>Kyle, go ahead and cast Arcane Brilliance to raise our intelligence.
>Kyle, go ahead and cast Arcane Brilliance to raise our intelligence.
This phonograph "reads" a rock’s rough surface and transforms it into beautiful ambient music pic.twitter.com/PYDzYsWWf8
— Surreal Videos (@SurrealVideos) March 3, 2023
>this was 17 years ago
and WoW still have the same graphics as this special
It's pretty harrowing that Runescape has had like 5 graphical overhauls while WoW still looks the same as 20 years ago
Only fags play newscape.
The graphics make it look generic
all those graphic reworks did was made it look like a fucking mess
it still looks worse than wow did back then and it's not even a browser game anymore
Not really true.
In 2014 (around Warlords of Draenor) player models (like the models they used in the show) were revamped. It's a pretty significant difference, but I prefer the original.
Also, the newer the content you're playing the better the models. It's not like if you're playing whatever the latest WoW content is you're getting the same models as vanilla.
If you go to some areas that haven't been touched since vanilla than the models might be the same, but it's not true to say that the game hasn't undergone any graphical changes.
The worst part about the whole mishmash of models and textures not all being updated is when you have a newer character model wearing old BC gear that’s low texture trash.
Dragonflight centaur somehow look worse than thy low poly originals
No it doesn't, retard. That said, it might look worse depending on your tastes.
WHERE?!? WHERE DID IT GO?!!
WHO STOLE THE TIME AWAY!?!?!?!
WHY HAVEN'T I ACCOMPLISHED ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT IN THE LAST 17 YEARS??
I've accomplished a bit but I still feel like a failure
I own a house and have a wife and good job but it's all nothing like playing WoW with the boys, I would go back in an instant if a button appeared before me and let me relive those days.
I think 06-07 was as close as I'll ever get to knowing what heroin feels like.
for me 04-08, quit when WOTLK came out
You need to start a family and I'm not kidding
Nah I'd just rape them.
I've did nothing in the past like 25 years but MMO.
The only time I felt bad about it or cared or was really depressed was when I lived with a girlfriend for two years.
Women were a mistake like Cataclysm talent tree changes.
bruh
>1990 is to zoomers what 1960 was to us
That's a horrifying thought
>hahaha I love this mem-
>it's true
Damn....
Our Grateful Dead is their Sonic Youth. We are the boomers now.
>tfw b.1990
I’m out
tfw 30 and joining the military at a desk job
Listen here you little shit
>High School Musical = Grease
If you were born in '60, you're 63.
I know old people are here, but thats just fucking elderly. Cinemaphile hasn't existed long enough for that to be a "us".
He would have been 44 when this kind of culture was beginning to take shape, and 44 is likely the upper end of average of people on Cinemaphile now.
>44
fuck no that's like uncommon and I refuse to believe there is an average amount of 40 year old losers on here. The most I see who claim to be old are in their 30s to late 30s. The average poster here now is 19 - 25.
>I refuse to believe there is an average amount of 40 year old losers on here.
Imagine still thinking age is a problem when what is killing this site are hordes of poorfags from turd-world countries who are raised on American media, can communicate in English, but get none of the cultural references or idioms and thus act 10x more retarded than the most retarded newfag.
1,000 election tourist millenizoomers on mobile phones freshly banned from Reddit are better than 1 Rajeesh, Pablo, Chang, or Nigel.
boy oh boy
you have no idea
oh you fuck right off with that
I was positive I was going to kill myself on my 30th birthday but i'm still here for some reason
iktf, my cowardice is too strong to go through with it though
I also try to tell myself that something good could still that happen that can turn it all around, or atleast make it not so bleak
Because you like being alive, retard
stop
im a 1997 zoomer
Does that mean you're 60 fucking years old?
You're older than my dad by 10 years you fucking wrinkly old gay just die already KEK
it'll happen to you
>namefag doesn't know
No you idiot he’s saying he was born in 1990
I'm getting old
fuck you
holy shit it just can't be
>you lived to see the height of video games and you will live to see the lowest it can sink as well
we must fight time please just fucking slow down
The perception of time is relative to time spent alive and experienced, so as you grow older time goes by faster for you
stop
I literally just no fucking way lol and then looked it up...
Fuck.
>Master and Commander was released 46 years ago
Maybe it wouldn't be if you'd shut yoru whore mouth
>tfw you've accepted the ever increasing acceleration of time and your ever shortening experience of time on this planet
you could have said 25 years and i would have been okay with it
This feels right to me. Then again I'm 36 and this feels like an episode that came out right after highschool which did. But also I was playing EverQuest in middle school. So I dunno. Any other earl millens can confirm? Is this more a zoomer thing to be blow away by?
Bruh.
I miss Terry bros
>WoW was still going strong
>now it, and Blizzard are in the shitter
I went to Blizzcon in 2008 and looking back it's pretty nutty just how much Blizz had going for them at the time. Was a few months before WotLK released so there was playable betas and massive hype for it, Starcraft 2 was also in its beta and there was player testing stations for it, and it was also the first real glimpse at Diablo 3 which had a playable alpha testing station. That reminds me that Diablo 4 just started some kind of beta yesterday
I didn't go that Blizzcon but I bout the Big Blizzard Bear card online for what was a lower price then. You're not getting it today for the price I paid for it then.
it's over
>Oooh fuuuck you
>I’m stacking sunder armor!
Was World of Warcraft really as good as people say?
Vanilla WoW (and TBC and Wotlk) were something else. Just way beyond anything you can even imagine if you're a zoomer.
No. It was briefly good for the first couple years it existed but was quickly ruined with shitty expansions.
