Worst MMO Ever? - Sherwood Dungeon

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Sometimes, the past should stay in the past.
I never played this as a kid, so I haven't ruined any old memories, I've just created terrible new ones.
Strangely despite being called Sherwood, there are surprisingly few references to Robin Hood.
Thanks as usual to all the supporters on Patreon, KZbin and Twitch x

[@LK_Conan]

Yes! Man taking me back to being 10 years old , not knowing english and having a blast together with my younger brother smacking some spiders together

[@mr_dher]

Yes brother, same experience, not knowing English, but having a blast with this game.

[@SethJV]

Exactly the same but alone or with a friend!

[@flowerbomb1907]

Yes

[@paulgutschow907]

same for me. the nostalgia

[@asdergold1]

Same

[@TheTinyTimmyTimTim]

This was the only mmo I could play as a child in an impoverished household because the game didn’t log you out when you lost internet connection. I’d step outside with my laptop and steal my neighbors wifi to log in, then go back inside and just roam the empty world lol. I always appreciated it for that.

[@commandconquer5338]

Are you crazy? You had a laptop in those times means you had rich parents and wifi, what are you even on about?!

[@IdiotSandwich-yp2ke]

@@commandconquer5338you don’t know when this happened you don’t know there age so you don’t know when there where a child you know nothing of who they are yet you say what they could and could not affford

[@nekoslayer4274]

@@IdiotSandwich-yp2ke are you okay? do you have a stroke while typing this?

[@bldontmatter5319]

​@@IdiotSandwich-yp2keoh PLEASE Americans have it so easy! Stop defending this nonsense and jumping to people's aid just to look morally superior! A LAPTOP pre 2015 was EXPENSIVE

[@AlphaOmega1237]

@@commandconquer5338 He explicitly said that he had to steal the neighbors' wifi, which means his family didn't have an internet connection. That's not rich, buddy.

[@DrFrenchfries]

My personal favorite thing i did in this game as a kid is something i call "unicorn herding". Theres an area in the game with unicorns that only attack if you hit first, and i liked going there most of all because i loved unicorns as a kid. Eventually i realised that they follow you around, so i would gather herds of them and get them to follow me all around the map.

[@SnowBunneh]

That sounds adorable :3

[@przytulmisiaka5749]

Omg me too! 🥺

[@whattheheck8979]

This game was my first introduction to seeing an "alive" RPG, there used to be so many players and it was an exhilarating experience as a kid, especially coming from games like Active Worlds, Gaia Online, and Battleon. I owe it to browser games to carry my love of gaming, my family was not the type to pay for game subscriptions.

[@NeurosisOsmosis]

Gaia online is a game?

[@whattheheck8979]

@@NeurosisOsmosis Yes, I guess it's not technically, but it does have virtual worlds and virtual activities that are more game-like. In the same vein, I'd count neopets as a game too.

[@69pepe420]

exactly

[@Omnibushido-]

This game was what I would play when I would go over to my grandmas house in an attempt to sate my crippling WoW addiction. Maid Marian games made my childhood just as much as WoW did, though. I remember Marian’s World, mostly a chat hang out for teens, and there used to be full-on cliques with tooons of drama lol. Sherwood Dungeon was definitely made up of friendly people for the most part though, it was clunky but so much fun.

[@Ketsune-ep1me]

Wow, never knew Gaia Online would still be talked about. Miss the old days.

[@thefreshestdoug]

Damn Josh hitting me with the ‘oh shoot your parents turned your old room into a sex dungeon’ within the first 60 seconds is, indeed, ‘audience retention’ at its finest.

[@hannahalexy]

My parents turned my old room into a TV room with a 100 inch tv on the wall, even though it's a pretty small room. I had to move back a few months ago at 27. So now I have a 100 inch tv on my wall 😂

[@jeremytitus9519]

@@hannahalexyyour bedroom is now your home theatre. Nice.

[@gavinpowell4607]

@@hannahalexy On your parent's wall*

[@sunnyhvar1992]

OH, IS THAT WHAT THAT MEANT 😭 ...now that you say it, it makes sense, but I didn't catch it at first 😭

[@tofu666]

bitching about BDSM? I now serioulsy doubt Josh's Britishness

[@MattHatter360]

I started playing this game when I was 5, the only thing I could say in English was "follow me" because my mum taught me. I would make other players follow me because it was the only way to kill the big blue spiders back in the first version of the game. This game is not just my childhood, it's the reason I love RPGs and have learned English.

[@vuton7670]

Follow me

[@innocentperson2232]

same

[@matheusoliveira2743]

same brotha

[@realdragon]

I remember when I got my mom to help me playing it because I got lost in dungeon

[@mBossX]

i have ptsd of spiders because of the big blue spiders in sherwood dungeon

[@RallyFumo]

Fun glitch from back in the day for this game: if you hold the block button, (im guessing) it still logs damage dealt from you to the enemy but doesnt apply it, but will apply all the stored damage on your next hit. So to beat high level mobs or bosses you could just hold block and safely ignore all enemy damage for several minutes then attack them once and apply all that damage at once.

[@masterroshiofthekamehouse3080]

This was top tier tech in pvp

[@RallyFumo]

@@masterroshiofthekamehouse3080 I remember dunking on high ranking, popular players using this it was so funny

[@sefisyara5961]

Didn't know that one, but speaking of glitches, I remember that you could somehow get behind one of the portals in the castle of the main city. It was useless, but like you know, 9 year old me thought it was super neat I could see everyone and they couldn't see me. Also, sometimes I would meet someone there and we would just hang out there.

[@DiggitySlice]

​@@sefisyara5961sounds like the start of a beautiful friendship

[@Cynsham]

@@sefisyara5961 I remember glitching to stand on top of the portals and get behind them too, as well as how people found out how to get on the dragon statue in the courtyard. Lol funny memories from long ago

[@Your2ndPlanB]

Those dungeons are always what I imagine when reading "house of leaves". Something about the gloom, repetition, the spiral staircase, the feeling like they go on endlessly.

