This bring back so many memories. I used to play this during beta and then is called Maplestory SEA. When someone give you even a few pots, it feels a lot because each mesos counts. I also remember doing kerning party quest during midnight all the way to morning because there is less queue. Thanks for bringing these memories back man
The nostalgia... the damn nostalgia just keeps bringing me back every 12-18 months and i dive in for a week or 2. Once i've had my hit i'm good for another year
i started playing back in 2004 and started playing recently again. I usually do come back during a hyper burning event to get a quick fix, but this time, i kinda stayed. Now i know the nostalgia is strong for the past versions, but good lord thats all it is. The grind was terrible, the classes were not balanced at all and you were in danger of getting scammed anytime you entered Perion or Kerning City. There was not much content either once you went past a certain level. Until Ludibrium came out, all there was was Victoria Island and Orbis. What there was and is missing today is the guilds and friends, that is true. It seems to be more of a solo experience today compared to back in the day. But still, im sure most people that miss the old MS would not play it past a week if they had to do it all over again just from a gameplay standpoint alone.
Maplestory has always been my go back to game. Since last year though i dont think ive put more hours into any other game in the past year. i think its mainly because of the guild i joined and the friends i made and talk to daily plus the boss party i formed to continue content.
Great video. I started playing pre-Pirates release. Played on and off since, but committed to Phantom at release due to playstyle. I played on-and-off since, but really picked it back up in 2019. I have since hit 9k legion in Kronos and 8.5k in Bera, with my Kronos Phantom soon to hit 275 this week. I know that one MapleStory Worlds drops and replicates the old school server (like what Korea's MapleStory Worlds did), there will be an uptick in players.
@@PrtSc I'm interested to see what modifications and changes they make to a revived old school server. I know purests will say "no changes" but as someone who started around the same time as you I think certain changes are unavoidable and others would just be nice additions to the game. I think some of the private servers do interesting things like gach tickets dropping from enemies, I think that balances out the fact that nearly half your gachs back in the day were pumpkin pies, and elixirs. Other things like shortening the orbis trip/wait time is a nice quality of life that doesn't detract from the nostalgia
I feel you, I’m 29 about to be 30. A lot of people hate what the game has become but I find it really fun and rewarding to throw a few hours in it here and there.
@@Miniownsthey could totally do with some party quests with decent rewards. It’s definitely not a game without its flaws, but it is still worth the play in spite of those.
alot of people complaining about current maple think that what they loved when they were kids is what they would love today aswell. The game was a really fun casual social game as a kid just doing pqs and stuff and socialize. But as an actual mmo game there was no real content and no real longevity, very basic combat, no endgame outside of 1-2 bosses that didn't really have mechanics , the grind was ridiculous moving around slow like a snail and killing one mob at a time for little to no rewards. Most people that want old maple just think that it would be the same feeling they had as a kid which is just pure nostalgia. The whole thing about having to walk around everywhere being immersed discovering the world you experienced as a kid wouldnt hit the same today and would get old and annoying real quick. While the current maple may not be for everyone it is just objectively a much better game with more/better progression tons of early/mid/game bosses to progress through. The game was always a grindy game that's what maple is and the grind today is much more fun and rewarding with alot more things to grind towards to.
Love the Maple videos! Just started from scratch yesterday, leveling random characters to 70/120 for links. Can't wait to find a main and just grind and chill.
Lame. Getting 18 characters to lv 100+ in a week is such a waste of time. Links aint gonna matter if you dont have 50bill layin around. Dont forget the 100s you gotta spend on cubes
@@absolutelypro4612This isn't even entirely true, unless you want to solo hard/chaos end game bosses. The events give stuff away that even the most funded players would have drooled at 5 years ago. Legion and link can propel your characters to levels capable of handling mid game bosses, which can hypothetically be the baseline for doing end game with groups. Look I don't think it's a perfect system, but it's far improved from 5-8yrs ago where if you didn't spend $6000 on cubes you physically couldn't play the end game stuff. There's actually a pretty solid avenue to access all the content without selling your kidneys
Waste of time is subjective, it's not a waste of time if it's what I want to do. Not to mention it all makes your account stronger, I get to try different classes and it's all progression. I played a while ago, it's not hard to fund a character with a proper boss mule set up and all that. Just time consuming but every MMO is time consuming. If I stop enjoying myself I'll stop playing, simple as that.
