The video was staged, but it became a meme nevertheless...

@@SeedlingNL Allegedly it was based on a previous guild run that went basically the same but was not recorded

We had a CQC course we did overseas on deployment and when we breached a building, our NCOs would blast leeroy Jenkins

Yea no you didn't and there's no such thing as advanced IED course in the army... There's an IED school that all 89D go to... Nothing advanced lol... And they don't joke... You don't just take an IED course... Nice lie you made up just to tell that story...

@@gamerelated8985 are you assuming everyone is american?

Yasssss king, and what a glorious time it was

Could throw a football over them mountains

@@minimalhostage Here, watch this kip.

@@odenoki9571 lmao asmon's not the only human in existence. Most comments are for interacting with other community members not asmon directly.

@@minimalhostage *gets steak thrown at face while riding bike*

You're 38

@@ian999ify your math is bad

@@Scruffytuba Are you playing SOD? I know its never gonna be the same again but it feels damn close

@@ClovenTerra im not. I dont have the time for that anymore. 😔

Fantastic game!

I will cherish those memories. Some of the best times of my life. I forgot the real world existed lol.

yes and no. best gaming memories of my life? yes. Was I super irresponsible and failed out of college my first try? also yes lmao

Not bragging but I was actually in the closed beta for WoW...At the time Wow and everyquest 2 were racing towards the goal of being the magnum opus of video games...I played both and knew that WoW was going to be special when I beta tested the game for a year. It really was next level shit.

Damn straight bro

2004 - 07 was the golden era for basically all of PC gaming

community

@@ivannakic9922 ppc

my mother thought it was evil because it was an entire world... of crafting war. With a name like that, it has to be evil. I'm glad that my parents attempted to parse what was going in my eyes and ears before it did. Parents today see that it's basically impossible and don't try at all.

I’ve always felt like that but I feel like it’s too late to play it 😭 is it still worth getting? I really need to know

@@greatestever3094 personally, id wait for the next expansion. I've heard people say that it's improved lately, but you have to wade through the garbage built up since the start of shadowlands in order to get to the new stuff.

Same

​@@COWENS986 Same.

Same

You mean these days everything is available on the internet and players are WAY too busy being optimal instead of absorbed. You can still approach it as a mystery if you want.

Its because the game wasnt figured out / datamined to bits look at classic and then re-read your comment

Even without the mystery I had a lot of fun in classic. Of course, nothing can win the first time around with all the effects you mentioned but playing together as a group or slowly going through it was still a lot of fun. I took 2 weeks vacation off my work when classic release and I got to 60 within that and instantly made a new characters minutes after reaching 60 to level a new character with an irl friend. Later on, me and 3 other friends made all-dwarf playthrough where we named us after the dwarfs from snowwhite and semi-roleplayed trying to find snowwhite in azeroth. Sure, I raided and cleared everything that was available when I was active but the most fun I had was the times I found a external idea about the game and played the game according to that. Be that hardcore, a class combo with irl mate or dummy-rp dwarfs it was always the most fun I had.

This, WoW was for me the first game that was truly open world. WoW uses a tiled world loading approach similar to minecraft, yet other MMO's use instances, rooms and so on. No other game to this date matches the open world'ness of WoW.

To add you can feel this feeling for, any expansion really if you are new to the game. I felt the same in MoP when i was new, WoD not so much but MoP was special to me

I thought it was just an assumed misspelling of owned because the p is next to o and would be a common typo. That was where "kik" came from, it was just a column over from lol

@@skraminc you're correct, pwned was born from a typo, it caught on as a more sweaty way of putting someone down for a loss. started becoming common use from around the time of early Counterstrike builds.

I'm going to go back to calling people noobs and telling them get pwned

@@XDeathPenguinX it got so overused by thr late 2000s that it was almost cringe. Its probably been long enough to give it a comeback

That's because that's not what it meant. Not even a tiny bit. Asmon likes to talk about Vanilla, but he wasn't there. He started right before TBC launched, he doesn't know what he's talking about when its about vanilla because he was never there. It shows up every once in a while.

