Im freaking 22 now. i remember playing ms nonstop from 12 to 14. Good old times with no worries. Nowadays all I can think of is whether I will find a job after I graduate.
+Führer! Same thing here! I'm 20, but from 10 to 13, all i could think of was Ragnarok Online and MapleStory. God knows how much time, money and pc space i've spent with them. I didn't care if my computer got infected with a different virus every single day. That was the reason why i had to uninstall them. After that, i never again got the time to install them back. But oh, how i miss those colourful settings, those beautiful soundtracks and those characters and monsters that are always so cute, awesome and scary, all at the same time! One day, i wish i'll have plenty of free time and not give a damn and revisit those games.
+Führer! Same here dude, and I also used to play Maple so much from 12 to 14. I would come home every single day from school and immediately log into MS. Now, I come home every single day from college and do assignments, projects, studying, etc. I really miss the old days.
robertchay15 maplestory2.nexon.com It's in korean, and there are only small teasers and images in that webpage. If no images are showing, disable your adblock, you're welcome.
And now new Maplestory players will never experience the awesome feeling of hearing this song when you truly start your game. (Since 90% of classes basically start you at level 10 and spawn you in some random area, making it so you'll never go to Lith Harbor :( )
Admit it, some of us who played the pre big bang Maple can't wait for the big bang update. It's what we wanted as a kid, to grow up as soon as possible. Some of us even hated Maple Island at one point, can't wait to get out of there with all the tiring quests, grinding of snails (especially red snails) and going to Victoria Island to have our 1st job advancement. However, as time passes, growing up is what we hope we have never wished for. It's the same for Maplestory, after the Big Bang update, it is what it feels like to be growing up, all the stress, competitiveness with others (comparing damage) and even being independent. We never had friends to play party quests with, we never had friends to jump the pet jumping quests anymore. And we wished to grow up... Looking back, the pre big bang maple was actually the best version of MapleStory i could ever wished for. Monster Carnivals pq, ludi pq, kerning pq etc. Yes, maplestory is still there, but it's just not the same anymore. The friendships, the party quests and the fun, it's just not there.
Man, I can relate to this soo much. Don't mind if I add on, but nobody is out in the world anymore. Remember where in all of the maps you went to, there'd be some people grinding there who'd invite you to their party? Going into ant tunnel and seeing the people in that bottom corner working? No. Not anymore. Now everyone is either -In the PQ area getting insane EXP by grinding inside of the PQ -In these theme dungeons everyone hands to you -People sitting in henesys talking to eachother (if you try to talk to them they will continue to flirt with their "online girlfriend" and completely ignore you) Me and my friends were always exploring in Victoria Island. We would go hunting for hidden streets, going into hidden corners of sleepywood, and then sailing to orbis together, to find this huge new continent of Ossyria. There were so many quests to do and so much fresh user-friendly MMO months upon months experience to spend with your friends. Even finding the NPC that leads to showa town, signapore. Yeah, I was eager for new classes and it being easier to level up in big bang. I'm missing the days of sitting around in kerning city trying to get into PQ's with others, instead of doing this fast ass level up to 30 in 1 hour thing people do when they find monsters that give good EXP. All in all, the game wasn't about levelling up. It was about exploring with friends, making friends, and finding new things. I very much miss the days where level 30 took 2-3 months to achieve. So sad because now I can get there in just about an hour. Every ounce of this game was fun, and I'm not going to admit to saying the days of dry quests on maple island were boring. Everything held excitement... In my childhood... In my maplestory... there was always a new adventure waiting to unfold.
Dude... Maplestory was life lol... I miss the freaking joy I felt when I beat my instructor for my 3rd job advancement in becoming a Dragon Knight. All that hard work and grinding paying off... I really do miss the good old Maplestory. The developers of the game were geniuses. They created the game so that your character was actually YOU. That was the beauty of Maplestory for me.... I really do miss the days where I would slack off from lvl'ing up and just chat with friends on benches in the towns.
hearing this music takes me back to when i was a kid with no worries in life. My only worry was if i was going to level up today or not. RIP childhood days were never getting back
Having to wait 30 minutes for the ship to orbis from victoria island was one of the most memorable parts of the game for me. I would sometimes take a break from grinding and just go on the ship as a 'holiday' to jsut meet new people and just socialise. Honestly the community was so great, and i feel so lucky to be able to experience the game at a younger age, where stress and worry was a foreign concept to me Life was great during the Maplestory era f4
Maplestory was, is and forever the best game of my life even though the game is not the same as it was anymore. The only game in the world that can make me cry when i think of it. i mean the memories... :( sometimes i wish i could stay at those moments forever :'(
I miss this game so much. Started playing this game in 2005... just a wee little 3rd grader (8 years old). Although I haven't played this game in roughly 4-5 years, and despite the fact that I have branched out to many other different games, this will always be my favorite game. R.I.P. Old Maple.
i played around that time too and about a year ago i played phantom and got lv200 hella fast and was disappointed i miss the old maple, i had such wonderful friends on there.
Sadly here's the truth.. Even if nexon brought it back we cannot experience our childhood of getting stronger and unlocking new abilities and for it to not be pay to win. Most inportantly the players now arnt as friendly as the old days.
