WoW - Nogg-aholic the Movie

[@GalderIncarnate]

You may clip our wings, but we will always remember what it was like to fly

[@Dopefish]

[@zn4rf]

with wow classic you may be able to fly again ;)

[@Sacrosanctelite]

@@zn4rf though not literally

[@Zephy73]

RIP wall walking

[@ExploringWithJosh]

god I miss this...

[@Dopefish]

Hopefully we'll get something similar one day.

[@dracobluelol]

@@Dopefish Yea I've been waiting over 14 years now. I've almost given up as there seem to be a down spiral trend in the video gaming industry.

[@Dopefish]

@@dracobluelol There's still good games around though, but just not the same type ;)

[@BR-yo8rf]

@@dracobluelol Madomarti exploration videos made a nod to this as a legion/bfa equivalent, obviously not the same as noggaholic, but a very good nod to the exploration community/ this movie :)

[@dracobluelol]

@@BR-yo8rf They were good stuff, the music was on point. Thanks

[@shanzulwhiteglintt3919]

I still watch this even to this day

[@Dopefish]

It will have been 16 years in October since this video was made. I'm constantly surprised by what lasting impact it had. Thank you for taking the time to comment, and for enjoying it ^^

[@Rewpie]

These videos defined my music taste as a teenager playing vanilla wow, still coming back

[@Dopefish]

I was just starting out listening to vocal trance at the time, so happy to be able to share it with people. I've been mainly listened to Retrowave in recent times :)

[@nyem961]

after all those years I keep coming back and watch this movie every 2-3 years. I miss those times a lot back in 2004 / 2005

[@Dopefish]

I'll try to keep these videos up for as long as possible. I wonder if there's any other WoW videos tend to watch due to nostalgia?

[@nyem961]

@@Dopefish I liked the "Burning Valentine" video a lot too and some others from the nogg-aholic forums. Also some good old fashioned pvp videos until the Wrath of the Lich King ara. Thanks for keeping those videos up! :)

[@Dopefish]

@@nyem961 Happy to oblige, even if the soundtrack got muted on Burning Valentine after some time, and had to replace it with something from the KZbin library instead ^^ But it's awesome that you've seen some of the lesser watched videos aswell.

[@nyem961]

@@Dopefish I remember that my buddies and me did the same wall-walk exploits from the videos and showed it to other people on the server haha. Made people feel like they were explorers

[@Dopefish]

@@nyem961 Anyone who visited a place that normally wasn't accessible is an explorer in my mind, even if they were following someone else's footsteps :)

[@lukaspip10]

I always end up coming back to this masterpiece. Rest in peace WoW exploration.

[@Dopefish]

***** Being able to fly everywhere kind of ruined it a bit, didn't it?

[@RealJhad1]

***** Long time no see you, Dope ;-) (c) Russorc (you might remember me from irc channel) ^.~ Thx again for the great ideas and inspiring video/music. /bow. We will never forget how it was to fly! :-E

[@Dopefish]

Yes, I do remember you from Nogg-aholic Community. Was nice with all the active people collaborating back then ^^

[@SenpaiTheExplorer]

Wow exploration will never die, it has and will continue to transform.

[@mespo7399]

Transports me to amazing times with friends

[@Satans_Financial_Advisor]

This video damn near makes me cry. Maybe it's just wanting to be younger again. But honestly, almost 20 years ago, exploring WoW was an experience. It's was new, it was growing and for those of us that were there from the very beginning, it felt special and we pushed the limits. Edit. Can you remember? Early 2005 WcRadio Warcraftmovies. Playing WoW like nothing else mattered.

[@Dopefish]

Simpler times, less weight of the world to shoulder back then. Datamining wasn't as common, so the possibilities felt endless and discovering those hidden mysteries were like finding treasures that was never meant to be seen.

[@Satans_Financial_Advisor]

@@Dopefish Thank you for the reply. I remember when this video was brand new on Warcraftmovies, it's all we talked about, even while raiding MC. My friends and I were already walll walking the world, finding all kinds of random stuff. But you and your crew pushed us further. It was a great time and your contributions are remembered.

[@Dopefish]

@@Satans_Financial_Advisor Makes me happy to hear! In Nogg-aholic I deliberately showed the lead-up to some of the places so people could go there and explore themselves :) Thank you for your kind comments!

[@Vitur88]

I started to listen to Trance music because of this movie. Thank you, Dopefish! I watch this masterpiece regularly.

[@MrPlop21]

Haven't played Wow in 10 years yet I still sometimes feel the urge to rewatch this classic.

[@Dopefish]

I do think WoW is quite different these days... though with the release of WoW Classic, maybe that difference isn't so big.

[@thomasanderson2551]

❤ Ty for keeping this alive. I love it dearly.

[@Dopefish]

Absolutely no worries! I'm happy you're enjoying it :)

[@DROOG1E]

This and Exploration the Movie. Every few years I remember it and give it a rewatch

[@Dopefish]

I'm happy you've been able to enjoy them throughout the years. Thanks for giving them a watch the first time around and taking the time to comment

[@Kishkumen1337]

Dont know if you will ever notice this comment, but trust me, this video is my childhood, I check it every year atleast few times, you did awesome job, one love man

[@Dopefish]

Thank you, though I got no idea how you wouldn't be tired of watching the video if you've seen it a couple of times already ;) I read all the comments on my channel, and I try to reply to most of them, since if people took the time to write me something, I can atleast try to take the time to write something back to them!

[@Kishkumen1337]

***** Can never get tired of the awesome combination of music and nostalgie, never once did I not get goosebumps on the Grommash's death scene in combination with the music, can I ask if there is a specific type of music that you searched for or ? But yea, this video is work of art man and I can safely say that it changed my life in a good way.

[@Dopefish]

Prior to making Exploration (the shorter version of Exploration the Movie), I hadn't really listened to any of these songs. I had a friend who liked trance and even did his own mixes of it, who introduced me to the genre, and I thought the music really fit with the atmosphere of exploration. So I started listening to alot of trance, and looked for vocal trance that I thought would fit this video :)

[@ChairZomg]

dude i did the same thing. this was legendary for me as a kid.

[@Dopefish]

I read all the messages I can see, and I really appreciate the people who take the time to write anything on my videos :) I think it's pretty amazing you're still enjoying a video that's over a decade old nowadays ^^

[@Yas-sx6rm]

You single-handedly got me into old school trance (and watching Fight Club) besides absolutely blowing my 11-year old mind when I experienced this masterpiece of yours back in 2006. Thank you Dopefish, I hope you are doing well.

