Ahh Metin 2, the childhood of every Eastern European.

This right here was most eastern european kids' first mmo some 15 years ago, me included. It sucked then, sucks even more now, but it was all we had. I still have some fond memories of it, mostly for the music.

"Alright, I killed all the wolves you asked me to kill..." "Great, now I need you to gather some flowers for a wedding." "Really? A gathering quest now? How original is this?" "Gathering quest? Oh no, you'll gather flowers by killing even more wolves."

My first MMO when I was 8 year old. When I switched to World of Warcraft 5 years later, the ability to jump completely amazed me. The sad part is, it's true, nostalgia carries me as an adult back on an M2 server every few years, but unlinke other games from my childhood, I find it horrible after reaching Level 5. The Soundtracks of Map1 and Map2 are complete bangers though. But editing this sentence made me realize how sad it is that for almost twenty years these zones have been referred to as "Map1 and Map2" by virtually every player and also community managers and developers. They have actual zone names, but nobody cares about those completely meaningless words.

Oh my friend, you have just touched the tip of the iceberg. There is a set of quests given to you by biologist, that requires you to farm fairly rare items. At first you have to turn in like 10 items or so, but you can only turn in one item per day... and to top it off, he can either accept the item or reject it. This way it can take you up to a month to complete a single quest.

Josh: Screw this game. Game: Wait, *Monkey Dungeon* Josh: You have my attention.

bro just angered the whole of romania

i've played metin2 for years back in the days, after reading a lot of comment about the music i was like "how do they remember the music? like hell i would be able to recognise it" then Josh put the music and i felt my hearth sunk, all those years when i was a young kid without worries just came back

Damn, right in the childhood. I remember grinding in monkey dungeon to get a horse medallion. played this game with my eighborhood squad. We used to meet in game and ride our horses thru desert all 9-15 of us (not everyones parents allowed to play more everyday lol) to raid and terrrorize Yellow flag peasants for how tasteless they were in their Colour choice. Good times

Ahhh, Metin2 I remember farming FMS's and RIB's, fishing for pearl whole day and chatting with other fishers. Helping my guildmates killing those fucking 150 archers in the desert for combat horse. The first automated farm of 4 warriors on combat horses and one ninja luring black orcks to meat grinder. And begging my father for 10zl so I could buy a red bandanna for my warrior. Good old days of 7-12 year old me.

Metin2 had some really cool ideas for a game that came out in 04, that I'd love to see in new MMO's. There's multiple nations you can start in, like RED, YELLOW, BLUE. And you can travel them and it's open season on you. You also can't talk to them UNLESS you manage to find language books and learn their language, otherwise it comes up as jibberish.

This used to be an insanely rad grindy free mmo to play with all your friends or make new ones on the way.

Josh: OST doesn't fit, have a listen Me: CRUSHED BY NOSTALGIA

"Reject grind return to monkey" This is what I'm here for

you earned my respect for playing this far without any SKILLS THAT ARE AVAILABLE AFTER LEVEL 5. great video though

4:55 You are not supposed to click on every enemy to attack it. Thats where Metin 2 does things very differently from almost every other MMORPG i know so far. You can hold Spacebar to keep attacking enemys infront of you. All enemys hit by you will be damaged by the same amount matter if there are 2 or 50 of them.

I was wondering when this would've showed up, old school gameforge mmo just aged poorly because they were trash from the beginning. Still I have beautiful memories of this game.

This will burn. I played this game for a long while, I didn't know any better.

This game rarely ever gets into the mainstream English-speaking spotlight and it's endearing to see it. Not only is this a childhood game for me that I keep coming back to over the years, but I'm currently playing it more properly than ever and grinding it harder than ever before. I woke up one day and felt like injecting some routine into an unstable life: "Man, I really just want to do the exact same fucking thing every day.", so I picked Mt2 back up for that grind I can't quite get with any modern game. I play in the OFFICIAL GIGACHAD Spain server with around 2,000 hours and counting (yeah pretty hardcore I know) Unregulated player interactions, lawless like Tibia, entirely player-driven economy, a grind that always shows results in the end and a hell of a lot to do and learn in a cult-like community that still plays every day just makes me feel right at home like no other game... On the other hand, I'm worried I might have a plain shit taste in games lol ty for readin

I remember giving a presentation in high school with metin 2 music in the background.

