Silkroad Online (2022) Review ☯ Gamers Aren't Real

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[@TaeranC]

I still have so many memories of this game with my friends... I come back from time to time just to feel some of those feelings again...

[@dion6034]

i only feel pain. especially if i died and lost 3 percent exp

[@salemalr5321]

@@dion6034 everytime i rememeber silkroad i wanted to cry XD

[@dion6034]

I remember just waiting logging in for like 3 hours, and then I finally logged in. 30 min later I get disconnected I even remember that stupid sound

[@dion6034]

When you got that one hour for 100k power LVL, but you die on the way.

[@mastaf006007]

And probably like me, when you actually go back and play it, the nagic isn't there anymore

[@paulofigueiredo3709]

This game was criminally underrated, apart from all the grinding bullshit if someone got their hands on this and did a massive spec visual update I think it would succeed

[@killaknight12]

Yeah, while I hated the grinding, the setting and style of the game was highly entertaining.

[@espene4468]

i still remember all those freaking tigers i farmed.. when you got a quest with looting 1 single item you knew it was grind time and kill 500+ of same mobs xD

[@MrXtremie]

Yea back in the day there were some private servers. Don't remember the name, but they were very lively and much more fun!

[@vanfja]

Same. I stopped mmo once silk road became too impossible to play. No other game really captured the depth of the asian landscape and all the cool asian cultural style. Would definitely play a remake.

[@MrXtremie]

@@vanfja Oh yes, 100%. But I'm afraid I'll become just as addicted as back then 😭

[@landonguerrera5603]

Used to sell random items in my stall, all priced at 1,000,000 coins. The hope was some hero would come along and basically give me a mil so I could purchase a wolf puppy 🐺

[@stufentotalworstofanarchy]

did it work?

[@noneofyourbusiness4294]

​@@stufentotalworstofanarchyit didn't have to. You'd get there eventually anyway, and once you had a puppy, you'd realize it's absolut shit. Like, the concept of having a companion that actually fights sounds kinda cool. But there were issues. It did so little damage that it wouldn't help you against stronger mobs, and it's tanking capbilities weren't there either, as it didn't have the healthpool for that kind of stuff, and it couldn't keep aggro unless you waited for ages until it had the mob down to below 50%. Oh, and when it died, which of course it would on a regular basis, it would set you back another.. I think 50k every time it happened. I get OP, I used to want one badly. Until I had one. If my character still exists, there's definetely a dead wolf in the storage

[@stufentotalworstofanarchy]

@@noneofyourbusiness4294 i Was AT age 12 or 13 when i played silkroad, sometimes with my family. I used to have a dog. Her Name was babsi. I gave her Name to my Wolf, and always felt emotional connected to her. :)

[@slydemise5349]

Silkroad reminds me to be thankful for the "grind" in other games.

[@InspectorGadget923]

I remember trying to be a low level doing "safe" caravans to earn potion money. Only for a high level traitor trader to approach me and use an NPC thief attacking his mount to kill mine with splash damage. His thief friend then runs in and loots my corpse. Good times?

[@andriileshovskyi9343]

Yeah, good old times

[@dskygn]

wow, that is insane

[@ufukklc2391]

It's insane that we had the exact same experience.

[@helotmotto]

I started playing this game when I was 13. I'm 30 now and this still bring back great memories lol.

[@davidengelmann1432]

This game catched me in 2004, it's love and hate at the same time.

[@DoomAwaits]

It is nice to see so many people with similar memories of this game. The good ole days... I have yet to find a replacement to SRO.

[@domedsky]

same. maybe ashes of creation

[@rickbruintjes2393]

Enough private servers to choose from if u can handle some heat from Egyptians and turks 😂

[@silentguardian8349]

The login page music is engraved in my brain at this point. Everytime I hear it... it floods me with good memories of playing on the regular server... until it became unplayable... right around the time level 100 cap came out. :( I was always so close to maxing out until I wasn't anymore. So sad how grindy this game has gotten. They should do an official second game with less grind fest and I bet so many people would return to it.