[@Dopefish]

Oh yeah, I guess 20 years old music makes it oldschool, haha. Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment! I've been working as a game dev (currently level design & game design) since the year after the video got released, and even if I haven't made any of my own projects, I'm having a good time.

[@Yas-sx6rm]

@@Dopefish That's cool, have you been involved in any games I should know about? With your eye for cinematography and desire to see how far a game can be explored/find its boundaries (as is evident from this video among others) i'd imagine you are pretty pretty gooood.

[@Dopefish]

@@Yas-sx6rm Unfortunately I've not been able to influence any game that much, but I've worked on some games at Starbreeze (such as The Darkness), and most recently I've worked on Demeo that's available on Steam.

[@TheGichnni]

Hey Dopefish, long-term ex WoW addict here. I played WoW when I was only a kid in school, played through TBC and then quit when Wotlk came out. I was an addict and since I quit, I had amazing experiences in real life but every time I think about WoW and how amazing it was like in your videos back then, I feel really nostalgic and sad how I will never get to go back in a time in my life like back then since it was one of the best times in my life with such a freedom. I never thought that I would find this video again, almost a decade later. But when I saw this video and heard the awesome trance music tracks... I couldn't hold back the tears. Life is really about choices, I sacrificed a lot in my life to play this game but I also sacrificed amazing experiences when I quit the game. There are so many things and places in vanilla WoW as well as TBC (which was the best expansion in my opinion), that is impossible to describe to someone who has never played the game back then. It's been such a long time, so I often refer people like us to "wallwalkers"... If you are a wallwalker, I hope you understand as well as share my feelings and memories. The best time of my life was at the time when I played this game and saw videos like these on warcraftmovies. I just wanted to say, thank you so much for making my life amazing back then with your videos... It truly changed my life even if I'm such a sad person now and don't have such a fun life anymore. But, I will never forget it even when I become an old man and die. Wallwalker for life!!!

[@Dopefish]

I'm happy you enjoyed the movies back then, that they inspired you to explore aswell, and that you remember them to this day :) I wouldn't worry about missing out on any WoW experience though, since it was only mysterious back then and has since been turned outside-in and emptied of all mystery. I'm nostalgic aswell in the sense that there haven't really been any other game since then that has provided the same kind of feeling of exploration and discovery. I guess that's the flaw of experiencing things, since after you've experienced them, they won't be as impressive a second time around. I think you did well by leaving at that time, and instead keep those memories instead of losing the sense of wonder if you would've stayed :)

[@hpd_hero]

I completely agree... What a fantastic time that was. Very few things could compare to that. Well invested 150 days of my life 😄

[@tynao2029]

You're totally right, WoW is the greatest game of all time, you are not alone and millions of people have the exact same feelings! It's hard to describe to more recent gamers what the experience of classic WoW was like, the feeling of pure MYSTERY in all the lands, as all was not accessible even at lvl 60 and Blizzard slowly "leaked" the endgame content and lore hidden in the depths of Mountains and wider instances and storylines like Molten Core, Ahn Qiraj in Silithus, Kazzak/Portal in Blasted Lands, and Mt. Hyjal...the Exploration videos and wallclimbing era really captured that undying thirst for more by the community. We were ready for the game faster than Blizzard could make it for us, of course that isn't to say there wasn't plenty of other things to keep us occupied. When the Darkmoon Faire started Elwynn Forest was a busy hub of life like Central Park and people climbed in Stormwind

[@yoshy321]

Dude so right!!! I loved wallwalking so much. Such a harmless exploit really. This video brings back so many memories. inbetween arena quenes doing wallwalking.

[@WarmeMilch]

can relate very much. Stay strong :)

[@nyem961]

This video...the memories. I miss the old times

[@Dopefish]

I feel they were special because they were unique for its time, and if it would have still been the same today it would've lost its magic. I'm hoping something new comes around that's able to provide the same sense of wonder :)

[@brycetaylor1705]

Such a classic. I remember I was 11 at the time this came out and my big bro used to love playing vanilla WoW and watched this movie quite often and tried wall walking in multiple locations like this in the video and also some more that were discovered like getting out of AB horde side using wall jumping all before it being patched. Such nostalgia and gives me goose bumps every time I come back here every few years! Unfortunately my brother passed away in 2011 from an overdose the day before my fathers funeral who battled cancer, was really tough times in my life. Thanks for the amazing video Dopefish and hope all if well for you.

[@Dopefish]

I'm great, but I'm very sorry to hear about your loss. I'm glad that the video inspired others to explore aswell, as I tried to show of a bit of the areas where you could get started, and not just the destinations of them. I'd like to say something profound that would put things in a better perspective, but all I'm coming up with is that I'm hoping you're doing alright aswell.

[@brycetaylor1705]

@@Dopefish Thank you for your kind words. Just want you to know you really did inspire many with this amazing content.

[@FiltyIncognito]

BURR! I'll always remember my time spent exploring, wall-walking, braving death zones and falling into those tiny pits that you wouldn't think were impossible to climb out of (and daring clueless friends to jump in). I went all over the map and beyond it. I found places I never saw documented by others at the time. I discovered awesome and unique platforms for epic duels. I journeyed across featureless deserts of terrain only traversible by wall-walking to find...admittedly lackluster areas while hunting for ways to other as-yet unclimbable areas. But that wasn't important. I was the rare few to ever go there and see these things. It wasn't sightseeing based on those who went before me. It was exploration and experimentation, to find my own way, to discover anything new, and see where I could get. I've long since forgotten the names of most zones but I'll never forget most of the places I went and the things I did.

[@Dopefish]

Beautifully written. It reflects my own feelings about it, and I couldn't have written it better myself. Thanks for sharing

[@FiltyIncognito]

Thank YOU for producing such a great movie that can take me back on such a great nostalgia trip every time I watch it.

[@OrionTheAussie]

I remember watching this back when first released. Made me learn some of the programs to get to some places. Also learned wall walking from it. Miss those days

[@GalderIncarnate]

My god....a trip back in time. I've watched this so many times, but still it brings me back. Thank you Dopefish for such a legacy...I miss how mysterious WoW used to be.

[@Dopefish]

+GalderIncarnate No worries, it was my pleasure :) I've missed that no other game afterwards have really been able to provide the same kind of sense of mystery.

[@kindlin]

@@DopefishThe jank is what really made the vanilla experience so visceral.

[@Dopefish]

@@kindlin Oh, I've played plenty of janky games since, and it does add a feel of authenticity or a layer of not knowing what's possible. Overly polished things feels more intentional if that makes sense.

[@kindlin]

@@Dopefish You're not laying down your own trail, you're simply following down the developers intended path. Much less satisfying!

