to all our faces as we were there with you in your journey. Classic
Love your videos. Never played until the end of BC start of Wotlk so I missed vanilla but your videos have done a great job in giving people like me a glimpse into the past. I'm going to play classic but I'm under no illusion, I don't think it will be the same as the first time. Thanks for the wonderful vids. Keep it up.
MadSeasonShow best youtuber out there
Thank you!
Hey man I’ve enjoyed all 8 episodes. I know you said Vanilla was a good place to end the series but idk bout everyone else but I wanna hear about your adventures in TBC. I wanna hear about your first steps thru the portal and what your guild was up to and what you all did when you hit 70. Please keep the series going!
Agreed!
me 2
I also would love to hear your TBC experiences.
yeah the first time going through the dark portal and seeing alliance and horde together fighting endless waves was one of the most memorable moments ever in my opinion
what he said
don't lie madseason, it was you that peed yourself!
this was a great series though, gonna miss it
Hey, I like WoW but I don't like it THAT much! Real pants before virtual pants my friend
wow look who it is
How does one shit into a sock tho? It sounds as uncomfortable and unsanitary as it is disgusting.
@@Lord_Deimos with difficulty I'd imagine.
On the earliest space missions, before they had vacuum toilets, they would poop in special bags with a rubber ring on it. The astronauts called it the "ass gasket" x'D
This is by far, my favorite series related to wow
its sad to see it end : (
Dyslexo ikr
definitely
I remember playing in vanilla in the barrens, leveling my tauren Shaman with friends. We were at the crossroads when a huge alliance raid attacked the town. I was invited to a raid group to fight back even though I was level 12 or something. I felt like I got sucked into a battle as a citizen more or less -- I was weak! But I attacked the enemies anyway. There were so many people, way more than 40 on each side. It felt epic. I didn't get any kills but it was a great moment that showed me how things could suddenly turn. It really felt like anything could happen at any moment.
Yeah, in my server I was just going to fly away from crossroads in barrens at lvl 22 as an orc shaman. The alliance had attacked an hour or so before. It must have been around 100+ players (like 3 people with lvl 40 mounts). Everyone started running to ashenvale. People joined the big raging crowd as it ran through barrens and into ashenvale.
Then we charged the city astranaar. It was insane, the gaurds just destroying people. lvl 15-25 horde just spam healing the lvl 40+ tanking the gaurds.
It was just an unreal battle scene. It will probably not happen again in classic. Becuse there will not be that many noobs :D
when you're a lowbie and you can stick a slow on a lvl 60 farming hillsbrad noobs and the guards pile on to them and they almost get away..
you feel like a god
Back in Vanilla I reached Duskwood and went to explore the zone. I noticed that I’d uncovered everything apart from this blob near the middle. It took me a while and eventually I found a way in and uncovered Twilight Grove.
I explored the place for a few minutes, seeing the trees and the strange big portal, but no mobs or quests to find, it felt weird.
So I turned to go on my merry way and was shocked to see about 40 toons stomping into the place. They caught sight of me and lost their shit. Chat filled with these angry messages telling me to get out. I had no idea what I’d done to piss these people off, but not fully knowing the rules of the game i didn’t want to stick around in case they killed me (didn’t know that you couldn’t pvp same faction).
Hah they were probably afraid you'd pull the dragon onto them. It was always funny to see low levels just exploring in the area...quite the surprise for many people to get destroyed by a giant dragon in a level 20 zone lol
roskelld I have a similiar experience, except when I got in there the dragon was actually there, and then I was wondering why it *wasn’t* there during later visits. WoW was the first MMO for me, so obviously rare spawns and such were a completely alien concept to me.
Looking back I can see the reasons now, after a long wait for the respawn, the risk of other guilds stomping in knowing it all could come crashing down because some nooby low level derping around. Overall it shows how special world bosses and non-instanced events are to MMOs because they create situations between the places that are dealt with outside of the script of the game and become memories.
lmao they thought you were scouting for another guild!
Holy shit this brought back a memory! Happened to me as well but not with a raid team. I went there exploring and another low level kept following me telling me to leave I had no idea why. I actually never connected the two together until I read this comment!
