I close my eyes. It's 1999. The internet is still relatively new and online gaming hasn't reached the masses yet. I get home from dinner at Pizza Hut on a Friday night, sit down at my newly purchased computer with a 266mhz CPU and plug in the phone line to the computer and the sound of the dial up takes over my conscious. This music begins to play as the UO chest opens and I'm transported to another world. A world that I don't truly understand yet, but I know there are many friends to be made and many enemies to watch out for. I run to my house, north of Minoc, with a bag full of ore. Almost shaking because I know at a moments notice it could all be taken away from me. I run past my friends house and see him, we stop to talk about our week at school and how excited we are to spend all weekend in Britannia. He helps me to my house, which is nearby, just incase any PK’s around around. Which there is. We quickly get inside my house, hearts beating fast and ready for an adventure all night together. When I open my eyes, it's now 2022. All of those memories are still so fresh inside my mind. However, I no longer have that house near Minoc. My old friend and I haven't talked in 20 years and almost everyone has left Napa Valley leaving it a ghost town. I will forever remember this great game as it once was.
I’m 47. And this song right here to me, is the pinnacle of video game music. It’s timeless and harkens back to a better life and a better happier time. I miss being a kid so much and playing ultima games.
Looking back, life was simpler and more chill. Ideal living. Even our online games were about just hanging out in a virtual world. I too miss it so much.
Ultima online was the matrix of 90s. if ultima is online, life was offline. game was a drug. its insane but when i bought my first house in real life, i wasnt even half exited as buying my first house at ultima online.
he only MMO game I ever played where: You had to trust your friends with everything. Absolutely everything. Good and evil was real. Eating food healed... your hunger. (Ok, so it did that in EQ as well.) You could own a persistent house that would take up actual space in the world. Death was serious. Loss was real. Fear was real. A passing stranger could make or break your day. You got stronger by using your muscles, smarter by using your brain, and better at things by doing them. UO. Forever.
This was the best MMO, in 2d. It truly was. Your own house, your own neighbors, your own economy, your own skills, everyone equal. Fighting monsters you could do, or you could be killed by criminals, and eventually murderers, who were run out of town. You could eb good, or bad, a merchant, a healer, a pet tamer, a warrior, a wizard, or even a simple beggar... it didn't matter. The game had limitless possibility, and it was created, and run by the players. Fantastic game.
Literally my entire High School years were spent playing this game. One would say that would be regretful but i say it was the best time ever spent. This song and remembering the chest opening at the login screen gives me chills. Race home from school to get in that computer chair and dial up the modem to play the best game ever made....
Same! My grandparents were shocked when I received a money order in the mail for $2500 for selling my account back in 1999 when I was 18! They thought I was a "computer genius".
I thought I was the only one experiencing these feelings, that how dear this game was to me. I spent countless nights trying to do and build something in this realm, fight for the cause in which I believed. It felt so real, even more real than my actual life maybe, as creepy and sad as it may sound. Then nearly after a couple decades, I come here, see these comments and realize that I was far from being the only person that had this unique experience. This realization is priceless. People from every corner of the world, that spent their childhood trying to accomplish similar things with me, delved into the same dungeons with me, cried over stolen items or mounts, ran miles and miles in ghost form in order to get to a healer, get lost in the middle of nowhere, afraid of encountering murderers, soaked this medieval and mystic world in, just as I did. The exciting chill you had at those moments, with your 56k internet connection... It's... very, VERY hard to explain the feelings that this game induced to someone who did not played it, but that feeling is permanent and it's being triggered every time I listen to this music. Each piece reminds me of a different adventure I've gone through. Each city had a distinct taste and these music is the reminder of that. But now I know that there is a complete generation that share this bond. I see that there are many people who understand that inexplainable, warm feeling as much as I do when listening to this. Thank you, producers of this game. It was the greatest game I've ever played, with its atmosphere, music and in-game dynamics. I owe these very precious memories to you. And I feel very, very sorry for those who did not get to know this game, at that time. Because it's impossible to experience the same thing (not the game, that complete *thing*), ever again. That's just sad.
Ditto. It's an experience that I can only describe as catching lightning in a bottle. The nostalgia hits me hard. Good vs Evil was a real thing. You relied on the bonds you made in the game. Someone wrote above, "crossing paths with a stranger could make or break your day." That really resonated with me. The human dynamic was so real. I remember watching my friend play this game for the first time - I must have been around 12 - and was shocked when I asked if he was interacting with real people. We all played the game religiously and my little brother got into it with me. A real bond was forged over this mystical universe. Just listening to this song floods me with emotion and memories. It brings me to a simpler time when logging into this game gave us all an escape -- and freedom. I truly miss this game and once again... your comment resonated with me deeply and we're clearly not the only ones who feel this way. UO forever!
To this day... there is not a single game, that can fill the place of UO in my heart. So many incredible memories, friendships, that became real life friendships. Big part of the people in my life, I met because of UO, whether they directly played it, or were just friends of friends I played UO with. I can say, I met my current fiancee because of UO, because my friend I used to play UO with, had a girlfriend, and she was her friend. So I probably wouldnt have met her if it wasnt for UO. Truly amazing times and memories, when I hear the soundtrack I feel very emotional and nostalgic!
+CestusInfernalis "and still the best online mmo" It hasn't been that in over 13 years now, since something called 'Age of Shadows' happened along with everything after it.
I was 13 when i started playing UO... I'm now 32. It was truly a unique experience, not just a game, but almost a social experiment, where I met many friends, and forged bonds with people i still interact with today. Not many games can do that, and honestly every time I hear this song, it takes me back. UO was more of a experience, then just a game.
faço das minhas palavras as suas, amigo. UO foi um jogo que ficou marcado no meu ser, impossivel escutar essa musica e não reviver momentos marcantes...
there's still a very large population playing on the free UOFOREVER server. Google it or visit uoforever.com I play every day. It's ALMOST as good as it used to be and the servers admin seem to be pretty solid.
When I say that I miss this game, I mean I have no free time to play. I own a shop, and I have a little boy that take all my free time (and I like this, obviously! )
My soul aches to go back to these times... times when you had to make friends to learn about the game, times when you tried things out of a sense of curiosity and adventure... times when I would stare at the cloth map that came with my game and literally use it to navigate in-game. Now every MMO puts you on rails, and you can google/youtube every single step of every single game. The sense of adventure is gone now. Ultima Online was the definition of magic to my 13-year-old self.
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I have no personal friends who share this kind of memories with me... and lost contact with all the online friends from that time... I cant express the feeling this song brings to me
Consider that you were one of such a small generation of people that got to experience genuine "virtual world building" when it was the forefront of technology. We've left it all behind now and moved towards things that make more money.... but for a brief moment in time, we genuinely came close to having a legitimate matrix
there's still a very large population playing on the free UOFOREVER server. Google it or visit uoforever.com I play every day. It's ALMOST as good as it used to be and the servers admin seem to be pretty solid.
No other game has recreated the magic that UO had for me. Games these days have so many rules and it all just feels so damn artificial. Back in UO you had to be smart or you'd get scammed and that was just part of the game. The game was cut throat as hell but it brought the community together. There are reds at X location, people would group up and go hunt them. There's an IDOC, gigantic red vs. blue battle. Loved it.
It really was the wild west in the early days. You were forced to adapt, and even though you'd lose your ass from time to time the experience still brought you back every day.
@@stevenfontes9818 I would pose as a blacksmith and steal armor from people when they gave it to me for repairs. I then moved on to "sparring sessions" and getting newbies guard whacked. I thought I was hot shit early on LOL.