[@berniasd012]

there is a seconmd one but that one still sucks :/

[@Hunter-jo8ud]

The game always was grindy or not? :D It got grindy really fast if you ask me, partially already when you got third gear equipment.

[@RubberTag]

Yeah, the login page music and trying to login so many times because the servers was full! 😄

[@nokobz2624]

@@Hunter-jo8ud I remember it taking me THREE MONTHS to get to level 42 way back in 2007.

[@prozedur]

Cannot connect due to server traffic

[@xinectin16]

Ive been thinking of this game again for a while now. Ive been there during its peak in 05-07 where you had to sit in the loginscreen for HOURS to log in(Isro). Afterwards the most populated private server Esro. Actually the SP farming i kind of liked, and would miss now if i didnt need to do it. And i was a legit non-bot farmer. Farming in Karakoram on the 56/57 Ice warrior bois because any other spot from the weaker with giant variants was usually taken. I did that until i had atleast 500k wich back then got me just to the lvl 90 cap. Sold any special items and turned the rest into elements during that time and made millions over millions to make sure i could get decend gear and materials to upgrade it all. Played this game and Cabal every second of the day that i did not have to be in school/do homework or learn for tests. Best and most nostalgic time of my childhood man. This game was the reason why i got straight A's in every english test i had back then. Remembering playing them on my old ass rig that could barely handle towns with 10fps due to all the players, makes me wish i could be a kid again.

[@ufukklc2391]

Memories man. So many memories. This game taught me English and as you said it's the reason that I got straight A's. There are many private servers here in Turkey (SRO was big in my country). And some of them tried to create the 05-07 experience with no-european classes and 80 level cap. It was a good nostalgia if you can catch one in the opening day. Players were fighting over manyangs. There are several parties at yeohas and tigers. It felt like I was a child again...

[@TixTakChannel]

you have summed the old school silkroad and the private silkroad experience like no one else have done, I enjoyed your video, props to you man

[@colinbradfield72]

I loved this game in 2004. Ice with sword/bow is op as hell IMO. The must fun aspect I thought was starting new with no gear , and doing the market thing and coming home from work from my compusa job to see if anything sold.

[@agrugaming5066]

Huh I never thought someone else did that xD but then again I was a retarded child back then thought I was the beez neez with my floaty chick with a cold bow xD

[@vanfja]

This was such a good game. The armor, landscape, cultural references were more rooted in historic counterparts with real Asian Cities and regions as well. It was so much better than the nonsense fantasy asian mmo’s now that just look like any other fantasy mmos with rediculous huge swords and nothing to draw you into the asian culture.

[@phongnguyenhoang9047]

totally agree

[@osrs333]

Read this i just logged in on my 15 year old account! This is how the game is now! I started playing in 05/06 on the aege server when cap was 90 and played it for a couple of years. I was lvl 101 when cap was like 110 i think. 3 months ago i was playing on an private sro server with an old sro friend of me. He came to my house and were talking about the good old days. It was so strange i saw him and out of nothing i rememberd my login and password from over 15 years ago. I tried to login but it didnt work. I tried to recover my account back because i didnt know if it would still exist. It costed me aloooooot of hours but i restored my account. I saw i got hacked in 2011 that was a couple years after my last login to the account. I needed to choose a new server for my account and pay 5 euro or i could not get my account back. Eventually i vould log in, i still had my black avatar set and a nova ring. My Whole bank was cleared and even my silk was gone. I could see in the item mall that the hacker bought alot of tiger scrolls in 2011. I bought global chats and send a message to everyone if some1 could help me. One guy added me he was level 134. He saud the game was dead and the people who play pay litterally thousand of dollars per month to get to level 140. He said to start a new account and get to lvl 140 can take about 7 years of botting. I still had a gold dragonflag and that was worth about 20bil(wat was nothing the guy told me). I had my old feeling back for around 20minuts and i logged of. Hurted me alot because the game was the best time ive ever had until to many botters and turkish players who couldnt talk english at all. Rip joymax.

