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For the longest time now people have been asking me the question: “Nixxiom, what did you enjoy so much about Classic as a kid and what makes you love it so much even to today?” It’s probably one of the most common questions I get asked, but I’m unable to answer it easily. The problem is that my answer is HUGE, so I decided to start this new series of videos called “Why I Love Classic World of Warcraft So Much” to give you all your answer.
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Were is the part 2 dude?
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4:38 am I get it right that you loved classic for its uniqueness? than pls tell me:
why are you hyped for a world you've already seen and want to play a story that you've undergone in the past, AGAIN?
You want to play a game for reasons that are now the complete opposite of what made the game once so special for you.
I love classic wow for the very same reasons as you do, but I'm not going to play it again cuz the past is done and nothin more than a vailuable memory.
The biggest thing in wow I’ve ever done(well the longest thing) is lvl a character by only killing stuff. It took me a little over 2 and a half years
What happened to this series?!
My first ever character was a Night Elf Warrior and I spent at least two days struggling to kill monsters with that weak sword and board night elf warriorswere forced to start with, and I had no idea there was a "map button". Imagine my shock when I jumped on that hypogryph and took off only to realize I was in a TREE SO MASSIVE IT CONTAINED A WHOLE ECOSYSTEM, AND THERE WERE AREAS AND ZONES MANY MANY TIMES ITS SIZE JUST WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED. I was frustrated, my weapons sucked, I didn't know where the weapon trainer was, but the allure of the world alone made me stick it out. I didn't know that Warriors we're the most difficult class to level in the entire game. I didn't know what food was, and until about level 13, I thought the /sleep and /sit emotes gave you passive health regen, but I did know I desperately, wanted to see what was out there, and I wasn't going to let stupid things like game knowledge and "learning how to play" stand in my way. I bull headedly leveled that night elf all the way to 25 in Darkshore using any upgrade I could scavenge off the corpses of my enemies in those woods of Darkshore, almost entirely solo, because I didn't know how to use General Chat and I wasn't about to learn today. Those moments in Teldrassil and Darkshore, man. Before I saw a level {1X} Night Elf Warrior pass me with a two handed something or other and asked him "HOW YOU GOT THAT?" in /shout as I desperately chased him all the way into ashenvale for answers. He invited me to his guild, we did the Wetlands marathon together, and Ziot the Riot would go on to raid as Tank for <Low Brow> and later <Reckless Desire>Making it to Naxx, but never finishing, but having a lot of laughs, as our guild leader said the most ridiculous shit I have ever heard when we would wipe over and over hours into content we had on farm. Such gems as ",I would rather stick my dick in a cheese grater than raid with you fucking imbeciles." and "If you can't stay out if the fire, how the fuck do you manage to wipe your own ass? Do you walk around with shit butt all day you walking post fetal abortions?"
Best days of my life. There is actually a soundboard of that guy. He was Lakiria. Paladin on the Magtheridon server. Cheers if you knew me.
Asmongold your awesome man keep up the good work!
Asmonbald Why he should love hair products 🙂
The game this man is describing in this video isn't actually the upcoming game known as "World of Warcraft: Classic."
For many, many, years I avoided using the community's favorite term to refer to the game before its first expansion, "Vanilla WoW," and instead called it the official name Blizzard had used to refer to the base game: "Classic WoW." That's what I called it in my epic masterpiece, World of Warcraft Memories, Vol. 1: Classic & The Burning Crusade, completed in 2013. I wasn't about to use ice cream flavors in that recollection of fond memories.
But now, I may have to start referring to that game as "Vanilla WoW," since Blizzard has decided to re-purpose the name "WoW Classic" to sell a new product.
Nixxiom is talking about "Vanilla WoW" in this video, and presumably the whole series, not "WoW: Classic." It's not an insignificant distinction to make, especially when the content of this video is all about how he felt when he experienced Azeroth for the first time.
I felt the same way when I started playing in late 2006. WoW: Classic, which will release in 2019, can recreate the gameplay and environment we experienced in Vanilla, but it can't recreate the sense of wonder and discovery.
Nixxiom loved the size and scale of the world in Vanilla. Azeroth is several multiples larger in the modern game, and Classic represents a massive shrinking of the world. Classic can bring back the world as it was before the Cataclysm, but it can't bring back the sense of wonder and discovery.
I haven't used the dreaded "N-word" in this post, but I know the risks of thinking WoW: Classic will bring back the same feelings as playing WoW during Vanilla in the mid-2000s. I think many people set themselves up for inevitable disappointment when they look at WoW: Classic entirely through the lens of their time playing Vanilla WoW.
I look forward to watching the community civil war that will erupt when many people replay Vanilla in WoW: Classic, or play it for the first time, and realize it is unplayable for them 12 years after Vanilla WoW ended, forever.
Man , your such a great speaker . Makes the video 10x better 👌
Would it be crazy to think it would be cool if they made a wow classic engine like basically how classic will run but make a brand new world. But with all the same races and stuff basicly drag and drop the people and characters from that world into a new world amae art style but just new layouts new citys.
