@@Meisio Mine was in Mulgore. Peaceful, beautiful, absolutely impossible for a noob like me not to die, ha! My first toon became my main and I was playing mostly Feral when I finally logged out.
And 15yrs later we're still waiting for the next WOW that can even come close to how legendary classic, burning crusad and lich king was. People could sit in elwynn forest for hours and not even notice 3h went by. Agree, brings back great memories from the 2000s.
I sometimes wonder if I wasted precious moments of my life playing this game for so long. Then this music takes me back and all I can think of is the happy memories, the adventures I had, and the friends I made along the way. And I think: No. It wasn't wasted at all.
My first character: I create human warrior, unequip my chest and sword, delete my hearthstone (by mistake), ignore the quests and head on punching the wolves like rambo, I get bored, I go exploring, end up in duskwood, get killed by lvl 20 mobs 20x, 21th time a badass lvl 36 nightelf hunter saves me and gives me gold, I get inspired, I delete by character (with the gold) and make a nightelf hunter. And the cycle continues.
I feel the same way about the game Civilization. The original was a life changing masterpiece. Some of the sequels had better gameplay, but weren't life changing. (Perhaps CIV II was, however.)
Even though WoW has lost its grip on things, this will always be very close to me. The memories and nostalgia of playing this game will never leave me.
Of course it will never leave you. But to help with the nostalgia, now you have this channel and Classic WoW coming probably next year :) Thank you for sharing you feelings with us Chris, Meisio
Same man all my friends did was drink do drugs and get into trouble. They always would ask why I always stayed at home playing video games. Pretty sure the game kept me away from a really shitty life style. They are all loser drug addicts that don't even have their own children. Glad I had this game or I would have for sure been out parting doing drugs with low life's and probably would still be stuck in that life style
i could have been out at parties doing drugs, drinking under age and doing stupid shit due to my chaotic mind when i was younger. instead? i stayed in my room with my dimly lit light , had the music calm my mind, while i "got high" on doing shit in the game lol.
@@skyguy1988 Same here. Got involved in a bad crowd and one night one of them broke into a car. But I left that night not because of that, but because I was eager to get my first mount haha. They got bitter about me playing WoW so fell out with them and carried on playing. Best thing that ever happened.
@@s3ra9h1m the people that i unfriended STILL try to get back with me. we are in our 30s now, and they are all washed up alcoholics that look terrible and still party and do stupid shit..... they do NOT take the hint. there is a fucking reason why i stopped hanging out with them when we were 19 and 20 lmao
I absolutely always loved this game. I'll never forget that moment in 2006, my friend had been playing since launch. He told me, "You have to go get it!" I was 20 at the time, i was working at a grocery store unloading trucks while going to college. Stopped at the GameStop just over the hill, saw the original WoW. That thick box containing the books and like 5 CD roms. Went home, downloaded it for a long time. As soon as it was done, my world was changed forever. Talking to the community. All the newbies and I helping each other, friending each other, talking about how awesome the game is. Making ridiculous jokes about everything under the sun while getting killed by Hogger. Life was simple. Fuck politics, social media, and smart phones. None of it mattered. Glad i got classic and am now reliving those times again and damn does it feel good.
@@LarryHazard - Yeah, I know it's cringe to say and maybe because i grew up before smart phones and social media, but i definitely liked the shape of life prior. Not that these things are horrible, but they seemed a bit more restrained before. Now they're practically considered "essentials" when there's truly nothing essential about them.
@@Alstanus When I was playing WoW for the first time I was 12-13, it was 2008-2009 I think and I felt a clear difference between the outside and the digital world. Going outside and going on the internet was more fun. Since the internet became so big, I don't find it fun anymore except for information and content (not the social side like forums and videogames) and in the real world people are a lot more alienated and dumbed down by the internet and social media.
There I was, a young 14 year old lad on his birthday in 2005, my mum finally lets me have a subscription and buy wow after months of hounding her. I install and download the patch, and there it is, the fantastic opening screen. I hastily log in, and create my first character: Solos, the human paladin! What came after is indescribable, an endless adventure with friends old and new, some of which I will never forget. Running into the dead mines and feeling the creepy music and dastardly defias, or maybe the first time I stepped foot into the Scarlet Monastery, all of these moments and memories, firmly locked into the vault of mind, and I will always cherish them. But for all those wonderous memories, the one that shines the brightest, is walking down from Northshire for the first time, looking out into the forest, listening to this music, and taking my first real steps into the World of Warcraft. Have a lovely day everybody.
