10 NOSTALGIC FREE MMOs - What made them so GREAT? (Analysis) 

Is it just nostalgia? Or did these games have something that made them special? Silkroad definitely did, that party mob respawn system made grinding SO fun and the job system was ❤‍🔥 Let me know about your good memories in the comments! MORE honorable mentions: LINEAGE, LINEAGE 2 (of course), Zu Online, Ferentus, Maplestory, Metin & Metin2, RappelZ, City of Heroes, Talisman online, Conqueror Online, Ragnarok Online, Runes of Magic, Champions Online, RaiderZ, 2Moons, MU Online, Ultima Online, Rakion. (Guys I only had so many hours of teenage free time, I have played many, many MMOs but not every single one on the planet 😂 )

Something about Silkroad was truly magical back in a day. I remember when it got plagued with gold bots I used to log off at one certain spot near Samarkand where one specific group of bots farm before servers would go down for maintenance and after they went back up I'd login and invite all the newly logged in bots to exp auto and item auto party and that one group of bots would accept the invite giving me afk exp+gold. Good times, never forget

God Silkroad Online was such a fantastic time back in the day. Absolutely loved the game.

silkroad is the best in my opinion

The time with Silkroad is such a beautiful memory. It's almost a love-hate relationship. I think it's a shame that Joymax ruined the game so badly.

Wow! I’m amazed by the quality and professionalism behind your videos. You definitely deserve a lot more subscribers, keep it up mate! As for the games, Silkroad will live forever in my heart.

Silkroad online, still the best MMO till this day

Glad to see Cabal on the list. It's a game that seems to be forgotten, or at least whenever I used to mention I played it hardly anyone knew the game. After playing Rappelz or Last Chaos, I gotta agree Silkroad was the best. Also Aika Online, some years later.

The nostalgia of hearing PW, Tera, Flyff and Runescape music is unreal. Life was much easier when these games were the shit.

Silkroad was released in 2005 and still it's graphic is such refreshing and skills are looking amazing. This game brings so much memories.

Thanks for putting this together, really loved hearing the soundtracks to memories I forgot I had. You deserve more subs for sure! :)

I still miss silkroad, played from early 80 cap up untill 120cap was just released, after 100cap it started to go down hill, its more pay2win now and alot of english speaking players were leaving. 80-90-100 cap were the best times i ever had...

Silkroad Online is the best i play it since my childhood

I still get extremely nostalgic hearing Flyff's bgms :( Especially Flaris and Saint Morning themes.

Yooo this is crazy. So nostalgic. I played the hell out of Cabal Online, Ijji Gunz, Silkroad, and RuneScape. Sooo many years ago. This was an awesome vid, thanks!

Damn I played all these. I feel a connection with this nostalgia damn

Silkroad Online, Aion. Absolutely loved playing these two. I still to this day find private servers to play on that are set in some of the old patches for both games. I will always love you Silkroad Online.

I spent a good time of my life in Perfect World and I do not regret anything, it was a beautiful experience, the music, the friends I made, in addition to learning English, it brings me many good memories

This whole video was a nostolgia trip for me. I played every single one of these games, some more than others but have fond memories of all of them.

Played most of these. Thanks for the music got some goosebombs as well. Nostalgia overload and nice video my man :)

Played Silkroad, Cabal and Aion for aaages! Loved every single minute I miss that time...

Silkroad at it's peak was beautiful. If it was remade I'm sure it would be most peoples favorite for it's balanced pvp and job system.

Great video, Talyk! Wathching this, I remembered that besides Silkroad (which was one of my favorite MMos ever made) I remember I sunk in thousands of hours into MU Online and 2Moons (renamed Dekaron) and I had such a great time in those games, they all offered a different dopamine kick...good times. Anyways, great video and hope to see more! Have a great one!

Silkroad Online was my first introduction to mmorpgs. So long ago it was now and I had so much fun with it. Grinding forever lol. Then came Perfect World, then World of Warcraft, then Final Fantasy XIV. A couple in between Silkroad, Perfect World, and WoW were 2 Moons and Requiem.