Nah, links and legion are what compensate for not having a lot of funds. You are doing it right. Arguably choosing certain links and legion to level first is perhaps even more critical than just mindlessly funding. You can take on bosses a lot sooner with the right links and legion. Guaranteed gains >>> gamble gains
They're really trying to make the new player experience better as well and that's the focus after the next big update we'll get :) To help leviate the difficulty of learning all upgrade systems and the progression cap with symbols once you hit 200 ^__^ I miss the fk out of Old Maple and would LOVE an Old School server or something similar... HOWEVER! The game is absolutely banging right now, events have been plenty and great, classes all (mostly) feel rewarding and it better and better fits my adult father of two life :)
Got 4k hrs on steam probably more since I've played on and off since 2006. Imo the game is fun and has only gotten better. Watching this game grow has been amazing. Playing Reboot (Hyperion) sorta semi hardcore was a great experience as well and the community has been amazing. It has kinda fizzled out since the launch of the server but progressing pretty close to everyone else doing bosses, training, etc is probably the most fun I've had in an mmo in awhile. I'm glad it's this one since there's so much nostalgia tied to it.
I genuinely believe that, nexon took this route because they know that their audience is growing up as well, and to retain the older player base they had to make adjustments for us adults. Do I like it? I’m indifferent, but I can see it a success from what im seeing considering GMS reboot still has a very strong player base lol overall 4/5 game
I just started a new explorer character for the first time since maybe 2011, and when I tell you I didn't recognize a SINGLE skill, animation, or ability from a class I've known since 2006 I was actually quite sad. Almost triggered me to download an old school server because if it is completely unrecognizable from my nostalgia it's not going to captivate me like it did in 06
The maple community is self sabotaging. If you try to bring it up in any official maple forum, youll get locked and told "you think you want it but you dont". Its so sad because Oldschool Maple would smash the numbers current maple has.
@@Ardadraws the video is titled "is a completely different experience" did you expect the comments to be something other than how the experience has changed...?
Maple Story PC takes too much of time for me still, just looking at a computer screen for too long so i couldnt get back into it. However i found my love for maple again last year and decided to give the Maple Story M a go again because on release i wasnt a fan of a dumb down version and not the real thing. But man it really brought back my nostalgia and alot more of the casual element. So guys if your looking for a more casual friendly maple story go on mobile.
Damn you brought back remember I has a level 140 wizard and most of my day was playing this, at some point things happen to me like I was give a admin position (There a hidden Star Icon on my character) and my job was to report people who cheat, etc. I has the ability to Hits other players like that onetime someone girlfriend hack her boyfriend account and went on rage mod trying to get his account ban and I have to log on, confront that players and kill that character, But I forgot to report that account, evenly I was in the wrong place at the time, got blame for taken other player money because they was doing a contest where that player drop a stack of money and tell the other contester to find it with in the channel, then I also forgot to tell my friend who using my account as that time about Admin position, he make have abuse it and got report by other players while was at works.
