Lineage 2 First Impressions "Is It Worth Playing?"
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Lineage 2 is a Korean MMORPG made in Unreal Engine 2 that initially released in 2003 and over time has had a lot of sucess in both Eastern and Western markets, Initially the game had a subscription fee model but in 2011 made the switch over the free to play as with many other games in the genre.
Lineage 2 is a game that I never really experianced whilst it was super relevent but after hearing about the epic battles, massive world boss fights and open world I'm sure this would have been a game that I'd had loved during it's peak, In this video I check out both Lineage 2 live servers and classic to see how the game's holding up in 2020
What do you think about Lineage 2? was this a great MMORPG? do you have fond memories with the game? let me know in the comments below!
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--Lineage 2 Description--
Enter the World of Lineage II
Step into the role of a legendary warrior seeking to find his place in the midst of battle! Lineage II brings you into an expansive MMORPG experience where you create your own destiny in the realm of Aden. Prepare yourself for an adventure as you engage in colossal PvP siege battles, join epic raid encounters, build your own clan of allies, or raise your own stable of pets and mounts to traverse the epic Lineage II world!
Live the Story
In a war-torn land spanning two continents, three kingdoms vie for power as they engage in a battle for ultimate supremacy. As a lone warrior in this conflict, you must choose an allegiance and confront enemies from all sides as you strive to overcome conflict against the mightiest of challengers. It is your time to step into the light and enforce your will upon the realm. Seize your destiny and allow your own hand to write the history that will be remembered in Lineage II.
Create Your Hero
Shape your journey in Lineage II by creating a unique avatar from a selection of 7 unique races (Human, Elf, Dark Elf, Orc, Dwarf, Kamael, and Ertheia), each with their own unique characteristics and traits that lead you down the path of more than 30 potential classes you can evolve into. Whether you take the path of a Warrior to become a Dreadnought or grow from a Wizard to an Archmage, the choice is yours to make!
Advance Combat and Raids
In the world of Lineage II, whether you live or die depends on your skill in battle. Go face to face against foes of equal skill and experience or team up to challenge and overcome world boss raids where hundreds of able-bodied heroes may be needed! The thirst of combat is to be quenched with your blade!
Massive Clan Battles
Create your own clan or join an existing clan of fellow adventurers to unite your power to defeat epic world bosses or other adversarial clans who stand in your way! Level up your clan and expand your membership as you continue to complete clan quests and achieve exclusive clan rewards and benefits!
Lineage II Classic
Take a step back in time and relive the original Lineage II experience as it was in the beginning. Create a classic hero from the original 5 races and 31 class options and jump into the nostalgic hardcore level grind where the rewards can outweigh the risks. It's your chance to experience the game the way it was when "hardcore" meant something!
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Lineage 2 First Impressions "Is It Worth Playing?"
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This game... hits me so hard, so much.. so many memories, back in 2003-2004 i remember creating my first character on a dial-up connection with 256MB of RAM memory, still feels like yesterday, ohh the feel, the graphics, my first online gameplay, to see and interact with ppl all over the world even on a private server, i cant describe it, the chills and feels we alkl went trough, learing buffs, class traits, bosses, first Antharas,Baium Valakas kill... finding Zaken in his maze, OMG i swear i could cry right now,,, so many friends made, so many alliances forged, all to gather and own Aden... God bring me back just for 1 day and take me tomorrow!
Lineage 2 helped me learn english SO much, i must’ve been 14, 15 at the time... good times
Same here. :D I was so bad at it until I've played L2 every single day.
Sure.
Me too!
Omg same! I spent so much time playing it when I was 12-14 ish and it really helped me improve my English. And here I am more than a decade later looking at this with such nostalgia
Same here ^^ that's a lot of memories !
This game still has the best mmo soundtrack ever
that would be granado espada
the giran castle town give me so much nostalgia!!
Hunters Village theme 💙💙
Nah. FFXIV
Dion's theme...
Lineage was and would be the best part of my life. So many memories 😭😢 Hunter village theme ...
I've played so many MMOs since L2 but nothing ever replaces L2...
@@jonathanc247Runesacape
8 years spent well....and everytime I hear that classic Lineage II music I'm getting hella chills and throwbacks.
*_I'm not crying, you're crying_*
I'm getting that long lost feeling of discovering L2 for the first tim on this server lineage2knight.com/en/homepage
It's like rediscovering it again
I am a former player, I started playing in C3 (almost in its early years) over there in 2004-2005. Back then, going up a single level was already a challenge (sometimes it took us weeks to go up only a small% of the experience bar), they didn't give us as much facilities to progress as now. Despite the popularity of other games of the time, such as WOW or GW, me and my friends stayed strong for many years in L2, until H5, because we really liked its solid PVP system and the sieges of castles and fortresses, which they had no other mmo at the time.
Upon the arrival of GOD, I left because the game had lost its essence and had completely transformed. I still remember very fondly this game and all the pleasant moments and experiences lived. Obviously, the game is very outdated by now, but I am surprised that it still has a solid community of players 17 years after its creation.
I also understand that other current games do not manage to convey the experience pvp and sieges that this game has, that is a remarkable feat considering that modern games come out every two by three, it seems that nothing has aged badly l2, it is nice to know it, I will always carry it in my heart and in my memories.
I just wanted to share my thoughts. Bye.
Oh man.. As someone who played lineage2 during its "Golden age", it makes me so sad seeing what they've done to the game now (main servers making you do some boring 1 click combat for 85 levels just to skip them, classic having BOT integrated and also heavily pay to win).
I won't go into too much detail, but back in the day, it was all about adventure, discovery meeting right people and gathering information. Sure lineage2 needed a lot of grind, but it also needed a lot of knowledge. There were no tutorials, you had to find quests, find monsters, figure out who drops what (and some drop rates were 1/1000000 so you had to take your time). Also for a lot of monsters/locations you needed groups, so you had to find allies to join you. Playing lineage2 solo was hardly possible at higher levels, so you had to make connections. If you invested enough time, you would find friends for life there ( I still have 3 friends met in the world on lineage2 10years ago, so now we hang out irl).
It's just.. so much memories. No other MMORPG gave me this sense of having "another life".
-- lineage2 player for 6years
I feel you! This was great back in the days!
people who played this game then must be in their late 30's by now
@@heartofjustice6041 I turned 30 two weeks ago hahaha, I come back from time to time to play again with my old friend I made there like 15 year ago, the fucking memories we have lol
i can feel your pain, lineage is a giant legend that developers over the time fucked to oblivion... so sad.
I'm 35
Lineage 2 was amazing a decade ago. Everything up to about the interlude expansion. The leveling was slow and extremely grindy, but the open world at the time was breathtaking. And the pvp...It was the first time I actually dived deep into pvp and pking. Running around the zone fighting people. The fondest memories I have are still those of me and my friend running in on our Treasure Hunters (human rogue basically), quick stabbing some clan officers in a mid/endgame farming zone and have 40 people chase us across the world. Or playing any of the range classes and doing the same hit and runs. Playing my Dark Avenger and messing abut with the pet against people. Landing clutch slows/stuns. Just lvling and seeing the armor/weapon progression. I remember how I tried to make a warsmith work in pvp with various switches and was able to pull off amazing pvp with it. Especially later when olympiad was a thing. Getting recipes, crafting gear. All those clan/alliance wars during sieges. I used to wake up at 3-4am as an 11-14 year old, pulling my first all nighters. Chasing people and being chased in narrow corridors. Fighting open world bosses.
