I remember when this game was just called Sherwood, there was no dungeon, no quests, just knights hanging out in the woods chatting, killing monsters and eachother.
Oh boy, this took me to a trip down memory lane! This was my first MMO in 2007. I met some wonderful people along the way, and we'd always hang out in Teleport 5 and talk about whatever comes in mind lol. If one of you guys out there saw this comment by chance, I hope you're doing well in life. I went by the name of "Ryzen" for much of my time in this game.
@@DystopiaEU I used to be in Keepers of Soul (KS) for a short while. That was the last clan I joined before I stopped playing altogether. Another one is "V" (Five). Can't say it's a proper clan, but more like a group of players that decided to hang out at Teleport 5. Kappa, Billoutae, and Ice are some the names I can still remember who were members of it. All of them were based in the Sapphire server.
I absolutely LOVED this game when I was 10 and 11 years old! 😀 I played this game a lot in 2007, 2008 and in 2009. The game was a little bit different back then, namely: 1. Full-browser game. No executable and not even an Adobe Flash Player version, but solely an Adobe Shockwave Player version. 2. No accounts. This wasn't introduced, yet. All progress was stored on your computer, probably in the cache of Adobe Shockwave Player. 3. Minimalistic design. No bells and whistles. No pets. No extra slots that you could pay for. No elaborate quest story about beating the dragon Bane. The only quest were the quests given by a lady about the Dungeon. 4. You could choose between four characters (boy, girl, knight and skeleton) instead of six. 5. You couldn't choose the hair, couldn't choose the colour of skin. Only the helmet for the knight could be chosen. 6. Instead of all monsters' strength being relative to your strength, this was only the case in the first world where you spawned (/teleport 1). In /teleport 2, 3, 4 and 5, the monster's strength was set to a specific level. If a novice came to /teleport 5, he couldn't beat any monster. If a level 100 player would go to /teleport 2, he could kill all monsters with one hit. 7. No power moves, no bow and arrow. 8. No ship that went around the island. 9. No diamonds, no smith, no rune bag, no crafting weapons using rune stones, no gifts etcetera. 10. No ability to put other players on the ignore list. If someone was an annoyance, you had to endure it. 11. You could have an unlimited amount of health potions and using one took effect immediately (without the move of bringing your arm upwards, first). You could use health potions anywhere, except in /teleport 1 There were also other differences, like: 1. Huge player base. You had players all around the world: Dutch, French, Poles, Spanish people etcetera. Whatever your ethnicity, you would always find countrymen in the game. There were three servers (Emareld, Sapphire and another one) and you could rarely join chatroom 1 (/join 1) because it was almost always full. Same for chatroom 2 and sometimes, chatroom 3 was full, too. Now, you find at most a few people in chatroom 1 of the world you spawn in. 2. The game was in very active development. I witnessed the time when they introduced the rune bag, rune stones and the ability to craft weapons, when they introduced accounts, when they introduced the ability to add other users to your friend list, when they introduced the ability to put other players on the ignore list, when they introduced new worlds (like the /teleport 6 arena, or the /teleport 7 stone circle and the /teleport 8 chessboard battle), when the extra characters were introduced, when the pet came into the game, when you could gift other players weapons, when they set a limit on the amount of health potions you could have, when they introduced the Adobe Flash Player version of the game, when the power moves were introduced, when the ship and bow and arrow came into play, when new monsters (such as the werewolf) were introduced, when the diamond was introduced etcetera. I witnessed the growth of the game - and I welcomed most of these changes. I liked the introduction of the arena of /teleport 6. I do think that the stone circle of /teleport 7 and especially the chess board battle of /teleport 8 were redundant, but I didn't complain. I especially welcomed the introduction of accounts, meaning that I could bring my progress with me to another computer, instead of having to start all over again if I did. The extra characters were nice and I also liked the gifts. The rune bag gave a little bit of extra to the game. The diamonds were a bit redundant for me, but still a nice touch to the game. But there were three changes that I (strongly) disliked: ---> Graphical overhaul that made the game a lot uglier than it was. A second graphical overhaul later on made the game look a little bit better again, but it never became as beautiful as it once was. ---> They put a limit to the number of health potions, setting it to 10. I had over 600, but I couldn't get any additional health potion. I then just used up all my health potions until I had 10. 