I come back and watch this from time to time. I tear up every time. Not only did WotLK represent my favorite time in my favorite game, it also represents a time in my life in my early-mid 20s where all of my friends played the same game and we just rushed home from work without a single responsibility and sunk all our time into adventuring through Northrend together. It represents my youth, innocents, naivety, and ignorance that I will never get back. Even when/if WotLK classic comes out I'm gonna play it but it will never recapture what I had then... it was actual lightning in a bottle. Just wish there was a way to know you're in the good ole days when you're living it, I would have taken more of my time to just soak it all in.
This video killed me as well. I don't quite understand the context, like why did he go to Grizzly Hills and get nostalgic? Had he not been there for awhile? Every time I resub WoW it's one of the first places I fly to. Now that Chromie is in retail any char I level I do in Wrath for this zone lol. But yeah, I understand his nostalgia. When Wrath released, I had been married for almost exactly 1.5 years (I married at 21 so was still college-ish age). My computer was rarely used for anything other than paying bills or checking email. I had no need for a computer when I met my wife, but I had to try Wrath. All my unmarried pals my age would bug me to get on TBC and I was tired of TBC, but when Wrath hit, I was like "Boys, let's give it another go." Little did I know then that would be the last true time I had allll the boys together to nerd out with. Some passed due to tragedy, others got married, many disliked Cata because it changed so much. However, Wrath? Wrath was peeeaaaak. So many alts, so many repeated questing, so much good shit. So much horde ganking (back when servers were 50/50ish and not 99% horde 1% alliance). Damn it was so good, and that f'n damn song lol kills me every time. If Blizz would just listen to us just once, and do what we beg them to do, SL wouldn't be in such a state. Anyway, I've never seen Asmon get emotional. That was beautiful.
@@lxxvx looks like he was just heading to utgarde keep to farm an item, seeing as how he was headed southeast and also had all the things open, at least I think off my observations
Wow. This is almost identical to my experience. Except played with my colleagues! It’s so much more than a game. It brings back memories of simpler times.
The way he jumps when he hears the music start.. I took a break from WoW after Cata. I was graduating high school. starting college and my first job. I didnt play again until WoD. By this time I'm 21. Had been through a rough relationship. Dropped out of college twice. I knew i was mentally not handling stuff well but i never thought about it. But i started playing WoW again. And one day i just flew through Grizzly Hills. And i heard this music and i just stopped. My chest seized up. I couldnt even think. And i had this just. 100% vivid memory. When i was in high school. Leveling through Northrend for the first time. And i had hit a wall in Grizzly Hills. Every day I'd get home and log on. ready to play 10 hours straight like normal. But every day. I'd get on. Start a quest. And back then I didn't know. Didnt even think about it. But the music gave me such bad. just heart stopping anxiety and i just couldnt play. It took me months to get through Grizzly Hills because of it. It took until WoD, almost 10 years later for me to realize it and even consider the fact i might be depressed. This game is so much more than a game. It truly was another world for us. I'm never gonna cancel my sub again. I dont care what happens. Blizzard always uses that phrase. Creating an experience. And that's what this game truly was. All the days playing hooky. The people we met and every second we didn't have to deal with the real world. Nothing will ever capture me the way Warcraft does.
But people who created this masterpiece of art and music (Thanks to Russell Brower, Derek Duke, Glenn Stafford and etc) leave this company. This isn't warm WoW to the heart anymore. Dont pay subcription, lets good memories be the same good in a past. sry for my eng.
Unfortunately one of the main factors of having fun is that you're basically lost in the moment and don't really appreciate it for what it is. I feel like it's kind of a weird paradox.. Since I've realised that i do often try and take a moment to myself whenever I'm having a great time with friends because I know how fleeting it can be
Jesus, im 30 now and i think of the 15 years ive played wow, wotlk was the best and most memorable experience i had. There was just something so gripping with that expansion. Everything seemed handcrafted with passion and love down to the last detail. And the music in each zone made it unforgettable. Oh i long to go back one last time..
This comment is exactly me. I quit pretty much all of BfA and literally all of Shadowlands. I desperately want to go back, but the game just isn't the same anymore. Blizzard doesn't care anymore.
Nostalgia in musical form, even when I heard it for the first time as a young teen. It made me long for something I didn’t even know I missed yet. The easy days of youth, the warmth of a fireplace in the middle of winter, the safety of home.
Grizzly hills reminds me of my childhood almost as if I left the zone but it stayed there. It couldn't leave, so when I return it's like seeing an old friend.
The moment I saw Grizzly Hills, heard the music, explored the beautiful environment, I swore; "The day I log off for the last time, I will be here." And I did. My Paladin in my mind lives a quiet life now, as a retired and now well aged and seasoned veteran, living in the hills somewhere. Never forget those memories, never let the good times die.