[@DrFrenchfries]

They used to really creep me out as a kid, i rarely went in

[@franmanlemon]

my favorite part of house of leaves was when the navidsons fought the same giant spider 40 times

[@crucial5654]

Josh just unlocked a crazy memory. I vividly remember (around the ages of 8-10) logging into the game every month or so, walking around being confused as hell as to what I was even supposed to do, get completely destroyed by random mobs and logging out. I always came back because I was either bored or because I wanted to admire other people's cool armors and cool mounts.

[@Roczen24]

Bro thats crazy because we most likely saw eachother in-game at one point, i had almost the exact same experience as you as a child. I BARELY remember it, and only did when i kept saying sherwood over in my head after seeing this video and recognizing the knight type characters/graphics. I dont remember doing anything other than running around, 0 progression. I think i only played it a handful of times before probably moving onto runescape on my grandmas PC or some shi

[@quinn3334]

this is the way it was meant to be played

[@ttrqs]

ong

[@Invuska]

This is pretty much the same memory I have of it that has been unearthed from the deepest crevices of my brain. So much so that I was like “wait, is this *that* game?” in slight disbelief and suspicion then proceed to have more and more familiar bits of the game pop up affirming that it is. And not knowing what on Earth to do was a huge mood. I just randomly kept getting destroyed without any clue of wtf was going on. Also, holy f* when he said Maid Marian

[@BlackYoshiPlays]

Dude same! Except I was a little younger maybe like 5 or 7? Every now and than I tried to find this game but with no luck. Interesting thing is I recall playing this through a browser way back when.

[@ManateeExpress]

this game was never about the combat to me, it was a weird lil place where everyone was the same shitty knight model and they'd just chat and try to find ways to get to out of bounds areas or discover secrets, spread rumors, etc It was like, a school playground, people had their lil groups, made their own fun, etc. This is NOTHING like what I remember, but still recognizable enough to know it was once the game I played way back when, very odd.

[@charlesflum6403]

Very accurate

[@zekulir6419]

Helped me get better grades in German in school cause online people would teach me some while we hit things. Good times.

[@95keat]

I think it was a lot of peoples first experience with Internet anonymity and that's why they kept coming back.

[@Plexiscore]

Yeah, I remember walking on walls and eventually getting out of bounds

[@Cynsham]

Yeah, finding the ways to glitch on top of portals and statues and getting on top of the castle were fun

[@Terminarch]

Oh hell yeah I remember finding Maid Marian as a kid. Played this one for a just few minutes, but that low gravity moon thing held my attention and imagination for a decent while. Didn't care to interact with anyone but I was one of those elite few who could consistently land on the moon lol

[@lightbombs]

On earth*

[@MrPainisCupcake]

I remember being super frustrated with my progress not being saved so I made my very first internet account in this game. I was so paranoid about losing my login details that I scribbled them with a permanent marker on the wooden trunk we had by the household PC. It was probably the first MMO I ever played, one of the first places where I ever interacted with other people online in a live format, not knowing any English. If anything, this game has provided me with those opportunities and memories to cherish for as long as I can.

[@TheAtemAndrew]

Ah, the weird skeletons, the glowing weapons, those slightly articulated spiders... plenty of memories. Memories of those specific things and, really, nothing else.

[@Cynsham]

I remember having the rainbow colored weapons and thinking I was the hottest shit in the game

[@JK-nj3bt]

​@@Cynsham black/red were much more badass

[@Cynsham]

@@JK-nj3bt I don't even remember what those were called but those were cool

[@JK-nj3bt]

@@Cynsham i believe Darkblood or something

[@w83official]

it's the helmet's for me with the big winged ears

[@master1e]

The Devs also made a social game called "MoonBase", which is pretty much the same as their other one but set on the moon. Every now and then I'll remember it exists and be hit with a wave of nostalgia

[@gregallan4291]

I remember having so much fun playing Moonbase driving the janky physics-based moon buggies and using the jetpack to get onto the tiny sized Earth xD

[@spaceincorporated8858]

I played the shit of that game in computer class in like 2007. Glad I'm not the only one that remembers lol nobody i've ever asked about it irl has ever heard of it

[@redchief94]

@master1e I was about to comment asking about the moon game. I can't believe this game aged so poorly.

[@keyofdoornarutorscat]

I figured out if you use the jetpack long enough you can glitch through the earth and be inside it

[@SurrealLumberJack]

@@gregallan4291 Real OGs remember that if you flew high enough into the sky and dropped all the way down back onto the tiny earth. You would clip into the Earth.

[@Extramrdo]

I remember when attack was "hold shift." My freewebs page had a "combo list" you could do in this game, none of which were actual combos, but just right animation cancellations of the two attacks. Half of the game was forcing your browser to lag (by scrolling the window) so that the lag compensation would warp you through walls. You didn't have jump, but you'd use the lag tech to speed enough to walk forward over the edge of a railing. You could climb all the way up those bronze towers in the main world, on their railings alone.

[@fossil98]

Yeah I remember the *extremely* basic version. Glad theyve kept the 'hold W&S to dance' feature haha

[@Proxy674]

This game… oh my god. I forgot the name years ago and occasionally think of it so fondly. I was probably 8 when I played, so I had absolutely no clue what I was doing and just spawned, fought people, died, went back to RuneScape, died there, and repeat.

[@exlon9267]

This video literally just unlocked some hidden memories in the back of my head. It is actually crazy that i remember playing this as a child yet nothing about it

[@Notdisputed]

same

[@echotrash466]

As young kid in the past, I downloaded this game, and all I remember doing is that I was in a grassy area, on a path with maybe a few trees in view, and there were at the very least 8 other people around me. There was also some type of building with a really big walk way into a town. It was weird that I can remember that. I don't really know if I actually played too much of the game or not.

[@mondoclaus]

same man. I think about this game from time to time but i completely forgot what it was called

[@DrArku]

Thought I'd never heard of this before but I recall playing it, now that I've seen the gameplay. Don't remember it being this shit, though. Guess we needed way less to be entertained back then.

[@luigi55125]

Same, but I do remember specifically playing as the skeleton character, but not much else lol.

