Was it Good? - Adventure Quest 

You never forget your first frogzard

wdym forget. It's flipping all samurai ninja spellbladezoombladeomguawesomebladeofawesomenessswordofawemaiknoiasfcnoawipallthingsonthatlevel.littlejokesnotseriousnotreallyqbfuabutpeopledie.rnowaifjwasjlfckinwalsad,..////.... was pretty cool story mode.

Man i hate how right you are at this moment.

Yes.

same, frogzard is unforgettable

damn you're like the kind of dad who brings home a TVBoy when the ps2 was just released.

W for you

It’s incredibly wholesome and about as poor quality as a video game can get while still, despite everything, somehow managing to be engaging. It’s more fun than it has had or will ever have any right to be. The story is crap in an endearing way. The characters are caricatures of what they’re meant to represent, but it’s less offensive and you love them for it. If your son liked cheap puns, some of his cornier ones likely came from this game.

@@spadeofhearts713poor quality? You are a grown man with an anime pfp, please don’t speak about quality of anything when the quality of your life is pathetic

Keep us posted, I'd love to know what you think

So a little bit of insight into those inconsistencies... The biggest thing is _everything_ is self-contained. There's no central "stat roller," "button," "text box," or any other component, which when updated then propagates out to everywhere it's used. No, we'd copy and paste the object from some other recent file. That's also why the Eye of Naab shield you can buy from the shop and the one Uldor holds in the animation are different -- they updated the equipment graphics, but would have to go into the quest to update it there. Monster or NPC art could vary wildly for the same reason. Second, every single one of us except the game lead was doing this as a secondary thing. I had a day job and spent Monday through Wednesday working way, waaay, WAAAAY too late into the night on this. Others were in school, etc. Monday nights we'd meet, find out what was on the docket for that week, get the base quest and item files, and plan the stats and effects. Tuesday and Wednesday we'd do the coding, and I'd try to do a final pass edit the quest dialogue while I was in there. Everything had to be ready by Wednesday night because the release was Thursday, and I needed the files finished and uploaded so the lead could launch while the rest of us were doing our day stuff. We tried to keep our weekends mostly clear for decompression, because burnout was always over our shoulder. Ye gods, I miss my 20s, when I could actually put myself through that. While the tone of the game was consistent only in its WILD INCONSISTENCY, that gave us some freedom to explore some very different things. In a very real sense we were playing in a space without boundaries -- we could write a whole quest leading up to a single bad pun one week, and a dramatic moment the next. If you're not thoroughly sick of the game (and I wouldn't blame you if you are), I'd check out the Assassin questline, or at least give it a read; the official forums have an Encyclopedia section which has the script and descriptions. Some of my favorite writing I've done, manages to capture a small bit of silliness (both Artix-brand and a little more twisted) while building some really interesting characters and choices.

I always felt like the little differences from scene to scene and thing to thing made it feel like something that people actually made instead of just another soulless product.

@@solasslym3 Thanks, I appreciate that. I think "soulless" is the last thing that could be said about AE games, to the credit of everyone who's worked on them. That said, I can certainly understand how the uncontrolled sprawl of content makes it extremely hard to come into from outside, and the little details being weirdly inconsistent can seem frustrating. It's the kind of perspective that only a decade of being away can give you. It all made perfect sense to me when we were adding things on, but through fresh eyes it's much easier to see how confusing it can be. I think we'd all do some things a little bit differently now if we could go back 20 years or so.

@@westwind429 YEAH, but that's every project. Hell I look at illustrations I did as recently as a month back and am like GAH, why did(n't) I do that!? You guys inspired me to get into game design and to believe in myself. I hit a few critical snags, but as much as I hate them, they did make me better evaluate what I CAN and CANNOT do by myself. Ultimately there's a lot of choices that have to be made, and if we look at the internet at that time, it was very much a case of more was better, even if it didn't make sense.

@@westwind429 i would love to see a maticulous work through of the game where all inconsistencies are fixed buuuuuuut also would like the option to play the older versions of the game.