Just seeing "The End" almost made me cry :(
Same
Wtf, it felt saying goodbye to an old friend lol. I guess that's a measure of good his vids are.
fliuldip #same
"almost" :'(
lol who cries
Funny how I haven't played for over 10 years but watched your memories videos with a big smile on my face.
When I first started WoW it was like 2006 or 2007 but I didn't play on a real blizz server but rather a private server (as a high schooler, felt bad asking my parents to shell out 15$ a month for a subscription). I played with my friends on a private server and it was pretty hilarious, none of the bosses had any abilities so you could have like 15 ppl downing Ragnaros. One of my biggest memories (and regrets) was rolling need on this one Ragnaros shield that was great for tanking, which one of our warrior tanks had been waiting for months. As a dumbass 15 year old shaman, I thought hurr durr I can use shields too and that was like the first legendary drop that I'd seen that was actually something I could use. So I rolled need, got it, and then immediately felt bad because I realized that the warrior needed it more than me. He was nice about it, but I knew he was crushed since he had wanted it for months. So funny how many memories get born from even private servers that had barely half-working mechanics, and how intense everyone felt about the game).
Still everyone loved the game and enjoyed the shit out of it, and we had some real rivalries with the horde on our server (back then I was a shaman and on our server totems didn't work and neither did dual-wield so I literally just ran around with an axe and world-pvp'd all day in Booty bay (we didn't have battlegrounds either, so world pvp was the only pvp we got).
Still, I loved every second of it.
Went off to college after a year, but I still missed WoW so much that in sophomore year, after a summer of getting some internship money, I finally got a legit subscription and played on a real server. Still have my character to this day, a lvl 80 mage named Aur. I forget the server.
I never really got into raiding after I went legit, I think did Wrath naxx a few times, just remember wiping over and over again, so frustrating but yet so satisfying once we finally killed a boss. I don't think I ever ended up doing any more raids after wrath naxx, I think one of my only friends stopped playing at the time and so I stopped as well.
Leveled up some alts, but then eventually real life took over and I quit cold turkey in January of 2009.
10 years later, watching your videos, I feel so much nostalgia hit me like waves and it's just crazy how much WoW still connects with my heart. As a teenager going through high school I loved online gaming, I was one of those gamers who could play solo or with a group, I didn't mind if none of my friends were on because I just loved playing the game so much, exploring, questing, pvping.
I miss those days but I know I'll never get them back. I'm 30 now and it's pointless to jump back into this game. But watching these videos gives me a small sliver of satisfaction and happiness of a time long past when my life was much more chaotic and I was just a nerdy teenager trying to find a home in life, and certainly found it in the World of Warcraft for close to a year.
thank you for your comment
i turn 23 in 3 days and i had similar experiences to yours playing on private servers since i was extremely young because i got into the game thanks to my older brother at the time not understanding anything about it and then bragging to my younger brother about how im max level 40 with a mount
time flies and its all just some sweet memories left to reminiscent about
Enjoyed the series. Here’s to more memories in this summer! =)
Well look who it is
2:20, love the music, FFX temples ;) I like your taste
For some reasons, my favorite WoW experience was my very first one.
The whole Durotar quest lines, back in Vanilla, here's the story and my thought on it:
At the time, I still had fresh memories of Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos & Frozen Throne. It was awesome games to me. I liked them, too much charm.
And someday in the school bus, I noticed a lot of my friends were talking about World of Warcraft, I didn't know what it was at the time, probably the next part of the RTS game franchise, where you've got to defeat the Lich King, Kel'Thuzad, Kil'Jaeden.. that kind of stuff. It was getting really popular.
So, one day, I went to see a friend of mine, and he was playing WoW, I remember him playing as a troll mage, somewhere in the Barrens. I watched the gameplay, and I immediately liked it.
So, what was the next step for me ? Trying the game myself.
At first I got a 20 day free-trial, that's what we used to have instead of today with no time limit. Level cap remained at 20 for free-trial.
The game proposed me to chose my faction, and...my memories from Warcraft 3 forced me to chose the Horde faction, because Arthas was a jerk and Thrall was the best guy. I shared the values of the Horde, and started as an orc warrior.
