i remember the first time ever seeing wow, mulgore looked freaking huge with thunderbluff up in the distance, it seemed like it would just go on forever and i started to wonder where all the other races went. did they start at the other end of mulgore? after a couple of hours of watching a friend of mine play the game some guy helped us out with some quests around the later part of mulgore and showed us the way into the barrens. when i asked if this was still mulgore he told us to look at our map and damn.. i don't think my young mind was prepared for any of this. up to that point i as a dumb kid thought mulgore was wow. suddenly we were zooming out seeing kalimdor, azeroth and even a completely different planet out there in space. suddenly i realized the kind of experience we were getting into here and i was loving every second of it
Somthing I don't think people talk about alot is that moment when your new to wow and your exploring the starting zone, thinking that its soo big and expansive, and then you right click on the map either on accident or after a player told you to do it and you realize just how HUGE the world is. That moment is what got me hooked to the game. It was like magic.
Can completely relate to that, I remember fiirst taking the boat to Darkshore with my Draenei by accident, then taking the FP to Darnassus by mistake, it was then that the true size of World of Warcraft hit me. What a feeling...
@@LeprosuGnomemy noob ass did not know about portals to SW from DA (if they were even there at that point), so every time I started out as NE and leveled up to approx. lvl 10 I would undergo a journey Darnassus-Darkshore-Ashenvale-Barrens-Gadzetan ferry-Booty Bay-Stranglethorn Vale-Duskwood-Elwyn Forest-Stormwind and then I could start questing xD similar thing occured when I switched over to BE, but then it was a portal from Silvermoon-Lordaeron and then a zeppelin to Orgrimmar :D
this is so pure, i don't think i was ever that innocent. For me it was the idea that the only thing leveling was yourself and that the world was one huge continuous map, blew my tiny mind
It was similar for me, too. When I started, I thought Mulgore was the whole world. I couldn't imagine much being outside of it in the game. I will never forget the feeling when I discovered Barrens and realizing Mulgore is just a small piece of the world.
I deleted all my WoW Screenshots when I stopped playing out of spite and because I hated myself at that time for wasting so much time in this game. Today I hate myself for deleting so many many memories of this time. I had more than 800 screenshots from about 2 years :/
My first WoW character. A Tauren Shaman. I truly did not care about stats or getting epic gear. I was all too happy to help the nice old Tauren lady fetch some water from the well. I didn't even RUN around Thunder Bluff. I walked. Spoke to everyone. Greeted them. Damn I was happy. Also, I learned later on that Tauren Shamans are pretty kickass. Which is a nice bonus. :D
Khanzeal I truly could not care about your objective point of view on stats and what Horde races constitute the best for specific classes. As stated before, you have completely missed the point of what I wrote. Which was that I enjoyed WoW just for the fun and thrill of it. Your opinion on the matter is completely unwarranted and ireelevant. In other words, piss off. Grow a brain and start to use it. Be smarter, be better.
My most played Toon had 1 year 3 months and some like 13 days of played time. The second one has like 8 months. I lost 10 years to WoW and while I certainly missed out on other things due to this, you always miss out on something while doing something else. Now playing different Videos of Everness while working, despite having missed out on reallife things in these 10 years, my heart still aches as I can not play WoW nowadays, nor go back an do it again. These 10 years are not LOST by any means, as I highly doubt to feel such bittersweet pain by remebering other things at all. No one in my family can understand me here, not even my brother who can still play the game, as he has no Kids and his GF does not want any.
The year was 2005. I had just watched the chronicles of narnia movie. My dad had played Everquest but he made the transition to WOW. I often sat and watched him play for hours. I spent as much time with him as I could, since he was in the military he was often gone for months. After studying him play he finally let me play and create my own character. Since I had watched narnia earlier in the year I wanted to create a Tauren. In that movie , there is a Tauren like creature that fights for the white witch. Anyways I created a Tauren warrior and with the randomize name feature I went with Natoko. After going through much of the quests with ease I transitioned to crossroads. This is where I made my home. I loved the feel of the barrens. The flamingos, gazelles, lions, zhevra runners. This was before u could get a mount at level 20. You had to wait til level 40. I ran around for hours on end just killing everything in sight. Just as a young boy. Now here I am in college. 19 years old and haven't played wow in years. However I will always remember these sounds and the feelings of me as a young boy , just waiting for dad to get home to show him that he taught me well.
