Asherons Call Review - Greatest MMORPG ever?
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Please subscribe! Asheron's Call MMORPG in my opinion the best MMORPG of all time! Great PvP as well, this is a basic overview of the game and its features. AC is currently free to play once you pay 10$ for an account.
I play as X-Legend of Darktide.
My favorite out of all MMOs I've played. Nothing compares to it. Best PVP and so much depth to the game. This was ahead of its time. Miss it.
agreed, idk if it's nostalgia talking for me but honestly no mmo made me so excited to play it every day except this one
Yea this was literally a very large and important part of my early teens. So many great times with friends both in game and IRL. Played this game for nearly 2 decades. I still play now occasionally but haven’t gotten to very high levels with my toons yet. (Emulator.) great though
To me, Asheron's Call will ALWAYS be the best MMORPG ever made. I played that game for a long time, many hour's a day. It felt more in depth than anything ever created since. I even enjoyed AC2 for a good while as well. It's nice watching some vid's on this game and remembering way back when. Thank you for the Video!
Asherons Call is hands down without a shadow of a doubt the greatest and most rewarding MMO ever created. I cannot believe it's been near 17 years since its release and I haven't seen another MMO remotely close to Asherons Call category in almost every aspect of the game. It's gameplay, it's storyline, the huge landscape it's never ending, the PVP etc etc. It's easily the greatest MMO of all time.
I entered the game for the first time 1999. My first har was Aril. Then i created Bogur. Bogur is today level 219 without vassals. I am still is online after 15years. This was my first mmo game. Meet some wounderfull people from USA. Arion Dukat from Flaggstaf Arizona. And the whole clan of BK nights. It was and still today the best mmo game out there. Now i am on a lifetime sub and i love it. Wish more old friends could come online again :)
these were the best years of PC gaming.
There are certain video game experiences that can never be replicated. My first year or so on AC was one of them. In 1999, the internet wasn't what it is now, and every quest wasn't mapped out on 30 websites 20 seconds after an update. You explored for REAL when this game came out. You could find quests, and dungeons that had NO INFO on the net. It was fun as hell.
Waiting for an hour for downloads….. watching the tubes fill up…. Patiently waiting for the newest updates.
Game was WORTH the wait!
@@freedom8154 lol yes! PAtch day was always an even, me and my friend on the phone "are you in?!?" Smh, man I loved those days!
Most 1337s used Decal after n00bs started b0ting and stuff.
Macro LoL.
just heard about this now...because its closing. looks like a really fun game
I've played just about all of them and this one was utterly unique.
BobSamurai Anime Reviews I feel bad for MMO players who never heard of it or played it. You missed out in the greatest MMO in history, every other game after Asherons Call took bits and pieces from it, and they still weren't as good as Asherons Call
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I got this around 2004, but the code to register the game didn't work so I never got to play.
@@skkoloa I dunno. Was off playing SWG which to my mind is the greatest MMO ever. But it just goes to show how we each had our own different experience with a truly unique, classic MMO. Be it AC, SWG, EQ, EQOA, FFXI, DAOC, they all had something so unique that modern MMOs just don't have at all.
Mobs leveling after defeating characters was the best. White rabbit, white rabbit!
This game cost me a couple of jobs back in the day xD
Jobs, girl friends, years.... I have never played another online game since AC cuz it was so addictive. Awesome game tho I just never wana go there again was like breaking a crack habit
Best game I have played to date, graphics were always pretty bad.. but the game play more than made up for it. Watching this makes me want to buff up for 10mins :P
Oh my god...How in twenty years of my life I never heard about this masterpiece? THIS is an MMO for real dude
Back in its prime it was legitimately the best imo, not sure why wow prospered while this didn't as this really has everything someone could want
Arche age had an amazing open world experience. Better than WoW..... that said there were a lot of other problems with AA.
So sorry you missed it. These were the best gaming years of my life, playing on my beige compaq pc with dialup internet made this awesome game so difficult to prosper in. This game was so immersive and hardcore on pvp servers
Greatest game of all time
Game is shutting down January 31st, pretty sad. I wish Turbine could have done a cash shop or something to keep the game going, or even a full reset and re-packaging. The game still has a lot to offer if it was switched up a bit.