[@Dopefish]

@@kindlin Exactly!

[@andrianicendali]

I'm here watching this beautiful video full of nostalgia and tears. Masterpiece of video and WoW❤

[@Dopefish]

It started out as a video showcasing unreleased areas, but has with the years more become a time capsule of what WoW used to be :) Thanks for watching

[@TheWizardTrokair]

Thank you for uploading this again! So glad to see Dopefish still on the scene. You have been a HUGE inspiration to The Wizard Trokair, my channel and my explorations. Long live Nogg-aholic The Movie!

[@Dopefish]

That's awesome! I was skipping through your channel a bit, and it looked like high quality content, so keep up the good work :)

[@TheWizardTrokair]

***** Thanks my friend! Please check out my 1000 subscriber video if you get a moment... that one was done in the Nogg style, for sure. My next one will be the same. More focus on the areas and the cinematic entertainment than the actual methods.

[@Zanatof]

"You may clip our wings but we will never forget how it was to fly."

[@jeffhiphopskip8393]

Still watching years later

[@Dopefish]

Years? We soon have to talk about it in plural of decades later :D

[@JTF195]

This brings back so many good memories. RIP Nogg-aholics. WoW isn't the same without you.

[@fonnecropotence157]

2021 anyone :D? To this master piece exploration movie!! Thank u dopefish....This movie recall so many good memories in WoW

[@Dopefish]

Maybe neural networks will be good enough to make an upscaled version of this for the 20th anniversary of it? It feels bad that people have to watch this in 480p, with low framerate and low sound quality ;D But maybe that is part what captures the nostalgia of the era it was made in? :) Thanks for taking the time to watch this in the first place, and for writing a kind comment about it so many years later ^^

[@fonnecropotence157]

@@Dopefish thank you dopefish , your wow video inspired me and many wow players a lot. I remember that before TBC released, I went to time cavern area with friends, we were excited and explored the cave with joy...wonderful memories 😊😊

[@Dopefish]

@@fonnecropotence157 I'm happy to hear that. Exploration back then really was different before everything started to get datamined to bits and released on the internet, so it really felt like a proper secret when going through those areas ;)

[@foamingstuffye3951]

Took me way too long to find this again. Was YEARS and I mean a decade ago that I saw this for the first time and my mind was absolutely blown. This vid was one of many firsts for me - first that I realized what amazing content people can make. First time to realize what kind of amazing music there is outside of my own musical comfort zone. First to be truly enchanted by a video of any kind. First to realize how big our community actually is and was, to truly understand the scope that online gaming was becoming. And honestly, maybe not a first but one of the best ways to live and relive that sense of exploration and absolute awesomeness this game was, even though I never went to the same lengths as this incredible guy. Anyway, thank you for decade-long inspiration. Outside of all of what I just said, no words are actually enough to express what this vid's done to and for me. My music playlist of today at least is one tangible proof of how much you can influence someone's life with "just a MMO exploration vid". Anyway thanks for making this, if the good sir is still around, and thanks for keeping this uploaded.

[@Dopefish]

I'm still around, and no thanks needed. You taking the time to watch this a decade ago, and then bothering to comment on this in the first place, makes more sense that I should be the one thanking you instead :) So, thank you!

[@FishsMusicChannel]

One of the most important videos of my childhood. You helped me get into dreamscape-type music with this video too. Thanks.

[@Dopefish]

+Starman Nabi Music

[@grizzopit1]

Действительно культовое видео... во многом олицетворяет и заставляет вернуться в те прекрасные временна классика. Моментально вводит в состояние грусти и тоски по безвозвратно ушедшему...так больше никогда не будет. Ностальжи ребята... Кто прошел этот путь с самого начала поймет меня.

[@nuclearblast91]

Come back to this every few years. Fucking bangs with nostalgia like nothing else. Not sure what it is, but this video influenced my taste in music, how i play games (breaking the rules and finding exploits), and it generally just brings out weird feelings that i can't really explain.

[@Dopefish]

To this day, pretty much every game I play I tend to break in one way or another. There's a certain sense of accomplishment to achieve what you're not meant to do, and then get to experience something that maybe only few others ever have. Alot of people watched this movie first time around when they were younger, and when WoW was new, so the nostalgia it brings them reminds them of those times. Either way, I'm happy I was able to spread some of this, and you've been exploring/exploiting games on your own :)

[@Teih.]

Don't mind me. Just having this video on loop in the background while I am leveling in classic. Masterpiece.

[@Dopefish]

How's it going? :D

[@Teih.]

@@Dopefish Level 30 warrior on the Noggenfogger server. I picked the server because of your video

[@Dopefish]

@@Teih. Good work! And yeah, someone told me about there was a Noggenfogger server which was pretty cool. I'm sure alot of oldschool explorers would like to go for that one ;)

[@Teih.]

@@Dopefish Definitely!

[@RFdiamond]

16 years later and i still rewatch the video at least once or twice a year to reminisce about the hard times wow helped me bridge during my youth, the wonder and excitement i felt about all the mysteries in vanilla wow you helped explore, the world and community who ended up saving me from suicide in dark times. The nostalgia of seeing you explore wow to slick trance music will never get old to me and this video in particular will always stay in my memories by being part of why i'm still here on this world. Thank you.

[@Dopefish]

I'm happy you're still with us. Escapism and a sense of belonging can be very important for people who otherwise lack it, but I always feel like people give this movie too much credit. It just happened to be there at the right time, and gained enough traction from there. Like I had almost no part in the community that arose in its wake, other than being a front figure for it. I'm just glad people gave it a chance in the first place, and I was able to share, atleast in part, the sense of wonder I felt at that time. But maybe sometimes, that's enough? Thank you for your comment

[@RFdiamond]

@@Dopefish I think you can safely give credit where credit is due. Over the years i watched probably thousands of wow related videos... lore, pvp, discussions etc but of all those videos i watched, this one stuck witch me and after having scrolled through the comments for a while i'm not the only one. I couldn't exactly pinpoint why, perhaps it's the choice of music or the editing by introducing locations with their original cinematics that evoke emotions / contemplation but it's clear to me that you did an outstanding job. Maybe it was just the video being released at the right time and place for many people to bond a lot of fond memories to it, but imo that shouldn't take away from your accomplishment :D Anyway, thanks a lot for replying and best wishes to you and your friends and family.