"My only problem with the game, other than the fact that it's shit..." had me dying laughing, fuckin savage my dude.

Josh: Upgrades PC to one that can play modern games on highest settings Also Josh: 2004 game first.

10:11 every time i hear this song, my heart skips a beat, 1 tear falls from my eye and i fall in love AGAIN and AGAIN with the game i give up on 5 years ago, REAL NOSTALGIA and saddness hits me, i will 4ever love this game regardless of how bad it is.

04:58 is the second time you mentioned that you have to click the enemy to attack, but that is simply not true, because you can hold spacebar to make your character continuously chain their attack.

You know, I seem to remember that whole “open the cash shop and buy this item” quest thing being in quite a few F2P games in the past. Of course, that was before mobile games, so they needed a way to entice 12 year-olds to break out their parent’s credit card

Hearing the Metin 2 songs has dealt me great psychic damage I may never recover from. I don't want this to trigger me any sort of nostalgia nor desire to return to this god-forsaken grind-fest game, yet it does.

One thing that bothered me the whole time - the skills that you never seen. The game showed them to you, these two brown-red squares with a plus sign.. these were the skill tree and stats..

Watching this series really helps me appreciate that I just got into FFXIV and haven't looked back after over a decade of slogging through these horrible disasters of shitstainery.

"God-blessed werewolf hunting magical space ice cream" is the anime sensation we deserve.

10:08 was the biggest nostalgia hit I have ever experienced. I still remember playing on private servers with my friends in a local internet cafe , cuz nobody had a pc at home. Funny to see how bad it actually is/was. But we still loved it.

This was my first 3D and my first MMO game. One of the very few such games that got translated to my native language (Middle and Eastern Europe gang 💪). As such, I adored it and spent lots of time playing, getting scammed by older players, getting killed by mobs that were too powerful compared to me and giving up on the grind sometime between lvl 20-25 before starting a new character to enjoy those early levels again. It taught me some valuable lessons too: 1. Some players are major assholes. They feel no remorse hurting and using you. Beware games with forced PvP. 2. If you play as a female character, you will get unwanted private messages. If you foolishly admit to being a girl irl, or even more foolishly admit to being underage, you will get even more disturbing messages. 3. People who spend money on games look better and they are stronger. 4. I suck at games (I mean, it couldn't be that the game is shit, no no no, I must just be bad). 5. Roleplaying is fun, even with limited character customization and emote options.

To be fair, on private servers with no p2w elements. this game prolly had the purest player driven economy ever, also some pretty unique mechanics. There was no auction house where bots camp to flip prices, you legit had to open your own little store and put ur items in there at the towns marketplace, that was so clever imo.

The best thing about this game is that my whole online friendgroup met on a private server back in 2013 and to this day we still are on discord with each other on a near daily basis

I don't even play MMOs, but your videos are so entertaining that I just end up binge watching your videos