Oh man dude grizzly hills music always makes me cry. I remember when I first started wow it was during the beginning of wrath at my uncles house I always spent the night every weekend and one day he showed me wow he was in grizzly hills mining and he let me make a charachter after he finished up. I made a night elf druid and played from there on out every weekend and I remember questing through grizzly hills and doing mining for my uncle on his main he payed me money for mining a shit ton for him so that I could buy the game my self so me him and my cousin could play the game together when I dont spend the night. Sadly my uncle passed away 3 years ago and this song always makes me cry because it reminds me of when I started wow in wrath I miss always seeing his name login to the game.
grizzly hills and stormheim are two most beautiful areas in the game. I can literally sit my character down on the ground there and close my eyes and just enjoy the music and peace. I love WOW guys
Have you tried doing this in Elwwyn Forest? Have a little explore outside Stormwind, literally outside, around the hills. There's some beautiful spots there.
i can relive the memory almost perfectly in my head i was leveling my DK hearing that song and being like damn this zone is so calming and chill i was 18 just graduated and was loving life playing with the homies. Its crazy how so many people have such great memories here.
even coming back to this now with wotlk classic months away, I will often just go to grizzly hills to level an alt because the music just brings back vivid memories of for me of a better time in general, I just miss these days, not just wotlk but hopping on my 360 to play halo 3
This speaks to me right in the feels. The thing about WoTLK was that it aimed for the stars, Vanilla and TBC were great as time went on more stuff got added and it was getting more and more dramatic. But nothing prepared us for that boat ride/zeppelin ride into Northrend for the first time. It was a whole new WoW and it was so exciting. This dramatic and varied landscape with an absolute wealth of treasures, rares, dungeons and more just waiting to be discovered. No quest tracking, no map markers or world quests, just a shit ton of stuff to discover all at your fingertips. It was a real display of the potential of this game being realised, and those of us that were there to see it will never forget that. The later games are more 'epic' and dramatic sure, with cinematics and all this other shit going on, but there was something humble and exciting about Northrend, something subdued and warming that just kept you absorbed. The community was at it's best then - it's most active. Knowing you couldn't log out in Dalaran cos your game might crash or freeze on login from so many players, it was just insane. I miss it. Nostalgia - hard mode.
Good times. Some of the best memories of the game come from this expansion. Everyone playing together. Such a good expansion. Miss this time in life all the time.
Yup. Best music in the game. I still go back to Grizzly Hills and fly around while the music plays, just like this video and I get emotional too. I am sure many do as well. I am 65 years old and have been playing since the game released in 2004. I still love it so much, still play every day. And yeah back then it seemed like it would never end. Our huge guild raided and ran dungeons all the time. Some of our best friendships were formed in the dungeons, in the boss fights. It seemed like it would never end. And now it is 2020 and Shadowlands has just released, my guild Arclight on TB is down to 180 members and on most days I play alone. People that I thought would be friends for life have drifted away and it feels like the end of WoW is near. So on some days, like you, I get on my TLPD and head for Grizzly Hills, or the Storm Peaks or some of my other favorite places and sit on a peak or by a river or in a Forrest and listen to the music and reflect on the good old days. I hope it never ends. Long live World of Warcraft. The best world I have ever known.
wotlk was the best expansion in term of music for sure. Grizzly Hills, cinematics, Ulduar, Howling and Borean ambience. Toc, boys, Toc has the best battle osts. Eyewatering. I've built myself a scandinavian medieval bowed harp just to learn how to play Grizzly Hills ost ( wrong instrument tho, i have a tagelharpa, Grizzly hills is played by a nyckelharpa, another really cool instrument, but it will do)
This video is so relatable. Life is short, my friends. Things at the moment look non-interesting, mundane; but remember this video. "Slow down! Life is to be savoured!"
I have this very particular memory of killing bears on a hill in Grizzly Hills as a young teenager leveling. My friend was a Tauren warrior, already max level. His name was Fubl. I don't know where life has taken him, we've drifted apart. But this game brought us together.
I have this feeling more about Burning Crusade. I liked WotLK more overall, especially because it had Death Knights and undead and Lich King was my favorite character. But during BC, my sister played WoW with me. And I met people in the game that we actually interacted with and socialized with. Back in the day, there were no real social media. So WoW could be actually used to chat with people over the internet. And WoW friend was always at least 100 times more real than whatever a Facebook friend could ever be. And while I liked WotLK more, my sister would play much much less, and due to changes on our server, massive number of people dropped out. So I was mainly playing alone. And it never got better since then. The Karazhan runs were the most memorable time of my gaming life. And I was lucky enough to gain the last materials I needed from the last friend who quit WoW at the time to craft my Lionheart's blade. But now, I play on a different acoount, so I no longer have that weapon appearance. For shame. Yet it felt like something. But it was an end of an era for me.
