10 NOSTALGIC FREE MMOs - What made them so GREAT? (Analysis)

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[@TalykStudios]

Is it just nostalgia? Or did these games have something that made them special? Silkroad definitely did, that party mob respawn system made grinding SO fun and the job system was ❤‍🔥 Let me know about your good memories in the comments! MORE honorable mentions: LINEAGE, LINEAGE 2 (of course), Zu Online, Ferentus, Maplestory, Metin & Metin2, RappelZ, City of Heroes, Talisman online, Conqueror Online, Ragnarok Online, Runes of Magic, Champions Online, RaiderZ, 2Moons, MU Online, Ultima Online, Rakion. (Guys I only had so many hours of teenage free time, I have played many, many MMOs but not every single one on the planet 😂 )

[@RTLAntiRTL]

Why you Link all offical Websites from the games but on Flyff you link a Privat server ?

[@TalykStudios]

Ah yes, thank you for pointing it out! All fixed ^^!

[@rauk81]

Its not just nostalgia..older classic mmos were better..better ideas, gameplay, more imersive than any newer mmo game today and im so sad we moved into some new era of instant gratification arena/lobby gaming =( There are only few upcoming games that maybe..just maybe can bring us some of that long lost classic REAL mmorpg vibe. Great video btw! =)

[@TalykStudios]

@@rauk81 Ashes of Creation has my attention! Especially having a caravan PVP system that reminds me of the Silkroad job system. I don't pre-order games anymore, but I've got my fingers crossed for them!

[@Cochmazh]

No Anarchy Online?

[@garveziukas]

Something about Silkroad was truly magical back in a day. I remember when it got plagued with gold bots I used to log off at one certain spot near Samarkand where one specific group of bots farm before servers would go down for maintenance and after they went back up I'd login and invite all the newly logged in bots to exp auto and item auto party and that one group of bots would accept the invite giving me afk exp+gold. Good times, never forget

[@MuscledRMH]

God Silkroad Online was such a fantastic time back in the day. Absolutely loved the game.

[@kokawwa1900]

Still live Sela Online :)

[@aic20]

i was so young probably 12-13 years old, 2006ish when i tried it and had no clue wtf I was doing... all I remember was wanting to become a "nuker" and had no clue how to do besides dumping points into mana haha I made it to the second city i believe it was a desert area before i stopped playing. The trade system was genius though i always wished theyd bring this back in a newer game.

[@NoelLang]

The time with Silkroad is such a beautiful memory. It's almost a love-hate relationship. I think it's a shame that Joymax ruined the game so badly.

[@TalykStudios]

DEFINITELY a love-hate relationship with Silkroad haha

[@Z3r0Fix]

I loved it as a child. Always closed my eyes when I logged in and hoped that when I opened them I would be logged in. This game was pure childhood

[@monstermadchen4529]

i remember that i started on server Sparta, a very long time ago.... played for so many years, its sad that this is now history. fly for fun and tera were short periods of my life aswell

[@monstermadchen4529]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnKsqIibjq14fJY&ab_channel=BotsReport my former guildleader i never forgott that video.. i was just 12 at that time now i m 27...

[@mkmngmpt1635]

Joymax doesn't deserve SRO

[@FlowXr]

silkroad is the best in my opinion

[@TalykStudios]

So many good MMO memories! Silkroad especially cause DAMN that job system will ALWAYS be so addicting to me haha. So many wonderful guildmates & supportive friends who have moved on and some who have remained life-long friends! Do any of you remember who got you into Silkroad or your favorite MMO? I do! ImpreZuno if you ever see this (I was Saerinox), I hope you are LIVING it up (also screw you for telling me to start as a fire blader ... 😂) And to Tiego (and our guildies) who introduced me to Cabal. You helped a crazy little British kid get through school. Thank you, you crazy Portuguese Force Blader, whereever you are rampaging around haha.

[@Aislan.GSantos]

My too

[@pixelcatcher123]

Yeeees

[@dementedme5132]

I wish I could have played Silkroad back then :(

[@Drakenblaut]

Noob

[@subaruway7386]

Silkroad online, still the best MMO till this day

[@Mooreorless18]

Glad to see Cabal on the list. It's a game that seems to be forgotten, or at least whenever I used to mention I played it hardly anyone knew the game. After playing Rappelz or Last Chaos, I gotta agree Silkroad was the best. Also Aika Online, some years later.