[@Dopefish]

@@RFdiamond Awww, that's soo kind of you to see it from that perspective. This really made my day. Thank you! Hope you're doing well aswell 😊

[@grizzopit1]

A truly iconic video ... in many ways personifies and makes you return to those beautiful time classics. Instantly leads to a state of sadness and longing for the irrevocably gone ... this will never be the case again. Nostalgia guys ... Whoever passed this path from the very beginning will understand me. P.S It was written by me 10 years ago, what is it now ... I still play

[@Dopefish]

Some things change, and other things remain. Be happy not for what you've lost, but that you were part and experienced it. No other game have provided the same kind of sense of wonder since, but instead I see the games themselves as the exploration, trying something new, and discovering something gleaming in the otherwise rough parts.

[@archivesofstarless]

I watch this a lot. Legendary.

[@Dopefish]

How much is a lot?

[@archivesofstarless]

@@Dopefish I wish I knew precisely, I just remember it and return to it time to time and time again like probably 20 to 60 times over 10+ years!!

[@Dopefish]

@@archivesofstarless That sure is alot. I'm glad your enjoying the video :D

[@boltortaure1169]

17 years have passed so fast and it is still my favorite WoW video of all time. Awesome music and thrilling exploration footage. Thank you so much Dopefish!

[@Dopefish]

I'm happy to oblige! Funny thing, both Forg and Pathologist dropped by my stream today, so we had a little nostalgic conversation over Nogg-aholic ^^ Thank you for commenting! ^^

[@ikohforfs]

The trance is loud, and we still remember what it was like to walk the walls!

[@Dopefish]

[@gwendalsahlen9667]

I have such fond memories of my time on Shattered Hand in the Mithrid guild. Many of which were when i was being taught by you or Hylian how to wall-walk or otherwise access non-accessible areas and it just absolutely blew my mind back then.

[@Dopefish]

Cool to hear from more people from that time on Shattered Hand, and especially Mithrid ^^ Hard to get the same sense of wonder that those times held. Was a bit like discovering urban legends in the game, and realizing they were for real ;)

[@lacolo]

I'm so happy this is on youtube. I still return to this once in a while. The only reason I discovered it was because the guy commenting at the start (GozK) was in my high school class and ranted about it. It was one of the few wow movie files on my laptop when I went traveling without internet for half a year, shortly after Nogg-aholic's release. I watched it many times, missing the game. I loved the music so much. I still listen to a lot of the music featured in it. Thank you Dopefish

[@Dopefish]

Aww, thank you so much for commenting and it's awesome to hear stories like this. So my thanks go to you

[@bt8593]

Someone in the Warcraft 3 subreddit mentioned that one of their earliest memories of enjoying music was this Requiem for a Dream remix from a Warcraft animation they couldn't remember. I'm pretty sure this is the one. I decided to rewatch part of it and I realize now that it's been nearly 20 years since I first watched this video. Life has taken me in a dramatically different direction than I thought it would back then.

[@Dopefish]

I'm not sure if this was the first WoW video to use Requiem for a Dream remix, but it definitely wasn't the last. It's hard to predict how anything would be 20 years from now, but I did start working in the game industry the year following this video, and has been working as a game dev (currently level design) since :)

[@CyanidePatch]

This blew my mind when I first watched it. I started to do attempt the same walks. Inspired me to improve my gaming and video editing. You showed me one of my all time favorite jams (World on Fire Junkie XL Remix) and a number of other fantastic songs and artists. I still put this on and to this day, get excited... a full decade later. Thank you

[@Dopefish]

+CyanidePatch No, thank you for taking the time to post this comment. As you say me being your inspiration, the same thing goes for me, with being motivated by everyone who have taken the time to watch this and enjoyed it :) I might not have made any of these movies, if it weren't for a classmate walking past my computer screen one day, seeing me do things like this, and then telling me that I should really make a video about it ;) Thank you!

[@Tinnesa]

I miss these days SO MUCH

[@Dopefish]

I wonder if it's WoW you miss, as much as it was the period of time you lived in back then.

[@Tinnesa]

@@Dopefish Both but honestly Vanilla & Noggaholic are dear to me.

[@Tinnesa]

@@Dopefish also hi Dopefish :D

[@Dopefish]

@@Tinnesa I don't play WoW myself, but I guess you could get part of this experience from playing WoW Classic nowadays, even though it's never the same the second time around ;) And also, hi! :)

[@smutserkling6848]

I'm still watching this frequently in 2019.

[@Dopefish]

How can you be watching it "frequently" in 2019, when we're only two months in so far? o_O

[@norbert6145]

Still watching this legendary artwork and listening to this perfect trance mix. This video was and is part of my live when playing WoW, stuying, working, relaxing, walking... Thank you for this gift, Dopefish

[@Dopefish]

The pleasure is mine. Thanks for giving it a chance the first time around, and for taking the time to comment on it. I really appreciate it

[@koskettaja609]

idk how they made such a great game almost 20 years ago. Everything felt so captivating: community, leveling, pve, pvp and just exploring the world. Great video, saw it the first time when it was just released and still have been watching it every now and then

[@Dopefish]

I think it has to do with experience, and loss of wonder as we grow older. The more we experience, the harder it becomes to get new experiences for the first time. That, and since datamining and sources of information has become more prevalent, it has become way easier to look things up, so there's less unknown things. Though as we're heading with news/guide/wiki sites appropriating AI to regurgitate things they scraped online, and then from each others, we're starting to get more and more unreliable information again. Those sites lack fact checking, so one post stating something false easily gets reposted over and over again. Ex. for the longest time, sites were claiming that ingots could be used in Baldur's Gate 3 for smithing, which isn't the case. Sorry for the rant, but thanks for the comment and it makes me happy to hear you saw this video when it first came out and still remembered it after all these years :)

[@bensullivan]

Goodness. Huge fan. I first saw this a couple years after it was released and promptly put it on my iPod Video and watched it. Over and over and over again. There was a time when I would watch it nightly before bed. The music and the nostalgia - all of it inspired me to continue exploring. I started playing in '05-06 and what drew me into WoW more than anything else was the fact that you could go almost anywhere. And if there was a place that you couldn't get to, it meant you had to try harder to figure it out. I have screenshot after screenshot of my own "achievements", reaching spots that I felt were special and rare. This video did it for me. The cinematic approach, the music, the humor - everything. Just love it. A massive thank you for putting it together! /bow

[@Dopefish]

Thank you for the kind words, and as I've been saying here before, I still get surprised by how well-received this video is, and how it's still remembered after so many years. Means alot to me, so thank you :)

[@DirtyPhlegm]

"Enter World" Followed by the God Surrounds Us song and Caverns of Time is the biggest chill I'll ever fucking get. It drives me to tears every time

[@Dopefish]

Airwave were really great at making music that evoked a sense of wonder ;)

[@CarnifaxMachine]

@@Dopefish I have to give you credit. I listen to Airwave mixes now while at work. They're great - anywhere from 2-6 hours of uninterrupted progressive house / trance music. Insane to think that I was first introduced via this video, a decade and a half ago.