[@dungta6627]

I stopped playing because someone hacked my account and stole all my gears. Had a sun + 12 that's shines beautifully. Was a good change and stop playing cause I was botting constantly to catch up.

[@eam2564]

This game is a materpiece, best MMORPG i ever played by far... I still have so many good memories about it That soundtrack man its so beautiful I wish I was 12 years old again to relive all this lol

[@domedsky]

I have this same thought far too often lol

[@AirbusCMAs]

I really enjoyed the video. :D thanks for your effort! Glad to see proper silkroad content these days.

[@Berkay-xl4hu]

first time watching an English video on Silkroad :) Keep it up, it was fun. Silkroad is one of the most beautiful games ever made. Its skill animations are still unmatched. For people looking for a real game rather than an idle one, the Origin Online pserver is pretty legit.

[@DOTEX143]

im still a kid. im 14 years old. but when i was little i was watching my dad play it and i wanna play it now. even if its old

[@DOTEX143]

and thank u for helping

[@michaellk2254]

Holy shit hearing the intro music makes me want to give it another shot. Maybe only on a pserver since I can't imagine playing for a decade only to level up once.

[@alkamiststar3448]

Beautifully reviewed., huge thanks for the heads up on Private Servers! I'll defeinitely be hoping back into Silkroad. Played for years as JubileeStar and had a top guild but nothing compares to the job system. Thieves for life.

[@MrTadas21]

very nice and funny review! Remembered my childhood :) i hated the leveling mechanics and especially skill point issue. However, I always loved how it looked and how cool the fighting seem to be !

[@nobodielsebutme]

Do you know what game similar to silkroad with massive player?im been searching

[@MrTadas21]

@@nobodielsebutme probably WoW

[@andrewche4566]

@@nobodielsebutme cerberus online

[@claydavis8924]

growing up with silkroad online and grinding for years only to have my whole shit hacked and stolen during an exploit when i was not playing anymore was the nail in the coffin.. this video explains almost everything bad and good about SRO. the unreasonable grind the scummy company named joymax nickel and diming you to no ends. the gold bots... the 24/7 botting just to get 1 level in 4 weeks in cap 100+ etc.. looking back its a mixed bag for me, on 1 hand this is the most fun i had in any game ever. but on the other hand it was just an unhealthy obsession with the biggest PAY2WIN game of the 2000s.. so nostalgic but also so much wasted time... this shit would have never been ok nowdays. no way JOYMAX could pull this off in now.

[@raicubogdan8078]

hey man, this video is great! i'd totally love seeing more like this from you

[@MrFrostyBawlz]

solid content, happy to see some love for sro after soooo much time. Il see you on the private servers

[@Heyitdave]

This is nostalgic as fuck. I never played silk road but I always saw ads for it. This is the era of Gunz: the duel. Good times. Good times. Now we're 30+

[@MarkieBee]

Bro this was spot on 10/10 loved every sec of it! Likes and favorited.

[@KnomadJ9]

Came back to this game..the nostaligia is something else. Honestly enjoying the game a little again. Ahead of its time imo.

[@nomaschalupas2453]

Ever since they changed to the new silk road I quit and never went back. Used to be so much fun teaming up to make a trading run. Or going out hunting for thieves. I wasn’t never as immersed as then. Whenever we got a simple SOS gear it would amazing because not everyone started with one like now. It was a rare sight to see glowing weapons but when I quit everyone had full sos or som gear. It turned into a micro transaction mobile game. Actually that was the first experience I had like that and now it’s normal….sad.

[@alcinkaya]

Great stuff! Came back to the game after years when I watched your video

[@richardofbajon1896]

First ever mmo game, I have never forget the party farming together: everybody started the sbot and then we talked for hours watching how the sbot plays instead of us. Best socializing game ever.

[@danroemer1667]

What a legend. Put out one (incredible) video from one of my childhood classic games and dipped. Bravo.