[@MrLeedo1992]

I have been playing Cabal since 2009, still be a royal Cabalist now :D

[@zaimhaiqal3618]

Quick question, do u know any games that similar to cabal?? Not pay to win type of games and alsoo not that too open world like flying

[@dementedme5132]

And cabal is actually still running to this day

[@joost1183]

Always good to see these lesser known games back on these lists. Most of the list do give me a warm nostalgic feeling of being back in the day

[@LordFinkenstein]

@@dementedme5132 The surprising part is that my character survived it jumping publishers twice.

[@LouieGrind]

The nostalgia of hearing PW, Tera, Flyff and Runescape music is unreal. Life was much easier when these games were the shit.

[@xSieurx]

PW and Tera especially. It's been forever since I've heard either one

[@BoskoMi]

Silkroad was released in 2005 and still it's graphic is such refreshing and skills are looking amazing. This game brings so much memories.

[@kokawwa1900]

Still alive Sela Online :D now private but great fun

[@EyeSkrim]

Watching this brings back so many great memories of Aion Online! I spent countless hours exploring the beautiful world, battling in epic PvP, and just enjoying the camaraderie with friends.

[@EyeSkrim]

No other MMO comes close to how great this game is.

[@DMartinov]

Wow! I’m amazed by the quality and professionalism behind your videos. You definitely deserve a lot more subscribers, keep it up mate! As for the games, Silkroad will live forever in my heart.

[@TalykStudios]

Thank you for the kind words! I know I don't post super regularly, but when I get inspired to do a video I try to make it the best I can ^^; Have a nice day!

[@iljun3089]

Cabal Online gave me the first taste of MMORPG. Now it's my favorite genre.

[@coltgad4411]

Silkroad Online is the best i play it since my childhood

[@Kozhn]

Silkroad Online, Aion. Absolutely loved playing these two. I still to this day find private servers to play on that are set in some of the old patches for both games. I will always love you Silkroad Online.

[@kokawwa1900]

Silkroad still ! Sela Online check it

[@mkmngmpt1635]

@@kokawwa1900 Link?

[@KarimJovian]

Damn I played all these. I feel a connection with this nostalgia damn

[@om3galul989]

Silkroad is still till this day the only time I had fun in an mmo.

[@Thurrock91]

I still miss silkroad, played from early 80 cap up untill 120cap was just released, after 100cap it started to go down hill, its more pay2win now and alot of english speaking players were leaving. 80-90-100 cap were the best times i ever had...

[@IIShinoda]

You´re right and then they destroyed it with D12 - pay to win and sadly they received 2 big big hacking attacks which delted our gear, and chars. Over 10 years of hard grind were gone...But I still get chills when I hear the start up theme. This game was the best I´ve every played back then.

[@Thurrock91]

@@IIShinoda Oh yea, i also got hacked during 110cap days, together with alot of active players, they almost all left after that. I tried playing after the hacks, but the server felt empty.

[@dementedme5132]

I still get extremely nostalgic hearing Flyff's bgms :( Especially Flaris and Saint Morning themes.

[@marc3378]

For me it's the battle music when you attack a mob..

[@leedavid09]

I miss the old school FlyFF. Now it's an online browser game, but never the same.

[@Jaxiedits]

real

[@gach7569]

I spent a good time of my life in Perfect World and I do not regret anything, it was a beautiful experience, the music, the friends I made, in addition to learning English, it brings me many good memories

[@laminearbia3975]

I feel you. I also have amazing memories from the game without forgetting the friends that i still have now

[@anduynu]

Played Silkroad, Cabal and Aion for aaages! Loved every single minute I miss that time...

[@domedsky]

Silkroad at it's peak was beautiful. If it was remade I'm sure it would be most peoples favorite for it's balanced pvp and job system.

[@Kozhn]

I would lose my shit if it was re-made.

[@joost1183]

Werent there rumours at that time (2007-08?) of a silkroad 2 would be in the making?

[@kokawwa1900]

Sela Online now :) Check it it's private

[@razatiger22]

Silkroad Online is called Black Desert Online today lol. I know they aren't the same, but it does feel like a spiritual successor.