Before WoW the only good MMO was EverQuest. So for it's time, yeah it was fun.
EQ is still the only good mmo
RuneScape cleared.
>this is what m*llenials actually believe
EQ ruined mmos
UO was the original mmo and only UO, SWG and a few other games in that vein were actually MMOs, rest is themepark garbage.
also dont come in here and give me shit about M59 being before UO M59 sucked ass.
UO was the first online game I ever played as a kid, I would almost have a heart attack when I saw red names on the edge of the screen
Almost the same except DAoC was for me, and red = you're gonna die, so same sentiment.
i was a retard wearing cloth as a rogue but doing suboptimal shit while adventuring was way more fun than looking up guides to be a metaslave so u dont get kicked
it was fun for like a year in vanilla when you were still finding new shit and new friends to fuck around with. then that ran out and I joined a guild run by autistic dildos and it became unfun and a chore. I quit before the first expansion even came out.
Playing the game wrong and finding new shit in the world was way more fun than doing the dungeon grind meta stuff. When there actually was a world to explore and mystery, it had a lot to offer. Meanwhile dungeons can be fun, but really once you run out of reasons to grind, it's ogre.
It was, mainly because no one knew how to properly play the game, so everyone was figuring it out together. People were helpful to each other and the community was overall very nice. Eventually people minmaxed the fun out of the game and the devs kept making it more and more casual friendly effectively killing the need for a community.
if anything the game became less casual friendly if you wanted to do anything significant. Dailies got to the point that you'd legiimately be left behind if you couldn't do them everyday. Raids got substantially harder.
>more and more casual friendly
This but the reverse.
vanilla wow was
expansions were complete dogshit
classic wow was also dogshit, but nostalrius was almost as good as vanilla actually was when the server wasnt imploding (also started to have a massive chinese problem towards the end of nost)
>nostalrius
Getting verigan fist with some norwegian dwarf was the closest i get to the vanilla wow feeling.
It was a cathartic experience.
Yeah. The first 4/5 years were amazing
You actually have to ask, zoomer? Why don't you end your life?
Why?
Old MMOs were pretty good.
I understand everyone who hates the grind but like WoW and Maplestory in their old days you had a clear path that you mapped out. You knew what to do, what gear was good, what gear was the best and you knew how to get it all.
Now there's so much bloat and the markets are all hyperinflated to dogshit. It's all meaningless.
Good up until WOTLK and anyone who says otherwise is lying. Honestly good after that too but in a vastly different way
>you will never wake up in a dark cript in tirisfal
>you will never level in the barrens for the first time
>you willl never be menace in the searing gorge,stv, or the plaque lands
>you will never sweat in arena for gladiator and the rank 1 battle with you mates in tbc/woltk
>mfw
I miss the comfy leveling and the countless hours of pvp.
The game had 10/10 sovl, but it's impossible to recreate that experience. The players of 2005 are an entirely different species compared to the ones of today -- people today are obsessed with letting spreadsheets tell them how to play (or rather not play).
Greatest soundtrack of all time, also. Even though I stopped playing forever ago, I still love the music. https://youtu.be/gQFOLOur1jM
I'll remember this shit when I'm 80, but I've accepted that we'll never see something so pure ever again. It's over.
So true. People were just better in the mid 00s. The game was fun and while people obviously wanted to progress and clear content it was much more easy going. I was slightly excited for WoW classic although I knew it would suck because players turned to shit somewhere in the mid 2010s. The mindset has just changed. People aren't fun to play games with anymore etcetc
No, it was shit. After the South Park ep I bought the disc to play it but it was the same shit
>get mission to kill x number of things
>get mission to bring thing from a to b
>get mission to kill x number of things
>repeat over and over
vanilla through litch king were the best.
>lvl 60 human rogue assassination
everquest of 2001 was amazing beyond words.
they really were. $15 bought a lot more back then.
I've never enjoyed anything in my entire life as much as I enjoyed WoW when I was 13. I've had a lot of sex and it was never as good as WoW. Drugs didn't make me feel as good as WoW. Getting married didn't make me feel as good as WoW. Having kids didn't make me feel as good as WoW. Nothing will probably ever make me feel as good as WoW when I was 13 and playing online with my friends, exploring Azeroth for the first time.
At the time, 2007, WoW blew my fucking mind. Entire countries, endless dumbass adventures. I'm happy i never took it serious and got technical, i still love it.
Your age played a big role in it.I still really like video games but they lose a lot when you start to get a sense of how big they realistically can and cannot be, and see that every one is a finite amount of real content and systems.
If you played this young enough that you didn't on a gut level get that though Wow genuinely felt like a portal into another world.
I started playing during Wrath of the Lich King and there was a real sea-change around that time, because towards the end of when I was playing they introduced Dungeon Finder. This is objectively a good thing from my point of view now, less droolingly enthusiastic as I'd be about the game and more focused on not wasting as much time. But what Dungeon Finder does is vastly reduce the need to travel the overworld and explore it, which means for new people now who would be young enough to get that sort of magical immersion experience, it won't really happen because the best content is all about queuing and teleporting.
>Your age played a big role in it.I still really like video games but they lose a lot when you start to get a sense of how big they realistically can and cannot be, and see that every one is a finite amount of real content and systems.
This. When you're a kid you don't really consider the limitations unless it's a really crappy game so there's a certain magic to games. Not anymore, especially if you read a guide.
At the time it was amazing
Classic was an absolute blast.
MMOs are all dogshit skinnerboxes and people say wow is good only because it was their first dogshit skinnerbox
What's wrong with Skinnerboxes?
You're so le smart, I bet you've figured out that taxes are just the government extorting you as well.