Metin2 was great back in the day. -Just 4 classes (Werewolf was added recently) -Not pay to win but paying will definitly get advantage (Gameforge wasn't the owner) -Lots of grinding -You didn't start with an OP weapon (Just regular +0 sword and go f*** yourself) -Really agressive towards new players, didn't explain much as it does today. -Private servers was the very best of this game, servers that offers everything, had most fun in this servers. -GREAT commerce and economy. -Amazing language design, depending what kingdom you choose if you encounter someone from other kingdom you wouldn't be able to understand them unless you read some skill books... -No auto-healing, i remember destroying keyboards pressing "1" -It really is a hard game, very f*cking hard game, even more grinding than black desert. -You can clean the quests out of the screen by pressing "ctrl+q" -Multi-account its 100% necessary, you could not get to higher levels without 2 or more accounts or characters... You need 1 farming items character that will supply your main character, you need another account playing at the same time with the "chaman" class giving your main character critical and mitigation damage buffs, also you want to have another character that can attract you hordes so you can farm with your main character, you will need another level 20 - 21 character to farm horse medallion to get the normal, armored and military horses (Will need like 20 medallion per horse or more) and after that you will need a team to help you complete the armored and military horse quests, which are pretty much obligatory since armored and military horse have a higher defense-attack rate/damage, armored horse gives you the ability to attack while mounted (Useful and necessary at medium-high levels) and military horse let's you use some horse skills. -Combo book system, language book system, fishing level's, skill levels based on pure luck... (Once your skill reach out level 17 you can master it, but it will master randomly between skill level 17 and 21, making your last skill master at level 99 or above) and even skill system once mastered it, guess what? book based skills... fun part it's that you can only read a book once a day, and it can "fail" the reading... (Yes everything can fail), only way to get book skills? destroying meteors ("Metins") and guess what, the book skill dropping it's random, you can get a book for a skill you don't have (obviously, can't read it unless you have that character and that skill). oh, but it doesn't stop there, you need 10 succesful book skill reading to upgrade your skill to "Grand Master" and it gets worse here... once you Grand Master the skill you need "Soul Stones" to upgrade it 10 levels more, Soulstones only get dropped from Meteors lvl40 and above, but wait, it doesn't end there, Soulstones reduce your karma, with bad karma any player can attack you against your will, and if you die you have a chance to drop anything in your inventory EVEN equipped items... MY GOD THIS GAME WAS MADE FOR MASOCHISTS. it was great, you could lost everything throwing things at the blacksmith, and needed to administrate everything, go and kill enemys at a certain level or you will never get an essential blacksmith item EVER, it's not like they throw the same items over and over again, there are certain specific items to certain specific enemys, and if you happen to miss those items you are lost, good luck grinding and buying it to another player. And actually NO, you don't kill everything until you find your hunting mob quest, they spawn at VERY, VERY Specific places AND ONLY THERE and yes, the hunting map lies a lot, remember that i needed to change channels until the enemy i need spawns, kill it and change again.

I tried playing this game when it came out, and it's official website gave my entire friend group malware -- good times 👍

"this is a purely decorative teacher. clicking on them does nothing." so like the class trainers in retail WoW? lol

Playing on Private Servers, using the cape and just aggro'ing like 200 enemies at once and just killing them was the best thing ever, one of my childhood games, and a great one at that.

This was my first mmo 😂 I faced a lot of the problems you describe. So hard to level up. Got mauled by wolves all the time. And the metin were so hard to kill. So much grind

Thank you for these videos josh they really help me get thru my nights at work. Im so grateful to all the patreons that keep the vids ad free ty.

Oh damn my childhood is about to get roasted

I face-palmed so hard at the cash shop in-game being in German 🤣🤣 Failforge at all their glory, ladies and lads. 🙌 Poor Josh

Coming back to the Metin 2 video after the recent Callum DMCA situation.

Ah, yes I remember playing a ninja with a bow whose sole purpose was to pull enemies for other guys to kill. But then they one item to automaticly pull enemies became more common and I was practicly useless.

The best about this game was the music, I grinded so much back then... the worst part about it is that you used to run out of quests and then had to grind for hours and hours to get some progress on the exp bar. I still remember using entire weekend days as a kid just grinding non stop to get 5% exp haha

Damn, Metin 2 together with 4Story was literally the only MMOs I used to play as a kid. Can't wait for you to eventually cover 4Story as well to relive the memories at least a little bit cuz there's no way I'm downloading/supporting gameforge again.

I played it a lot 15 years ago. It's probably one of the most predatory games in the genre. You have 8 item slots. Back then, each item slot could hold up to 5 extra bonuses. You added each bonus with an item shop item that cost around 50 quid, and had a chance to fail. Then, once you got the 5 extras on each item, you needed to rotate the extras to try to get something good. Each rotation item cost around 40 quid. I've never done this in the game but, in private servers, it's not unusual to rotate stuff more than 100 times to get something good. And that's per item slot, mind you. And most of these items turned obsolete after 30 levels or so, so you would have to restart this to remain competitive and progress in PVE... It's crazy. And, cherry on top, there's an in-game system that allows, under certain conditions, other players to steal your items after level 50. All of this comes together to create the most toxic community I've seen in an MMO, ever.

Man, I've been binging this series recently, and this is the first game so bad that even Josh's writing is struggling to keep me engaged. Props for being able to stick to this for 8 hours.

Metin 2... the memories xD Somewhere along the way at Lv 5 you forgot to take your actual Skills, if I remember correctly there even are two paths you can choose.