Even flipping and merching was quite a thing, with how you could undercut and just sit on a person selling something and see each other standing up at the same time to adjust your prices or move to other locations to sell. And the community... I've played through so many mmos over these years and Lineage 2 still holds a special place in my heart. Nothing really comes close. Even during the private server golden age it was an absolute blast. It wasn't a perfect game and many didn't like it, but I loved it. Places like Dion, Gludio, Giran cities, Ruins of Agony, Ruins of Despair, Execution grounds, Cruma tower, Valley of Saints, various Necropolises, Anthara's lair, Tower of Insolence and so on are nostalgic. The video you showed is just a shallow husk of what it was. Still an amazing review, but for anyone interested in the game...It's just not the same. Not even close.
My thoughts exactly about this game. Was dun playing Soulhound and breaking my fingers. Never have I played a game where I had to use so many abilities together.
i bet you guys also ganked a shitload of noobs in the starter zones? =)
@@Ailasor no I was the one killing pks in starting zones. That cancer wqs never fun
The graphics getting old, but there are still servers where you can feel the good old L2
Man.. i missed my Dark avenger/Hell knight. I wasn't particularly an OP geared player but i had a lot of wins in Olympiad back in the days by utilising touch of death, final defense, panther summon etc
I did experience this game in its peak. I was very addicted to it. Yet, it brought some of the happiest memories I can remember. The community I played with was awesome.
I had the same feeling about Eve Online in his peak between 2008-2012.
"The population of this game seems to be pretty good" :D Back in the days, that's what we called a "dead server". All main cities were full of shops and players, and by full I mean that it was almost impossible to move with mouse on the market, because you constantly clicked someone.
Is it worth playing? No. Since many, many years. People would say H5 was still a decent chronicle, I played it for years myself, but it was never a true experience you could get in C4-IL days to be honest. You worked for years on your chars and clans to achieve things and everyone cared to not lose it. H5 each time was 3-4 month grind to top level and start over.
L2 was all about the social system that the game provided to cooperate within and between clans and alliances. I have never seen in any other game so extensive and thorough discussion on which clan to help, kill or leave neutral, who can apply for boss jewelry rotation, who will get items from clan warehouse etc. etc.. Clan and ally leaders literally had meetings where they met on the top of the mountain, sat in circle and debated for hours on current situation and future plans.
Ah, I still remember how we were farming with a whole clan for several days to get materials to have a 60% CHANCE to craft ONE piece of the armor for our clan leader. And people loved it. :D Now it's unaccaptable if you spend more than 10min on some activity without gaining shitton of stuff and levels.
Lineage 2, the game of my life. Sadly no slightest chance for it to change when you look at current flashy MMOs.
Dedemonn gods! It sound like a grind fest like bdo or worst
Not to metion that private servers are pretty much where everyone plays so its hard to tell how much people still play the game.
although i was a 13 yo noob whilist this was happening i still loved the game so much because there was so much to aspire and aim for, even though i knew i would never get the top tier stuff it was amazing watching super high level characters with best gear and just slowly progressing, farming and fishing whilist enjoying the game.
I still hope they will remaster the game completely and make it more current- time
This one I'm enjoying, it's like rediscovering the game again. It has reworked skills and classes
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sounds great, i never even heard of it until ashes of creation. even though i cant get the experience you're talking about i hope aoc can offer that
There was only one true lineage: The L2 C4.
C3, C4 and Interlude, the best of L2.
I stilm play lineage1, that is the true lineage...
@@MikaelThas interlude was class boken chronicle.. big disbalanced game in olympiad
H5 is the most balanced chronicle ever
c4 and hi five
Holy hell, the second the Dion town theme started playing in your recap the floodgates of nostalgia opened. The fact that you specifically highlighted it is beyond awesome in my books. I played L2 back in in 2003/2004, it was one one the first MMOs I really got deeply into. I used to go to Dion and chill just to listen to the music because I loved it so much.
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As some one who played in C2 through interlude I can definitely say that the game now is completely butchered. Back in the day this was one of the best hardcore mmos out there. It had an open world and territory control dictated by players and clans, whoever been better at pvp had to keep that farming area for themselfs, open world pvp with karma system(corruption if you will) that you could engage a player and you'd turn purple, if he fights you back then he goes purple as well and it considered as pvp, but if you kill him without him fighting back you'd become red (a player killer) and had a high chance dropping your gear, and by gear I mean the shit you wear, armor, weapon, jewelry everything. It took bloody months, even years to get materials for that gear. There were xp loss for dying so you would think thrice before even trying to attack a higher lvl mob and risking to drag the entire room along with it. Hp and mp were limited, you had to sit down for 5 mins after 2-3 mobs to regenerate cause potions cost a fortune and were preferably used for pvp so you had to do your math either its worth to pop a potion now or save it for some rogue player. Class change quests took you a week to complete so you really felt you achieved something, you were exited for a new class, not lime in now a days mmos where you don't give a damn. World bosses were the center of attention for the entire server, you would camp a boss only to start it, get killed by another clan, regroup, kill them, and so on until finally after 2 to 4 hours depends on the boss, with all the anxiety you manage to kill him, and get the loot just to get that random clan declare war on you and make it into a server wide alliance war. This my friends was the best game I have played for 7 years of my childhood until they killed it. I'm 32 now, and I really do hope that ashes of creation will be what L2 was back then, as the ceo is a veteran of L2. I salute to all you veterans and hope to see you again.
Here I am, thinking: "What happened to my favourite childhood MMO?" just to click this vid and see this comment. You, my friend have almost the same experience as me, though I started at late C3 and finished with Kamael release. Played on a small locak server. This was epic game and I remember when it was my turn, my clan was gathering resources for my armour and weapons, it took us about a year to farm it all. Class transfers? Those were series of quest you could start like 6 levels before you actually could become the new class. And just by doing them you would get to the necessary level and it did took about a day to level up once. Those were the times, though I am sure neither of us would have time today to actually grind it all, as I remember playing for 4-6 hours a day. Kudos and respect to you and to the golden age of Lineage II.
Private L2 servers seem to give us some of that nostalgia trip at least. It's nice to experience that familiar feeling which came with doing pvp in the interlude-gracia final days, which was the game's golden time, although, in my personal opinion, C3C4 were the best chronicles to start the game on official. C2 had no spirit/soulshot auto activation. Fuck that sh*t :D
There are indeed private servers, but they lack the amout of players that L2 had at its peak on the official, and fuck my life did i had to replace some keyboards cause of the manual soulshot xDDDD. but that shows you that the game got fucked over the years, cause soulshots/spiritshots back then cost a damn fortune. what made the game amazing as well was the class balance in pvp and pve alike, no class was wasted, dwarf crafters ? sits on his ass and does nothing, but crafts soulshots the most valuable thiong for speed farm. a useless dwarf that cant craft ? spoiler is your man, cant do shit but highly valuable to get extra materials, and fuck me they were worth the xp leech xDDD. me myself i was a spellhowler, at most mmo's healers looked down on caue you can do without one and wont even feel the difference, but L2, dude i would jizz in my pants if id manage to find a shillien elder or an elven elder in cruma tower XDDDDDD
You forgot soulshots/spiritshot
A simple example of how hardcore L2 is (or was) : the xp percentage to reach the next level have 4 digits after the point... The 3rd and 4th digit were added because they were necessary : there is levels on which you needed millions of killed mob to levelup. And when you did, it was common to tell the whole guild, alliance, or even the whole server, and receive congratulations from everyone !