Bro I’m thinking of trying wow bc of this , I actually wanted my dad yo but this for me like 15 years ago but he said no .

@@C0NSTANTINUS did you ever try it out

@Constantinus if you've never played wow at all maybe do classic Era since that's the original, modern game is super different but both are fun

@@C0NSTANTINUS yoyoyoyoyoyonoway

Do it. I was not a fan of shadowlands but every other WoW expansion I played was amazing, I WOULD recommend playing WC3 or watching a WC3 lore video to know the base story behind games setting

And you got banned?

@@everythingpony no?

Yeah when I got back in wow retail a few years ago, and saw dungeon tinder had obsoleted groups I had mixed feelings. InstantQ for like any raid or dungeon is cool, but a lot of them have streamlined routes skipping tons of content, no quests to let you know why you’re there. And then the players are all cross realm youll likely not see again. So minmaxed and impersonal.

@juggernaughty79 players today will never understand that about the game. That it used to be about the WORLD of warcraft. where you see the same people and build reputations, servers had reputations, you definitely knew who the pros and assholes were on the other faction. Like literally your reputation, not gearscore, got you into raids. I've played a little bit of dragonflight and nobody talks to each other EVER. just colors on a screen whizzing by.

I miss the server culture too. It meant something-

I remember as a 15 year old writing CV for applying to midcore raiding guild(without any idea what a CV was). It was all about server rep and how easy was it to lose it, it was basically real life. I work in management for about 10 years now and WoW taught me more about management and recruitment than any professional courses I have had over the years lol.

@Ahahaha I did the same thing. I was a 12 year old kid writing basically a CV to guilds on other servers. I eventually got accepted and transferred. Was able to get experience in Black Temple and Hyjal.

Yoo that's beyond fucked up but I can't help but laugh my ass off reading this 🤣

Legendary lol

@@Vihara2 Nobody cares

Yup, that's WoW for ya.

The original Barrens chat was more evil than that. They made people search for Mankirks wife everywhere in the world I think I ended up in Booty Bay or Westfall following the advice people gave me in the Barrens chat. I wonder how many hundreds of thousands of hours have been spent looking for her in the wrong place after asking in chat.

Should be a proverb. Make it so.

Its been destroyed by Activision

@@andycanadas but it started with the idea of bringing in outside investors. FFS the celestial steed cash shop mount made more money than StarCraft 2.

​@starkdilemma4916 microtransactions are just insanely popular, despite us all complaining, many people hand over their money constantly. Hell, genshin impacts yearly income from MTX is more than the entire sales profits of Elden Ring since it launched. Let that sink in. Fifa ultimate team rakes in something to the tune of 1.2+ BILLION per year.

you must be misremembering the lag lmao. most people had dinosaur pc's and this game ran at 15-20 frames, at good times

@@HeyImBoschea idk about when it first came out, but in WoTLK and Cata I remember it being one of the most well optimized games I've ever seen lol

Well.. of Asmon watching a video. Edit: i resend my statement. This is good reaction. Better than most of his reactions.

3 and half hours?! That's almost as long as Asmon's intro

all crappy WoW tho

I thought that was a joke when I read your comment. Then I checked the time stamp.

youtube normies smh

Asmongold is a fukn millionaire several times over. He took care of his mom till the end, his dad idk he's like a dear friend that swings by every once in a while.

@randomvideoboy1 Hell? Why would you say that?

@randomvideoboy1 ok, so what?

@Keshuel So she was super based? Makes me like her even more.

Congratulations on your journey to self improvement. That is a very difficult thing to achieve. Good job!

Stay strong brother and remember you can always get stronger from now on!

Great to hear you battled your demons Andrew 👊🏽

Congratulations and good job.