Wow i feel nostalgic! I remember back in the days where i would train with my friends in pig beach and there's this 1 steel hog which would spawn in the map and we had to avoid it the whole time because its too OP for us! Such memories... T_T
After much thinking and planning, a couple old friends and I (we're in our 20's/30's now) decided to load this game up again and play it through. We did the same things we did in the past, the quests, the bosses, revisited the areas we enjoyed farming at, made a guild for ourselves, got to around level 200... And then we all agreed to stop. Didn't last for quite as long as it did in the past. Not more than 2-3 months, but it was very refreshing. And this song in particular epitomizes that whole journey for me.
I don't even play maple but listening to the songs reading comments. Then when I saw your comment I almost died... These games are adventures that cannot be forgotten... But too bad you can't go back to the old days
Old Maplestory: The music was full of adventure and excitement, sometimes scaryness but still had a sense of wonder. Every class was rooted in the ground and job advancements felt like a BIG deal, when you pick a mage not even knowing there are second jobs and you see a wizard literally teleporting around shooting arrows of fire and then you strive to do that one day. Then you see a third job advancement blasting powerful spells and doing all kinds of cool shit. Leveling was difficult and at times made the game boring, after 4th job was released a lot of classes were just too weak to be taken seriously and Arch Mages were obsolete when compared to the sheer versatility of bishops(that and skelegons which were endgame grinding at the time were weak to holy, and genesis had a much lower MP cost than blizz/meteor). And then the AWESOMENESS of pirates, the absolutely unique idea of riding a ship around and managing it's health to fight, and don't even get me started on how fun Buccaneers were. Current day in Maplestory(Or as I like to call it Mapleball Z). All the maps are dumbed down to maximize grinding. Exp is a joke, level 70 is a joke. first job is usually able to perform giant all-powerful skills that can hit 20billion mobs at once. Hundreds of unoriginal job classes that have some ugly form of cosmetic on them like demon-wings that you can't turn off. The music is far more angsty and hollywood. 480593845098309 attack gloves or gtfo. Lol 2.7bill? Poor nub. Every class has Flash Jump, a once highly coveted skill. No complex stat builds like Dexless builds, why even allow the player to allocate their stats anymore? All characters are nearly the same in design and attack with slightly different visuals, and can hit GAZILLIONS of damage with little effort and clog up the screen with numbers. Certainly some things were fixed, while the leveling is a joke now, pre-BB could have used a bit of EXP increase, they tore down the original game to make it the way it is and it's just not the same even if you can get to level 120 in a day, there's no adventure or original feel. The majority of classes are preset characters with their own story, instead of classes that allow you to make your OWN story. There's so much more they fucked up, but let me end it with this final problem: BLACK MAGE THIS BLACK MAGE THAT BLACK MAGE THIS BLACK MAGE THAT.
+Michael Z. As far as I am aware Maple Royals does not have buccaneers being able to use skills while transformed and is generally broken with pirates(as most private servers are).
+cronnoponno bucc's can use their skills while transformed, what's wrong is that their energyblast is slow it just makes grinding harder, but doesnt ruin the game
I'm living in Singapore and back in Oct 2005,when i was 13 a friend introduced me to maplesea while we were in school during art class. Went home to download the game and my life changed forever. i played during 2005-2006 and thank god that i was playing it during the best moments of maplesea. 1)training in coolie zombie maps during level 6x-8x before the timer was being implemented in the maps due to ridiculous ksing and map inflation price. 2)training at aquaroad dungeon fighting black and purple squids from level 8x-10x before i quitted maplestory. 3)When 10% took 1 hour of your life in maplestory and with 2x exp card,20% per hour of your exp was already considered godlike. 4)selling fame for 7k 5)Mryandao and ossaris from maplesea were the fastest to both reach level 200 in almost 2 years from the time maplesea was launched (faster than Tiger and suushi in gms due to not having 2x exp cards) 6)xshadowsinx well known in all servers of maplestory due to reaching level 120 in 2005 before 3rd job was even released in maplesea. 7) When perion at the bottom right use to be the ''freemarket'' where people sold things 8)When you were level 3x and you partied with other 3x people to go on taurospear outings 9) Stucking a coin in the UP button in zakum portal just to spam entry in god i miss those days,felt like it was yesterday when i was 13 and now i'm 22 already.
I still remember playing Maple and having the sense of wonder and joy whenever I level up or discover a new location. Now Maple is made so easy that its not worth playing at all
God wish i could make the nostalgia stop. I remember running around the main island and planning the best routes to do quests, and getting my thief with the awful hair cut from amorias free random hair cut thing, stuck in el nath
I remember getting stuck at El Nath once and managed to make it back on my own. Afterwards, when I was a high enough level. I would find others who got stuck in El Nath like I was and helped escort them back up the tower. Sometimes, I gave them scrolls to teleport them back. It felt really nice helping those people out. Also, I keep on coming back to this OST. The nostalgia is not stopping anytime soon.
lith is alwasy my fav afk spot. i dont know why but seriously its my most like maple bgm. It bring back so much memory and thank you for this amazing soundtracks!
I didn't even play MS that much, but this song has stayed with me for years. I've never forgotten it. It's always floated around in the back of my head and I come back to it time and time again just for the memories and the feelings it gives me. I miss being a kid haha.
i finally realize how much i love this song...buts its already too late. all i can do now is listen to this song and remember all the good times the old maplestory has brought me
I started playing Maplestory when I was in third grade. I still remember landing in Lith Harbor for the first time and listening to this song. From there on, I blossomed. I made friends, killed monsters, completed quests, bought new weapons. I leveled up to 23. I lived. Maplestory was a place where I could just be myself; it was heaven, a getaway from my daily, constricted life. I'm going off to college this week, and I could say maplestory was the best part of my life. Memory lives on with me.