57:51 When i heard this theme again i remembered once when i was walking with my tauren in Thunderbluff.Ahhhh Thunderbluff a city high in the sky full with players...now empty like my soul,like Wow is now.I remember the city like use to be.Now everyone are in the new zones coming here just to train a skill or two.Everyone on the hurry to collect some new "epic" super-duper rare mount...i feel sorry for such people.They think they are playing the dream once Wow was but they are fooling themselves.Now Wow is pretty much this.Collecting mounts.
Mulgore reminds me of my time hiking the Appalachian Trail through Virginia - Parts of Virginia are kind of like this. Sometimes I'll come in game just to walk around the zone and remind me of my AT hike.
A true WoW fan that grew up with this game will feel me when i say that sometimes even today i just revisit these places only for the beautifull music and the nostalgic goosbumps ;( feels so sad and wonderful at the same time.. There was a time were many ppl consider making a shammy just cause of the early wolf form ;) or be alliance just to try out paladins thumbs up whoever feels me. May the dark lady watch over u :)
I really can't handle the nostalgia, i cried a million times while listening to wow music.... I just remember me when i was a 7 yo kid who didn't know how to play the game and so i walked across Teldrassil/Mulgore just to listen to the music and to explore a world i thought was so big i could explore forever.. And i was so fascinated by the spells, this year will be the 10th year of playing wow, it is so much more than a game for me, i really can't explain! (English is not my main language, sorry
I remember when I was level 5 or 10 walking to these giant hills and at the bottom of the elevator there were 2 level 70s on mounts and they had freaking shoulder pads. From that day on I was hooked.
Damn right, my first character was a troll shaman and I hated org. The moment I stepped here I felt it was much more my style. Since trolls don’t really have a designated city, I’m happy that I get to choose to afk here :)
The passion and quality of the early World of Warcraft was amazing. This and Elwynn Forest are my favorites. You can tell the composer was really into it at the time he was making it, which you can really say about the recent efforts.
That music ... that feel that atmosphere ... i am proud to only play Tauren back at that time and still i love the tauren. I loved the old beginning area and the quests and the city. I could never leave thunder bluff without saying that i will come back. Thats my hometown ...
Thank you! Just to clarify again, I'm not the original composer. All credits for the music itself goes to extremely talented people at Blizzard. Specifically Russell Brower.
Oh man, i am so much love your videos!!! They always help me remember the atmosphere this greatest game ever! I don`t play game now, but listen your videos every day!
+Игорь Гвоздев One of the reasons I wanted to make these videos in the first place is to give people a way to enjoy the ambience of the game outside the game itself. So yay :)
Mulgore and Thunder Bluff hold a place in my heart, but I probably will never forgive Blizzard for killing Cairne and ravaging Mulgore. And Camp Taurajo. I wish I still had my Tauren druid and hunter, but Blizzard lost both somehow during MoP, along with another of my other characters that I had had since the beginning. The Tauren hunter was the second character I'd ever made in WoW.I felt like I'd been physically punched when I logged in and were simply....gone. No reason. Just gone. Data corruption or something. It took them 6 months to admit they couldn't bring them back. So with all that Cata did, and then what "data corruption" did, this is very bittersweet to listen to.
While a point of much ire in myself I accepted Cairnes loss as a part of the tapestry of Azeroths story. He was a pure manifestation of the true spirit of the Tauren race and was immortalized by his deeds and legacy to his people. I haven't heard of characters being lost before I would probably suspect a third party, but I can understand your reaction though, if my Tauren were lost I can't imagine that I would ever return.