Congratulations and good job.

Meh I couldnt get nearly that immersed into WoW, when Final Fantasy 11 launched on PS2 then PC now that was immersive

@@offlineraided how man? I have a 75DRG/35 WAR and played it before WoW and the immersion just never compared to a wow PVP server. The dynamics were so much more fluid. Like being in an area just to farm some herbs and you see a lowbie in /1 getting ganked then you go and save him and 4 months later he's in a party with you in dire maul talking about how you saved his ass back in the day. FFXI was good but it was nowhere near wow level back when WoW was in it's prime. WoW today is a joke but the old days were untouchable imo. FFXI just didn't have good PVP. Ballista was terrible and the concept of farming and how every spawn point (looking at you valkrum dunes) was constantly camped by RMT was just ridiculous. In WoW if that happened you would just kill them and camp them until they left. When Classic WoW came out I would camp RMT gold sellers and they would find my name on the server discord and rage out on me in stuff like indonesian. It was great. Too bad they're too far gone and not only removed pvp servers but removed all the fun emotes like /spit /fart /burp /sneeze /slap etc.

@@xx-cb2wf WoW was always a bit lacking in story telling for me, Square Enix consistently writes good stories with good characters with plenty of lore and easter eggs the player can spend hours enjoying

@@offlineraided different strokes for different folks I guess. I could see that. I also made some good friends in FFXI that I miss and still think about over a decade later so there is truth to both games for sure.

@@xx-cb2wf definitely

In hindsight, in spite of the hate at the time, MoP was amazing. By far the most visually stunning WoW’s ever been, some of the best raiding ever with ToT being a top all-time tier. The wold bosses, the island patcheS introduced content that was like a mini-game itself, pet battles and collecting took off, farming old content for gold hadn’t been nerfed… it was a great expansion.

My man. That's what most people know from warcraft was the arthas arc

@@godhero2566 We all just wish lore standards in WC were back to those times where this franchise could put out stories like that (though it's certainly not going to happen).

@@silentservant_ It's more amazing when lich king is Activision and arthas is blizzard

@@godhero2566 true...I couldn't stop hearing about it back then, before and after release. The fact that it blew up AGAIN for the re-release of wotlk on classic is incredible.

@@godhero2566 WE loved it because we were arthas. We were the ones decieved my mal ganis. We felt his need to defend his people. We willingly did everything so to face arthas was to face ourselves

Couldn’t agree more.

He has a new video, by the way.

The old content creators were the best.

Man, I remember when midnight launches were events. A favorite memory of mine was when my brother, my cousins, and I went to the Halo 3 and Reach midnight launch. As we waited for midnight, the Gamestop would set up gaming stations to play local system link multi-player. After getting the game, we would stock up on snacks and drinks, go to someone's house, party up, and game the whole weekend, all day and all night. We would fit like 6 of us each with their own TV in a small room lol man, those were the best times

your mom is cool lol

Lol... We had. An epic raid team and a couple kids like you. It was an amazing release it was gamer life changing and imo we will never have another wotlk like release in any game its a bit sad but I'm glad you experienced it bro

And now someone who reacted for 3 hours will indirectly steal viewers and the watch time from the documentary unfortunately.

​@@climbingcaverns4479 yet here you are.

@@climbingcaverns4479 he’s actually giving him more buzz hence more subs - let that soak into your peanut brain

@@climbingcaverns4479 and yet the original Madseason video has over DOUBLE the views that this react video has. Yep, definitely stealing views... Clown.

@@chad5577 1. There's a reason why movie advertisements and trailers don't show the entire movie. It defeats the purpose of watching the movie and spending money which benefits the original creators. That is the problem with react content, it is essentially streaming an entire movie and rationalizing it as an advertisement. 2. Even assuming you get a lot of likes and subscriptions from react content (which is almost nonexistent compared to what reactor's benefit from) Subscribers don't matter like they used to, watch time and interactivity is the most important for both revenue and the algorithm.

