I started playing at 11 years old in 2001.... mainly cuz my big brother did. What a magical experience it was... i barely knew english. and before long, I knew a lot of english, and I was RR5 on my berserker and had a guild and a shaman that i duo'd with
Do you remember what everyday life in the early days of DAoC looked like? You log in and first consider whether it's worth taking a look over the next hill to see if there's a good spot for some XP. You start running and initially see nothing, continuing over the next hill and then another. Be careful not to get lost, because death lurks everywhere. Suddenly, you see another player who is 2 levels above you. You greet each other, and you ask where he has been gathering his last XP. He says, "Come with me, I'll help you." So you continue running, and you ask if there's a stone to bind somewhere. You take a little detour, and eventually you arrive at a huge plain, green grass and enemies everywhere. As you fight enemies together for some time, you get into a conversation and eventually develop a good friendship. Compare this to todays standards. Its a shame
My first MMORPG and a game that provided me the escapism and distractions i needed to get through some rough times back in 2001-2004. I hope the friends i made, and lost contact with, are doing well in life. How i wish i could go back in time and experience all that again for the first time. - Troubs, Briton Minstrel, Tristan. - Cerasumat, Briton Paladin, Tristan.
This game was lightning in a bottle. This music will always be so special to me. So atmospheric and surreal. Damn. Wish I could go back for a day to the time this released. Sigh
The first picture made me tear up, happy birthday to the one and only Dark age of Camelot. And thank you as always for your hard work on these great collections.
I just miss playing with my dad. i was just a kid and he ran a big guild and he was so goofy and liked. I wanted so badly to be like him. I remember all the people we played with being so welcoming and treating me so well just because I was his son. Everyone was so nice even though I sucked and always put in time to help me and teach me. Love you dad and sending out good thoughts and energy to everyone else who was so kind!
thats really awesome. my big brother was 18 when daoc came out, I was 11. Because of my brother I got invited to the guild. my english wasn't very good yet. It was one of the best experiences of my life, playing DAOC and getting to know the guild and becoming level 50. Going around in all the scary places as a Berserker. Like.. muspelheim. Getting to lvl 45 or so, and trying to get to Malmohus experience grounds! and the journey to get the epic armor and going out in the frontier for the first time. thats just a few of the many awesome times
I totally took what I had for granted back then. . . Listening to this now... I could only wish for the simple life of exploring a world for the first time.
This was my first MMO and I met so many good people here...that is something rare to say consideing how the mmo scene has been for the past 10 years...I would look forward every evening playing the game, questing, griding and RVR. I was a 19-24 BG rat man those were some good fights.
I played a highlander/polearm on albion palomides before seeing the light and switching to midgard on gawaine. 20 years later I still fondly remember the good times. Now, how do I even remember the server names for this amount of time? Well, there you go. We were simply so proud of the community, the identity. We are still searching for something as good. Some have. I gave up. Life goes on. But I still remember rolling around the old frontiers of Emain. Good times.
0:37 this map was in the little booklet that came with the game, i remember endless hours sitting on the toilet and study every little detail on this map. beautiful times.
5 years since my last post and it still tears my heart out that no one has come forward to buy this project. A person of vision could run this through Unreal Engine and update the music with new orchestration. No one will think twice about doing that. But if one person does one day invest the money to get it done, 50 studios will suddenly try to copy it. Imagine seeing Hibernia and its incomparable Celtic lore, King Arthur's mythical Albion in a time when Merlin still stalked in the mists of Dyfed and Lyoness. Imagine what the Norse lands of Scandinavia would look like when brought to life. Imagine epic, Howard Shore-styled music and beautiful graphics. Dark Age of Camelot (Reborn) might not replace a cash shop grinder that appeals to a cosmetic audience, but it would be the best offering for RPG gamers who miss the essence of what a massively multiplayer ROLE-PLAYING game used to be or in this, never truly was. One day.
@@elllelf I'm part of a team that is doing so. We call it Vigrid Online at the moment. It will be using west, north and south europe as the 3 realms. We are putting together a demo for kickstarter using UE5.