Wtf are you pro taxes? I'm so confused by this post
It was the most immersive fantasy world to exist back then. It's an experience that can probably never be replicated.
Ancientfag here, born in 1964. Played UO, played SWG Pre NGE/CU, City of Heroes, City of Villians, EQ,EQ2, OSRS, RS. Vanilla wow had its problems in terms of gameplay, but the community, and overall fun you had in the game is second to none, I still play on some servers to get the feeling but nothing will bring back the feeling of vanilla wow and nost
You're actually older than my dad. I hope I'll still lurk around and not become a seriousfag whenever I get to your age, ancientbro.
my only advice is just do things you wouldent do, I joined the military at 30, worked clubs in the 90s, traveled to countries by throwing a dart at a board, investing, buying property. I know that young people have shit wages and purchasing power is so low and inflation is so high, but the best thing you can do is get off the internet
When you die no one cares how embarrassing you were unless you were some celebrity, even then they might look back on you for being brave or a chad or some shit.
Do what you want to do. Enjoy life.
>Do what you want to do. Enjoy life.
my point is take risks, and dont spend to much time online
I agree
Imo it's more about not passing up opportunities than taking risks. Too many gays are afraid of change, lazy, or just don't appreciate the chances they get in life
>military at 30
how did that go?
I'm 29, turn 30 this year and have actually been seriously considering the military.
Back then it was, probably the most novel videogame I ever experienced.
Summer of 2008 was a fun time.
At the time, yeah.
It was a substitute for the feeling of exploration and adventure that is sorely missing in our world for men
Finding new frontiers with your friends
Magical
One of the most enjoyable things I've ever done in my life
It was really good, from 2004-2009.
Yeah. Me and my friends would all get together on Saturday, buy some beer, order some pizzas, invite some chicks over, turn on some college football, and play WoW for several hours straight. I think that was the peak of human civilization for those few Saturdays in the fall of 2007.
Darrell? I miss you, bro. how's Ohio.
yeah it was great, still play wow classic vanilla today, its fun in the same way Baldur's Gate, Morrowind, Fable I, Everquest P99 are fun in a sense that they don't make them like they used to. A lot of it is nostalgia playing a role in it, but they're probably objectively better games than most of the stuff they're putting out today. Especially in the mmo genre. I was born in 1992 so i lived through the golden age of video games 1996-2007. a lot of it is nostalgia though, in the same way people still playing Ocarina of Time or Super Mario 64 are mostly driven by nostalgia, never played those games as a kid so i never could get into them now as an adult. Sorry to break it to you zoomie, but if you tried playing these games im sure you'd still find enjoyment.
>but they're probably objectively better games than most of the stuff they're putting out today
It helps that there was nothing you could do with IRL money that would influence your gameplay experience in any way other than buying gold from some sketchy site and risk having your account banned, which turned most players with a max level character away from even trying it
You sort of need to understand the climate of online gaming at the time of its release in terms of MMOs. It was the first mainstream accessible MMO. Before WoW, in the genre of MMOs you had games like Everquest and Ultima Online, both of which would be difficult for your average person to just pick up and play. Because of this, and perhaps because it was just before the genre came to a fever pitch, no one really struck gold until WoW. WoW was the perfect combination of the genre mixed with gameplay that pretty much anyone could figure out. It also wasn't innately difficult. In Everquest for example, a sort of meme at the time was that a rat could kill you at level 1. Nothing of the sort would be commonplace in WoW. MMOs didn't really have an entry level before this point, and WoW strolled up and took on those reins.
There was also an unbelievable amount of hype among the MMO community.
yes. gamers in the mid 2000s were a different breed.
We're dying off quite fast
As a vehicle for storytelling, atmosphere, music, and interaction, it was unparalleled. The gameplay was honestly 6/10 though and anyone who says otherwise doesn’t understand how much was lifted from EQ or just hates fun.
It was good for the initial novelty, because the excitement of playing with your friends or finding new friends online was fresh. Nowadays, the novelty is gone and got replaced by stat grinding tryhards and autists.
WoW and essentially all MMO's were about the community and the shared adventure. Communities are now shit and there's nothing left to discover because of the internet, thus MMO's are now shit
I mean it unironically ruined tons of lives lol. I can't imagine the number of young dudes in early college that completely wrecked their future or completely underachieved because of that game. So I better hope it was good.
i played on nost. elysium, kronos, and classic wow.
never played vanilla past level 20, didn't have a 60 until elysium
classic wasn't perfect and probably the worst of all 4 in terms of mechanics besides pathing implementation, but it still had that community feel of old MMOs.
due to COVID, even with a full time job, i had time to level a 60 of every class, eventually became GM of the server first MC/onyxia guiild if only to keep the guild together for the end of classic, got realm first naxx clear at the finish line.
you're forced to interact with people of your own faction and against the enemy faction due to the difficulty of the content (though blizzard toned everything down in classic in this regard as they gave us 1.13 itemization at the start out of pure laziness, but this is still very true in the early phases).
classic also had the phenomena of casual players adopting sweaty private server strategies for raiding, it was quite bizarre, but it made the world even more alive as everyone realized the value of world buffs and the player interactions that come from that were a huge driving force of the server every raid week.
the world feels dead past vanilla, all these systems get put into place that take you out of the world (BG queues no longer punish the popular faction and force them to search out HKs in the world, arenas, flying mounts, etc.)
i would do it all again, nothing to do with nostalgia, but unfortunately there will never be another international server with the momentum of classic or the old huge private servers.