And I thought doing Alaric's Sanctuary in Lost Ark in pubs for an hours the other day was crazy!

@@gordonlove5121 D2 day 1 raids are no joke, I spent 14 hours in VoG before my team decided to call it quits after Gatekeeper

Lineage 2 was almost as bad. 6+ hours, hundreds of deaths per person (because the unavoidable AoEs were designed to one shot players). Never again.

One can dream my friend. What did u main? I've been playing a goblin hunter ever since goblins came out.

@@honkbrother8000 I know you didn’t ask me. 😂 but. I use to main feral druid every since wrath. Quit half way into shadowlands simply because my computer is broken and I’m still in school and can’t afford a new one because that one was a hand me down lol

@@honkbrother8000 my main were a dwarf paladin prot and a troll hunter BM and MM from 2004 till MoP :)

@@justaguyinyoutube3237 nice uve been playing longer then me. I do love the MM specs.

@@daytonfunk5783 nice man! We love us some druid bois.

Oh man the OG Guild Wars was amazing!

Occasionally I will buy some mountain dew, doritos, hot pockets, pizza rolls, order pizza, that sort of thing, as i spend a weekend binging games like the good old days. it feels like we experienced such a significant, impact full and joyous time that has changed the world in ways so intricate, we could never fully understand. how many people lost their jobs? got dumped? met someone significant, or became best friends over this game? it changed so many lives. it's like nothing in my life's future can ever beat my 20s. epic.

I never got to experience it, but watching all of these old wow clips and people reminiscing over them makes me wish I was born earlier to experience what seemed like such a great and nostalgic time.

Touch grass

Wow is just as good. There's just more options nowadays.

@@chuckbass7276 Nah, most of the social aspect and what drives friendship building and people logging on just to see the people they know is gone. It died with dungeon finder.

@@Woadie757 same

If they had the character cloning capability for Classic to the Burning Crusade back in the days of Vanilla, I would have never left the retail game. How do you think those of us who had done a brutal nine month grind for rank 14 way back in Vanilla felt when they made our hard work all for nothing with that first expansion? It showed just how little they cared about the time and dedication we put into their game. I’d only ever come back to retail if Blizzard figured out a way to resurrect the state of my account the day before the Burning Crusade was released and copied that onto a classic server for me to continue where I left off. I was still very content playing the Vanilla game back then and was nothing but pissed off about the expac.

Pretty much it's the same for me...playing since 2009 with Wotlk days being the most beautiful for me...offered everything i could wish for. Enjoyed MoP and Legion as well, but BFA burned me out so much that i needed to drop the game for a bit and i only returned recently after 1 year hiatus...can't say it's very exciting, but i farm mounts,tmogs, achiievements etc. so it's enjoyable to some extent, but can never drop it permanently...it's like a curse which never ends D: i still hope that MS can do something for WoW...everything could be better than Activison's policy with money-making with Bobby at the helm (i hate that guys so-so much).

Word

It's not the same for everyone, I'd say. I began playing in late BC and kept playing the game (with several breaks in-between) until the end of Legion. Then I stopped for good, and never came back. The greatest time playing it had been in Wrath for me; since then I was max lvl for the first time (Wrath had come up before I could reach lvl 70), and I absolutely loved it. Since then, I had very often longed to get that same experience out of a game again, but never got it, not from the newer expansions of WoW, neither from other MMOs, though I tried sum. In the end, I did move on. Nowadays, while I play much less video games than I used to back then, I still play my games, but I am most likely done with MMOs forever. It was a great time, especially with when WoW was still good, without a doubt the best time I've had playing any game, if the sheer length of how long I played it is also taken into consideration, so I don't regret playing it one bit. That's also why I still keep up with new info every now and then. I should say also though, that I also just really love Asmon and his videos, also on other topics.

