I remember the 2006 on a brand new realm called Boulderfist. Female undead rogue with RST tag running around the Barrens, chasing the next level, I don't know what but there was something in this game at that time that pulled me inside that magic world and i just can't find it in any game after...
Ahhh The Barrens... Im gonna go all emo now... Ill never forget my noob days in 2005 as an Orc Shaman. It was my first MMORPG and the feeling was just unique. It will always have a special place in my memory. This just gave my nostalgia a boost. And I really thought that general chat was a normal thing, btw. oh and FOR THE HORDE!
The music is the magic of this game....i always remember my first days of leveling my first char, so much of that fantastic unkown moments, when you made your first steps, everything was new and just amazing, getting the story,reading the quest, getting level ups, first instance, all that stuff... awesome awesome it is magical
Special to see so many others missing the old wow and their memories. This is one of my biggest childhood memories; Pre-tbc and especially The Barrens/Durotar. The music was a great part of the experience, and I miss it, so much I can't express it in words. Cataclysm's raping will make my memories be only memories, and the reality of it gone forever... This makes me sad, eventhough the game has to progress.
When ever I liscen to this, my spin crawls, i close my eyes, and i think of the good ol days of my hunter, not knowing wherer to go, the feeling of bieng on your own, the feeling of adventure.
True. I look back on my time in the Barrens very fondly, although at the time I was very anxious to leave the zone. When I leveled in the Barrens there was no flight path in Camp T or Ratchet.
Games come and go, as your experiences with them. Yet some of my fondest memories of WoW are when I was in a zone all by myself, and the music would cue at the right moment, and I'd just sit in wonder of the creation of it all.
I know what you mean. Something about the mountains, combined with the Oasis, the plants and ores to dig up, the flying from Crossroads to Camp T, the unforgettable quests and instance (especially for Druids), and the sea to explore and possibly exploit with the Goblins in it... And then the chat... It's so incredibly unique that you feel amazing while you're in it. Or at least that how it feels to me.
No high-power leveling, no stupid worries about your armor. You're just leveling for yourself. Barrens was/is freaking awesome. My favorite place all over.
you know, for so long i used to play without sound because it slowed my computer down. now that i have a better one. i cant get enough of all the amazing music in the game.
I remeber jumpin off the durotar zep on my Undead rouge for the first time, ,confused and lost i made my way from razorhill finding my way to the barrens, man, i hated traveling by foot at that time, but i really do enjoy remebering those days of interest into the new game.
I feel the same way, the music makes me extremely nostalgic, and I want to buy another month and play, but it'll never be the same as the first character I played with all my friends. The music just gives me constant flashes of the good times. And if it makes you happy doing, nothing is nolife'ish
Would love to go back to day 1 and do it all over again. The leveling 1-60, cross roads for the 1st time, booty bay, pvping random questers in ashenvale. I am amazed at the early memories i had before it all became a race to get to end game grind.
Indeed. I miss many players I met in game and the guilds I had the fun to be into. I loved just how we were all from Norway to Italy, from Romania to Netherlands and even middle east countries. I know.. I know.. "this is internet, baby".. but sometimes when you find yourself in a perfect style raid, all goes mint and huge "WOOHOOO"s and cheers run over vent, you feel your pals near beside you, and that's unpayable. ~peace
ah the feeling of the barrens music and crossroads walking into XR to hand in a bundle of quests at the forgotten pools or something and walking into that epic horde music. at least blizz havnt changed XR, that is a full wow classic that is one of the last memories of the old horde. it also really pisses me off how allies have bases in the barens now.. honours stand and southern barrens? id give them back southshore just so wow cud go back to how it should be
omg.. I just remember the moment I got my warhorse.. we were leaving Zul Farrak, and I rode free into the barrens at dusk, gallopping over them plains among the zevras.. Then i reached Ratchet to meet a friend ... Can't listen to these pieces, I miss World of Warcraft too much... can you believe me?
@tooasti Definitely. The feeling of when the whole warcraft world was new is just not capable of being fully expressed in words. You had no idea what the hell you were doing, you were just walking and found everything you came across amazing, at least that was it for me.
Damn, this music makes me feel homesick. I spent a lot of time running around the Barrens, pity they ruined it in Cata. Did a lot to improve other zones, but the Barrens was just this huge intimidating place when you first get there...now it's all like a guided tour. Still my guild's home zone though.
erinnert mich an die ersten spieltage, wo ich noch keine musik zu gehört hab und mit meinem lvl 16 hexenmeister nachts um 4 in den barrens gequestet hab. good old times
the barrens is the place i liked the most, i currently have a level 61 Tauren Hunter (Wich is my main) on Draenor realm (EU) and when i was in barrens... dunno how to explain it but, theres somthing bout that place.. Wich makes you feel great.
Yes... Its incredible how much time I were on low level, just having fun and exploring teh territories... But i quit when i saw Wotlk and y would have returned, but the new expansion Catacyclism is only a promise of kill wow... Good old memories...
@8am1marg3ra I think over 12 million people will have a bone to pick with him since he destroyed many many memories. One thing I will never forget is when I was low level, talking to others in a small group in Brill. It was great. Now most of these old memories are gone.
Raptor Grounds, out by Ratchet there's a HUGE mountain thing, DUE south of that, there's the grounds, it's hard to see, but it's got a small entrance marked by two Sunscale Sycheclaw's.
@tooasti I totally agree man... I kind of miss being an absolute newbie to WoW and learning all the stuff for the first time, I mean for the first few levels I thought Durotar was the entire game map, because before that I had only played tiny games in comparison to WoW.
Nothing can replace that epic feeling when the game is new, especially if its your first MMORPG. Its one of a kind and it cant happen again so its unrealistic to ask Blizzard to make things how they used to be. The game moves on.
Nice to read that I am not the only one missing the old WoW .... I stopped playing 3 years ago, but then there are times were I miss it, and the old classic times. So I waste one month of subscription again, just to find out that it most probably wont ever be like the old one again .... Why cant Blizz just make several server types? One classic only, one TBC and whatever ... :( They would make lots of players coming back to the game.
ROFL damn those alliance sure gave me a hard time turning quests in, they kept attacking the quests givers on Crossroads, but i sure loved it at same time because for a while the place turned into a war zone when a bunch of lvl 80s hordes came to help and then the alliance brought more help and so the hordes, the battle sometimes took about an hour or more, not much now happens though :/, yeah some crossroads attack but not that big :(.
My friend recently went back to WoW. Now, I quit WoW a bit before Arthas died from a fatal case of plot device, but I was curious about the state of the game: I asked him to go back to the barrens so I could reminisce. I was shocked when I discovered they changed the theme. The new barrens theme has a small remnant of the old theme, but its just not the same. Its lost its subtlety and its feeling of an vast windy expanse...but then again, I suppose you could say that about WoW in general now...
I still can't understand how could they skip the music of The Barrens from the original soundtrack album. There's so many so beautiful tunes in that area.
i have tears in my eyes, so many memories and so beautiful. gonna be honest now: >start playing wow in 6th grade, back in 2006 i believe >horde 4 life >rage hard, love hard >always listen to shitty trance music (i was kinda gay back then, no offense) >little older (~8 grade) >try music on for like first time every in Un'Goro Crater >use music when flying and walking around ALWAYS >never look back >older now, don't play, still FUCKING LOVE the music. >if this barrens was left i would still play.