MapleStory 2 better be really, reallyyy challenging, just like old Maple. Then the people who've achieved something will enrage us, make us jealous, and of course, inspire us. MS was founded on a solid community, and achievement was hard. Therefore, when players did get to high levels or had rare items, others looked up to them and forged a better, more active and involved community. Hopefully MapleStory 2 will deliver the same original feeling.
This is one of the most melodious soundtrack in the entire game. I really enjoyed listening to this. I miss playing Maplestory and this brings back such good memories. Thank you... :)
When you hear this song your journey began and a game that maybe you thought might not be fun started to turn into an awesome, relaxing, and fun experience, crazy events and mass faming/defaming and trolling on platforming sections made strong friendships........ You log in years later to be greeted by dragons, pirates?!?, quick leveling, and..................... disappointment.
Some of my fondest memories lay hidden within this game. All I can think about is playing this back in 7th-8th grade when I was still a kid. Back when Maplestory was something magical to say the very least. I still have a soft spot for this game and I always will but it's nothing like what it used to be. You can say the community was almost beautiful. Noobs were welcomed with an equal opportunity to everything. The places you went. The amazing people you met. The adventures... Ugh, the feels :(.
man the first part of this song and song at 2:57 T.T i remember being in elementary school and playing with my old friends. It was so stress free and peaceful during those time as i killed green snails T.T
This song reminds me of all my Maple days. All my online friends and the amazing memories I had,PQs,Boss runs and just straight up hard leveling .But those days are lost and long gone and its time to move on.....
I came back here out of nostalgia. I lost my account a few years ago due to some weird glitch that changed my account or something. After coming back, the nostalgia hits hard. The countless hours spent playing Maplestory, all the guilds I joined and guild mates I met. But nothing was better than playing with friends and helping some "noob" out and seeing them grow up. This game holds a lot of memories, it's sad to know my account is gone and that I can't play my old characters anymore. I still remember my first experience in Lith Harbor. I was hitting Mano with a stick farming his rainbow shell. Then an experienced player watched me do that for an hour and ended up helping me out because he thought I was funny. We ended up playing together for a very longtime, and he became my first MMO friend. I don't remember his name anymore, but thanks man, because of him whenever I play a game, when I reach a high level, I like to spend time helping, guiding, and teaching new players and see them off as they go on their own adventure. I don't play many games anymore, but when I do, I always try to follow my old friends example. And they say that online friends aren't real friends. This game still holds a special place in my heart though, and I'm sure that many of you feel the same, the nostalgia doesn't lie and neither do I.
Couldnt have said it better myself. The nostalgia is tearing at my heart right now. The fond memories I have of this game is something ill never forget. Years later me and my friend still chat about our old times in maple and all the fun we had and friends we made.
My god... I never knew... how much this song ment to me. Everything was so good back then but I took it for granted. And now it has all changed. I feel sad now...
ITs not about changing the ms,maybe our old lifes changed.That will never come back.As you remember your childhood playing ms.Priceless.Ty Wizet for everything!
Lith Harbror, after spending hours finishing Maple Island you finally got there, a beautiful place made for newbies. Buying one of those Wooden Fence shields, white bandanas or swimsuit hats from the equipment store. Those were golden days.
I remember arriving at lith harbor for the first time and I did a deadly mistake.I saw a Vip taxi and I thought "wow cool" and try taking a ride.Then I got stuck in one of the most dangerous places in ms for days >_
lol that's what happened to my friend back when leveling up was super hard my friend wanted to celebrate getting to level 25 (lol) and got on the taxi and got stuck in Sleepywood so he had to delete that character
The sound of countless adventures for an entire childhood. Calling up your friends and welcoming that joyful feeling in your heart when you know you're about to go on another grand adventure for the day. The whole world was open to you and linked together. You could go anywhere you wanted with your friends and do whatever you wanted. I used to love hearing the part at 3:00. It reminds me so much of the music from the PS2 .Hack//Sign games. Remember the old Maplestory forever
reading these comments i realize how precious and invaluable anything in your childhood could be. Really appreciate your childhood kids! Cherish every moment of it and make great memorie that will stick with you forever! I'm only 16 and I already feel it slipping away from me .... but alas, that is also apart of life and there will always be new challenges ready for you wherever the winds may blow you.
Damn, this brings back memories of just standing around Lith Harbor with my friends from elementary school discussing where to go with our level 11 characters.
If 20~30 Korean guys listen this music, they will fall in deep nostalgia. Because this is Korean national game and when I was 13, this game opened. I don't play this game anymore but maple music will make eyedrop. Oh.... when I was at school... I don't know How many americans play maplestory, but all of korean boys played this game and more than half korean girls played this game. This is Masterpiece.