I saw the introduction cinematic for my race, listening to the narrator, and saw myself spawning in Durotar. I noticed that NPC with the yellow quest mark on its head. It was intuitive for me that it was a Quest giver NPC, because it worked the same in Warcraft 3. and so I started questing, and did what everyone knows: killing boars. It wasn't that bad, and not as easy as today. But it wasn't boring actually. Then I remembered the Quasit mobs and their cave (the blue imps in Durotar), then I went out of the valley through that wall that stopped me from seeing what was outside...and I saw the Sen'jin village, and the echo Isles. I liked the reference to Warcraft 3, with that stupid witch-doctor that does ludicrous stuff...I remember that awesome struggle against Zalazane and the other mobs surrounding him. It was an awesome challenge at the time for a beginner. Then there was razorhill (I thought it was Orgrimmar at the first sight)...the Tiragarde Dungeon quest line was interesting, the harpies and razormanes in the canyons... I liked all of that, but here's my best memory about that:
Seeing the Dranosh'ar Barricade for the first time, the Wall of Orgrimmar in all its majesty. A massive structure, a symbol of the strenght of the Horde. I knew I made it to the Gate of Orgrimmar, finally I knew what I had in mind now, entering the city, and meeting Thrall, my favorite character at the time. So I went through the gate, and entered the first valley of Orgrimmar, with the old bank and auction house, the zeppelin tower, etc... and I saw the chatbox with people selling their stuff (I thought blue and purple stuff was impressive at the time) Also, I spoted in the chat that before everyone's nicknames, there was written "General", and I thought ""holy shit, tons of people are Generals, so there must be Officers and Soldiers... this game must be overpopulated then... Yes I was clueless at the time. Pardon me I was young at the time. But I liked that experience. Seeing all these fascinating players running everywhere, some with mounts and shiny magic stuff... I wanted to be like them, so I continued to play.
I really felt rewarded once I reached Orgrimmar.
Durotar was a really nice memory for me.
LOL I still remember making it out of the Orc/Troll starting area, making my way to Razor Hill. Immediately on setting out on the main road, I see 2 level 2 Gnomes named "Donthitme" and "Notintheface" swim up on shore and just kinda chill by the roadside. Being a Rogue, I of course hit them. In the face.
It was weird how Durotar in WoW is upside down compated to WC3.
I played "Warcraft - Orcs and Humans" back in the day and every since played all expansions of "old Warcraft", followed the storyline and play World of Warcraft since Patch 1.x (I think .5, but I am no sure). I share many of the memories you talk about in your videos. Thanks a lot for bringing them up again. :-)
Ive been binge watching these this weekend, so this is perfect timing
I'm so sad that this is the last one you are making man. I really enjoyed listening to each video, maybe more than one time, while I played and raided. I hope to hear your monotone voice over some WoW content again. Seeing your channel pop up a few weeks back and hearing your knowledge and the feeling you put into each video was very touching. I didn't expect at around 15:25 to actually kind of tear up about you talking through your experience of this game. Thanks for making this series! It was great to listen to, and I really want to see your channel make more content. It was so genuinely nice to hear you reminisce over your experiences.
Might have said this before but I await the notification that your channel has uploaded a new video.
What a journey it has been. Thanks for these videos. Still remember seeing the first episode in my recommended feed, and thus finding your channel. Thank you for the memories
I'm very sad that these series ended... Thought u were going to do BC ones :(
Yeahh, its kinda sad. I wanted to see something like Black Temple Fiesta, or whatever our monotone youtuber did these days.
who knows, maybe its a surprise ;)
Monotone voice is kinda nice at times. I find it relaxing, and not as stressful.
Madseason just want you to know I’ve played WOW for like 20 minutes round my friends house back in like 2008. Never showed interest in playing it. But after stumbling across your channel it’s really made me want to play the game so I’ve saved up for a PC. Keep up the great content. Gonna miss this series.
That is awesome! It is people like you that will contribute to making Classic even better, because you are new to the game you will have a different experience than us "wow-veterans". You should feel lucky, to get to experience the game in this form, even though it's 14 years old at this point... This rant became bigger that expected, anywho, see ya in Classic! :D
If you enjoy Madseason’s content, I’d recommend waiting until Classic servers. Retail is nothing like this anymore. It’s trash.