[@captaincardigan1857]

This feels like a fever dream. 11 year old me used to play this game for a good while, albeit I never really knew what tf to do besides throwing myself headlong into a dungeon and grind out the same enemies for levels. Seeing this once again reawakened a lot of it and it’s very much just surreal on the fact I’m seeing it

[@henotic.essence]

Yeees I'm so glad someone else just ran around and fought thru dungeons not understanding the entire goal 😭🙏❤️

[@realdragon]

You could go on a boat and shoot enemies with bow as you go around. Then you watch their futile attempt at chasing you

[@Cynsham]

I remember having the rainbow colored weapons and feeling like the coolest person on the game

[@tobyeasterbrook8117]

Reusing assets happened for flash games tbh. I used to be big into Strike Force Heroes when I was a kid, and played through the third game many times. Once, playing the first game for the first time after many hours of the third game, I was trying a map for the very first time, and in the first round did some tight and well-practiced maneuvering purely on instinct. It took me a good five minutes to work out that I had in fact played many hours on that map before. They'd completely reskinned the map to the point where it was unrecognizable, but all the platform locations were the same, and somehow I'd unconsciously picked up on it despite the change of scenery completely fooling me. I had to look up screengrabs of the respective maps before I finally believed what my muscle memory already knew. They also used the same map with a reskin in the second game. Words really can't describe how trippy it is to try out a brand new map in an unplayed game and out of the blue immediately know the optimal strategies.

[@AtomicSleuths]

There was always something truly charming about how simple this game was. It felt more like a community of friends back in the day since it was really the same few hundred players every day lmao

[@DoctorZombo]

Tankball and Moonbase Alpha were the best parts of that website, but this was actually a great way to spend lazy afternoons as a kid back in 2004. Back then it was much much much more barebones than this, but being able to play a 3D interactive online game straight from your browser was mindblowing

[@ironeleven]

Oh man I remember tankball. Had a friend hop on using his crappy dial-up connection and he was invincible because enemy projectiles just didn't show up on our end.

[@celestialsylveon6453]

Tankball was a lot of fun, and I remember getting pretty good at it! Moonbase Alpha had some cool secrets that weren't intentional, like flying to the moon or sun or earth or which ever it was, you had to really carefully control your jetpack to land on it and then I would brag I'm here and ask people to try and get there xD I also remember the moon car having hilarious physics

[@waffielz3106]

@@celestialsylveon6453 wtf i've only ever got to the earth, never the sun

[@Evanz111]

aeiou

[@celestialsylveon6453]

@@waffielz3106 It might've been the earth, idr

[@Wollus]

Ah yes, I remember Sherwood Dungeon. Who could forget that iconic helmet?

[@NintenJon2023]

All the cool gamers wore that helmet with the two wings and glowing eyes. 😎

[@Wollus]

@@NintenJon2023 He looks so cool and so powerful and so... "Presses W + S" I take it all back.

[@ravishbhasin7041]

it was also there in classic, that had been the basic helm. Rest were all added in

[@kevinmadcock8999]

You know what, I don't usually sub to channels or like videos. But this hit me special. Not just you doing the video, but both the fact you show RESPECT for what it WAS, and don't hold back to critique it as well, that's special. Have a sub.

[@daddyshrek2295]

omg this game, been playing this for 15 years, i never expected you to review it xD fun fact, while the game still ran through shockwave 3D or flash, the ship in the starting area actually sailed around the island and people would have PVP battles for the control of the ship, it was actually quite fun then when they switched engines, the ship broke and now it never moves anymore

[@danny99000l]

15 years? What have you been doing there all this time?

[@daddyshrek2295]

salmonella

[@serhan8047]

@@daddyshrek2295thanks for explaining i remember years ago writing an email when the ship broke they never responded to it 💀

[@serhan8047]

@@daddyshrek2295also do u remember those pilars on the way to the boat we could stand on

[@ravishbhasin7041]

game more or less died after putting the ship slowly, real battles were the King of hill battles on top of the highest tower. Everyone would clump up there to battle for supermacy over tower. Back then game had ALOT of players and there wasn't shitty talismans. You could see one man one shotting 4-5 people in one go after consistent blocking. those were the days.

[@mrjellyfish6406]

Oh man. This is a blast from the past. I played this game in it's earliest versions. Back in the early 00s they didn't have all those portals or even multiple characters to choose from. You were just the knight and you went into a dungeon collecting loot. Then they added the portals, then the multiple character models, then full on quests.

[@erubianwarlord8208]

and anything with an elemental affinity looked like it was made of pure colored crystal

[@cosmicwonderer6269]

YES! I was scrolling the comments to see if it was the game I remember as it looked so similar but no knight starting iron and the single dungeon everyone was running in and out of. Used to play it at the library as a kid lmao

[@loquendo5056XD20]

all I remember is it wasn't that much of an RPG? I just wandered around with a few other players and hanging out. Wasn't there some way to get to the moon?

[@erubianwarlord8208]

@@loquendo5056XD20 not in the old version but the same dev had a moon based hangout 'game'

[@T4IN]

@@erubianwarlord8208I remember that game and if I’m correct Sherwood when it first came out was just mainly pvp based on what color you picked

[@gamermagazin3116]

19:11 In the old times i played on a game version where the ship circled around the island. As a 7 year old it was fun rolaplaying a priate and just go around the map again and again. It was cool af.

[@stachwel5547]

Yes! There were always tons of people on the ship dancing or fighting, sometimes both. I remember running for the ship with a group of people I knew only in this game and one guy was too slow and fell into the water. Probably one of my most random memories, but I still love it.