Too many feelings. I remember playing for hours non stop to level up, spending so much money on Nexon cash, and always looking up to Fangblade. :') so much nostalgia..
dude i remember back when maplestory was popular, when there were only about 4 servers, all full, only 4 main classes. Those were the days, i would go to lith harbor just for this song, even though that was a bit of a newbie area
Just remember, guys. As someone wiser than I once said before: "All good things must come to an end." Old Maple will never come back, and maybe that's just something we should all accept for the better. No matter how much we miss it. No matter how hard our fondest memories try to jerk the tears from our eyes. It's never coming back. But what we can do is keep those wonderful memories alive in our hearts and never forget what it was like to be an Explorer. Always and forever
The day I got to Lith Harbor... I remember jumping for joy. After working so hard to get all of those Mesos...how hard to qualify for the ship... Now it's so easy... but the memories still touch me...of the old maple
tears come to my eyes when i hear this music...maplestory was my life back in 2005 when i was a warrior searching for friends and monsters to kill. it was in those days when all maplers were friendly and joyed over coming home from school when thats all we could thnk about. this music reminds me of many of the memories when i used to hunt in pig beach...nothing can break the bond between me and the beloved game, Maplestory. Even though nexon ruined maple, we all still hold it in our hearts forev
I will never forgot Maplestory. It will always be a game that stays in my heart. I know that sounds really cliche and dumb, but me and my friends had so much fun playing this game. We didn't care about our damage, or skills. We just had fun exploring, killing monsters, and bonding.
First archer I ever had, stacked Int and Str on him, and ran around with fish on a stick spear, was a good time. Saw a drk hit all the mobs on the map for like 15k and I was like "THAT DAMAGE!" I want to be like him..... only to find out you couldn't change class. So I remade my character and did a dexless spearman. Soloing rombots in Monster carnival felt like a champ. When I finally hit level 70, it was the best feeling in the world.
Ah, the first tune I heard upon stepping onto the island after my basic training...... Makes me emotional as it brings back memories as a youngling......
First game that I used skype to communicate with my cousin with... We were like teamspeaking on skype while grinding 5 hours nonstop. Fun times. And damn, this song makes me miss that so much.
Im freaking 22 now. i remember playing ms nonstop from 12 to 14. Good old times with no worries. Nowadays all I can think of is whether I will find a job after I graduate.
Burst into tears when the music start
+Führer! Same thing here! I'm 20, but from 10 to 13, all i could think of was Ragnarok Online and MapleStory. God knows how much time, money and pc space i've spent with them. I didn't care if my computer got infected with a different virus every single day. That was the reason why i had to uninstall them. After that, i never again got the time to install them back. But oh, how i miss those colourful settings, those beautiful soundtracks and those characters and monsters that are always so cute, awesome and scary, all at the same time! One day, i wish i'll have plenty of free time and not give a damn and revisit those games.
+Führer! Same here dude, and I also used to play Maple so much from 12 to 14. I would come home every single day from school and immediately log into MS. Now, I come home every single day from college and do assignments, projects, studying, etc. I really miss the old days.
+Führer! When I was lvl 30 in Maple I just backed to killing snails only for this music
I understand you bro, we're at the same stage right now.
Old days are still the best...
I'm sure all of us here are welling up with nostalgic tears.....Old maple will always have a special place in my heart.
agreed
so true :')
,,, im cry
I cri evry tiem...
I remember i used to put one point on each stat because I wanted a balanced character
hahaha xD
I remember I put points into intelligence onto my Warrior because I wanted him to be smart >_>
lmao, sigh memories!!
Haha, back then when mistakes like these were perfectly passable.
lmfao that's incredibly funny :) glad you shared :P
I just want to go back to 9 years ago when my brothers introduced me to this game. 2005-2011 had to be the best years of maplesotry for me.
me too, jaeda white =)
ジェイダ White Agreed!
16 years now :(
@@MagicEditingFX Sobbing
Maplestory 2 better deliver the FEELS of maplestory pre big bang. Fuck damage and all that shit, I want a casual MapleStory.
If anything Maplestory right now IS casual, there is absolutley no struggle.
It is just a contest on who has a bigger dick (damage)
wait, there's a maple story 2 coming out? when?
robertchay15 maplestory2.nexon.com
It's in korean, and there are only small teasers and images in that webpage. If no images are showing, disable your adblock, you're welcome.
If you guys didn't know, search up "maplestory 2" on youtube and you see gameplay for it.
Maplestory 2 looks terrible... if anything I hope that game will preserve the social part of the old maplestory.
And now new Maplestory players will never experience the awesome feeling of hearing this song when you truly start your game. (Since 90% of classes basically start you at level 10 and spawn you in some random area, making it so you'll never go to Lith Harbor :( )
Exactly.
It's like kids these days will never feel the rush of progress, adventure and teamwork.
Everything became cheap and fast and dumb.
Admit it, some of us who played the pre big bang Maple can't wait for the big bang update. It's what we wanted as a kid, to grow up as soon as possible. Some of us even hated Maple Island at one point, can't wait to get out of there with all the tiring quests, grinding of snails (especially red snails) and going to Victoria Island to have our 1st job advancement. However, as time passes, growing up is what we hope we have never wished for. It's the same for Maplestory, after the Big Bang update, it is what it feels like to be growing up, all the stress, competitiveness with others (comparing damage) and even being independent. We never had friends to play party quests with, we never had friends to jump the pet jumping quests anymore. And we wished to grow up... Looking back, the pre big bang maple was actually the best version of MapleStory i could ever wished for. Monster Carnivals pq, ludi pq, kerning pq etc. Yes, maplestory is still there, but it's just not the same anymore. The friendships, the party quests and the fun, it's just not there.
