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

[@TalykStudios]

Is it just nostalgia? Or did these games have something that made them special? 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, Eden Eternal, Dragon Nest. (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 😂 )

[@sAiTeK45]

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?

[@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

[@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.

[@subaruway7386]

Silkroad online, still the best MMO till this day

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@coltgad4411]

Silkroad Online is the best i play it since my childhood

[@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!

[@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?

[@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

[@nguyentrunguc9718]

Me too, though I only played Vietnam server. PW will always take a special place in my gaming love. Hope that the game will last as long as possible so I can visit and see its progression once a while.

[@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

[@anduynu]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@iljun3089]

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

[@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..

[@thomasrodinel]

Mine would be Darkon Battle music 😅

[@leedavid09]

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

[@Jaxiedits]

real

[@TriaMoonlily]

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

[@GameEmpire10000]

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

[@xDrac]

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

[@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!!

[@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.

[@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 :)

[@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 ;)

[@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...

[@ItsSacredG]

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

[@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 ^^

[@joshdillon8857]

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

[@MedioCore]

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

[@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.....

[@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.

[@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 😭

[@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

[@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)

[@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

[@Sulto_]

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

[@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 😭

[@markusmarkus6580]

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

[@mrreza6868]

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

[@uhavemooface]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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 😭🙏

[@rchernandez6891]

Silkoad / Aion

[@markil21]

still have that orginal aion metal cd box :3

[@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.

[@baskomnasi]

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

[@BokuWaHikikomori]

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

[@TheSkyCaLL]

Dragonica, Rappelz, Dragon Nest, Grand Fantasia

[@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 🥲

[@Br666d]

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

[@triplecsec]

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

[@Sone418]

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

[@zezoeg]

Silk road and Perfect world

[@Orichalchoes]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@Gtneff]

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

[@Ernissan]

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

[@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. ^^

[@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.

[@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 😢

[@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 ^^

[@Freshmaker420]

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

[@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 ^^

[@blitzer921]

I loved Aion back in the day, bought it the moment it launched. I was a diehard WoW player back then but fell in love with Aion so much that it was the only game I played for a good year.

[@Arccai]

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

[@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....

[@williamshon1146]

Silkroad and Cabal was one of my childhood games

[@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

[@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)

[@maslofet]

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

[@AlexGorskov]

yeah, great game

[@Megaman8880]

Silkroad, KalOnline, LegendOfAres, Cabal, and 12Sky were all my favorite games.

[@xMortalBlade]

cabal online had some of the best songs imo

[@beating2]

I once reached max level in Silkroad back in a day took over a year. Best mmo ever played. simple but yet addictive and hunter thief was my favorite activity.

[@1stRuby]

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

[@JimbroQc]

Cabal was so damn gooood !!!

[@joe-wi8nj]

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

[@stoissdk]

Top question. Which one of these games are still playable and worth getting into?

[@TalykStudios]

So all of the games are still playable - I booted them all up again to get the footage. It was really fun, some of the games I spent a couple of weeks playing. But I feel the age of "Ima put 20k hours into this MMO for the next 5 years" has passed, at least for me. However, the most active seemed to be: Old School Runescape - Heroes never die 😂 Silkroad - Hundreds of private servers that are populated for around 1 year. It's like a seasonal nostalgia gold rush. Short lived, but super fun! GunZ - Small selection of private servers, but still workin well. Mostly pros left playing though, so don't advise it unless you've got some old GunZ muscle memory. Tera & Aion - People still boot up these games for the the first time in this here 2021, so they still get active interest. Can't speak for how much longer they will be around though. Commenters said that Metin 2 & Lineage 2 (ofc) are still pretty active, which I imagine is true since they are two big MMO names and absolute classics. If you want my next-gen MMO recommendation to check out, it would be Ashes of Creation. Big goals, great team of MMO players including the CEO, self & community funded - Lets hope it comes to life :D!

[@saltyrice821]

@@TalykStudios so perfect world pretty much dead then :'(

[@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

[@yancesar3961]

Lineage II and Tibia the most epic and legendary MMORPGs!

[@TalykStudios]

AHH! Tibia! It's been SO long since I heard that name

[@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...

[@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.

[@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

[@JayTohab]

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

[@gaijinbeats]

played them all but my main games were Dekaron and Gunz . I remember going to a dekaron booth at game show with a friend and I was testing out the new BAGI class talking with the devs , told them my in game name and they all knew me and my friend lol Those were the best days ^^

[@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

[@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

[@kurosakii89]

ahh man the nostalgia of the games hollyy shit alot of these where atleast a part of me when growing up

[@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

[@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.

[@jakehenry3127]

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

[@yessirskis]

Silkroad, Runescape and Cabal were the ones I played. good times!!!

[@phatpingu]

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

[@gunplajm1108]

Silkroad and gunbound will always have a special place in my heart.