I played MapleStory very early on and stopped playing before the big bang. I tried to play it a few months ago, and other than the game and screen being bloated with 20 years of added systems, I found the worst part to be how they design the world. It seems to be mostly similar, small maps with very lazily placed platforms filled with mobs― clearly, the once thought out design of Victoria Island and how the main cities connected with each other and Sleepywood was replaced with maps meant to optimise wiping the whole screen with one character. Could MapleStory have avoided its current state with 20 years of powercreep? Is the current state of MapleStory the result of following where the money comes from (whales)? Were the solo gameplay decisions forced because of dwindling player numbers? Maybe, maybe not. However, I do think that in a vacuum, core gameplay decisions could have been made to keep the spirit of the game from the early days alive well into the future. The whole idea of replacing big maps with unique layouts, where multiple players could play in at once and replacing it with the previously mentioned gameplay kills the world, for me. The idea that wiping screens was objectively the inevitable endgame to MapleStory is just false. There are many ways to make gaining EXP as efficient without it coming down to killing 100 mobs at once and doing 2 billion damage hits. I feel like they got lazy, and, instead of finding interesting ways to upgrade the existing classes, they decided to: 1) Make every class an atomic bomb eyesore map-clearer (watchout, 7th job might clear the entire server) and 2) release dozens of new classes for novelty without thinking of the long term effects on every other class. I don't care if people like the current state of the game, but when people tell me that I'm only being nostalgic about the past and that it wasn't that good, remember that you're spending all your time solo-clearing an empty map is a lifeless, supposed MMORPG. It's not any less grindy, it just lost its charm.
Definitely not worth playing modern ms. Power creeping is insane now and inflation is thru the roof on every server. Even more of a gamble now then it was back then
Is this better than 8hr grinds per level, 2 hr travel times between continents, and early predatory monetization strategies? I don't love modern maple as much as my nostalgia brain loved old school maple, BUT it's definitely engaging even though it's a different type of engagement than OSMS
that's just your opinion , it's a different game than it was obviously and it is definitelly worth playing (heroic servers atleast) if you enjoy grindy game with long term progression.
@@mkwsoxfanThose travel times can easily be fixed. And guess what, games then were more engaging than you could ever imagine and dont quite understand. People didnt complain odee about stuff like that. Instead traveling was part of the fun and we made fun out of it, aka og ship rides with everyone chillin or talking or the mobs. Take notes, seriously
@@WhiteUnicorn72 you're comparing a games social engagement that started BEFORE social media existed and expecting the same allure and experience from 05. Wtf do you mean "wouldn't understand" I was there playing the game in 2005, romanticizing them wasting your time waiting 15-30min to travel to orbis is crazy. People and their TikTok/ADHD brains are not going to want to sit around and chat with strangers like it's 2006. Games are much much more min/max than they were back then. Sure they can bring back a game that functioned well in 2005 but that doesn't guarantee it will be successful with today's gamer demographic, and if your response is "the old school players will come back" those players are 30 years old now, we can't pretend a large group of them are excited to grind 8 hrs of MS like it's 2005
24:30 I competely agree, tho I also jsut found myself not enjoying the new game, it wasn't what I loved and everythign felt much more hallow and time gated and even more lengthy. all the content I use ot love si skipped over to boost you into the arcane river, and I love that place but it is sad ppl arne't experiencing the world liek they use too, and the games a LOT more about hardocre play *fooor* sure. I loved pq's caus eit let em keep upw ith ppl wanting to grind hahaha
This bring back so many memories. I used to play this during beta and then is called Maplestory SEA. When someone give you even a few pots, it feels a lot because each mesos counts. I also remember doing kerning party quest during midnight all the way to morning because there is less queue. Thanks for bringing these memories back man
We need a Maplestory classic +
this was my prime afterschool activity. i remember waking up at 6am to play on the weekends.
The nostalgia... the damn nostalgia just keeps bringing me back every 12-18 months and i dive in for a week or 2. Once i've had my hit i'm good for another year
on and off maplestory player since 2005/6, currently full time osrs player - forever stuck in the past. this channel is vibes
I miss my slime slippers.. starry eyes… baggy ripped denim..
spending moms phone credit…
made a thief and did the drop game so often back then to get better throwing stars haha
Yooooo i completely forgot abt slime slippers 😭😭
@@ruydiculous8564 MS fashion went absolutely crazy, and fuelled my love for cute shit as a 30 y/o man today lmao
they are still in the game tho.
i started playing back in 2004 and started playing recently again. I usually do come back during a hyper burning event to get a quick fix, but this time, i kinda stayed.