I'm downloading that launcher

I remember before dragonfable you could use a memory reader or whatever its called, and fight stomg enemies, hit them once find their hp, hit them a second time insure its their hp, drop it to 0. Then rinse and repeat to get xp and things.. also then found out that you could find your attack value, then just ramp that up to one shot everything hahaha then they fixed that cheating, but by then I was totally fine with my level and power/money whatever they had! Was a fun time

Imagine getting the Guardian Upgrade now xD

This game is still on in 2024

adventure quest 3d is a thing now

Lots of the NPCs are basically the OCs of the devs and mods and some integrate themselves cleverly into the world My favorite one being Kalanyr and Aelthai (Miss Fix It) Kalanyr being an archmage who can cast nerf and buff spells reflects the fact that he is a dev/tester who's in charge of all the actual buffing and nerfing in the game. While Aelthai who's NPC finds artifacts and gear and fixes them is in charge of bugfixing. Other special mentions are Eukara Vox who's NPC is a teacher since she's an actual moderator, teaching players and being there to guide them and keep them in line etc. The late Falerin was the former leadwriter before he passed away and his NPC was a Doctor Who like time travelling, space hopping Loremaster since obviously as headwriter he knew what was going to happen in the story. The thing I loved about early Adventure Quest was it was basically just one big DnD session with the mods and staffs OCs.

Falerin honestly was one of the best story writers of any videogame ever. He could balance the serious and the comedy and the downright nonsense. The Devourer Saga was one of the most memorable and iconic storylines in a videogame, and it spawned a massive following with regards to theories and connections, especially as Falerin had heavy inspiration from the TV series Lost weaved into it. He will be missed.

hell no

@@tonyjames3541 Something that really shows just how much this was a small team doing their own thing is that I used to frequent the forums all the time as a kid. Back then, the Paxia section had an ongoing 'war game' where people would compete to see how many mobs they could take out for their faction each week, since invading would track how many times each element's group beat a group of enemies. We even had a big risk-style map for it that we'd color out to keep track, with different sides having a player 'leader' determine where they'd attack. Because of this, people would get into joking fake arguments about stuff all the time. Eventually, a new quest dropped for Paxia where Eukara took some of the more active people from that section who were making these points and, because you could link your forum account to your AQ character page, she just put them in the quest. Yeah, just random characters in these factions get captured by the new villain and they each give their reason why their side is the best, and they're all based on the real characters from real forum members using their real arguments, lol! Because the section was always pretty small, I actually got my own character (Dethhollow) into the game like that, goofy geko hat and everything! I know it's a pretty small cameo, but I think it really does just show how close the staff were to the community, overall.

LMAO, So True

Oh man, as soon as you started that anecdote, I was like "Oh how I hope this results in some kind of integer overflow error..." Hehehehehe

Brute force

Pure kino.

"Like putting too much air into a balloon!"

Interesting concept. Corrupted healing or healing abuse leading to unintended consequences sounds like a Junji Ito story. I've played games that allow you tinker with healing like "any heals now deal damage and vice versa" which is a common theme with holy/undead type enemies e.g. Minecraft's splash potion of healing instead damaging undead enemies. But I wanna see corrupted healing like cancerous tumors and using it to rearrange enemies into "I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream" abominations. I wanna heal someone's face into Deadpool's ballsack

Flash doesn't have convenient ways to keep these things consistent.

It's like they had a team of people design each page at the same time, except the team of people didn't speak the same language and the only instructions they had was a black and white mockup of the finished page.

that the magic, i love how it looks like simple and easy to use, more in those years haha

Well I had actually downloaded and deconstructed the game files long ago it was using Macromedia Flash 5 I believe and archaic actionscript 1, that’s pretty much a ‘game engine’ from the year 2000 and was mainly for internet movies or VERY simple games. It was heavily outdated even by the time Flash 8 and Actionscript 2 was released not to mention AS3 which was much more in-depth. I guess they didn’t change it because with each new version you’d have to change all the coding for it to work, but it must’ve been such hassle to work with and they basically could only upgrade the graphics to make the game feel up to date.

@@HimslGames no, but people do if they think hard enough... many people in the early days of programming also did not have "convenient ways" to keep "these things" consistent yet they still managed it. we have this thing called documentation and it's very useful at telling other people what things do, what methods they should stick to, and also reminding your future self what guidelines to follow. the point made in this video when it comes to the design of the interface and graphics is that... there clearly was not any documentation, and if there was, it was not followed very closely... if at all

that's actually really cool and nice suggestion :)

Yo thank you for that! Really a cool and handy feature

i spent so much time on those forums! the RPs, the clans, it was really fun

As someone who wanted that feature,.., thank you!