[@KrC_Games]

i'm waiting for SrO 2 for years...still have hope

[@GameEmpire10000]

Silkroad online was the Father and Mother (Alpha & Omega) of all MMO Games in that time, remember 2005. and games in that time!

[@Shortay1325]

Yooo this is crazy. So nostalgic. I played the hell out of Cabal Online, Ijji Gunz, Silkroad, and RuneScape. Sooo many years ago. This was an awesome vid, thanks!

[@TalykStudios]

Honestly, those nostalgic smiles are exactly what I was hoping people would get from this video. A little snippet of gaming history that was a lifeline and source of great memories for so many people all over the world!

[@bigdaddystrokes]

Gunz!!

[@markusmarkus6580]

Cabal 2 was like a meteor. It came fast, it was gone faster.

[@pearhams2]

Silkroad Online was my first introduction to mmorpgs. So long ago it was now and I had so much fun with it. Grinding forever lol. Then came Perfect World, then World of Warcraft, then Final Fantasy XIV. A couple in between Silkroad, Perfect World, and WoW were 2 Moons and Requiem.

[@TriaMoonlily]

PWI always and forever in my heart. Miss that game so much 😭❤ Venomancer 🦊 and Tideborn 🧜‍♀️ my favorite Races!

[@Br666d]

Silkroad was unbelievable! I played it around 08ish. Got to level 50ish and I thought I was the greatest. Would always party with noobs and help them level up 🤪.

[@TalykStudios]

Silkroad is such a grind getting above level 20 felt like an accomplishment haha.

[@antedor2654]

Ong taxi free pt :D Good times haha I wish I could play somewhere withuot bots and a healthy community...

[@plam91en]

​@@antedor2654 Official servers are pretty much impossible to log on. There are many private servers, check them out and see which suits you. I currently play on Electus which has higher exp and sp rates, very active community / discord channels. I'd also recommend Origin server which has x2 - x3 exp rates and for me it was as close to the original experience as it could get.

[@antedor2654]

@@plam91en i tried getting Electus, logged in as Eu in Chinese starting area, world chat pretty dead and my pc shut down 10 minutes after starting the game... So I had a weird experience with it, not saying its like that at all times tho

[@beautifulbg8613]

@@antedor2654 Origin online ;)

[@ItsSacredG]

Damn I remember playing silkroad and watching naruto. Then i would play naruto music in the background as i grinded on silkroad lol

[@Rakoah]

This whole video was a nostolgia trip for me. I played every single one of these games, some more than others but have fond memories of all of them.

[@arvs18]

That intro audio of old Aion login page really hits home. Classic Aion Patches still is the best for me. When the Abyss/Dredgion and Rifting was still a thing.

[@TalykStudios]

Yeah, every intro & soundtrack just kept sending me on nostalgic flashback trips 😂! Classic Aion huh? What initially got me into it was the Beta, way way back.

[@nirimoka]

Come to aion classic. We have the abyss, dredgions and rifts :)

[@joshdillon8857]

Almost cried when I heard 4:20 was one of my favs Rip PWI :'(

[@yametekudasai3973]

Played the hell out of Ragnarok, MU online, RAN online, Cabal, Khan online, Silkroad, Rohan blood feud, RF online, Tantra, Rappelz, and Perfect World. Those we're the good old days, hard grinding, time consuming, but enjoyed every bit of it. Perfect world was the first MMORPG that made me spend a bit of money on it, lol! I got entranced in it's crafting and made me buy mats in the item shop just to make a perfect weapon for my character. 🤣 I still the remember the customization of the face in that game. The game company in my country behind it, started a competition on a look alike with a price money. One of the winners has a character with Rinoa's face in it from FF8.

[@mrreza6868]

My 1st mmo was Cabal used to play in 2012..until now those theme song still stuck in my head

[@erinfrancisco1499]

Flyff most nostalgic

[@n-i-n-o]

Team FlyFF

[@markil21]

this login music is magical , takes me back to my childhood

[@erinfrancisco1499]

i search for a flyff server that will bring back most of the memories, an old school flyff with so many players. Thanks to GTOP site, i saw "Flyff iblis" on the top list, a free-to-download game. Now, me and my friends are enjoying it ,its very classic, seems like the official one ^^

[@xDrac]

Ah man SO MUCH nostaglia, I can't take it... good old times... I cherish those memories so much

[@IIShinoda]

I played Silkroad over 10 years, still have my videos on my channel. This game was the best I´ve every played. Sadly the downfall came with the lvl 120 cap and D12 Gear (pay to win / pay to upgrade your weapon)...additionally they received 2 big hacker attacked which deleted our chars and gear which we grinded over 10 years... Thanks for including this masterpiece which gave me massive chills...