>but unfortunately there will never be another international server with the momentum of classic or the old huge private servers
I figured Blizz would probably do re-do this classic/BC/wotlk thing again in due time..I skipped out on what they did the past few years, but I'd consider playing next time if they do another restart from vanilla (and if they do do it again, I can't see a lot of the junkies not being up for another round)
Barrens chat was something else. Probably my first encounter with internet humour
mind was 2004 /b/ but you're not wrong, barrens was basically warcraft /b/-edition
chuck norris my man
>just remembered Chuck norris, Mr t and Betty white were in wow ads
What went so wrong in this world?
Vanilla RuneScape 2005-2007 was way better
And it's not even close
RuneScape was at it's best when it was about people interacting with each other to help each other make progress somewhere in their own way. It was a game of community and trading.
Nowadays it's just a fucking glorified clicker and any player interaction is just downright abhorred, it's a game for people to play on their phone while they do something more interesting. I wonder how Jagex feels knowing that nobody genuinely wants to play their game?
never played RS but always thought it looked like something from the 90s when I'd see images from it
WoW seems more cutting edge for that time period, graphic and gameplay wise. If you have a preference for either game it's likely just because that's the game that you played at the time
runescape was a browser game, WoW had 4 installation disks
it was the only period of time where MMOs were actually worth the subscription.
I lost friends to WoW in high school. Started out freshman year bright eyed and bushy tailed, then they got hooked on it. The ones who managed to graduate were 400lbs. The others... they just disappeared.
I was only 9 when WoW came out and it was the most amazing game I’d ever played even though I didn’t understand any of the MMO mechanics. I just kept creating new characters and exploring all the different zones which felt impossibly huge. There was a real sense of mystery to the world, like anything could be out there.
Back then? Absolutely. There's no reason to play it now, though.
absolutely
I’ve done copious amounts of drugs including weed, mushrooms, lsd, cocaine and mdma. I started playing wow in late BC and hit my prime during WOTLK.
NOTHING compared to a night of raiding bleeding edge content. I fondly remember my shitty casual guild spending hours failing against the pvp battle in TOC before we finally beat it.
Running pugs through wing 1 of ICC in the first few weeks of release, downing Saurfang with 22 players after hours of failure.
I can’t compare it to anything
Yes, it was a golden time for mmo.
no that shit always sucked id always rather being playing ninja gaiden or halo than some gay ass guildwars wow shit
Yes out only for a short period. It was uncharted territory filled with all kinds of people. Meta gaming ruined it like it's ruined everything else. The only way to save mmos is come up with a meta and mod proof system.
No, I had some of my most favorite video game experiences in it but still hated it 90% of the time. The best parts of the game were exploring or fucking around with people. Grinding and raiding was gay but you had to put up with it to get gear. I still watch nogg-aholic every few years for the nostalgia rush though.
it was a "You had to be there" sorta thing
>it was a "You had to be there" sorta thing
God there are so many things I look back on now that are like that it hurts.
>it was a "You had to be there" sorta thing
Shit like this really doesn't happen anymore in AAA online games. It's about everyone knowing everyone's IRL identities, planning "meetups", and actual personal drama thanks to fags and females reaching critical mass. Consequently, even bros act like fags.
I just want to go back bros
And I mean REALLY back, no WoW classic. I mean being 16 in 2007
My very first ever character was Dwarf Warrior and this was the very first epic mount I got. It was all so simple back then ;_;
My first Character was a Dwarf Paladin.
I love the snow area they start out in and my favorite part was just waiting for night so I could see the moonlight reflect in the snow.
that looks very similar to my dwarf hunter that that I played 50+ hours a week from 2006 to 2009
thats like 10k hours, mang
being deeply entrenched in the endgame of WoW was basically a fulltime job that you don't get paid for, or you get payed in gear
Good old days are gone, we must make do with whatever is left.
YO THIS bro IS IN HIS THIRTIES
Mot that anon but I'm 33, I feel 22!
avg user here is likely mid 20s
After playing WotLK classic, I've now realised you can no longer go back. It is truly over now
im so glad i never got into wow or diablo
imagine being in 2023 almost 2024 and playing diablo 4 lmao
Butters, go home and buy world of warcraft, install it and join the online sensation before we all murder you
>Better machinima than the actual game
How
Machinima had been making Blizzard look like amateurs for years at that point, I guess they just cared more.
>You now remember Oxhorn
>You now remember Nyhm
>You now remember Cranius
>You now remember that you can never go back
>tfw almost 60 and playing vanilla and tbc were some of the best years of my life
This and Big Blue Dress were some of my favorites
Oxhorn fell into obscurity and then became a big youtuber again recently https://www.youtube.com/@oxhorn
>Oxhorn fell into obscurity and then became a big youtuber again recently
>most recent video has only 41k views
>recently become big again
that fat fuck hasn't recovered from he got btfo by that dog gay pointing how shit his lore videos are for ne vegas.
Is he pozzed tho? I don't want to spoil my memories of that era
Sadly, yes
He's a massive fag who has attacked other Fallout people for being "problematic" and defends Bethesda's shitty decisions and attacked fans for being "entitled" for not wanting their shitty nylon bag or FO76
>wow
Should've played guild wars instead. It was perfection until the sequel came out and ruined everything
>dark portal color changing
When does south park begin to become bad? I've wanted to rewatch it.
Much like WoTLK, it's all downhill from here
PC principal is when it starts becoming unwatchable, which is honestly a pretty long run up until that point.
When it lost its statue of smartoon
No male between 140 and 300 pounds has ever used that term.
this
Once they started doing that continuity shit it was bad.
The only funny thing they did with PC Principal was having him always blow out the levels when he make a "P" sound in the mic.
This
Also this
when they start talking about things that i like!