@@youngkingdom8131 Wouldn't say current WoW is trash, but I still recommend waiting for Classic!
Take the one chance you now have, and don't play until Classic releases. You are one of the few people who has a second chance to experience Vanilla without having dealt with the previous expansions. I envy your position.
Play retail :)
I know you said you were ending the series here at the end of vanilla but I really think you should continue it into BC. This series has made me remember my own experences in vanilla as I watched along - such as from this video with the farming all the pre-naxx rewards mostly from Azshara that I still have on the shaman I did them on. Even if you have less memories from BC to share and only release a couple of videos instead of 8 - I'm sure I'm not the only person who would love to hear more about them.
This series has been great. Brought me back to the first time experience of WoW, particularly that early game experience. I never did a lot of the raids (did MC and Onyxia with a guild I was in, we might have done the ZG when that came out a bit, but definitely only dipped my toes as a pickup to fill spaces with other guilds we sometimes assisted once or twice in the other raids with exception of Naxx). Those were some fun but wild times.
Thanks for this series and the huge nerdy nostalgia this brought on!
Absolutely excellent series! I just watched the whole series. I felt your pain when I went in wc not knowing I was a druid healer and doing damage instead....I deleted the toon as soon as I got called out for being a noob. I can not say again how much I lived this series in anticipation of classic. So many things I forgot that I'm looking forward to.
I'm gonna really miss this series. This was great man. I love hearing about Gaming History, especially from people who experienced it first hand. Experiencing it vicariously through your stories is the closest we can get to ever living through it. We may get WoW Classic, but there is inevitably going to be something different, or absent, from its initial launch.
Great series, brought back a lot of good memories. Thank you.
I miss the game, but most of all I miss all the amazing friends I played it with.
Mannnn.. I’ve heard of the pee bottles, but I’ve never heard of or even imagined a poop sock
A poop sock is a terrible idea because poop is mostly liquid so it will start to leak out between the threads of the sock, much better to use a bottle with it's top portion cut with scissors or a knife to widen the hole.
@@CarrowMind how do you even poop in it without poop touching your hands while holding the sock.. why not a plastic bag
@@CarrowMind Better off using a container to poop in not a drinking one they are to small since you can then put the toilet paper on top of the poop which reduces the smell after you wipe your ass with it.
Haha yeah that got me too >_
this is a harsh laugh with tears reading this
This series was amazing. Thank you for this. I listened to the whole thing in one run through while i cleaned my house. 😊
I love you for making this series.... and all your wow content honestly. i wish there was enough for 100 of these. I didn't play classic but started right at the end of bc. I only played with 1 friend at the time but once he quit I started meeting new ones and even got other friends to join me. I remember me and him playing like 3 days straight with only a couple naps. One of my favorite memories. We had no idea what was happening those few days before wotlk when zombies were running around everywhere. It was so chaotic and confusing for us considering we didn't know any lore and were still learning the basic mechanics. Man i miss those days so much. Being younger and more carefree certainly helped. Thanks for making these videos.
Thanks for all your hard work. This is one of my favorite channels for WoW content.
“Just one more quest wait theirs school tomorrow I think I feel a cold coming on” man that’s relatable I can’t tell you how many times I used the sick card to stay home and play WOW
As did we all, friend.
Man I can’t believe it’s been a whole year sense this series ended feels like just yesterday I was watching the first episode.
Hey Mad, i really wanna thank you for the series. Got me through tough times. Ive noticed people still wanna know about your tbc and later adventures. I know its a mess to make videos with this quality, but you could record like a podcast where you storytell all remaining adventures we yet have to learn from you. Greetings and a big hug from México
As someone who played these same events, raids and such, it’s great nostalgia for me as well and why I enjoy your channel. Love all your videos
I love your vids. I started playing WoW Feb. 3-4 2007, just missed the pre-patch, but I did the WotLK pre-patch. Holy crap.... the memories are flooding back. Thank Very Much for you doing what you do..!
i love how madseason has FFX audio running in the background hehe :D
Hands down your best series by far I enjoyed it so much I’m sad to see it be over for sure. I personally still play on private vanilla servers today and it’s because of your videos that made me wanna try it because I wasn’t even born when it all came out but I played retail so now I love vanilla more than I did retail because it you feel so relatable to what your putting in your videos and it’s truly amazing how a video game unites people. Thank you for this amazing series.❤️👍
I quit playing wow back in roughly 2012, and I've just started watching your videos, thanks for the nostalgic value! Really enjoying them!