Now i know the nostalgia is strong for the past versions, but good lord thats all it is. The grind was terrible, the classes were not balanced at all and you were in danger of getting scammed anytime you entered Perion or Kerning City. There was not much content either once you went past a certain level. Until Ludibrium came out, all there was was Victoria Island and Orbis.
What there was and is missing today is the guilds and friends, that is true. It seems to be more of a solo experience today compared to back in the day. But still, im sure most people that miss the old MS would not play it past a week if they had to do it all over again just from a gameplay standpoint alone.
As someone who plays on and off since the beta: I couldn’t agree with you more.
Maplestory has always been my go back to game. Since last year though i dont think ive put more hours into any other game in the past year. i think its mainly because of the guild i joined and the friends i made and talk to daily plus the boss party i formed to continue content.
Great video. I started playing pre-Pirates release. Played on and off since, but committed to Phantom at release due to playstyle. I played on-and-off since, but really picked it back up in 2019. I have since hit 9k legion in Kronos and 8.5k in Bera, with my Kronos Phantom soon to hit 275 this week.
I know that one MapleStory Worlds drops and replicates the old school server (like what Korea's MapleStory Worlds did), there will be an uptick in players.
@@PrtSc I'm interested to see what modifications and changes they make to a revived old school server. I know purests will say "no changes" but as someone who started around the same time as you I think certain changes are unavoidable and others would just be nice additions to the game. I think some of the private servers do interesting things like gach tickets dropping from enemies, I think that balances out the fact that nearly half your gachs back in the day were pumpkin pies, and elixirs. Other things like shortening the orbis trip/wait time is a nice quality of life that doesn't detract from the nostalgia
Man here I am now at 31 years old. Still enjoying the game
I feel you, I’m 29 about to be 30. A lot of people hate what the game has become but I find it really fun and rewarding to throw a few hours in it here and there.
@@rubeuscubeus hell yeah brother! Although I do miss the old school party play. There’s just something about maple that’ll never get me to quit
@@Miniownsthey could totally do with some party quests with decent rewards. It’s definitely not a game without its flaws, but it is still worth the play in spite of those.
alot of people complaining about current maple think that what they loved when they were kids is what they would love today aswell. The game was a really fun casual social game as a kid just doing pqs and stuff and socialize. But as an actual mmo game there was no real content and no real longevity, very basic combat, no endgame outside of 1-2 bosses that didn't really have mechanics , the grind was ridiculous moving around slow like a snail and killing one mob at a time for little to no rewards. Most people that want old maple just think that it would be the same feeling they had as a kid which is just pure nostalgia. The whole thing about having to walk around everywhere being immersed discovering the world you experienced as a kid wouldnt hit the same today and would get old and annoying real quick.
While the current maple may not be for everyone it is just objectively a much better game with more/better progression tons of early/mid/game bosses to progress through. The game was always a grindy game that's what maple is and the grind today is much more fun and rewarding with alot more things to grind towards to.
I absolutely love maplestory and have been actively since the beginning and ive seen every patch and update
Love the Maple videos! Just started from scratch yesterday, leveling random characters to 70/120 for links. Can't wait to find a main and just grind and chill.
Lame. Getting 18 characters to lv 100+ in a week is such a waste of time. Links aint gonna matter if you dont have 50bill layin around. Dont forget the 100s you gotta spend on cubes
@@absolutelypro4612This isn't even entirely true, unless you want to solo hard/chaos end game bosses. The events give stuff away that even the most funded players would have drooled at 5 years ago. Legion and link can propel your characters to levels capable of handling mid game bosses, which can hypothetically be the baseline for doing end game with groups. Look I don't think it's a perfect system, but it's far improved from 5-8yrs ago where if you didn't spend $6000 on cubes you physically couldn't play the end game stuff. There's actually a pretty solid avenue to access all the content without selling your kidneys
Waste of time is subjective, it's not a waste of time if it's what I want to do. Not to mention it all makes your account stronger, I get to try different classes and it's all progression.
