same dude. when i first started playing and knew nothing about the game. wandering around, walking into zones and instantly dying. seeing mobs with skull levels. good times
Yeah I know how to get far away, I just thought there was no physical entrance to Icecrown using foot, I remember accessing Icecrown using only flying mount.
not the best but definitely in my top 10. still remember doing quests in the elven forest back in vanilla with my first char a hunter. first time entering darnassus and seeing those treant guardians. i was in awe.
You can go see a hypnotist and have him erase the memory so that you can experience it for the first time again and you can probably do this over and over again until your psyche snaps
Also even if you could hear it again for the first time it would not effect you the same since you are older now and your soul has died from IRL. You need to try to remeber the feeling and hold onto it. Its in there somewhere brother.
Man I miss vanilla being a complete scrub, used a month getting from darnassus to ironforge, what a journey and my 10 year old mind was blown to pieces entering the city
The very end brought me tears. The game is so deeply engraved in my childhood, and so I think I will never stop dreaming about it. It sounds absurd and ridiculous, but for me heaven would be living in this world. Why do I feel this way.... something must be really wrong in my life.
Its not absurd or ridicilous - NOSTALGIA IS A BRUTAL MOTHERFUCKER! Everyone here knowz it, or ask the NES/SNES generation when they hear a long lost chiptune of megaman2.
4:21 is my absolute favorite. The moment you step foot into Magnis throne room is forever burned into my brain. This truly was the capital of the alliance, while Varian was gone. From the moment I started playing wow, Dwarfs and Tauren were my 2 favorite races, especially because of their lore, home regions and capitals.
(sigh) Ironforge, the great mountain home of the Dwarves and shelter to the Gnomes. One of the greatest capitals in the Alliance dwarfing the city of Stormwind. The smell of the forge smoke and bread coming in from the Great Forge and the sounds of pounding hammers and Northern accents ringing and calling in the night. The squabbles and civil wars which make Game of Thrones look like a picnic. Oh, Ironforge I'm proud to call you my home capital in WoW and all of Azeroth
Ironforge is my favorite place in WoW, with my favorite race in WoW, (dwarves ftw) and it has some of the greatest music too. Just says, "Damn right. We make your weapons and have entire dungeons devoted to our history and creation. And what do you have? NOTHING." Yeah...
man i remember when i first started playing and everything was so awesome. i spent almost an hour seeing everything there was to see in ironforge. i still love going there even if the game was ruined. i did quit playing the game because everybody would be all like whats your gear score? blah blah blah... but i log onto my dads acct to just go to the major cities and remember the good ol days
This music is majestic, just as the city of Ironforge is. I remember the first time I took a character there and was in awe. That was the gathering place, right outside the auction house, where elf women could always be seen dancing on the bridge posts.
Just started playing the game (i know, late af) but this took me back to Dragon Quest's OST, it's something about the brass used that sounds so much like DQ's OST. Nostalgic and I've barely played the game!
Every single music in World of Warcraft is played by drums and trumpets, they are all epic and amazing. You're not late, we cme a long way, but you're in time to study the lore and get as hyped as we are to see the Shadowlands!
WoW, as a game, died a long time ago to me.. but I always loved the Dwarves. I love Dun Morogh, I love Loch Modan, I love The Hinterlands, and when I close my eyes and listen to this music, I can think back to the first time I walked through Ironforge. My computer could barely run the game. There were people everywhere. It's design left me in awe, and I was blown away by how huge and alive it felt. 0:30 - 1:20 still sends a chill down my spine. I wish I could go back and experience that again.
Vanilla to tbc. I don't think blizzard did too much wrong after that. It was just inevitable. No expansion could ever match the first exploration of the huge world of vanilla. There had never been anything like it. Then just as it begin to settle in, TBC is released. Teleporting out of this immense world into Outlands to explore another huge continent, using flying mounts for the first time. The problem with further expansions is an insurmountable obstacle. You can't balance the desires of old and new players. Eventually nobody is happy, the game is fast-forwarded, content is too easily accessible and the concept of a huge mmorpg is not as new and mind-blowing anymore. Luckily enough the music exists on youtube to bring back good old memories and nostalgia.
+Postermaestro You are right, but they cancelled with vanilla world completely. They could have start a little bit slower with the first expansion and include it more in vanilla. After bc, the world seems much smaller to me.
As a bunch of people have said, Walking 1 is an amazing track and is what plays in my head when I think of Dwarves. You can 'feel' how the Dwarves are as a whole with the track.
You perfectly summed up the way I feel about this game now. In more ways than not being that noob in classic not knowing how to play the game but enjoying the hell out of the time spent is what made this game so epic. Venturing into those cities to sell you shity items and marval at the items on AH being sold for over a few gold haha. Those were the times
i remember when i was a Nelf around L11, just changed zone to Auberdine at christmas time, where i saw my friend with a rocket pet, he took me to the harbour and through stormwind and ironforge to get one :D i got lost in both cities for around an hour, you couldn't tell which district you were in back then! xD
Before tbc came out, this was the music I listen to everyday for at least 2 years. Beer drinking, auctions and dueling outside the gates after raids is what I do nearly every night. I think I have been listening to this sound track for more than 70k loops. Not joking.
When I was a newbie I was scared to go into Ironforge because I thought it was a raid, I got it confused with Blackrock Mountain. I didn't go until I stumbled across the Deeprun Tram at like level 20. lol
Sinto um misto de orgulho e saudades te ouvindo...o hino do lugar que foi meu lar...vontade de subir no meu hipogrifo e voar até aí denovo... :) Essa aliança nunca vai quebrar...S2
I remember when i started in the beginning of LK i was lv9 and i entered ironforge i was so lost, but in a good way i was amazed i would explore and do quests, i loved loch modan and the dwarf area in general i would even fish in the loch, i recall being chased by lv10 spiders.. those were the day, now its all about who can do more dps and shit.. i wish i could go back in time to when i was new to WoW
Those blaring trumpets near the beginning of the main part of the song... I swear that sounds like something straight out of EverQuest, which used a lot of these trumpety MIDI samples. WoW was the spiritual followup to EQ, doing everything it did smoother, faster, arguably better -- and the way this theme evolves from that EQ-style trumpety MIDI to a sweeping orchestral aural feast is so vibrantly reflective of this.
The sound of this is amazing and I already miss WoW, I quit but I want to jump into the game because of this song. Just running around Ironforge listening to this epic music was worth playing the game! 0:49 was the best part
All I'm saying is it was the main travelling part of vanilla. And I think that was awesome. And it's a fact that it made Azeroth feel more like a world than just a game as it is now. Whether you like that is a different story.
My first character was a Nelf Druid, but I always made a dwarf in trial accounts so I could level in their area and walk through Ironforge, I also loved teldrasil, durotar and my favorite barrens...as the game and people grew it changed, for 8 years a generation left and a new one came, and the new one is full of thirst for power and gear, instead of friends and fun...you will never feel the same way as before because simply the new society won't help you experience it...just get with a bunch