While I agree with the vast majority of what you've said here, I'd also like to mention that I think you didn't even discover that you have abilities besides the default attack...

Oh man, this brings a lot of memories. Regarding the resolution, there used to be standalone launchers bundled with the local versions of each region/country that would update the game and let you adjust things like resolution, but it seems like those things aren't in the Steam version. And they probably won't do anything about it because this game never was one where things got fixed, even during its prime time. And with melee weapons you need to hold the spacebar to attack instead of clicking with the mouse, otherwise your character will try to run after the mobs you knocked back and you'll lose the chance to keep dealing damage to the other mobs in that party. I am actually very fond of this mechanic, you just keep swinging your sword and meanwhile damage everything it collides, and the mobs keep coming back at you. I think I could comment on every little thing you mentioned here in this video, this was the only thing we'd play back then... Thanks for the nostalgia.

I remember the cash shop being a part of the tutorial when I played this game as a kid over 10 years ago.

This game is a classic in Poland. Years ago everyone here was playing it lol

10:13 it just hits different. Metin2 is my first mmo ever. I still remember clicking an ad and playing it for the first time, it was magical

In Poland this game is still played a lot, but not on the global servers, mainly private.

I like to see Meetin2 as a sandbox game. There are tons upon tons of P-Servers (private servers) made public with many variations of buffs, content, equipment whatever. Also they're fixing the whole walking/attacking speed issue and a whoole lot of other stuff you've mentioned. Regardless, they've still got their own pay shops but a lot of servers make the shop fair and cosmetic.

I am one of the highly nostalgic people about this game. I tried it a few months back after a 10 year hiatus. It is absolute shit. But dude, when you complained about the music and let it play without any other audio at minute 10, I was taken back so hard. The music in this game fucking slaps, especially when you're 14 years old and don't care about the music matching the ambience. It just slaps and I have goosebumps. Love ya dude, glad you have a monster of a PC now, you absolutely deserve it

Fun and irrelevant fact: You could put any sound file into the game's folder and then you could select it on the settings to play it. Glad I stopped playing it when its still was decent back in the days

Aaaahhhh metin2, I remember this game so fondly, just listening at the soundtrack's got me going 200mph straight down memory lane. To be honest, I mostly played it for social reasons (since you can even get married and shit). I remember marrying a cute ninja girl lmao, and after school I would always log in as soon as I got home and we went on countless idiotic and sensless quest killing wolves of all colors and sizes, chatting about how we were meant for eachother because we had similar ninja builds and shit. This went on for three months or so, It felt so fucking good to log in and have my girl to tell all my shit to, greatest months of my life. Suddenly, one day, she simply stopped logging in. Needless to say, I was devastated, not long after that I stopped playing the game because it got moring without my ninjaboo. Fast foward a few years later, I found out it was my uncle, oh well. Cool game, longest relationship I was ever in, 10/10 would date my uncle again.

Metin 2 and Tibia are legendary games in Poland. They were childhood to the most of us

Oh man, my first childhood MMO. I didn't speak English at the time and this was the only free to play MMO that was available in my language. Grinding for months to get to lvl 55 and then discovering that I could get to this lvl in hours if I paid real money for a ticket to special leveling tower where mobs had high respawn rate and were easy to kill. But many good memories there as well, getting my first horse and then magic (mythic? not sure how it was called) horse, fishing and getting my first white pearl and selling it for 1.5 mil yang, finding my first Full Moon Sword and destroying it at blacksmith because I tried to upgrade it to +7 without safety paper(not sure how it was called).

Man i remember getting the Armored horse (lv 45) was one of the coolest memories i've had in this game, as a lot of friends joined to help me doing the mission and we failed times and times again and it took us few weeks but we got it at the end

actually the "buy something in the cash shop" is almost normal in eastern online rpgs by now... every mobile game has that... they give you a small amount mostly what you need to buy one item to show you how it works... literally every single one!

The most played mmorpg game in Turkey between 2007-2012. I'm 22 now and it still excites me. In Romania, Turkey, Poland, in these countries, Metin2 was played a lot, and the game was played on private servers too much, apart from official servers. After Gameforge followed a pay to win route, the number of players dropped rapidly and the number of cheats increased a lot. It cannot be said that it is a AAA game, but it is a very special game for those who play it. The common point of everyone who plays Metin2 is that nobody liked the blacksmith.