I used to play this games for hours just trying to walk from one end of the continent to the other. Not for a quest or hunting monsters, just looking for beautiful spots and interesting terrains and just enjoying the view. the terrains of this world is so well made and huge.
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Yeah from Gludin to aden my fav place was the forest of the mirrors and angel waterfalls
Fully know your feeling man... Especially going round places where the mobs could clean out your party looking for viable safe places to lvl up.
This server removed gatekeepers for that reason
I'm getting that long lost feeling of discovering L2 for the first tim on this server lineage2knight.com/en/homepage
It's like rediscovering it again
Yeah, I mainly played it because it was so so beautiful to be honest. Including characters, armor, scenery, everything. I played classic though and it was so f-ing grindy. Maybe I should try this new thing.
It was one of my first MMORPGs where I spent ... maybe 6 years of neverending grinds with my guild members. This game united us and to be honest, we are in contact until today :) After 18 years we still have our Discord channel, facebook contacts, phone numbers and despite we are from all the corners of our country, we know together in real life.
but discord was only made in 2015 xD
@@ajz2436 lmaoooooo
@@ajz2436 he mentioned also phone numbers. They must have exchanged other contact info then exchanged discord. And it makes sense because before discord people actually went out and talked on the phone I suppose, now that wouldn't happen anymore
It was worth playing in 2003. I know it has been updated a lot now, but back then it was extremely grindy, yet kinda fun because we didn't know any better.
On 2003 to lvl up you need to kill mobs, no quest.
That's why lineage 2 private server got so popular, reduce level grinding and be able to focus on the true fun part of it.
back then we had a lot of free time, also, the atmosphere of this game really sucks you in, along with the music. I miss this game greatly, even though i woudn't subject myself to this type of grind ever again.
Some of my best moments were late hour grinding with the guildies...having some chumps run up on us for a little pvp action. Then keep grinding. There was no short cuts, you had to earn it.
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lineage 2 was the reason to get to home after school, it was my love, it was a masterpiece. The thing you experienced on both versions was a joke and absolutely not the game that was back in the days and i feel really sorry that you missed it. It really pains me that a game that was my everything now it is garbage.
I fucking skipped classes for it... fuking life sucker lol
Join L2 Exilium for high five pvp. The game is still alive somehow, i'll never stop playing cause it will always be the reason im coming home :) . If u join pm Gomen ;)
I used to skip WEEKS of school just to play this with my mates. We probably played 10h+ daily for several years. Insane, and i still somehow managed to finish school and university. No fucking regrets, best days of my life
@@infernus6278 I got lucky with Guild Wars 2, and got laid off for a year when it came out. Was able to play 50 hours a week :)
That's what time dies, L2 had absolute no way to survive till 2020 no matter what they did, but what they could have done is work on L3 but they started to work on mobile version of Lineage which lead to destruction of original team that worked on the game, now NCSOFT can never gather people that can make masterpiece, if they ever release L3 it will be garbage
*DION THEME STARTS PLAYING * died of nostalgia of C4
i got goose bumps instantly lol
Go kill some gazers then :)
Sooooooo true buddy.I got you 10000%
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I still remember when in C3 it took literally months to get 1-52 with some basic c grade equipment done... that was lineage 2 :)
Bro, this video is blowing my mind that he went 1-76 in a day. It took me a year to hit 70. And it didn't get faster till I started a second account to bot buff myself.
I still haven't found a game that did classes so well. Each race, each class was a completely unique experice, even if some of them were fulfilling the same niche. And the class transfer system was awesome, its not just "level up get better skills" you could feel the difference in playstyle and how it became more and specialised.
The armors are the best one ina fantasy game to me, although dark elf fall prey to the good old bikini armor, both female and male armor felt good and cool for everyone. The white avadon robe, the blue blue wolf armour, the demon armor, the karma, hell even the devotion robes were awesome. It was so awesome
The blue wolf robe for elven elder was so beautiful, what a precious memories!
And I the only one who loved the dc armor and the nightmare one?
I had played for years before I fell in love with the warcryer class. I used to play alone then buffing myself and grinding away at some weaker mobs. It is so versatile but horrible for solo play.
HA HA
Back then it would take one entire afternoon to get to lvl 20, and that is when you get the real feel of the game in every stage of it, having to find the perfect mobs to kill to enhance your leveling etc.. And the buff system and how powerfull they were made it so grateful to have a party of friends... Man just so many good memories on this, and the music is just otherworldy. Glad you got to get a taste of it, yet not the real taste but seems like you realise, keep it up!
Dion town theme music!!! After 20 years i still can not forget that music!
They made levelling easier so the new players could catch up and do raids faster since all they do is release late game gear i believe
@@tomaspat4392 One of my favorites! Glad he put it in the video. Even though Lineage2 is nothing like it used to be he still managed to set the right tone overall.
"Back then" at launch it took several days to hit 20 lol.
Ah yes, the "real experience" of playing shitty leveling content for weeks, nice meme.
This game was a total lifesucker back in the day. One of the best I ever played.. grindy as fuck but tons of fun!
Its still a lifesucker. Even that Classic version with AFK - you think its afk but you need to do a lot of daily questing, zones, solo bosses, rb if in clan etc, it consumes all your day...
@@baned3497 yes it is , indeed im returning to a private server :p
Bautista Garais it’s funny you say Grindy asf imagine today’s mmo players playing this. You know the ones, always complains the game is to grindy and enhancement sucks
@@justinpatrick9249 I haven't played any modern MMO so no idea how they are. But l2 until interlude was so fn grindy. I played in a x6 private server.
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There are indeed some masterpiece soundtracks in this game. After 15+ years I still listen to them occasionally which give me goosebumps of all the great memories this game has given me. I only played on low XP boosted private servers though to lessen the grind but it still took months to reach a descent level.
Lineage II today (live) as far as I know is a complete play to win disaster. No clue how classic is doing though.
"Spiders can't swim, oh they can in this game"
My poor boi. they do aswell in real life.
I loved this game back in the day. SO much nostalgia listening to the L2 music.
What can i say about the game. In the early days from Chronicle 1 (C1) to Chronicle 4 (C4) it was EPIC!!
Leveling was slower, and the levels made a lot of difference in the game. That's because you could level your skills ---> more dmg/ more heals / better buffs.
You could PVP everywhere with everybody or you could just kill (PK) people. Fighting for leveling spots was a thing.
There was not a lot of quests compared to WOW, with exception of class transfers at level 20 and later at 40 and 75+.
A normal day was like, you come online go in a group with friends and you went on an adventure in this open world, killing monsters, getting better loot, fighting of PKs or other annoying groups who wanted to kill you.