[@MedioCore]

Thanks for putting this together, really loved hearing the soundtracks to memories I forgot I had. You deserve more subs for sure! :)

[@chemi7591]

So many memories. It was the cabal music for me, right in my feels.

[@TalykStudios]

Listening to the soundtracks sends me to a happy place every time 😭

[@uhavemooface]

I use to play Cabal online. That game was so addictave. I kept coming back for more gameplay.

[@lelboi3557]

God damn it, I didn't know seeing Aion again would hit me like that. One of the only mmos I was part of from the beginning when it came to the west. Wish it never went F2P/kept being more popular.

[@TalykStudios]

Yeah, every game I booted up to test run for this video hit me with a fantastical wave of emotions and memories haha! & Aion went through so many insane changes and overhauls... I remember being so captivated by the original trailer 😭

[@10subscriberschallengewith46]

you could be a great streamer for Silkroad online since they aren't many English speaker ones. Turks are monopolizing this business and many ppl like me are looking for streamers with a British accent like yours.

[@TalykStudios]

Ah, thank you! I might stream Silkroad some time, I do play it regularly. The problem is, I only played Silkroad at 70 cap, a long time ago, and I only ever got to level 36 (I didn't use a bot and could only play 1 hour a day). Everything at higher levels is so new to me, jobbing, pvp, CTF, and I don't know if that is entertaining seeing such a nooby player 🤣 Fortunately, people on Electus have been very helpful teaching me about the game. ^^ !

[@panekoekopjema]

@@TalykStudios I really think noob players are wanted. These are games that never made it before the age of streaming and only Turkish and Eastern-Eu players play/stream them. With people showing love for these type of games and their popularity maybe increasing we may be able to save some of these games as they will be seen by their companies as more than money milking machines. (Look at LoL, its a free game yet generating money in a very healthy way for its playerbase)

[@alexanderfiedorov925]

As a Brazillian for me it's insane that most people didn't play Tibia back in the day... I'm an MMORPG junkie and i played almost every single relevant MMORPG in the world (including every single one mentioned in this video) and one of the most addictive MMORPGs i've ever played IS Tibia (I still play it to this very day) and it always astonishes me how most MMORPG enthusiasts such as myself never played it.

[@Malzaharable]

I spend time in most of these games, Im fucking crying now, I just turned 30 and i cant find game that will hold me like that..

[@oouziii4679]

I feel that too much.. Im 27 and feeling the same way. The truth is we probably never will.. Games were just built diffrent back then :(

[@Malzaharable]

@@oouziii4679 and we don't have so much time like these days

[@oouziii4679]

@@Malzaharable thats the worst part

[@Malzaharable]

@@oouziii4679 im waiting for one 9dragons private server, should be launch in few weeks, I will try to have fun again

[@mrdomogaming5990]

nothing beats the uniqueness of RF Online. its sad you didnt include my favorite game of all time and i'm still playing it today.

[@AlcelCharles]

Best gameplay, community, graphics, battle scene,,races,,etc...most of all accretia empire😁😁😁

[@relax3d]

I was a race leader for a year on a private server and met one of my best irl friends till this day in RF Online. That game almost ruined me as a person. I hope they never make a new one like that, it was a dream for pvp players but the "politics" could really pull out the worst of every dark corner of a seemingly decent human being. That game was one of a kind.

[@juvialoxar5038]

Gotta love the complex class, war, leadership, guild, items, and race systems. For me none of the mentioned in the video beats RF Online's uniqueness

[@Fuerwahrhalunke]

Man, I still love Silkroad. If something like OSRS (Which I still play, even 16 years later) would be done to Silkroad, I would return. And Flyff... How many hours got shredded by that game.

[@WolfHreda]

I loved being a Winged Elf in Perfect World and trying to harvest materials from places I wouldn't have otherwise reached, usually getting killed immediately upon catching agro from a random monster.