I didn't play this game, I was 8 yo. But my big brothers did and listening to the soundtrack and spells sounds, swords, horses, brings me safety, to that childhood I had where I didn't think over the problems that surround the world, I didn't have depression, eating disorder and worries about the future . My brothers were like keepers that protected me and this nostalgia, even if I never played this in first person, feels so wholesome. Thanks for this :)
There was a time when two guys stopped me on the road, and told me I had a special horse. It ran faster than other horses. They offered to pay me 100k gold for my special horse. In order to determine that this was one of the Special Fast Horses, they asked me to dismount it so they could get a better ID on this wonderful beast. I did so. They killed my horse, and laughed as they ran away. There was no such thing as special horses. I learned a lesson that day. And then to recoup my costs, I sold a few totally fake runebooks because I had no money at all. Got enough reagents as a newbie mage to defend myself while camping out a house that was in danger of collapsing. Spent 10 hours there, hiding and running from unleashed dragons, energy vortexes, and all manner of murderers. Got a pretty nice spear and a black dye tub out of it, though. This was truly the best game ever made. I wish there was something, anything, like it.
Time spent in this game was so much worth it. It was like escaping from reality to a better, very mystic but wonderful world. All the years and time in Britannia, I miss them.
It's the only game that not only provided me a escape from reality but it actually taught me values/virtues through the relationships I've had within the game - it's the most organic experience I have ever had in a videogame ever since; not to mention it taught me to love art somehow, and made me learn a whole new language.
@@NaldinhoGX All true. All Ultima games were like a trip to another world. Even nowadays I think a lot of this past. As a mage, as a craftsman, a grandmaster warrior riding to champion spawn points, kill dragons, die, get resurrected, bargain with the others who gets their share of the boss loot and so on. I loved my house so much. These many chests, bags and furniture. Server staff showing up helping me decorate my home. Man, I miss the days.
We all know what this tune means for us. It was a frontier we all shared in a fixed moment in time. Something special and unique that brought many of us close together.
And im here again. There is too much words i can speak about this game but nothing will explain how beautiful this game was. Farming for years, learning the game by dying and dying again, losing everything that u farmed whole time and trying over and over. In the end eventually learning how to kill, and how to pvp, when the server knows ur name, you can even 1v3 in open map and everyone runs when they see ur name. Pk’ing with friends, best memories of my life
This music hits you right in the feelings. Just the music alone takes me back to soo many memories of my childhood and first playing this game back in 1998. Still occasionally play to this day and love the nostalgia.
First listened to this song as a young boy in the early 90s in Ultima 7 The black gate. Now it’s 30 years later and this melody always sends me back to my childhood.
I was just a lad when I got my hands on this. My mother had gotten it from some people her company at the time were working with. She had no idea it was an online game, and didn't know those even existed yet-- to be fair, neither had I. I was 14, I think, when I first touched UO. The Second Age was when I started, and Trammel did not exist quite yet if memory serves. The Trinsic Invasion had just went underway when I started. And I loved every minute of it. The constant danger, the level of interactivity with the world that nothing I know of has yet to match, the freedom with which you could travel, the many things you could do and the WAYS you could do them. Travel by boat and have a Tinker trap your gangplank, so if they try to steal your boat, they blow the hell up. Free loot! Nothing is as free or interesting today as what UO offered, and that's pathetic considering how long its been.
I never played this game but I can understand how all of you feel when you listen to this song. The art of video games is something only a small percentage of people/gamers understand.
@@Adino1 you are right, the point in time was also relevant, how disruptive the game was versus what existed, even the way the human society was by then.
My first or second week of UO in December of '97 I got the courage to venture out of the city despite being warned it was full of PK's and they'll take everything you have... I made it a few screens out and soon enough was chased and lightning bolted. OoooOoOoOo I yelled at them. They saw my meager bone armor, the candle and 50 gold in my pack, and realized I was a newbie. One of them resurrected me, then gave me much better armor, a magic sword, 1000 gold and sent me on my way. I knew it was a special community and was hooked.
damn this was a great time.....first and best online game i ever played.some years ago i have try it again....the world was total empty :-( so sad....still remember my very first steps in the game......tears...
+Plexpara As someone else who came back after a long break (and is too stubborn to give it up entirely now), that does depend on the shard and where you go, though yes it is certainly much more empty than it was years ago.
I would literally donate substantial funds to see a modern exact remake of this game. This game brought so much happiness to me and so much relaxation and joy. I met so many real friends from this game. The theme song alone brings me to tears because of so many amazing memories. Remake this game please!!!!
I agree, but I think what most people realize is that even if you find a replica server with the rule set or patch you enjoyed the most, you can't really ever truly replace the exciting time of discovery when we were all at the same discovery phase together. You would get a rushed version where anyone can GM 7 in a few days, and buy a house in just a few days. In the release days you had to die A LOT before you could save up for a house. I think that's what people miss the most, is the even playing field of everyone learning and it just can't be replaced.
This game is the only thing that I regreet in my life, I regreet not have expended more time on it. Now I just look back in time and see a man over a hill carving on white stones next to a big tree Mak - The bard - 1997 - ∞
Best MMO, so much freedom. Now MMO's are just a roller coaster ride that gets boring after the first ride. The only other MMO that offers true freedom would be EVE online, but that game is a different beast altogether.
I close my eyes and am transported to a 12 year old version of myself. I am taking another sick day off school due to not fitting in, afraid of the other kids who just seem so confident. I take solace in the sound of the internet dialling, knowing that soon I will be able to escape this cruel world that I feel so lost in. The sweet inviting sound of this melody welcomes me into a world much different to the one I am used to, with endless possibilities and adventures to be had. I meet with friends I have met along the way, simple pleasures such as farming lumber for the morning, together we make a killing due to playing on an Aussie server but everyone else working or being at school. Plenty of goodies for us! This game brought comfort to me during a time of great difficulty, with family problems and lack of support. Now, I am very different to that scrawny, short terrified kid. I am very strong, very attractive (you can take my word for it) very successful. I have an amazing family, many friends, beautiful wife and daughter. However, this music takes me back to that comforting feeling I once had, so many emotions flood my brain. In the end I feel only peace. Thank you UO, and to the friends I made there, a moment forever lost in time.
nossa... quantas e quantas horas eu passei escutando esta musica de fundo, enquanto eu minerava, ou treinava, ou costurava... kkkkk... ou explorando as cavernas, atrás de bichos, loots, e de vez em quando, algum viajante perdido se deparava comigo, era conversa, ou treta hahaha... maioria das vezes, eu morria!! quantas vezes eu morri neste game! hahah.... bons tempos, bom game...
This is a Kal Ort Por to my youth.. soo many memories..cant explain the excitment i have feel when i logged in, it was the first online game experience in 1997 it was like dungeons&dragons come alive. UO Siege Perilous and Midgard shard veteran :) Fencer Poisoner obviously PK Luposolitario (LoneWolf) (i was a big fan of the game-books of Joe Dever back then)
Hearing this creates a deep, deep longing for something that can never be replaced. I very much miss my old friends and the adventures we had. /Deric Brokenhelm, Glorious Lord, hunter of PK's and Captain of the Britannia Guards on the Europa Server.
UO was more than a game. It was basically a social experiment on a large scale. 100k+ people from all over the world with different backgrounds were given an opportunity to interact for the first time and there really had been nothing like it before.