I never told this to anyone before because well no one would believe me but once at around 3-4 am i was in TB working on the action house when i saw someone without a name tag on a flying wryven casually passing by me it was TBC and no fly mounts could be there. I thought of that moment countless times since then in my life even after i quited wow.. i dont know why but that was something that marked me for life...! Maybe it was a bug maybe it was a GM but with all the power of my soul i know he was a real-life-ingame dude who didnt care about what blizzard allowed or not. I wish i could speak with him maybe again at 3-4am inside the cave over the entrance of Wailing Caverns, just thinking what he would have to say to me brings tear to my eyes, but that will never hapen.. I will never forget you bro and i hope you are still somewhere out there roaming on the mountains and plains of Mulgore Barens and Durotar with your wryven far far away from all the expansions .. May the wind guide you my friend..
3-4am is when `the curtain between you and true reality` is the thinnest, and add this shamanic sounding music ..maybe that flying guy was from alternative universe!
Remember in vanilla remember seeing a troll with a clown face paint. I know u could get masks back then but there wasn't any with clown paint. I did some research but came up with nothing.
I was standing at the top of Stonetalon Mountain and heard the music at 7:07. It reminds me of Native American music. It is my fave zone in wow since then. Thunder Bluff also has the same vibe.
I used to love Tauren in Warcraft 3 and was playing Orcs faction only because of them. Once I found out in 2005 that in WOW they will be independent with they capital town in Mulgore I cannot describe how happy I was, it was like dream come true. And they were really the best... i played it for years. Spend thousands of hours in Mulgore and in Tauren comunities in Barrens, Thousand Needles etc.
....for years, my friends and I used to set up a camp fire and chill on a Hunter rise, waiting que for pvp's. So much memories, peaceful ambient and beautiful music.
Still remember the first day I played wow like it was yesterday. Such beautiful environment for a video game. WOW was an amazing game. I will let nostalgia be nostalgia and not try to relive the experience.
A small part of me (actually a large part given his size) remains with ToraToraTora, my Tauren hunter. Miss the game (ruined as soon as they started selling top level character upgrades) and miss my good online mates. Thanks for the memories.
As someone who grew up near a reservation and had several classmates who were tribe members, I love this city alot. Especially as I am in the PNW where the tribes near Puget sound have totems and lodges similar to the Tauren's.
miss this game so much, i was sad that i wasnt a noob for long, as i had a lot of pro friends who taught me and killed the game for me, but watching and listening to this reminds me of my early days, id pay to go back for a day :)
I remember fishing in that pond area for hours leveling my fishing good times. I also getting my kodo for the first time and aggroing all the mobs the memories love the horde!!!
The Earth Mother watch over us under cover of the night as in the day. Let this fire illuminate both our bodies and spirits and remind us of our honored ancestors, who are ever present and guiding our way.
I remember the first time I came up with the lift to TB with my very first character and an alliance raid was killing everybody in the city in front of me. I was like "nope" and went back with the lift. D:
The Music of Mulgore really gets to me. My first character was a tauren warrior named Lalapala, which is an odd name to a warrior? Nevertheless, i accidently deleted him :(. RIP 2007.
Frederik Andersen if he was a high enough level there's a chance he's still in the database and could be restored. Look in the undelete tool, and if he's not there try writing a ticket.
Man I remember every single step from Bloodhoof village to Thunder Bluff and when I was staying under the TB I was interested in what is happening next to the cliff. Back in vanilla there was silver elite harpy lvl 11 which killed me by one hit :D. Vanilla was so cruel and but beatiful.
Haven't played WoW since a few weeks after cataclysm came out, but I do miss it. As a Tauren Hunter main from day 1, this is really nice. Great videos, keep it up. I'm sure I'll be back :P
200 and fucking 5. December. I created my first horde character. A Tauren druid named Shatam. My labtop was fucking trash. Seriously I had to stop playing Ally because SW and Iron Forge were just too much. I lv'ed up my druid and hit 60. I then just flew back to Thunder Bluff and que'd for BG's. I never left. This music is forever engraved into my soul. So calming. Even when I finally saved up for a new PC I still hung out in TB after raids etc. Damn I miss those days. Haven't played WoW seriously since Wrath. Still cannot forget this music.