You should fraps the last 30 minutes for history. Documenting the apocalypse.
sucks man, but nice to hear someone talk about a game like this, definetly could have saved the industry if released before EQ
Darn. I was thinking of jumping in again for old times sake.
I just learned about this shut down this week. What a terrible loss.
My characters will only live in memories
best mmo ever, originally microsoft run then handed to turbine and wb, someone missed the boat managing this mmo
GOAT never be another game like this.
Great video, thanks. I played AC since early 2001 and quickly moved to Darktide. Haven't played for a few years but it has always been my best game. None other have come close. As for todays mmorpg... shame on the creators....
Spent more hours in Asheron's Call than I can recount. So many awsome memories.
Khaotick? I was core in Khao. By far the best game I've ever played.
I spent more time in this game than I did in RL. Played AC for 14 straight years.
@@Greghook Me too. I loved that game and all the great friends I had in my guild.
I went to AC (my first ever MMORPG) from FPS games. Started DT in Dec 99, and played until '05. Came back in late '10 and enjoyed another good year or so. Have a lot of fond memories of this game. For any of my fellow old schoolers from DarkTide. I was Thrill Kill...=)
All these comments are 5-6 yrs ago.... I miss Asherons Call now...I spent about 4 years in there and loved every minute .. I can get teary watching vids like this
I played from beta….till around 2006.
Frostfell server.
A few players in our clan…..
MageMerlin, Gandalf the Son, Alun Magus, Silverthorn, Paladin, GTS, Ebaneezer, Wise Magus, Riggor
Our town was Arwic. Portals were in what we had termed “the subway” up the hill. I remember standing outside and directing players to where to find portals.
Unfortunately the Shadows destroyed Arwic as we had remembered it….. leaving it with a huge crater fill shadows lurking.
Hey, I recognize a couple of those names! Though my clan was Arcane Wind. We had such a great community in the early days of Frostfell. This was by far the best MMO I've ever played. I love the vassal/clan system. It's the only way I've ever seen honorable play effectively encouraged in a game.
I cant believe i was 5 when this came out but i have such fond memories of playing this. :D
I miss the fuck out of this game. This is THE greatest PVP game I've ever had the luck and pleasure to play. It's a crying shame that there are almost no games out there, within 15+ years, that can hold a candle to this game. It was such a punishing game, which made the rewards so much more worth it. It really does break my heart that nothing is or has been like it.
exactly. to the T. were you on DT?
+Big Bunny I agree, mechanically with the magic pool areas for magic use, the skills system of getting better at things by actually doing them, fealty for clan building so leaders can spend more time managing rather than leveling, monthly story and lore updates, buying rumors, housing, magic being mysterious with a the taper system (I would actually read what spellcasters said to figure out spell components), and monster leveling, this game was boss. I which someone would basically jack the entire system and just do another release with updated graphics for the game just to give it more exposure. Or release it as an awesome iphone or android game.
Totally agree, I started on DT in 2000.
No game has ever come close to what it offered.
sealslayer I started in 2000 too. Me and 2 of my boys jump on randomly every few years now but i was steady from 2000-2010 on DT only. Stayed in Arwic 80% of the time around the Sub and just ran shit. There is nothing like it..never will be
The ability to manipulate graphics was awesome fast casting power sliding delay casting... will miss it
Yep. Nothing will ever touch it.
-Bobdole Frostfell
Best PvP engine ever. Miss you AC:DT
the emulator is online...DT server has about 400+ players at all times...check it out
God I miss this game. It had a great death penalty that made the game fun. I played off and on from 99 to 2014. It's sad that the servers are in maintenance mode. I wish they would release the source files.
One of the best reviews I have watched, used to play this a very long time ago and you gave me the desire to head on back.
Cheers!
Hands down my best memories online
Only ever made it to lvl 59...but I was 11 years old lol. I miss my Amuli/Celdon and Mohag Bow. That thing was imbued to all heck and back...so sad when my first one broke but the second one came out better! Thanks for the throwback.
Played from 1999-2005.. BEST game ever. Such incredible memories. Kinda sad to think that I still think it may be my best time/most exciting of my life. Dark age of camelot was pretty awesome too.