[@Geenom]

This video is a marvelous piece of art. Played this game many years ago, this game imbues me with a sparkling life force! The sounds, the atmosphere, the characters` skills of war! It's like playing poetry with ups and downs, and a ride beyond & all around!

[@yungrich6188]

thank you for helping me rediscover a part of my childhood

[@Khalid-bz5ef]

Oh man, my childhood memories! fantastic video man I loved it

[@thomasemil8909]

dude props for the quality of the video keep it up, i wish to see more videos from you

[@batata7942]

Love this game so much but imagine a remake of this game

[@hoanglinhle4468]

- They do made Silkroad 2, but they remove all the fun from the game.

[@Berkay-xl4hu]

Imo, the game still looks good with fancy animations and effects. Maybe a tad bit of modeling would help but it shouldn't take away from the original feeling.

[@ufukklc2391]

It would be amazing. There are so many good things about this game. Trader/thief system, decent music, decent artwork and style, unique system... But there should be so many upgrades that I think it might be and up being a different game with a different feel. Silkroad is Silkroad because of both the good and the bad things together.

[@Maebbie]

great review, I actually made some a build on guild wars 2 that resembles the glaive/spear playstyle from sro cause sro would be such a grind to pick up again.

[@PyroNexus22]

Great review! This channel deserves more subs!

[@HyuugaCharlie]

the video started off a bit rough, but got better with the jokes and especially the vocal delivery picked up with enthusiasm which made for easier listening, but the audio clips you play over the top sometimes make ithard to hear one or the other. either way thanks for the vid

[@exiiesaid8004]

This was a great video, please do more!

[@ruled216]

literaly... good old days, as we all know. OLD BUT GOLD! too amny memories about this epic-underrated game. jobing, fortress war, PK, raid, boss hunt, pvp and guild war!

[@khznator]

Dude this is gold! laughed my ass off nice video well put and fcking accurate! Im glad to hear that someone from outside of turkey or middle east actually played the game and knows so much from the og days. Have a Sub!

[@OramWerd]

Holy crap, i wish i would have found this video 2 years ago. This is my EXACT experience with SRO. I mean to a T. I might as well have made this video. This is awesome. Well made.

[@hoketero]

Very nice video, i really enjoyed, funny and full of good memories. Do more please

[@tor6916]

couldn't have said it better myself, beautiful video

[@fair09]

I've lost so many friends that one day, they never log back in the game :(

[@ryannguyen7466]

Still remembered how back in 2006~2007 I quit the game for a month because I fail to up my 64 SUN spears to +9.

[@milmoas]

I always go back to this video if I want to smile. Thank you for making this.

[@JohnOethGuitar]

This video really brought me back. Thanks for the vid!

[@timothyjackson5897]

Entertaining video. Keep up making videos!

[@lizzmeister1]

I have rarely laughed so hard. Please do some other vids. Used to play this years ago. Grinded to lvl 70 or so. The Grind was REAL

[@poteznywarmianin5840]

That's one of the best sro videos i've seen since 2005 XD. I laughed my ass off xD thank you :D!

[@Guuuzi]

Na jakim serwerze grałeś? :)

[@poteznywarmianin5840]

@@Guuuzi Wszędzie xD, teraz Merv online, 80cap bez botów xd

[@Guuuzi]

@@poteznywarmianin5840 swego czasu więcej czasu poświęcałem na współtworzenie strony i forum o grze niż samo granie, ale i tak nostalgia uderzyła 😀

[@poteznywarmianin5840]

@@Guuuzi jaki nick na forum xD

[@Guuuzi]

Zależy o które pytasz, bo były dwa konkurencyjne 😀

[@Kendo506]

I loved this game so much. I forget the classes but I remember sitting it certain areas selling buffs to others.