I played a while ago, it's not hard to fund a character with a proper boss mule set up and all that. Just time consuming but every MMO is time consuming. If I stop enjoying myself I'll stop playing, simple as that.
Nah, links and legion are what compensate for not having a lot of funds. You are doing it right. Arguably choosing certain links and legion to level first is perhaps even more critical than just mindlessly funding. You can take on bosses a lot sooner with the right links and legion. Guaranteed gains >>> gamble gains
@@absolutelypro4612 getting links early makes life easier rather than investing a ton of time and gear into 1 character and ending up not liking it
They're really trying to make the new player experience better as well and that's the focus after the next big update we'll get :) To help leviate the difficulty of learning all upgrade systems and the progression cap with symbols once you hit 200 ^__^
I miss the fk out of Old Maple and would LOVE an Old School server or something similar... HOWEVER! The game is absolutely banging right now, events have been plenty and great, classes all (mostly) feel rewarding and it better and better fits my adult father of two life :)
its the old school maplestory vibe, its amazing
Got 4k hrs on steam probably more since I've played on and off since 2006. Imo the game is fun and has only gotten better. Watching this game grow has been amazing. Playing Reboot (Hyperion) sorta semi hardcore was a great experience as well and the community has been amazing. It has kinda fizzled out since the launch of the server but progressing pretty close to everyone else doing bosses, training, etc is probably the most fun I've had in an mmo in awhile. I'm glad it's this one since there's so much nostalgia tied to it.
I genuinely believe that, nexon took this route because they know that their audience is growing up as well, and to retain the older player base they had to make adjustments for us adults. Do I like it? I’m indifferent, but I can see it a success from what im seeing considering GMS reboot still has a very strong player base lol overall 4/5 game
I just started a new explorer character for the first time since maybe 2011, and when I tell you I didn't recognize a SINGLE skill, animation, or ability from a class I've known since 2006 I was actually quite sad. Almost triggered me to download an old school server because if it is completely unrecognizable from my nostalgia it's not going to captivate me like it did in 06
The maple community is self sabotaging. If you try to bring it up in any official maple forum, youll get locked and told "you think you want it but you dont". Its so sad because Oldschool Maple would smash the numbers current maple has.
i mean i would hope that the game evolved and isn't the same as it was 20 years ago lol.
How dare this 20+ year old game adapt to the times and modernize its art style
@@Ardadraws the video is titled "is a completely different experience" did you expect the comments to be something other than how the experience has changed...?
Huh but there’s definitely pre-big bang skills in the game? Sure a lot got added, made faster, etc etc. But many are still present.
This is one of my favorite games still. I play it periodically still.
Maple Story PC takes too much of time for me still, just looking at a computer screen for too long so i couldnt get back into it. However i found my love for maple again last year and decided to give the Maple Story M a go again because on release i wasnt a fan of a dumb down version and not the real thing. But man it really brought back my nostalgia and alot more of the casual element. So guys if your looking for a more casual friendly maple story go on mobile.
Damn you brought back remember I has a level 140 wizard and most of my day was playing this, at some point things happen to me like I was give a admin position (There a hidden Star Icon on my character) and my job was to report people who cheat, etc. I has the ability to Hits other players like that onetime someone girlfriend hack her boyfriend account and went on rage mod trying to get his account ban and I have to log on, confront that players and kill that character, But I forgot to report that account, evenly I was in the wrong place at the time, got blame for taken other player money because they was doing a contest where that player drop a stack of money and tell the other contester to find it with in the channel, then I also forgot to tell my friend who using my account as that time about Admin position, he make have abuse it and got report by other players while was at works.
The good old days of early 2000s.