Is it really _cool_ that a talentless hack took your idea and ran away with it? You helped develop the game, you should be compensated!

The puns! The puns never stop! (Like the weekly updates!)

Ah my childhood game is still alive and well, I'm happy

Still ?? Gonna help me get back onto my acc 😂

Ha! Last Login 2014..... Well I guess we need to update that

Sadly can't recover my main account or I would. 😭

Dragonfable was my favorite out of AQ, AQWorlds, MechQuest and that other one. Such a damn good game

I still remember the Tomix story, it fr was really good.

Agree 100% after finishing the first two books the lighthearted nature of the game almost entirely shifts into a complex political story with very real and depressing consequences for story beats previously glossed over. Dove over at AE is doing a great job with the game currently, though some of the "Revisted" updates in book 3 make small detail changes that can make it a tad difficult to follow. Overall, a very very impressive flash game with great storytelling.

Loved Dragonfable.

And fucken mechquest . God I'm old .

It really was stream of consciousness from whomever happened to be at the keyboard in the office that day.

The Devourer Saga spans not only the in-game quests labeled as officially being part of the saga, but also other quests in the game not so officially labeled, novellas written by the late Falerin, and literal IRC roleplays he ran (of which many logs exist).

It kinda is. Like the writers are literally fans who do good work. They play the game just like players do.

Yup early Adventure Quest was basically just the late Falerin's DnD sessions even some of the NPCs were just the staffs OC's. That's why it felt so endearing to me it was basically just a bunch of nerds and geeks making a game out of their OCs and letting the player be a part of it.

@@tonyjames3541 Both that and a lot of Copy-pasta from other videogames. Lots of rips from WoW and FF

were they full?

@@themajorfreedomandfriends5446 No

@@themajorfreedomandfriends5446I think she let me get Guardian that day.

@@themajorfreedomandfriends5446all the damn time, me and my friend would literally be on the phone, calling each other pre-Skype era or discord, to see which one of us got in first.

​@@themajorfreedomandfriends5446 at one point, it was always full 😢

Dude i'm so old school, I remember when they added those to the game.

I read "Woo Woo" and heard the exact light spell sound effect XD

Woooo woooo

Oh the scary sweep brings back memories, I used to cast those spells just for the animation/sound effect even though they did less damage (I didnt know how to RPG)

Elden ring is a great modern game highly polished great gameplay awsome lore and world building

Dragonfable is gunna be nuts. Chapter 2 was actually pretty bonkers. Chapter 1 is a bit conventional and Chapter 3 is a bit preachy, but Chapter 2, peak DF to this day. I wonder if/how Josh will react to the Inn at the End of Time though, and the true Endgame: Fashionfable.

I've actually been blown away by the storytelling of late. I got up to Book 3 in Dragonfable last year, and I just finally caught up to finishing the second saga in AQW, which was... wow. I know they hired a new writer relatively recently, and it's certainly paid off. When Artix Entertainment wants to do serious storytelling, it really shows just how rich this world really is, and how good the storytelling can be. This might sound dumb, but I actually regard AE's fantasy as my favorite fantasy world. So many unique ideas and concepts, and the entire world feels every bit fantasy.

MechQuest was my game of choice. It was probably the best Artix game from a mechanical standpoint, I miss that.

@@auctoritate8254100% my favorite to next would be dragonfable and aq really wish I had a computer I’d be playing them still over AQ3D on mobile it’s getting disappointing fast imo

Dragonfable chapter 1 will always have the nostalgia factor for me but I really love Chapter 3. We don't talk about the rushed and abandoned chapter 2.

It was also hilarious, every moment you think he is done, nope, there’s more! I ran out of breath midway through the rant.

@@Kyle_Riel If I were you I'd ask for my money back

@@Kyle_Riel I farted

@@Kyle_Riel You might wanna read the channel name again bro.

@@Kyle_Riel "your criticisms are tedious" "omg, are you censoring me?!"

Runescape AQ and Poptropica aaaah the nostalgia

Runescape and AdventureQuest Name a bigger duo. (You can't)

Library gamers represent. You canadian by any chance?