Member berries, the season long mr garrison/trump arch.
It actully got good again though
The fucking le epic pot Tegridy shit.
>When does south park begin to become bad?
There has always been a mix of good and bad episodes with Southpark. Their strength was always quick turn-around on happenings. They fucked up with Trump getting elected though because you can tell like every other mediafag they thought he'd lose so they had no idea what to do with the retarded Garrison storyline that they set up or whatever that was about. Story arcs in south park were always a mistake but that's when it finally caught up with them.
Butters goes to Hawaii then when pc principle shows up
You're safe until season 15. There's a two episode arc which is strongly implied to be the ending Matt and Trey wanted. You'll know when you get there. Anything after that you can avoid.
The ChatGPT episode this season really makes it clear that the shit has gone on too long. They basically write the "children" as if they're in high school now.
Never played WoW, did it have a plot? Like if you played and did quests did it feel like you made a difference for the Horde or Alliance?
>Never played WoW, did it have a plot?
It had a good lore, but you have to just live in the illusion that the lore ended with the second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. Everything, after Arthas death (the Lich King), is just a horrible train wreck.
The later expansion by Nublizzard completely murdered the Lore beyond recognition, and I really mean they absolutely annihilated everything.
>Like if you played and did quests did it feel like you made a difference for the Horde or Alliance?
In the later expansion, you literally are THE CHOSEN ONE. In classic and the early expansion, you simply were a small gear in a gigantic machine.
You had your impact on the zones, your faction, but it was way more subtle.
You were just a simple adventurer traveling in the world, and not the literal chosen one written into the lore.
Many of the classic quest are quite iconic, but Blizzard nuked them after Woltk.
The conflicts in Classic are on a way smaller scale and not a universal threat.
Each Zone had it's own dangers and smaller conflicts.
Those small missions, or stories felt way better than simply being "XxxChosenGoD1337" and saving the world countless times.
insightfulpilled
In classic wow you were just a random adventurer. There was no real story, but if you read quest text there's a somewhat interesting story in the Human area about how VanCleef built stormwind, then got garden gnomeed out of being paid, so he started up a pirate group of laborers in Westfall, took control, and then you go and kill him. Then there's a missing diplomat related to it that you try and track down, and the story abruptly ends. Stormwind is also secretly controlled by a dragon, which is alluded to with the diplomat questline and you go through a pretty big chain to free a prisoner, and then you go to confront the dragon, and he gets murdered.
The human storyline is the most fleshed out, but most zones/races have similar storylines you sort of piece together if you read the quest text. The Horde has a pretty interesting storyline about cleansing wailing caverns in the barrens, which leads into you finding the silithid, and wondering what the fuck they are, and you get some quests here and there until you finally get to Silithus at lvl 55 or so.
Burning Crusade's story was complete nonsense bullshit, and Wrath's was pretty good for its age in terms of telling a focused, coherent story in an MMO, but it doesn't really hold up. After Wrath the story is complete trash.
>did quests did it feel like you made a difference for the Horde or Alliance?
Yeah. There used to be this accomplishment you could get by sneaking into an opposite faction's city and killing it's king or whatever. So you could be minding your own business trying to make bank at the auction house when 100 horde show up and just start killing everyone. One day I was outside of Stormwind when I saw a massive group of horde players using summoning stones to assemble a small army. I get back on my horse and ride back to Stormwind to alert everyone. Word spreads throughout the Eastern Kingdoms and we put together a squad to defeat the Horde and prevent them from entering Stormwind. I was basically Paul Revere that day.
>I get back on my horse and ride back to Stormwind to alert everyone
NPCs or actually people playing their characters?
Saw a fat, short man playing it when I was a teenager and it scared me from even attempting. I don't want the pressure of sticking to a schedule or coordinating for anything if I'm not getting paid. This episode's still great though. One of those rare video game episodes that bothers to actually make the visuals look like a game.
>$15 a month to play ONE game
MMOs were such bullshit in their heyday
>15 dollars for literally dozens if not hundreds of hours of entertainment
I no lifed it hard so it was doubly worth for me. It really was a steal.
Worth every penny back in the day. It was basically heroin.
>50 cents a day
It's like buying two gumballs from a gumball machine everyday
I started on private servers when BC was released.
i still pay this for ffxiv kek. but ffxiv is a masterpiece so
>always got mad when shows mentioned games i played and said something wrong about them
i went on an autistic rant that exp doesn't work that way in front of my family. fuck
>i went on an autistic rant that exp doesn't work that way in front of my family. fuck
Fucking kek. It bothered me too but at least I kept it to myself.
Why would he not have arcane brilliance already? You keep that shit going 24/7 as a Mage
Even when I'm standing around in Stormwind
Unless he just rezd and forgot
I watched this when it premiered. I was standing in the inn at Menethil Harbor while watching the CRT tv on my desk. And my guild discussed it while it was airing.
sounds like a nice memory
?t=5
For me?It is the sound of the Barrens and Strangle thorn Vale.
keyed
God I miss pwning noobs outside the cave to Booty Bay.
What ep# is this
Season 10, Episode 8
The arcane brilliance didn’t even help them, I always made sure to collect a fee from anyone that asked for the buff, or else I’d mass pull the raid till I got my way.
No you didn't lol what a dumb larp post
>larping about wow
why would he do that? how sad are you
My MMO experience was downloading Asian MMOs and masturbating to my undressed female avatars
This but it was an undressed night elf /dancing.
My "high school sweetheart" got me into WoW via this method.
Then she quit four months later and I ended up playing WoW for like 15 years.