PWI always and forever in my heart. Miss that game so much 😭❤ Venomancer 🦊 and Tideborn 🧜‍♀️ my favorite Races!

That intro audio of old Aion login page really hits home. Classic Aion Patches still is the best for me. When the Abyss/Dredgion and Rifting was still a thing.

Silkroad is still till this day the only time I had fun in an mmo.

I miss the old school FlyFF. Now it's an online browser game, but never the same.

Bro...you got a sub from me. Played all those games from 2005-2012. Was a time like no other, definitely hard to find today as someone in my mid 20's. 600 subscriber.

Silkroad online was the Father and Mother (Alpha & Omega) of all MMO Games in that time, remember 2005. and games in that time!

Very nice list! Aion, Perfect World, 9 Dragons, Silkroad and Flyff are my definite Top picks! All of them hit me with Nostalgia and even their login screen music is enough to almost make me cry. There was another good MMO that I think should have been in the list, called ArchLord. As for Flyff - it recently got republished officially and it concentrates more on the old-school aspects.

This was such a nice video to watch- Really enjoyed it and would encourage your good work mate. Well Done

Played the hell out of Ragnarok, MU online, RAN online, Cabal, Khan online, Silkroad, Rohan blood feud, RF online, Tantra, Rappelz, and Perfect World. Those we're the good old days, hard grinding, time consuming, but enjoyed every bit of it. Perfect world was the first MMORPG that made me spend a bit of money on it, lol! I got entranced in it's crafting and made me buy mats in the item shop just to make a perfect weapon for my character. 🤣 I still the remember the customization of the face in that game. The game company in my country behind it, started a competition on a look alike with a price money. One of the winners has a character with Rinoa's face in it from FF8.

this was the time that grinding is much more important than your assignment. thanks for making this video! really felt nostalgic and knocked me into reality that I am old and have real life responsibilities but still can enjoy casual games but not to the extent of being on top

I loved being a Winged Elf in Perfect World and trying to harvest materials from places I wouldn't have otherwise reached, usually getting killed immediately upon catching agro from a random monster.

So many memories. It was the cabal music for me, right in my feels.

This video really made me feel some type of way. The music for cabal really had me going back to my childhood

Cabal Online gave me the first taste of MMORPG. Now it's my favorite genre.

Almost cried when I heard 4:20 was one of my favs Rip PWI :'(

I loved Aion back in the day, bought it the moment it launched. I was a diehard WoW player back then but fell in love with Aion so much that it was the only game I played for a good year.

SRO and GunZ were me and my cousins' childhood 🥺🖤 Heck a lot of this list is!

Cabal 2 was like a meteor. It came fast, it was gone faster.

Great vids man keep up the good work

Man, I still love Silkroad. If something like OSRS (Which I still play, even 16 years later) would be done to Silkroad, I would return. And Flyff... How many hours got shredded by that game.

Silkroad was unbelievable! I played it around 08ish. Got to level 50ish and I thought I was the greatest. Would always party with noobs and help them level up 🤪.

i really love this video it made me riminise alot definitely some honorable mention would be rappelz , runes of magic , champions online , raiderz

Damn I remember playing silkroad and watching naruto. Then i would play naruto music in the background as i grinded on silkroad lol

Kudos ! ❤ I like the focus on what they brought to the table! we all grow together! 😊

My 1st mmo was Cabal used to play in 2012..until now those theme song still stuck in my head

I also played perfect world. Boy that game was huge. Never really got far in that though

nothing beats the uniqueness of RF Online. its sad you didnt include my favorite game of all time and i'm still playing it today.

I use to play Cabal online. That game was so addictave. I kept coming back for more gameplay.