I played MapleStory very early on and stopped playing before the big bang. I tried to play it a few months ago, and other than the game and screen being bloated with 20 years of added systems, I found the worst part to be how they design the world. It seems to be mostly similar, small maps with very lazily placed platforms filled with mobs― clearly, the once thought out design of Victoria Island and how the main cities connected with each other and Sleepywood was replaced with maps meant to optimise wiping the whole screen with one character.
Could MapleStory have avoided its current state with 20 years of powercreep? Is the current state of MapleStory the result of following where the money comes from (whales)? Were the solo gameplay decisions forced because of dwindling player numbers? Maybe, maybe not. However, I do think that in a vacuum, core gameplay decisions could have been made to keep the spirit of the game from the early days alive well into the future. The whole idea of replacing big maps with unique layouts, where multiple players could play in at once and replacing it with the previously mentioned gameplay kills the world, for me. The idea that wiping screens was objectively the inevitable endgame to MapleStory is just false. There are many ways to make gaining EXP as efficient without it coming down to killing 100 mobs at once and doing 2 billion damage hits. I feel like they got lazy, and, instead of finding interesting ways to upgrade the existing classes, they decided to: 1) Make every class an atomic bomb eyesore map-clearer (watchout, 7th job might clear the entire server) and 2) release dozens of new classes for novelty without thinking of the long term effects on every other class.
I don't care if people like the current state of the game, but when people tell me that I'm only being nostalgic about the past and that it wasn't that good, remember that you're spending all your time solo-clearing an empty map is a lifeless, supposed MMORPG. It's not any less grindy, it just lost its charm.
Bro i cant believe you said Endless Online.... i spent so many hours on that game
Monster Carnival was Gambit years before Gambit, but actually fun
We need a maple series
MAPLE KOMBAT LET'SGOOO
MapleStory is worth memory but not playing. It costs too much time but you will only get few things as return
Niru is #1 worldwide :)
I will always want games ot be slow, to be an achievement and feel good and the highest level isn't the most important
The main issue that made me stop playing the game after around 19 years is FOMO and how the game punishes you for playing all the time.
xKabookyx KEKEKE!
20:28 *coughs in Kaiser, Demon Avenger and Phantom* xD
If you drop a progression series i’ll drop a sub
Definitely not worth playing modern ms. Power creeping is insane now and inflation is thru the roof on every server. Even more of a gamble now then it was back then
Is this better than 8hr grinds per level, 2 hr travel times between continents, and early predatory monetization strategies? I don't love modern maple as much as my nostalgia brain loved old school maple, BUT it's definitely engaging even though it's a different type of engagement than OSMS
that's just your opinion , it's a different game than it was obviously and it is definitelly worth playing (heroic servers atleast) if you enjoy grindy game with long term progression.
@@mkwsoxfanThose travel times can easily be fixed. And guess what, games then were more engaging than you could ever imagine and dont quite understand. People didnt complain odee about stuff like that. Instead traveling was part of the fun and we made fun out of it, aka og ship rides with everyone chillin or talking or the mobs. Take notes, seriously
@@WhiteUnicorn72 you're comparing a games social engagement that started BEFORE social media existed and expecting the same allure and experience from 05. Wtf do you mean "wouldn't understand" I was there playing the game in 2005, romanticizing them wasting your time waiting 15-30min to travel to orbis is crazy. People and their TikTok/ADHD brains are not going to want to sit around and chat with strangers like it's 2006. Games are much much more min/max than they were back then. Sure they can bring back a game that functioned well in 2005 but that doesn't guarantee it will be successful with today's gamer demographic, and if your response is "the old school players will come back" those players are 30 years old now, we can't pretend a large group of them are excited to grind 8 hrs of MS like it's 2005
24:30 I competely agree, tho I also jsut found myself not enjoying the new game, it wasn't what I loved and everythign felt much more hallow and time gated and even more lengthy. all the content I use ot love si skipped over to boost you into the arcane river, and I love that place but it is sad ppl arne't experiencing the world liek they use too, and the games a LOT more about hardocre play *fooor* sure. I loved pq's caus eit let em keep upw ith ppl wanting to grind hahaha