I was 14 years old too with a human paladin when WoW came out. First year of WoW is probably the best memories I have, and I have a pretty good life. It was like something else. The feeling of exploration in a world that I loved already from Warcraft 3. Fighting with creatures as an avatar of myself, finding unique loot, meeting with people that I talk with on a regular basis to this date. It was challenging, it was rewarding, it forced you to team up with others. As much as I hate the new Actiblizzard now, I'm ethernally thankful to the real Blizzard for making the biggest masterpiece ever that is World of Warcraft.
"Blizzard managers never got a clue that the original Vanilla team was doing." Of course not. They dance to the tune of the stock market now, and that tune is played at a very rapid pace.....
I'm a 35 year old man and this music almost brings me to tears. Such nostalgia. I was only 20 when I first began playing. I haven't played for 4 years, but wow. The relationships and friendships I made over the years I played this game..... It's unbelievable. I never imagined I would get to know people as well as I did when I first began playing this game.
.Meat missile..i feel like you..... i love WOW and the lovely music like the following game .. i am a 75 year old woman now and have been from the beginning .. it has made me have had many lovely moments with my children and grandchildren who also play and make good friends in the game. I will not do that. I am so happy with the game and the music.
Can confirm, am 108 years old and I starting playing Vanilla when I was 8. After inventing a time machine, playing Vanilla WoW was some of my best memories.
Yes!!! Where have you been, friend!?! Google "Classic WoW'. Blizzard announced that they are bringing back Classic/Vanilla WoW servers. It's going to be released Summer of 2019.
There will never be another mmo like this. It hit at the right time. Before mass texting and social media. People still talked, still helped each other, still were willing to work towards goals. 2004-2009 in WoW was incredible and the memories live on to this day. And like I said, it will never be done again.
I wouldn't say never, just look at what Star Citizen has been able to do. If you've never seen that game before then your mind will be blown away, and I'm not throwing that word around. If you have seen that game before then you also probably know the reason why it looks that good yet has such a small community. Just imagine what a proper game studio would be able to create if Roberts Space Industries is able to create something as mind blowing as Star Citizen? I think within the next 12 years we might actually see a massive mmo like WoW yet again that gets everybody on board. In VR. Just look at Apple's VR headset, within the next 12 years there's going to be headsets that make that one look like a dumb phone in comparison which is affordable to everybody. I also just wanted to make it clear I don't think Apple's headset is the holy grail, but there's nothing on the market like it. It uses 12(?) cameras inside the frame which monitors your eye movement, you just look at what ever you want to click on and the screen focuses on it. That's next level intuitive, then imagine combining something much better than that with a massive mmorpg world, oh man...
@@casual_citizen This is so true, we've only scratched the surface of what video games can do. But it takes so long for this potential to be unlocked; people keep creating the same games over and over instead of exploring what can be accomplished (Star Citizen is a good exception to this as you mention). A good example is the RTS/FPS hybrid genre which has huge potential but only Natural Selection which was released 20 years ago ever realized some of it. And for VR games people seem to agree only Half-Life: Alyx is the only must-buy title. And, of course, no MMO has matched WoW still after all these years. But, every now and then we get a diamond in the rough that give a small hint of the possibilities. (Imagine if Outer Wilds had a $300 million dollar budget)
My grandmother was actually the one who got my family into WoW. She played Ultima Online before that, and switched over to WoW on day 1. I remember in those early days-- I was 11, I'd hang around Goldshire and watch people duel and get sad when people killed the deer and rabbits. My grandmother passed away last year, and this just gave me an intense nostalgiabomb. I hope she's playing WoW in the afterlife as she enjoyed doing in her life :)
I actually teared up reading that and i rarely get sentimental, i’m really sorry to read that and i hope she rests in peace, and hope you enjoy your time and follow your family legacy in WoW.
Sometimes I think, I'm lucky to live to 110, and I'm lying on my deathbed, and know that my last few moments have come, I want this music to drift away to. Let my last thoughts of walking through Elwyn take me to my eternity.
Everytime i'm coming back to this video i am reading through the comments 150th time and sharing tear of nostalgia with everybody here. I Love you friends that i have never met, but share same memories!