Ultima , so many memories :) I meet so many friends :) after 15 years nostalgia, so many things changed but i still coming back for this song , words cant help
I remember seeing this game at electronics boutique as a kid and I was intrigued so I bought it. Had so many great experiences with the game on the Atlantic server. Loved it. Wish I could go back and have that experience again. Best game that I have ever played.
The title theme kills me. It just drags me immediately back to what was probably the best time for gaming I've ever experienced. It's so bound up with all the feelings and aspirations and in-game friendships. It leaves me feeling simultaneously like I want to play the game and sad that I will probably never recapture those first feelings of adventure in the early UO. Truly, an epic game. We should all get back on it and make it a community again. Its still there for us people even if life has moved on. Drop me a line if anyone fancies it.
beyler bu oyunu oynamayan biri olarak acınızı hissettim resmen ya. müzik bile çok geçmişten geliyor sanki. keşke zamanında yakalasaymışım o ruhu. tuhafınıza gitmesin, şimdi oyuna başlayıp biraz vakit geçiricem. çok etkilendim.
This game changed my entire life for the better. I have never experienced anything like it. One of the most immersive video games of all time, and still holds up today in the free servers that exist. UO Outlands and UO Forever have done such a great job of keeping the true spirit of Ultima alive. These days I struggle to go back because I remember old friends that I've since lost contact with, but I'll never forget them. Every time I hear this theme it legitimately brings tears to my eyes. Incredible memories, and there's still been nothing that has matched the magic that UO held for so many of us. Truly a sandbox RPG.
Back on dial up, I used to play a text based mud. One day I saw Ultima Online in a UK gaming store and just had to get it after i read that it was a graphical permanently available online only fantasy world, the first such game i had seen. As a new player, it was laggy on dial up, and the PKs would regularly kill me and steal the ore that I mined around the town of Minoc, but this didn't deter me. If anything, the risk of loss made it feel more rewarding when I would safely bring back a large haul of ore. This kind of fun I have experienced in very few games since. I learned to mine naked with a pickaxe to reduce loss, smelting the ore and selling the ingots to player blacksmiths at the local smith, who paid more than the npc price. I used the gold i earned from this to buy a small house. I trained up my weapon skills and magery, and eventually was taking down dragons and balrons single handedly, as well as successfully fighting back against reds and doing some pking myself. Corp Por. I think if they ever made official old school uo, it could do very well. Its a shame they won't try. Although sadly, any new attempt at UO would undoubtedly be swarmed with 3rd world farmers, with everything power farmed to sell for real world profit at cheap prices. This wasn't a thing back in the early days of UO, especially not on the industrial scale that it happens today. In some countries, online game farming is done at large scale.
This music cuts so deep into my soul it's painful. Best gaming experience ever. Between ultimate online and the countless half life mods of the late 90s I was forever ruined for any other games.
The most amazing moments in Ultima Online was feeling like you were truly, left out naked and alone, in a dangerous wide medieval world. Even walking down the alleys of a medieval city at night, with silence and calm, you COULD be mugged at any moment, or attacked. But it still somehow wasnt totally crazy, it wasnt nonstop pvp all the time everywhere. Some people WERE nice, a lot of people banded together. But it was the risk that gave the whole game the feeling that no modern games have. I still remember times where there were DRAGON attacks in the main towns, some spawned by the game's creator himself (with admin tools) just to spice things up. It felt incredible that "story" events could happen anywhere, at any time (under human control). Even standing in a "safe" town, you never knew...... Would a dragon attack? Would a pack of giants march in from the north following a fleeing player? Could the NPC guards hold them off? And....... What loot would remain on the carcasses, before being cleaned up by the survivors? The feeling of being vulnerable in a huge incomprehensible world. That there was no quicksave to rescue you, there was no pvp-concent-button to unbind. There was no linear boring predictable grind. Because at any moment, anywhere, without warning, your linear progression could be snuffed out and reset to near zero. EVERY hour mattered. EVERY play session was important to your overall growth ingame. NOTHING was for granted. And likewise.. It worked in the opposite way too, not only in potential losses, but potential gains.. At any moment, if you were lucky, you could stumble upon a corpse or ongoing battle, and find riches in magical equipment that increased your net worth by 50x, overnight. But then, you had to make the perilous journey WITH this loot, to a vendor to sell, or a player to sell (without being mugged). You couldnt just scream into global chat about the riches you were carrying, you had to be smart. Games like these dont exist now.
Best game ever. But these days it's more difficult than ever to listen to the music as my best mate I played UO with forrrr.. 7 years? recently died in a car accident. I come here when it's time to remember, not only UO, but my friend. In fact, this music was played at his funeral. RIP Demarcos De'ath
I never played Ultima in it's prime, but there was something genuinely special happening through the 90's of people setting out to make virtual worlds, virtual societies, and all their design coming at it from that angle. These were less games and more experiments at giving people a virtual world to live in that was detached from their real life. It's something we stopped pursuing into the 2000's, but I genuinely think it was ground-breaking and important work that was being done. I wish we kept on that path.
Sitting here as an adult coding a home valuation machine learning tool to deploy to the web for use and came to listen to this and immediately felt childhood and the comforts of it all over again.
Nostalgic people should check out UO forever. It is a freeshard that is based on UO Renaissance era, which was the best time period for the game (in my opinion). Lots of cool stuff and decent population. I played for a bit but not much time anymore.
I actually just moved to UO an corp. The faction/ocb pvp is amazing there. Its a no mount server, slower skill gain, a little more hardcore/old school. I rate it.
The thing about nostalgia is that real life can't live up to it. No game can ever take UO's place. Back then everything was new and magical and waiting to be discovered.
Jumping into Buccaneers Den with my macros of Kal Vas Flam, Corp Por, and following up with an In Nox was the cornerstone of my enjoyment as The Dread Pirate Roberts. No game has had quite the impact on me as the buying and selling of property, trying to GM Cartography, or being truly concerned about traveling from one place to another worried about losing black pearls to some PK waiting to gank you with a vanquishing Kris. There has been no game as truly pure an experience of knowing who you can trust and having the ever looming feeling of loss as the one established by UO. Gamers today are weak in comparison having grown up with their hands being held and never experiencing working for weeks to get a set of ranger armor just to have to it taken from you the very day you find someone at the Brit Bank selling the chest piece. No one understands what it feels like to finally have a pair of blessed black Sandals anymore outside of those that are likely listening to this piece of music with tears in their eyes. UO isn’t a game. It is a masterpiece unmatched.
Seems like another life altogether. Memory has claimed this one, I wonder how i will remember the times i spend in this game when im an old man, maybe the game will be all gone at that point. Perhaps I will tell my grand children stories of how i braved the dungeon Shame in order to get my swordsmanship to 100, the assassination of lord British, or the birth of Trammel and the odd idea of having a peacefull pacified world, next to an unforgiving harsh one as Fel, hope it will can make sense
I agree 100% with how "words can't describe the feeling". I will forever wish I can go back to '97 and play UO from release day, to late 1998. There's no other way than traveling back in time, because nobody will ever make something equal to it again.
Same for me, im 38 but i still play Ultima Online on the Outlands free shard. You cant recreate the "then and there" feel we had in the past, but the game is actually even better than it used to be on OSI servers back in the day. Execpt now im the old man and the kids keep killing and looting me often :D @@CoBrAToRcHStream
Song reminds me of "Down by the River" from BG3. Both beautiful works of music. Never got the chance to play this gem, but definitely a lot of gaming nostalgia from the early days before lootboxes and mainstream things took over PC gaming...