[@Dopefish]

@@CarnifaxMachine Their music works great to have it running in the background. Good stuff. It's insane to think all of this was one and a half decade ago. World has changed quite bit since then ;) I'm mainly listening to retrowave nowadays, which you can hear on NewRetrowave KZbin channel :)

[@krisschaumburg6432]

I actually got to play with you on a private wallwalking server back in the day. Ive watched this movie so many times, but its your music choices that keep me coming back. We live in a weird world where I get to ask "OK Google, play World on Fire Sarah McLachlan JunkieXL remix" and I get to hear the song. I really, really miss the old days of finding the smallest of exploits that made the game so much fun to run around and explore, and will always be a part of my younger days that newer players will never know. If for anything, please keep this up for the amazing music, and the Last Wallwalk was also an amazing playlist. I keep the Aurora remix of Ordinary World on a regular playlist.

[@Dopefish]

Kind of cool that almost two decades later, the soundtracks of those videos are still being remembered. It's a pity The Last Wallwalk movie got muted on KZbin :/ Don't remember if I ever joined any private servers back in the day, other than hosting one for myself locally. I was pretty much done with the game after the Nogg-aholic release, and had to borrow a account to participate in the last wallwalk myself :') I'll keep this video up for as long as KZbin allows it. Hope you're doing well these days!

[@krisschaumburg6432]

@@Dopefish My buddy Mmazing was making a video as well back in the day that met you over chat and asked one night if I wanted to go do some wallwalking with Dopefish. Of course I was like hell yeah! It was just the one time, but was super cool to meet you since I had already watched Nogg countless times even back then. Hope all is well with you too!

[@d0pestar]

Classic wow was my youth/teenage years. This was always my favorite wow video, think it's still downloaded on my moms old laptop lol. Thanks dopefish I hope you're doing well!

[@Dopefish]

Having the download for this one is kind of rare as it was only available on WarcraftMovies for a limited time (I believe). I'm happy you've enjoyed it though. I'm doing great, thanks for asking, and I hope you're doing well aswell

[@geraldlunz6806]

this video changed my life. i wouldnt be the person i am today if it wasnt for you. years and years later i still watch it every few months. thank you for being a part of the universe and bringing this into existence

[@Dopefish]

I can never get tired of such nice comments as this, and this one in particular warms me. It was my pleasure, and thank you for giving it a chance the first time you decided to watch it! :D

[@danielrieger7211]

Just randomly on youtube and this popped up from my history. I'm sitting here getting goosebumps, instantly transported to over a decade ago. You're a legend amongst men

[@Dopefish]

I'm happy it showed up for you and could bring you some joy. You're a legend to me for taking the time to comment and making my day :)

[@insaneavi]

15 years later....life has changed a lot for me but and I still remember downloading this and the exploration movie from Fileplanet.... Thank you dopefish

[@Dopefish]

Despite how many comments I've been getting throughout the years, I'm still amazed by how people still remember this video from such a long time ago. Also Fileplanet, that's nostalgic in on itself ^^ Thank you for watching

[@richardwilson1937]

I remember watching this video almost 20 years ago when I was 11, and it honestly changed my life. It really steered my musical choices over the rest of my life, and I'm sure there are others that feel the same. I remember watching this, getting into model editing afterwards, spending hours changing the models for all of my gear. I haven't played the game in over a decade but I still think about this video a lot. Thank you so much for this, you've impacted so many lives in so many ways!

[@Dopefish]

What you take away from any medium you consume is in the perspective of the beholder, so this movie wouldn't be considered awesome if it weren't for all the amazing people who watched it and deemed it as such. I like trying out new music styles for each video I make, and this was kind of my first foray into trance, so I picked the songs I liked and were able to portray the atmosphere of the movie. So I guess they worked out well as a trance starter pack, as I've heard more people getting into the genre after that. Also neat to hear you got into model editing, as that was kind of small community back then :) Still, I'm amazed that you (and others) manage to remember this movie even after such a long time. Thank you for taking the time and writing here, making an old man happy

[@iryan809]

the music in this is wonderful and i think together with the video really capture the mood of spending time with friends on wow in the early days i think for this reason it's the best wow movie ever made and should probably be archived in some sort of long term cultural storage

[@Dopefish]

Thank you for your kind words, and the music is the one thing that doesn't feel aged about this. I'll never stop being surprised by people finding this video again so many years later ^^

[@sixstringedwithabowl]

@@Dopefish You made my teenage years soundtrack in video form. I don't know who you are, but you live rent free in my memories, Dopefish

[@essbea8727]

Watching this again just before TBC Classic hits on Tuesday. Never gets old, always legendary!

[@Dopefish]

Maybe it would become possible soon to upsample the quality for this. I'm happy people are still being able to enjoy this, but it's a pity the quality is so low compared to todays standards :D

[@DirtyPhlegm]

This is a masterpiece. It makes my heart ache so much :'(

[@Dopefish]

It's too bad the quality of the videos didn't age so well. Neither Exploration nor Nogg-aholic were the first exploration videos available, but I think they were the first longer ones and it really kick started the genre on Warcraftmovies. Think it might be hard to understand what's going on if you're not really into WoW, but I'm happy my videos really managed to show people something they hadn't seen before :) Thank you!

[@alphicam]

Dopefish - I used this and your other videos as guides back in the day to learn wallwalking...thanks to your movies I was the only player on my server capable of getting behind the AH where the auctioneers stood, access Caverns of Time before release, the south part of Silithus where the world event happened before release, the HARD AS HELL wallwalk way above Orgrimmar to access "The Great Sea - UNUSED" area. I dedicated a significant part of my play time to learning the tricks in your videos and I want to thank you for all the adventures I had...I'll never forget these tricks man! Such a great little era in gaming. I'll always miss it.

[@Dopefish]

I tried to show a bit of how to get to the areas (some more than others) so that people would be able to go out and find them on their own, so it makes me happy to hear that someone actually did :)

[@xentricheals]

"You can cut our wings but we we'll always remember what it was like to fly..." An amazing video. I couldn't even count the number of times I have watch this video over the years.

[@Dopefish]

KoRL12, yes, that's me. Got alot of help with the footage from Forg aswell :)

[@CreativeCreatorCreates]

✨I love this and can’t believe I didn’t see it before....

