Yo that Pirates of the Caribbean game is even beyond what "AAAA" devs can do today. I mean, open world, and you can land on any island and fight on foot! Watch out Skull & Bones.
A lot of older MMOs are far beyond what devs can do these days. Because, well, devs have no vision and no creativity. They have the audacity to claim you can't do the things MMOs were doing over 20 years. Fucking massive smucks.
Back to life, how? You mean after the closure? If so, he or she would have had to comply with Disney's NDA agreement and this..."is" what keeps original developers from active participation (for the future).
Dudeee pirates of the caribean online was such a hidden gem, the ships battle, the enemy raiding the islands at certain point of the day, seeing every player defending the island agains the skeletons. Such a good mechanics and game for its year, wish some company made a game with some of the features.
Isn't there P-Server for that game ? might as well support for it doesn't completely die .. hopefully someone brings back Wildstar, not my favorite but still was a unique MMORPG that didn't deserve too die.
Tera and Elyon are part of these who exist only under the form of private servers these days. Tera had fantastic combat for its time, while I remember Elyon mostly for its character creation and how you had the option of open-world player housing (albeit with rent)...
They should be forced to release source code like 15 years after the game dies completely. Books and Movies go into the public domain, why can't games??
Back in the day, my brother and I were big into Everquest. My little sister wanted to play with us, but she was too young. So mom tasked us with finding and MMO for her. We found Toontown and she was hooked.
Thanks for taking a look at Matrix Online! It's my favorite MMO of all time. The eerie feeling you had may have been amplified by the emptiness of the server, but it was kind of always like that, I think by design. The city was grimy and felt unsafe, there were gangs of secret vampires and werewolves and fallen angels, a lot of the locations and lore were biblical references, and the plot - in which you were a 'redpill' who knew the nature of the Matrix and had to protect the innocent and unaware 'bluepills' - was pretty high-concept for an MMO. I think it failed for the same reasons I loved it - it wasn't colorful or friendly or swashbuckling, it was gritty and gray with a focus on secrets and conspiracies.
@10:51 many of the things that are missing ; are pieces of code that were apparently stored on the companies servers. companies do this ; specifically for this reason. time goes by and someone wants to play this again; and i get it; but from company standpoint; you can go kick a tree lol. all online games are like this. many features will just be gone. and many of them might be critical to the game itself.
I highly doubt that kids are the one that's playing the modern Toontown. Actual younger generation are too busy playing Roblox, Fortnite, or even mobile trash; Instead of a social, role-playing MMO game about some anthropomorphic animals that appeals to a certain "group" of people. You even experienced it firsthand 😂
That Warhammer Online tease :( I really enjoyed that game, but EverQuest won (and still wins) my monthly sub dollars. I gave The Matrix Online a fair shake back in the day, since it was part of my EQ subscription. It...wasn't good. The devs certainly tried a lot of interesting ideas though.
This is a cool premise for a video. :) A couple of honorary mentions that are run by fans of the game today): City of Heroes (and villains) - fantastic game. Warhammer Online - Age Of Reckoning Pirates of the Burning Sea - best in class ship combat, IMO. Sort of. And the golden oldie STILL run by the original developer, with new graphic engine, and free to play without stupid monetization: Anarchy Online, by Funcom - this was a classic before even World of Warcraft (but everquest was earlier.).
I remember playing Matrix Online, while the listening to an online DJ (through winamp) while dancing in the in game night clubs. They would make call outs and stuff and those clubs had close to 30 people just hanging out and talking. With endgame fashion of course... good, nerdy times. Thank you Waydot
Why put the Warhammer logo in your preview photo thingy, you are wrong for that and my heart cries. As Warhammer online was and will always be the best PVP game :(
Honestly? Warhammer was going to be in this video until i realised how fleshed out and amazing the game is. Warhammer is getting its own dedicated video in the future. Sorry for the clickbait mate
@@Waydots Omgg for real? You're not just saying that? I mean I would totally understand, the artstyle, systems and just.. how it still works (altho on private servers) is almost unheard of. It's such good quality (yes there are some issues but every game has) but honestly, this game is better than many current MMO's and it's crazy. And it paved the way for many new things, like pvp systems but most notably the ''public event'' or whatever it was called, system, became widely adopted among newer mmo's. I remember these events and even newer games never quite nailed it for me, Warhammer truly had something unique and it's a shame that EA killed it off, like they do with all that is or was special. It's totally okay! Happy to hear you not just clickbaited me :)
Two games I used to play, one of them a lot more than the other, Firefall which I still miss, had decent gameplay with alright progression, the ability to essentially mine resources just about anywhere and random folk could join in to help was nice, and the other was Global Agenda, though I don't remember if it was ever really an MMO persay
it should be made a congressional law that all games after a certain period of time ; that the source codes for the games are public record. if they do this. many games of old will be fixed and updated correctly. even new games will be created from that source code. it could be a boon for coders
My first ever "MMO" so to speak was Pangya, and at the time I started playing it was called Albatross18. It shut down and got revived many times before finally shutting down for good. There are private servers still, but it's not quite the same as it was. I miss it with all of my heart. Maybe I'll give a private server another try sometime.