I was around 13-14 when wrath launched and I had a solid group of friends/guildies and we would play all day together and hang out in ventrillo. I miss this time so much, I keep in contact with a few of my friends I met on here but it's not even remotely the same. Wrath was the happiest time of my life
This hits me in the feels, me and my bro used to play religiously before he went to college back when BC dropped. It was an amazing time and I’ll never forget those moments.
This place will always have a special place in my heart. My life has always been full of struggles, even in my early years I have no choice but to work so we have something to eat. One of the job that I had was an internet cafe shop attendant, it was really hard balancing school and work. During my free time I play WOW in my workplace, I was a junior in highschool. I still remember leveling with my pet wolf named Bedok in grizzly hills (same name with my real life dog he died last nov😭😭). My friends and I grinded here until lvl 80, shit I don't even know what GS is back then. I stopped playing wow after slaying arthas, and graduating highschool. Life is s different now. I bid farewell to my guild in the southern spot of grizzly hills, I said goodbye to my friends here. I am a nurse now, I dont have time to play WOW, but I still take time to listen to this nostalgic music. Thank you for everything guild master VC Thank you for the memories Ahmed Lolhappens Zexinho VC and to all my guildies 🙂🙂
Just went to Wintergrasp to turn in the pvp quest… first time back to Northrend in years. Cant even remember the last time I went to Crystalspng forest. First thing I did was fly to Grizzly Hills. Hits even harder now. Had to come look this up. Love you guys.
Video games offer something no other artform can accomplish. I've never met Asmongold but we shared in these experiences. I'll always be thankful for those old days playing WoW.
this game came when i was 16 (almost 35 now) i saw the good and the best, the bad and the worst of this game, one would say that i lost my time in there, but i say perhaps...but i wouldnt change it for nothing in the world
Just found this video, wow I thought I was the only one who thought about this music. It’s the absolute best. I lost my mom around the same time as the WOTLK launch. I used to listen to this music as I walked through Grizzly Hills and remembered her. Damn this shit hits hard. Thanks for uploading ❤
If I had to live anywhere in WoW it would be in the Grizzly Hills in the countryside/forest bit I could imagine myself sitting on a fallen tree and just enjoying the music
Man I never unsubbed once from Vanilla up to Wrath. I played quite a bit in Cata, but it was the first time I ever unsubbed, I realized that the game wasn't infallible, and the content that I enjoyed, and the community I thrived in, wouldn't last forever. I've played less and less every expansion. Now I usually only mess around for about a month each expansion, to see the start, and the end. WoW is a different game.
I remember playing with my ingame girlfriend there, we played nosedive suicide with our flying mounts in this zone. I was 22, at now, more than 10 years later, I realize how much I enjoyed it.
Shit dude! I have the same memories, My friend came over and spend the weekend and we would play in grizzly hills with crappy laggy computers and hell we never thought itd end. Damn those were the best Times...
that's what memories are for...i'll always remember the winter me and my buddies doubled my parent's electric bill...so many LAN parties. no need for a heater...we just open the windows to cool the place off
The only zone on wrath that I level in still, not that the other zones are bad, it’s just the feel to this zone the music the environment and of course the memories. The immersion of the giant forest trees, the freedom of exploration, I could almost feel the wind on my face going through here and seeing the lights across the horizon. Truly one of the best experiences and times to have been playing WoW.
WoW is amazing because not only is it an amazing game, with it's stories, and people you met and decisions you had to make, late nights where you'd watch the sun come up in the barrens, and outside your window, tiny intimate moments where you had to stop in a safe place and eat some food, and because your toon was eating, you could stop and take a bite as well, and then the music, the music is something that can make you cry, it can bring back all the memories, every person every battle every grind every death, every kill, every BG won and lost, every boss downed, every raid beaten, everytime you were able to work together and feel the struggle with 24 other people, and the satisfaction you would have when you all did it because you did it together!
Everytime you lost someone, everytime a guild disbanded, everytime you found someone you lost, everytime you got an epic, everytime you clinched the win, everytime you were the only person alive to kill the boss, everytime, you lead the group, everytime you ran some newbs, everytime you saw a badass, everytime a newb thought -you- were a badass, everytime you got top DPS, everytime, you were the best tank/dps/heals, everytime you saw a cinematic for the first time, everytime you saw a Hero fall, everytime you saw a hero redeem themselves.
For me even though I am Horde through and through, it will be the enchanted forest music in Nordrassil, I will always think of wow as the Story of Illidan Stormrage. Someone who was never perfect and was never always good, someone who made mistakes, but learned from them, someone who was seen as selfish, yet in the he saved us all through his selfless sacrifice, even if it was for his own intentions. For me it is clear, Illidan did not die. Just like the fight against Argus, I believe the Titans empower Illidan to subdue or Kill Sargeras, and then Illidan ascends to the rank of titanic himself.
i understand his nostalgia but i have nostalgia memories when i listen to MOP soundtrack :) and i was playin from end of classic and start of TBC i remember playin D2 with my friends Tekken 3 on ps with my dudes but its gone maan its gone cause im 26 years old life goes on like 2pac said life goes on just accept what life give you in present day not in past
This is the ultimate NA zone. It just feels like north american wilderness distilled. As someone from Germany who's been there many times throughout my youth, i get why so many people get such a strong vibe from this zone.