[@Chris-vp1kv]

Hey man, this video introduced me to WoW exploration. Because of you I got to explore so many places back in BC. The idea that there were places you could go that nobody else saw was really exciting :). Thank you for keeping this up so I can come back to it every now and then and think about the good ol' days!

[@Dopefish]

Thank you for watching it in the first place and taking the time to comment here. It really felt alot more exciting finding a place that nobody else visited before, somewhere that was only your own. I'll try to keep this video up for as long as possible, but otherwise there's other uploads for it aswell so it shouldn't disappear :)

[@doop00]

Best exploration movie ever, damn I miss that time when WoW was new

[@Dopefish]

If nothing else, it was one of the earlier ones :]

[@Dullface]

Wow, I just found this again. I had shivers run down my spine 4 times just during the first 2 and a half minute, I remember so vividly again Illidan drawing that lightning bolt from the sky. I can't tell you how much I was absorbed in this universe, these videos sparked so much in me. Obviously I became obsessed with exploration myself, I tried to find out how you did it all. Exploiting was so exciting, but I also began exploring electronic music because I heard it here. Totally enamored, I still am. Man I miss what this meant back then, it was colossal. I have to thank you for the beautiful memories, they were unique and I am grateful.

[@Dopefish]

Your comment really warms me, both for its content, and that you still remembered this video to this day. It's kind of low in quality to today's comparisons, but it was alright back then, but I guess the content was more important :) I'm really happy to hear that the music choices introduced people to a genre they necessarily hadn't been listening to before, and it was also made back when I started listening to it for the first time, so I wasn't any specialist by any means ;)

[@IronstarPaladin]

Awesome! The exploit Legend himself :) finally a nice upload on KZbin! I remember these times back in the days, i tried everything i saw in this movie :D But i just couldn't figure out the way to some places, till now! Maybe some stuff is still exploitable on Kronos, which hopefully gives all the other feelings of the past. Glad to find you Dopefish, Subed!

[@Dopefish]

It always makes me happy to hear someone has fond memories of my old videos, and doubly so now that you subscribed to give me newer videos a chance aswell :) I assume you'd be able to do this all on the version Kronos is running. I'm still hoping a new game will come out one day, that provides the same feeling of mystery and wonder that WoW did at the time. Though I don't think most developers would leave in so much unreleased content in their games these days ;)

[@CryOverdage]

***** i hope you are aware that at that time when they developed this game and the story that starts with warcraft games started when the computer/internet/gaming scene wasnt that big as today. the excitement and motivation to create a better game was big because this was like a revolution but now buisness people take over because gaming companies made to much money. Devs need to forget about other games and get their own idea. Thats one mistake, taking example of big companies. To much you can fail on, when you look on a big company

[@CryOverdage]

I wonder how long Blizzard want to hype their game...

[@CryOverdage]

Blizzard has done this Game with so much time and passion, which all those new games doesnt have because they probably dont think its worth the time. You could figure out the best way to make a game. You just have to forget about money. :D

[@Dopefish]

You got a good point. Game development today have a hard time justifying any content that won't be seen by every player, and pretty much the only exception I've seen to this have been the Souls-series of games (Demon's Souls, Dark Souls).

[@RAFCOM1982]

Thedopefish and Farq the orc were my wow heroes back in vanilla...thedopefish mainly for making VJ quality videos for trance music and Far the orc for Quality gank grp/raid setups plus comic book...hey dopefish thanks for good dose of nostalgia. You are awesome.

[@FunFails]

This video makes me so nostalgic. I remember watching this as a kid and being just mind-blown.

[@Dopefish]

You have a good memory by being able to remember this from all those years ago. It's getting close to the 20th anniversary since the video was made, and it's surprising to see it's still up on the internet, even if the quality is a bit subpar :D

[@bman420_]

this was one of my favorite videos when I was a little kid...that was almost 20years ago now. I probably watched this video 100 times! The music influenced my taste still to this day. WoW already had such of sense of wonder and exploration, and this video turned that dial up to 11 for me. I even downloaded Fraps and recorded myself wall walking around trying to emulate some of the things you were doing haha. You made something that captured my imagination and amazed me for years. Thank you.

[@Dopefish]

Thank you for sharing! It always brightens my day whenever someone take the time to write a comment on my old videos, and even more so that I was able to share the enjoyment of exploration with others. The main genre of music I listen to nowadays is Retrowave :)

[@nuitiodo3908]

still watchin' this .. since years :P never get's old

[@norbypro]

Sitting with a glass of wine and watching this awesome video again, it´s like a periodic ritual to come back and search for "Dopefish exploration" on youtube when i am depressed, and i don´t know why but this video and music pumps me up and brings soooooo many memories from my good old teen years... In 2005 i was 15 years old, i was counting each minute so that i could leave school and run back home where i could jump into the awesome WoW world and community of that time, sitting till late night in front of my PC, i felt like time was soooo slow back then. Now time flies so fast that i can´t even understand how the fuck i am 27... If anyone in his teen years is watching this comment now, i´ll tell you a cheat: the most valuable thing in life is youth, don´t let it slip through your hands and enjoy every single moment of it. Wish i could use a time machine to live once again all the emotions and chills i had back then. Thank you Dopefish for this awesome video that became part of my life.

[@Dopefish]

Thank you for taking the time to post this, it makes me happy to hear it can still spread atleast a little bit of joy still to this day. And I totally agree with you, when I was a teenager a summer could feel like a year long, while now time just flies by instead ;) Hopefully one day another game will come out with the same atmosphere and sense of wonder that WoW had in the beginning. It's also a bit interesting that Blizzard is going to release official classic servers for people who want to relive the pioneer days of the game. Cheers!

[@Mumpinator]

my god! I just found this video after soo many years. It hits right in the feels and brings back sooo many memories of times when life was easier and my only concern was to clear BWL, Never thought a video about World of Warcraft would bring tears into my eyes..but man I cant handle the nostalgia. I remember the day a friend of mine has showed me this video of yours and I immediately logged onto my level 60 Druid to try all the walljumps and get into those mysterious zones. Those where the days man. It kinda saddens me to know that I will never experience such things ever again in gaming. Thanks for this trip down memory lane!

[@Dopefish]

Don't be sad about the loss, be happy that you were there to experience it to begin with :) And even though I feel the same as you, that it's very unlikely any game will provide the same sense of mystery and discovery that WoW did at the time, I tend to think of discovering games themselves as a substitution. Each game contains their own world after all. Thanks for watching, and hope you're doing well anyhow!