Or maybe you just went on a killing spree yourself with buddies and you massacred everybody you saw. You could also "train" people, if you had a dagger class you went in a group of strong monsters, aggro them, A LOT of them and ran into a group of people who were there just trying to kill monsters and used "faint death". You lost all the aggro from the monsters and they demolished the other nearby people. :D
The thing was if a monster killed you, there was a chance for you dropping your gear (equipped or just in the inventory) not all but some including weapon you were holding. Imagine if you just hit level 40 and you grinded for hours
and hours to get enough money to buy that expensive and very strong weapon that could carry you for the next 12+ levels until you get to the next gear class and you lost it from a guy who "trained" you. Infuriating!!
The only way to lose something from your inventory or equipped gear was to die by monsters or be killed if you were a PK and had a certain number of PKs already.
More PKs you got more karma you had and if you had karma you were not
allowed to go into a village/city. City guards would attack you and kill you. If you wanted to go back into the city you had to kill monsters to lose the karma from PKs.
It was very risky to run around as a PK (red nickname) especially if you were solo. Everybody saw you are a PK - red nickname.
But either way all of this was so much FUN!!!
You could also join or create your own clan. Clan quests were also fun. There was one quest for clan level 3 if i'm not mistaken were a clan leader was poisoned and your clannies had limited time to get ingredients, craft a cure and bring it back to you.
The whole time you as a clan leader couldn't move and you also needed some healer and body guards with you. If you died, you had to repeat the whole quest. I remember when we were in a clan war with a clan who was doing this quest and lets just say they didn't have a great time :D.
People in clans had passive clan buffs (more attack, defense, HP/MP regeneration,...) and clans benefit was also in clan halls and later in castles.
Castle fights/sieges was the core of the game. Every castle had its own influence area where it was collecting taxes from the town shops. That's why every clan wanted to have its own castle. If you had one
you and your clan could get rich. So you could buy better gear for everybody to progress even faster and go deeper then others into the end-game leveling zones. The capitol city was Aden. That castle was the biggest of them all (one to rule them all - hehe) and it also collected taxes from all other castles.
...I miss those times...
Another thing about castles. A clan leader owning a castle could have a flying wyvern. For that you had to get a baby pet wyvern first, when it matured (leveled) you could ride it as a ground mount. But the last upgrade was a flying mount only for clan leaders who had a castle (you could also have it if you had a clan hall in aden).
Except this flying wyvern there was no flying mounts in the game.
The mount also had skills, fire breath and so on. I was on a wyvern patrolling the area from PKs and others so my clannies could level in peace and i saw an ally clan leader was running alone from a group of players from the ally we were fighting. I stormed down into the group with my wyvern, killed one guy and distracted others so my ally friend got time to escape. :)
There was also these world bosses who were hard to kill. Ant Queen, Baium, Zaken, Antharas, ... and they dropped boss jewelry and those were very powerful. You could get only 1 piece per kill + other loot. So killing those bosses was very important. Usually when you wanted to kill a boss like that you probably first fought with other clans / alliances and if your side was last one standing
you could go for a boss kill. Other people could still come back and could prevent you doing that so usually when groups were fighting the boss, you had a lot of people trying to protect them from the enemy attacks. That's also the reason why some boss fights took a lot of time.
There was also coliseum fights. People from every class and race fought and the best guy in his class/race was a hero for a certain period of time - until the next coliseum period.
He/she had a special glow and slightly boosted stats.
There are a lot of other things (enchanting, raid bosses, outposts battles - special clan halls, ...) i could write but this is already a wall of text. Sorry about that!
Nowdays the game has a lot of problems with bots and after Interlude everything went down the hill imo. If you want to have a good L2 experience play classic.
Its really a shame they didn't make L3. It could have been one of the best MMOs.
One last thing. In the past in the beginning when i was playing 2004-2010 there was no automation (the button you clicked in the video and the game did everything for you).
PS: Sorry for spelling mistakes, its 3am. :D
I played that game for 10 years in the past but I didn't know that castle owners got adena... thinking about it, the name of the currency was 'Aden' + 'a' :D. I started playing on private x45 servers and those were the best years of my gaming life. Everything was just as you described it. Massive 1000+ player sieges where 2 or 3 major alliances would fight each other and parties had voice channels in Ventrilo... it was crazy...
Nice
You summed it up amazingly well 😢
Best comment ever
DUDE, its almost my story. so much memories. and you forgot about offline clan meetings. what a time
It's amusing how he's 1-30 in like no time... Remember the days where it took years to level xD
classic servers always show that its players absence of knowledge is what gates them from levelling fast
Took a month to get to level 35 at launch... if you didn't get PKed by gold farmers.
X1 server :)
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I saw a private server in my city local network with x0.5 rates. Never played on it, but I heard that consequences of PK and PvP were more impactful to the point of having some of my schoolmates irl fighting each other over it xdd
Brings back memmories... I am sure, that everyone who played the game for years back in the days can tell hours of stories. I started in 2006 and finally quit in 2012. Unforgetable experience where I found IRL friends I am in contact with to this day. Also a huge shame is, that back in my Lineage 2 times I had a shit PC running the game on 10 fps during castle sieges and Epic boss raids. Long ago, the world bosses had a spawn window where it was camped and fought over by server clans up to 12!!!! Hours before he spawned. So it was usually about 10 hours of constant pvp and then about 3 hours of boss killing. One particular raid comes to mind... It was the first Valakas kill on our server which started on the 22nd of december around 5 PM and ended at 5 AM on the 23th of december. I didnt sleep and went to work lol.
Ah man its awesome to see someone else who experienced the game like i did. Very memorable game.
@@DragonSlayerr12 i think this game was the most hour demanding MMORPG i`ve ever played. i just love it. i remember that lvl up was to goddamn hard that if i get killed i literally wait like 40 min to a bishop from my guild to res me, so i dont lose the 5% exp from dead
I would ritual my whole life just to be a kid again for just ONE NIGHT and play with my old mates on Aden the Siege.I remember the day that we got the Aden castle and by that time everybody ran out of the internet cafe store and started running the street down to meet the other guys!!!!REALLY REALLY UNFORGETABLE YEARS
Ah the Nostalgia. Started with Chronicle 4, the game was basically just a grind yet we loved it lol. The Baium raids, dropping people in TOI, hanging out in our Aden clan hall.. i actually miss the game now 😄 although it looks nothing like what it was before. This game was my introduction to mmos
Same here! Back then everything was so grindy and difficult. But felt good once you achieved you desired levels! And the main game begins once you got into clan wars! Holy shit! Until now no game gave me good memories what L2 gave me.
c2 here
Started at Closed Beta, but haven't played it for years. This game is the reason why I never got into WoW.
@@toobe1234 same exact here. Back then you either were with one or the other.
I know, too many Russians
17:00 I actually started crying when the Dion theme came up, no shit. This game was just incredible.
Then you'll love Alina Gingertail's cover of that song, I think :)
Cry baby bitch, get a life and stop crying over a song you sissy boy
I though of myself being a lil bitch, cuz my eyes watered about the same time. I guess somehow that video created an emotional moment that dig into memories.
='(
Checkout Hunters village theme if you like the Dion theme
I played Lineage 2 when it's first out, at its most active stage.
You're right, back then Lineage 2 is much more grindy, enemies are quite tough, and you actually need party play to level up after a certain stage.
You have to combo skills, distribute spells, utilize cc to succeed.
You have to craft your armours by using materials, and equipment upgrade is very expensive.
I haven't played Lineage 2 for decade, this look like a completely different game to me now.
