WoW vanilla nostalgia

I just stumbled across this video and it has triggered my vanilla nostalgia to the max.

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Why are the nostalgia feelings so strong when it comes to WoW?

The game is so shit nowadays. The realm I have been on for 13 years is full of people I don't know because xrealm makes servers borderless. I have literally like 20 port items and can get everywhere in the blink of an eye.. you don't have to queue for anything, even quests are being finished without having to look for people or even talk to them at all, you just apply to a group on the group finder...

And for the little world interaction you have, of course there's flying.

WoW is no longer a world. It is a lobby for dungeons/raids/instanced pvp...

While knowing all of this, I still refuse to leave WoW for a more social-centered game like i.e. Eve... why?

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Because you invested so much time already that it would feel like losing a part of your life. Just uninstall user.

Crossroads chat, mass retard pvp at tarren mill, getting geared for mc with your druid friend...itll never come back. You need to move on.

Nothing make me nostalgia as hard as WoW. I think it's reached a unironic meme point. Vanilla WoW is the entity that generates most nostalgia in the world.

dunno why its nostalgic for everyone else

I feel a much deeper level of nostalgia though, for GW1
on the brink of tears when I hear certain songs or see things I remember
it really hurts
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I played GW1 instead of wow while I was growing up, wow was more of a highschool thing but GW was always there for me

I agree with this.

If anything, I'm glad to inform you that I was able to re-live some of that high by playing on a private vanilla server (Kronos). Might be even better on Elysium.

Make sure to play with music on.

Wolf of wallstreet was alright as far as vanilla movies go. It's a bit too recent for me to have nostalgia for it though.

Get out

Your childlike wonder as you explore this semingly infinitely immense world is no longer there, as you know the game's geography more than real life geography.
The pleasures of discovering your class and leveling up is no longer the same.
Your online-only friend that you had the most amazing time playing with is no longer there. He's gone forever.
I tried the private servers, but its not the same. Its like seeing videos from when you was a kid. It`s nice, it helps to reminds some memories, but it is just not the same.

Each their own user

WoW was just more popular, but I'm sure you had great memories in GW1

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part of what made vanilla great is that everyone was just getting started, so people would help each other with quests and stuff, plus there was a lot of mystery before every single kb was datamined and put on a wiki, which also promoted communication and gameplay with other players. oh, and the last thing is the fucking flying mounts, they ruined the overworld entirely because people just fly everywhere and never interact. ah shit, how could I forget world PvP? that was another thing that promoted the MULTIPLAYER interaction in an MMORPG. you know, the important and fun part that set it apart from other games? holy fuck I hate blizzard.

>playing wow past wrath
rofl

One of the main things that made Vanilla tick for me was discovering what I knew from WC1-3 and the books as an explorable environment. Then they started butchering that feeling and world more and more. Sure, Pandaria was comfy, but outside of Chen there was nothing left from the games I knew and loved. And don't get me started on exhuming Grom in WoD and not having the balls to portray him as he actually was.

You'll never get it back. It's a sad reality that hits most people at some point. They'll keep trying to relive those memories but you can't. You can create new ones, but you should stop chasing those nostalgic trips. Get lost in a new game. It'll never be the same but it can still be good

>I was 16
>2005
>huge fan of warcraft series
>hyped to play WoW for the first time
>installs
>game starts
>the fucking log screen
>making my first paladin character
>elwynn forest
>that fucking music
>meting my irl friends in the game
>raiding dungeons
>after boss defeated
>"WE DID IT!!" in the chat

There was a sense of community and things weren't set in stone.


Thats really it, because Vanilla WoW plays like ass.

Yeah i fucking hate the grinding progression shit in these games. Every time I come back to wow it's because I want to experience the world and lore some. Always get bored after hitting max level and doing the same dungeons over and over.

It's true. The pvp was shit, the pve was shit... but the game was a zillion times better.

What games would you recommend to get a similar feeling?

there aren't any. gaming is dead.

Any game with exploration. Mmos with small communities can help with that because you need to communicate to get that info. Ffxi is an example. The veterans will have everything figured out, but you won't and you'll get that exploration again. Maybe not as much community though. Not sure you can get that back.

pantheon :)

WoW reinvented games in that vein. Until it, nothing felt nearly as alive both in terms of game world and player interaction.
Us experiencing it for the first time was an innovation that you don't see much nowadays, especially in the MMO genre. If anything, the MMO genre is de-innovating.
The only thing that came remotely close was W*, and that floundered hard because they were amateurs and couldn't keep their game going.
Blizzard had already been making games for a LONG time before making WoW a thing, so when they brought out this brand new experience they had an audience.

squenix had a chance to do the same thing with FF11 and 14, but they blew it and made the most basic bitch MMO they could instead of actually trying anything new or good.