[@waterhot80]

I played this waaay back in the day. Never got super high level but I remember grinding for hooouuurrss in that jungle area killing the tigers etc. Man what a waste of time that was, thankfully I've matured a lot since then, but hey it was fun! I think what killed the game for me was when they brought out the Europe expansion thing.. I didn't really understand the point of it and the game just got sh1t from then on. A shame, really. I did like the PvP aspect with taking the goods to another town, that was really cool. I was crap at it and got attacked by Thieves but it was fun! edit: Is the whole Trader vs Thief thing a thing on some of these private servers, as well? As if it's like instant max-level and you can pretty much jump right into PvP, I might be interested to revisit that side of the game again...

[@drysrsaleh]

ah man T_T ...1st time i played this game i think it was 2007 or 2006 ? ...RedSea server ....Chinese cap 80 only ...the Fortress war was SO crazy when it came T_T .....good times ...ur video made me so happy #nostalgia

[@2LiveRyan]

Same here bro that was my first server

[@vicenteviloria452]

Alright I watched it and I have already downloaded it to play it again!! Dang I’m old I used to play SR with my friends lmao! Don’t really know if I should play the original or the private server ( Genesis ) any recommendation ???

[@rrc6094]

damn bro, this is the best review I've seen so far. I'm always curious how is the iSro now and how does level max on that original server look like with the skills and all. Anyway, screw the system they made, all they want is money from their players now.

[@SofienLetaief]

Happy to see i m not the only one who have some good memory in this Game =)

[@635d5]

Good old times. Remember hand grinding to lvl64 just to use 64sun glavie +7. What a good memories. Way back in early 2000's

[@garinpeyro]

man this is your only video but... it brought back so many memories. i played on a off on several private servers since 2008 I played since the 80 level cap on the original game. i never found anything like it. the music was so good and its so nostalgic to hear now. are you still playing? i wonder if there is a good server now. i loved the PVP

[@edunew19]

The problem to play this game at the time had to pay a bot to play for you, impossible to level up after level 70 playing by yourself. But I have so many good memories of this game anyway.

[@batmansolosfictions]

The game died after the jupiter update. A lot of people say that Alexanderia update killed it but actually that was the last good update since having one seal (nova) made the gap between players not huge

[@amrahmed276]

bro we need more videos like this, i'm watching this almost every day :D how true every thing you said xD

[@exiliumonline]

This video's hilarious 😂 I also played Retro Fire- tons of fun!

[@jerry_bambino7686]

If the Bots where integreated in the base game it would actually make it better. And only 3 chars per IP

[@SuperLocness]

I loved messing with the market price of weapon elixirs 😂

[@lucasm4194]

This game was such a huge part of my childhood, it was so amazing with sooo much potential , i played it for years . The bots and the farmers absolutely destroyed the game, to the point where all you see is bots with only a few real humans in the pvp areas. Which pvp is another issue, theres no lower level pvp, either your max level with everything Egy B maxes SoS , or you dont go to the pvp area

[@domedsky]

earlier versions of the game weren't like that

[@ufukklc2391]

Vertical game desing. You are nothing unless you are max level. The Elder Scrolls Online has a very good horizontal game desing where you can play with a max level player and still be useful, you can still do dungeons together and have some fun

[@abdallahibrahim3864]

I am still in shock at the fact that you have wait long hours or pay money to log in. That’s blows my mind

[@mazdysoraya6121]

Man that was grind. I remember a girl that was strongest on the server with best weapon.

[@Vanski]

Some quality content here 😆, keep going

[@Chiefmar]

wow 10/10 great vid man had me laughing the whole time. Are you pretty active on retro sro still? im thinking about downloading it

[@LucasOliveira-db5fq]

Thanks for this video. Do you recommend any private server??

[@Flyhenya]

alright im convinced to start back up again.

[@pavelsavelev2560]

this was on spot brother !!!

[@gerritjakobi]

Great video, funny script and editing 💯

[@dd.d249]

Great video, the script is really good :)

[@Marwan4EM]

did you write a script for this video narrative it's lovely

[@sebaover2]

Guys.. Is any good playable and sensible private server of this game now??

[@dwclifton11]

I enjoyed every bit of this back in the day, the grind didn't bother me, today games are too easy

[@LambdaWarrior]

What a banger, when's the next video coming?

