99% of the people that are here, right now, were someone else back then. Years have passed and time is limited, jobs, bussines, family, childs... We grew up and a part of our young times was left behind, we, those youngs back then, come back time to time to remember those stories. No one was better than other, from the humble lumberjack to the most powerfull knight, everyone had a place in this world and a purpose. The other 1% are our childs trying to understand those stories. Long live this memories.
Sabias palabras compañero. Tras 25 añitos testeando y jugando MMOs en mi caso, aún recuerdo el primer día que pise Sosaria. Un saludote de otro español que pudo disfrutar del UO en sus mejores años.
@@copycatt2579 rust is good but UO is completely different. Greatest mmo of all time. The pvp still hasn’t been touched by another game. I know this is all subjective so it’s all imo
@@Nate-lp2cu I agree but from the standpoint of looting peoples houses, teaming up, and dying and loosing your stuff I get the same feeling watching rust videos as I did playing UO.
Started playing and a buddies house, first time i loaded it on my new computer and started it I was rolling on the floor screaming when this song started
There will never be another game and era like this. I feel lucky to be a part of UO experience in the early internet era. I genuinely feel sorry for anyone who is never going to experience something like this. No matter how hard we try to recreate the same game, it's never going to be the same experience. Times have changed, we have changed, our lives have dramatically changed. But I am glad that at least I experienced this.
must have been amazing it was new you could meet people around the world must have been magical when it was new no its nothing special anymore i dont really talk to other players in games these days
I close my eyes and am transported to a 12 year old version of myself. I am taking another sick day off school due to not fitting in, afraid of the other kids who just seem so confident. I take solace in the sound of the internet dialling, knowing that soon I will be able to escape this cruel world that I feel so lost in. The sweet inviting sound of this melody welcomes me into a world much different to the one I am used to, with endless possibilities and adventures to be had. I meet with friends I have met along the way, simple pleasures such as farming lumber for the morning, together we make a killing due to playing on an Aussie server but everyone else working or being at school. Plenty of goodies for us! This game brought comfort to me during a time of great difficulty, with family problems and lack of support. Now, I am very different to that scrawny, short terrified kid. I am very strong, very attractive (you can take my word for it) very successful. I have an amazing family, many friends, beautiful wife and daughter. However, this music takes me back to that comforting feeling I once had, so many emotions flood my brain. In the end I feel only peace. Thank you UO, and to the friends I made there, a moment forever lost in time.
Always send shivers down my spine, no experience has ever been better than this while playing at the computer, in search for a similar thing since late 90's. Quite sure I'll never find it, gotta go back to it from time to time just to remember what the greatest game ever created in human history feels like.
come to legendsofultima.online/ They created the entire UO map inside of the unity engine (using the legends of aria client). They just released the map of Britannia 2 days ago after 3 years of creation. It is very cool and everyone is a noob all over again (they did a mostly server wipe when they opened the new map).
This is a great video well made it shows all the old artwork from the game! I always remember they were going to shut down Chesapeake shard and I was playing on Atlantic and all of a sudden all these players rushed Britain and started screaming about Chesapeake being shut down! I remember they were spamming “THEY MAY TAKE OUR LIVES BUT THEY WILL NEVER TAKE CHES!” Was a riot and the GMs had to come down and threaten everyone!
I remember learning about this and missed the alpha testing sign-ups by like a couple of days. Not that I would have been guaranteed a spot, but I remember young me being crushed. I had played the older Ultima games (especially 6) and was in love with the idea of the game. Fast forward a bit, I ended up telling all my friends about it, and they told their friends. We had loads of people on and it was an amazing experience. And experience is a good word for it. Being a humble smith that became known and trusted, guild wars, IDOCs, the exasperation of losing a boat full of stuff after a thief stole the key, PvP at the crossroads, GMs asking me to stop blocking passages with loads of furniture, having games with locals to award them hundreds of thousands in gold, realizing there are other people at the other end and feeling bad for murdering someone's pack horse that they worked hard to fill with ingots, Abyss - the list goes on and on. And anyone who played this no doubt has dozens and dozens of stories to share. It really was an experience, and one I've not captured since. It had a lot to do with being a pretty early MMO, learning the ropes, and all that no doubt. But it is a fond memory that will no doubt stick with me forever. --a former resident of Chesapeake (Abyss, and Siege).