😞 ----> They made all monsters in the game relatively as strong as you (the player). Especially the last thing killed my fun with Sherwood Dungeon. Suddenly, there was no point in progressing any more. When first, you could set yourself a goal, like: "I want to become strong enough to defeat a dragon in /teleport 3", followed by "Now I want to defeat one in /teleport 4" and finally in /teleport 5. If you wanted to become strong enough to defeat /teleport 2 monsters with one hit without using any weapon, you suddenly couldn't do any of this any more, because every single monster in the game had strength relative to yours, always. So, no matter if you just started from level 1 or if you were a Sherwood Dungeon veteran with a level over 60: it didn't matter any more. The whole idea of making progress was lost. This was when I stopped playing the game for good. I did come back a few times after this for a nostalgia trip, playing it very occasionally (maybe thrice a year), but I didn't play it regularly any more. The fun was gone. 3. Back then, Sherwood Dungeon was only one of the games of Maid Marian that you could play. You could also play Moon base, Club Marian and a game where you could only play a girl. These games were very simple in comparison with Sherwood Dungeon, being even more minimalistic, but they were there - and they were fun to play. Despite Sherwood Dungeon being the game Maid Marian worked the most at, you still had alternatives. Right now, Sherwood Dungeon is the only game Maid Marian offers. You go to their website and Sherwood Dungeon is the only thing you can find. So all in all, wonderful game, wonderful experience, wonderful memories, but a shame that they removed the monsters having their own levels of strength per teleport dimension. Without that thing, I would still be playing the game. I also mourn for the decease of Adobe Shockwave Player and Adobe Flash Player. So many old and nostalgic Internet games are now unplayable because you cannot install those programs any more. And if you can, it's a real hassle to get them to work again, since both programs + all modern web browsers are specifically set to disable them from working any more. I wished both Shockwave and Flash were still up.
@@JustSaySteven. You are welcome! :-D I edited my comment, since it had an embarrassing grammar mistake. I am glad I found someone still playing this game, for good nostalgia. Most videos about Sherwood Dungeon are at least 10 years old.
@@YRLCarlos. The car game with the cubes was an offline game, just like the rat game, so I didn't mention those two. But looking back at my comment, I DID forget to mention the tank game. I played Tank Ball 1 and 2 a lot as a child as well! 😀
damn I was 10 years old in '07 and was def locked in to Sherwood. thanks for documenting how things were back then, as what you described was the version I played a ton. ton of great memories just flooded back
Man this game was fun. I watched it decline from 5000 to 500 players. It was hard to watch, friends quit, friends of those friends quit, people got busy and had no time to play. It was like a big community of people that just had no time for the game anymore.
I remember when i was 12 playing this making many friends around the map , i remember this particular person who told me how sword isn’t effective against some monsters, this feels so nostalgic 11 years later
I loved this game growing up. Have so many memories of meeting my friends from school in empty servers. That and making online friends. It was perfect for a poor kid like me who didn’t have to pay or a decent PC. Think I’m going to make a retrospective video going through it from the early era. I know this is your thing but would you watch it if it was well researched? I’ve been considering this for over a year now
You should've mentioned chris standing in the circle in the beginning of the video. Dudes an OG but people found him a creep back in the day xD. I wish i could go back to the golden days of this game (2012) though, i started playing this game back in 2006!
I had so much fun on this game back in the day. Was obsessed with using cheat engine on it lmao, but I had so much fun just hanging out with people and collecting weapons.
OMG! Blast from the past. I remember that map was much simpler than this, so it looks like it changed a lot. Dont remember there being any quests, NPCs or a dungeon. All I remember was people telling each other "secret" key combos to win fights 🤣
Oh my, I used to play this like 10 maybe even more years ago, i remember all the clan wars and stuff, if anyone was in one of these clans - WoD, TnR, RA or that one spartan clan i forgot the name, I was a part of those, reply to me :)
There was a big and powerful spartan clan created in 2013 till 2014 it was called SoF - Spartans of Faith. They had a huge fight against another powerful clan called DH - Dream Haunters.
I remember Sherwood, a game about Male and Female on the beach (which was second life before second life), and one on the moon with astronauts, can anyone point out the names?
Ah hell yes, found 'em, they are from the same company that makes Sherwood, The one that looks like second life is, Club Marian and the other one is Moon Base
Yepppp remembered Moon Base!! Never really knew what to do in that game. I think you were able to drive the car around a bit? Maannn. I remember this stuff back in like 2004-2008 Holy hell.