I haven't played WoW in the good old days, in fact i'm pretty much a newbie. But i have played on a private vanilla server , and even though it had x2 exp rates and a quest helper – it was still amazing ! Never in my wow playtime i felt like my character was actually MY. Every little pink strand of hair , every little badly textured surface felt to me like this troll was me in the game. Getting a blue axe from killing a mob in the open world felt like an ACHIEVMENT. It felt more epic that getting a brand new piece of 400 gear feels in Bfa. I had to talk to people , i had to travel distanses , to talk to npcs… The game felt more like an adventure and less like " okay i'll need to finish my world quests , and then the mythics , and then th warfront , and the island expeditions…" and rinse & repeat as if i was going to work every day.
I like the modern wow , but it's losing its magic to me. I think classic will bring the sense of being lost in an amazing big world full of opportunities once again , at least at some extent.
The only bad thing i can see – its now official wow , and in official blizzard's wow i'll have to play with my compatriots instead of being able to chat with people all over the globe , which was way more fun.
The Storryliene was logic and good not chaotic like today
more machinima please
Sometimes I wish Blizzard employees watched these kind of videos.
i love nixxiom´s passion for WoW, i´ll never have one like he has but i have my own.
Started playing some months before TBC release. I too started with an undead, and still play him today. I remember my first days, walking through Tirisfal Glades… it felt enormous on its own, and then I mounted on a zeppelin and discovered there were two whole continents to explore. This world was huge and so alive. I hope Classic will bring some of these emotions back.
My first experience with wow vanilla was I spent I think 8 hours installing it onto my potato of a computer. I had a wireless connection that linked to my modem so I had red ping. I was undead I was a warrior and I had a blast for an hour before I went to bed because it was a school night. Then I got home from school and their was a patch update so I had to wait another 6 hours I was so sad.
Nixxiom make machinim’s
I don’t think I’m asking for much but I need to ask…when’s the next Machinima?
Please watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmUMRonWqXE and do live stream with it or face cam with it.
Like so he can see it and agree.
Upload part 2 already dickhead?
Please do a kelthuzad lore video
Like I loved classic, but the graphics
First character was a Blood Elf mage. My friend got me into playing it. Back then the mages had a fire elemental and I used to always respawn that thing because it was better in battle than the water elemental. When I first got to summon the fire elemental I was in awe but pretty much now a days mages only get the water elemental with the frost spec.. Miss that fire elemental. lol
This is the nostalgic feeling. It has nothing to do with specifically being Vanilla. What you describe is what i felt when starting in Wrath, and it is what my brother experiences right now, having started but a month ago in BFA, the expansion which most people seem to hate.
People just end up playing it for so long that they forget to love it for the world it is, and instead playing it for the game it is.
I played since Wrath… and you tell me i can rightclick on the map to zoom out!? . . . The more you know…
The truth is it may be nostalgia…but we have nostalgia because this game was that good.
I dont have nostalgia in any other video game at all….except wow.
The first time i saw an ogre in loch modan it literally frightened me to see such a giant. Also the community was really friendly back in those days because you were highly dependant on eachother, like no other game ever before. There was no quest helper, so people were literally walking with you for half an hour, so you could complete your quest if you didn't knew where to find an certain NPC. World pvp and world events also made the game, the whole server would gather as world bosses were spawning and both factions first would fight eachother before being able to take down for example Azuregos and all levels from lvl 1's till lvl 60's were in one raid trying to help eachother.
Imo, Blizzard made 3 mistakes:
– Blizzard prioritized pve over world pvp and flying mounts destroyed world pvp massively.
– Blizzard made the game to casaual.
– They should have never destroyed old content with cataclysm, because the nostalgia is gone.
Im waiting on a video card to put in my comp just reactivated my account today last time log in it was in 2006 cant wait loll
When’s the next honourable Viking challenge episode coming out?
For fan of Warcraft like me THE WORLD of Warcraft was like dreams come true.
You sound like you would enjoy Gothic 1&2 a lot 😀
Hurry to create my my dk
My character/zone during my beginning moments was as a tauren druid in Mulgore. I was just blown away by the diversity of the classes and the coolest one I could think to go with was shapeshifting druids. Getting the bear form was just incredible, you could literally just turn into an animal and fuck creatures with buffed out health and then got cat form and boom, can literally stealth around like a rogue.
It was magical stuff at the time man.
YO NIXXIOM!!!! Have you seen this shit!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFtBoUMx–Q Someone made Warcraft a series! :O Its like…good! I thought since you love all that good old yum of Yore you would enjoy it since you love a good Machinema.
Can't fucking wait to play it again!! We did the same thing with an old friend, he played a human pala and I night elf druid, he let me play it on his computer, taking turns, because I didn't have a good enough PC nor could pay the monthly fee. But when I got my own copy of the game (in early TBC), boy oh boy, I played the crap out of it.
I think the first one of those 2 pictures of young Nixxiom and Nixxiom today was photo shopped. Just saying…
That moment when you are night elf rogue in westfall and Red Defias Mask drops from mob
I never played it. I started it. I don't know the feel of sunshine, taste of a fresh gust of wind anymore. We almost archieved spidersilk boots though.