You just compared life to maplestory. So true, my friend. :'( Miss the days
Man, I can relate to this soo much. Don't mind if I add on, but nobody is out in the world anymore. Remember where in all of the maps you went to, there'd be some people grinding there who'd invite you to their party? Going into ant tunnel and seeing the people in that bottom corner working? No. Not anymore. Now everyone is either
-In the PQ area getting insane EXP by grinding inside of the PQ
-In these theme dungeons everyone hands to you
-People sitting in henesys talking to eachother (if you try to talk to them they will continue to flirt with their "online girlfriend" and completely ignore you)
Me and my friends were always exploring in Victoria Island. We would go hunting for hidden streets, going into hidden corners of sleepywood, and then sailing to orbis together, to find this huge new continent of Ossyria. There were so many quests to do and so much fresh user-friendly MMO months upon months experience to spend with your friends. Even finding the NPC that leads to showa town, signapore. Yeah, I was eager for new classes and it being easier to level up in big bang. I'm missing the days of sitting around in kerning city trying to get into PQ's with others, instead of doing this fast ass level up to 30 in 1 hour thing people do when they find monsters that give good EXP. All in all, the game wasn't about levelling up. It was about exploring with friends, making friends, and finding new things. I very much miss the days where level 30 took 2-3 months to achieve. So sad because now I can get there in just about an hour. Every ounce of this game was fun, and I'm not going to admit to saying the days of dry quests on maple island were boring. Everything held excitement... In my childhood... In my maplestory... there was always a new adventure waiting to unfold.
Dude... Maplestory was life lol... I miss the freaking joy I felt when I beat my instructor for my 3rd job advancement in becoming a Dragon Knight. All that hard work and grinding paying off... I really do miss the good old Maplestory. The developers of the game were geniuses. They created the game so that your character was actually YOU. That was the beauty of Maplestory for me.... I really do miss the days where I would slack off from lvl'ing up and just chat with friends on benches in the towns.
yo that's finna woke
i still hear the sound of dieing snails in the background to this music :)
And Mir sneezing fire...
It's a shame that it took so many years for me to finally realize how gorgeous this song is. I feel the memories rush through me haha; Good times.
hearing this music takes me back to when i was a kid with no worries in life. My only worry was if i was going to level up today or not. RIP childhood days were never getting back
I hate adulthood :(
+Mr Incredible42 true! same here
What a fucking flawless game pre 4th...
Having to wait 30 minutes for the ship to orbis from victoria island was one of the most memorable parts of the game for me. I would sometimes take a break from grinding and just go on the ship as a 'holiday' to jsut meet new people and just socialise.
Honestly the community was so great, and i feel so lucky to be able to experience the game at a younger age, where stress and worry was a foreign concept to me
Life was great during the Maplestory era
f4
pendejo298 f4
Maplestory was, is and forever the best game of my life even though the game is not the same as it was anymore. The only game in the world that can make me cry when i think of it. i mean the memories... :( sometimes i wish i could stay at those moments forever :'(
I couldn't have said it better myself..
+Lê Tuấn Việt the childhood of maple story
+Lê Tuấn Việt mình hiểu mà :((
***** cái thời ms còn ở vng chơi nhớ quá, cũng 8 năm r :(
maple bây giờ chán lắm r :) chả còn chất như xưa :( nhớ VMS
That feel when you went into "Free Marked" Expecting everything to be free......
I miss those days
lol ikr
This song makes me feel so free... And cry.
Thank you Wizet for those awesome memorise!
Old MS forever
More than 10 years ago...when Ribbon Pig was actually a formidable monster to defeat
+Danny Maverick and getting to lvl 30 was actually a pro-maple people
+MROHLALA trueeee
And those iron hogs. The slayers of noobs. Those were the days.
Still remember it took me a full day to get to lvl 30.....
+darren ng kok hao took me a month haha
I miss this game so much. Started playing this game in 2005... just a wee little 3rd grader (8 years old). Although I haven't played this game in roughly 4-5 years, and despite the fact that I have branched out to many other different games, this will always be my favorite game. R.I.P. Old Maple.
I started when I was about 7-8 years old. My siblings and cousins all used to play this game... lots of memories.
i played around that time too and about a year ago i played phantom and got lv200 hella fast and was disappointed
i miss the old maple, i had such wonderful friends on there.
I shouldn't have come here. I want to cry.
+SgtErikson Same here. I'm supposed to be studying, but I'm here instead reading these comments :(
+Simon its wonder full o see im not the only one
nostalgias fun like that
I cant handle this anymore, nexon, bring us the old maplestory back!!
Sadly here's the truth.. Even if nexon brought it back we cannot experience our childhood of getting stronger and unlocking new abilities and for it to not be pay to win. Most inportantly the players now arnt as friendly as the old days.
Who doesn't, but we all know that ain't gonna happen.
Wow i feel nostalgic! I remember back in the days where i would train with my friends in pig beach and there's this 1 steel hog which would spawn in the map and we had to avoid it the whole time because its too OP for us! Such memories... T_T
-sobs heavily over the loss of 2007 maple- I miss that game so much ;A;
you must be young. Bruh we go back to 2004 and 2005.
chibba to tell the truth I actually was, but I still miss it a lot. 2004 was 10 years ago, I can only imagine how you feel. ;;
***** I miss how you were respected when you got to level 70
Bread Baker
yea :(
my beta hat was sexy OMG
such an emotional theme
yes
The rare time I log in... I love to just stand in a corner of that map, and listen to this song. Remembering my lost buddies and happy moments.
And the busy kerning city :'(
After much thinking and planning, a couple old friends and I (we're in our 20's/30's now) decided to load this game up again and play it through. We did the same things we did in the past, the quests, the bosses, revisited the areas we enjoyed farming at, made a guild for ourselves, got to around level 200... And then we all agreed to stop. Didn't last for quite as long as it did in the past. Not more than 2-3 months, but it was very refreshing.