I played this before there was a dungeon lol. Back in the earliest days the map was just a big empty swamp, and there were a few temples scattered around the outer edges of the map. Essentially the game was just a chatroom but you could fight a few spiders and anyone else logged into the game. There was no inventory or anything, literally you just controlled your knight with wasd keys and you could attack using either the alt or ctrl keys. Back then we would come up with unique "combo's" that would really just be pressing either or both attack keys a certain number of times as quickly as possible before the attack animations could finish, resulting in damage being calculated on whatever you were attacking multiple times. It was simple but it had a very active community of players that would log in every day to participate in clan wars lol. Good times.
Used to play this when it released. They had some other games aswel that were pure shyte but this was fun. Sad to see that all they added was microtransactions. That paladin thing used to be free.
I remember when this game was just called Sherwood, there was no dungeon, no quests, just knights hanging out in the woods chatting, killing monsters and eachother.
I played it in the summer of 2010 for a few months, it was great, I met some pretty nice people playing. I have a lot of good memories.
yuuuup fellow old person here. Moonbase was also such a great social hub
Sherwood content in 2023 is crazy
Wait till we get that 2024 Sherwood
@@JustSaySteven OLD GAME HYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're now the official Sherwood Dungeon ambassador.
Unofficially official
Oh boy, this took me to a trip down memory lane!
This was my first MMO in 2007. I met some wonderful people along the way, and we'd always hang out in Teleport 5 and talk about whatever comes in mind lol.
If one of you guys out there saw this comment by chance, I hope you're doing well in life. I went by the name of "Ryzen" for much of my time in this game.
I used to go to T5 with players like Muddypuddle my username was Spirit
Ryzen rings a bell for some reason! What clan were you in?
@@DystopiaEU I used to be in Keepers of Soul (KS) for a short while. That was the last clan I joined before I stopped playing altogether.
Another one is "V" (Five). Can't say it's a proper clan, but more like a group of players that decided to hang out at Teleport 5. Kappa, Billoutae, and Ice are some the names I can still remember who were members of it.
All of them were based in the Sapphire server.
I went by Petro
I KNOW YOU. YOU STOLE MY ACCOUNT. WE WERE IN THE SAME CLAN
Some sort of primordial memory about this game creeped up my mind and I had to see what happened to it. Can't believe it's still going.
Bro, no one ever played Sherwood for the levels and the pets. It has always been the community.
That's gone now, though. RIP.
I absolutely LOVED this game when I was 10 and 11 years old! 😀
I played this game a lot in 2007, 2008 and in 2009. The game was a little bit different back then, namely:
1. Full-browser game. No executable and not even an Adobe Flash Player version, but solely an Adobe Shockwave Player version.
2. No accounts. This wasn't introduced, yet. All progress was stored on your computer, probably in the cache of Adobe Shockwave Player.
3. Minimalistic design. No bells and whistles. No pets. No extra slots that you could pay for. No elaborate quest story about beating the dragon Bane. The only quest were the quests given by a lady about the Dungeon.
4. You could choose between four characters (boy, girl, knight and skeleton) instead of six.
5. You couldn't choose the hair, couldn't choose the colour of skin. Only the helmet for the knight could be chosen.
6. Instead of all monsters' strength being relative to your strength, this was only the case in the first world where you spawned (/teleport 1). In /teleport 2, 3, 4 and 5, the monster's strength was set to a specific level. If a novice came to /teleport 5, he couldn't beat any monster. If a level 100 player would go to /teleport 2, he could kill all monsters with one hit.
7. No power moves, no bow and arrow.
8. No ship that went around the island.
9. No diamonds, no smith, no rune bag, no crafting weapons using rune stones, no gifts etcetera.
10. No ability to put other players on the ignore list. If someone was an annoyance, you had to endure it.
11. You could have an unlimited amount of health potions and using one took effect immediately (without the move of bringing your arm upwards, first). You could use health potions anywhere, except in /teleport 1
There were also other differences, like:
1. Huge player base. You had players all around the world: Dutch, French, Poles, Spanish people etcetera. Whatever your ethnicity, you would always find countrymen in the game. There were three servers (Emareld, Sapphire and another one) and you could rarely join chatroom 1 (/join 1) because it was almost always full. Same for chatroom 2 and sometimes, chatroom 3 was full, too.