@@RexSimplex library canadian gamersssss

@@GamingTopTen They even have the same problem, being consistently inconsistent

Mech Quest was so fun. Really cool designs

funnyjunk and ebaumsworld too !

Same here

Adding halo from a CD onto the school's shared drive

Ah the days of smashing a pirated version of a freshly-released Minecraft onto a USB drive and playing it on a Dell computer at a smooth 15 fps. Simpler times. Good times

You know what’s really weird, I actually thought of adventure quest but only in my head like as a memory and a thought couple of weeks ago. Call it a coincidence or what not but it randomly come up today within the algorithm, I do play games to this day and search a lot of WoW content on RU-vid so it’s not too far fetched that this would be recommended to me somewhere within the algorithm. What I find odd is though that, recently I’ve been thinking of different topics or subjects in my head and somehow not too far off it gets recommended to me on on some online platform. This has been by far the weirdest occurrence of it happening, anyone else experience this ?

SAME! I miss 7yo me playing this game and barely understanding as I was learning english

When the schools firewall wouldn't let us get to RS we found a way here lol

Funnily enough, Runescape was my gateway into AE games!

Same dude haha

I think runescape was first for me. Not sure. it's been closer to 20 years than 10.

I mean, the whole game was stylistically inconsistent, buggy beyond belief, but despite all of that it's probably the best flash game ever made, and all the "flaws" add character. Would I take up the game again, holy hell in a handbasket, never. But does it hold a fond memory yes, there ain't nothing bad about the game, it's just horrendously weird. And sure thing the game could be repackaged with better consistent graphics etc, smoothing out the gameplay loops, etc.

Some of the inconsistencies he speaks of is because when the game kept adding new content back in the day that was their way of highlighting new content. I couldn't watch the whole video but it seems like he isn't speaking from the perspective of people that grew up with the game which is pretty important. The older versions of the game were better and at least those graphics were all hand drawn compared to the very CGI art in the newer versions

@@ryans6309 I mean, he is speaking from the perspective of someone who played it way back, and even then all the same criticisms are just as valid

No he isnt. His/this review is strictly on a version of the game you play today where its frozen at a much later patch then when the game was at its peak.@@Hwyadylaw

i was all over flash games in the mid 2000s. Played every day in the school library. But never heard of Adventure Quest until Josh talked about it 😅

my computer class it was free Halo online. I remember the whole class (guys) were trying to get in on the 4 or 5 servers available lol.

Same here. Back in 2002/03, i remember me and my cousin used to run away from school to play at internet cafes all day long. Oh, sweet memories

Looking back, I really don't have any right to trash on the modern games kids play....when this is what I sneaked onto at the school internet.

For AQ and DagonFable (I think that's what it was called?) you could get hacks that unlocked everything (because apparently there's no outside checks for the Guardian status, just a line in the in-game code). The only bad thing that happened is that when you log in your class was changed to "Cheater!!!" and you probably got a bunch of trojans and keyloggers on the computer.

that's actually rly cool.

this, the experience of this game came from the weekly updates, also him not even mentioning anything related from carnax leaves a lot of the game's essence out

@@TheMalcomrj Yeah. I've been playing since the 2nd war, the fire war, tho since 2016 I've been playing on and off. I'm legitimately impressed that he left out Carnax and Akriloth. They are arguably some of the most iconic AE characters.

I was so god damn obsessed with becoming a dracopyer my aqw account was dracopyer123 crazy no one had it but I started hacking to op my profile Because it was taking to long

@@charsta2072 I used a bot trainer thing in aq worlds to unlock the necromancer class... Still wasn't as strong as the normal mage was before they fixed the glitch that let you almost one shot bosses lol..

Dracopyre and half dragon were literally the coolest things that are still etched in my mind

same literally same

I've played thousands upon thousands of hours of this during my entire childhood (age 8-17), it really was such a special gamr

im currently playing through all 3 again, its a nice trip honestly, and nice to know it will always be there

Watching each update go live and being able to play through it as it was being released really was a once in a lifetime experience. I remember it being one of the most exciting things during my childhood lol Falerin really did write an amazing story

Dragonfable is still amazing and has matured with its audience. Still has weekly releases

@@noxus7462 I am still hoping for Fleshweaver :p

You can say its inconsistencies is its consistency

It's great to fall asleep to

@@inn0c3nce7 Consistency inconsistent.