In Gedenken an Stormlord, der erste Taimer, den ich kannte, der Taiming auf 120 brachte, in dem er wirklich jeden Tag einloggte und einfach nur spielte. Ganz ohne Hilfstools. Waren schöne Zeiten mit dir... Ruhe in Frieden alter Freund
Same but with the road out of Skara Brae on lake superior... funny how once you master all the monsters and dungeons, you turn to the hardest prey ... other humans
I remember my first experience in The City of Britain. It was running across a player with a tamed Dragon and talking to that person. It was the most amazing thing I had ever seen in video gaming. I play "UO Outlands" now. A great creation using all of the original UO Online content plus much more.
That's my favourite too. Currently playing ArcheAge, and the artistry skill allows you to play songs. I'm going to have to convert some of these MIDIs to MML so I can play them
It's hard to believe how this music evokes such powerful emotions from me. I don't just feel nostalgia for this game but for a more innocent pre 9-11 world and a younger innocent version of myself.
I remember I had just joined the game, someone gave me this thing called a "blessed item deed". No idea what is was, thankfully another generous player traded me a boat for my deed.... lol but it was worth it, I remember first time setting sail. It really felt real.
I don't remember these soundtracks sounding so high quality. I know they're exported from MIDIs, but still. This is the best sounding playlist on RU-vid. Thank you for the nostalgia, they sound fantastic on my HiFi setup.
Because most people back then (including me) played them by using the MS GS wavetable synth.. which is horrible by all means. Even today if you download the original MIDI and play it on Win 10 it will sound horrible. The composers of the music used the Roland SC-55 which is far superior .. and the reason I made this video by using a SC-55 soundfont.
@@seanbean3070 Download the MIDIs and play them in Windows.. the default MIDI synth of Windows is how most people experienced the 'original' music on their PC at the time.
I was 11 or 12 when I read about Ultima Online in a magazine, it sounded so magical so I sent away for a copy of The Second Age which took forever to arrive. Boy was it a blast, first day I baked bread and sold it to an actual person. Blew my mind, Much thievery and house collapses followed. It's a shame the genre followed the EQ model, I guess theres just no money in an open sandbox mmo. Elder scrolls would have been great for it but nope another EQ clone. Oh well, the memories are cherished. Create1 still gives me goosebumps.
Yup..I was 18 when I read about it also in a magazine. There was only a small snipped about it but I knew right there and then that this was going to be a groundbreaking experience. A year later a friend invited me to play on a free shard.. it was not the original OSI experience but it was still awesome.
INteresting note, there are alternate versions of some of these midis as I think there was an error in putting incomplete versions in the main MIDI directory while some of the other directories like the AWE sound font ones had the correct versions. Cove I believe suffered from this problem, as did Nujelm I think. Magincia might have as well, sorry it has been a LONG time since I went through all of these.
Man I miss this game. Nothing like rolling up on other guilds houses/castles. Also loved hanging out and dueling at all the hotspots mmo ever imo. The pvp was fantastic
outlands is 100% toxic.. You can look up vids on youtube about extortion and a recent players castle that got deleted by the devs with no compensation. Automatic stealing bots and PK's that embody the worst of incel behavior.
I loved this game back in the day until my house collapsed while I was on a one week holiday, despite me updating it literally the day before I left. That was when I stopped originally. My ranger armour.......... wonder who has it now?
I can honestly say we will never have a gaming experience like Vanilla UO ever again...so much fun! Also Check out the UO outlands server!!! started in 2018 TONS of players!
UO Outlands is full of people all the time. Like you said I myself will never the same gaming experience from when I entered Britainnia the first time. It was a blast.
Glad I found this, most my youth online memories are from UO. Gave so many hours to it, then trammel released and then EQ and my friends left for EQ and it was never the same. RIP logicbomb, phyer, el barto, cohok, theraven, and my boy Thyme that got some ungodly gear in Asheron’s call for being some sort of game journalist at that time. Fuxalot signing off, those were the good days of the internet and online gaming. Oh yeah, can’t forget badfish, hope you’re doing well bro. ❤
Oh fuck Eric myst, can’t forget you. You were the youngest at the time but last I heard you were a pharmacist, hope you’re still doing well buddy. This video made me really feel how it suck’s knowing you’re old.