I have the same memories of hanging out at friend's places playing wow on my shitty laptop and having the time of my life. I had the same feeling that it would never end. And then one day I logged on my warrior not knowing it would be the last time.
I still remember playing on a cheap laptop with my night elve hunter and leveling in howling fjord and grizzly hills with my boys from the guild. Then life came and everyone went offline
This makes me think back to wow classic 2020. I was part of an alliance levelling guild on Zandalar Tribe EU called Nightdwalf Fanclub. We would fuck around in discord chatting, have beach parties in Stranglethorn Vale and dance off with the horde in the arena and outside of Org. Those memories back in 2020 will be with me forever and still to this day, they remain some of the most golden memories.
theres just something that wow has lost since the release of cata. I remember pre cata, the memories those moments hitting level capping being apart of this massive community of active players, to now its just so sad how its closed off theres no need for interaction
I wish that soon as I had cleared ICC 25 man, I uninstalled WoW and walked away head held high. At least with Classic Vanilla/TBC we can relive the highlights for nostalgia during COVID times.
Grizzly Hills, and the music of Hurdy Gurdy is ABSOLUTELY my most favorite and fond memories of Wrath and that time in my life. This resonates with me.
I wish Grizzly Hills really existed in real life. I'd so rent out a chalet' there,sipping on coffee on the wooden plank patio and get lost with this music,the scent of pine in the air and the rustling of the leaves and the water down below too. Don't get me started on being able to see the snowy mountains in the distance either..
Wrath was the best xpac to me, because it was the last of the original lore from the RTS games we loved, and the last xpac the original WoW team worked on (I think...).
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'I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.' - Andy Bernard
- Michael Scott
it’s almost like they knew what they were doing when they made grizzly hills and it’s soundtrack... wow never felt the same after WOTLK.
so true, grizzly hills just give me so many memories
I cannot click like button more sir.
I think Asmon said it very well in the video. It was everything WoW ever could be.
Its like starting from Hard mode then changing back to easy mode. Yeah WoW felt different after WoTLK
So true. so very true.
We spent the best evenings of our lives, unaware they were significant.
FeelsBadMan
Fuck dude, fuck...
god damn man
Ouch man
goddamn right. NO GAME HAS EVER COME CLOSE TO WOW
I come back and watch this from time to time. I tear up every time. Not only did WotLK represent my favorite time in my favorite game, it also represents a time in my life in my early-mid 20s where all of my friends played the same game and we just rushed home from work without a single responsibility and sunk all our time into adventuring through Northrend together. It represents my youth, innocents, naivety, and ignorance that I will never get back. Even when/if WotLK classic comes out I'm gonna play it but it will never recapture what I had then... it was actual lightning in a bottle. Just wish there was a way to know you're in the good ole days when you're living it, I would have taken more of my time to just soak it all in.
This video killed me as well. I don't quite understand the context, like why did he go to Grizzly Hills and get nostalgic? Had he not been there for awhile? Every time I resub WoW it's one of the first places I fly to. Now that Chromie is in retail any char I level I do in Wrath for this zone lol.
But yeah, I understand his nostalgia. When Wrath released, I had been married for almost exactly 1.5 years (I married at 21 so was still college-ish age). My computer was rarely used for anything other than paying bills or checking email. I had no need for a computer when I met my wife, but I had to try Wrath. All my unmarried pals my age would bug me to get on TBC and I was tired of TBC, but when Wrath hit, I was like "Boys, let's give it another go." Little did I know then that would be the last true time I had allll the boys together to nerd out with. Some passed due to tragedy, others got married, many disliked Cata because it changed so much. However, Wrath? Wrath was peeeaaaak. So many alts, so many repeated questing, so much good shit. So much horde ganking (back when servers were 50/50ish and not 99% horde 1% alliance). Damn it was so good, and that f'n damn song lol kills me every time.
If Blizz would just listen to us just once, and do what we beg them to do, SL wouldn't be in such a state.
Anyway, I've never seen Asmon get emotional. That was beautiful.
@@lxxvx looks like he was just heading to utgarde keep to farm an item, seeing as how he was headed southeast and also had all the things open, at least I think off my observations
love the quote from Andy Bernard - the office
You got me crying in the club
Wow. This is almost identical to my experience. Except played with my colleagues! It’s so much more than a game. It brings back memories of simpler times.