Now it looks like a fast pace mobile game.
check out lineage 2 reborn server.... its passion project
lineage introduced me to mmos, i saw my aunt playing it back then and got myself into gaming. good days
Your aunt is a gamer? That's unique.
Epic aunt
Me too, dad got me playing
Dude I laughed so hard when you scared yourself, haha daam man . good video, keep it up!
This brings back so many memories of grinding for hours after school
same for me but on mobile
Try classic , is still a grind but they have these 2 started packs that make it's easier to get to 70
@@SeenaTabatabai Its full of bots
@@sallee132 Theres bots true but all other mmos are for carebears right now
L2reborn 1x no bots no dualboxes interlude alot of ppl
My father was an old time player of L2. He taught me how to play L2 when I was around 14 back on 2014. It was our bonding. Ive also met friends online. I am very thankful to be able to play L2 even if it is only a private server. Hearing bg music of towns is just nostalgic.
🎵 specially on Giran castle
Seeying how fast he got level 40 brings tear to my eye, played Lineage II around Chronicle 4 and it took me like 4 months.
What i loved about that game the most was that currency mattered a LOT when i was new i was broke af, i met high level guy who gave me zweihander or something (the top 2hander for no tier) and sayed just to give it back when i wont need it anymore i used it all way up to C grade when i got dual weapons as gladiator by that time the guy who gave me the sword quit the game and about at same time i realized how much he gave to some uknown new player, this game had some amazing comunity...
it was so different back then..you had to grind every level with friends and shit and it felt rewarding af
I remember grinding for that damn A class armor, and the class change quests, and having guild wars, alliance wars, and god damn farming for spell books, and mats for armor, FUCK that was hard, but I FUCKING LOVEd IT, even the q for second class was a bitch first time, and PK'ing someone from a guild that you hated it getting a red name and running for your fucking live so you won't lose your armor when you died.... yea if you were red and died you had a very high chance of droppping something
Imagine griding a month for that damn A sword, and then losing it when you died, also losing xp on death
Man, the first time I finished the 2nd job class quest was like a dream. I loved my Gladiator to pieces.
Yeaaahh...
Grinding nd suddenly died by open pk lol
This is what I prioritized over the university. I never finished it. Lineage 2 was more important.
Now I work for the government. Thank you, Lineage 2.
Black Desert is the spiritual successor to Lineage 2. It's not a bad game, the gameplay is all about the grind, but the combat is a lot more fun. But it's a grind. Not World of Warcraft type of grind, Korean type of grind.
@@BalkanBiker Black desert is indeed the spiritual succesor of lineage 2...But tbh, there's a lot more people who hate this kind of grind than people who actually likes it.
Korean type of grind is just bullshit if u ask me.
It feels like work and not like.. you know, playing.
If i wanted to work i would get a 2nd job.
I have played L2 for 11 years starting from C4. Daaaamn this is so nostalgic. Interlude is the best chronicles though. I hate what they did to my favorite MMORPG :(
I remember taking world boss Baium with my clan while our enemy clans trying to interupt our raid! We had 2 parties defending entrence from our enemy clans and our raid party doing they job as fast as they could 😅
Raid bosses back then was not that simple as today. It was good stratagie game!
Guys. Come l2dex.com
It just openeded few hours ago
@@victorhendriks836 It is one of the few truly old and stable private old servers.
@@victorhendriks836 Cant even access that site
@@slayerbllade Yeah these spammers are all posting BS, your best bet is to find a server topsite, list servers by age(oldest first) and check for low rate servers that have enough hits on them. Avoid these "just started" servers as it's absolutely trivial to spin up a new server nowadays. I hunted down www.lineage2.es it's a Spanish server(I don't speak ANY Spanish) but it's been up for 13 YEARS and pushes pop between 1 and 2 k people and it seems that they don't have any big game breaking item shops so it's still vanilla experience for the most part. Seems like no clan has monopoly on castles so their pvp scene is probably pretty lively too.
Aden in that server has probably 5x the people compared to what Peon saw here which is funny.
Lineage 2 is all about that player driven economy and politics. There just isn't a game out there that pushes all these aspects quite as hard as L2 did.
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God, so much nostalgia... I played this as a 5 year old, first game ever played, my brother needed someone to buff him/spoil and just bought himself a new laptop so i got the old desktop, i kept playing the game from time to time until i was about 10-12. We played around on private servers mostly, cause the situation here in Poland in the 00's wasn't too great financially, sometimes we hopped onto the retail servers when the game went f2p. This is also the game that pretty much let me self-teach myself english. I also vividly remember my brother being really excited about beating the tower of insolence with his friends and getting to the last floor, his video of it is still up on youtube, im pretty sure, its the only thing he ever uploaded lol.
i hope you read that:
- the 1rst game you can really married another player
- when married you can exchange a skill (the skill you want with yr husband or wife)
- skills has no limits and you can upgrade them forever
- map is so huge you need 2 days irl to walk it
- in classic when you die you lost a level
- the first game with mob train
- crafting is not a joke
- dwarf can summon giants to crush fortress walls
- you can upgrade you armor, weapons and jewels with no limits
- leader of guild can fly a giant dragon who can breath fire and attack players in pvp and siege
- to become a leader you need to ask 3 clan member to sacrifice them self and de-level
- you can raise giant wolves , train them, and ride them and sell them (was my job in my guild ^^)
- anyone one can create is own shop anywhere
and SO SO SO many good things like that.
And by the way ... L2 REMASTERED VERSION is coming :)
How about the remastered thing ? That's for real ? Ohh dang !
Ruins of Despair.... When I started to play this game around 2005, it was a high risk PK area... Good old times.
PvP points I can recall: cruma marshlands, dion east gate, tower of insolence, monastery of silence... ahh, the good memories.
Well, the name kind of fits.
this game was the drug before wow become crazy in wotlk , awesome to hear the old sounds but i don't think i would get back to it...good video
the hunters village song got me lol
Peon: What good is one wing?
*Sepiroth's theme starts playing*
Was looking for this
Grew up with Lineage 2, I remember the time me and my friends did castle siege, it was super awesome experience with those massive massive amount of players involved, especially like Aden siege!! Also, I like how the politic runs in the game... with the alliances, guild wars etc..
I feel super sorry for u, that u didnt play l2 back in the day :
he would been on of us in c4-c6 era.... countless years spent on game, never regretted
Thank you for covering this game. So many memories. Started playing with my brother in 2004, it was my introduction to gaming and to MMORPGs and I became instantly addicted. It is so hard to put it into words but I guess every fellow L2 player who started young and with the early chronicles will agree: this game gave you a wonderful feeling of exploration and adventure, pulled you in with the beautiful soundtrack, made you feel welcome and warm in the cities. The soundtrack is just so beautiful and magical... I still listen to it often. My favorites are also the Dion theme plus Gludin and Hunters Village themes.