"i kill a load more wolves because the biologist needs some more flowers and as we all know wolves are keen gardeners" man this guys sarcasm is next level

I feel unusually furry.

Note for this video ! You don't have to click to attack just hold the space bar it will auto attack You do have spells that you can use so you don't have just auto attacks You don't have to click everysingle item to pick them up just pres "Z" if i remember

Many years ago, when I was playing the hell out of this game, one thing that was making you more engaged was the human component, because you were not alone, everyone was there and it was doing pretty much the same thing. AND IT WAS AWESOME

- calls metin2 bad - the entier population of romania and turkey: Peace was never an option!

As a kid i used to play this game with my friend on a custom server with accelerated progression and movement speed and that made it actually very fun.

Regarding the "quest that uses the real money shop", when I played the game you were given the coins to buy said item. It was a way to introduce the player to the shop.

Usually when games have a camera straife like that you can right click to hold the camera in place (assuming right click moves the camera) Guild wars 1 didn't have a straife, just a turn. But you could straife of you held right mouse to lock the camera and turned.

This entire series has hyped me up to actually play the games I own and like. Too much time I wasted by finding excuses to not play some quests or parts of storylines and yet, when I watch this series I understand how good I have it in those games! Thank you Josh, you awesome second-monitor streamer!

The most frustrating thing I remember about this game was the risk of losing an item when upgrading it via blacksmith, or breaking a gem when inserting it into an item resulting in a blocked gem slot with no bonuses... what a butt-ripping adventure :D

"This is a purely decorative teacher" ah, they went for the realistic American approach.

I played Metin2 since I was 8 y/o for thousands of hours. Still to this day the initial zone theme makes me emotional from nostalgia. STILL everything said in this review are SOLID FACTS and its at the same time honest and painfull to watch personally. Great job reviewing it and Great job GAMEFORGE at ra***ing the game of my childhood.

the way you trade , the music , the fishing all brings me nostalgia 😂 i rather play this than most of the mmorpgs from now

I remember being so incredibly invested in this game back in the day. Two of my cooler cousins played it and I thought it was the pinnacle of games because of that. Then I finally managed to play it, and I did it a lot. But somehow I have no concrete memories of it now...

Josh's new pc "I wonder what awesome games we're gonna be playing!" Josh: "Well you see..."

You can almost hear the squeaky "shwoop-shwoop" of the character's footsteps as they slippy slides their way slowly across the map.

I've never played Metin 2 ever, for me it was Runescape I've wasted my life on, but this can't be said about my girlfriend .. she played Metin 2 since she was like 10-11 years old? And just recently we've agreed on playing Metin 2 for a month and then we'll play Runescape for a month. It's been around 2 weeks since we've started playing Metin and we are playing on a private server. This server has all the pay-to-win features either deleted or added into the game for the in-game currency (Those potions that speeds you up lasts 30 minutes and costs 2m for example) All there is in the private server's item shop are cosmetics and some other things like "Name changer", "class changer", "Dynasty changer" and whatnot. This server is up from like 2010? and still runs today ... The first day we've started playing I was super confused, no explanation, no nothing and since she needed to do something I had an hour to explore on my own. First thing I did was to start killing wolves for a pretty long time, until a mini-boss zoomed right over me, insta-killed me and ran away after someone else. On this server all the quests were made into "side-quest" kind of thing ... there's hardly any quest you'll be doing, because if the 5 peaches were grindy for you? Listen to this... on this server there is a quest. Where you need to get 500 furs. 100 from bears, 100 from wolves, etc. Now these furs drops only from CERTAIN "SUB-CLASSES" of those animals (as said in the video about the blue-hungry-alpha-wolf) which are made to only spawn in pack of 3 on the whole map with a respawn timer set to 30 minutes. There is a pretty high chance of them not dropping the fur and IF they finally drop one? There's still a chance the quest giver won't take them because "They are too badly damaged" After 14 days of playing and collecting the furs here and there I've got only 2 :^) And the reward for this quest? An engagement ring you can give to another player, have a wedding and unlock an ability to teleport on your spuse/husband. ALL OF THIS, or spend 10m in-game currency on a ring. And making money on this server isn't really hard, I spent about 45 minutes fishing, cought a pretty rare fish and managed to sell it for 7m so ... quests on this server are completely useless to do apart from a special cosmetic that is only give by completing these quests. What's left there is just grinding and killing all the mobs you can find around your level ... and to be honest? I like it for whatever reason ... once i've upgraded my skills and got used to the controls, it's just one of those games that you have on your second monitor and a movie or something on your first. All the loot you get you'll spend on upgrading all the weapons, armors, shields, boots, jewelery, helemts with every +1 making another upgrade -5% more likely to happend and if you fail, the item is deleted for good ... when I saw that for the first time I was like "HEEEELL NAH" but you'll get the same weapon/armor almost everywhere so the main point isn't to get the drop itself, but the upgrade which can be helped by a scroll that costs 1m which makes the item not delete itself, but go one upgrade stage lower instead. Overall, it's clearly a nostalgic game for her and I went into it that I'll probably enjoy it for like 2-3 days at best, but somehow this game is growing on me ... sure i won't be playing it for long, probably once the month will end of us playing Metin, that's when I'll quit it and never come back but who knows ... I've defientely saw and played MUCH worse games than this and hey, it's always nice to hear the angry "WHAAAT?? YOU GOT 'THIS'?!!! GIVE ME THAT" because I don't know why, but I'm super lucky on rare drops :^)