The way he jumps when he hears the music start.. I took a break from WoW after Cata. I was graduating high school. starting college and my first job. I didnt play again until WoD. By this time I'm 21. Had been through a rough relationship. Dropped out of college twice. I knew i was mentally not handling stuff well but i never thought about it. But i started playing WoW again. And one day i just flew through Grizzly Hills. And i heard this music and i just stopped. My chest seized up. I couldnt even think. And i had this just. 100% vivid memory. When i was in high school. Leveling through Northrend for the first time. And i had hit a wall in Grizzly Hills. Every day I'd get home and log on. ready to play 10 hours straight like normal. But every day. I'd get on. Start a quest. And back then I didn't know. Didnt even think about it. But the music gave me such bad. just heart stopping anxiety and i just couldnt play. It took me months to get through Grizzly Hills because of it. It took until WoD, almost 10 years later for me to realize it and even consider the fact i might be depressed. This game is so much more than a game. It truly was another world for us. I'm never gonna cancel my sub again. I dont care what happens. Blizzard always uses that phrase. Creating an experience. And that's what this game truly was. All the days playing hooky. The people we met and every second we didn't have to deal with the real world. Nothing will ever capture me the way Warcraft does.
Holy shit man that got to me
Bro... Straight to the soul vibin
Amen to that brother
But people who created this masterpiece of art and music (Thanks to Russell Brower, Derek Duke, Glenn Stafford and etc) leave this company. This isn't warm WoW to the heart anymore. Dont pay subcription, lets good memories be the same good in a past.
sry for my eng.
"Never going to cancel my sub" ok Blizzard spy
3:42 - Just the sadness in your voice man. So much respect for Asmon for having so much love for the game. My favorite fucking streamer.
The only time he has even come close to crying on stream.
Guy has the heart of gold really i respect him so much
He’s the guy who would be trapped in the MMO after the servers are closed
Oh dude I've seen that anime and your % 100 right
Overlord haha
"trapped"
3:45 he literally almost cried, this is why i love this community and it can bring back good times
Unfortunately one of the main factors of having fun is that you're basically lost in the moment and don't really appreciate it for what it is. I feel like it's kind of a weird paradox.. Since I've realised that i do often try and take a moment to myself whenever I'm having a great time with friends because I know how fleeting it can be
this a hundred times
this ...
*_The human experience is quite the oddity, isn’t it?_*
Jesus, im 30 now and i think of the 15 years ive played wow, wotlk was the best and most memorable experience i had. There was just something so gripping with that expansion. Everything seemed handcrafted with passion and love down to the last detail. And the music in each zone made it unforgettable. Oh i long to go back one last time..
This comment is exactly me. I quit pretty much all of BfA and literally all of Shadowlands. I desperately want to go back, but the game just isn't the same anymore. Blizzard doesn't care anymore.
never delete this brother
Dude that's what it's all about. Crazy how you don't know how good of a time your in until it's gone.
They're gonna play this to him when hes 88 in a nursing home and his eyes will light up with life :D
before they close for good...
and I will watch that too brother
Nostalgia in musical form, even when I heard it for the first time as a young teen. It made me long for something I didn’t even know I missed yet. The easy days of youth, the warmth of a fireplace in the middle of winter, the safety of home.
Everybody was boois, remember that time too. Good old fucking days
Grizzly hills reminds me of my childhood almost as if I left the zone but it stayed there. It couldn't leave, so when I return it's like seeing an old friend.
The moment I saw Grizzly Hills, heard the music, explored the beautiful environment, I swore; "The day I log off for the last time, I will be here."
And I did. My Paladin in my mind lives a quiet life now, as a retired and now well aged and seasoned veteran, living in the hills somewhere. Never forget those memories, never let the good times die.
well said
Damn…… beautiful memory.
Oh man dude grizzly hills music always makes me cry. I remember when I first started wow it was during the beginning of wrath at my uncles house I always spent the night every weekend and one day he showed me wow he was in grizzly hills mining and he let me make a charachter after he finished up. I made a night elf druid and played from there on out every weekend and I remember questing through grizzly hills and doing mining for my uncle on his main he payed me money for mining a shit ton for him so that I could buy the game my self so me him and my cousin could play the game together when I dont spend the night. Sadly my uncle passed away 3 years ago and this song always makes me cry because it reminds me of when I started wow in wrath I miss always seeing his name login to the game.
Jey
Good story
heart warming.
thank you for sharing ..something about this style of music makes you feel nostalgic
Much love man ❤️👌🏾👊🏾
I FELL INLOVE WITH THIS ON MY UNCLES ACCOUNT TOO!!! FUCK IM GLAD I CAN SHARE THAT VIBE
Rip your uncle dude
This comment is very wholesome
grizzly hills and stormheim are two most beautiful areas in the game. I can literally sit my character down on the ground there and close my eyes and just enjoy the music and peace. I love WOW guys
Have you tried doing this in Elwwyn Forest? Have a little explore outside Stormwind, literally outside, around the hills. There's some beautiful spots there.
this popped on on a search after just looking for grizzly hills music, absolute GEM from the past
i can relive the memory almost perfectly in my head i was leveling my DK hearing that song and being like damn this zone is so calming and chill i was 18 just graduated and was loving life playing with the homies. Its crazy how so many people have such great memories here.
even coming back to this now with wotlk classic months away, I will often just go to grizzly hills to level an alt because the music just brings back vivid memories of for me of a better time in general, I just miss these days, not just wotlk but hopping on my 360 to play halo 3
Never thought i'd tear up to an asmon clip
This is one of the best videos on TH-cam.