Was? Still is. If you miss UO check out Ultima Online Outlands. It's an amazing server and the developers care about the community and update the game on a weekly basis. I played UO from 97-2003 OSI and then switched to UO-Hybrid after the addition of Trammel ruined the feel and fun of OSI servers. Hybrid was cool for several years but eventually the population declined and the server felt dead most of the time. From 2008 to 2019 I was without UO and was sad to say goodbye but a little over a year ago I heard about Outlands and I've been playing it every singe day since. So if you have some time. Check it out and you'll be glad you did if you were truly a die hard fan of Ultima Online. Even better is the fact that the game no longer has the choppy lag it used to have. Now it's liquid smooth when playing with the classic UO client that's built in with Razor. www.uooutlands.com
Quel jeu (long): Rencontrer des gens en personne de la même région qui, par hasard sont dans la même ville et sur le même serveur (Catskills), aller à la rencontre d'un ami UO gérant de resto sur le broadwalk d'Atlantic city, vivre des moments inédits à ce nouveau jeu sur un modem plus lent que les meilleurs PK, ont été des ancrages de souvenirs importants. La réminescence de ces derniers, suite à la lecture de tous les commentaires ici, délectables, sont à la fois une joie, une délivrance, un échappatoire, une tristesse, une colère.. Pour faire court, c'était le début de quelque chose de nouveau et de puissant dans ma petite vie. Certes, les mots manquent. "Shroud of the avatar"..., j'aurais espéré voir un engouement ou une suite aussi prometteuse, mais non. Heureusement Uo a eu une fin. Cette fin peut se réanimer par contre. Je le constate. Il s'agiera maintenant de bien cadrer et limiter cette ferveur, cette passion. C'était difficile pour moi avec UO.
It was 1999...I had just joined the military...living in the dorms, I was given a PC and introduced to the internet and one of the guys down the hall had a copy of T2A. The next 6 years of my life were glorious!
Very nice compilation, and the screenies bring back such memories. I have a playlist that I put together myself of many of the themes, to play to fall asleep to, or to read by, but this one does it all nicely in one video. Kudos for the lack of ads (very important if you are trying to go to sleep!) I do wish the sound level were more uniform throughout, though. Maybe next time?
Thanks.. the problem is the MIDIs themselves.. they have varying degrees of volume, some are way too loud.. I could've fixed them but then it wouldn't have been the original MIDIs anymore :)
I'm now 30 yrs old with a family and I remember playing this game as a small child in 1998. I left the game in 2008 and never played another MMORPG (WoW is terrible btw) This game was great Hulk from Sonoma
I've been producing hip hop/trap and other genres of music for 20 years. I was also a HUGE fan of Ultima Online and I've recently produced some remixes using samples from the T2A music from UO. If you're at all down to hear any of them just shoot me a message on Discord and I'll send you some of the MP3s. Suicide#7924 is my Discord ID. Much love! 😎
Are there even any games out there like this anymore? That's not a rhetorical question. I'd really like to know. I've played Everquest, WoW, Rift, Warhammer Online, and a variety of others that I can't remember and none of them had the "just go play, have fun, explore" mentality that UO did.
Well, if I were to seriously play a MMORPG these days.. I would probably just find the best T2A UO shard (there are a few with hundreds of players) and re-experience Ultima Online all over again. Other than that, the only MMORPG game I play casually these days is Elite Dangerous, which is pretty nice.
Hello I wanted to say I find these songs, which I really like, feeling not as good as the midi originals because of too much reverb setting in general. Also thank you very much for sharing this ^^
Hello , these are the MIDI originals taken from the T2A CD. MIDIs are just notes, they don't contain any sound. Then it all comes down to what 'synth' you use to play them. In this case it is a soundfont of Roland SC-55 as the composers used it to create them in the first place. Of course if you play them in a different setup they can sound quite different with a different reverb setting. At the end of the day, play the MIDIs where you find them best :)
@@bestretrogamessoundtracks6685 Hey, I am familiar with midi stuff. I wanted to say many of the songs (which I find very good pieces) perform worse because too much reverb or maybe no good mix compared to the simple original sound. It's like better sound but something lost at the end. Thank you again^^
@@carlesriberaberenguer7469 There is no such thing as 'simple original sound' when it comes down to MIDI :). You need to be more specific.. which MIDI synthesizer and with which settings would you consider to be the 'simple original sound'? Maybe you used to listen to these on the Microsoft Wavetable Synthesizer as most people did.. so you are not used to the Roland SC-55 sound.
Funny how the music of Thors Hammer sounds exactly like the "Forest": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SeXy0kO4WbM.html. I am wondering whether the games shared the same composers but it seems that was not the case.