AHHHHH 9 Dragons! I didn't believe it would be here so I began the journey to try to remember the name of it up until the moment you said it. Glad you mentioned it was fairly obscure, because it's always seemed like one of those games people played but never mentioned. I remember being stupid lucky with Blood Essence drops and spending half my day in the market to sell them. There are so many memories on this list that seemed forgotten even in the honorable mentions. Great job

What hooked me with Perfect World was the non-instanced huge world and absolutely beautiful, serene soundtrack.

good video mate, youd definitely grow if you made more commentary videos like this

Silk road and Perfect world

Silkroad and Cabal was one of my childhood games

Silkoad / Aion

Silkroad will still be the best MMORPG just the nostalgic part where i was i dont know like 10 years old and played whole day with my brother and my friends and farmed sp for weeks :D and the job system was nice and in this time i though the spells would be awesome too :D

Ah man SO MUCH nostaglia, I can't take it... good old times... I cherish those memories so much

Although I played almost all I have to admit Perfect World and Flyff for whatever reason had the most nostalgic music. I literally pause the video and closed my eyes to think of the days I spent there with my guild and my many online gfs. Good times (Besides Runescape ofc but that's as obvious as it being on the list)

Flyff most nostalgic

I spend time in most of these games, Im fucking crying now, I just turned 30 and i cant find game that will hold me like that..

love your content, deserve more subs

My man.. This video is golden!

The BG music hits hard with the nostalgia. 😭

Old but gold. They have it all... Silkroad online perfect, how many hours and game feels so alive....

I played 6 of theses games idc if you don't want to read this, but here it is my nostalgia thought about some of them: - Cabal was all about being badass. Cosmetics, armors, spells/skills was so cool, sh**t i even remember grinding thoses punching bag forever just to xp a skill and see what the other will be. The music was so good and entertaining when you were doing instances (the group name is Novasonic btw). -Perfect world (2008/2010) You could fly with a pair of wings or a flying sword, holy fkk just flying through a open world mmo was a blast for me at the time. classes diversities with many cities to explore and with the soundtrack i had the most relaxing gameplay i ever experienced in my life. -Gunz, I was too young to play this game and because it required so much skill to play, i was often raging. I remember playing this game with my best friend everyday afterschool trying to get better with him! it was the first time i experienced a real competitive game. Tera, I sold most of my PS2/PS3 games to buy that game only to see that you could play it for free a year later.... . The graphics was insane for a mmorpg at the time and so was the combat system. I remember playing it on my old samsumg laptop running it at 30 fps Lmao. Flyff, i loved the grinding system. i remember poking groups of mammoths to get the aggro so they could follow me all at the same time and stack them just to kill them all at once with a aoe spell (best feeling in the world). Also, i remember the place with thousand of players selling their sh*t, they were everywhere and sometime the place was laggy af because of this. Aion, my parents bought me this game as a gift bc i was doing well at school. i played this game 1 or 2 week after the release, cities were crowded, there was players everywhere, ppl were spamming for a group h24. skills, rune, stigma elements system was revolutionnary for me at the time. environnement was beautiful i was so immersed into this world. Sometime i wish i could go back to my kid state where i could fully immerse myself into thoses worlds and just having fun with my friends without caring about competitivies and P2W content. That was the good old days 🥲

I remember a game called Atlantica....it was one where you had a party of 9 and it was turn based. Man, I forgot about that game till this video.

Did I just enter a chatt with all my childhood friends? I played all those games except for Gunz, definitely missed out on that one

Great video! Love it!

Im 36 today, watching this hits hard, such nostalgia, the music.

I played Flyff back at v7 on the German Server and even after over 14 Years i still remember all the Good Time with this Game and im actually waiting for Flyff Universe or Flyff Project M that will come out this Year where they go back to the roots so Vanilla Flyff but with some extras ^^ But Tera too i played Tera for like 3 Years and even Today i still think its one of the most beautiful MMORPGs ever ^^

Runescape!!!! That opening music makes me cry and happy at the same time! All the pvp wars etc. oldschool ruinscape should be number 1!

I once reached max level in Silkroad back in a day took over a year. Best mmo ever played. simple but yet addictive and hunter thief was my favorite activity.

Isro was my first mmo it was the most amazing feeling at the time.

good ole time in silkroad online.. I remember lvling up to 65 with no exp booster, just plain ole grinding.

9 dragons and Silkroad were very well crafted old games. I never found any other MMORPG quite like them. I've been actually searching for something like 9 dragons for a while with the many clans style and how atmospheric and distinct each felt when you visited their bases but the most similar I could find were Age of Wushu and Swordsman online which still do not feel the same. ;-; I'll never forget the Sacred flower clan atmospheric base and dope moves specially dagger ones. Quite a unique game.