I remember back when I still had not played it and somehow this theme itself made me feel extremely nostalgic about something I had never played before. Now, after having played it for years... Best game I've ever played in my entire life. You'll never get a game like Ultima Online ever again. Don't ever let it die!
What you're feeling is not nostalgia, it's validation that who you are today is a result of having enjoyed life in ways many people could not. All of the feelings you had "back in the day" you can have today as well. Build onward, always. Make 2023 feel like 1999!
Oh my, remember the first time you booted the game, the login screen came on, and you heard this? I still breaks my heart every time I listen to it, even in 2020 and still playing on an freeshard.
I had the 2nd worst GPA in Highschool out of over 400 seniors because of Ultima Online. This game took over my life from 97-2004 and I'd be lying if I didn't say that I just recently got on a free UO server that's heavily populated and almost as fun as the early days. So thanks for ruining any real career I could have had UO! #AgentOrange #NapaValley #UO #Pico #BucsDen #Raiden #Nixon #MissFloaty #CharlieManson 97-2001
mista808 Fool! UO Is a career! Seriously. I made a lot of money selling worked up accounts. Do you have any idea how much an account with a 7xGM tamer-bard would sell for?
I do know that at 16 years old without a job I stayed up for 24 + hours and managed to place a Large Tower after one fell and I sold it on Ebay for $500. So yes, I know that you could make a career on UO back in the days and if I were older I probably would have. As a teen though I was to busy playing it all day to worry about making income off of it. I know my mom at the time sold her account for $1500 and she didn't even have much. A 2 Story L Shaped house, 3-4 7x toons and that was about it.
mista808 If I knew then what I know now, I would have made upwards of 20,000 bucks off of UO. There were many who started doing that later, but like you said, us hardcore gamers were too worried about the thrill and excitement of PVP than making real cash. Something like a blessed supremely accurate indestructible vanq kryss might have gotten you like 500 bucks back then. In the old days, things on UO had ALOT more value, especially a whole account with real estate, and 7x chars.... Getting gm magery back in 1999 was ridiculously hard, shit took ages... I remember the days of going out in the woods and fighting with just what I had, 76 magery, 80-90 swords, tactics wasnt needed so you would have random skills like hiding, and lumberjacking/ bowcrafting rofl. You would have like 15 skills that were adept, and you just fought like a man. When the game evolved people started macroing and the smart people only went out when they were fully prepared usually. GM resist was also a rare thing to see. People just dont know how hard and unforgiving that game was. A few people have killed themselves over UO, I read stories about it. Thousands have definitely cried over the game LOL, some of my friends did lolol.
After I'd listened to about half of the tunes in this uploader's playlist, meanwhile reading comments and appreciating the warfare landscape picture used in the videos, I too started feeling nostalgic about this game... when I've never even played it! Never even KNEW what it was, other than an MMO, until recently. And I did grow up in the 90's. With PC gaming!
I close my eyes. It's 1999. The internet is still relatively new and online gaming hasn't reached the masses yet. I get home from dinner at Pizza Hut on a Friday night, sit down at my newly purchased computer with a 266mhz CPU and plug in the phone line to the computer and the sound of the dial up takes over my conscious. This music begins to play as the UO chest opens and I'm transported to another world. A world that I don't truly understand yet, but I know there are many friends to be made and many enemies to watch out for. I run to my house, north of Minoc, with a bag full of ore. Almost shaking because I know at a moments notice it could all be taken away from me. I run past my friends house and see him, we stop to talk about our week at school and how excited we are to spend all weekend in Britannia. He helps me to my house, which is nearby, just incase any PK’s around around. Which there is. We quickly get inside my house, hearts beating fast and ready for an adventure all night together.
When I open my eyes, it's now 2022. All of those memories are still so fresh inside my mind. However, I no longer have that house near Minoc. My old friend and I haven't talked in 20 years and almost everyone has left Napa Valley leaving it a ghost town.
I will forever remember this great game as it once was.
True story
UO Outlands - Population - 3k daily
@@calvin6449 I've got to disagree, AoS killed UO.
RED in the graveyard!!!
Also UO Second Age was king.
Man what a great story. It took me back
when I'm 80 years old I'll still come hear this and feel like a kid again when the world was so much simpler...
Me too.
We all do
I’ll be here too
Without a doubt
I think the same as you, brother. 😢
I’m 47. And this song right here to me, is the pinnacle of video game music. It’s timeless and harkens back to a better life and a better happier time. I miss being a kid so much and playing ultima games.
Looking back, life was simpler and more chill. Ideal living. Even our online games were about just hanging out in a virtual world. I too miss it so much.
Ultima online was the matrix of 90s. if ultima is online, life was offline. game was a drug. its insane but when i bought my first house in real life, i wasnt even half exited as buying my first house at ultima online.
MMO gamer in a nutshell
When you put it like this, I think I may have been more excited for my dinky little house in UO too. Pure magic.
Sfhdhd güldüm. Same here.
@@husnulass detaylı anlatır mısın
Vendor buy bank recdu recsu
This not a game, is a masterpiece.
I loved this game in its prime I will always remeber those moments and forever hold this game as my favorite of all time.
It's a game.
+100
It was.
고마워 내생각도 같다
he only MMO game I ever played where: You had to trust your friends with everything. Absolutely everything. Good and evil was real. Eating food healed... your hunger. (Ok, so it did that in EQ as well.) You could own a persistent house that would take up actual space in the world. Death was serious. Loss was real. Fear was real. A passing stranger could make or break your day. You got stronger by using your muscles, smarter by using your brain, and better at things by doing them. UO. Forever.
Dont forget the funny skills like Speaking with the dead, fishing, and the best of all, stealing hahahaha
This was the best MMO, in 2d. It truly was.
Your own house, your own neighbors, your own economy, your own skills, everyone equal.
Fighting monsters you could do, or you could be killed by criminals, and eventually murderers, who were run out of town.
You could eb good, or bad, a merchant, a healer, a pet tamer, a warrior, a wizard, or even a simple beggar... it didn't matter. The game had limitless possibility, and it was created, and run by the players.
Fantastic game.
I loved this game. I made some wonderful friends there.
fuck yeah
+Garlic King o/
Literally my entire High School years were spent playing this game. One would say that would be regretful but i say it was the best time ever spent. This song and remembering the chest opening at the login screen gives me chills. Race home from school to get in that computer chair and dial up the modem to play the best game ever made....
You just pinpointed middle school for me. Nothing like firing up the 56k and lagging out in the Brit-Trinny road and getting killed by a gazer, hah!
Or getting pked in the fields between Vesper and Minoc :D
Go to bed, sneak out of bed, go to bone knight wall in deceit, go to bed for 10 minutes, go to school, sleep through class, come home play. repeat.
@@ultimaniac1 exactly, real life was just the boring time between UO sessions
Same! My grandparents were shocked when I received a money order in the mail for $2500 for selling my account back in 1999 when I was 18! They thought I was a "computer genius".
Many games have captured my heart in life. This one captured my soul.
Perfect
this game still has mine
Still has mine for sure
That's my feeling...