Going through my first big heart break. My high school sweetie left me, I was a 21 year old small town boy, living in a big city, and I was familiar with warcraft, via Warcraft 2 and warcraft 3. I remember having just a couple bucks left, and I went to an EB games store, and asked if they had any more copies of WoW. The dude said I got lucky, said someone just returned a copy because they didn't like it, and I bought the last one. I did the grueling install process, patched it up, and fired it up. I remember making a paladin instantly, because I liked Arthas and the Paladin class in WC3. Soon as the music starts, I'm totally captivated by the art style, music, and totally stoked I get to play a Paladin. After a couple of hours of getting a feel for the game and learning how to chat/interact, I meet a priest. One of my first people I meet in-game, little did I know we'd get to know each other very well, and he invited me to their guild. Through this guild, many friendships were made that still exist today. While playing this game, interacting with new friends, learning spells and feeling like my Paladin was becoming even more powerful, it helped me cope and forget about my big heartbreak for awhile. Wow has really helped me through some tough times, and that was the catalyst of why WoW would mean so much to me. I don't play it like I used to, but damn, I'll never forget the moment this music kicked in, and a brand new, fresh noob Paladin was born.
My wife and I started playing in BC and this music is so nostalgic it’s crazy. Takes me back. This game was our escape from the stress. We still play today.
A moment of silence for all the new players joining WoW since 2020 who now get forced into Exile's Reach and BFA content instead of experiencing the iconic starting zones of Azeroth
That was one of those moments I will never forget as well. The feeling it was a dangerous zone that I can't step foot on without certain death when I was ~ level 10 or so.
First I played undead, then playerd orc, but I stopped after 10 level. Only after creating human character I played to 60 lvl. Elwynn-Westfall-Redridge-Duskwood is the best chain in game.
Saturday Just before 7:00am Cold winter morning Quiet morning A fresh hot cup of coffee on the desk Nothing planned for the day No pressing business A level 2 alt in goldshire abbey Ready for familiar and comfortable quests This is the vibes elwynn forest gives me, such a cozy place.
There is a certain type of person that this game created. Special, unique, and one in a million. I have no idea how, but for those who played this games, and I mean actually played this game.... their is a brotherhood, a creed, a certain way that this game impacted us that left us all the same way. To this day, if I could live in any world, it would be this one.
Heartbreaking. It's hard to explain that feeling. October of 2005, for me. I was 29. I grew up with Ataris and Nintendos, PCs and PlayStations. It was like the final culmination of everything we'd ever been promised. I only stopped playing a couple of months ago. What a ride, what an incredible addition to the human experience! I don't know whether I cried or shit myself when I entered the gates of Stormwind for the first time and the music changed, the drums crashing in my headphones. We remember every note, we heard these songs for weeks or months at a time. I entered that world a cheerful, goofy, big mouthed human paladin, and left it a cynical, tired, angry, silent Nelf rogue. But the music remains, and still pulls on my heart.
i'm sorry man i really wish you had stopped during legion before it got too bad like i did... i miss the game terribly but at least my memories of it are INTACT! and if my nostalgia gets REALLY bad i can just fire up my own private vanilla but ofc it's not the same, no more blissful ignorance of not knowing EVERY last single thing there is to know about the game and being an actual noob anymore :( rip vanilla wow and rip my friends from it
Being an addict, and also a kid with tons of free time, I leveled every class and character. Durotar was by far my least favorite of the starter zones, I think my favorite Horde one was Tirisfal. Least favorite Alli was Teldrassil, even though I loved the atmosphere of it, favorite was Elwynn, but that was nostalgia, idk how it would rank if it wasn't my first character.
I was barely starting college when this came out. I miss being a naive newb aimlessly wandering about where I'm not supposed to. That blissful ignorance can only be enjoyed once. This will always tug away at my heartstrings.
oh man this music hit different when you were alone at night in the game at that special hour when everyone went to bed and logged off and there were barely anyone anywhere. There were some special places like that, like The Barrens, Thousand Needles, Stranglethorn Vale and Tanaris.
@@mlouis7 don´t worry, the unique constellation of talented creators will surely form in the future. But it is a rare occasion, otherwise it would not be that magical.
Makes me want to log in and just wander around Elwynn Forest and try to recapture how amazing it was when I first played almost 15 years ago. Exploring and checking out every building in Stormwind. Remembering how terrifying Duskwood was when I ran their to find Mayor Ebonlocke to get help for Lakeshire. Funny thing was I would never have known about it except some kids were selling magazine subscriptions to raise money, I bought Maxim and in the first issue was an introduction disc to wow. I played the 20 levels with three different characters before I admitted I was hooked. Tried a decent number of games since then, but nothing captured my imagination like WoW. Unfortunately for me "progress" didn't mean better. Quit eight years ago.