Played a Sorcerer. Everyone thought the class was weak. Mezzed entire armies. People thought the class should be nerfed. People knew me without ever meeting me. Strangers shared their accounts with me. Some girl was into me; I liked her too. But I was clueless and not very emotionally tuned. DAoC really helped me grow as a person. Wrote about it in college. I've lived twice as many years since then, and it's still one of my greatest memories. Truly, truly the best game I will ever play.
No doubt, I've been searching, but haven't found anything that comes close to it. The game was definitely right place, right time. So nice to have the pservers to help drege up some fond memories too.
I kind of miss those days.. badly sometimes. And I don't think it's just about the game. it's about when I was 20 years younger I'm 45 now certainly I loved playing. I played it for 8 years maybe close to 9 years. I kind of soloed alot. I was a loner. A lot of times I would bring my cleric with me as close as I could get it, because I had two computers at the time my old one and the newest one I had built. For so long I would get off work, come home, and start the game up, and see if there was a fight for the relics yet. You know the more I think about it playing for eight years I really can't remember how I dealt with not playing anymore. I mean seemingly I guess it didn't bother me but maybe it did underneath. I don't know... I'm just talking out of my **** while I'm sitting here daydreaming about the old game
i started out in midgard for friends but switched to albion just to play bolt mez. always was jealous of the other realms. but when i started we didn’t even have pbaoe and only close range stun and mez. instant, sure, but on a healer class so meh. man i miss 2001
This was the best game ever. The camaraderie amongst guildmates, the battles vs other realms, the mutual agreed upon duels amongst other realms... Albion Merlin.... Best times ever!!!
I was 18y when it was released. I was a bad student already and finally quit school and started to stay awake whole nights. And daocs music fits perfect to the feeling of lonlyness I felt not only in my reallife also in daoc I was completely lost and alone. Trying to find my way through this game was as hard as manging rl these days. But we did it. What a great time And after coming back time to time reading comments of all the daoc athmosphere music videos I have to say that i never read so deep emotional comments from grown up man anywhere else. It is just insane what daoc means to us
I love this so much! I spent many years of my young adult life playing this. This brings back so many good memories. To this day, there has never been a better PvP game imo. This game will forever hold a very special place in my heart
I just wanted to have a short peak and it hooked me. I was pulled into a void of good feelings and timeless beauty. Valec -Albion - first 50 earth-mage - Hüter des Grals - Server Avalon
God dam this game has so much atmosphere. god the memorys of this game the music the guilds the people i played with just a amazign exsperiance back in the day. I had amaing holidays i have my own family now i have done so much with my life and seen so much. but this game in it hey day was a exsperiance i can never forget.
Track one brings back so much memories. This game was a true master piece and its saddening to think we will never get this vibe back from DAoC. We never knew the day it was going to be over either it just was ;(
Hi Merk, thank you for your continuous effort. It's such a niche audience you are catering to here, thanks for doing this! I'm coming back to your DAoC ambience recording in very regular intervals, it really carries me back to some fond teenage memories. And I'm glad to see I'm not alone here ;) More technically, I'm noticing some noisy distortions in the tracks... May I ask, how did you record it? Is it part of the game client or did you record with your sound card in "stereo mix" mode? Since this approach tends to produce noise like that, maybe the WASAPI feature of Windows might produce better results? Anyways, thanks for the effort, it's really very much appreciated!
I use this to sleep. I want to play it again. I wish this game would get a remake, close to the original but a little bit upliftet in movement and round gfx :) rest should be the same. I think I will srsly play it. New world was bad, only this game and warhammer online are good mmorpg's
I have wished someone after all these years would have purchased the rights and revamped the game with todays graphics. love this game! Wackines/ Albion i still have all games and guides. Made alot of good friends during that time. Good memories thanks for sharing!
@@honoremirabeau6996 but as mention before: the magic of this game will never come back. I guess it should stay what it is: a wonderful memory of times before the Internet filled with trolls
Grinding gobs and trees to 50 then RVRing forever. I would have RvR'd in SI until this day if they just left it alone. The realm rank system was amazing.
I wish I had the chance to play this as an adult. I was in middle school and my parents only let me play 30 minutes a day. I never got to experience the endgame and just dueled people around lvl 20 lol.