Part of life is coming to terms with the fact that nothing lasts forever and sometimes it's better to leave something with fond memories instead of sticking around because of bitter sweet memories, I stopped playing after Wrath and it was hard, all my friends were still playing, then you have the sunken cost fallacy, I'd spent a lot of time on my character, a lot of adventures and memories but I saw the game becoming something I didn't want to be a part of and I saw how deeply addicted some of my friends had become over the course of Wrath, skipping real life interactions, avoiding their girlfriend to raid, they've all grown to regret it and most if not all don't play anymore, you have the power to quit too but you have to want to deep down and it doesn't sound like you're ready to let it go.

New wow in ue5?

Relax as MadSeason mumbles you to sleep so as to not wake his parents as he does his voice over. Being easily audible and understandable is overrated anyway.

the game was tiled around teamwork and exploration, so playing this game with friends was ten times more rewarding.

Yup. It feels like you're just going through the motions. You know exactly how the next 15 minutes of gameplay will go. At that point, what's the point of actually playing? The bounties in D3 feel like that as well.

Oh hey I’m back again

Oh looking here

Same lmao.

@jordansweet7738 yeah when you'd see a champion of naaru or hand of adal you were like "that guy's good." I just played dragonflight with my sister and our titles are like 'Hero of Azeroth' and 'The Archdruid' or some shit, and yet the NPCs treat us like scum and make us clean their houses. I can't stand quests today, they're 0/10. it's horribly boring and stupid. Classic TBC sucked, that's the consensus. I loved TBC and realized the magic is just gone with min maxers. nothing in outland felt like it did. merely just colors passing by with everyone in a hurry. nobody talked to each other because of discord and shit.

Yes! The Lich king was great too. There was about 500 kids at the GameStop midnight release where I grew up. Great times! I agree the Halo ones were good but not like those.

A friend of mine insisted he would never play. He came by just to say hi and I sat there talking to him for an hour while my screen sat there on the character creation screen. He had too much of an ego to tell me, but he went and bought that game as soon as he left my house.

It's just a damn well made documentary.

community

What is vanilla? Serious question idk so :)

When was that?

@@KolyaUrtz One of the earlier patches in Vanilla. It used to be that every single item, depending on loot settings, just brought a yes/no roll popup for everyone. I remember running that instance in Westfall right afterwards and was amazed at how much cleaner distributing loot was when everyone didn't roll on ever single piece to sell/disenchant. You could greed everything, and only need what you would actually use. Imagine BoP's being rolled on constantly by classes that couldn't even equip the items. It was really frustrating.

@@wickian9571 damn, didn't know that. I thought it was like that from beginning. Glad they added it

They were pretty much always Ike that it's come to light, they just kept it underwraps better

I mean that tracks with the guild. They really wanted the attention

One of the best gaming moments of all time

He's so invested likely because it gave his life meaning.

It was a shining moment in their wretched lives

THe change to healing was a massive leap BACKWARDS. Healers LOVED being able to constantly heal and keep people alive. MOST healers did not want to have manage their mp. They wanted TO HEAL. You know, do the job they joined to do. Having to sit there with your thumb up your ass because you will run out of mana otherwise isn't fun. THe DPS never had to stop DPSing, the tank never had to stop tanking, but the healer had to stop healing. Cataclysm was just a huge step backwards in every system. They tried catering to the elitists who were butthurt that normal people were enjoying WotLK for being easier and the Cata sub loss showed that most people are not sweaty elitists. And those lost subs never really came back. Blizzard lost trust by chasing the wrong player type and trust is a hard thing to earn and even harder to regain once lost.

Wow finally someone else says it, my friend and i went back and looked and established the same, some many bangers. Pre patches to fix broken overpriced dishonest bs. The feeling of being at the video game isle with money reading the back of boxes... Oh well things change, life goes on...