[@V4rya]

I played Moonbase, Club Marian, Sherwood AND Runescape. Club marian was SUCH a specific vibe, i loved it

[@blastroisehunt6546]

Don’t lie you had cyber sxx in club Marian, didn’t you

[@ravishbhasin7041]

As someone who played from Sherwood Classic, where there was no dungeon...just persistent world with pvp where everyone fought for so-called honor and only way to get a leg-up in the game was combos which were basically a sort of bug that was exploited by players to hit multiple times in short span. Then came Dungeon, I powerleveled to 150+ level when there wasn't anything you can really do with that except for flexing in lower level dungeons, I just used to go to level 6 which was overfilled usually to flex. Only way to get leg up in PVP had changed and now there are NO combos, there was just blocking. Blocking mechanics were different, you had understand when to hit so your damage goes through and when to block. Your block actually doubled the power of your hit and it could be stacked, which basically meant I could block 4 attacks coming from 4 people surrounding me and then KO them all in 1 hit if I manage to hit near their hitbox. Veterans understood blocking mechanics, noobs didn't...that marked the difference. Then came amulets but it wasn't too different until recently, they seem to have changed block mechanics, added useless buildings, ruined the ambience...ruined the look, everything feels so misalinged and honestly its outdated as F. When I went back, there was honestly nothing keeping me. Only pull towards the game was actually players, sadly that part of game has been utterly overlooked. There were huge backstories and lores generated by player, their clan wars, literal server shattering clan wars, Hackers causing room terrorisms by either duplicating themselves a million times or having names bigger than the whole chatboard or creating entire armies of monsters to kill players. It was so fun honestly, because alot of the game was in roleplay, in our heads...since it wasn't a day where games like today which leave very less to imagination had arrived. Alot of the game and its wonderful aspects were never in the game but in our heads. We roleplayed as knights fighting honorable battles, by not potting(using potions) or teaming on someone, loyalty to clan, spying on other clans and their sites, in-game reporting of clan actions, fighting for the title of strongest which I too was once a Legend, There was huge history of clans that were born in classic and worked their way into Sherwood dungeon. I was part of Black warriors, spied for them too and gave alot of information about upcoming battles, fought in many big battles...even after rooms were capped. I 100% understand why people say this was a grand game in past but new players just cant see anything worthy, because most of the stuff was in their heads and their subtle roleplay. I honestly spent alot of time of my childhood in this game, right from the time I had broken arm and had stay home and had nothing to do and no one to talk to...from this game I understood that there is such a thing called Timezone, I learned how many languages there are....I learned to roleplay....I made friends that lasted for a while. It was fun, it was a blast in past. I honestly still remmember it fondly but I do not like what it became.

[@foxyfoxington2651]

I love the way your avatar doesn't hold the weapons, they're just grafted onto the ends of his arms... And the fight animation is basically just punching... So you're walking up to monsters and punching them with your sword-hands. This may be the best thing about the game.

[@oneoranota]

Basically same as real life swordfighting.

[@lisabet_]

Great game, I used my grandma's credit card to rent a horse and roleplayed as it until she found out and kicked the sh#t out of me 10/10

[@johnnymorocco4665]

lmfao

[@ayashi9861]

best comment I see today lmao

[@Sorrelhas]

I once had 50 BRL in savings, bought a game worth 55 with my mom's credit card I didn't get a beating that intense when I bombed in school Credit cards are no laughing matter

[@anannoyedpanda]

That's a kekw from me my friend.

[@TezzyRs]

@@ayashi9861the tyt

[@captione6337]

Thanks for jogging my memory. I used to play Club Marian as a kid and it used to have a car that you can ride on. I spent hours just riding along the map.

[@titusiberian]

I love your series so much and this... I used to play this as a kid without any idea what to do! Love from Catalunya, Barcelona. I truly love your videos and now even more.

[@treesuschrist1782]

Took one look at the thumbnail and got smacked with flashbacks of middleschool computer class. This is, as the professionals say, a "CERTIFIED HOOD CLASSIC".

[@thegamesforreal1673]

Same man, I saw that winged helmet and my brain just had a pseudo-seizure as it loaded up all the memories of playing this in my school library... What a time.

[@nat040496]

Man this takes me back. I used to play so much of this game alongside Adventurequest and Runescape back in the browser gaming days. I swore I was one of the few who had ever heard of this game.

[@SlimeBlueMS]

My entire school played this, it was awesome

[@ximplex1]

You aren't alone in this childhood experience

[@AIopekis]

I'm actually very surprised to see how many other people knew about it as well. I remember playing this _so_ much as a kid. I played a bit of Adventure Quest as well. Not a lot of Runescape though.

[@strechemall]

​@@AIopekisI'm not, back browser games days, this game was lit. It always had high activity

[@belstar1128]

Runescape had worse graphics but much more content then Sherwood dungeon. people would play Sherwood dungeon for the wow like graphics and then quickly came back to runescape because they did everything in Sherwood in a short time. Adventurequest was ok but not a real mmo

[@kadmodir]

That jumping thing must've been either a baked in engine thing, or just a sign of the times it was made, because Both Toontown, And Wizard101 also have entirely cosmetic jump buttons

[@graysongdl]

Well Toontown does have a real jump button, as well as platforming sections that take advantage of it. You might be mixing it up with the "happy" emote that does a little jump animation in place. As far as engines go, this game was made in Shockwave, and Toontown was made in Panda3D.

[@kadmodir]

huh, cool honestly it's been over a decade so i guess i was misremembering, i just remember spamming the jump button on the streets as i walked through and it was pretty much pointless@@graysongdl

[@graysongdl]

@@kadmodir Hmm. If you remember it that clearly, there's a possibility you played some of the REALLY early versions. It always had a functional jump button when I played, but the earliest version I found on Toontown Archive had a cosmetic jump like you're describing. Maybe you just joined really, really early?

[@kadmodir]

probably, i do remember getting excited for a lot of updates that added new boss fights and...fishing for some reason i remember being super hype@@graysongdl

[@WorgenatorWoW]

The elemental effects on the weapons bring back so much nostalgia

[@Davion197]

I preferred the moon chat room thing. Being one of the privileged few who knew how to boost up on the tiny Earth planet was prestigious.

[@Davion197]

@MyLazySundae Hahaha! Yeah, exactly!

[@aceyyyy937]

I wander if there's a version of that available anywhere, or if anyone who sees these comments has the capabilities of bringing it back? I just want to fly to the earth again and hang out haha

[@Tayaressss]

I only remember finding this on absoluflash but that site is long dead

[@Davion197]

@@aceyyyy937 Evidently there's some sort of discord link related to it and they have a copy?...I'm too lazy to go through the effort of it, but its very possible it still exists. Probably not online, but maybe an offline copy.