And this song in particular epitomizes that whole journey for me.
An adventure begins.
I don't even play maple but listening to the songs reading comments.
Then when I saw your comment I almost died...
These games are adventures that cannot be forgotten...
But too bad you can't go back to the old days
Old Maplestory:
The music was full of adventure and excitement, sometimes scaryness but still had a sense of wonder. Every class was rooted in the ground and job advancements felt like a BIG deal, when you pick a mage not even knowing there are second jobs and you see a wizard literally teleporting around shooting arrows of fire and then you strive to do that one day. Then you see a third job advancement blasting powerful spells and doing all kinds of cool shit.
Leveling was difficult and at times made the game boring, after 4th job was released a lot of classes were just too weak to be taken seriously and Arch Mages were obsolete when compared to the sheer versatility of bishops(that and skelegons which were endgame grinding at the time were weak to holy, and genesis had a much lower MP cost than blizz/meteor). And then the AWESOMENESS of pirates, the absolutely unique idea of riding a ship around and managing it's health to fight, and don't even get me started on how fun Buccaneers were.
Current day in Maplestory(Or as I like to call it Mapleball Z).
All the maps are dumbed down to maximize grinding. Exp is a joke, level 70 is a joke. first job is usually able to perform giant all-powerful skills that can hit 20billion mobs at once. Hundreds of unoriginal job classes that have some ugly form of cosmetic on them like demon-wings that you can't turn off. The music is far more angsty and hollywood. 480593845098309 attack gloves or gtfo. Lol 2.7bill? Poor nub. Every class has Flash Jump, a once highly coveted skill. No complex stat builds like Dexless builds, why even allow the player to allocate their stats anymore? All characters are nearly the same in design and attack with slightly different visuals, and can hit GAZILLIONS of damage with little effort and clog up the screen with numbers.
Certainly some things were fixed, while the leveling is a joke now, pre-BB could have used a bit of EXP increase, they tore down the original game to make it the way it is and it's just not the same even if you can get to level 120 in a day, there's no adventure or original feel. The majority of classes are preset characters with their own story, instead of classes that allow you to make your OWN story.
There's so much more they fucked up, but let me end it with this final problem: BLACK MAGE THIS BLACK MAGE THAT BLACK MAGE THIS BLACK MAGE THAT.
I agree with you 100% 🙏
Pat Etim I made a character last night and in 2 1/2 hours of play time got it to level 111
Guys play mapleroyals for nostalgia :)
+Michael Z.
As far as I am aware Maple Royals does not have buccaneers being able to use skills while transformed and is generally broken with pirates(as most private servers are).
+cronnoponno bucc's can use their skills while transformed, what's wrong is that their energyblast is slow it just makes grinding harder, but doesnt ruin the game
back when people actually took the air ferries as transportation and not hyper teleportation rocks
That sounds like a nightmare. I hope the transportations aren't dead, cause I loved talking to people there back then.
I'm living in Singapore and back in Oct 2005,when i was 13 a friend introduced me to maplesea while we were in school during art class. Went home to download the game and my life changed forever. i played during 2005-2006 and thank god that i was playing it during the best moments of maplesea.
1)training in coolie zombie maps during level 6x-8x before the timer was being implemented in the maps due to ridiculous ksing and map inflation price.
2)training at aquaroad dungeon fighting black and purple squids from level 8x-10x before i quitted maplestory.
3)When 10% took 1 hour of your life in maplestory and with 2x exp card,20% per hour of your exp was already considered godlike.
4)selling fame for 7k
5)Mryandao and ossaris from maplesea were the fastest to both reach level 200 in almost 2 years from the time maplesea was launched (faster than Tiger and suushi in gms due to not having 2x exp cards)
6)xshadowsinx well known in all servers of maplestory due to reaching level 120 in 2005 before 3rd job was even released in maplesea.
7) When perion at the bottom right use to be the ''freemarket'' where people sold things
8)When you were level 3x and you partied with other 3x people to go on taurospear outings
9) Stucking a coin in the UP button in zakum portal just to spam entry in
god i miss those days,felt like it was yesterday when i was 13 and now i'm 22 already.
Oh god how I remember this tune, how awesome Maple was back in the days.
It's been 2 years since I last played Maple yet this song still plays in my head along with all the memories that came with it.
I still remember playing Maple and having the sense of wonder and joy whenever I level up or discover a new location.
Now Maple is made so easy that its not worth playing at all
God wish i could make the nostalgia stop. I remember running around the main island and planning the best routes to do quests, and getting my thief with the awful hair cut from amorias free random hair cut thing, stuck in el nath
the feels
bet you walked up the eos tower atleast once after that quest with the warp capsule thing...
I remember getting stuck at El Nath once and managed to make it back on my own. Afterwards, when I was a high enough level. I would find others who got stuck in El Nath like I was and helped escort them back up the tower. Sometimes, I gave them scrolls to teleport them back. It felt really nice helping those people out.
Also, I keep on coming back to this OST. The nostalgia is not stopping anytime soon.
that damn Amoria hair stylist XD
+EternaMidnight i got a frickin tennis ball haircut -_-
goodness the memories...
lith is alwasy my fav afk spot. i dont know why but seriously its my most like maple bgm. It bring back so much memory and thank you for this amazing soundtracks!