You truly felt like you are discovering something epic and you couldn’t wait for the new skills, what will they do, how will the animations look like. The class choices were so vast that you really felt unique as well. I remember spending days or weeks grinding, just to buy the Divine Tome or the Elven Bow. It is so hard to capture the essence of this game and put it into words if you didn’t experience it in its glory days. The game unfortunately went down when they introduced the Goddess of Destruction update where they eliminated the old classes - for example phantom rangers (dark elf) and silver rangers (elf) became the exact same archer classes with the exact same skills. They introduced so many idiotic elements they took away the soul of the game. Btw. as far as I know, there will be a new, U4 version of the game coming out. It wont be L3, but its something :) I keep returning to this game, and I will forever as long as I live to relive the beautiful memories from time to time. And I know I am not alone with this.
this game was the shit back in my day everyone on intenet cafes used to play this and pvp , i remember one time 2 guys even got into a fist fight irl because of pvp
Πέσ'τα Μανθο!
@@chrisl812 Αυτα ειναι.
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Dude in Russia there were IRL clan wars, where people died.... on multiple occassions.
as said ppl actually died because of this game
"If you've only got one hand, this is the perfect MMO".
Best recomendation for anything I have ever seen :D
Lineage II was my first and the best mmorpg I had ever play. I started Lineage 2 during beta -> prelude -> until C4
I can't wait for the new Lineage II Remastered to Unreal Engine 4
Yeah, this remastered thing could start over from beta and stop at least at interlude :-))) to bring back the good old l2 days
Best game ever back in 2003, btw sitting heals your HP/MP
Miss that game so much. To me the best MMORPG and the best times I had in an online game.
I remember playing a silver ranger back in retail lineage 2. Every single mob had to be kited in order to kill it, even in mid/early levels.. getting a single levelup was a grand event, because it took quite a bit.
Yeah I remember training my treasure hunter on mobs infront of that cave with the dragon.
Like every 2-3 mobs I had to stop and rest to restore my hp training my pyromamcer was alot easier because you could remain from a distance
Another amazing aspect of the game that was the community, making friends, allies and foes. Spectating matches in the Grand Olympiad arenas where the best players get to face each other, each has people rooting for them. Clans rising and falling, clan leaders assembling their clans to lead sieges, alliances forming and breaking, wars, clans gathering for a grand Raid Boss fight where each one has their role and working together for hours to get rewarded with unique items and stuff. I really love the years I played this game, truly unforgettable!
In Eastern Europe the game was like a religion back in the day and I still know people who seriously enjoy playin it.
Concerning the Oficial Server it was 10x more grindy than Black Desert ever was but super rewarding. The Kamael update was the beginning of the fall and when the game went f2p that was the death of the game as we knew it.
Also one more thing worth noticing is that Unoficial servers were a thing and they were super crowded. Many servers are still popping up and they are full at least for a couple of months.
Dont categorise Eastern Europe as your 1 country. Never played this game and dont know anyone who has ... and i was addicted to mmo in my early years.
But this looks dreadful, i mean, i like some older games, especially if i had played them before, for nostalgia;gia etc, but this is just awful.
Agreed popular in east Europe
Trust me, Eastern Europe is not 1 country who played this as a religion this game, the C6 was the best mmo there was, you would scout servers which were opening so you could start and get ahead to control farm zones and raid bosses it had big pve tied to pvp it was amazing game, just because you judge it by how it looks now compared to other popular mmos who look amazing but are dreadful to play and offer nothing for your time besides nice looking ground.
@@ayar3195 stop categorizing YOUR 1 country as whole Eastern Eu.
@@TheClamoris I repeat, stop categorizing 1 country as whole eastern eu.
Man oh man... you just brought back so many cherished memories. My very first MMO. Even became a GM for multiple servers.... good times. Thank you.
Legolo forever :D
Back in the day, gearing up was really hard, even with a clan, the PVP and making enemys and things like that OH BOY was like the cream
good memories!
Seeing someone with a Blue Wolf armor or any B rated grade was like OMFG, sigh, such a good old times
Dude, I remember crafting the first BoP on Teon retail back in 2006 I think. I was soooooo happy. It was unreal. Now, it's all P2W crap.
@@ZygimantasA I know right! Now grades don't even mean shit :(
3:50 " These monsters just peacfuly hanging out , they are all friends . Taking abit time off work and socialize . And here Iam Fucking killing them in one hit "
That's what they get for not practicing social distancing.
the giant demon boss is called Baium, an ancient king who became so powerful that the forces of heaven had to come down and smite him. This game was epic back in the day!
That spider moment was hilarious, thanks for the laughs and gameplay insight. Great video Peon :)
Oh man, this was probably the first MMO that really got me hooked back before WoW. It was so much fun back then, just doing massive chain pulls of mobs, kiting them around while someone else was just AOEing them down.
12:18 literally me over 15 years ago when I got too close to the tarantula
to heal you need to SIT, SIT DOWN
Pre-WoW, during the Golden Era of MMORPGs, there were predominantly three games folks of planet Earth played: Ultima Online, Everquest, and/or Lineage 1 or 2. Lineage 2 was a little late to the party in the USA, though it still had numerous people who played it for quite some time after release (though many moved to WoW in 2004/5/6 as it quickly gained steam). Overseas, namely in Europe and Asia, Lineage 2 was a MASSIVE hit. In fact, I believe it had the highest number of concurrent players back in those days, well beyond the ~250k of UO and ~500k of EQ at their respective peaks.
You can pretty much trace every Asian-made MMORPG back to Lineage 2 in terms of design and functionality .... though I'm not positive if Lineage was the first game of its kind or simply perfected another title predating it. The game was typical of any other Asian MMORPG you could play back then or today: click-based at its core, which many Asian games today still rely on behind the scenes, such as TERA and Bless as modern examples; grind-heavy; aesthetically pleasing, especially with its female models; PvP-focused; lack of quests (WoW wasn't out yet to make Quests a legit thing); and gear + enhancement dependent. It was a fun game if you had a good core group of a players, but a rather boring and tedious game if you were a solo player. You'd often find yourself PKed by high level players as a solo newbie. It catered well to the Asian market, and remains popular to this day.
In the US MMORPG market, the masses began favoring PvE over PvP themed MMOs, and upon its release in 2004, WoW took all of its competition to the cleaners quite quickly thanks to its fluid, seamless, and creative quest and leveling system. Nothing else at the time compared.
Just going through your video, as many other shave echoed (and as is obvious given the game is 16 years old), the gameplay of Lineage 2 today is NOTHING like it was back in the game's glory days. It was a slow, slow grind. Extraordinarily slow. It made Black Desert look like a cake walk by comparison. Yet it had its moments. And one of those was the soundtrack. Damn did it have a good soundtrack. End "Dion" theme at the end of your video tells that tale to perfection!
Then WoW came late 2004, and claimed the MMO domination.
let's make it clear, what you show and experience in this video is NOTHING like the game was, leveling was suuuuper slow, mobs were way more aggro, aggroing a group of them was pretty much death had to kite a lot, you also had to wait regen to kill a handful of mobs, it was hard work, this looks like a mobile game for casuals I'm sad I saw this >< I remember the animations being weak but not inexistant like you show...hmm maybe I was more interested in the female characters back then ^^ my fav class was the orc buff/debuff class in the end, so sad I forgot to backup my screenshots and videos before one of my HDD failed I have nothing left out of 4000+hrs played :(
Yeah, I remember having to use soulshots to be able to deal with mobs.
The leveling has been destroyed. They also removed the drop equipment on death.
Nothing left of 4000 hours played...