This speaks to me right in the feels. The thing about WoTLK was that it aimed for the stars, Vanilla and TBC were great as time went on more stuff got added and it was getting more and more dramatic. But nothing prepared us for that boat ride/zeppelin ride into Northrend for the first time. It was a whole new WoW and it was so exciting. This dramatic and varied landscape with an absolute wealth of treasures, rares, dungeons and more just waiting to be discovered. No quest tracking, no map markers or world quests, just a shit ton of stuff to discover all at your fingertips. It was a real display of the potential of this game being realised, and those of us that were there to see it will never forget that.
The later games are more 'epic' and dramatic sure, with cinematics and all this other shit going on, but there was something humble and exciting about Northrend, something subdued and warming that just kept you absorbed. The community was at it's best then - it's most active. Knowing you couldn't log out in Dalaran cos your game might crash or freeze on login from so many players, it was just insane. I miss it. Nostalgia - hard mode.
lol I’m screencapping this for when wotlk classic comes out and it turns out it was shit.
@@songbirdsandsandwiches8217 You are such a miserable piece of shit. :) I am so happy that I am not you. I really am.
Northrend, deliberately, made you feel small.
Actually there was quest tracking in wotlk, I think they were added in 3.2, by the end of the expansions I'm pretty sure it was there.
Good times. Some of the best memories of the game come from this expansion. Everyone playing together. Such a good expansion. Miss this time in life all the time.
Yup. Best music in the game. I still go back to Grizzly Hills and fly around while the music plays, just like this video and I get emotional too. I am sure many do as well.
I am 65 years old and have been playing since the game released in 2004. I still love it so much, still play every day. And yeah back then it seemed like it would never end.
Our huge guild raided and ran dungeons all the time. Some of our best friendships were formed in the dungeons, in the boss fights. It seemed like it would never end.
And now it is 2020 and Shadowlands has just released, my guild Arclight on TB is down to 180 members and on most days I play alone. People that I thought would be friends for life have drifted away and it feels like the end of WoW is near.
So on some days, like you, I get on my TLPD and head for Grizzly Hills, or the Storm Peaks or some of my other favorite places and sit on a peak or by a river or in a Forrest and listen to the music and reflect on the good old days.
I hope it never ends. Long live World of Warcraft. The best world I have ever known.
wotlk was the best expansion in term of music for sure. Grizzly Hills, cinematics, Ulduar, Howling and Borean ambience. Toc, boys, Toc has the best battle osts. Eyewatering. I've built myself a scandinavian medieval bowed harp just to learn how to play Grizzly Hills ost ( wrong instrument tho, i have a tagelharpa, Grizzly hills is played by a nyckelharpa, another really cool instrument, but it will do)
MoP
Why did i surround myself with people who don't care about this. I appreciated every moment of this game.
Man I wish we knew we were living in the good times..... Definitely best music in the whole game
This video is so relatable. Life is short, my friends. Things at the moment look non-interesting, mundane; but remember this video.
"Slow down! Life is to be savoured!"
I unironically have taken that Pandaren quote with me since I first heard it. I quote it all the time to people.
I have this very particular memory of killing bears on a hill in Grizzly Hills as a young teenager leveling. My friend was a Tauren warrior, already max level. His name was Fubl. I don't know where life has taken him, we've drifted apart. But this game brought us together.
“…and we thought it would never end” Amen to that.
I have this feeling more about Burning Crusade. I liked WotLK more overall, especially because it had Death Knights and undead and Lich King was my favorite character. But during BC, my sister played WoW with me. And I met people in the game that we actually interacted with and socialized with. Back in the day, there were no real social media. So WoW could be actually used to chat with people over the internet. And WoW friend was always at least 100 times more real than whatever a Facebook friend could ever be.
And while I liked WotLK more, my sister would play much much less, and due to changes on our server, massive number of people dropped out. So I was mainly playing alone. And it never got better since then.
The Karazhan runs were the most memorable time of my gaming life. And I was lucky enough to gain the last materials I needed from the last friend who quit WoW at the time to craft my Lionheart's blade.
But now, I play on a different acoount, so I no longer have that weapon appearance. For shame.
Yet it felt like something. But it was an end of an era for me.
I was around 13-14 when wrath launched and I had a solid group of friends/guildies and we would play all day together and hang out in ventrillo. I miss this time so much, I keep in contact with a few of my friends I met on here but it's not even remotely the same. Wrath was the happiest time of my life
“This is what it was all about”
So true.