I know it is his pet peeve, but personalized dialogue text sounds cool, like distinct dialects or something. I mean, imagine going from an English inspired town to a French inspired village and seeing the fonts change accordingly.

I just did a programming course, and it feels like each dev gets to choose their own style and there's no guidelines for the devs at all lol

CUUURRRSSSEEEE YOU WHALESSSS

Werepyres 🥰

The zards are a favourite of mine to this day, they're just silly dragon heads with legs and I love them

@@Megumi646DRACOPYRES>

The character designs are also awesome. Galanoth, Artix, Aquilla, Warlic, etc.

same. i think a lot of us 90s kids played this in school as our first internet memories lol

Good old times, Dragonfable and mechaquest as well .

Hehe, we made the same - but with DOFUS.

Shout out to all the computer lab kids ❤

I miss Toon Town and Club Penguin. And my Tamagotchi, and my Pocket Pikachu.. man, the early 2000's ruled.

Same man same 😂

Thats actually kind of pathetic.

@@toddtherodgod1867 Please accept our apology, Todd the rod god. Please. Lmao stop hatin

@@ZeranZeran Hatin? What is Hatin?

I also immediately saved it. It's not just profound and inspiring, but also funny because of the unexpected twist.

Yeah I think that's actually really clever, and is a good message on top.

I watched this in the background (ya know, because its 2 hours long) and didn't catch that quote. Could you time stamp it for me?

@@kassadwulfsige8760cba to find it but its somewhere in the very beginning where hes talking about real life artix

like 3:20@@kassadwulfsige8760

This game came out in 2002, and i played it in 2004, I am happy :)

@@akaeka I created my first character in ‘05. I have vivid memories of some of my friends being jealous that I had various classes like necromancer and assassin fully completed. Good times

What an adventure he created.

On god, Underworld just recently came out and everyone was playing Vampires vs Werewolves on the playground. And little me having played Adventure Quest brings up the "I'm a werepyre" card

All i remember about Nightbane's creation is that he was a werepyre that drank the blood of a thousand dragons and honestly thats metal as hell

I was absolutely gutted when I found out that the Werepyre armor/class no longer ate health potions

I have never forgotten the Werepyres (I was one)

Don't forget Gracefang! These two are the leader for each Dracopyre clan AND two of my top five favorite class guild in AQ (well, technically it was one, but they split it into two for E's lore IIRC), Nighthunter and Shadowslayer. Also, I'm a Nighthunter if you guys wondering

Core memory unlocked

I still hop on AQ Worlds to see how things are going and run around on my character for fun, lol.

@@Gabriell1126 Same, I always log in every year for a little bit.

I remember running into one of the devs when I was playing the aq worlds beta. I told him that i'd love the game to have a friends list. He said "Friends? I love friends!" and went off. He was the green guy with brown hair. That's all I remember lmfao

Same! Seeing the character model appear on screen for the first time, I was so hyped to get anything similar to that in the future

Many years and wars later the vampires still haven't won once.

I haven't touched AQ in years, and I remember that they're called Dracopyres. Coolest shit ever

I really loved the possibility to become so strong even without paying anything.. and so fast. Really great moments though.

Were you waiting impatiently prior to this video?

wait.... dragonfable gets updated?

@@jama655 Every week. The Main story of Dragonfable is till ongoing (the latest release is actually yesterday), and the devs give out end-game challenges, map reworks, class or feature revamp in weekly rotation. Occasionally it gets seasonal events and community based wars.

​@@cruenssafari3057If my memory of playing the game is anything to go on, this October should have a big event since they'll probably be connecting the Friday the 13th and Halloween events.

dragonfable always was the most polished and seemingly well designed of the games.

A dish you go back to and go: "Yes, this is home."

I wonder if I can login into my account still❤

​@@jessevandez If you remember your user and password, it should all still be there.

@Dualblades47 I'm excited. I remember countless hours going into this rotting away in the boys and girls club computer room hahaha. 💀

@@jessevandez Me too my friend, so many good memories. Hope you're able to get in and enjoy it.