CC please, Don't ks, Trade fame
Nostalgic
I didn't even play MS that much, but this song has stayed with me for years. I've never forgotten it. It's always floated around in the back of my head and I come back to it time and time again just for the memories and the feelings it gives me.
I miss being a kid haha.
i finally realize how much i love this song...buts its already too late. all i can do now is listen to this song and remember all the good times the old maplestory has brought me
I started playing Maplestory when I was in third grade. I still remember landing in Lith Harbor for the first time and listening to this song. From there on, I blossomed. I made friends, killed monsters, completed quests, bought new weapons. I leveled up to 23. I lived. Maplestory was a place where I could just be myself; it was heaven, a getaway from my daily, constricted life.
I'm going off to college this week, and I could say maplestory was the best part of my life. Memory lives on with me.
MapleStory 2 better be really, reallyyy challenging, just like old Maple. Then the people who've achieved something will enrage us, make us jealous, and of course, inspire us. MS was founded on a solid community, and achievement was hard. Therefore, when players did get to high levels or had rare items, others looked up to them and forged a better, more active and involved community. Hopefully MapleStory 2 will deliver the same original feeling.
I agree. The big bang update cheapened the awesome feeling of getting to a really high level. I'm looking forward to MS2.
What do you think of MS2?
for me lith harbour and ellinia is the most soothing songs in maple
dang this comment's old.
This is one of the most melodious soundtrack in the entire game. I really enjoyed listening to this. I miss playing Maplestory and this brings back such good memories. Thank you... :)
still remember this, whenever i start a new character and i came to here, i always buy shirt and pants.
When you hear this song your journey began and a game that maybe you thought might not be fun started to turn into an awesome, relaxing, and fun experience, crazy events and mass faming/defaming and trolling on platforming sections made strong friendships........
You log in years later to be greeted by dragons, pirates?!?, quick leveling, and..................... disappointment.
Some of my fondest memories lay hidden within this game. All I can think about is playing this back in 7th-8th grade when I was still a kid. Back when Maplestory was something magical to say the very least. I still have a soft spot for this game and I always will but it's nothing like what it used to be. You can say the community was almost beautiful. Noobs were welcomed with an equal opportunity to everything. The places you went. The amazing people you met. The adventures... Ugh, the feels :(.
man the first part of this song and song at 2:57 T.T i remember being in elementary school and playing with my old friends. It was so stress free and peaceful during those time as i killed green snails T.T
This song reminds me of all my Maple days. All my online friends and the amazing memories I had,PQs,Boss runs and just straight up hard leveling .But those days are lost and long gone and its time to move on.....
Memories... Just pure memories. My childhood right here... Haven't touched this for years..
The memories are coming back....hours and hours to get to 2nd job, LOVED THE CHALLENGE NOW ITS TOO EASY
I came back here out of nostalgia. I lost my account a few years ago due to some weird glitch that changed my account or something. After coming back, the nostalgia hits hard. The countless hours spent playing Maplestory, all the guilds I joined and guild mates I met. But nothing was better than playing with friends and helping some "noob" out and seeing them grow up. This game holds a lot of memories, it's sad to know my account is gone and that I can't play my old characters anymore.
I still remember my first experience in Lith Harbor. I was hitting Mano with a stick farming his rainbow shell. Then an experienced player watched me do that for an hour and ended up helping me out because he thought I was funny. We ended up playing together for a very longtime, and he became my first MMO friend. I don't remember his name anymore, but thanks man, because of him whenever I play a game, when I reach a high level, I like to spend time helping, guiding, and teaching new players and see them off as they go on their own adventure. I don't play many games anymore, but when I do, I always try to follow my old friends example. And they say that online friends aren't real friends. This game still holds a special place in my heart though, and I'm sure that many of you feel the same, the nostalgia doesn't lie and neither do I.
this game and music defines my childhood.... good times.... omg
Couldnt have said it better myself. The nostalgia is tearing at my heart right now. The fond memories I have of this game is something ill never forget. Years later me and my friend still chat about our old times in maple and all the fun we had and friends we made.
I literally want to cry, so much nostalgia, i want my childhood back, the innocence, the playfulness.
My god... I never knew... how much this song ment to me. Everything was so good back then but I took it for granted. And now it has all changed. I feel sad now...
ITs not about changing the ms,maybe our old lifes changed.That will never come back.As you remember your childhood playing ms.Priceless.Ty Wizet for everything!
Brings me back to simpler times. 24 now, still brings up the emotions I felt when I was 10-12.
Lith Harbror, after spending hours finishing Maple Island you finally got there, a beautiful place made for newbies. Buying one of those Wooden Fence shields, white bandanas or swimsuit hats from the equipment store. Those were golden days.
This song means so much to me or everyone in life. Literally the start of your journey to your first job after training/school.
I remember arriving at lith harbor for the first time and I did a deadly mistake.I saw a Vip taxi and I thought "wow cool" and try taking a ride.Then I got stuck in one of the most dangerous places in ms for days >_
lol that's what happened to my friend
back when leveling up was super hard my friend wanted to celebrate getting to level 25 (lol) and got on the taxi and got stuck in Sleepywood so he had to delete that character
i remember the days when i had no clue to level up, being a noob hanging around the heyenes hunting grounds areas for like 2 months......XD
lol sameeeee
The nostalgia hurts I've been playing maple for 7 years now and maple will always be cherished inside my heart
The sound of countless adventures for an entire childhood. Calling up your friends and welcoming that joyful feeling in your heart when you know you're about to go on another grand adventure for the day. The whole world was open to you and linked together. You could go anywhere you wanted with your friends and do whatever you wanted. I used to love hearing the part at 3:00. It reminds me so much of the music from the PS2 .Hack//Sign games. Remember the old Maplestory forever
reading these comments i realize how precious and invaluable anything in your childhood could be. Really appreciate your childhood kids! Cherish every moment of it and make great memorie that will stick with you forever! I'm only 16 and I already feel it slipping away from me .... but alas, that is also apart of life and there will always be new challenges ready for you wherever the winds may blow you.