More like you probably havent gotten laid in the past 20 years
@WinterXL LOL
What you are describing sounds even shittier than what Peon is playing through in the vid
Best game I ever played. So many memories, so many hours and sleepless nights was invested in that game. Castle sieges, Raid bosses, catacombs. It had best pvp system back then. Nostalgia ❤
The Dion theme at the end is sooooo nostalgic.
:'(
Lineage was my whole gaming childhood, starting from Interlude ending on Freya, half of my family played it and we all refused to go to the newer gens because it all turner really bad really fast.
Private servers with no bots are still the way to go tbh.
What keeps me coming back to the game is the nostalgia honestly, i get tears building up in my eyes when i hear the Dion or Giran theme. Good and simpler times that wont really come back...
i remember playing it with my friend we started as human warriors in talking island and spent almost 2 days there grinding and exploring, doing quests, getting more friends around the island and village until we finally decided to move on and go on expedition to another continent we got on a ship and sailed to the next land which was huge, adventure continued on as we found even more friends around cities and places we formed a guild and went on raidings, those were the golden times.
The strongest aspect of this game was always scale, enchanting gear and most important the HERO system was somehting unique, making you feel like a GOD amongst men pvping 1v4 or even 1v10 if you had a gear advantage.
Last "Is It Worth Playing?" I would've expected, thought I teleported back to the mid-2000's for a second. Having played it in its hayday it hurts to see the game in its current state, but it seems to be appealing to some players so I can't fault it for doing what it needed to do to survive. Finding a classic private server is probably your best bet these days to experience it in some of its glory. I am glad you made this video though, it's definitely shown to me that it isn't worth playing and that I should stick to private servers whenever I crave that itch to play.
3.5 hours to take down valakas?, that was fast.
For years now I dream about someone creating a single player game with L2 world. The map was huge, locations beautiful, cool dungeons etc Could easily be one of the soulsborne series.
this game have best OST ever
i legit love it when i hear "a word from our sponsors" get that bread king!
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wow the game is so different xD there was a quest for class change and it used to take like hours to complete
Lineage 2 was my "second life". 2004-2009/10 were the best years of that game.
Now I can only say "so much pain because of knowing that those emotions wouldn't repeat again".
Dude you never know
I'm getting that long lost feeling of discovering L2 for the first tim on this server lineage2knight.com/en/homepage
It's like rediscovering it again
I grow up with that game! So many years spent with it,Specially the interlude and always will be in my heart.
Classic definitely isn't "classic lineage 2" at least not in beta or when it launched.
so true.
IDK what it is !
i guess "GRIND FEST"
It's not even about the grinding part that drives me mad . You can't achieve anything without VIP subscription. They locked many features that allows you to earn adena . You can't even sell your loot to NPC anymore it's just disaster . Not to mention I would end up 60lv with D grade equipment... that's how bad it turned. I quit playing after a week. Look for some private servers like dragon network . They at least deliver some decent and fair farming loot
No town maps, no auto soul shots ss ssb all need click haha
This isn’t a video on classic?
@@whitecoco1210 Did you actually watch the fuckin video, he plays classic and live. He states that in the first few minutes
We can never return back to the best MMORPG that gives us the best experience of our lives, the game that captures our heart with the friendship, hate
and love from the game. The hours wasted to level up, the looking for party experience just to grind level, the enormous Pvp , Castles Sieges, Fortress Sieges, Clan Hall bids and Clan Hall capturing to defeating bosses like Valakas, Baium, Antharas. Those we're the days we truly understand the best meaning of a real mmo. Best one i ever had, best game i ever played. No one can take it away from me and even tell my kids the best game that i experienced on my entire lifespan. Over exaggerated? No, because that's what the ppl feel who played Lineage 2. Thank you Peon, you're the best~! #DionMusic4Life
This game used to be good back in the day. I'd love to play it again if it gets a remake or a sequel using a new game engine and not going pay to win.
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i remember watching my father all night killing baium with his clan and several alliance clans.
they needed 8 hours to take down world boss.
generally that's how mmorpgs should be played and be constructed. ""realistically" it must take real life effort to achieve something.
like many mmorpg like animes show at the begining before they get op from character plot.
lineage 2 achieves everything mmorpg should deliver.
the feeling of being alive in a Massive world. not dungeon based.
you can roam or teleport to cities unlike black desert so you don't get bored.
and so on...
My thoughts and experiences about this game: I used to play it with my friends when i was really young, Chronicle 4. We used to make parties and go group farm, group pvp and raid bosses, we used to know other clan players by their names and attributes (if they were good guys or just douchebags killing weaker players, and we used to hunt them down) first time winning a siege war capturing Giran Castle was an amazing feeling. I haven't played any games whatsoever for the past few years, i guess I'm not a gamer anymore or it's just that i never found a game that gave me the same experience like lineage 2. Not a gamer anymore but I still come and take a look at this game once in a while and remember how much I miss this game. The Dion soundtrack is my favorite as well and I always use it as an alarm sound on my phone.
The 2003 Version in unreal engine 2 still looks better then bless... xD
Nave But just as poorly optimized lol.
@@ryusdungeon Actually it was amazingly optimized game.There are no games even today that can run 400+ players in one place of active combat even today(WoW was spluttering at 40 players already) and L2 was running passingly smooth even on mid lvl PCs and 512kb connections(played it on 56k modem back in the day for some time).Had one siege with 800+ players on both sides and the game was still playable.
Алексей Логинов except that you can find tons of articles and posts in forums that explicitly call out Linage 2’s poor performance on even high end machines. Just become it wasn’t a problem with some doesn’t mean that optimization isn’t/wasn’t a huge issue for the game.
@@ryusdungeon Problems started to crop mostly later in game development(2010+ years).Yes,this game runs poorly on modern PCs(but it runs,while many other games from same age dont even start).But it mostly problem with game engine(its VERY old after all).At earlier times there were very little problems with game perfomance(well if you dont count 400+ battles,but that is understandable)
@@ryusdungeon It actually runs decent on modern computers, but you need to disable the character shadows, they are purely CPU drawn and they are making it that choppy for him.
18:13 it was really addictive, I remember I was farming sls (it is a sword like a katana) for 36 hours straight, and only went sleeping when my nose started to bleed XD But I got 1 sls :D Ahhh it was worth it :D
Dude, I farmed a SLS... hours a day, for 1 year... And got one. The 2nd dropped after another 3 months. DV Drakes have been -exterminated- !
@@radudandu7177 I know the feeling, I was lucky cause I could make my dual sls inabout 4 months :D
It was awesome :D
@@kivikaze YOU WERE FUCKING LUCKY MY FRIEND.
Been there done that back in C1. Killing those Hamruts for 6 months straight under the GC, dropping there by a small gap in the 2nd Bridge - never got one. Must have been like 16 years ago - still the grind haunts me.
"whats good with one wing?"
*cries in Sephiroth*
Was looking for this comment. :D
The last chronicle in L2 I played was High Five.
Every next one wasn't it anymore ...
I definitely remember the best time when people enjoyed every item they acquired in the game and there were no ready items in stores :)
I started my adventure with Lineage 2 on the Greek NOOBWARS server :)
To date, I haven't found a second game that pulled me in, there are no more games like that.
It is a pity that Lineage 2 has not developed further ...
But people are still playing on private servers :)
I would also like to play with who and where :)
To this day, I remember the first person in my history adventures with this world.
