Reminder that you can never go back

I can't go back to PSO either

I played it a few months ago and the game itself was just as good as I remembered it. Not sure why no other modern MMO tried to emulate RO. No. Tree of Savior played nothing like RO.

There are a couple ~100-200 population base rate servers that are worth sitting around and having fun in. Even today, RO is by far the most worthwhile MMO you can play.

Except you can, the servers are still online.

youtube.com/watch?v=2DuvYC3zENI
I know that feel

The OST hits like a damn truck.

This is how I talk myself out of random desires to look for a private server. Doesn't matter how cool the people you meet, doesn't matter how lucky you get this time, doesn't matter how modern technology has improved Ragnarok.
IT
WILL
NEVER
BE
THE
SAME

At least my childhood was good

This game is how you do open world properly. Fuck the plot and quests, make that shit optional and just drop the players in.

There must be at least some sliver of happiness somewhere, no? Hope is literally what is keeping me together right now.

You could grind your way to 99 and do it all over again without knowing the game's plot iirc

How does this make you feel?

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How does it feel knowing you can never re-live those days?

30 year old boomer here, nostalgia is strong but you should be having new experiences too. Deep longing for adolescent nostalgia is indicative of depression and unfulfillment in your current behavior.

you don't have to remind me
I know

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>Deep longing for adolescent nostalgia is indicative of depression and unfulfillment in your current behavior.
literally me

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>Deep longing for adolescent nostalgia is indicative of depression and unfulfillment in your current behavior

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Best mmo of all time. The internet was pure back then.

youtube.com/watch?v=-1P1aGSFBXs&list=PL97CB9F6C25B98338

have you played this game, Yea Forums? the ost is amazing

>Deep longing for adolescent nostalgia is indicative of depression and unfulfillment in your current behavior.
29 here. I just gave up. The thought that I'll have to go to work the rest of my life is enough to get me depressed.

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remember back before everyone was either ironic sarcastic or full on consumeristic?
I miss all the ^_^ or >_> or D: unironic emoting, or ZOMG RANDOM posting back before it got old and unfunny.

How can anyone listen to these?

I know, it's heartbreaking listening to them now.

Oh shit this brings me back.

how come i always see these kind of threads right when i wake up. i love reminiscing but i end up sad for a bit of the day

cynicism is a fun killer

Do you remember Christmas in Ragnarok?

youtube.com/watch?v=HlwdsQ4-ZNU

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Ragnarok Travels. We will free the slaves. No more multiclienting
based.

youtube.com/watch?v=7MSwhIBnqHg

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This was and always will be way better than the 'game' that all immigrant children were playing on the library computers.

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It didn't play like RO because grinding straight mobs wasn't the best way to level up. I remember just playing through the quest shit and really enjoying some of the quests where I ended up staying a long time, just grinding the same shit on a map. Also getting the vubbe fighter gloves to drop was very nice feeling, the grind is nice, quests not so much.

The only thing I think about when I see RO related stuff is that I want to set up my own private server that i can spin up if i ever wanted, before the files get lost in time or some shit. Just for future's sake I guess.

Of course we can never go back. Ragnarok was during a time where there was no major social media hubs and that internet gaming/ interaction was still so wildly new and fun.

You'd have all sorts of people not just playing for grinding and achievements, but for the awesome community and WoE / GvG stuff. RP wasn't cringe, chilling in the main towns and just chatting was fun. GMs doing hilarious hijinx like eradicating everyone with Dead Branch MVPs.

just remembered my brewer's name was DangoAnikixD

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youtube.com/watch?v=QUJCM1Rv31k

is Yea Forums server still alive

How did the glory days of Ragnarok compare to the glory days of Maplestory?

No, we're all playing Novaro now.

>mfw I sneak RO xmas tunes into the playlists during family get togethers on the holidays

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anything that had the
>you don't earn experience if you're not within 10 levels of this monster
mechanic then I just drop it. fuck that shit. just as bad as the concept of "trash mobs" in shit like ff14

No, and that's a good thing. The clique there caused so many new players to quit because of their bullshit when it was already sub 10 pop. Turns out when there aren't randoms for them to shit on they shit on fellow Yea Forums players instead

I can't let go bros.......

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In RO you would just get experience anyway. I genuinely felt that that was the intended goal of the devs, to just have a specific 'vibe' while fighting certain monsters in their maps. Having multiple options of 'vibes' to choose from while levelling up. It felt like a singleplayer game that you just progressed through, like getting eager to be able to fight in ice_dun01 or at ein_fild with the geographers as a mage and being super lazy.

off course not
the server I played closed long time ago

Nah fuck you, I went back last summer and I've made the best RO memories yet in that time. Shit is still great.

Nup. Not the same as it was back then. You will never know.

>Install game got the first time
>Boot up
>Enter username
>DING
>Harp starts to strum
>Flutes come on
>DING
>Character select
>DING
>Land in Geffen for the first time
>Three woosh of warp portals all around me
>mfw
Even visuals aside, the sound direction in this game was fucking orgasmic. I don't think any other game had system sounds that fucking iconic. I still heard the sound of assumptio clear as ever in my head.

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based soundposter.

Not at the cost of suddenly losing at least 6 months of your life.
Don't BS me, time blurs when you're playing this shit and before you know it, you're sinking at least 4 hours a day on this shit.

Did any of you have a ragnarok gf?

This though. Just create a world with mechanics and stats, make it so that hard content generally can't be solod, don't create a party finder system, and just throw players in with a dagger. They'll figure out the rest.

I fapped so much to her as a kid

Anyone?

the jew tries to convience you that what you desire is childhood nostalgia. in reality, the reason we all fell in love with mmos has nothing to do with our childhood, but that these games represented the reality we were all promised but never allowed to have: your own, personal, hard work is rewarded in mmos. You can succeed, all by yourself, in a mmo within the context of the games metrics for success. This is the opposite of the real world, where you can and will be constantly ruined by forces outside your control, undermined by people who youve never met or interacted with, and you will be denied oppertunities for advancement even if you do your job perfectly because someone else knows or is fucking the right person.

Mmos, at their core, are essentially what we all hoped the world would be but deep down we know they never will be. A fair world. A straight forward world. A black and white world where effort is rewarded and evils can be punished. A world where gods do exist and they do watch over you, and you can pray to them or curse them and you know they will hear you.

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I disliked servers that had a hard exp cap when you levelled up, you couldn't rollover and level up like 30 times if you somehow managed to completely kill an enemy on your own. It was nice being able to deck out a new character in my OP and very specific purpose gear that could go from level 1 to 40 in about 5 minutes by killing a single enemy very carefully by using a card that allowed use of envenom.

Is this another one of those games that shut down and then private servers reopened it but it's not the same because they were and still are empty? I never played it, only played Habbo, Gaia and Perfect World.

Yup. Met her in the anime club at my high school (I know) and we happened to play on the same psever.

>I'm friends with the GM and you're banned for cheating with no chance to appeal :^)

I married mine and still play together

Still waiting for Nova to add 4th jobs

i was the gf
free leech and ez pt