I was deported from the US after living there all my life, this game reminds me of the good days when I would go to gamestop and meet other greasy nerds and talk about video games and then come home to play wow with my lil brother , to try to hit 2k on arenas, this music reminds me of the good days when life was so simple , I miss the US , but most of all I miss azeroth and my little bro }: good news !! we are playing wow classic soon, only way to hang out together again at least till he is out of the military and is allowed to travel to Mexico.
I remember once a time , Me and my friend decide to have a party in Goldshine tarvern . We bought a lot of wine ( in game ) and just drink and chating , everyone need to speak a joke ( in game ) , if you think its meh then you need to drink more . Sound boring right ? but back then its just immersive , and fun together . The time when you're pure , and happiness .
18 years ago my classmate gave me some money to buy my first wow game box. Things were better that days, internet was better, people were interested to explore. Still playing classic from time to time.
I am 32 and played WoW all throughout high school and a few years after. I occasionally go back to WoW every so often for like 3 days just to relive it, but it's not the same.
Oh wow ! How I miss playing my elf Hunter. My sister was playing it in England. And she called me and told me you gotta get this game. So I did. When I first came on my sister was Petra. She came running up on a cat. She waved to me.. and blew me a kiss. And I was so blowed away !! We played for many years. And we met so many wonderful friends! This game is brillant. This video is making me want to play again.
i was almost 18 in 2005 when i started playing wow, this music reminds me of the good times and gameplay of yesteryear, where society was very different in video games.
Ahhh the nostalgia of having nothing else better to do than making alts as a kid with friends and staying up all night questing and making it to westfall and then logging off for the night.
Lol remember making human rogue when game just started. Didn’t know there was AH till level 25, trash vendored everything. Had leather pants with +5 to healing thinking it’s helping me heal faster. Will never forget the awe inspired by first time stepping trough gates of Stormwind and that epic music kicking in. Or the time I encountered horde for first time and pvp... I was in Westfall and I saw this strange cow looking thing named Willford with some kind of orb around its body and shiny golden shield, so I decided to stab it in the back, surprisingly nothing happened. Willford stood up looked down and emoted: No not gonna happen! And then sent me to my first death.
42 male human warrior main alliance here. Played mainly during end of BC and through WotLK. Wow was an amazing adventure for me and many friends both in game, guild and RL. It truly was another world/life, and to finally down LK... amazing.
Господи,как же это было приятно, после рейдов встречаться с согильдийцами и идти в кафе, все эти обсуждения игровых моментов, любовь и дружба, это не забываемо
I wish I could feel the way I felt the first time I played wow again. Discovering the world playing a game like this for the first time….before it became easy and you had to work so so hard for everything. The music was epic the friends were epic. Take me back to these days.
I spent a lot of time on this game, always feeling guilty that it was time wasted and I was missing out on real life. Now I look back and those were the best moments of 2004-2008 for me, and it was real life that was truly crap (at the time).
So many memories… Imagine that - memories of a simulated world. Blizzard did something right, something amazing, that will go down in the annals of history. And I couldn’t be happier being a part of it.
I am 35 and started in vanilla, I quited 3 years ago and started playing again since 6 months. Everything overwhelmed me and made me feel like I am in a differend time back again. I realy missed it. Im glad I started again. Besides work and all the must and don'ts this game is relieving me from hatred and this sick world.
10 years and 360 days of played, that was it for me between 2004-2014 in the World of Warcraft. For the whole time the same guild and same friends, unforgettable moments and great adventures. The feeling of being part of something great, a community larger than the guild itself. It was another life inside a game.
So, I have this idea for a great movie. It's about two gnomes who find a bracelet of power, and they have to take it to the Burning Steppes and cast it into the Cauldron. They form the Brotherhood of the Bracelet. Along the way they're trailed by a murloc named Gottom, who's obsessed with the bracelet, and nine bracelet bogeymen. It could be a three-parter, called 'Ruler of the Bracelet'. The first part would be called 'The Brotherhood of the Bracelet', followed by 'A Couple of Towers', with the climactic ending called 'Hey, the King's Back!
It was one the best gaming experiences I ever had when I played WoW the first time back in 2007 or so. I was absolutely stunned. God I miss that feeling.
You’ll never recapture the magic of being lost in Northshire Valley, of finding a battered chest and thinking you won the lottery. Of having no idea where you are or where you’ll go next until now. Now when you never get lost and ignore chests because you know everything that could be in it, you have all the quests memorized and know where they’ll take you. But sometimes, you’ll catch that glimmer of nostalgia.