10:00 JESUS FUCK thats a rollercoaster of memories. 16 years or so since I've last played this properly. Thanks for the vid, man!

the speed of the running makes me think of that 60s spiderman meme where spidey is like LET'S HURRY and he's moving somehow really fast yet going nowhere

Programming-wise Metin2 is practically equivalent to a heaping pile of dogshit. You touched on this a bit, but the situation is so much worse. Here are some examples: You have collision with literally everything, whereas enemies are collision-free. Enemies can walk through almost literally any obstacle, including water and the steepest of hillsides. The only exception to this is bridges and this is exploited by some players (it allows them to hit enemies constantly in a more confined area). Also people make the argument that this game used to run on practically anything, but reality is far from it. If there are hundreds of enemies around you the game slows down dramatically even on modern machines. To say the game is unoptimized would be an understatement. Also also damage is sometimes computed without considering elevation (based on a 2D grid instead of a 3D grid). Combine this with the fact that enemies can literally walk up 90 degree angles, you're in for a bad time. Also also also enemy damage is computed at the beginning of their animation whereas your damage is computed upon impact. You can literally die from a ranged attack that hasn't even landed. Heck the shooter doesn't even have to fire the fucking arrow, them drawing their bow is perfectly enough to deal damage. Also*4 (even I'm getting tired) depending on the servers and the number of attacking enemies there can be a ridiculously long delay between damage being dealt and damage being registered. In other words you can literally die from the attack of an enemy that you killed 3-4 seconds ago (that's about the longest delay I've experienced). By that time you walked away from the battlefield but surprise, that last enemy had a pretty deadly attack that decided to undo the rules of space and time. These are only the most notable "features" with fights, there are a lot more similar "features". Steam compatibility is also(*5 lol) limited, you can't buy certain items if you play via the Steam client and not the Gameforge launcher. Oh God Gameforge... Don't even get me started on their fucking anti-cheat engine... I still love this game, so much nostalgia. Fucking weaponsmith is pure PTSD

This game was my childhood, i used to play it with my best mate, we even ran our own private server for our school/friends. I wish i could go back in time and fish with them on that small island again, on the blue faction's first zone. 😭

Haha I absolutely loved this as a kid… the ice cream cone must have been some event like you mentioned. I can confirm the meteors looked differently… gameforge is based in my home city in Germany so this game was pretty popular I‘d say. At least I‘d always play this with my friends. Its not as bad as it seems. But it definitely aged poorly.. the combat gets better you only learn skills from a certain level