It was a White Elf named ELIM: D
Although he didn't know me and I was a terrible noob, he helped me to do quests to change my profession (Yes, to change my profession, now you just have to click and you have to. Then you had to do some tasks to gain access to new skills)
In general, today's games, despite much better graphics, do not have this something in them.
To this day I have a fondness for Dwarves because I spent a lot of time crafting and spoiling and I think that it was PVE that caught me the most, despite the fact that PVP is the quintessence of this game :)
Greetings to all players: D
I'm old because I'm 36 years old but I remember very well the moment spent in the world of Lineage 2 :)
I played from c4 to interlude mostly on private servers, it took me 5 years of my life and I am glad it did. This was my best 5 years of my life. I want it back so bad... What I didn't expect - there will be no better game after so many years. I really didn't expect this game give me memories for all these years. I don't understand why this game was so good in these times. I was hoping we have bright future in mmo gaming and I was wrong. Nothing is better than old Lineage 2
Best MMORPG of all time. i grew up with L2. so many memories.
Lineage 2 was my first MMO. It was beautiful beyond belief with just amazing graphics for it's time. Also had a thriving market economy and unique class design. BUT ... it was also grindy as all get out. I could spend hours grinding mobs non stop with top DPS classes using shots ... just to go up one level in the 30s. It also had loss of XP on death which, maybe normal but old school standards, was horribly shitty because it's an open world PVP game with bored high level players randomly ganked newbs who then ended up losing an hour or more worth of XP gain in the blink of an eye. Also had next to no quests, so it was 99% pure grind. And unless you were playing a dwarf, money to buy upgraded gear was incredibly hard to come by. Basically, suck up to dwarfs. A lot.
I don't mind a bit more of a grindy open experience, and I do play Classic WOW currently, but this one was over the top. Still, as my first MMO, it holds a place in my heart. Note: I did not keep track how the game evolved over time. This is from my experience playing this game before WOW and Guild Wars 1 came out.
there was a time where i can go on adventure, leveling, making a clan, clan war, selling and trading, and so much more fun activities
and now its just......... i have no words
My first experience of Lineage 2 must have been in 2006 when I was playing in internet cafes. The admin of the cafe showed the game to me and my friend and we started on a C3 server...what a revelation when he told us to use soulshots and we farmed in School of the Dark Arts. Music being a big part of my life, the OST is indeed top tier...I can confirm, at the time, switching from Mu Online to this game, the graphics were stunningly beautiful... And yes, I fought Raid bosses and it was hella fun! I've fought Baium and Antharas and hell, Antharas sure as hell took more than an hour with a hall full of people :X Good times!
I love how you went from defending yourself a little like "oklay, what is this" to really capture what the game was about, lineage 2 was a perfect mmo when ncsoft really cared, monthly sub, thousands of players, drama, world bosses, making friends, it really was a multiplayer online, you really shared a lot of time with the people you played with, THIS IS A GOD DAMN GOOD VIDEO, 16:55 is dion music, the most nostalgic song in the game, thanks for this video.
I''ll bring this game to my grave, how epic this game was :)
I remember playing WoW like crazy and then I jumped into Lineage 2. What really made me love it was the character and armor designs. In WoW everything looked so cartoony even though the CG cutscenes made everything look so real. It was that contrast that sort of ruined the suspension of disbelief for me, it is a personal thing as WoW is a great game. I jumped into Linage 2 and never went back. Koreans really love the Dark Elves. I remember the first time I played Kingdom Under Fire and the Dark Elves in that game......oh man so good
Can you PLEASE help me.
I loved order and chaos 1 like 5 years ago because it’s just like WoW
Can u teach me which IOS MMORPG is the most similar to Order and chaos online 1?
After playing for 12 years, it hurts my eyes to watch your gameplay.
Those one hits are hurting me. He died the first time after his 4th god damn clase change. Wtf is that!
@@LuisSoto-fw3if Right? I remember the 1st time I played, I died for a werewolf hunter because I didn't know that it had agro early on the game huASHaushua
But to be fair, I was like, 10
I have played L2 actively for years. Haven't done it with any game before and with none after. The clan/alliance/castles system is breath taking... No other game has pulled us that strongly and over and over... great memories and I ended up having friends that I also met in real life from many countries. Thank You
hey there.thank you for trying the Lineage 2 ,I have been played Lineage 2 above 10years. It was a really good game ever, cool
equipment, lots of
Occupation lots of boss,and they have non-stop update the game until now there is very rare, although that was been best some years ago, I can't find a game better than
Lineage 2 ,you tried that but you not even understand that at all hope that you have enjoy with it thanks for sharing Lineage 2, really
Thanks for taking me back to that journey of my past. I literally cried a lot of moments just while remembering the hyped world boss events like Antharas and Valakas. This was a great time and an even greater MMO. I feel sorry for everyone who couldn't experience that game. The cons you've mentioned are nothing compared to the contect you got and the possibilitys you had. You even had mounts which you could ride. In my opinion every mmo nowadays should look into this masterpiece of work.
Thanks again!
i really have to agree with you on that one , many of the new games coming out these days are HUGELY crap and totally shit right through , the only thing owners care aboute is the players buying from item mall .
I still remember my friends face when he upgraded samurai long swords to +16 and tried +17 and boom they were gone! Good days 😅
Well, at least he got some crystals :)
12:17 i literally just died, laughing
Proof he doesn't wear any pants while playing. Who does though
Your experience could not differ more from the original 2004/5 Lineage 2 experience. I'm happy that you succeded on spoting the charming of it.
Back in the day, I played a hardcore Argentine private server with 6k online per day and blew my mind away. Since then, I sort of find myself in a never ending cycle in which I want to repeat that experience and bring back those memories. I have never ever been able to put so much of me in a character like I did when playing Lineage 2.
If you haven't wonder around Dion jaw dropping because of the amount of people trading, if you haven't run around pvping outside towns or cruma tower or IT, if you haven't play L2 soundtrack again and again, if you haven't pour your soul into your character, then my friend, you haven't experienced Lineage 2
It was my 1st mmorpg and even as a veteran mmorpg player, after so many years and so many other games it still remains my favorite. It's Golden Age was amazing indeed, i still remember fondly all the clan/alliance politics and drama, all the PvP/Castle sieges/ Wars over grind spots and bosses :D And ofc the friendships, I still know people IRL that i met back then. Sometimes i feel like installing it for the sake of nostalgia, but then i remember again how is nothing like it used to be (besides the P2W). So many feels and good memories tho.
[I remember when a friend of mine was new and got PKed by enemy clan. I went back and Pked them back and as i was geared i got chased half of map literally - sweating scared to die and drop my stuff- till my clan got to me help out.] One of the things i miss most about it these days is how PvP focused the game was, everyone knew...If you got Pked you call for help or wait months to get strong and get revenge..these days people complain when they get killed in a mmorpg, i honestly stopped trying to find an OWPvP mmorpg, which makes me even more nostalgic :D
I heard rumors about them working on Lineage Remastered for PC, but not sure how true it is. I would not have the same time to play as i used to, but would be cool.
dude i know right i have play a fair amount of mmorpgs but l2 is still the best for me it's impossible to describe it to anyone that didn't experience it.. it was the best experience castle sieges, raid bosses etc felt like you were in a lord of the rings movie