[@WillWileyLive]

"A dopefish? 'Yeah' What is a dopefish?" Ahhhhhh nostalgia

[@Dopefish]

I think that sound clip was taken from when Tristan Pope was dressed up as an Murloc and someone asked him if he was a Dopefish :)

[@David-qf8pr]

You know you've made a piece of art when people come back 13 years later to watch your stuff. Its crazy how impactful your videos were to so many people. You are also the reason why I found my love for trance. I remember watching this and Exploration thinking "WHAT IS THIS MUSIC!". Thanks for uploading man!

[@Dopefish]

It's looking a little bit dated, but the feeling is still there ;) Thanks for taking the time to watch it in the first place, and for the kind words :)

[@MokuTom]

just heard about this from the John Staats AMA on reddit. WoW really is a one of a kind game... the history and mystery that surround it just elevated it to something else. the state the game is in now is a shame but videos like this help keep that magic alive. cant wait til i have the time to sit down and watch this... for some reason WoW has that crippling nostalgia for me

[@Dopefish]

The John Staats AMA seems pretty cool with some good insight in it. Like I mentioned, this video is quite dated now, but if you were there for vanilla WoW, it might still provide some interesting scenes for you. If you get the time to watch it, let me know your thoughts as someone who views it for the first time over a decade after it got released :)

[@David-qf8pr]

@@Dopefish Well....Im now 34...an engineer...married and have a kid. So much has happened in life but here i am! When i first saw this i was 15. I stick by my statement up above ha. I actually forgot i even left that initial comment 6 years ago. Was bored and deiced to rewatch yours and pathologist stuff. Hope all is well my dude!

[@Dopefish]

@@David-qf8pr Awesome seeing follow up comments from someone even years later

[@lgnlint]

The best videos from early wow. Man, my buddies and I would wall climb and explore all day. Nostalgic for those times.

[@Dopefish]

High praise, and it's nice to hear about more people wallwakling and exploring :)

[@Hectic1991]

So nice to see this video again, it inspired me to get into exploring WoW all those years ago and brings back some excellent memories. Thanks Dopefish, you really opened up a whole new aspect of gameplay to me with this video :)

[@branwalk81]

I had to watch all of your videos a hundred times man, especially the last wall walk/exploration/nogg-aholic. I spent a year of my life re-creating these videos. I've thanked you before dope, but somehow just found my way back into nostalgia. GOOOOOOOD TIMES!

[@Dopefish]

Always happy to hear someone enjoyed the videos, and actually took the time to try to reproduce the things shown in them :)

[@ManisonQT]

Wow.. watched this for the first time ever. Its so incredible that such an old video can still captivate me and make watch all of it.

[@Dopefish]

I'm surprised it still watchable today considering how poor quality it is in compared to today's standards :) It's a lengthy video, so kudos for sticking through it!

[@ForgtheFrog]

Some neat cool tricks I still remember from this time: Enter an instance. Wall climb out of it. And you would find the most amazing things. This is what we did in 29:49. In some instances, you could find areas where blizzard obviously had a great time messing around. The Deadmines, pre tbc for instance had a huge area of huge purple spheres (Like Dalaran pre tbc) floating in the sky. And floating trees that existed long before tbc, but wasn't in the game until then. I think the funniest bug I found was when we stood on a Zeppelin, boat, elevator or tram and used fear. If your character were to run on a steep terrain during the fear effect, for some reason this made your character fly away really fast and really far like in 37:05. If you did this at the old thousand needles elevator, you would teleport almost to Darnassus. If you did this in the stranglethorn>orgrimmar Zeppelin, you were teleported to blizzards playground area very far to the west. Flying there few times and not realising it, I think a really cool moment was when Dopefish said: "I think we just found Outlands". Good times. :)

[@Dopefish]

We reproduced the part where my character reached the Outlands area for this video, and it's the 37:51 part. Don't see much of it, but just being at the outer edges of it was pretty awesome :) Nice of you to drop by Forg, and thanks for all your help in making this video ^^

[@BendixX69]

I want to do all those things now that vainilla is returning When i played wow I used to level listening the songs on this video, and that made a whole different experience, always brings tears to my eyes when I listen Paul oakenfold. I still remember going through tanaris and desolace with that song. I’ve never had the chance to thank you for this video, since Warcraftmovies deleted it. Thank you.

[@Dopefish]

I don't know if wall jumping (and certainly not wallwalking) will work in WoW Classic, but I'm sure there's plenty of ways to explore these areas anyhow :) Thank you for taking the time to watch the video, and write a comment, It always makes me happy ^^

[@Tehstampede]

Man this brings me back to the glory days. I remember hitting 60 on my undead rogue grinding golems for hours in the Burning Steppes; it's an achievement I'll never forget. Just the opening few minutes of this video evoke so much nostalgia. My taste in music and KZbin content for several years after was influenced by the first time I saw this video back in 2006

[@Dopefish]

I've been trying to have different soundtracks for each video I make, so making my WoW videos were kind of the first time I started listening to trance, and it made me listen to vocal trance for years after, until I moved on to chillout music. Nowadays I'm into retrowave ^^ Thanks for taking the time to comment! :)

[@Tehstampede]

@@Dopefish I'm also on the retrowave train right now love that stuff. I also wanted to thank you for showcasing that solo MC attunement run, I was able to get my rogue attuned solo back in the day all thanks to this video

[@Dopefish]

@@Tehstampede I'm happy to hear someone found a use for it, and I saw that someone made a recent guide about receiving some rainbows in the same area, using the same tricks aswell ^^

[@MrDdddcdc]

this movie is one of the greatest memories of my childhood, might sound silly but exploring WoW with my friends was so much fun.. and its all thanks to you dopefish.. 8 years later i still watch this video all the time. just wanna say thank you so much dopefish you're great.

[@DreamcastVibes]

I love that you still actively reply to this man, I've probably watched this hundreds of times. Gets me so pumped. The good old days :)

[@Dopefish]

Well, if people are still actively commenting, then the least I could do is to reply :)

[@Tavbe]

Thumbs up! Haven't seen this movie for years. This makes me miss the old times on Shattered hand EU. So many memories..

[@jaspervgelder]

Nice that the dopefish is posting his own videos :D. The amount of time I have spend climbing on Orgrimmar, Ironforge, Stormwind, Undercity, grimbatol, dancing troll village, Stranglethorn mountains, karazhan and areas behind scarlet monastery and more but best of all was hyal! Many times this movie has caused me to go back to WOW :P Thanks for the good memories though ^^

[@010Flappie]

Once every few years i come back and watch this masterpiece and feel the thrills i had during my exploration days of wow. I really wanted to play classic but when i heard walljumping wouldn't come back i had no reason to go back to classic. Rip wow. Ill just keep it as a nice memory.