>Perfect World
I remember early on you could save a character preset, go into the game files and alter that preset beyond the limits of the character creator then load it in-game. Made a few titty monsters like that.
LEATHER BELT LEATHER BELT LEATHER BELT
AUGH
LEVEL 18? UGH UGH
the cadence of "4str 4stam leather belt" is burned into my brain forever
south park started when i was in high school
haha ur old xD
fkn nub
The part that hurts the most is knowing all of the friends I played this game with that drifted apart along the years.
My best friend I used to play WoW with in middle/high school ended up going to a different college, finding Jesus, and becoming a youth pastor. He hasn't spoken to the rest of the group in about a decade.
Other main friend is absolutely cucked out now. He started dating a single mom and now he lets her control his life. It's absolutely pathetic. But at least he still talks to us.
I am still in contact with exactly one person who I played Halo 2 with back in 2004. He is the only person I still keep contact with that I played vidya with pre 2010. All my WoW guild buddies are long estranged. I remember back in like 2012 seeing if the Teamspeak server was still up but it wasn't.
>I am still in contact with exactly one person who I played Halo 2 with back in 2004. He is the only person I still keep contact with that I played vidya with pre 2010.
Did you blow him?
No I grew up in MD and He grew up in PA we met at a Halo Lan party Hosted at Fort Detrick. We just kept playing video games together I mean we didn't talk for a while because I dumped my Xbox after Xbone was announced and he didn't own a PC until around 2015 my steam account was the same as my GT and he sent me a friend request. Now were buddies again and we play vidya semi regularly.
So you're probably gonna blow him?
>tfw zero way to contact my old TeamSpeak/Ventrilo pals
i wouldn't even know how. all the people who said stuff stays on the internet forever, no it fucking doesn't ( ._.)
>fat, unfunny redditsit loser make fun of
>fat mmorpg addicts
I never understood the Southparkhype. The humor was always cringe asf.
Take a joke, fag
I started in Wrath and honestly wished I had started in BC. Burning Crusade’s aesthetics were, in my opinion, gorgeous. Vanilla felt like a true fantasy game experience. Anyone ever play on Dalvengyr? It was my home server until I stopped being a scrub and migrated to a high pop server for better raid options. And yeah, min/maxxig IS fun if you’re good.
BC zones were great. Still remember the first time I went from hellfire to zangarmarsh loved that zone. After I grinded out 70 I went back and farmed those little pond dudes rep sporeggar I think fucking hell what I would do to be at the tail end of vanilla eagerly waiting for BC to drop with all my IRL and guildies
>what I would do to be at the tail end of vanilla eagerly waiting for BC
I had mixed feelings about that - excitement at the new xpac but kind of depressed since my guild was only like 2/3rds finished with AQ40.
Was neat to fully see Naxx later with wotlk but also not quite as epic feeling as the original 40 man raid, especially with how much more utility each class/spec had compared to how limited characters were back in Vanilla. I think I would have been content if my guild had at least downed C'thun but we just didn't have that extra month or two that might have pushed us over the edge. My guild pretty much stopped raiding and our lone thunderfury MT bailed when the 2.0 preTBC patch came out, so there was a weeks of nothing happening and just waiting for the xpac to drop. Just felt a little unfulfilling to wrap up the vanilla experience that way, but I'd only started playing at the beginning of 2006 and still felt like I got quite a lot done in around the 9 months I spent playing. If I could go back I'd have started playing in 2005 instead of 2006, though my family only just bought a computer that could even play the game like 5 months prior to starting out
Vanilla/TBC was such a perfect escape from my IRL at the time
During the summer before high school, my parents decided to move to the other side of town, maybe 30 minute drive away from where I grew up. I was a fat 14 year old loser who was having a miserable time in 9th grade, having no friends or anything to do except replay Final Fantasy games afterschool. Then in the middle of 9th grade I finally learn about WoW from G4 and start playing. For the past 6 months my thoughts were mostly preoccupied with wanting to die etc, but WoW managed to breathe new life into me for the next few years and actually made me feel good about being alive. By 2009/10 the honeymoon phase was over, but damn what a few years those were
I feel you bro, even chatting to random strangers in WoW was a breath of fresh air.
If anyone's reading my blogposts, the area that my parents moved to was an undeveloped and new/upcoming area on the edge of town surrounded by nothing but desert and nothing to really do if you left the house besides walking the sidewalks. Being cooped up in the house ever since the move was not fun, and WoW alleviated that feeling..My parents lost that house around 2010 due to the whole real-estate market collapse that had been going on the past few years
Wrath was leaps and bounds ahead of BC in terms of game design, but BC was still amazing the first time through. You were too distracted by being in another world to think about how much zangarmarsh fucking sucked and the quest markers lead you underground or how red and boring HFP was
Wrath was the beggining of the end for cazzies and noobs
Terrible opinion. I wonder if there is still that one mob bugged under the zangarmarsh bridge after all these hears
>game design
You mean zones? Eh you’re sort of right, but by then they had perfected flying and how to build a world around it. Still- I disagree somewhat. Wrath’s environments were somewhat repetitive whereas BC’s were more varied. And Wrath suffered from too much copypasting- how many times were the Valkyr’s models reused? Wrath’s soundtrack blew every other expansion’s out of the water though.