Now that's a throwback! If you're still in touch, could you send your friend greetings from the AQ team? I could poke our lead Hollow if he'd like to get in touch for the sake of nostalgia.

I vividly remember the thrill of getting the Zhilo Armor in AQW, it was such an exciting moment! I believe it was one of the first major rewards tied to a membership purchase, possibly for buying three months' worth. At that time, the Chaos Shaper class was released and was incredibly overpowered, though it’s significantly weaker now compared to other classes. I played AQW until I reached level 150 and also enjoyed HeroSmash, where I got to level 30, and later reached level 20 with a few characters named Veenus and Ape. I dabbled in DragonFable and MechQuest as well, and those games were a big part of my childhood. They also led me to RuneScape, which I first experienced during its Legacy mode, just before the Evolution of Combat update in July 2012 (I think). Eventually, I immersed myself in OSRS, where I maxed out an Ironman account, a main account, and created a few pures and med levels for PKing. The nostalgia really hits hard when I watch Josh Strife Plays videos about these games, it’s such a trip down memory lane! I haven't played AQW in a while, but I still have an account with the Card Clasher class that I got from Toys R Us before they shut down. My main AQW account was Leviwalter, which I ended up losing access to after giving someone my password. I was naive at the time and wanted the Troll SpellSmith class, which was overpowered in BludrutBrawl. I had Vot, Chunin, Necro, and a few other hard-earned classes like Shaman. After being hacked, I created a new account, "Gardenthe3," which I play occasionally for nostalgia. On that account, I have many rare classes, including Vot, Chunin, and others like the "rare" Mage. Despite the changes, I'm still a 13+ year member. You can check out my current character page here: Gardenthe3. account.aq.com/CharPage?id=Gardenthe3

Oh, an Adventure Quest video. I remember this game, although I played the Dragon Fable one. Childhood memories. What? Uploaded 14 hours ago??? Is this game still alive? (Kinda)

shame the game is garbage

@@Moumszk like all artix entertainment games

I mean there are also still youtubers talking about 45 year old atari games so this is not a big deal.

They have 7 different games and they update each weekly. So every day there's new content for Artix games. The absolute madlads.

with a last name like von krieger you know hes packing

"for some reason"?? dude's a fuckin snack, of course you had a crush

@@HappyDragneels_page the "von" stands for long and the "Krieger" stands for girthy alfhf;afa

@@rowanoak_ TBF I was 11 at the time and had 0 introspection on my feelings, 29 year old me now is very very familiar with why I had a crush on Artix. God, such a himbo aughahgalhafg

It reminds me of the daydreams I had when I was a kid. Did I care that nothing made sense? Nope it was just fun

Most of the different character designs are nicked from somewhere - artwork, anime or games. When they introduce the order, the guy carrying a girl is a linetrace of Issei from HS DxD, and so on. About 85% of the characters are line traces, the rest are heavily "inspired" by some other characters, which is why design is so eclectic.

I begged my mom to get me the membership as a kid. She came and looked at the screen, the old family computer at the time, and noticed all the little avatars walking around. She was staunchly against online games and I could only wait for the question. "Are those other people?" I look back at the screen and say no of course not, those are all npcs. Got my one month membership.

Amazing friend, I loved dragon fable my parents put us through hell but wouldn’t divorce, this and the other stuff helped me not hate being a kid so much , have a blessed night Jesus loves you

Every time i get depressed i just boot up ye olde reliable AQ. There's definitely something soothing and comforting about it that is hard to explain. Haven't needed it in a while, but its worked wonders a few times.

glad you could be here to tell your stories freind. that story alone has proved that life was worth to live for :)

I was trying to remember the name of the sci-fi one while watching this. Thank you!

RuneScape too

AQ3D is honestly a great homage to the old AQ vibe. Fun casual mmo and cross platform

Thank you for reminding me about this, this was a staple!

It unironically made me respect them far more than any other game dev since then. They allowed me to choose, it made an impression on young me.

@@StarboyXL9I never knew about it. Would have loved to do that instead.

It's a shame that you could never upgrade to Guardian with Z-Tokens. 13 year old me was hoarding those things like real cash

Yeah, nowadays it's shoving another ad onto a plate already full of ads at best

Dude, your comment is gold worth

The tonal shift of Book Two obliterated me when I first played through - and the insane jump in quality for its writing in Book Three has had a vice grip on my brain for years now. Legit the best game ever made with the Flash engine.