[@Tony.Nguyen137]

Good old times 2004, used to play on troy and oasis and the first private server

[@JamilThePimpLol]

Awesome review. Only thing holding this video back is your microphone quality. Otherwise the editing and clips are very nice. Good job.

[@omerturgut9469]

hello fellas , Does anyone know a game such as silkroad ? Can anyone recomend me a game who played silkroad before. Im pretty sure they know what im looking for

[@ballayran9321]

I played from 2006 to 2011. No need to tell, we all know how we felt😊 It was strange that your server was like your city. You know everyone you have friends and you are part of the the society there. If you go to another server you are totally stranger. I had soo nice friends and spent nice time in the game.

[@nadiposzata17]

underrated video! :D thank you!

[@mrdeepccreep]

I played this game for around 10 years too, I started since Legend 1 my life was cantered around it I have even wrote a Bot that makes sure that my SBot is always running xD a lot of memories, I still have my accounts , Hercules server, they are all around lv110 but I don’t play anymore

[@Snoop1195]

i never commend on anything, but because of the memorys of the game and the work you put in i gotta tell you, get a better Mic and it would have beend a fantastic video, you realy did a great job!! But the sound is so lack luster. keep going, you have something )

[@JDiles1994]

Any XP Rates over 10x just feel like TOO much. You just have to skip quests at that point

[@jwpipes47]

This is so fucking accurate hahaha. I just miss the music so much. I loved fighting the creatures on the Chinese side near the river, especially in the rain.

[@damasterpiece08]

i've never played silkroad but great video :D

[@JuniorKoreiaa]

Do you know if there is a silkroad forum? I really wanted a rework of the game, with updated graphics and without pay2win, but I know that Joymax sold the game, and not if the owner or someone behind it is thinking of bringing a rework of silkroad, silkroad it's an mmo that beats in many mmorpgs that exist today.

[@mrmartin2151]

The game content is just about enough to be perfect 👌 I still play private servers up to this day

[@MuhammadHosny0]

The remake was shit. The game is fine as it is. Tens of thousands still play it. though it's not for me anymore

[@Heretic911G]

To this day I've never seen better animations for skills in any game. No stupid semi-teleporting skills like in most games.

[@kd6gs]

Elegant and beautiful animations

[@sslune]

This game was outstanding when it was released... way better than most of the rpg out there. The problem is that they didn't know how to maintain the hype and started to add shit (like European classes) instead of improving graphics or improving/adding skills, attacks, animations... Thanks for the video sir, it was a pleasure to watch it

[@michaellk2254]

God I loved this game so much. I know going back would absolutely suck my soul away even though I've never gotten past level 65. But goodness gracious. The gridning in this game is dangerously unhealthy, to the point that it's not even worth playing.

[@elisecarry7074]

Yo i never got to play that game .. but my old brothers keeps talking about it can you explain how the grind is so bad if possiple?

[@Stunnzu]

@@elisecarry7074 all you do is kill the same npcs all day long. Not fun

[@2LiveRyan]

80/90/120/130 Caps were the best . What does everyone else think?

[@i_am_the_monkey_king]

Lots of memories playing this game. I started from official server as well, but the grind was too much after reaching Lv.60. My main was a Eu/2HWarrior/Cleric. I had to quit cuz it was taking too much of my time to make a small progress. I didn't want to get banned from using bots, so I went out and just played private server SRO. 😂 Now, I just play the game whenever I want to reminisce and scratch that nostalgia off my back. Fun game, ruined by mundane grind system and nonexistent story.

[@ballayran9321]

I can’t believe that i was dying when my account was hacked and my seal of moon +11 shield was stolen😅 now everything is so easy. I played the game for 5 years and never had a chance to play with these items in the video

[@ghfsdasd]

I remember doing 300+ traps for the spirit 😂 with 1min cd, thats was painfull

[@iras4402]

Damn had love that Game Server Eldorado

[@mangekyusharingan88]

SRO the good old days 7th~8th degree is the best! ❤️