Just finished the whole series, you are brilliant. Everything about it from edit, humour,narration absolutely superb. Congratulations:)
"Wait, I have school tomorrow? I think I feel a cold coming on".. that was SO me in 2007-2008!! For the first time in 10 years, someone has been able to sum up my experience with WoW in "one" sentence! My English teacher in 2007/2008 sucked, and that increased my motivation for staying home and discovering "that other continent to the east". Being a noob was the best. Wotlk remains my favourite game of all time (I only played at max level for 2-3 months during BC). I only have good memories of playing this game with my friends back then from 2007 to 2011.
I'm definitely sorry to see this series end. I've really enjoyed looking back at classic/vanilla WoW as I spend a huge amount of time there. Thanks for posting these videos. Lots of good memories were brought back.
I sadly started playing in cataclysm, so I missed all the really cool and more difficult aspects of wow. I loved this series and the views of how the world was different, and it makes me wish I was there during classic even more. Thank you Madseason, for getting me to feel included.
I really enjoy your videos. I have watched most of them and I appreciate your quality, wit, dedication, and attention to detail. Even my wife likes them and she never played WoW.
Just finished and all I can say is WOW! That was genuinely the best series of videos I have watched. Thank you so much for sharing your story with us.
Would be nice to see some "WoW memories: Special Edition" where you talk about memorable moments of the expansions. Jesus i'm so sad to see that series end, it has been a great warm up for building up my nostalgia for classic jajaja.
Thanks for your content, Mad. I don't watch EVERY video you make, but when I do it I enjoy it till the last second of the video.
As always, thumbs up and see you soon dear friend.
Thank you for making this series. This was a TON of fun to listen to, and the effort you put in to editing the videos is absolutely evident! Hearing all of your memories throughout this series definitely took me back to all of the great memories I've had from playing this game throughout the years.
This series was nostalgic, memorable, and hilarious. I'm sad to see it end, but I can't wait to re-watch it all over again. You've created something amazing here!
Thank you, MadSeason.
Just got done watching your series. So many great memories from that era. I can’t wait to experience the game again in classic!
Anyone else get emotional in the ending of this video? Not only because the series is over but just connecting the ending of Classic WoW and all of our memories we each individually had. I think this series was my all time favorite because as you reminisced about your vanilla wow memories I also would reminisce about mine watching this series. Although World of Warcraft is beyond its heyday I still very much miss classic. Thanks for the series!
Such a good and nostalgic series, love it man. Gonna miss this one. Keep up with the good videos!
Thanks for watching dude! It was fun to make
How did u post 1 Day ago?
With patreon, brother!
just like vanilla wow, your vids are timeless, i keep finding myself coming back to these
Nice job with the series Show.
Hey it's the guy I nailed with the snowball!
looool
Hi Madseason! Was eagerly watching and waiting for this episode, after my guild actually cleared through the OldNaxx raid we kind of popped from massive fatigue and a lot of us left throughout BC with the biggest leave happening in Black Temple. As a result of my nostalgia I seek out and collect Naxx items on my new account. Thank you for this series, and thank you for sharing your memories with us!
What. A .Game. This series brought back great memories, the game that started it all for me as I never considered my self a gamer before. I started playing when I was like 13 on New years eve like a month right before TBC in 2006. I remember staying up that night playing on my brothers laptop from college & he goes to bed from a party that night like "Your still up playing?!". I was hooked! I persuaded my parents for a PC I shared with my other brother for school ;) & we quested, played together, & started one of the biggest guilds on our server for a few years. We bonded & got really close. We haven't been as close since those years. Look forward to reliving and going back with both my brothers & experience the endgame I never got a chance to experience in Classic WoW.