[@Dopefish]

For every year that passes, I feel like this video is looking more and more outdated. Though I guess that might be appropriate since it reflects the time it was made in, and it always works listening to the soundtrack ^^ Thank you for taking the time to comment on the video. It will never cease to make me happy to hear from people who have watched this and enjoyed it.

[@manafount2600]

I watch this at least once a year, and it's always an emotional experience for me. This one video perfectly encapsulates that brief period of wonder and awe in the early WoW community, before we became jaded and lost our curiosity and hunger for exploration.

[@Dopefish]

Think eventually you've seen the most, and data mining become so prevalent so there weren't really many secrets left. Not to mention, I assume flying mounts made it alot easier to explore areas :) But I'm you still find enjoyment in this video, and thank you for commenting

[@manafount2600]

@@Dopefish You're absolutely right, and I didn't mean to disparage explorers. The tools available (in-game and via software) just make everything so readily available now. I don't think we can ever put the genie back in the bottle, and I'm not sure if we should even want to. But I do find myself getting very nostalgic for those earlier days.

[@Dopefish]

@@manafount2600 No worries, and I know you didn't. My solution to this issue have been to play alot of different games instead, where each one is their own little universe to get discovered. Sure, it's not the same mystery when most of them showcase areas that everyone go through during a playthrough, but I still find it interesting seeing differences from game to game :) Hope you're doing well ^^

[@Nazumor]

Hey Dopefish, just wanted to say I remember watching this back in middle school and being amazed by your exploration. I even emulated a lot of what was in the vid just to see it for myself. A shame that no game has quite captured that sense of exploration in a long time. Fantastic video.

[@Dopefish]

Yeah, I'm really missing a game that would let you explore freely, and have the same kind of sense of wonder attached to it. Thanks for your kind words :)

[@Collected1]

We'll never forget.

[@Dopefish]

"You may cut our wings but we will always remember what it was like to fly!"

[@tobisthlm]

This bring back so many memories, we had such a great time on Shattered Hand during vanilla! When this movie came out it was really something else, still is. Thanks for making this all them years ago! /Nosfearatu Orc Rogue SH EU

[@Dopefish]

Awesome to hear more people from Shattered Hand managed to see this video. Thank you for taking the time to watch it and posting here ^^

[@dsports4753]

So many memories. God bless this video!!

[@Dopefish]

Bless you :)

[@avo616]

This video brings back so much. Doesn’t seem so long ago watching this and practicing wall walking all night.

[@Dopefish]

For me it was half a life time ago ^^

[@Anbutou]

I saw the Emerald Dream reveal, laughed and said Dopefish did it better, and went on another nostalgia trip. I miss those days. The hours I spent farming Light Feathers and swiftness pots on my mage for exploration.

[@Dopefish]

The reason (as you might've guessed) the movie is called Nogg-aholic, is because the massive amount of Noggenfogger elixirs I had to buy since it had slowfall as one of the three random effects it could provide. I had Sprint as an ability since I were a rogue. It's also interesting how content that was teased almost 20 years ago is finally being released into the actual game.

[@solidhyrax]

A blast from the past. I used to love wall climbing in vanilla. Such a shame that Blizzard fell from graces so hard, it breaks my heart.

[@termsofuniverse7251]

Its funny to think devs would put whole test worlds into production build of the game. To think, BC was basically leaked because the old version of Hellfire was already an instanced place in Vanilla. This video was top tier when it came out, brings back good private server exploration memories.

[@Dopefish]

It's pretty unlikely nowadays since data mining has become much more prevalent since then, but it was impressive how much WIP areas they had in the official builds back then. Guess they either didn't think about it (even though they tried to block some areas off), or for some reason it was just easier to work that way for them.

[@gars50]

Man, I remember watching this over and over back in the days. It was really well made and inspired me to explore more in WoW back then! Thanks for uploading!

[@exirim]

Played on Shattered Hands alliance.. remember when I first saw this and it blew my mind, also made me listen to a lot of good music. One time I went to Orgrimmar and tried to climb it and ran into Forg who mind controlled me and told me and showed me what to do. Such good memories. Skål!

[@Dopefish]

Think that was pretty much how I first met Forg aswell, minus the mind controlling. Cool to hear from people who were part of the same server. Skål :D

[@propyro85]

Oh man, with all this hype over WoW Classic coming up I had to look up this video that inspired me to try so many weird exploration tricks back in the days of vanilla. This really was a golden time, there was so much mystery, promise and hidden little Easter eggs all over the place. You just had to know what corners to fall through to find them.

[@dzllz]

The remix of World on Fire by Junkie XL was incredible. Sick music and video. Good old days 🙏

[@Dopefish]

Thank you for enjoying my old WoW videos, and taking the time to comment on both of these. I replied to your question on the other video. Feel free to ask me if you got any more questions. Cheers!

[@darkMuffin31]

Wow really alienated their base, didn't they.

[@Dopefish]

I've not kept up with the game since I stopped playing, other than hearing that they kind of trivialized the story from Warcraft 3 and did a poor job of progressing it through WoW.

[@pray4771]

You and Forg where like gods for me and my mate! we used to explore all over the place after watching you're videos! had forgotten the you're name and was trying to figure it out! and here I am! Thank you for everything Dopefish! you guys where truly gods for us other explorers!

[@Dopefish]

I'm just happy to hear you got to enjoy the sense of exploration aswell. Hasn't really been any game since WoW that been able to provide the same experience since. Cheers!

[@hellfire5108]

Those sweet Vanilla days when exploration really meant something. Great nostalgia movie :).

[@saxxonpike]

Man, this video is why I know about "Asura - Fahrenheit" and "Michael Woods - GameMaster (Michael Woods Remix)" at all. Great sense of exploration, great taste in music for 2005.

[@Dopefish]

I was just starting out listening to trance when I made the video, so I might just have stumbled across the more popular ones at the time, but I tried to pick the ones who would fit the mood of the video :) Nowadays I'm more into retrowave ;)

[@pusillirex]

Just found a link to this vid on a reddit post, I'm feeling quite lucky. I used to watch a lot of strange WoW vids about exploration, GMs, glitches, etc. when I was younger. At the time I didn't even speak English properly so remembering the names of the vids I used to watch is a bit hard. I'd always try to emulate them (often in vain but it was fun nonetheless) and I'd try to walljump on everything, I still do it in fact lol But holy shit does it bring me back... hearing "Straight to video" again may have hit the hardest haha. Bless you man

[@Dopefish]

I'm the one feeling lucky having someone nice as yourself finding my video and enjoying it ^^ Thank you soo much for taking the time to comment, and bless you to! :)