This hits me in the feels, me and my bro used to play religiously before he went to college back when BC dropped. It was an amazing time and I’ll never forget those moments.
If only we knew then, what we know now, we were living in the good old days there and then.
This place will always have a special place in my heart. My life has always been full of struggles, even in my early years I have no choice but to work so we have something to eat. One of the job that I had was an internet cafe shop attendant, it was really hard balancing school and work. During my free time I play WOW in my workplace, I was a junior in highschool. I still remember leveling with my pet wolf named Bedok in grizzly hills (same name with my real life dog he died last nov😭😭). My friends and I grinded here until lvl 80, shit I don't even know what GS is back then. I stopped playing wow after slaying arthas, and graduating highschool. Life is s different now. I bid farewell to my guild in the southern spot of grizzly hills, I said goodbye to my friends here. I am a nurse now, I dont have time to play WOW, but I still take time to listen to this nostalgic music. Thank you for everything guild master VC
Thank you for the memories
Ahmed
Lolhappens
Zexinho
VC
and to all my guildies 🙂🙂
damn man thats beatiful
Beautiful thank you for posting this. ❤
No borrowed power, no needing some dumb necklace or armor pieces with borrowed power. Just raw fighting.
Just went to Wintergrasp to turn in the pvp quest… first time back to Northrend in years. Cant even remember the last time I went to Crystalspng forest. First thing I did was fly to Grizzly Hills. Hits even harder now. Had to come look this up. Love you guys.
Video games offer something no other artform can accomplish. I've never met Asmongold but we shared in these experiences. I'll always be thankful for those old days playing WoW.
this game came when i was 16 (almost 35 now) i saw the good and the best, the bad and the worst of this game, one would say that i lost my time in there, but i say perhaps...but i wouldnt change it for nothing in the world
Everything was just... Right with the world. Back then.
"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good ole days, while you were still in them"
This is one of my favorite Asmon videos. Just nice seeing our boy smile 💜
This will always be my favorite Asmongold video. Legit makes me tear up every time. Relatable AF. God bless you Zack
Just found this video, wow I thought I was the only one who thought about this music. It’s the absolute best. I lost my mom around the same time as the WOTLK launch. I used to listen to this music as I walked through Grizzly Hills and remembered her. Damn this shit hits hard. Thanks for uploading ❤
wait what the fuck this was almost 3 years ago? i thought its been a year at most
time really flies
Never delete this video man, ty :)
If I had to live anywhere in WoW it would be in the Grizzly Hills in the countryside/forest bit I could imagine myself sitting on a fallen tree and just enjoying the music
Came here after Mconnell mentioned this did ya?
Where did he mention it?
No one could begrudge these tears.
Man I never unsubbed once from Vanilla up to Wrath. I played quite a bit in Cata, but it was the first time I ever unsubbed, I realized that the game wasn't infallible, and the content that I enjoyed, and the community I thrived in, wouldn't last forever. I've played less and less every expansion. Now I usually only mess around for about a month each expansion, to see the start, and the end. WoW is a different game.
It sure is, Jeremy Jacobson, it sure is.
I remember playing with my ingame girlfriend there, we played nosedive suicide with our flying mounts in this zone. I was 22, at now, more than 10 years later, I realize how much I enjoyed it.
Shit dude! I have the same memories, My friend came over and spend the weekend and we would play in grizzly hills with crappy laggy computers and hell we never thought itd end. Damn those were the best Times...
Best music from the Best zone from the Best expansion from the Best game.
this is gone forever. we'll never get this back.
that's what memories are for...i'll always remember the winter me and my buddies doubled my parent's electric bill...so many LAN parties. no need for a heater...we just open the windows to cool the place off
The only zone on wrath that I level in still, not that the other zones are bad, it’s just the feel to this zone the music the environment and of course the memories. The immersion of the giant forest trees, the freedom of exploration, I could almost feel the wind on my face going through here and seeing the lights across the horizon. Truly one of the best experiences and times to have been playing WoW.
I know that feeling...
WoW is amazing because not only is it an amazing game, with it's stories, and people you met and decisions you had to make, late nights where you'd watch the sun come up in the barrens, and outside your window, tiny intimate moments where you had to stop in a safe place and eat some food, and because your toon was eating, you could stop and take a bite as well, and then the music, the music is something that can make you cry, it can bring back all the memories, every person every battle every grind every death, every kill, every BG won and lost, every boss downed, every raid beaten, everytime you were able to work together and feel the struggle with 24 other people, and the satisfaction you would have when you all did it because you did it together!
Everytime you lost someone, everytime a guild disbanded, everytime you found someone you lost, everytime you got an epic, everytime you clinched the win, everytime you were the only person alive to kill the boss, everytime, you lead the group, everytime you ran some newbs, everytime you saw a badass, everytime a newb thought -you- were a badass, everytime you got top DPS, everytime, you were the best tank/dps/heals, everytime you saw a cinematic for the first time, everytime you saw a Hero fall, everytime you saw a hero redeem themselves.