I can recommend you to take an eye on Warhammer Return of Reckoning! I play this and listen to daoc music, its both mythic entertainment studios. And you will feel the small part of DAOC
@@socalion90 yes more than this, very friendly multilanguage with around 1k at primetime. At the moment its perfect. Yesterday there was a server issue with a 5 day rollback, yeah unlucky but its free and all of the mods do this in their free time. But now they give a 5 day 2x XP event. 2 evenings with only pvp you got half of the level 😁
Track 7....the best imo! The memories this music and game has given me will stay with me forever. if you havent played since the beggining you have no idea but man this is a legendary game . Three realms, so many classes and races. No other MMO like it ever!!!
The music is from Jordheim, but the building you are referring to is the Baron's Keep in the Foothills of Albion (part of the Darkness Rising quest for the Albion realm). The music and the locations is randomzied for this video for giggles. :D
Nostalgia's indeed a powerful element of life. Elder Scrolls Online is probably 3000% better of a game, but without the nostalgia factor, i could never really get into it..
its not though. This games art and just general vibe were much more likeable to a niche audience. While Elder Scrolls online is more generally palatable not to mention easier...it loses charm and originality by leaning to heavily on those elements. (elder scrolls that is)
Today I discovered something amazing. I was listening to an audio drama from the German series Gruselkabinett, episode 163, chapter 41. Suddenly, music from DAOC was playing in the background-specifically track 2 Night from this video. I wrote to the producers and hope that it doesn’t violate any copyright
I'd love to hear everyone's Daoc experience. Quick one from me. Started Alb friar at launch, leveled with some fun guys, went to emain and got one shot by a hunter. Immediately went and rolled a hunter lol.
The week of release, I rolled a Mid Healer on Guinevere in honor of my fiancée (now wife) but later learned that all my "internet buddies" were in Albion on Percival. Switched and rolled a few but settled on my highlander mercenary. A year later the entire guild up and switched to Hibernia on Percival and I had yet to reach level 50. The one guild member who didn't switch would quit a year later when I took an extended break, but he did attend my (real-life) wedding which was pretty damn cool (stay frosty, Kiler!).
This is a great soundtrack to listen to while running around NF solo doing BP quests. Great to hear the more quality tracks that DAOC has to offer but we rarely hear.
I'm out of the loop a bit but I think the Veil Rift has been closed for some years to make way for Broadsword's "Dragon's Curse Campaign." I am going to assume that the old Veil Rift music is going to be something similar to ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p1dWd85Wirg.html or ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LWsP57s46Q4.html
I worked at Mythic for 5 years. It was a very special time of my life. Just had my first kid. I was as much of a fan/player as I was a dedicated dev artist. This really means a lot to me. Thank you for making this!
Thanks for you work put in at Mythic! Daoc was my 2nd or 3rd mmorpg, but the first one I actually hooked into. I think for all its flaws, maybe it spoiled me. Where this game shined it was blindingly brilliant.
I remember sneaking around the frontiers as a scout keeping tabs on hunting groups here and there...try to pick off some stragglers and sneak away. Was a fun group vs group pvp experience, as well, but eventually the whole game turning into a speed zergfest ruined it for me. Gone were the days of being able to get a group and be viable out in the frontiers. I was also around during the drama where opposing players found a way to sneak into the other realm PvE areas. Everyone from all sides were getting all excited, even the realms being invaded...we would have lil manhunts lol.
Theirs a new freeshard opened up back in 2022 December last month. Its called Eden. Theirs around 1000 players in each realm. Classic and Shrouded Isles. No TOA or ToA classes. Leveling is easier. Lots of fun to be had.
Jahrelang gespielt! Faszinierend das man Hibernia in und auswendig kennt, Albion fast, aber von Midgard fast nie was gesehen hat. So krass wie dieses Spiel seine drei Reiche auch unabhängig voneinander gelassen hat. In Elder Scrolls Online kann man ja überall hin auch zu den "Feinden". Es war TOLL!
I think I remember the game launched without this music, then they added it in, right? I just vaguely remember a new "ambient music patch" super early on
It was added in either with or after Shrouded Isles. I have distinct memories or running around mostly in relative silence until you entered a town or some landmarks.