A huge piece of my soul
I thought I was the only one experiencing these feelings, that how dear this game was to me. I spent countless nights trying to do and build something in this realm, fight for the cause in which I believed. It felt so real, even more real than my actual life maybe, as creepy and sad as it may sound. Then nearly after a couple decades, I come here, see these comments and realize that I was far from being the only person that had this unique experience. This realization is priceless. People from every corner of the world, that spent their childhood trying to accomplish similar things with me, delved into the same dungeons with me, cried over stolen items or mounts, ran miles and miles in ghost form in order to get to a healer, get lost in the middle of nowhere, afraid of encountering murderers, soaked this medieval and mystic world in, just as I did. The exciting chill you had at those moments, with your 56k internet connection... It's... very, VERY hard to explain the feelings that this game induced to someone who did not played it, but that feeling is permanent and it's being triggered every time I listen to this music. Each piece reminds me of a different adventure I've gone through. Each city had a distinct taste and these music is the reminder of that. But now I know that there is a complete generation that share this bond. I see that there are many people who understand that inexplainable, warm feeling as much as I do when listening to this. Thank you, producers of this game. It was the greatest game I've ever played, with its atmosphere, music and in-game dynamics. I owe these very precious memories to you. And I feel very, very sorry for those who did not get to know this game, at that time. Because it's impossible to experience the same thing (not the game, that complete *thing*), ever again. That's just sad.
Ditto. It's an experience that I can only describe as catching lightning in a bottle. The nostalgia hits me hard. Good vs Evil was a real thing. You relied on the bonds you made in the game. Someone wrote above, "crossing paths with a stranger could make or break your day." That really resonated with me. The human dynamic was so real. I remember watching my friend play this game for the first time - I must have been around 12 - and was shocked when I asked if he was interacting with real people. We all played the game religiously and my little brother got into it with me. A real bond was forged over this mystical universe. Just listening to this song floods me with emotion and memories. It brings me to a simpler time when logging into this game gave us all an escape -- and freedom. I truly miss this game and once again... your comment resonated with me deeply and we're clearly not the only ones who feel this way. UO forever!
We all shared something magical... There is a bond between Ultima Online players that no one else will ever understand....
Nailed it, thank you for this comment and for the replies above, it was a truly mind blowing experience. I also lived inside this game for years...
Yapma be reis
AH ULAN!
To this day... there is not a single game, that can fill the place of UO in my heart. So many incredible memories, friendships, that became real life friendships. Big part of the people in my life, I met because of UO, whether they directly played it, or were just friends of friends I played UO with. I can say, I met my current fiancee because of UO, because my friend I used to play UO with, had a girlfriend, and she was her friend. So I probably wouldnt have met her if it wasnt for UO. Truly amazing times and memories, when I hear the soundtrack I feel very emotional and nostalgic!
It's 18 years old and still the best online mmo...
UO never dies!
+CestusInfernalis o/
+CestusInfernalis Of couse, Just Try www.worldofdread.com i'm Carla, if you need something just ask me by .mp
See you :D
+CestusInfernalis
"and still the best online mmo"
It hasn't been that in over 13 years now, since something called 'Age of Shadows' happened along with everything after it.
it did when its sold to ea, oldschool uo was a legend
Best game of my life
I was 13 when i started playing UO... I'm now 32. It was truly a unique experience, not just a game, but almost a social experiment, where I met many friends, and forged bonds with people i still interact with today. Not many games can do that, and honestly every time I hear this song, it takes me back. UO was more of a experience, then just a game.
=)
Same for me. Neverlands shard, so much great memories
Same here, i used to play in Alias Mortal & Marchadium lol
Same here xD
faço das minhas palavras as suas, amigo. UO foi um jogo que ficou marcado no meu ser, impossivel escutar essa musica e não reviver momentos marcantes...
That hurt.. pure nostalgia.. i was young, no adult problems, just friends, school and UO :'(
So many memories, it makes me cry.. I was young, feeling good, had friends.. ow..
i think its the same for many of us..same feelings, memories
drtdyvfdaweazweadvtbiunjoi8y676v me too my friend..... good times
Same here! Oh god!
The nostalgia....
Best time of my life before real life took over.
I miss this game! Playing with a dam slow 56k, fishing with friends, exploring dungeons, going hunting... uff... never played a game like that.
there's still a very large population playing on the free UOFOREVER server. Google it or visit uoforever.com
I play every day. It's ALMOST as good as it used to be and the servers admin seem to be pretty solid.
Yeah, I know, but the real problem is time.
Ultima Online is still up and being actively developed on. The old Renaissance build is now free to play.
When I say that I miss this game, I mean I have no free time to play. I own a shop, and I have a little boy that take all my free time (and I like this, obviously! )
Cyberdingo81 You cant spare a couple hours a week to play?
You manage your time poorly.
My soul aches to go back to these times... times when you had to make friends to learn about the game, times when you tried things out of a sense of curiosity and adventure... times when I would stare at the cloth map that came with my game and literally use it to navigate in-game. Now every MMO puts you on rails, and you can google/youtube every single step of every single game. The sense of adventure is gone now. Ultima Online was the definition of magic to my 13-year-old self.
I have no personal friends who share this kind of memories with me... and lost contact with all the online friends from that time... I cant express the feeling this song brings to me
Consider that you were one of such a small generation of people that got to experience genuine "virtual world building" when it was the forefront of technology. We've left it all behind now and moved towards things that make more money.... but for a brief moment in time, we genuinely came close to having a legitimate matrix
I miss you Ultima Online. I will never forget. =(
The more I listen to this song the more I despise EA and what it did to the game.
there's still a very large population playing on the free UOFOREVER server. Google it or visit uoforever.com
I play every day. It's ALMOST as good as it used to be and the servers admin seem to be pretty solid.
+Nunya Bidness Totally agree. They are evil!
well if you miss it come back and play. It is still going.
No other game has recreated the magic that UO had for me. Games these days have so many rules and it all just feels so damn artificial. Back in UO you had to be smart or you'd get scammed and that was just part of the game. The game was cut throat as hell but it brought the community together. There are reds at X location, people would group up and go hunt them. There's an IDOC, gigantic red vs. blue battle. Loved it.
Still popping in Ultima Online Forever
It really was the wild west in the early days. You were forced to adapt, and even though you'd lose your ass from time to time the experience still brought you back every day.
The absolute greatest MMO of all time.
I told a guy I could dupe items and he gave me a furniture dye tub and I recalled out.
@@stevenfontes9818 I would pose as a blacksmith and steal armor from people when they gave it to me for repairs. I then moved on to "sparring sessions" and getting newbies guard whacked. I thought I was hot shit early on LOL.
This music can make me cry, and we're still playing the game with friends in 2020!!!
Fu@king Legends!!! 💪
I didn't play this game, I was 8 yo. But my big brothers did and listening to the soundtrack and spells sounds, swords, horses, brings me safety, to that childhood I had where I didn't think over the problems that surround the world, I didn't have depression, eating disorder and worries about the future . My brothers were like keepers that protected me and this nostalgia, even if I never played this in first person, feels so wholesome. Thanks for this :)
I hope you're doing better nowadays
This makes me miss an old friend a lot.
Oh damn why did I open this again.. Tears... Salute, bow bow, salute, salute.
There was a time when two guys stopped me on the road, and told me I had a special horse. It ran faster than other horses. They offered to pay me 100k gold for my special horse. In order to determine that this was one of the Special Fast Horses, they asked me to dismount it so they could get a better ID on this wonderful beast.
I did so. They killed my horse, and laughed as they ran away. There was no such thing as special horses. I learned a lesson that day.
And then to recoup my costs, I sold a few totally fake runebooks because I had no money at all. Got enough reagents as a newbie mage to defend myself while camping out a house that was in danger of collapsing. Spent 10 hours there, hiding and running from unleashed dragons, energy vortexes, and all manner of murderers.
Got a pretty nice spear and a black dye tub out of it, though.