One day I was at work in the office... And someone played Undead Ground sound track from Cabal... I burst in tears in front of tens of my colleges and assistants... Did the same here

I think nostalgia is a really strong driving force, this is why I'm excited about Genfanad

As someone who is just getting started with the MMORPG genre, I'll make sure to try all these games at least once in my lifetime.

AMAZING LIST ❤❤❤ WHEN YOUR LOOKING FOR NO TIPICAL MMORPGS, THANK U DUDE GREAT VIDEO👌👌👌👌👌

wow perfect world was really good.. i still listen to the OST from time to time

God damn it, I didn't know seeing Aion again would hit me like that. One of the only mmos I was part of from the beginning when it came to the west. Wish it never went F2P/kept being more popular.

Oh my Dear Lord. man your video brings tears to my eyes... Good days man.. Good days

Check out the newly released games as well. Polity online will be nice too

I used to play the heck out of Gunz, along with some Perfect world when I wasn't big into Runescape. I think I put more hours into Gunz than almost any other game I could imagine except Minecraft over the years

The only thing that keeps me coming back to Silkroad Online is how rewarding it is at times to grind. I always main as Chinese and every time I go Heuksal, I'm always anticipate the Stuns and how it just cancels any damage that the Mobs wants to dish out, and Ghost Spear Knockbacks too also feels rewarding. Bicheon keeps on guessing by spamming the knock-down stab button every time a mob or player gets knocked down, hoping that you can shove in a 2nd stab before they stand-up, it pisses me of everytime the 2nd knockdown stab gets cancelled and would spam the knockdown to get that perfect double stab. Pacheon, feels great too! If Heuk has their stuns & KB's, Bich has their KD+Stabs, Pacheon has their Range and Beautiful Crit+Crit sound. **Chef kiss** You would like the bicheon, you would hope and anticipate the Crit from afar, and next line up either Arrow combo or Anti Devil series just to continue the good feeling of that Crit sound and Camera Shake. Thinking about it makes me want to play it again in PVP private servers. Nothing have I ever felt soo good on a game by having 6 Straight Crits with sound and camera shake from 3 diff. mobs just 2 shotting them. Silkroad will always have a place in my heart. But too bad the Joymax had to run it to the ground. They know the insides and outside of the game better than anyone else, they could've done something about the bot problem, but then people are just tired from complaining and not getting heard and just resolved by jumping to a Private server(which barely lasts) or Jumping the entire game for a new one.

Still play rs3 on and off with years break. Best MMI memories was with shaiya online and atlantica online 07 08 era release

Silkroad, KalOnline, LegendOfAres, Cabal, and 12Sky were all my favorite games.

Allods, i was SO dissapointed back then that the Gibberlings could not be Paladins. It would be hillarious! The one of the front holds the weapon, the one of the right holds a Shield, and the left one casts the Spells. It would've been so funny! Imaging Blocking, they all could huddle behind the shield one for them to get protected, but also give the shielder some stability support.

As a huge Silkroad fan after i saw Silkroad comments ım too happy rn

Ace Online did what Tera did way earlier (also called space cowboys etc from gpotato). They had two nations with presidents. The game was insane

2024 and if you played silkroad online when it first came out. Wow it was amazing! One of the best mmo that "was free2play" at that time. Great memories....

Definitely missing Knight Online here, I think it was one of the most influential MMOs out there

Silkroad, Runescape and Cabal were the ones I played. good times!!!

Ragnarok online my first and most nostalgic mmorpg, also got nostalgia for tera and aion and allods and perfect world, i tried the rest but didn't get to endgame in all

I’ve never heard of Aion, but I played Aika Online on and off for years, until recently when I heard it got shut down for good. Is aion by the same people? It looks sooo similar!

I'm honestly surprised Anarchy Online isn't mentioned at all in this video, it was one of my favorites.

I miss Tera so much! My first guild and grind experience ever. GVG and raids. I miss my guild! Miss hanging out at the town with my guildmates😅