[@rchernandez6891]

Silkoad / Aion

[@markil21]

still have that orginal aion metal cd box :3

[@creepermanx12]

I played 6 of theses games idc if you don't want to read this, but here it is my nostalgia thought about some of them: - Cabal was all about being badass. Cosmetics, armors, spells/skills was so cool, sh**t i even remember grinding thoses punching bag forever just to xp a skill and see what the other will be. The music was so good and entertaining when you were doing instances (the group name is Novasonic btw). -Perfect world (2008/2010) You could fly with a pair of wings or a flying sword, holy fkk just flying through a open world mmo was a blast for me at the time. classes diversities with many cities to explore and with the soundtrack i had the most relaxing gameplay i ever experienced in my life. -Gunz, I was too young to play this game and because it required so much skill to play, i was often raging. I remember playing this game with my best friend everyday afterschool trying to get better with him! it was the first time i experienced a real competitive game. Tera, I sold most of my PS2/PS3 games to buy that game only to see that you could play it for free a year later.... . The graphics was insane for a mmorpg at the time and so was the combat system. I remember playing it on my old samsumg laptop running it at 30 fps Lmao. Flyff, i loved the grinding system. i remember poking groups of mammoths to get the aggro so they could follow me all at the same time and stack them just to kill them all at once with a aoe spell (best feeling in the world). Also, i remember the place with thousand of players selling their sh*t, they were everywhere and sometime the place was laggy af because of this. Aion, my parents bought me this game as a gift bc i was doing well at school. i played this game 1 or 2 week after the release, cities were crowded, there was players everywhere, ppl were spamming for a group h24. skills, rune, stigma elements system was revolutionnary for me at the time. environnement was beautiful i was so immersed into this world. Sometime i wish i could go back to my kid state where i could fully immerse myself into thoses worlds and just having fun with my friends without caring about competitivies and P2W content. That was the good old days 🥲

[@diannahimi7822]

Very nice list! Aion, Perfect World, 9 Dragons, Silkroad and Flyff are my definite Top picks! All of them hit me with Nostalgia and even their login screen music is enough to almost make me cry. There was another good MMO that I think should have been in the list, called ArchLord. As for Flyff - it recently got republished officially and it concentrates more on the old-school aspects.

[@dustinbrandt9912]

Silkroad will still be the best MMORPG just the nostalgic part where i was i dont know like 10 years old and played whole day with my brother and my friends and farmed sp for weeks :D and the job system was nice and in this time i though the spells would be awesome too :D

[@reymondatienza8427]

this was the time that grinding is much more important than your assignment. thanks for making this video! really felt nostalgic and knocked me into reality that I am old and have real life responsibilities but still can enjoy casual games but not to the extent of being on top

[@TalykStudios]

THINGS WERE SO SIMPLE 😭🙏

[@kuyangpalatanong]

"They were clunky. They were grindy. But we love them for all their flaws and their pleasure." ❤❤❤

[@TalykStudios]

😭

[@baskomnasi]

As soon as I hear the Perfect World music, it brings my childhood memories back 😭😭😭

[@Arccai]

Im 36 today, watching this hits hard, such nostalgia, the music.

[@Ernissan]

Old but gold. They have it all... Silkroad online perfect, how many hours and game feels so alive....

[@jakehenry3127]

Check out the newly released games as well. Polity online will be nice too

[@Orichalchoes]

As a huge Silkroad fan after i saw Silkroad comments ım too happy rn

[@BokuWaHikikomori]

SRO and GunZ were me and my cousins' childhood 🥺🖤 Heck a lot of this list is!

[@Evenstar32]

You forgot these gems like Aika Online, Dekaron, Rakion, Twelve Sky, Ran, MU Online, RF Online and Blade and Soul :)

[@Br666d]

I also played perfect world. Boy that game was huge. Never really got far in that though

[@zezoeg]

Silk road and Perfect world

[@VectorBurnGames]

Great video, Talyk! Wathching this, I remembered that besides Silkroad (which was one of my favorite MMos ever made) I remember I sunk in thousands of hours into MU Online and 2Moons (renamed Dekaron) and I had such a great time in those games, they all offered a different dopamine kick...good times. Anyways, great video and hope to see more! Have a great one!