This was truly the best game ever made. I wish there was something, anything, like it.
Albion Online is heavily inspired by it. It is not quite the same but it does it for me.
rofl
The sound of freedom.
Time spent in this game was so much worth it. It was like escaping from reality to a better, very mystic but wonderful world. All the years and time in Britannia, I miss them.
It's the only game that not only provided me a escape from reality but it actually taught me values/virtues through the relationships I've had within the game - it's the most organic experience I have ever had in a videogame ever since; not to mention it taught me to love art somehow, and made me learn a whole new language.
@@NaldinhoGX All true. All Ultima games were like a trip to another world. Even nowadays I think a lot of this past. As a mage, as a craftsman, a grandmaster warrior riding to champion spawn points, kill dragons, die, get resurrected, bargain with the others who gets their share of the boss loot and so on. I loved my house so much. These many chests, bags and furniture. Server staff showing up helping me decorate my home. Man, I miss the days.
We all know what this tune means for us. It was a frontier we all shared in a fixed moment in time. Something special and unique that brought many of us close together.
And im here again. There is too much words i can speak about this game but nothing will explain how beautiful this game was. Farming for years, learning the game by dying and dying again, losing everything that u farmed whole time and trying over and over. In the end eventually learning how to kill, and how to pvp, when the server knows ur name, you can even 1v3 in open map and everyone runs when they see ur name. Pk’ing with friends, best memories of my life
I still remember that treasure box opening for the first time in 1997...
Memories.
Then you don't remember it very well, it was a gem box
This music hits you right in the feelings. Just the music alone takes me back to soo many memories of my childhood and first playing this game back in 1998. Still occasionally play to this day and love the nostalgia.
I remember listening to this for hours when servers were offline.
First listened to this song as a young boy in the early 90s in Ultima 7 The black gate. Now it’s 30 years later and this melody always sends me back to my childhood.
i will never forget that track.
I miss these times from the bottom of my heart
I was just a lad when I got my hands on this. My mother had gotten it from some people her company at the time were working with. She had no idea it was an online game, and didn't know those even existed yet-- to be fair, neither had I.
I was 14, I think, when I first touched UO. The Second Age was when I started, and Trammel did not exist quite yet if memory serves.
The Trinsic Invasion had just went underway when I started.
And I loved every minute of it. The constant danger, the level of interactivity with the world that nothing I know of has yet to match, the freedom with which you could travel, the many things you could do and the WAYS you could do them. Travel by boat and have a Tinker trap your gangplank, so if they try to steal your boat, they blow the hell up. Free loot!
Nothing is as free or interesting today as what UO offered, and that's pathetic considering how long its been.
I never played this game but I can understand how all of you feel when you listen to this song. The art of video games is something only a small percentage of people/gamers understand.
You can still play it today on free shards, this is by far the best game I've ever seen, and from the comments you can see I'm not the only one
@@etaitson It wouldn't be the same. It was one of those, you had to be there kind of experiences.
@@Adino1 you are right, the point in time was also relevant, how disruptive the game was versus what existed, even the way the human society was by then.
@@Adino1 try :) I still play in free shards and it's still amazing and very addictive! :)
My first or second week of UO in December of '97 I got the courage to venture out of the city despite being warned it was full of PK's and they'll take everything you have... I made it a few screens out and soon enough was chased and lightning bolted. OoooOoOoOo I yelled at them. They saw my meager bone armor, the candle and 50 gold in my pack, and realized I was a newbie. One of them resurrected me, then gave me much better armor, a magic sword, 1000 gold and sent me on my way. I knew it was a special community and was hooked.
damn this was a great time.....first and best online game i ever played.some years ago i have try it again....the world was total empty :-( so sad....still remember my very first steps in the game......tears...
+Plexpara As someone else who came back after a long break (and is too stubborn to give it up entirely now), that does depend on the shard and where you go, though yes it is certainly much more empty than it was years ago.
i know that feel. I'm almost crying
damn nostalgia. i want to play really bad but I don't like The samurai Empire shits. i want classic UO :(
i know that feel. I'm almost crying
damn nostalgia. i want to play really bad but I don't like The samurai Empire shits. i want classic UO :(
i know that feel. I'm almost crying
damn nostalgia. i want to play really bad but I don't like The samurai Empire shits. i want classic UO :(
i know that feel. I'm almost crying
damn nostalgia. i want to play really bad but I don't like The samurai Empire shits. i want classic UO
It's not a game, Its a masterpiece.
This is the chef's kiss for 90s gaming. I wake up to this - no lie.
I spent hours of my life playing in Midgard, an italian popular UO shard. Those good old times that wont come back😢
This is a song that can take you back to your youth, and we encounter the best games in our best years.
This song has magical powers. I am literally transported back in time. A simpler time, when days were spent with friends and swords.
sheded a tear.. invested 10 years of my life into this game
god I miss you UO.
best game i've ever played
yes by far the best game I have ever played!
agreed. not a single game ever came close to it, perhaps the witcher3 in singleplayer games but still.
LEGENDS OF ARIA!!! TAKE A LOOK, GUYS!
Can't stop the tears
TheBlackClockOfTime From Japan I played UO 6years ago, Thanks a lot I was young teach me tammer riding night mare
32 years old and this song alone brings me to tears ripe with memories I long to re-experience but only can through imagination.
@@PhilDesigns Absolutely the same here. :'(
song fucking crushes me like nothing else.
It's seven years later. I'm recording this as my ringtone and see my own comment. It's funny, but still can't hold back those tears :D
Vendor buy me some bank guards!
GUARDS!!!
Bank
Vendor Buy
Recdu Recsu
@@MrDizz Crying right now!! I miss this soo much!
Vendor buy the bank before the guards do
I would literally donate substantial funds to see a modern exact remake of this game. This game brought so much happiness to me and so much relaxation and joy. I met so many real friends from this game. The theme song alone brings me to tears because of so many amazing memories. Remake this game please!!!!
same same... oh man
I agree, but I think what most people realize is that even if you find a replica server with the rule set or patch you enjoyed the most, you can't really ever truly replace the exciting time of discovery when we were all at the same discovery phase together. You would get a rushed version where anyone can GM 7 in a few days, and buy a house in just a few days. In the release days you had to die A LOT before you could save up for a house. I think that's what people miss the most, is the even playing field of everyone learning and it just can't be replaced.
This game is the only thing that I regreet in my life, I regreet not have expended more time on it.
Now I just look back in time
and see a man over a hill
carving on white stones
next to a big tree
Mak - The bard - 1997 - ∞
The world's gold to he that actually recreates this experience today.
Best MMO, so much freedom. Now MMO's are just a roller coaster ride that gets boring after the first ride. The only other MMO that offers true freedom would be EVE online, but that game is a different beast altogether.
I close my eyes and am transported to a 12 year old version of myself. I am taking another sick day off school due to not fitting in, afraid of the other kids who just seem so confident. I take solace in the sound of the internet dialling, knowing that soon I will be able to escape this cruel world that I feel so lost in. The sweet inviting sound of this melody welcomes me into a world much different to the one I am used to, with endless possibilities and adventures to be had. I meet with friends I have met along the way, simple pleasures such as farming lumber for the morning, together we make a killing due to playing on an Aussie server but everyone else working or being at school. Plenty of goodies for us!