I could listen to your stories for houres... so much nostalgia even if i did not play vanilla, started at the beginning of BC, but still so good memories.
Man just got done binge watching your wow memories series and it really brings back some old memories of my own when I first started playing (although it was in tbc rather than vanilla) I still play my old blood elf warlock which was my first character I got to max level, to this day. Although much more casually ; ) thanks for these videos and I look forward to seeing more of your other content. I can't wait till classic wow releases so I can experience some of these things as well.
Just finished watching the series, awesome man! Loved it, made me remember so many different people I played with and adventures we shared. I can't wait for Classic. Please keep the nostalgia flowing ;)
Ive watched all these videos multiple times, they bring me back to a time where wow was magical and every zone really felt like a new chapter. I started a classic character on lights hope and had a fantastic time! Meeting people, exploring the old zones, taking my time with the zones and understanding all the places with high mob density was super interesting to look back on, who could forget dying 50 times a session hahahaha. Once I logged I was level fifteen with at least five friends who I played with for the entire day! I know you’ve done so much content on Vanilla mad but they’re by far my favorite series thank you!
What a great story. I listened to this at work and kept smiling as your descriptions took me back to my years playing through vanilla. Seriously, great job.
It’s weird, I was a 11 year old kid who had JUST started to learn English when I started playing in 2005 now I’m 24 almost done with university.
I remember my dad bought the game for my birthday and I was so hyped! We were big Blizzard fans in the family, hell he even bought me a Warcraft atlas with npc locations or coordinates. I ended up playing this game almost religiously with friends from school. Funny thing is, it was almost a taboo to even speak about WoW at school because we didn’t want people to think we were nerds but still we couldn’t help ourselves. We found a place at the back of the school library where we could talk about all the stuff we saw or experienced, or asked each other for tips. It was always a goal to get home as soon as possible so I could immerse myself in the game, and that is quite frankly some of the most cherished gaming memories I have to this day. It’s really hard to express the feeling in words. I sat on Limewire one evening just to download random WoW videos and saw Nogg Aholic which to this day is still my favorite WoW movie, and I was stunned. I glitched myself into mount hyjal from a video I saw and it was breathtaking! I remember doing my wetlands run on my NE and getting lost and ending up at the gates of grim batol and found a lot of angry red drakes, they were max level I think, so I died so many times I lost count, but I was still determined to get to the end, just to see what was there. Your first zone, your first trinket, your first mount everything was a good damn adventure.
The weird thing is it doesn’t matter if it’s Nixxiom or asmongold or any of the 1000 videos which have twice the amount of comments talking about how amazing the OG experience was, nothing really rekindles my nostalgia except for your videos... I don’t know what it is you do but everything you show, combined with the music and your stories really takes me back into the mindset and memories of what was back then and I thank you for that a lot!
And BTW Shield Wall, Recklesness, and Retaliation had a 30min CD not 60, did you even play in Vanilla????
JK please continue your amazing work ;)
Vanilla was truly a magnificent experience. If someone didn't play wow back then, I feel sorry for them. It was unlike any other game I had played because of how inclusive and involved it was. It was an adventure, it was truly a magical experience. No other game do I look back on as fondly and it was unique in that way compared to other games. I went from playing RTS's and counter strike to wow. My brother started playing it and tried to get me into it. I finally played and ended up playing all night and I vividly remember being in awe every time I'd get to a new zone. I remember grinding for weeks and farming the Giants in winterspring to finally get from 58-60. I cried when I hit 60. I also cried when I got my first epic in MC. It was truly a once in a lifetime experience. No game had such an impactful influence on me. I remember doing the quests to get my mount on my warlock, having fun with friends and all the crazy shenanigans we'd get ourselves into. I can't wait to play vanilla again to see if I can stir up some of that old nostalgia from classic.
My vanilla Guild 'only' got as far finishing BWL just prior to the 2.0 patch but it was one heck of a ride and the nerdgasms on the voice chat when nef bit the dust is legend to this day.