It was I think 2009 when I started play, during wrath. My parents were those parents that always played video games, and wow was their favorite. I was fascinated by it, I thought the graphics and the cinematics were some of the coolest things I've ever seen. I remember coming downstairs at what seemed like the middle of the night, but now looking back on it it couldn't have been later than 9:00pm. I remember sitting in a chair next to my father's desk, watching him play his paladin even though I was very tired because I thought he was really good at the game. I never got my own account until 2012; I always played on my mom's account since they said I was too young to play alone. But, on my 11th birthday, one of the gifts they got me was my very own wow account. I was so excited! My first character I think was a Paladin named "emmaniili", but I'm not 100% on that. The furthest she got was to level 17. I thought at the time out of all of the areas, Thunder Bluff was the coolest. I remember just wandering around doing nothing just to look around and listen to the ambience. Throughout all of Mists I just started new characters over and over again, never getting one up to max level until WoD was about to come out when I got the boost. I boosted a hunter, because at the time that's what my dad was playing, and I wanted to be just like him. I got her up to max level around the middle of WoD because I was very slow at leveling, and at the time I wasn't so focused on wow because I didn't like the new areas. Since then, I've gotten a lot more classes up to max and my life has changed so much, but no matter what I always find myself coming back to Thunder Bluff to relive old memories.
Alliance guy here, I love the Tauren. They really do live by true honor and integrity. Not just honor like, killing big scary enemies like the orcs think what honor is, but I mean doing what they say they will do no matter how uncomfortable it makes them. They value life more than any other race. I know that sticking to their promises is killing them; having to ally with the resource-stripping, wasteful, warmongering Sylvanas horde bent on destroying all life. But I know it is worthless to try to talk them out of the Horde because they follow through with their promises no matter what.
Ever heard about Thrall, Saurfang, Grommash Hellscream etc? There are many other honorable characters in other horde races, just do some research. But yeah, Sylvanas sucks
TB was a good capital city to be based in. It was easy to get around, all of the stuff was centrally located in the middle rise (wind rider, bank, AH, etc) and it wasn't TOO crowded. By contrast, UC was easy to get lost in and required a lot of walking, and Org was always too crowded and lagged the heck out of my poor old computer.
great channel ! revisiting it every day to listen to this amazing music. Want to give u credit for your amazing video material and your eye-stunning thumbnails. wow you are doing a great job !
Thank you! I'm 99% sure that making thumbnails is the most enjoyable part of the whole gig. I also have the whole set for racial music mixes, and those are the best so far (future project).
Absolutely love the music and scenery, this must have taken a lot of patience to capture. It also makes me wonder, how did you get such gentle-moving footage? I can't imagine this is done via first-person view? :)
A program that I use to detach the camera and set the waypoints, the speed, FoV, etc. A video like that needs about 3-4 hours of recording, about a single work day from start to finish. :)
Oh, cool! I knew there's UI mods, but nothing as advanced as that. I think your cinematography routes are chosen well, both in variety and their focus. They evoke and satisfy that flow of memories. I've come across these initially for studying purposes, but I catch myself on occasion just silently watching. Thanks for taking your time to... encapsulate the essence of these places. It really is much more work than just throwing together an audio file with a background. Sometimes we don't know what we want without someone making it first. These videos are an emotional goldmine ;)
Man, the nostalgia hits hard with this one. I remember playing my first ever character, it was a tauren warrior and I got the quest to first ever go to report to Thunder Bluff and i thought "Oh its gonna be another small town like Bloodhoof Village or the Mesa" I was so amazed when I climbed the elevators and saw the giant totem reaching to the sky and the bustling city below
When I started playing TB was pretty much the only capital I could enter with my trash pc. I also had to restart my computer every time I was going to take a zeppelin to be able to get off, otherwise I wouldn't have time to load and go back to the zone where the zeppelin left off lol