I started playing this MMO in 2006ish near around when it came out, there was so much drama surrounding the game - corrupt GMs, a closet GM guild, being paid off by gold sellers even enabling GM commands ingame to benefit a select few players. I almost would expect people not to believe me on the last one, but when the commands were leaked ingame, I tried it myself and it worked to level skills to 10 - I never got banned either. It was absolutely mindblowing how much this company was getting away with things. That being said, in the moment I enjoyed the game. It was rare to find free to play combat MMOs at the time that played like this without the tab targetting. I really love the soundtrack besides a few odd duds and the enemy design is great. I check in on the games website now and again to see what's happened since then and it seems like they added mounts outside of the typical art style of the game. The areas and enemies don't really seem to hit the asthetic that the original game had as its charm. The wolfmen don't seem to fit the theme of an eastern MMO like this but if there's something in the lore I'm missing feel free to correct me on this. Make no mistake, this game was incredibly P2W and had a pretty toxic community, but it was also my first MMO. It sticks in my mind a lot, positive social interactions included. I finally stopped playing in 2009 when my account was hacked because I was a dumb 16 year old.

The music in the first map is fire 🔥🔥🔥

Metin2 was the first MMO that i played for a long time. I remember grinding A LOT to buy some Books from other people, so i could upgrade one of my Ninja skills to the max. Each book was like 800k in game currency (which was a lot), and i got 5. Before using the Books, someone told me that the books would fail, it would be better to buy some cash shop potions to make the books work. Deal. My first time spending money in an online game. If i remember well, I bought 1 cash potion for every book that i had. I spent like 10 dollars into it, used a potion, used a book and... it failed. I thought "damn, those do fail, good thing i still have enough". After using all potions and all books, i was still at the same Skill level. All books failed. I didn't have any in game gold because all my gold went into this failed upgrade. Plus i lost 10 dollars. So i did the cool thing, made a ticket to complain about it. The answer was that the potions give us a boost, but it's not a 100% boost. So i asked what % was the boost and the % for the book to work. The answer was: "sorry, we can't answer that". That was my last time playing Metin2.

I played Metin2 for years in Brazil. It's flawed but it was an amazing game before the pay to win stuff. Some of the problems you mentioned are from mechanics you didn't understand but most of them you were spot on! Also, the music is awesome, no doubt about it. So nostalgic.

As a young laddie, growing up in Eastern Europe, Romania to be precise, every boy in elementary school would talk about this game. No joke, this game was bigger in my country than World of Warcraft. Metin and Metin 2 were THE MMOs back then. I remember several classmates talking all about the classes and quests and some even talking lore(?). What I do not remember is why I never played it myself. From what I recall, it was either because my PC couldn't run it or there was some kind of error/bug preventing me from creating an account or logging in. Regardless, one time circa 2010-2011, while at the birthday party of a friend from school, he booted up his pc and let me try the game. I remember running around killing some bears and boars(? Or maybe those were wolves? Idk) and being blown away by how cool and real it felt. Despite my amazement, I never revisited the game. I only know Metin from what others have told me and from those 10 minutes I actually tried it myself. I would later start playing WoW (shortly after BfA, started playing as joke but stuck around and quit 3 months ago) Edit: my childhood memories remember this game's movement being faster, and the graphics being better, although a bit more pixilated. Edit 2: 18:30 wtf I love Metin 2 now

Okay honestly the rock in the second area is pretty good xD, the turntable scratching is a bit cringe but nostalgic, it's basically 80% of the way to a limp biscuit song.

9:45 song hit me like a truck. Good ol' times

"I thought the weapon teachers would teach me about weapons" HAH, you'd think it would be that easy. You need a specific skill book that a pain in the ass to get. Oh, it also has a big chance to fail to actually level you up and just destroys the book. Good times

Oh this is one I expected on this list. I know this game is bad, but still I had way to much fun with it. Played it way to long.

The audio for wolves deaths is the kath hound sound effect from kotor

It’s been 8 minutes and you’ve literally seen more bears than there have ever been in existence. And the contrast between your sluggish run and your anime speed attacks is actually wild.. 10:00 why is this song better than it has any right to be..? 18:36 the craziest Command & Conquer Red Alert vibes with this one 🤣🤣

I've been playing and replaying this game a lot, but mostly on pre-warewolf private servers. About combat, it's "Space to hit in front of you" which is an aoe. The combat is mostly about getting groups of monsters to stand near eachother and then using spacebar to hit them all at the same time

Also the biggest urban legend in my parts was that you're supposed to upgrade the item at the blacksmith when he's scratching his ass. Less chance to burn apparently XD

Dude 15 years ago this game was like 10/10 for us as a kids :) and at the same time we had only this and Nostale to choose