I was a huge pirates online player back in the day, it was my first mmorpg I love the recreation, as someone who played it when it was new they have done an AMAZING job!
My first MMO was Bit Heroes, I have been playing the game on and off since it came out in 2016, Very underated and has a somewhat thriving community. I would love if you did a 100 hour speedrun, or even 100 day run, you can easily get the to the latest content within 70-80 days.. If your gonne give it a go, hit me up.
I remember adverts for Pirates Online back in the day and it looked fucking awesome Looking at it now, it feels like it's probably more fun than Sea of Thieves
for me it is Vanguard, it has really great ideas like diplomacy, great classes like bard who made his own spells, necromancer that designed his minions, best crafting ever, great fishing etc. and as far as games never made, my biggest regret is Mythica from microsoft GS - it could have been great
I would love to try silkroad online, kal online, or Risk your life, loved those games back in the day. Hey, that pirate game is better than skull and bones 😅
please please do a pirates online deep dive. it is *such* a fun game, and the ship combat is crazy engaging for the time it was created. Sort of a precursor to Sea of thieves, in a way.
I have discovered you just recently, and I must say, I was missing a lot, totally love your videos. Watching the „MMO for the first time” series I thought, maybe RuneScape 3 from a new player perspective? I know you have played it for a long time, but I think that could be useful for someone who has never touched it :) Keep up the great work!
Queen's Blade is gone it had smexy anime girls you played as and had to spend real money to get undies for them so they can have a stat boost yea it was pay to win f2p mmo
2nd ever MMORPG I've played was FusionFall, and I highly recommend giving it a go for everyone. There are private servers to experience the sheer ambience and the passion that went into it back in the time. I still love it dearly despite it's dated (heavily so) combat system.
@Waydots yeah, and the 6th was on the way, but well, we all know what Amber did to prevent that happening. We've got a legendary attorney movie instead.
If you want an almost dead, forgotten MMO I recommend Voyage Century Online. Kinda RuneScape clone in naval theme. Recently IGG closed the VCO due to some drama, but Bounty Bay Online from developer Snail Games still exists. BBO is VCO but from a different company
@@LotusPetal I wish to give you all the details but it's all hazy. I found some info that Snail Games (developer) is broke, but how that translates to IGG I don't know. I found some videos like this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1lgS_fES3ZY.html
Seriously! If you're reading this and never experienced Pirates Online, you need to check it out! This game was way ahead of it's time and kept me glued playing on my crappy Windows 2000 computer.
I wanna be able to play Everquest: Online Frontiers the PS2 game again. I had so much fun as a kid playing it. I even had a rare discontinued item u had to get by doing a tough quest that got discontinued. Then a about two years later they closed the servers. 😢 i miss that kind of experience. The simple but fun MMO'S, wish they would remake it in modern graphics.
Dungeon Runners is a game that nobody seems to touch on. If you do another one of these. Please tackle that! Its NCSofts spoof of WoW and the Treasure Gnomes were HILARIOUS.
another good one, and it really really could of been the best, is the story of AoC (the proper one age of conan) but how funcom fecked it up by rushing release, i remember playing beta and opening day, the buzz was amazing until you got to about level 20 then hit the bad zone, no-one could pass it due to bugs etc not tested, was rushed out.. That game was and still is ahead of its time, Tortuga island is some of hte best area ive ever played
Toon town rewritten is fun but you should seriously give corporate class a try. They the base toontown expirence and overhauled it. There are new gags, new mechanics, new cogs, crazy bosses. Its all really amazing.
LEGO Universe would be perfect if this becomes a series. Was a subscription-service mmorpg from 2010-2012. Was finally made playable again sometime within the last 5 years. Setup isn't that difficult, and some discords run servers so you could actually experience the game with players again.
Funny, I played that Matrix online on that exact emulator a few weeks back myself. Awesome nostalgia but even when other are supposedly online its hard to actually find anyone. *tear*