I remember seeing an article for this before it came out and call me crazy but I could *feel* the adventure/fantasy behind the game and sense It's awesomeness. However I went the Everquest route, which looking back was an amazing experience in and of itself however I think spending the last remnants of my imagination and losing my "mmo virginity" to Asherons call would have been more amazing. Once you lose that magic, its kind of gone forever.
necro your comment sorry but completely agree mate
This guy obviously never played early on but it's a great review of what it ended up to be. It used to be you had to combine 4 ingredients with a taper in order to "learn" a spell. It was an almost impossible game to master early in it's opening but the monthly updates made this an incredibly adventurous world.
I played it from 2000-2016 I remember the tapers but the game has been without tapers for almost a decade probably and its not a component many people remember fondly.
I loved this feature - that mages actually needed to research spells.
Man, I miss this game. Been about 13 years since I last played...it looks pretty good still!
The best MMO of al time with features no other MMO since has ever implemented.
* Best Crafting System.
* Best Loot drop system
* Rare System
* Best Salvaging System.
* Best user base and Wiki ever "ACHeaven" :-)
I played this years ago as a kid/teenager and am now nearly 30 years old. It was without a doubt one of the best games i've ever played. I can't believe it is still running and they have gotten rid of the subscription fees and now only charge a 1 time fee of 10 bucks. I am tempted to go back even though I know I will never play as much as I used to. Screw it. I'm coming back!!!
My husband and I are considering beginning this game. Thanks for sharing your review of it.
+brieks07 The only way to play this game is on Darktide. The game is so punishing, which makes the rewards that much better.
I player AC long ago with a femme toon I called 'Moira the Seer'. All she ever did was identify weapons/armor/etc. I got her to lvl 20 just identifying things! Sure, I had other toons, but, Moira was the only unique one. (lvl 20 was pretty good, then)
I finally left when I got tired of the trade cheats and the terrifically unbalanced magic. I knew I was done when, during a PvP between a tank and a mage, the mage just lay on the ground while the equal lvl tank tried, fruitlessly, to hit him for damage.
Also, I'd done some exhaustive farming of some truly rare crystal item that dropped from some floating eye thing and had acquired 30, when having even two was considered great wealth. Then they opened up some instance where the damn things were easily found! Instead of having a lot of great trade items, I now had, essentially, common stuff. I regretted abandoning Moira but the game was too young and flawed.
Thomas Hazlewood lol u were probably talking about tiny shards in the cauln dungeon for getting shadow armor! Good times.
This game and Final Fantasy 11 will be the 2 mmo's I will always regret missing entirely having sadly never played either.
Michael Coffey FFXI was really grindy, predictable, and not fun to play. AC was much better. There are some free servers now with a few hundred die-hards.
I gotta say man, thanks for doing an awesome review of asherons call, it's the game that started it all for me. 12 years old and loved the game every second of it even when I hated it haha. I'll never forget how fun it was...all the memories no game ever came close to living up to it. daoc came close only cause of the new idea of pvp or its case rvr. anyhow enough of that. again thank you for this man it made me miss the game again and remember the good times.
Played this game often from 99 to 2005. Haven't played since , but the memories will last forever . Remember when they had thousands frost fell at one time . Loved the dungeon quests with 50 plus taking part/ love the low level dungeons and learning the game as a noob back in 99 . The Social atmosphere / experiences and online friendships I made were unreal
So so miss it .., :( . I would have to start all over now
But maybe I will
I still remember casting Acid Vuln Self 3 on myself and it would freak people out.
greatest game ever....I wish they would bring back a newer version
this game also started my MMO life, have a ton of fond memories from MT and this game thought me more english then school did 😀
I think I'm going to try it again now that I know people actually still plays it.
This is a tough one for me. I have fonder memories of UO but I played AC for a longer period. I would say AC is overall a better game but UO circa 97-00 was the most intensely gratifying experience in my gaming life.
I think you misunderstand what keeps new players from joining it. It's not the non hand holding gameplay. It's the graphics, controls, ui. Those things could all be improved. Really the only thing that should be improved is the UI and control side of the game. Graphics really arent THAT important. If an Asheron's Call 3 was made, imagine it with the varied builds, open world and questing system, but then redo the controls and interface and you get something that doesn't feel uncomfortable.