There's a reason it's called AE's best game (it's not even close). I am especially interested in seeing Josh experience the Maleureous saga.

Not to mention the ravenloss saga@@Keldor1152

I'm pretty sure he's already done one

A quick search dosen't turn up anything@@NeoAstrisk

MechQuest omfg 😭

Bro I remember playing Mechquest for hours while Linkin Park and Nickleback played off of RU-vid in the background. Middle school man...

unlocked my memory thanks lmao

Hell yeah mechquest, wasn't there like a Jason Mech or something??

i loved how there like a hogwarts house you can join in the academy

Tomix broke my soul fr

I am glad there is one person in the world out there who instantly knew what I thought of :c @@Eckef

I literally cried with Tomix death. It literally felt like seeing a childhood friend go, given when I actually played through his quest in book 3.

@@dantereinhardt6911WTF HE DIES??? NO WAY

@@naethavenir9422 YES HE DOES. AND ITS THE SADDEST THING EVER. AND THE MUSIC DOESN'T HELP

maybe he did it very high

TOO MUCH TBH Im not watching. I could of done 20minuts

and useless, raving half an hour about the text font

yeah useless rant about "OH MY GOD "SOYJACK" THIS O IS BIGGER THAN THIS O" damn the effort.

Werepyre was the shit! I remember logging in and grabbing it first every day, lol.

yeppppppp

Have you been following the game since then? That fan, Spider, got hired on the dev team and all the qol he made are now official. And the stuff he does now on the game are a breath of fresh air. Even if others don't like them, Ultra Bosses are good content for me.

Brother there is one more grind that needs to be finished... necrotic sword of doom

@@johnn3987 jesus necrotic farming is one thing that i probably will never do lol.

I haven’t played in a few years what are the qol changes? I remember spending way too many hours in this game and sneaking away to buy membership cards with birthday money every chance I got. So much love for this game.

@@raigamer1415 well grinding levels are way easier, and this game has a lot of good solo classes which you can get very easy, the hard part in the game are the ultra bosses, which are basically raids, so you need potions, scrolls, and the meta classes which takes age to get, and a lot of coordenation between the players, now some weapons deal extra damges, like the necrotic which is one of the strongest weapon in the game which 51% extra damage, also the enemy respawns are way faster so completing quest and grinds are way faster, i reccomend only play aqw if you have a lot of time to get some decent class and level up, but the game is pretty fun.

adventure.....QUEST!

Always room for more tea :)

May I advise Yorkshire Tea Gold?

@@Dong_Harvey quite the spiffing Britt, aren’t you?

A very well prepared gentleman, I see.

Oh man I loved the mechs. F2P player obviously because parents wouldn't pay but man, I remember making my anime pilot. Repeatedly opening up the bay doors on the opening ship to get the astronaut helmet. Never got far in it but man it was fun as a kid

I used to use a hex packet editor to hack dragonfable back in the day, absolutely terrible with technology nowadays. Incredible.

Damn, i miss dragonfable, i remember actually crying when celestia died. In hindsight the storylime was cliche and pretty basic but for 12 year old me it was rhe greastest story ever told.

DRAGONFABLE! Holy hell I had gaslit myself into believing that DragonFable never existed and I made it up! Thank you so freaking much!

@@tinyplays95same, thankfully this video made me aware of the launcher so I can play it again, and now that I’m an adult I can get that dragon amulet

They were RPGs, but they were not MMOs. MMO stands for massively multiplayer online. Adventure Quest Worlds and Adventure Quest 3D are MMOs.

dragonfable imo is surprisingly good, combat is really good and the story can get pretty good.

i personally never played adventure quest but dragon fable was fun for my young self

@@davids7646 imo dragonfable Worth playing even by today, the graphics is better, cutscenes better, the game is begginer friendly, music is awesome, is My Second favorite artix game, losing only to aqw because aqw was the First one i played.