It's 2005, you're in middle/high school. you decide to make a free-trial account for a new online game you heard about from your friends or in Gaming magazines. The game, is World of Warcraft. There is no RU-vid, barely any social media, and flip phones are the main craze. You log in and decide to create a human for your very first character. Maybe you'll create an orc, a night elf, or even an undead later. But for now, it's the most familiar race to start. Then, it hits you. You see the size of the world, the other players, the music. You don't intend to, but you spend hours questing. Killing kolbolds, wolves, and defias. Then, before you know it, it's 6am and you have to get ready for school. You don't know it yet, but this is the best life is going to get.
I'll never forget the emotion I had fifteen years ago when I killed my first kobold near the Northshire abbey. May he rest in peace. 🙏 Thanks for this video, so many amazing memories.
I remember when the very first faith of my life, I connected. I walked and the player meets me, and come talk to me. So I was surprised, for me it was in comparison with reality (or strangers in the street, do not cross the sidewalk to come to know you, everyone is in his bubble). On wow, my first interaction surprised me, I discovered that it was even more sociable than our real world! Then a little later, I created a human character and I played with groups, one day, I see a player with a demon who follows him (a walker vacuum). So I was amazed and amazed, I wanted the same! And I asked the question, "How did you do to get what follows you everywhere?" And that's where I fell on the dark side. I created a warlock just to have the demon ... (PS: I use the google translator, sorry for the mistakes).
WOW was my Home for 3 yrs 07 to 10,I will never forget all that wonder and relationships . I started with night elf female hunter {im now a 65 yr old man} That hunter remained my main though i did level up alot of other 'range' toons and mastered every craft {made lots $$} in the end my elbow got pain from intense hours in raids along with several crazy guild dramas,so i quit , years later i returne to just play a hunter again free to lv 20 and to hear this music which I have always loved . I waited many years from the first game comm 64 pc I knew then one day the world would change online and it certainly did not dissappoint!!
For the Alliance and for the Seven Kingdoms! May Stormwind, Gilneas, Lordaeron, Stromgarde, Dalaran, Alterac and Kul Tiras stand forevermore reunited once again! :)
My nights playing WoW from 2007-today are on par with my best nights out. And I had great night out. Stumbling around drunk in Tokyo, New York City, seeing Iggy Pop, The Strokes, Stones, Tame Impala. My WoW nights are on the same level.
My brother got me into wow, played so many years together and alone.. Wow was truly my happy place & his, but I didn't think that this world would be the last time we would see each other in.
As a Horde main, I've never really had the Alliance atmosphere to have nostalgia with. The only times I'd here the music and explore the zones is during world PvP. Elwynn forest and Stormwind have always had great sounds and music. The closest we got to this style of music was Hilsbrad, which since Cata is just different. The old tracks are still there, just only in the non-plagued areas. There aren't much of those.
Yes, _Elwynn Forest_ track is mostly an Alliance track, much like is the _Barrens Dry_ track dedicated to the Horde. Very limited choice when it comes to music in Vanilla, but they were all extremely good. :) Salutations, Meisio
Honestly, the ambiance of Alliance was the reason I played it. I tried to play Horde, and knew all the better players did so, but everything was dead, tribal, or diseased. I just couldn't get into it. I wanted lush forests and castles and sweeping music more than I wanted to win battlegrounds.
@@Leelabean I Had my own alliance pvp guild a well populated and well geared one to boot I would love to be the one in denial about the horde winning more at least not against us my main was a shaman healer.
I remember my summer job, I worked right next to a castle, serving customers at a bow/crossbow shooting range. I was staying in a room about half an hour walk away, so I always listened to WoW music when walking there and back. One morning I was near the castle, listening to the music as I walked, and just as the majestic castle gate came into my view, the Stormwind intro theme started playing. That hit beautifully.
Although I never had the chance to experience vanilla, it seems so nostalgic, and I tip my hat to all of you vanilla players. I will always respect the ‘good ole days’, but I’m pretty satisfied with what we have now. Congrats to those who’ve been from vanilla to now, I look up to you guys.
An entire decades worth of memories all started one day at my friends house when he asked me to kill kobolds by the mine. I remember the ambiance better than the experience, this will always be comforting to me,
this music makes me want to melt into a little puddle of happiness and then just explore every square inch of Elwyn Forest (even though I already know it like the back of my hand).
Nothings comes close to the feely from your exhausting first run in deathmines and then u run back to stormwind in the middle of the night handing in your quests and put stuff on the auction house. This game is seriously more than just a game. This is home, this is love.
I never went beyond lvl 35 in wow and i'm not even that much of a mmorpg person, but i'll never forget that first immersion in the Elwynn Forest. Only wow gave me that feeling of a real journey filled with discovery
