Welcome to the channel! My name is Shrimpiclese, and this is where gaming nostalgia meets modern critique. Gaming has been my main hobby since I was a little boy, and I love having discussions with friends about the titles that molded them as gamers. This channel celebrates my lifelong passion for gaming as I seek to answer the question, 'what makes a game truly special?'
To do so I dive into games both old and new! I'll be streaming my playthroughs on Twitch and then discuss my thoughts in longform retrospective essays here on RU-vid. Whether it's an old favorite, one of the many games that I've missed, or a brand new release, I’ll break them down to see how each title fares in today’s gaming landscape
So join me, and together we'll explore the mechanics, stories, and experiences that make gaming unforgettable-all from my own unique perspective.
@@Bodyhammer99999 I really like to throw fighter in there, for no reason other than my personal affinity for the class. Cleric is mandatory for sure though. After these recent playthroughs I can still take or leave mage.
Being a teenager getting tasks from the bridge near prydwen keep and sailsbury plains reallly takes me back. Long, hot summer nights grinding out in sailsbury plains by the bridge in groups with no AC going in the house 😂 migratinf to keltoi after the plains and migrating down to dartmoor. Basically just following the natural direction the player base would go. Used to be thousands of people on every night in the early 2000s
Never personally played it, so it holds no nostalgia for me. Didn't intend to slight it by leaving it out, just didn't influence my personal MMO journey.
My first MMORPG was DAoC, then EverQuest, kinda stuck with EverQuest cause they had a free option, while DAoC charged, I did play for what I have no idea 5 years straight, my best character (to me) was my level 50 cleric on Lancelot server (well originally not sure anymore I do remember a server merger that my character was involved in, couldn't tell you if she moved again I can still find her when I search for her on the website though)
Daoc is the greatest MMORPG ever made. Unrivaled in the amount of entertainment and excitement it provides. The epitome of a PvP, Realm vs realm MMO. I played it first in 2001 on official live server, and nowadays I am playing it on the Eden freeshard Nothing comes close
Started playing on a shard recently with a group of people I've been gaming with for decades. The group plays various games both new and old and every few years circles back to DAOC. By the end of the first couple weeks the consensus was that it is still the greatest game ever made. The uniqueness of the realms/classes and RVR mechanics are just something special.
I have wanted a few times to back to this favorite mmo where I played from 2001-2004 and 2007-2008. My account was lost and unrecoverable that had all my 50's including high RR Spritmaster, Skald and SB on mid, and Eldritch on hib. So discouraging.
I returned to this game a year ago. I thought for sure it wouldn't be long but there is SOMETHING i can't explain .....I'm still at it and continue to have fun
this was my cradle mmorpg, first mmorpg I played, i led a guild there as an 18 yo kid... i barely knew anything about anything, i jsut played and i gathered friends and then morepeople and suddenly we ranged between 60 and 80 Mercenaries fighting on behalf of Camelot, against the celtic tribes, and the norse vikingr. I played a 50 air/20 earth theurgist
I tried to find it again. The feeling Dark Age of Camelot gave me back in 2002/3. I can't even describe that feeling. It's just something special. I tried to find it in WoW, it was close, but I could'nt find it. I tried it in Warhammer Online - Age of Reckoning, it was even closer, but still - I couldn't find it. Then I tried Guild Wars 1 and 2, Everquest 2, WoW again, LoTR Online and so much more, but the feeling went farther and farther away from me. I recently played a bit of New World, a good game, but that feeling - It just couldn't be found again. Thank you for this video, because it brought back a glimpse of it. It gave me new hope on finding that feeling again. I won't ever give up on chasing it, because to me, DAoC wasn't just a game!
The best experience you can have today is with a Lan partner. Just go everywhere again . Together. It's so fun. Shout out to all those guys that only play Thid.. For the last 15 years ! Love you guys .