BC was the last time that the game didn't handhold players through content. In Vanilla/BC the devs just made the content, threw it out there and said "enjoy!". I understand that by Wrath Blizzard wanted to let casual players be able to experience most of the game too, and there was still plenty of challenging content if you were in a serious raid guild, but I really like the feeling of the original game+BC with how the entire playerbase was basically on even terms with the game..I think WotLK or Cata is also when individual servers really started to feel less like an actual community compared to how tight-knit they felt in vanilla/BC. It is what it is though, I cant fault them too hard for the game changing over the years, it's just the experience was so radically different in just 5 years
Zangar was a normal part of all my characters leveling routes, and the repuation rewards with cenarion expedition were really good for druids (no surprise) but had cool shit for everyone, and the hyppogryph was worth grinding for
also the pvp around Coilfang was just apart of the overall experience...then you have the bounties for the marsh stalker. the sporregar dudes. maybe you're just a casual?
BC was my first WoW experience and Blood Elf my first race.
I swear I'll never relive those comfy summer days, walking back from the local store with snacks and drinks, logging in to WoW.
Any other out of bounds chads who saw Hyjal in vanilla with the construction signs
before 1.8 you used to be able to add gms to your friends list, I remember one I was friends with would take us to GM island, and out of bounds areas, they even showed me how to get under storm wind, once I asked them to summon kazzak in SW and di, this was maybe mid 2005, 18 years ago. I was 41
We had one that used to follow us around on our raid adventures. He joined the guild for awhile. Shit was cash.
bros......
I tried the 2019 re-release of WoW, but anons were right -- the community is 100% dead.
From the very starting zone, I would always chat with fellow levelers, but they seemed so quiet compared to the mid 2000's. It's like they instinctively knew typing was an xp loss, so they kept it simple and to the point. I remember meeting this one guy that I got along amazingly well with, but we never got to level together much at all, because the fucker wouldn't stop rerolling. He couldn't figure out which DPS god class he wanted to play for endgame. In the end, he chose warrior and no-lifed it to 60 in under a week.
I think I quit at about lv 37. The world felt cold and empty.
Damn, I was thinking of buying it and rolling another shammy but I guess not.
I blame voice chat. It used to be limited to shit like ventrillo and TeamSpeak, so randos were much more inclined to speak in all chat and play together with strangers. Not having a party search system was huge too, I miss seeing "lfg" and "glf" in games
>I remember meeting this one guy that I got along amazingly well with
When I first started my first character was a human warlock that I got to like level 12 and said "this isn't for me", so I rerolled a dwarf hunter and started over. A few weeks later probably around level 25-30 I was in Ironforge going to the flight master and I saw a friend that I'd met in Elwynn forest and quested with for a few hours..I ran up to him and was like DUUUDE, do you remember me, we did shit together, how's it been man" We stayed friends and did stuff together for the rest of vanilla..It just kind of blows my mind that we both happened to start playing the game the exact same day while happening to pick the same realm, only played together for a short while in the starting areas/running hogger, but then we stayed friends who would talk at least a couple times a week for the rest of the expansion. He was my first real WoW friend, his name was Jericho
>He was my first real WoW friend, his name was Jericho
Did you blow him?
Shadowsong?
>log on
>do a mythic+
>log off for a week
>log on
>loot vault
>do a mythic+
>log off for a week
>repeat ad infinitum since legion launch
great game, zoomers
>HUH
I always played on the horde, when I played on retail from Classic to Woltk.
I started to level alliance on P-Servers years later and the defias hit so abnormally hard. You are basically fucked if you can't kick or cc him.
I honestly can't think of a horde equivalent, that killed so many new players.
Even Stitches,or Hogger were all alliance and killed a ton of new players.
The Sons of Arugal might be the only Horde low level mass murderer.
WoW is great and the people who talk shit about it sucked dick at it. Classic and retail are both still good today and every other mmo is trash. Its easy to shit on and be contrarian about, and there were some terrible xpacs along the way after wrath. People just treat it like a job they have to quit and take back instead of just playing when they feel like it
>be tank with shitty computer
>They would wait five minutes for me to load between every wipe
Why did 24 people put up with that?
>find out my best friend rogue and arena 2vs2 partner of 5 years was an unironic pedophile obsessed with writing stories about little girls
>He got beaten retarded at a skatepark
Will I'm sorry man you were cool
A good MMORPG couldn't happen again because the perfect minmax guide would come out within 1 week and you'd get kicked from any raid if you weren't following it
How would south park deal with classic wow?
Remember the time you had to respect the queue line for certain events?
Imagine bringing up some anon's age like you're not going to be here forever just like him
>Stan was wearing the horde AV tabard even though they were alliance
HIT HIM NOW CLYDE
>now he's summoning scorpions
>*someone runs by on fire*
Kek
>ywn watch vurtne/drakedog videos for the first time again
Played around 1y of vanillia and 3months of BC. It was a blast and vanillia eas probably best game expirience in my life. It was engaging and so large contentwise. I did some pve but mostly pvp, so i missed some raids and few dungeons. After BC repeased I leveled up to 70, do some stuff but overqll game turned bad for me, dungeons were uninspiring and arena didnt do it for me. Have the same run with classic, around 1y of playing + 2 months of BC. Done all the content ive missed, dungeons, raids, found friends and nice guild. Ive got the same pvp rank like in og vanillia, but when people start to behave like meta sweaty neckbeards I just said goodbye. Og vanilia was filled with poor players, but it was nice, people learn to play themselves, in classic everyone was more or less of metagays that only care for parses. Ive got some guildies/randoms that had tantrums over me parsing better than they multiple times, toward the end. Fame became a race to 60/70 while afterwards a contest who will crean the endgame first/fastest. Still had my share of fun, but the feeling of discovery of og vanillia was mostly gone. If I would recommend wow to anyone it would be orginal game (no dlc), pick a class that can do 2/3 roles and take your time.
Wow have some of the best dungeons in mmo, blackrock depths deserves a reward on its own. Sadly the current gamer attitude, chinese farmers and nublizzard taken the tool on every version of wow. Im happy to reexpirience some stuff that ive missed, but wouldnt waste any more time on it now.