I'm actually hesitant as to wanting to play Classic as the memories are so much nostalgia that a redo simply cant recapture it
Great run of vids
I found this series today and binged it all the way in one sitting. I started with WoW a few days after TBC release, so i´m very interested in classic content, as i never saw it myself. That´s why i found your account, and this series in particular made me even more hyped for the classic release. Got to admit, i wasn´t far from tearing up at the end there. Keep up the great content, it´s a blast and a pleasure to watch your videos.
Mad, what a brilliant season. I even broke off a few tears. Thank You for Sharing and May you be blessed.
My first toon was also a holy paladin in full ret mindset. I remember the first time it clicked in my mind dedicated healers were a thing when I was invited to a RFD run and they said "You can come along, just heal us".. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Visiting this a second time after classic finished as we’re in wrath classic now…..miss the series and the memories MadSeasonShow. Take care ❤
by far the best video series on UA-cam! Thanks for sharing your memories
Best vanilla wow series on youtube. Totally enjoyed those! I think I may rewatch them all.
This was such a great series it really gave me some nostalgia and made me remember some of my early WoW memories. I remember when me and my friends first started we were level 20 or so and thought we would level super fast if we could kill something much higher level than us. So we went to the Burning Steppes through Redridge dying many times trying to get through the pass and then spent hours trying and failing to kill this one elemental.
Thank you Madseason for that amazing and entertaining series. This is my favourite WoW-channel, your work is always excelent! :)
Great series, I didn’t experience classic Wow but this is such a great documentary of you playing it and experiencing it. Thank you Madseason!
The nostalgia and emotions I'm feeling from watching your vids is amazing thank you so much for doing this. The guild I belonged to cleared AQ 40 such fun
it made me feel depressed watching them :< just thinking how awesome those days were
The whole series was so amazing dude. I enjoyed every second of it!
And I have to say I love your voice man, its so calming. I think you´re the most underrated WoW content creator ever. (which makes me a little sad)
Best wishes for you and your content in the future!
Mad Season! Really enjoyed this series brother. You make some of the best wow content on UA-cam. Thanks for all you do for the community.
all 8 episodes were great, I really liked them. thank you for making and posting these :)
MadSeason, thank you for the wonderful video! Not making this up, my favorite thing is when I come back from work at 02:00 AM to find you release a new video and watch it when going to bed.
I remember all this, and I participated in all of it. The attunement for Naxx, I was so close to exalted on my druid I spent time getting the rep while other guildies spent their time getting gold and crystals. We went in a couple times, never got any bosses down, and then gave up because BC was going to be out too soon. I had always wished we tried harder, but too many of our group was just not into it. I remember being so hooked on WoW that I would read up on lore and strategies, etc. when I was at work and had nothing to do. I just could not get enough. Thanks for sharing.
This is such an excellent series, seriously. I don't know what it is about it, maybe nostalgia, maybe the matter-of-factness of presentation, but it is great.
Such a great, nostalgic and awesome series, as is your channel. Great to watch and prepare for launch of Classic.
Ahhh I can't wait for vanilla ... i am shaking.
You had a such an awesome adventure through Classic. Thanks for the series, it was epic.
My favourite part of this video is the slow escalation in excuses toward the end.
Thank you for this series, its been a nice trip down memory lane :)
This was an epic youtube series madseason! Probably the best youtube series I have ever seen! Cheers dude and thanks for sharing. :D
I almost cry with the end. Great videos! Honestly, classic was the mos enjoyful moments of this game. Then, for me, WotLK, cause there were so many people playing that i ended up knowing and meeting many nowaday friends. But classic its in the heart of all who experienced it back in the day.
I love your videos so much, i was there from when you grew so big over the few months, i just cant stop watching your videos :). Thanks so much for keeping your channel up!
Awesome video, I lament hanging onto Everquest as long as I did and missed WoW's early days. I joined and level capped a few months before BC. And they're relatively quick time I met people that would stay friended into WotLK. Good times.
With classic release coming soon I’ve been on a nostalgia binge. I’m old now, my adventures mostly long past me. I still think back to the best game I’ve ever played.
Thanks for helping me remember.
Great taking a walk down this road. I still go back and rewarch the "snowball" video hilarious buddy. Gonna miss this series.