[@itscatiooo]

yeah it took me like 1000 tries and I had all the time in the world when I was 10 🤣

[@aryantaneja3192]

Holy fucking shit. I had completely forgotten about this game. I spent hours playing it when I was much younger. The thrill of finding good loot inside the dungeon and hoping to make it out alive was the craziest thing

[@Drothen-]

u naughty boy

[@aryantaneja3192]

​@@Drothen-🤨🤨🤨

[@Gerpar_]

Same, it seemed familiar so I looked up some old gameplay, and man did those single colour swords ever hit me with a wave of nostalgia

[@Cupidious]

After everything, the wing flying animation got me. I wonder what I would look like attacking someone while the wings were flapping. Also hilarious that they would have wings for the character but they went with the vertical programming as they did.

[@JohnTheSpaceCoon]

In the classic incarnation of the game, long before the current state SD is in, The boat in Sherwood Castle used to circle the map. I still remember having to fight murder happy Brazilians just to stay on the boat, at times

[@Parallellines0451]

Happy to have been one of them, good times

[@VixYW]

I'm pretty sure the ship actually moves from time to time. Or it used to. People back then used it as a brutal PVP arena where we only attacked each other when it sailed, and whoever was left standing once it made it back to the docks were the winners.

[@tamascsuka]

it doesn't move anymore.Maybe it was when the flash died that stopped it.

[@aaronherediacortes9765]

YEAAAAAH I remember that, I always rushed to get to the ship whenever it stopped, good times

[@realdragon]

I don't remember pvp at all, maybe I was on different server because people got on the ship and talked or just wanted to go around island

[@Odynh]

this was the "we have wow at home" on middle school days, wish i found runescape instead but hey, we all start somewhere

[@FukiFan42]

The ending really resonates with me. I used to play a Robin Hood game called The Legend of Sherwood. I remembered it looking fantastic, sounding fantastic and so I went back to replay it recently and just didn't look or sound anything like I remembered it. The gameplay was still good though.

[@Zellthan]

this game actually had a really developed pvp/clan scene back in its heyday. PVP had some cool tech and whatnot that actually made it engaging. It's a shame that anyone checking out the game nowadays wouldn't be able to experience what was the actual core gameplay, as I'm sure the pvp/clan scene has been long dead now.

[@Xendium]

That sword slashing sound just unlocked some hidden memories. I remember I played this when I was about 10, and found it while browsing flash games. I remember thinking this game was so advanced and so detailed at the time. Oh how wrong I was

[@thegamesforreal1673]

The notepad ending was just the cherry on top of a very fine nostalgic cake! Thx for covering this game, Josh! I wasted countless hours in this as a kid, then I remembered it exists when I turned 22-ish and played it again for about 30 minutes before thinking to myself what the hell I was even doing.

[@NintenJon2023]

Played it earlier this year and felt the same way. 😂 Don’t play it on a 4K TV by the way; you’ll get motion sickness.

[@dankmemes8254]

​@NintenJon2023 my dumpass thought he is gonna type all of the patrons

[@cericat]

@@dankmemes8254That's what scripts are for. Funnily enough I still occasionally see that intro method on newer videos, usually Roblox related. Or they use the game chat and annoy all the other players.

[@gabrielferreira4494]

No Brasil, Sherwood foi uma ótima "válvula de escape" já que aqui, na época possuir um bom setup ou mesmo, poder pagar por um jogo era um sonho bem distante, por isso, opções mais populares de mmorpgs eram sonhos distantes para nós.. creio que, jogos como sherwood, runerscape, grand fantasia, shaiya, até mesmo adventure quest eram boas opções "ao nosso alcance".. Lembro dos servidores lotados, de fazer muito amigos e bons momentos nesse jogo. Creio que no seu principal propósito, ele cumpriu muito bem!

[@renkm8187]

Sim, no fim, a maioria das pessoas nem jogava por causa dos objetivos do jogo em si, mas jogava pra poder interagir com os outros players, formar clãs e ficar dançando por ai enquanto batia papo em um domingo a tarde. Pra época, foi uma boa experiência.

[@LaserPuppies]

Wow, this is very nostalgic. I remember my little brother and I formed a guild for this game around 2008. There was no in-game support for guilds, so we made a WordPress site for our guild and recruited players in game chat. We even got about 30 people to join before we lost interest in the game. This is also the game where I got my first online girlfriend, though she broke up with me an hour later when I told her that i was a girl lol

[@BelelEscabel]

Well, she clearly missed out on something great.

[@devxro]

I remember this game at the height of my childhood and all the funny little guild wars that happened. This game, funnily enough, had a pretty hardcore playerbase that cared for nothing more than pvp and guild wars with the best items they could find in the dungeon. Fun times. 🤣🤣

[@afr0kat680]

really shows how you can make anything fun with the right people

[@sirnunyabuiz6529]

Rip to your first girlfriend, lol.

[@srsly3602]

I also met my first girlfriend on Sherwood dungeon and vividly remember Skyping her when my parents weren’t around and talking about when we could meet up irl

[@xgalex6191]

Good lord this brings me back. I remember logging in when this was one area and a simple castle with a way to get to the top. Then they added a chest, added a dungeon that you could type commands in to teleport, a separate island, pvp exc..exc..

[@casulscrub5978]

This brings back very ancient memories. I remember playing this game trying to find a free mmo to play as a child and I remember being instantly turned off by the controls and the way characters wield their weapons. It took me a while to identify this game in my memory banks.

[@samueldraxler779]

Amazing as always 😁 would love to see your take on blade and souls

[@RQS321]

This was the first MMO I ever experienced, along with Maid Marian's chat room game. I am actually shocked they even updated it and kept it going even today. You've got to do the other games now Josh, you have stumbled across a rabbit hole if you have never seen this before. It HAS to happen! I can't believe this game turned up here. Thank you for the video!

[@Chris-cf6ul]

Trying to find how many walls you can glitch on was the absolute BIS way to play It also needs to be said, Royal Alliance which we dyed in red was and forever will be the best clan to ever exist

[@TheR6R6R]

I still remember the exact corner on the forest castle area where we can go up on the otherwise inaccessible roof. Good times.