​@@tecmangames69tip for anyone wanting to play dragon fable, nothing important happens until the storm war. Do your dragon hatching and some other stuff then start storm war which leads into the main part of book 1.

getting one for dragon fable and mechquest could be really cool

This, Mechquest, and Dragonfable were lit, played a bit of AQW too but mainly for the story

I used to get a crowd forming around me during recess because I had a premium account. Well my mother did, it was a shared between me, her and my twin and we had some amazing stuff :-D instantly popular for 5 minutes. That was me during school xD the guy you went to for tips on Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and AQ.

I remember grinding the shit out of Miltonius' layer for the Void/Hex/Blood/Shadow/Fiend sets. Got all of them and their respective weapons/helmets. Used to hang out in that inn all day basically showing off armor and the Pirate Class/Beta Starsword. Great times. Only MMO I ever played!

I thought I was the only one lmaooo there’s something that always draws me back to AE games occasionally. I was a beta tester for AQW in 2008 and I still love to check back once in a while

i played aqw back in the day, but i fell off after a while... honestly i might give it a look again if its still going.

@@Artyom_P The Alpha Pirate/Beta Starsword flex was the most common and BIGGEST flex ever (And honestly still is). Props to you doing the Miltonius questline. Even as a kid, it felt way too extreme and time-consuming on me. If you're still interested in trying MMOs, you should definitely try FFXIV if you haven't yet! It's the closest MMO to AQW with the same kind of close-knit community, player-driven challenges, and tons of customization. I've barely met any bad eggs throughout my 4 years of playing.

@@Juju-jq5ip It's the nostalgia! I just love how my character looks with their goofy armour. It's like seeing an old friend or a piece of yourself that you love. It's not like a "duty" to go back like in many games nowadays. I play a handful of gacha games and the feeling of FOMO is taking over the F2P market. Missing out for a day? It eventually spirals into missing out for weeks and you miss out on collecting cool in-game stuff.

I've recently picked the game up again and I've really been enjoying it. It even added a lot of things into the game to make it easier to follow the main storyline, like a timeline you can view in each book that will direct you to the quests as they would have occurred chronologically. The game is still grindier than hell, but for a game that wants you to potentially be playing it for months or years anyway, it's paced well enough to essentially keep a player going through it with no real dead-stop moments that halt the progression unless you personally choose to level up a new armour set or something like that.

That was my first one, adventure quest back then feeled more cartoony/goofy but Dragonfable was more serious. I had many characters maxed out and spend lot time playing it, trully nostalgia trip 😭

​@@injan112DF really felt more mature recently, back in Book 1 they had all that goofy dialogues but Book 3 turned out to be darker (esp Ravenloss & Caitiff saga where they k1lled 2 very important NPCs). Not to mention the Doomwood story, even when we're fighting the undeads during Book 1 the dialogues still felt hilarious but here in Book 3 we literally witnessed someone's skin getting peeled

​@@altsadhara welcome back, you might want to catch up to the story since Book 3 is (slowly) reaching it's end (after 12 (?) years). And while the enemies are getting harder (thicker HPs on the non-elite enemies, you can't one-shot them even with whale setups, see TheRuinedShadow walkthroughs) some armors are getting revamped. I'd recommend raising Necromancer, Pirate, Ninja, or Evolved Pumpkinlord if you're non-DA, I'm struggling to progress with only using the Mage class but I can with those classes :P

@@xxx_lolidestroyer69_xxxuwu58 when book 3 was added tho? aprox year bc i left loong ago xd

dragon fable was top top shit. loved that game

Glad I'm not the only one and yet I kept coming back to it for a while haha

The only thing I can remember about this game is grinding a dragon lair for a whole day trying to get a sword that dropped from the dragon boss.

i remember i got exp faster than gold. so i was broke for equipment my level all the time@@monki2945

Grown man with an anime pfp wtf kinda life is that

@@ezaf5989 ok "ez af"

@@ezaf5989 What kind of life? Must be a good life for sure.

Find the computer room!

Are you/your sister single

That plunger was honestly OP

Every time he went into the rift in the sky I was hoping he would mention it.

Still have no idea what was going on there

You can't forget the zards either!

The icezards are burned into my mind. I don't know if I would say they're a good design, but damn if they aren't recognizable.

@@auctoritate8254 Theyre giant monster frogs, what's not to love?

Pretty standard to have lead design artist. The company just sounded like a mess lol.