Now, you find at most a few people in chatroom 1 of the world you spawn in.
2. The game was in very active development. I witnessed the time when they introduced the rune bag, rune stones and the ability to craft weapons, when they introduced accounts, when they introduced the ability to add other users to your friend list, when they introduced the ability to put other players on the ignore list, when they introduced new worlds (like the /teleport 6 arena, or the /teleport 7 stone circle and the /teleport 8 chessboard battle), when the extra characters were introduced, when the pet came into the game, when you could gift other players weapons, when they set a limit on the amount of health potions you could have, when they introduced the Adobe Flash Player version of the game, when the power moves were introduced, when the ship and bow and arrow came into play, when new monsters (such as the werewolf) were introduced, when the diamond was introduced etcetera.
I witnessed the growth of the game - and I welcomed most of these changes. I liked the introduction of the arena of /teleport 6. I do think that the stone circle of /teleport 7 and especially the chess board battle of /teleport 8 were redundant, but I didn't complain. I especially welcomed the introduction of accounts, meaning that I could bring my progress with me to another computer, instead of having to start all over again if I did. The extra characters were nice and I also liked the gifts. The rune bag gave a little bit of extra to the game. The diamonds were a bit redundant for me, but still a nice touch to the game.
But there were three changes that I (strongly) disliked:
---> Graphical overhaul that made the game a lot uglier than it was. A second graphical overhaul later on made the game look a little bit better again, but it never became as beautiful as it once was.
---> They put a limit to the number of health potions, setting it to 10. I had over 600, but I couldn't get any additional health potion. I then just used up all my health potions until I had 10. 😞
----> They made all monsters in the game relatively as strong as you (the player).
Especially the last thing killed my fun with Sherwood Dungeon. Suddenly, there was no point in progressing any more. When first, you could set yourself a goal, like: "I want to become strong enough to defeat a dragon in /teleport 3", followed by "Now I want to defeat one in /teleport 4" and finally in /teleport 5. If you wanted to become strong enough to defeat /teleport 2 monsters with one hit without using any weapon, you suddenly couldn't do any of this any more, because every single monster in the game had strength relative to yours, always. So, no matter if you just started from level 1 or if you were a Sherwood Dungeon veteran with a level over 60: it didn't matter any more. The whole idea of making progress was lost.
This was when I stopped playing the game for good.
I did come back a few times after this for a nostalgia trip, playing it very occasionally (maybe thrice a year), but I didn't play it regularly any more. The fun was gone.
3. Back then, Sherwood Dungeon was only one of the games of Maid Marian that you could play. You could also play Moon base, Club Marian and a game where you could only play a girl. These games were very simple in comparison with Sherwood Dungeon, being even more minimalistic, but they were there - and they were fun to play. Despite Sherwood Dungeon being the game Maid Marian worked the most at, you still had alternatives. Right now, Sherwood Dungeon is the only game Maid Marian offers. You go to their website and Sherwood Dungeon is the only thing you can find.
So all in all, wonderful game, wonderful experience, wonderful memories, but a shame that they removed the monsters having their own levels of strength per teleport dimension. Without that thing, I would still be playing the game.
I also mourn for the decease of Adobe Shockwave Player and Adobe Flash Player. So many old and nostalgic Internet games are now unplayable because you cannot install those programs any more. And if you can, it's a real hassle to get them to work again, since both programs + all modern web browsers are specifically set to disable them from working any more. I wished both Shockwave and Flash were still up.
Hey, thanks for sharing so much information regarding the game and giving people insight of how things were :)
@@JustSaySteven.
You are welcome! :-D
I edited my comment, since it had an embarrassing grammar mistake.
I am glad I found someone still playing this game, for good nostalgia. Most videos about Sherwood Dungeon are at least 10 years old.
don't forget that car game
@@YRLCarlos.
The car game with the cubes was an offline game, just like the rat game, so I didn't mention those two.
But looking back at my comment, I DID forget to mention the tank game. I played Tank Ball 1 and 2 a lot as a child as well! 😀
damn I was 10 years old in '07 and was def locked in to Sherwood. thanks for documenting how things were back then, as what you described was the version I played a ton. ton of great memories just flooded back
Man this game was fun. I watched it decline from 5000 to 500 players. It was hard to watch, friends quit, friends of those friends quit, people got busy and had no time to play. It was like a big community of people that just had no time for the game anymore.