Damn, this brings back memories of just standing around Lith Harbor with my friends from elementary school discussing where to go with our level 11 characters.
MapleStory has run it's course. I tried to bring back those wonderful memories and I ended up with disappointment.
I'm still playing after 7 years. I still remember the 1st anniversary events. and I never get tired of listening to this.
This song is so nice!
I'm glad you uploaded it!
That trumpet part always hits me in soul.
I miss my old Maple friends, the music, the training, the quests, the adventures, everything! =(
If 20~30 Korean guys listen this music, they will fall in deep nostalgia. Because this is Korean national game and when I was 13, this game opened. I don't play this game anymore but maple music will make eyedrop. Oh.... when I was at school...
I don't know How many americans play maplestory, but all of korean boys played this game and more than half korean girls played this game. This is Masterpiece.
Every year I keep listening to this song, I miss that game and my childhood. =/
RIP 2005-2008 :(
i was about 8 when i started playing this. 10 years later and i still love it, even though everything's changed so much.
This song just brings back so many memories... RIP Maplestory (2006-2011) that I once knew as a kid.
Too many feelings. I remember playing for hours non stop to level up, spending so much money on Nexon cash, and always looking up to Fangblade. :') so much nostalgia..
dude i remember back when maplestory was popular, when there were only about 4 servers, all full, only 4 main classes. Those were the days, i would go to lith harbor just for this song, even though that was a bit of a newbie area
started playing this game when i was 11 (2008) man this brings back so much good memories... R.I.P OL MAPLESTORY
pls kill Iron Hog for me F4
lmfaooo
Just remember, guys. As someone wiser than I once said before:
"All good things must come to an end."
Old Maple will never come back, and maybe that's just something we should all accept for the better.
No matter how much we miss it. No matter how hard our fondest memories try to jerk the tears from our eyes. It's never coming back.
But what we can do is keep those wonderful memories alive in our hearts and never forget what it was like to be an Explorer. Always and forever
Makes me happy that I'm not the only one who wants to cry.
The nostalgia is overwhelming. The best part of this game always was the music, though most of the time I had it muted...
Hearing this song, brings all the memories back in the days. Too much nostalgia, brings tears into my eyes. Great Game this was.
The day I got to Lith Harbor... I remember jumping for joy. After working so hard to get all of those Mesos...how hard to qualify for the ship... Now it's so easy... but the memories still touch me...of the old maple
tears come to my eyes when i hear this music...maplestory was my life back in 2005 when i was a warrior searching for friends and monsters to kill. it was in those days when all maplers were friendly and joyed over coming home from school when thats all we could thnk about. this music reminds me of many of the memories when i used to hunt in pig beach...nothing can break the bond between me and the beloved game, Maplestory. Even though nexon ruined maple, we all still hold it in our hearts forev
I got to level 50 before I quit. This made me smile. Thanks! ^^
Good memories guys 2006- 2008
2003-2007
I will never forgot Maplestory. It will always be a game that stays in my heart. I know that sounds really cliche and dumb, but me and my friends had so much fun playing this game. We didn't care about our damage, or skills. We just had fun exploring, killing monsters, and bonding.
First archer I ever had, stacked Int and Str on him, and ran around with fish on a stick spear, was a good time. Saw a drk hit all the mobs on the map for like 15k and I was like "THAT DAMAGE!" I want to be like him..... only to find out you couldn't change class. So I remade my character and did a dexless spearman. Soloing rombots in Monster carnival felt like a champ. When I finally hit level 70, it was the best feeling in the world.
I like the lighthouse at the background, it gives a lovely effect to Lith Harbor *sniff*
Did they deliberately make liths harbour music this good just so we would come back to here for nostalgia whenever maplestory change?
Very soothing :) this brang back a old memory when i was still a level 8 beginner going to become a magician. i love it XD
Ah, the first tune I heard upon stepping onto the island after my basic training...... Makes me emotional as it brings back memories as a youngling......
Thanks for uploading this.
@Cat307 I got strangely teary-eyed... so great
i remember when maplestory started to get boring, but i still played just to hear its soundtrack. So GOOD
Just got hacked...lost everything.
Maple Story...you will forever be an integral part of my childhood, but it's time to say goodbye.
First game that I used skype to communicate with my cousin with... We were like teamspeaking on skype while grinding 5 hours nonstop. Fun times.
And damn, this song makes me miss that so much.
NUUUUUUU!!!! i cant take it no more all the memories
Maplestory thanks for being a good game to me i will never forget ya !!!
this song brings back thoughts when i started playing, wanna cry ;(
The most nostalgic part of the song is the starting for me XD
D; omg...i miss it
It's funny that this was uploaded on 2008, yet we are still commenting on it now.
Including me, out of nostalgia, this music warms my heart up.
Lith harbor Song: starts
Me: uncontrollable sobbing