For me even though I am Horde through and through, it will be the enchanted forest music in Nordrassil, I will always think of wow as the Story of Illidan Stormrage. Someone who was never perfect and was never always good, someone who made mistakes, but learned from them, someone who was seen as selfish, yet in the he saved us all through his selfless sacrifice, even if it was for his own intentions. For me it is clear, Illidan did not die. Just like the fight against Argus, I believe the Titans empower Illidan to subdue or Kill Sargeras, and then Illidan ascends to the rank of titanic himself.
Jesus I never though Asmongold would make me emote. He’s right. This cuts deep.
i understand his nostalgia but i have nostalgia memories when i listen to MOP soundtrack :) and i was playin from end of classic and start of TBC i remember playin D2 with my friends Tekken 3 on ps with my dudes but its gone maan its gone cause im 26 years old life goes on like 2pac said life goes on just accept what life give you in present day not in past
our boi is still a human being with emotions, let’s not go too hard with the teasing shall we
Happens to the best of us. Seems like a good thing to tear up over if anything. Fond memories with great friends.
It’s the absolute most immersive zone
i used to come back to this place, exactly for same reason, magnific music, environment and peace
Haven’t heard from my guild in 10 years now. Miss the fun and adventures we had together in Northrend
At the end of the day, it's the music that created such deep emotions in us and will stay with us forever.
This was one of the areas, where I really did not ever want to leave, because of the music.
That quiet smile
This is the ultimate NA zone. It just feels like north american wilderness distilled.
As someone from Germany who's been there many times throughout my youth, i get why so many people get such a strong vibe from this zone.
I have the same memories of hanging out at friend's places playing wow on my shitty laptop and having the time of my life. I had the same feeling that it would never end. And then one day I logged on my warrior not knowing it would be the last time.
I didn't even level in Grizzly, and even I get emotional when I hear this music. It's just that good, and wrath was a good time.
September 26th 2022 we go back
grizzly hills, dalaran, storm peaks, invincible.... wotlk OST was nuts
Wrath of the Lichking best expansion!
Grizzly Hills is one of those places in the game where you could just sit and listen to the music for the longest time.
Had that same moment, man. Whoever crafted that zone knows what beauty is.
He should have been riding the Time-Lost Proto-Drake, symbolizing a time forever lost but never forgotten
I still remember playing on a cheap laptop with my night elve hunter and leveling in howling fjord and grizzly hills with my boys from the guild. Then life came and everyone went offline
This makes me think back to wow classic 2020. I was part of an alliance levelling guild on Zandalar Tribe EU called Nightdwalf Fanclub. We would fuck around in discord chatting, have beach parties in Stranglethorn Vale and dance off with the horde in the arena and outside of Org. Those memories back in 2020 will be with me forever and still to this day, they remain some of the most golden memories.
“I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them” - Andy Bernard
Can’t believe I took all this for granted
so true
This song will make you think about every moment in your life since the moment we first traveled to the Grizzly hills.
theres just something that wow has lost since the release of cata.
I remember pre cata, the memories those moments hitting level capping being apart of this massive community of active players, to now its just so sad how its closed off theres no need for interaction
I wish that soon as I had cleared ICC 25 man, I uninstalled WoW and walked away head held high. At least with Classic Vanilla/TBC we can relive the highlights for nostalgia during COVID times.
If your heart dont cry to this idk what will
Even more sad these days...
That music. I'm back in the forest . G chat is alive with people linking stuff and excitement at what we had experience and what we had yet to.
The pain I felt in his voice. Struck me
Grizzly Hills, and the music of Hurdy Gurdy is ABSOLUTELY my most favorite and fond memories of Wrath and that time in my life. This resonates with me.
I wish Grizzly Hills really existed in real life. I'd so rent out a chalet' there,sipping on coffee on the wooden plank patio and get lost with this music,the scent of pine in the air and the rustling of the leaves and the water down below too. Don't get me started on being able to see the snowy mountains in the distance either..
It's the year 2030 and we're still watching.
I thoroughly enjoyed leveling through this zone. It was so wholesome.
I don't like Asmon 90% of the time, but these moments always remind me why I can like him 10% of the time..
Whew. I loved this.
Grizzly Hills triggers major nostalgia for me.
Grizzly Hills soundtrack… CHILLS
Wrath was the best xpac to me, because it was the last of the original lore from the RTS games we loved, and the last xpac the original WoW team worked on (I think...).
It was just the perfect balance between hardcore and more casual gameplay.
I still get goosebumps when I here this song
I’ve been doing my sea turtle grind on pools in grizzly hills on wrath classic just so I can soak in this song as much as possible:)
the best ambience