[@TalykStudios]

AH! 2Moons & MU, I did play them for a little while! I will add it to my honorable mentions list. ^^

[@Freshmaker420]

Played most of these. Thanks for the music got some goosebombs as well. Nostalgia overload and nice video my man :)

[@JayTohab]

When you've never heard of the channel before, but they put effort into the sound quality

[@renzyecoy728]

Ahhh Cabal Online. If ESTGames higher ups did not screw up their management, this game might still be alive today. Sadly they did, and the official Philippine server shut down this July followed by the mobile version on August 25th. There's still hope though as there are quite a few private servers that host the game. This game defined my teens and I still login to one of the private servers for nostalgia

[@TalykStudios]

I think nearly all of the games on this list suffered from mismanagement and greed in the end. Cabal was utterly incredible. Really, REALLY good memories of my guildies, PvE, PvP. I miss it.... The private servers definitely help you relive it once more. It's what I did when I made this video. It was fun, but helped me move on too 😌 ... Apart from Silkroad, everyone just accepted their fate and carried on paying premium to log in 🤣

[@rtubbs77]

I remember a game called Atlantica....it was one where you had a party of 9 and it was turn based. Man, I forgot about that game till this video.

[@T-A-GUY]

Bro...you got a sub from me. Played all those games from 2005-2012. Was a time like no other, definitely hard to find today as someone in my mid 20's. 600 subscriber.

[@KushbiZ]

the first month of Aion was insanely fun. After a month you quickly started realizing the game had no legs.

[@maslofet]

Definitely missing Knight Online here, I think it was one of the most influential MMOs out there

[@AlexGorskov]

yeah, great game

[@williamshon1146]

Silkroad and Cabal was one of my childhood games

[@TheSkyCaLL]

Dragonica, Rappelz, Dragon Nest, Grand Fantasia

[@Sone418]

What hooked me with Perfect World was the non-instanced huge world and absolutely beautiful, serene soundtrack.

[@1stRuby]

Silkroad / Cabal / Tera damn the memories...... =( im old =(

[@JimbroQc]

Cabal was so damn gooood !!!

[@MultiFandom8isFate]

The BG music hits hard with the nostalgia. 😭

[@poteznywarmianin5840]

Nothing will ever beat Silkroad, the only MMO where you could actually play "Online", so many activities such as trading/thieving where it could bring massive pvp, at private servers it can be easily 100vs100. What's more, the Fortress War, such amazing idea, guilds and unions fight for Fortress to take the tax of occuppied city, it was clearly innovative MASS PVP idea. CTF, and Battle Arena where 8 vs 8 players fight as a team to win the event, also Forgotten World and Holy Water Temple (instances). Many uniques, party grinding, and even more events created by ppl who were GM's of private servers, they even created event such as Battle Royale, yes... they managed to create a Battle Royale in a MMO game! Im playing this game since 2005, when there were only 3 Servers opened, and Im playing till this day with a breaks of course. Owners of private server keep on invent more and more activities such as Survival Arena (players are teleported into arena, which looks like a Rome Coloseum), in that arena lots of people fight against each other, sometimes 100+ ppl, are killing each other, the one with most kills wins the event, once again Massive PvP. That isn't all, there are many, many more events and activities to do. You can basically spend whole day and you won't be bored. OUTSTANDING FOREVER! SRO

[@xardas218]

One day I was at work in the office... And someone played Undead Ground sound track from Cabal... I burst in tears in front of tens of my colleges and assistants... Did the same here

[@xMortalBlade]

cabal online had some of the best songs imo

[@triplecsec]

i really love this video it made me riminise alot definitely some honorable mention would be rappelz , runes of magic , champions online , raiderz

[@Gtneff]

This video really made me feel some type of way. The music for cabal really had me going back to my childhood

[@ilovebiscuits7771]

9 dragons and Silkroad were very well crafted old games. I never found any other MMORPG quite like them. I've been actually searching for something like 9 dragons for a while with the many clans style and how atmospheric and distinct each felt when you visited their bases but the most similar I could find were Age of Wushu and Swordsman online which still do not feel the same. ;-; I'll never forget the Sacred flower clan atmospheric base and dope moves specially dagger ones. Quite a unique game.

[@tristantanner2870]

12sky2 is so so so similar to 9dragons

[@ilovebiscuits7771]

@@tristantanner2870 Checked that one before. It only felt abit similar in the skill style but the aesthetic was so different like no clans, just like 3 or 4 factions if I remember correctly.

[@persona3897]

No game similar to 9d spend years searching.