[@Chris-cf6ul]

@@TheR6R6R there were oh so many The basic one was zipping up the castle in the first "main world" by running sideways on the tiny wall on the right of the ramp to the teleports For the #coolkids you had to play on shockwave cuz only that had the glitch that let you stand on the supports of the ramps etc ( but somehow the zip up bug didn't work the same )

[@loruth]

Cant remember if i was Royal alliance..but i was definatly Red :P this was 21..ish years ago. its been a while.

[@Chris-cf6ul]

@@loruth most of them were around back then RA TQA RE some others idr Id joined them in their much later days in like late 2011 since p much the game died off and irl stuff happened to all of us About mid 2014 We still rocked them clan wars tho

[@200episodes]

Holy crap. So my memories of playing this game way back when wasn't some fever dream. Now I just feel old. Thanks for the memories, Josh!

[@MikeyMorningstar17]

I just got recommended this game. Like many others, I used to play this back in the day when you had the classic version and there on-ward until 2011. Thank you for the nostalgia you've brought to myself and others. Instant subscribe.

[@SwissArmyCheese]

I remember this playing this game over a decade ago. Back then the only character customization you could do was what color you wanted the default helmet wearing guy to be. There weren’t shops, or NPCs. But there were tons of players and people took the Pvp a little too seriously. I remember people trying to make guilds, however this was difficult with how easily you could steal someone’s name. There was only the one main castle map area and the “endless” dungeon. It was a pretty poorly made and silly game, but as a child I enjoyed it in its heyday.

[@WhatAMagician]

the dungeon would continue until it got so large that loading it would crash your computer. i got to level 2 million or something once. There were a bunch of clans, they all made 'freewebs' accounts, it was kind of weird. All used army ranks as well. Very strange people. The pvp was mainly a stamina game with a few glitches and tricks. For example, gear doesnt (didnt?) effect pvp except for one thing - the ring of health regen. and pvp is so basic having it basically let you kill anyone without it.

[@realdragon]

I remember when game got "huge" update They added bow

[@xsabirx]

Same. I remember I used to use cheat engine in the game and run and attack people super fast. Also I could block and glitch the game to build up my parry to be super strong and basically one hit anyone 🤣. Also I think there were like giant green red or purple spiders on the map or sonthing. 🤷‍♂️ lol it’s like a Mandela effect

[@keithwilkes7069]

never played this game as a kid, but going the Sherwood Forest with my parents was always nice. i live real close, but i haven't been there in a long while.

[@qriist1850]

I don't always jump but when I do, it's the illusion of a jump.

[@logvoid1559]

Never expected you to cover this game but glad that you did, I played this for a few hundred hours as a kid.

[@mr_dher]

OMG, YES! I loved this game, it is really unique and uniquely bad. The creator was probably the only person to develop this kind of games with Adobe Shockwave, I love his Tank Ball 2 game, an online multiplayer tank shooter.

[@soynatrian]

Tank Ball and Sherwood were really fun for me and my friends back in those days 😂

[@SethJV]

THE TANK GAME WAS SO COOL! We had such an amazing childhood.

[@Jacket430]

Real ones would Google shockwave games instead of flash games 🔥🔥

[@aceyyyy937]

the moon base one was SO fun as a kid, learning how to fly from the moon to the tiny earth you can see in the distance was such a fun challenge, I wish I could play it now just for a bit of a nostalgia trip but I don't think that's possible :(

[@WhatAMagician]

Tbh all those games except tankball were really more 3d chat rooms than games. Even Sherwood was about the social experience more than actually playing🕹️

[@AbyssionQC]

Nostalgia cannot save this one, it's a beautiful dumpster fire

[@WhatAMagician]

Made by one guy for the most part. Pretty impressive considering that.

[@Soren59]

Their tank game slapped though

[@Aegelis]

Really enjoyed this commentary, thanks! I played this one at work because being a browser game decades ago, work didn't know I was gaming. After a few weeks of occasional playing, I logged in and the game forgot my character. Seriously, logged in correctly, knew who I was, lost my character. Ah well, moved on. All the best & blessings be.

[@pvpperdogs]

I entirely forgot about this game but upon seeing the enemies, everything came flooding back

[@AL_145]

Dam i could never remember the name of this game and even hoped you would one day cover it. That starting winged helment and starting area is very nostalgic for me. I dont think i ever got past the starting area and just remember pvping.

[@thegamesforreal1673]

I remember learning of the teleport command and teleporting to level *BIG NUMBER* of the dungeon. I got promptly oneshot by an enemy.

[@NintenJon2023]

Sherwood Dungeon was my favorite childhood MMO because I legitimately couldn’t afford to play any other MMO games. But after trying out the game earlier this year, it truly was a shadow of its former self. Couldn’t agree more with this review. And yes, those bugs and certain exploits have been in the game for over a decade now. 😂

[@thisisloveless]

oh my god i remember this game vividly. seeing this in my feed blew my mind.

[@brechtklaus6957]

Hahaha your sarcastic tone and overall review is just delivered perfectly, I enjoyed every bit. Felt like watching a comedy show while being informed. Ending with the note was 10/10 😂

[@WhatAMagician]

Im crying man I was big into this game I led a clan called PF back in the day. NRG, EW, SD, KoD, our little beefs were hilarious. Awesome that the game was made by one dude, especially at the time. I wish you’d mentioned that this was the passion product of a single dev and considered that in your review. It also hasn’t been updated in 100 years.

[@FlowersOfIcetor]

Sapphire Clan on server 98!

[@781rubyy]

NRG fo life

[@WhatAMagician]

@@781rubyy I was there. 3,000 years ago when chrizo made the horrible decision to start nrg lmao

[@781rubyy]

@@WhatAMagician i totally forgot about chrizo 😭 I remember Dave leading it

[@ravishbhasin7041]

EW? Emerald warriors? it was never that strong during my time.

[@KurisuKun]

I remember playing this around 2007. There was a way to give your character a ridiculously high level but for some reason barely anybody knew about that. I would run around oneshotting everything and people around me would ask in awe how on Earth I managed to get so strong 😂

[@shudust]

what was the trick tho?