Brilliant video. Have so many brilliant memories. Making my first guild in 06 and doing our monthy guild meetup in the dwarven district town hall, changed into the bank I think. And a final note was to a guildie of mine that passed away in surgery. Played our secondary tank. Its thinking about stuff like this when you realise that gaming isn't just locking yourself in a dark room, slamming keyboards and shouting at people to get out the fire. Its an experience, making true friendshios and sometimes experiencing actual loss other than people just quitting the game. These avatars may be the soldiers, but the players, they're the soul
I loved this series and I'm definitely sad to see it end. I got a bit misty eyed there at the end of the video. I was hoping you'd continue it, but I understand you feeling like this was a good place to end at!
A great series thanks very much, with Classic now back this has helped me to remember all the fantastic Attunements/Resist farming/Raids we have ahead of us again. I for one can't wait! :)
thanks for taking your time to share this with us! started to play in tbc but was pretty much terrible(procastinated ingame instead of lvling etc haha) and couldn't do some of the things that are not ingame anymore. keep going man your channel is amazing
Aww, that was a good ending. Brought back plenty of nostalgia and memories for me, now im really looking forward to do all the things I never did in classic wow.
Just finished watching your entire series and dude that brings back tons of memories of my Experience in WOW Vanilla. Thanks for sharing and I cant wait to go back to classic as I also quit in WOTLK.
Aw man so sad to see the series go, it was definitely my favourite! Awesome job, happy to listen to folk talk about WoW in its early days, especially when it's someone's own adventure in the game
Very nice. My main memories are similar to yours, raiding and exploring classic while it was still a new experience. My fondest memory was the first time some high level Paladin, level 60, took my little level 9 character from Stormwind, through Ironforge (and my first time in the tram), through loch modan and the wetlands at night (one of the first times I experienced night in the game). The wetlands was dangerous for me, but I loved it. Then we hopped on a boat to Darnassus, my first time seeing that blew me away. We ended up travelling further through the Barrens. For a low level character travelling with a level 60, which new players looked up to with their epic mounts etc... was something you didn't forget. I didn't raid as much at the time, got some easy gear and levels through PVP (and a Master Seargent rank). I did more raiding in WotLK actually where we had a blast, especially when they brought back Naxxramus which we cleared. ICC was awesome.
I am looking forward to Classic again and I hope it is a huge success and spawns similar ideas. I know I have talked to newer players who also really want Classic as they never experienced it. But, it won't be the same as back then honestly, you can't bring back that feeling when the game was new, but hopefully some will grow to appreciate some of the systems back then. Sadly, the easiness of the game now may spoil any chance of that as players don't like the challenge and have grown used to having everything handed to them. I can see many rage quitting the first time they think they can gather up a group of murlocs and one shot them.... and they are the ones who end up getting one shotted. :)
Awesome series man. Brought back a lot of memories as well. I remember my first character was a dwarf paladin that I got to 60 and of course like everyone else, i didn't know how to play the game. Right before Burning Crusade came out, i got tricked by one of those hackers when they whisper you telling you that we'll level your character for free and blah blah blah. A short while after that my account got permanent ban so I couldn't experience the launch of BC.
Actually made me tear up towards the end of the video, I feel literally blessed to be able and relate to all of this! A new adventure awaits even more people when classic finally rolls out!
Aww I was looking forward to the BC videos because that’s where most of my earliest WoW memories were. But it was still a great video and series.
I regret missing this experience so much :(
Watching your videos I understand that I'd love the game back then. But my parents would never pay for such a thing.
Thanks for sharing, man.
Your monotone voice is a clear and concise actually makes the videos enjoyable 😁 you've made me so motivated to level its unreal
You should definitley continue a BC/Wotlk memories series, even if its not as long/detailed, im sure everyone would still love to hear about it! Otherwise its been a great series so far, good job Madseason
Loved this series - it was strangely captivating and evoked many of my own memories from this period. Well done sir!
So much nostalgia Madseason! thank you and sorry to see it end.
Thanks for sharing all these memories bro. Appreciate it!
*cries* thanks for making this series, been a nice ride listening to it