At what point did they make NA and EU separate subscriptions? I could've sworn it used to be possible to visit any server you wanted.
I played Vanilla in Kindergarten. First PC with Maplestory, then Orange Box a few years later. Coming up on age 24 now.
Any advice from you older fucks. Life fucking sucks.
you know LSD? give it a go.
One of my favorite memories is playing through Secret of Monkey Island for the first time with some friends on a few tabs each.
Ran the drug gauntlet, realized that above all else is family and friends. Beer is what I have now.
Is this really all there is? Or is it the perfect time to make money off of zoomers and impressionable kids?
I'm 30. You probably heard all the common sense advice already. All I can say is to think carefully of how much time you spend playing vidya and lurking online. One year ago I decided to cut gaming entirely from my life. It wasn't easy and I had a few sessions since then, but it was one of the best decisions ever. Vidya and the internet is not a long term solution for whatever life problems you might have.
I feel like if I cut gaming and internet, I would just end up watching tv all the time anyways.
every boomer who says games are a waste of time is usually guilty of this.
It's not the same imho. Tv will never capture your attention and effort the same way as gaming does. You can watch tv for one hour and call it a day. But gaming feels never enough and new games offer dozens and dozens of hours worth of content.
that makes it even worse then. a braindead activity isn't more "wholesome" in any shape or form.
you'd have a point if you were reading books instead (something I already do) but if you replace gaming with television, you've got no right to lord anything over anyone
How do you even find out about the game while that young unless an older family member was a player (1 of my IRL friends had a sister around that age and I remember him letting her take control of the keyboard sometimes)
As a Gen-Xer, I do not and never will understand people who think they make friends on the internet
As a millennial, I've come round to it.
Not as the default, sure, but as a surrogate for meeting real people, it can fill that void. People used to write letters or talk on the phone. Why not games over Discord? (As long as it's not JUST that.)
WoW (and other classic MMOs) heavily encouraged actually needing to make *friends* to actually do lots of the games content. There are differences to an IRL friendship and an e-friendship but the kind of e-friendships forged in World of Warcraft back then were a lot more defined then say friending someone in an online FPS / game with lobbies and matchmaking. Being in a raiding guild for a prolonged period of time meant you were probably going to spend 15 or more hours a week playing with this same group of 25 to 40+ people, so you'd also just naturally find out things about these people and get to know them a bit better than you on average would in other types of online games. 1 of the more major differences though is it's almost inevitable that the friendship is gonna drop off at some point due to someone quitting the game or their life circumstances changing, so it's best not to get too attached to begin with..I think getting too attached to other people you meet and having friendships fall through over and over again also explains a lot of the coldness that some people feel towards modern e-friends, and even I'm someone who just doesn't try to be open or make friends anymore in games. The friendships you'd see in classic WoW were very real though, just not as physically tangible - you'd often spend more hours a week playing with these people than you would spending time with your cloest IRL friend, unless you were really close and seeing those IRL friends near every day
>and get to know them a bit better than you on average would in other types of online games.
So you'd blow them?
Wow's not a fucking classic mmo don't sneak it into the good bunch with your lies!
I think it's classic in the sense that it was a lot of peoples first MMO or even online/computer game. Mid 00s is around when just about everyone had at least 1 computer with internet connection at their home or even if they'd played some online games prior they were likely small group or FPS games. If anything it's thee MMO that ushered in a new era, the golden age of MMOs, but it also kind of killed the MMO genre
>LIVE TO WIN
They keep arcane brilliance up themselves considering how long it lasts and no one would ever say the full word intelligence in this situation… perhaps they would say int at best… also even if I didn’t play that game I would’ve done two seconds of research or had someone in the room who played full time, that is what Stanley Kubrick would’ve done… yes even if he was doing a comedy gig he would still put at least bare minimum in effort into researching the thing he was trying to parody.
Even at the point this episode was made “they” killed real parody because it was a threat to “then”.
TLDR Mel Brookes would be rolling in his grave if his bones weren’t still rattling around from satanic magical health care you don’t have access to… even if you have a little money and insurance. Most of the low level elites don’t even get real healthcare… do you think a long illness free labor race life is profitable and easy to control?
RuneScape was the experience WoW nostalgia wishes it was
I still talk to a handful of wow friends from 10+ yrs ago and we have meetups/play new steam games/stream movies every once in a while.
I know its cringe to go on about "muh internet friends" but I'm very happy I met them and will be very sad if we ever lose contact.
Do you blow each other?
All the time. It's the only way to relax the bros when you're in a tense raiding environment.
>them
Its a conjoined twin?
>why did elwynn forest get 10x the dev time as every other starting zone
I was a "worlds first"-tier Everquest raider in a megaguild.
Then a run of the mill turbo autist in WoW.
Those blocks were the best times of my life and everything after has been liquid shit.
Reminder this is World of Warcraft's cultural peak and it has never been back to this height in 10 years. It will never return to the cultural zeitgeist it once had.
Wotlk classic wasn’t even 1/2 as fun as 2019 Classic
I miss those days. Part of it is age but modern MMOs are honestly just really bad. Everything about them are just so unfinished, it’s like they have a shallow idea of what an mmo is like and copy and paste that repeatedly but without any depth or interest to it.
The last good mmo was vanilla Tera
women ruined wow
>play new mmo
>friend does something stupid
>haha bro you’re so fucking retarded lmao
>banned for 3 days
>geeze I wonde they nobody talks and the community is dead
>say bad thing in real life
>socially ostracized
maybe the internet wasn't some magical exception.