This game brought comfort to me during a time of great difficulty, with family problems and lack of support. Now, I am very different to that scrawny, short terrified kid. I am very strong, very attractive (you can take my word for it) very successful. I have an amazing family, many friends, beautiful wife and daughter. However, this music takes me back to that comforting feeling I once had, so many emotions flood my brain. In the end I feel only peace. Thank you UO, and to the friends I made there, a moment forever lost in time.
nossa... quantas e quantas horas eu passei escutando esta musica de fundo, enquanto eu minerava, ou treinava, ou costurava... kkkkk... ou explorando as cavernas, atrás de bichos, loots, e de vez em quando, algum viajante perdido se deparava comigo, era conversa, ou treta hahaha... maioria das vezes, eu morria!! quantas vezes eu morri neste game! hahah.... bons tempos, bom game...
observer960 sdds de mais desse jogo pq...da ate vontade de chorar ouvindo isso hahahaha
essa música da vontade de chorar
This is a Kal Ort Por to my youth.. soo many memories..cant explain the excitment i have feel when i logged in, it was the first online game experience in 1997 it was like dungeons&dragons come alive. UO Siege Perilous and Midgard shard veteran :) Fencer Poisoner obviously PK Luposolitario (LoneWolf) (i was a big fan of the game-books of Joe Dever back then)
Hearing this creates a deep, deep longing for something that can never be replaced. I very much miss my old friends and the adventures we had. /Deric Brokenhelm, Glorious Lord, hunter of PK's and Captain of the Britannia Guards on the Europa Server.
the emotions are so deep and vast to even bring them into the realm of words that this song evokes.
UO was more than a game. It was basically a social experiment on a large scale. 100k+ people from all over the world with different backgrounds were given an opportunity to interact for the first time and there really had been nothing like it before.
Ultima , so many memories :) I meet so many friends :) after 15 years nostalgia, so many things changed but i still coming back for this song , words cant help
I remember seeing this game at electronics boutique as a kid and I was intrigued so I bought it. Had so many great experiences with the game on the Atlantic server. Loved it. Wish I could go back and have that experience again. Best game that I have ever played.
The title theme kills me. It just drags me immediately back to what was probably the best time for gaming I've ever experienced. It's so bound up with all the feelings and aspirations and in-game friendships. It leaves me feeling simultaneously like I want to play the game and sad that I will probably never recapture those first feelings of adventure in the early UO. Truly, an epic game. We should all get back on it and make it a community again. Its still there for us people even if life has moved on. Drop me a line if anyone fancies it.
Man that brings back the old itch I used to get before logging in and picking a shard. Thanks for sharing man.
oooOOOoooOOOooo
Damn, I need to increase my Spirit Speak. xDDD
That's what you get for joining Britanian Knights then thinking nothing would happen to you strolling through Trinsic. Welcome to COM territory.
Come here, please. I can resurrect you. xD
Bende res yok 😂😂😂
Bandaj bitti.
I have memory of my young days in Britannia, not of me playng a game. It s a place where we lived.
beyler bu oyunu oynamayan biri olarak acınızı hissettim resmen ya. müzik bile çok geçmişten geliyor sanki. keşke zamanında yakalasaymışım o ruhu. tuhafınıza gitmesin, şimdi oyuna başlayıp biraz vakit geçiricem. çok etkilendim.
umarim bizim yakaladigimiz o havayi yakalarsin. hayatimda oynadigim kesinlikle en iyi oyun.
uoforever muhtemelen en aktif shard şu an ki
pyramid e noldu
Aynı tadı bulamazsın sanırım. Eski uo farklıydı.
Hearing this music again after so long tugs at the heart. It's like stepping back in time to a past life. So many memories.
This game changed my entire life for the better. I have never experienced anything like it. One of the most immersive video games of all time, and still holds up today in the free servers that exist. UO Outlands and UO Forever have done such a great job of keeping the true spirit of Ultima alive.
These days I struggle to go back because I remember old friends that I've since lost contact with, but I'll never forget them. Every time I hear this theme it legitimately brings tears to my eyes. Incredible memories, and there's still been nothing that has matched the magic that UO held for so many of us. Truly a sandbox RPG.
This song represents the best times in my life. Before real life took over. It will always be the best game of all time for me.
Back on dial up, I used to play a text based mud. One day I saw Ultima Online in a UK gaming store and just had to get it after i read that it was a graphical permanently available online only fantasy world, the first such game i had seen. As a new player, it was laggy on dial up, and the PKs would regularly kill me and steal the ore that I mined around the town of Minoc, but this didn't deter me. If anything, the risk of loss made it feel more rewarding when I would safely bring back a large haul of ore. This kind of fun I have experienced in very few games since.
I learned to mine naked with a pickaxe to reduce loss, smelting the ore and selling the ingots to player blacksmiths at the local smith, who paid more than the npc price. I used the gold i earned from this to buy a small house. I trained up my weapon skills and magery, and eventually was taking down dragons and balrons single handedly, as well as successfully fighting back against reds and doing some pking myself. Corp Por.
I think if they ever made official old school uo, it could do very well. Its a shame they won't try.
Although sadly, any new attempt at UO would undoubtedly be swarmed with 3rd world farmers, with everything power farmed to sell for real world profit at cheap prices. This wasn't a thing back in the early days of UO, especially not on the industrial scale that it happens today. In some countries, online game farming is done at large scale.
Played in the open beta and release, my guild, so many friends so much fun, where are they all at now I know not. sadness...
Saxon Rains :(
Atlantic server?
wow 1997 first time i played this game so sadge no game will be like this game ..
This music cuts so deep into my soul it's painful. Best gaming experience ever. Between ultimate online and the countless half life mods of the late 90s I was forever ruined for any other games.
The most amazing moments in Ultima Online was feeling like you were truly, left out naked and alone, in a dangerous wide medieval world.
Even walking down the alleys of a medieval city at night, with silence and calm, you COULD be mugged at any moment, or attacked.
But it still somehow wasnt totally crazy, it wasnt nonstop pvp all the time everywhere. Some people WERE nice, a lot of people banded together.
But it was the risk that gave the whole game the feeling that no modern games have.
I still remember times where there were DRAGON attacks in the main towns, some spawned by the game's creator himself (with admin tools) just to spice things up. It felt incredible that "story" events could happen anywhere, at any time (under human control).
Even standing in a "safe" town, you never knew...... Would a dragon attack? Would a pack of giants march in from the north following a fleeing player?
Could the NPC guards hold them off?
And....... What loot would remain on the carcasses, before being cleaned up by the survivors?
The feeling of being vulnerable in a huge incomprehensible world. That there was no quicksave to rescue you, there was no pvp-concent-button to unbind. There was no linear boring predictable grind. Because at any moment, anywhere, without warning, your linear progression could be snuffed out and reset to near zero.
EVERY hour mattered. EVERY play session was important to your overall growth ingame.
NOTHING was for granted.
And likewise.. It worked in the opposite way too, not only in potential losses, but potential gains..
At any moment, if you were lucky, you could stumble upon a corpse or ongoing battle, and find riches in magical equipment that increased your net worth by 50x, overnight.
But then, you had to make the perilous journey WITH this loot, to a vendor to sell, or a player to sell (without being mugged).
You couldnt just scream into global chat about the riches you were carrying, you had to be smart.
Games like these dont exist now.
Best game ever. But these days it's more difficult than ever to listen to the music as my best mate I played UO with forrrr.. 7 years? recently died in a car accident.
I come here when it's time to remember, not only UO, but my friend.
In fact, this music was played at his funeral.