[@kinkkku]

@@shudust You were able to just cheat engine everything in sherwood dungeon like 15 years ago, not sure if that has changed. There was no anticheat of any kind and you would never be banned for it. Most people used guest accounts anyways. If there ever was any "tricks" to getting high level in that game, it was completely pointless to do since cheat engine existed.

[@hobbbiz]

@@kinkkku There is basically no possible way for them to change that, as long as you can store your character safe file offline. They would need to force you to create an account and have actual developers to prevent you from tempering with your save. So as long as you get to keep your own data at your pc, you can tell the server what ever you like, like the level or dmg numbers...

[@mangokraken]

Cheat engine lol I used to do this too

[@devxro]

Oh, people knew about it, nobody cared enough to abuse it aside from the small circle of PvP players that would fight each-other. They'd CE to ridiculous levels and give themselves the best weapons/armor in the game just to slap each-other lmao

[@DakkaSap]

Sorry to see this series come to an end

[@Kultureliten]

This brought me way back! Had forgot this

[@orangenasa]

My PC wasn't good enough for pretty much any 3d MMO back then (like 16 years ago) but when I saw my brother playing it on browser once I had to try it and got hooked instantly. The idea of being able to play with other people in real time in the same world and we can see each others characters, fight, chat and discover together was so mind blowing to me as a 10 year old kid.

[@mesmorrow]

I'll take a guess and say you live in the western parts of the world, with that said there was a ton of mmorpg's 16 years ago (2007) free to play mmorpg's where on the rise and online play was at an all time high, so I am not sure why you where mindblown by something that was readily available, you make it seem like 2004 (when I started playing mmorpg's) now that was early.

[@orangenasa]

@@mesmorrow because i was 10

[@thesuperginge1348]

not often you see gatekeepers of wonder @@mesmorrow

[@DEADBRO_]

Did you ever play RuneScape back then? It would have been super popular back then around that time and could pretty much run on most computers. Was even playable via browser as well.

[@DEADBRO_]

​@@mesmorrowI started around 2001-2002 with RuneScape classic. Crazy to think that was 20+ years ago. 😂

[@rubywolf5296]

Before me & my friends discovered Runescape, we all used to play this after school, it was our first online gaming experience (having only owned either a PS2 or Gameboy) and as a result this little game holds a special place in my heart. The other games which were featured on 'Maid Marian' were also pretty fun, 'Tankball' was a fun arena combat game where you shot at other players in a fast rubber tank & 'Moonbase' which was a social hub where you drove cars off the side of the map while others jet packed onto miniature planets.

[@masiechist]

You mentioning Moonbase just unlocked a host of hidden memories I had, thank you.

[@Yusha7135]

Moonbase was awesome. One of the best "chat rooms" at the time.

[@adamdobry5517]

man i loved flying to earth in that game

[@BasedAhmed]

Moonbase and Tankball were amazing.

[@ZONKERER]

I love that the jump is to be used for social interaction but they animated it like you were supposed to go anywhere

[@Evanz111]

Josh are you okay? That opening analogy was too real 😭

[@RiemannThumbs]

Man.. Sherwood was a banger of a game back during temples

[@Megaman8880]

I played Temples too, what was your name? I was megaman9990 lol

[@RiemannThumbs]

Lol! No way! I remember I met you way back when there was only the sword and shield. I still occasionally use the 9990 from your name as some of my PINs lol My name was Sniper. I don’t think I used alt codes to make my name ‘cool’ until the map update

[@RiemannThumbs]

You may have also been the one to show me combos..

[@Megaman8880]

@@RiemannThumbs That's awesome man. I still have contact with some of the old crew from those days. I used to teach a lot of people how to do combos in the community and was even the leader of one of the original big clans, Veterans if you can remember lol. If I was teaching you, I was probably trying to recruit you. I had a big feud with KingOmega back then. Do you remember KingTripleX or ShadowFist?

[@RiemannThumbs]

@@Megaman8880 KingOmega sounds familiar, but I cannot recall the names TripleX or ShadowFist. Do you remember any of their clans?

[@Crotaro]

Thinking about it, Star Wars Galaxies also utilises the same jumping "mechanic" as this game. Except, it's worse. Jump in SWG when you stand still kinda looks like when someone told you to reach the highest point with a jump. So arms vertically up while in the air. But when you jump while moving, it just slightly hovers you in the air and plays your regular walk/run animation while awkwardly glitching your arms into each other. Amazing MMORPG with a handful of very weird design decisions.

[@iskremape]

Wow I vividly remember this game but never knew what it was called. Thank you

[@IDESTROYER236]

Back in my day, the ship on the main island used to sail around it, and stop for a while, before doing it again. It was a fun ride.

[@newdawn3301]

i really love these longform videos. And the fact josdh is churning these out in a fast pace makes me so happy

[@godsammitdam]

OMG THIS IS IT! There was a game I played for a bit a while ago and I could never remember its name. It was this! Cause I was a skeleton! Also, PvP could be broken where I would walk and phase straight through who I was fighting, hitting them in the back. Their attacks would stop and they'd have to spin around to retarget me. I'd just walk through them again and... Yeah 😅

[@Seltheros]

I remember at the beginning of the summer with 4 friends we started this game. I think it was an earlier version because half of the stuff seen here were not imlemented at the time. We reached an area with a permanent twilight sky. We gathered a ton of stuff and leveled quite high but I don't remember any scaling in dungeons. Also I think the old version did not even have a main questline. We just bumped into different tasks and enemies.

[@marijnb4191]

For that last quest you just have to run around in circles around the flags hitting them once in a while and avoid the assasins

[@Discotechque]

Imagine if there was a legend where the strongest Sherwood character is logged in as a guest in a school computer, and that the character has 13 players playing it.

[@feelinghealing3890]

That is honestly the best mechanic of this game.

[@Cuestrupaster]

I played it when I was a kid in guest, got to around 160 I think... I think I was the strongest player because I never saw anyone stronger than me back then, and you couldn't really look others level, although someone else said you could bug the game to one hit everything, and I remember some of those but I always assumed it was people hacking...