Fable, Far cry, and Ninja Gaiden also. What a fuckin year man

Worth

Yes, unfortunately without dungeon finder now it is just spam with ressing the items everyone is there for. Maybe with time people can revert back to not being bastards but it seems efficiency and selfishness is priority and may never revert back.

The entire dungeon finder fiasco is a complete anomaly to me, RDF didn't kill anything, TBC dungeon design did. It went from the sprawling dungeons of Vanilla that could take hours to beat to the arcadey design philosophy we see today where you could spam like 8 of them in a single day. Spamming in trade chat for people to join you, flying to the dungeon and clearing it in 30 minutes to an hour with barely any chat interaction was common as hell, when you made a party in Vanilla you were going to be stuck with 4 assholes for most of your day. I don't personally prefer the Vanilla system but people use RDF as a complete scapegoat If anything it added an incentive to actually complete the dungeon, thereby raising patience with mistakes or wipes, before it why would people spend hours storming a dungeon where most bosses didn't drop things they wanted.

@@user-jp8me2hf4o I honestly see it as the community changing to. I mean, even without all the classic hype, most of my groups on average disbanded because the dungeons took to long. I swear it was always something. In the digital age we live in, people just want shit ASAP. Leveling up is legit so frustrating to the average wow player, which is why the paid level boost even works in the first place. Blizzard would not do it, if it did not make money. And, even without the paid level boost or any of that shit in classic wow, there were so many different ways to make the leveling faster. Just insane. Like do people really hate leveling that much. Like i would never pay folks to boost my character or blizzard either to boost my toons. At the same time, it is important to count the players who don't have short attention spans and all that, as well as trying to be objective to both parties. Alot of people who boosted stayed for the long haul. But alot of folks dropped within a few months after boosting. I remember bc classic not lasting long at all. As much as people hated jay allen brack, i do agree to an extent with his comment. I think we wanted classic wow, but alot of folks wanted that original experience back. And you never can get the original experience back. At the same time, how long were we going to be able to be invested before we got bored of it. From what i remember of classic wow, man did it seem to drop pretty quickly. It did seem like it did not last as long as it should have been intended to last for. It lasted longer than bc classic did. But wrath will have the same effect. People just get bored so quick these days, especially with old experiences, and even new ones to. I am hoping blizzard adds some changes to wrath to make it last longer, because it will be over pretty quick for the average player. The content is not new, and even if it was, we would already know everything about it already. Like with breath of the wild. I knew everything before it even launched. I knew that the korok seeds existed. That they were worthless. I did not uncover alot of the info the first time by playing the game. Wow has the same problem, but it is community based. And i think people just need to learn how to not be bored so quick, because i think that is part of it also. At any rate, i am hoping for the best for classic wrath, and dragonflight. It will be fun.

@@qunt100 The vast majority that wanted classic were just living off a nostalgia act. Classic died in 6 months.

What weird server group were you on that people didn't talk to each other in dungeon finder? Maybe my server group was the weird one but I cannot remember a dungeon group where people didn't talk. ALthough I could totally understand not bothering to even speak in the later instances because you knew the dungeon was a waste of your time and just wanted to get it done as fast as possible. Much like the early WoW dungeons that were far too large and far too poorly designed with no clear path. So they were just shit. I hate the early wow dungeons.

I'd rather have the power of the character be more important than skill or gear. If anything MY skill shouldn't matter, only the skill of the character whose role I am playing should matter because that character should be able to have skills I do not. The whole point of taking on a role is being able to do things that you yourself could not do.

Same. Then, TBS and WOTLK. Lots of just playing the game and exploring. Gradually, just became a game of chores.

Yeah it was fun. I remember raiding crossroads and my clan lectured me like I was evil. It was an RP server, lol.

@@bhec7715 I know. I was on Horde & used to hate the Alliance. Those times are over. Nobody even cares anymore. Once they started intermingling the factions like with Shattrath City it began ruining the game.