[@persona3897]

Agw of Wulin would be the closest

[@afrodruidic]

I hate that you never got to meet the clan masters in 9d 😢

[@itz.brandonlee8364]

2024 and if you played silkroad online when it first came out. Wow it was amazing! One of the best mmo that "was free2play" at that time. Great memories....

[@TheGreenAnima]

Did I just enter a chatt with all my childhood friends? I played all those games except for Gunz, definitely missed out on that one

[@TalykStudios]

I definitely think a lot of us played on the same games and severs and are now just realizing 😂 Wild you've played nearly all of them though! Even 9Dragons!?! I wouldn't be surprised if we've bumped into each other as teenagers hahaha

[@TheGreenAnima]

@@TalykStudios wasn't expecting a response 🙃 Yeah, I really enjoyed 9dragons, and I recognized all the areas you showcased. I'm still really into wuxia, probably thx to that game

[@moogleking]

Ragnarok online my first and most nostalgic mmorpg, also got nostalgia for tera and aion and allods and perfect world, i tried the rest but didn't get to endgame in all

[@TalykStudios]

A few people have mentioned Ragnarok! If I had more play time invested in it, I definitely would have put it on this list, but it gets an honorable mention from me, no doubt about it.

[@MkMngmpt]

Me too.

[@gonzalot.605]

As someone who is just getting started with the MMORPG genre, I'll make sure to try all these games at least once in my lifetime.

[@wirehot09]

Runescape!!!! That opening music makes me cry and happy at the same time! All the pvp wars etc. oldschool ruinscape should be number 1!

[@xCr0nus]

How did you manage to remember Mu Online but didn’t include GW1?! That soundtrack alone is just amazing

[@TalykStudios]

GW1 was buy to play. Although it was truly excellent 🙏

[@brainer3]

good video mate, youd definitely grow if you made more commentary videos like this

[@TalykStudios]

Thank you! When my health starts improving hopefully I can spend more time on content creation ^^

[@mrsean209]

If I had to choose one game to go back in time to play, it'd be Perfect World.

[@dodollegitz7027]

Dunia saya seperti pindah ke perfect world selema 3 tahun, disana saya banyak teman yang berasalah dari sebrang pulau. Saya main perfect world indonesia server api 2011-2013 guild titan, kangen kalian semua.....

[@phatpingu]

I think nostalgia is a really strong driving force, this is why I'm excited about Genfanad

[@chortlingkraken8966]

AHHHHH 9 Dragons! I didn't believe it would be here so I began the journey to try to remember the name of it up until the moment you said it. Glad you mentioned it was fairly obscure, because it's always seemed like one of those games people played but never mentioned. I remember being stupid lucky with Blood Essence drops and spending half my day in the market to sell them. There are so many memories on this list that seemed forgotten even in the honorable mentions. Great job

[@TalykStudios]

Ah yes, the collective memories of the free mmo community. Vast and chaotic, lmao. Yes, even outside those honorable mentions there are other games people are reminding me of. We all played some really obscure stuff, and some of it I don't think we realized just how many of us were playing Honestly 90% of the reason was just cause my PC wasn't good enough to play WoW (I tried, it ran at 8FPS on lowest settings if i was lucky). But hey at least I can remind people of all these old ass games we all secretly played to fill our time 😂

[@chortlingkraken8966]

@@TalykStudios The same happened to me as well. We owned an ancient PC so downloading WoW took a full day, and the game ran so poorly I stopped playing. Once we bought a better one I ended up in most of these games until I managed to get WoW working. I kind of miss that choice we had, but reminding us of all these games is close enough for me lol

[@tydlth]

bets game ever ! Especially during acclaim time .. which sadly shut down only to be taken by more and more greedy publishers. If you still want to play, you can look at 9d classic private server. best one so far out there, and not P2W at all

[@joe-wi8nj]

Kudos ! ❤ I like the focus on what they brought to the table! we all grow together! 😊

[@Sulto_]

Archlord was a gem, there is a private server till date.

[@60vik]

wow perfect world was really good.. i still listen to the OST from time to time

[@xman5393]

Some of their music slapped... I feel soo nostalgic thinking about PW and about my old guild and in-game wife...