I was 9 years old in 1999 when I started AC. I remember when quiddity swords were goin for 300.00$ on ebay XD. *sigh* I kinda miss dial-up. They changed it sooo much though.... no more room for noobs in the world. Ransacked with bots n whatnot. But in it's hayday no MMO has surpassed Asheron's Call's wonder.
Yea the bots and macro programs are what killed the game. Still my favorite mmo of all time though.
I had one of the best tinked up swords in the game at one time and plenty of DIs and dropped the fucking thing. I almost quit the game after that because the asshole that picked it up wanted $60 bucks for it. I eventually sold my account for $200 bucks to a guild member. This was way back in the early 2000s when I dropped the sword.
I played this briefly while taking a break from equally amazing old school MMOs of the time like SWG and EQOA, but I'm sad that I didn't get a bit more time in this one. Looks fun. Maybe this will be able to live on just like SWG is doing.
It was the best game i ever played from 2000 to 2002.
Affter that it went down hill, with the arrival of sofisticated bots and Managed XP chains. I still enjoyed to play it in 2003, but then i left it for AC2. I still played it once in a while till arround 2010 or so.
I'm one of the rare players who played AC2 from 2003 on, and liked it even more than AC1 ! I miss AC2 so much !
100% the greatest MMORPG ever. The new emulators were fun to play on for a while but it's just not the same. RIP AC =(
The best MMO ever. Played it back in 99. Nothing will compare to the mystery of exploring the world.
This game would be so boss if they did a port to console, I mean the pvp alone would dominate most of the other rpg/mmo and even some of the moba that are out now, I downloaded it last night I'm fixin to resub at least 2 of my 9 accounts just to see if it is still jammin I love this game I wish someone would follow suit and give us a next gen like this it would crush the industry
I got the game when I was eleven but didn't get to play it til now so this is awesome
I'm Guilty. Used Decal to find Singularity Troves.
Lost one "fight" when I was red and Unarmed.
Was minding my own business killing skeletons stuff and he came fully buffed.
Must have been some spies. He buffed for real 😀
RIP - Sad what has happened with Turbine/WB & AC. Since most of Turbine MMOs have gone over to a new studio it doesn't sound like an AC sequel or re-release is ever going to be likely.
There is an AC sequel in the making right now as we speak. Players took it upon themselves to do it, it will obviously take some time..but Asheron will rise again.
also dat celedon armor
Just look into this game. Regarding the buffing thing well maybe the game should have allowed, through buffing, enchantment and other crafting skills, to create The Buffing Gem of Awesome Buffing or something like that where you can receive all the buffs all at once or something and can recharge the gem as long as you have the buff skills for it or something.
Darktide is the only server to play this game on. Piss on the carebear servers. I still remember the feelings the first time I got killed back in 2001. The people I consider my best friends were all made playing this game.
How are you doing mate? 🙂
Great review ty!
By far the best MMORPG of all time!
I've just returned from a 12 year absence and I'm loving it. a loyal has changed but the game is still amazing. SC/DT for all you scrubs. best MMO by a mile.
So confusing like just market your game, people have no idea how to run a business these days, this game seems great
greetings from Darktide Futality here
I was lucky enough to beta test Asheron's call way back when. My friends and I used to reside on Darktide. It had developed it's own political structure. Darktide was the way to go.
I don't think any game has ever made me as unhappy as AC.
I wanted to explore this great world, Dereth, but at the same time, needed to level. The exploring was great. Hands down the best experience I ever had, and I was 30 years old at the time.
But, and the big "but" at the time, was I has to keep pace. So there came those Olthoi and Tusker dungeons. Had to do them. And they made me sad. To the point when I couldn't go into one of them without thinking it was going to be hard work. And before logging, wondering if it was worth it.
Until I met Bael Zharon, tossing people every which way he chose. There, with hundreds of other combattants, I felt I was one of the few.
It lasted a couple of weeks after that. I wish it had kept me a couple of years longer, but twas not to be. Soon after, my first and only child was born, and it was only with Guild Wars that I started again to measure myself againt a fantasy world.
That's why you had to macro bud. I would macro for a day at a time.
I never quite understood why they stopped making games with stat distribution...