RIP Demarcos De'ath
Holy shit dude, thats a beautiful song, at least you have a good memory of him and this song
guys, we are where we all remained as children
This song literally makes me tear up.. no game will ever compare =(
I never played Ultima in it's prime, but there was something genuinely special happening through the 90's of people setting out to make virtual worlds, virtual societies, and all their design coming at it from that angle. These were less games and more experiments at giving people a virtual world to live in that was detached from their real life.
It's something we stopped pursuing into the 2000's, but I genuinely think it was ground-breaking and important work that was being done. I wish we kept on that path.
Best. Game. Ever. Still playing today on a free server.
Sitting here as an adult coding a home valuation machine learning tool to deploy to the web for use and came to listen to this and immediately felt childhood and the comforts of it all over again.
Ah nostalgia... how I missed thee. I love this game so much, brings back very, very fond memories of my earlier years.
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@@arshiateki yep, last i checked, pulse was -105112
@@op3l wow man good to you do you have a job xD
@@arshiateki Job i have, money? nope hahah
UO, my dear, the love of my life in 2000. This song always brought me joy every time I logged in, never knowing what adventures were to come
Nostalgic people should check out UO forever. It is a freeshard that is based on UO Renaissance era, which was the best time period for the game (in my opinion). Lots of cool stuff and decent population. I played for a bit but not much time anymore.
I just started on this shard yesterday. It's pretty good.
I agree, been playing UO Forever for a few weeks now, and love it!
I actually just moved to UO an corp. The faction/ocb pvp is amazing there. Its a no mount server, slower skill gain, a little more hardcore/old school. I rate it.
Right on, UO forever is easily the best shard i have played on
The thing about nostalgia is that real life can't live up to it. No game can ever take UO's place. Back then everything was new and magical and waiting to be discovered.
Jumping into Buccaneers Den with my macros of Kal Vas Flam, Corp Por, and following up with an In Nox was the cornerstone of my enjoyment as The Dread Pirate Roberts. No game has had quite the impact on me as the buying and selling of property, trying to GM Cartography, or being truly concerned about traveling from one place to another worried about losing black pearls to some PK waiting to gank you with a vanquishing Kris. There has been no game as truly pure an experience of knowing who you can trust and having the ever looming feeling of loss as the one established by UO. Gamers today are weak in comparison having grown up with their hands being held and never experiencing working for weeks to get a set of ranger armor just to have to it taken from you the very day you find someone at the Brit Bank selling the chest piece. No one understands what it feels like to finally have a pair of blessed black Sandals anymore outside of those that are likely listening to this piece of music with tears in their eyes. UO isn’t a game. It is a masterpiece unmatched.
Seems like another life altogether. Memory has claimed this one, I wonder how i will remember the times i spend in this game when im an old man, maybe the game will be all gone at that point. Perhaps I will tell my grand children stories of how i braved the dungeon Shame in order to get my swordsmanship to 100, the assassination of lord British, or the birth of Trammel and the odd idea of having a peacefull pacified world, next to an unforgiving harsh one as Fel, hope it will can make sense
Jonas Hansen Trammel was the original safe space.
Exactly, that's how I feel and everyone that I know that played UO too. I lived another life inside this game. This song chills my whole body, damn.
Here i am again, and someone's still cutting onions. Those were amazing years
I agree 100% with how "words can't describe the feeling". I will forever wish I can go back to '97 and play UO from release day, to late 1998. There's no other way than traveling back in time, because nobody will ever make something equal to it again.
The Welsh have a word for this: Hiraeth
I can't believe I wrote this 13 years ago, and I still haven't experienced anything even remotely close to UO. I'm 41 now.
Same for me, im 38 but i still play Ultima Online on the Outlands free shard. You cant recreate the "then and there" feel we had in the past, but the game is actually even better than it used to be on OSI servers back in the day. Execpt now im the old man and the kids keep killing and looting me often :D @@CoBrAToRcHStream
Song reminds me of "Down by the River" from BG3. Both beautiful works of music. Never got the chance to play this gem, but definitely a lot of gaming nostalgia from the early days before lootboxes and mainstream things took over PC gaming...
Ah the memories....and all nighters.
ah the old days when you used ICQ to talk to guild mates. make sure you two click the stone. man this takes me back to simpler times
This should be playing at the gates of heaven...
where do you think we borrowed UO from.
I woke up in Haven as a newbie
Here I am again. This never gets old.❤
I never even played this game and I'm nostalgic. Just because of what I've heard others say.
I remember back when I still had not played it and somehow this theme itself made me feel extremely nostalgic about something I had never played before.
Now, after having played it for years... Best game I've ever played in my entire life. You'll never get a game like Ultima Online ever again. Don't ever let it die!
What you're feeling is not nostalgia, it's validation that who you are today is a result of having enjoyed life in ways many people could not. All of the feelings you had "back in the day" you can have today as well. Build onward, always. Make 2023 feel like 1999!
You're listening greatest game of all time's theme song.
Everyone remembers their firsts. No MMO I've played has matched the charm of UO. I still like the original 2-D graphics.
Oh my, remember the first time you booted the game, the login screen came on, and you heard this? I still breaks my heart every time I listen to it, even in 2020 and still playing on an freeshard.
My first MMO.....ahh the memories.
An irreplaceable feeling, this song brings. One that no other soundtrack from any other game can replicate.
To this day, I feel that - no other game can replicate this.
I had the 2nd worst GPA in Highschool out of over 400 seniors because of Ultima Online.
This game took over my life from 97-2004 and I'd be lying if I didn't say that I just recently
got on a free UO server that's heavily populated and almost as fun as the early days.
So thanks for ruining any real career I could have had UO!
#AgentOrange #NapaValley #UO #Pico #BucsDen #Raiden #Nixon #MissFloaty #CharlieManson 97-2001
mista808 UO: ruining GPAs since 1997
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mista808 Fool! UO Is a career!
Seriously. I made a lot of money selling worked up accounts. Do you have any idea how much an account with a 7xGM tamer-bard would sell for?
I do know that at 16 years old without a job I stayed up for 24 + hours and managed to place a Large Tower after one fell and I sold it on Ebay for $500. So yes, I know that you could make a career on UO back in the days and if I were older I probably would have. As a teen though I was to busy playing it all day to worry about making income off of it. I know my mom at the time sold her account for $1500 and she didn't even have much. A 2 Story L Shaped house, 3-4 7x toons and that was about it.
mista808 If I knew then what I know now, I would have made upwards of 20,000 bucks off of UO. There were many who started doing that later, but like you said, us hardcore gamers were too worried about the thrill and excitement of PVP than making real cash.
Something like a blessed supremely accurate indestructible vanq kryss might have gotten you like 500 bucks back then.
In the old days, things on UO had ALOT more value, especially a whole account with real estate, and 7x chars....
Getting gm magery back in 1999 was ridiculously hard, shit took ages... I remember the days of going out in the woods and fighting with just what I had, 76 magery, 80-90 swords, tactics wasnt needed so you would have random skills like hiding, and lumberjacking/ bowcrafting rofl. You would have like 15 skills that were adept, and you just fought like a man.
When the game evolved people started macroing and the smart people only went out when they were fully prepared usually. GM resist was also a rare thing to see.
People just dont know how hard and unforgiving that game was. A few people have killed themselves over UO, I read stories about it. Thousands have definitely cried over the game LOL, some of my friends did lolol.
After I'd listened to about half of the tunes in this uploader's playlist, meanwhile reading comments and appreciating the warfare landscape picture used in the videos, I too started feeling nostalgic about this game... when I've never even played it!
Never even KNEW what it was, other than an MMO, until recently. And I did grow up in the 90's. With PC gaming!
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