I loved this when i was a kid, today i remembered this game and Im going to play tf out it and support it. Sweet, sweet nostalgia ❤❤❤
I'm in this video nice. Had fun meeting you, Steven
It was fun to hang out 👌
I remember when i was 12 playing this making many friends around the map , i remember this particular person who told me how sword isn’t effective against some monsters, this feels so nostalgic 11 years later
I spent my life playing this game when I was 12 in 2007, the good time 🥲
I loved this game growing up. Have so many memories of meeting my friends from school in empty servers. That and making online friends. It was perfect for a poor kid like me who didn’t have to pay or a decent PC. Think I’m going to make a retrospective video going through it from the early era. I know this is your thing but would you watch it if it was well researched? I’ve been considering this for over a year now
please do i love this game
You should've mentioned chris standing in the circle in the beginning of the video. Dudes an OG but people found him a creep back in the day xD. I wish i could go back to the golden days of this game (2012) though, i started playing this game back in 2006!
It’s been years I never thought to search this on TH-cam but here it is Sherwood on YT what do ya know
I had so much fun on this game back in the day. Was obsessed with using cheat engine on it lmao, but I had so much fun just hanging out with people and collecting weapons.
OMG! Blast from the past. I remember that map was much simpler than this, so it looks like it changed a lot. Dont remember there being any quests, NPCs or a dungeon. All I remember was people telling each other "secret" key combos to win fights 🤣
If anyone remembers a guy named "Corac", I want to say thank you for playing with me, I played this for many many years, and I met amazing people
Homie got way too invested, it's his favorite game now
Oh my, I used to play this like 10 maybe even more years ago, i remember all the clan wars and stuff, if anyone was in one of these clans - WoD, TnR, RA or that one spartan clan i forgot the name, I was a part of those, reply to me :)
There was a big and powerful spartan clan created in 2013 till 2014 it was called SoF - Spartans of Faith. They had a huge fight against another powerful clan called DH - Dream Haunters.
I remember Sherwood, a game about Male and Female on the beach (which was second life before second life), and one on the moon with astronauts, can anyone point out the names?
Ah hell yes, found 'em, they are from the same company that makes Sherwood, The one that looks like second life is, Club Marian and the other one is Moon Base
You need to revisit Metin 2 too
Yepppp remembered Moon Base!! Never really knew what to do in that game. I think you were able to drive the car around a bit? Maannn. I remember this stuff back in like 2004-2008 Holy hell.
Yo the dungeon was lit in 06.
Fudge, can't believe I missed this live
Steven: zooms in on chat
chat: "buying gf"
lol MMO communities never change.
Then I later realize that StabbySteve is Steve
Wow, I played this many years ago.... I became quite the fighter. Always went by the name "petro".
I played this before there was a dungeon lol. Back in the earliest days the map was just a big empty swamp, and there were a few temples scattered around the outer edges of the map. Essentially the game was just a chatroom but you could fight a few spiders and anyone else logged into the game. There was no inventory or anything, literally you just controlled your knight with wasd keys and you could attack using either the alt or ctrl keys. Back then we would come up with unique "combo's" that would really just be pressing either or both attack keys a certain number of times as quickly as possible before the attack animations could finish, resulting in damage being calculated on whatever you were attacking multiple times. It was simple but it had a very active community of players that would log in every day to participate in clan wars lol. Good times.
Shh memories
Paladin in this game look so badass better than in WoW
Best game ever. Learned Website designing and photoshop from making clan website etc 😂
Lol same, 12 years old and was building a website and making gif pictures of my avatar doing a backflip
I wonder how Elbish is doing
Hopefully bishing it up 👌
Its great because you can progress on PC/Laptop and phone, like in Pojav Minecraft or Hearthstone
please review tankball! from maid marian. another shockwave game
Is not avaible since flash has died in dec 2020
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I played this when I was like 12. Also Runescape. Runescape is way better of course but this game is nostalgic for sure .I'm 28 now
I still play RuneScape 😅
Used to play this when it released. They had some other games aswel that were pure shyte but this was fun. Sad to see that all they added was microtransactions. That paladin thing used to be free.
BROOOO I USED TO PLAY THIS WHEN I HAD A POTATO FOR A PC LOLL
All the english speaking players are gone i could only find people speaking polish or some other foreign language
:)