[@Dopeskunk]

Imagine if there were slightly over double that amount of players playing it, and in honour of the shared account they named themselves after it, something like, thelegend27 perhaps?

[@devxro]

@@Cuestrupaster There was a lot of high level players that loved to bug the game, and tbh you probably weren't the only person around that level.

[@Cuestrupaster]

@@devxro No, I'm sure I wasn't the only one, neither the highest... I'm just reporting this is how far I've gotten and never saw anyone that was higher...

[@juanabaca7420]

The timing of this video was impressive. A few weeks ago, I logged in and played for while, and a crazy nostalgia hit me. I remember being part of a clan with rankings, pvp events, group screenshots, facebook group and all. Fun fact: the ship actually sailed around the island back then.

[@makamakic2482]

I remember i was so sad when i came back and it didnt do it any more

[@ChocolateVGZ]

The jumping as just an animation thing was also in Star Wars Galaxies (in its original release, anyway). It also featured tiny invisible walls in the middle of the wilderness that would require you to detour for miles to get around it... I miss that game so much.

[@cericat]

I hate how often I hit invisible walls in ESO now, ironically the older zones have less while good luck mountain goating on say Blackwood or Necrom, and to add insult to injury there's still dungeons and parts of zones where it's possible to get stuck in holes where owing to how it functions you can't even use the "got stuck" TP to fix. And seriously some of the invisible walls are just like you're talking about, literally run around a hill you should be able to run over. Oh how I hate invisible walls, at least PSO2 NGS the only walls are ones you can see between the region maps.

[@Erosuorc]

LMAO! My videos set to 1080p HD, full screen on an 8k 65 inch tv. The supporter names are still a little blurry, with one more row it will become illegible. I find that so hilarious & awesome at the same time. Congrats Josh

[@FiendMatadorSlayerOfNoobs]

I would kill to have an episode of this series on either Perfect World or Rappelz.

[@thehyperion5333]

Oh man, perfect world... Spent a decade playing that shit

[@jasg7894]

You pretty much lived my life lol. Throw in Flyff, Ran Online, Rose Online, Drift City, Ace Online, Trickster Online, Rakion, Knight Online, Sword of the New World/Granado Espada and so on

[@juanvictor2369]

@@jasg7894 Flyff was GOATED. Loved the game

[@strechemall]

​​@@jasg7894Flyff and Ran yessir I was there, I bet we played around the same time too

[@xBunniesHeartx]

@@thehyperion5333 same and i genuinely miss it so much LMAO

[@windsnexus9064]

I am in the middle of watching lots of your videos, and it was nice to get a new upload. Thanks for all of the high quality analysis and fun, I love listening to your stuff while working on my own game projects. I don't know if any of these will ever see the light of day, but I have a lot of fun working with them. Cheers!

[@gmdraws1461]

I remember playing this when it was browser only. There was a few bugs I remember a lot. The duplication one, you could duplicate everything you sold to the npc. The one on the ramp, that let you ignore all collisions on the walls. And the one that let you swap your character model to a dragon. Fun times.

[@5ueLee]

I remember not understanding English and playing this game as a guest, I made a friend and decided to create an account. Unfortunately I didn’t know what servers were and I never saw my friend again 😢

[@Dirty_Hobo]

Sherwood dungeon is probably my first ever mmorpg before i knew what an mmorpg was. a childhood classic. for some reason i was really addicted to it for 3 weeks then never played it again

[@nightcoremadstudioreborn4299]

Have you perhaps played Sacred Seasons?

[@sirnunyabuiz6529]

@@nightcoremadstudioreborn4299 I have, that game was surprisingly fun, I wanted to come back to it and donate a little to support the devs on Kongregate, but they deleted it unfortunately. Probably because last time I actually played, you could count the actual player count on 2 hands, literally.

[@pretzelboi64]

My cousin dragged me into this MMO like a decade ago but there was so little to do I quit rather quickly. I remember being fascinated by the semi-transparent weapons for some reason lmao

[@ShadesApeDJansu]

【Shades Finnish Pirates】Killing Bane reminded me of a tactic Julius Caesar used in The Battle of Alesia or Siege of Alesia in Gallic wars present day France, Caesar laid a siege on Vercingetorix The leader of united Gallic army and Vercingetorix was in turtle mode waiting for reinforcements and Caesar had made a fortification to keep the gauls in the siege but as he was going to be flanked he made a second line of fortification to keep their backs safe & to prevent the reinforcements from uniting with the main force unde the siege.

[@buyerenogurlfwendo2106]

I remember in this game the best way to get damage in the classic ui was usually to hit and step back. It’s been so long since I played but basically you want to sneak hits in then get outside their range.

[@myosotis4507]

Wait, is this the RPG on that one site with the astronaut simulator and the pigeon simulator? It looks completely different from how I remember it. The only reason i recognized it are those hanging tree houses at the start that the dev reused on another 3D hangout-type game

[@sarah-zh2lr]

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS REVIEW FOR AGES. It was my first childhood MMO ever and I wass absolutely obsessed with it even though I literally didn't understand anything and just wanted the cool mounts and rainbow swords. I don't get why they've downgraded the game so much though? There used to be so many more hubs and things to explore.

[@stoli8226]

same :p

[@OfficialGameTrailers387]

same here omgg im not a girl btw

[@juanvazquez5836]

@@OfficialGameTrailers387 you are a girl

[@69pepe420]

im not the only one xD

[@FuraFaolox]

​@@OfficialGameTrailers387no one asked if you're a girl

[@daraygona7058]

That boat used to do periodically circles around the map in the water 😂 I remember because countless days I'd log on and hangout with folks on there.

[@Tenebraxis649]

oh wow, I've completely forgotten abot this! thanks for reminding me!

[@Zamoxino]

i remember playing this like 20 years ago or something xD backk in my daysss pvp and dungeon combat was kinda fun cause u would animation cancel most of the attacks as soon as they hit. also u could react to long-medium length attack animations from enemy by blocking and that was like 99% skill based. blocking was actually so reliable that in pvp if u knew the attack animations u could go on for like 10hits blocked by each player and no hit done at all (we didnt have skill moves back then. it was just random attack animation or block and animation canceling in between)