[@Takeshe1995]

I played Flyff back at v7 on the German Server and even after over 14 Years i still remember all the Good Time with this Game and im actually waiting for Flyff Universe or Flyff Project M that will come out this Year where they go back to the roots so Vanilla Flyff but with some extras ^^ But Tera too i played Tera for like 3 Years and even Today i still think its one of the most beautiful MMORPGs ever ^^

[@reyrey5217]

Although I played almost all I have to admit Perfect World and Flyff for whatever reason had the most nostalgic music. I literally pause the video and closed my eyes to think of the days I spent there with my guild and my many online gfs. Good times (Besides Runescape ofc but that's as obvious as it being on the list)

[@Jazzglenn]

The only thing that keeps me coming back to Silkroad Online is how rewarding it is at times to grind. I always main as Chinese and every time I go Heuksal, I'm always anticipate the Stuns and how it just cancels any damage that the Mobs wants to dish out, and Ghost Spear Knockbacks too also feels rewarding. Bicheon keeps on guessing by spamming the knock-down stab button every time a mob or player gets knocked down, hoping that you can shove in a 2nd stab before they stand-up, it pisses me of everytime the 2nd knockdown stab gets cancelled and would spam the knockdown to get that perfect double stab. Pacheon, feels great too! If Heuk has their stuns & KB's, Bich has their KD+Stabs, Pacheon has their Range and Beautiful Crit+Crit sound. **Chef kiss** You would like the bicheon, you would hope and anticipate the Crit from afar, and next line up either Arrow combo or Anti Devil series just to continue the good feeling of that Crit sound and Camera Shake. Thinking about it makes me want to play it again in PVP private servers. Nothing have I ever felt soo good on a game by having 6 Straight Crits with sound and camera shake from 3 diff. mobs just 2 shotting them. Silkroad will always have a place in my heart. But too bad the Joymax had to run it to the ground. They know the insides and outside of the game better than anyone else, they could've done something about the bot problem, but then people are just tired from complaining and not getting heard and just resolved by jumping to a Private server(which barely lasts) or Jumping the entire game for a new one.

[@TalykStudios]

You are right. Silkroad was so good! But it could have been legendary. At least we got to enjoy Silkroad in her prime whilst it lasted ^^!

[@Jazzglenn]

@@TalykStudios The prime for me was when the Euro Update came! Everyone jumped in so fast on making a Euro char they almost forgot that they had a Chinese main, hell even I was guilty of that. It was glorious! ... But the gold bots attacked and we have to wait 60mins+ queues... for us here in the Philippines we dont have the luxury of owning a PC and had to resort to PC bangs to play so every min counts. So optimized our time for the best, and whenever we get to play SRO with friends we queue in and load in old school DotA, hoping we all can get in before our budget drains... Now when we get in the only thing left for us to do is to pray to god that the Cafe had stable net on that day. good times.... goood times... **Nostalgia kicking in**

[@TalykStudios]

​@@Jazzglenn I spent a lot of time in a PC gaming center until way later when I got a PC! Probably one of the few places I have genuinely good memories from haha. Ah the Euro update haha. I remember getting involved with SRO about 1 month before Euro chars came in. I remember grinding bandits & then this mysterious wizard character shows up & nukes the entire camp in one hit. I was AMAZED and also UPSET. I felt so weak in that moment when I realized they were a lower level than me too haha. Spent some time with Euro chars, all the classes were so cool, but in the end I just came back to where I started, a s/s force nuker haha! But after that the login time got so bad (do you remember when we had to restart the whole game if we failed to login. Before there was even a queue system it was basically buy premium or get lucky. I was playing DotA 1 & 2 alongside it too! Yes the nostalgia is strong

[@arthurbrainVI]

Gunz was ahead of its time, I put my time into knight online the music is nostalgic but couldnt stay connected as majority of the population was turkish, so I turned to Flyff which I'm glad they've brought out Flyff Universe which will repopulate the game itself being now a browser game. Nice to see it made the list as people don't understand the grind when it comes too Korean mmos 🤣

[@inuyasharocks333]

I can’t thank you enough for the information you have just given me

[@ForemostCrab7]

Allods, i was SO dissapointed back then that the Gibberlings could not be Paladins. It would be hillarious! The one of the front holds the weapon, the one of the right holds a Shield, and the left one casts the Spells. It would've been so funny! Imaging Blocking, they all could huddle behind the shield one for them to get protected, but also give the shielder some stability support.