It's kind of funny. The game graphics look terrible when you watch them on UA-cam but in game they look plenty good if you can crank up everything to max. FYI, graphics card doesn't really make a huge difference, this game's performance is more based on the CPU due to how old it is.
Love the fact you don't have the stupid, now standard, MMO cool down skills that you place in the shortcut bar. I've tried probably 50 mmo's and mashing skills with cool downs is fucking dull. If you have skills in AC they are basically always active.
In AC, you can take on hoards, you actually feel heroic. You can use positioning and your skill to take on groups of critters way higher than your level. Most MMO's i've played, level's matter more than anything, you get slaughtered if they are a couple levels higher than you.
Why don't the devs make an HD remake if it was so popular?
Good review, makes me wanna play again...i played from 00 to 13, left my acc in the hands of a buddy. Hope its still out there kicking ass. "All Or Nothing" was the name, had kills or killshot's on just about every1 on DT playing that char from 04 till i quit. But yes defo the best game i've ever played, so many great memory's too. No other game will come close.
I remember you. You were a female sho character. DT was hands down the best pvp time of my life
indeed!
I owned the one mansion that was on an island, frostfell.
this remembers me morrowind so much
im here for the Path of Exile music
Going back to Frostfell for a month. Buffing has always been a pain in the ass otherwise greatest game ever. DT was fun when it was busy but last time I logged on there it was just a bunch of foul mouthed goofballs. This game should never shut down. Bells and whistles mean nothing. Just eye candy the game is the real deal if you have skill even if you dont. Not like wow gear based BS
The movie "fat kid rules the world" brought me here
Anybody remember Mr Glass from darktide? Way back around 2005?
No.
Fucking blasphemy, I can't believe they shut down AC. I ditched every last patron, they were all like "I dun care nigga go in peace".
One of the first and probably the best. WoW ruined the MMO market.
I played AC when it first came out and during the beta, played for several years and quit playing at lvl 116, played on frostfell, can you tell me what the community is like, is it worth getting into? do you feel that there are people that have returned to play that were there from the original?
5:50 - ready for a canoe trip
Is 2014 around when it died? On the website it says the last update was in 2014 :(
Affirmative!
He didnt vuln you because the wand is spec'd in lightning that already vbulns you when it hits you. where is maggiethejackcat site ? That site was priceless,plus asheronwiki. Are they gone? Indeed, have played AC on and off since 2000. I play on Darktide and Frostfell,or did but I'm going back. I miss it. The lower lower the craft the more you can tink it right? Once had a sweet cs lightning wand and blew it up with a 98% success chance,still mad about that. Also if you miss rent day you lose your cottage and all items. What does a sandbox mean? Not sure about that term. I still remember this game,best ever. Shadowbane was good too,but that's been gone due to the Walmart of mmo's Wow. Melles were always nerfed
I think maggies shut down, iirc something along the lines of the man she made it for, passed away and after that she lost interest in keeping it open and updated. I think the Wiki is fairly updated though.
+Huge Tankers Maggie's is still up, it's archived. Hasn't been updated in a while though.
Divine Divinity music, nice.
I like the path of exile music.
this game killed my life sourcreams / and kit-kat-killer khao for live
life lol
Turbine always been against 3rd party programs that allow you to UCM. these days they do not enforce it at all but it used to be a very steep penalty if you got caught doing it.
liter: shout out to orahn, godfather II, santos, mystic mage, party boy, massacre, affex, camby (fuck you), know im missing a bunch. lets bring it back #ac3
Yaraq was my favorite town, too.
I played it forever.
IM THE PATRON!
rip asherons call :(
Yes!
Is there ANY WAY this game will go on? Is it gone forever once it goes down? I REALLY want to play!!!
Why did you use the path of exile soundtrack?
Look up Trials of Ascension. It's a sandbox MMORPG.
Can still play asheron's call on an emulator though. I play on a pk server..pretty good.
I used to play this freaking game like 60 hours a week. Very good memories of this game. Too bad the admins started cheating.
60 hours a week?
Are you like 1337 or something?
Allegiance and alliance are two different words.
Just like KIDnPlAY are 2 different people.
Yes. It is.
How do you get it to run? What operating system does it work on?
Thanks for video!
Partyboy 4ever.
Such a fun game