No, as far as I'm aware, the "Season of the Seraph" seasonal weapons aren't able to inherently spawn Warmind Cells. So that's the "Seraphic" weapons from the season (Fire and Forget LFR, Tripwire Canary bow, Disparity Pulse, Path of Least Restistance Trace, Judgement of Kelgorath Glaive, and Retrofit Escapade Machine Gun). The IKELOS Weapons do, as do the "Seventh Seraph" weapons. This season the Seventh Seraph Carbine and Seventh Seraph Officer Revolver I believe have been reprised in the new dungeon with some new perks. In addition the IKELOS hand cannon, shotgun, sniper and SMG are available this season, also with revisted perk pools. Hope that helps.
Vampiir was the most OP class in DAoC as a solo. I was grinding out the last bit of xp from 49 to 50 in the Shrouded Isles. I pulled an entire swarm of flying jellyfish things, it was like 1 purple, 1 red, 3 oj, 1 yellow. That was the closest I came to dying PvE with that class.
You say it caters to solo players and is well accessible by newbies, yet the people here on RU-vid who tried the game out blindly were met with empty servers and unable to solo any fights after like 2 hours in. Since there was no one else to group up with, they quit
Thanks for watching. A few things I will point out is that this video is just shy of being two years old. That length of time will always change the landscape of any MMO. So things like top guilds, population, current events, and even balancing can be wildly different. In the almost two years since this video was published I have personally stepped away from DAoC after my personal group of friends and family also decided to move on to other games. As such, I admit that cannot speak to its current population/game state/etc. At this point the video stands as a testament/monument to one of the (IMO) greatest MMOs that was ever crafted. The PvE leveling (and I emphasize leveling here) experience remains entirely soloable. The raids are a different story, but as of the making of this video (nearly two years ago) there were large every other week or so runs put together to get players through that content. Whether that continues to this day, I cannot speak to. The RvR experience was certainly a different animal all together. Soloing was a viable option, but it has a skill curve, as with all pvp games. Small grouping was a viable option, but had a skill curve. Just like all pvp games. As for other youtubers... I have watched numerous MMO youtubers attempt to get involved in this game (often on their "I play this for 8 hours and call it a fair shot), and will always strongly question the methodology of trying to treat a 20+ year old game like jumping into a modern powerhouse. Seems like bad science to me, as a low population game lacks the funding/manpower to revamp a new player experience to make it the accessible "hand holding gateway" that these youtubers frequently want it to be. The game is simple enough on the surface that with some reading and some effort it can be played successfully to level cap.
I remember on the old Herald, there used to be a staff member (before EA) named Sandra that posted all the time... the interaction between the players and Mythic was what made this game great. I definitely miss running 3 PCs during Relic raids to keep all the TS channels sorted out. Greatest PvP system in any MMO, and one of the greatest games ever.
Went back and tried the 1st Dungeon on Hib side, had the most enjoyable experience in a loooong time 💙 definitely looking forward to their new Classic server this year 👌
You can give it a go right now on the Atlas freeshard server. It's currently tailored as a classic experience with a few needed additions like SI. It's really great to get into until the actual Classic server releases.
Subscribed. Played on Kay server back in the day as a necro username: ballimore I had a massive hit of nostalgia a few days ago because of this game. My dad would drop me off at a lan center down the road from our house on a Friday night and pick me up at 6am Saturday morning. He gave me $20 for food and paid for my all night ticket there. I’d walk across the street around midnight to get Taco Bell and buy a BAWLS around 2-3am to keep me going. At 34 years old, married, two kids, professional career and haven’t played DAOC in nearly 12 years… I think I want to build the computer i saved my money for as a kid and dive back into some of the best memories I had as a kid.
Budodude Midgard runemaster Bors server here yes I was the top of the realm points ladder, best tailor, and server first to solo Spindelhella farm... Goose (Hibernia caster), Solomon (hib bard), and all you Albion scrubs etc I owned you, zero chance I won every 1v1 and defended every relic
BTW, Thank you for explaining the difference between "pvp" and R V R, there is no comparison between the two, RVR is an entirely different beast than pvp
