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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Dodi Xaverius

2y↑1

@Jessica T true. I raised a bit of concern that despite how heavy grind this game is, there is lack of effort to lessened the grind for players aside from introducing paid focused instance.

It's hard to solo grind actually and it gets boring watching your characters do the same action to trash mobs hoping to get one level.

Not to mention, new classes that I actually like to try was locked behind mastering two classes first and with domo current rates. I doubt I could reach that in two months now that I have less time to play with games.

It's a pity that this project was greenlighted by players if i recall correctly and suba gimmick was mostly to exploit player nostalgia and do bare minimum to quench the thirst.

Even on domo closing days on Aria, i still could easily find cask party but now, almost every fave group spots remain empty.

Lotus the Mermaid

3y↑1

Ah, DOMO.

I remember this game all too well.
The weirdest bit was the red fate string that would show you which players you were romantically compatible with. Lol

Back in the day, the rendering in ANY major populated area was absolutely awful. Everything was slowed to a crawl if more than ~20 people was in any one place. It was ridiculous.

The WORST part was how few healers there were. Unfortunately for me, I was one of the few healers in the game. So people would often want to pull you into their dungeon crawls even if you were vastly too low of a level to withstand a single hit. And of course, they wouldn't be smart enough to protect their only squishy underleveled healer. LOL

So yeah, that was an interesting time.

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NotMeButAnother

3y↑1.2K

I played this for a short while more than a decade ago. The flying was pretty novel. The starting monsters also were painfully cute, not aggressive and had dialogue about begging for mercy or crying when you killed their children. Brutal.

nervsouly

3y↑31

Daaaaamn, lol!

SailorIda3

3y↑6

same here! I think I played it like a week

Droopy Eyes

3y↑38

I hope you'll never learn about killing piglets in the desert in Ragnarok online then. And cubs. And chicks. And so on... with cheerful music and happy aura.

Fene Feline

3y↑20

Same. Back before Suba games took over from Aeria Games. At the time i was like level 46ish (i dont quite remember). A few years after they took over I tried going back but there was no way I was able to get back into the game due to the grind and the cash shop pets i lost. Some of them were gifts from in-game friends. It was good at the time for a free to play game but F doing all that again.

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Rikaishi

3y↑268

As an old Domo veteran I can tell you that those stairs in front of the bank are the main social hub. Those people aren't just sitting they're usually chatting, trading, and trying to scam each other.

Templar Knight

4y↑1.2K

As someone who played this game during their childhood, and recently started playing again, yeah this game is hot garbage.

Yet somehow I'm hurt seeing someone else verbally destroy this game.

idminister

3y↑30

I thought it was a fine free alternative to FFXI, back in those days.

Feast_

3y↑40

@idminister when I played this game I thought it was better then WoW or FFXI because there was no sub...

Yet I constantly bought Aeria Point cards with my allowance and probably spent more then I ever have on my FFXIV sub

Granted now that I have the benefit of hindsight, I wouldn't have enjoyed FFXI and might not have enjoyed WoW since I was an impatient bastard back then

ZackWester

3y↑8

@Feast_ question could your computer run FFXI?
I recall DOMO running on toasters.

Feast_

3y↑7

@ZackWester yes actually. I have a few Lv99 jobs mastered and was working on a Mythic/Aeonic before getting burnt out sometime last year

If you mean that old computer, probably not. PS2 was likely stronger then my PC was then. I was still using prebuilt Dell PCs

Desther

3y↑5

I pity the fool who played this hot garbage in childhood! Consider playing the absolutely free Daggerfall Unity (or even the original DOS-based Daggerfall if you're feeling really adventurous) and experiencing a true 3D Medieval fantasy computer RPG!

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FxCKING HEAVENLY

3y↑337

I'm really glad Josh appreciated the zombie design. I didn't even notice but I'm glad somebody did. Think about all the hard work of the character designers, they deserve credit where it's due.

Waiyon

3y↑42

Well to be fair a Zombie with a Talisman on the head is called a Jiangshi which is basically the bog standard Chinese design for Zombies.

If you played or seen Genshin impact there is a reason why one of the character called Qiqi has a talisman on her head because this is the standard design of Chinese Zombies.

Miki Kuhl's Music Station pls enjoy

3y↑16

@Waiyon I'll admit at least it's a lot more interesting than the generic zombie design western pop culture has.

GeorgeMonet

2y↑2

@Miki Kuhl's Music Station pls enjoy Is it though? Western zombie design stems from a completely difference source which is usually attributed to zombification via a viral agent. So it only makes sense that western zombies would look like people who died or are sick and emaciated.

Dusk Ealain

2y↑4

@GeorgeMonet Yes because "A man dies, and his restless spirit refuses to leave, causing him to rise from the dead" or the many variants of the Jiangshi myth are usually more interesting than "they died of a mysterious virus".

One has the suspension of disbelief by default because it involves ancient magic, evil spirits, etc. whereas the other becomes instantly less interesting the moment you realize a Zombie-esque virus wouldn't really work no matter how hard you try because of the laws of nature.

Gurtington

2y↑1

Nooo... nooo... nooo.. that's OK

Adam Kelsall

3y↑145

Something to bear in mind is that this game was designed to work on dial-up, while a lot of the game's core engine has been adjusted to work on newer hardware very little has actually been upgraded...
The game was always advertised as a "Social MMO" and was specifically highlighted by the devs as NOT being an "MMORPG", you can see this in features such as the destiny system, rival/friend/etc. and the focus on party-based grinding, with solo grinding only being viable if you exploit the game's systems.

Edit: the latest game in the series just had its release date confirmed since I posted this message "xuan Yuan sword 7", release date 30/9, made by the same studio (within softstar) that made DoMO

Xen Xander

2y↑4

16yrs ago is still not dial up tech so I don't get it.

SioxerNikita

2y↑12

@Xen Xander 16 years ago not everyone was on anything better than dial up.

CrosslegLuke

2y↑9

@Xen Xander im from the US and my region didnt escape dialup until 2014

Santiago

2y↑1

@Xen Xander Many of my friends had dial up back in 2008-09 still so it depends on the household ig.

fuinharlz

4y↑386

Just one thing to add: the game is not 7 years old. The game is actually 15 years old. The actual thing is... this is a re-launch of an old mmo, initially released on 2005 in taiwan and 2007 on NA. Thing is, back in 2005, for the time, it WAS a good mmo. But since it never evolved and the re-release by suba games didn't even touch on anything, the game aged badly and was not even compatible with newer OS (I was in the re-release beta, as the new of the re-release brought me to many memories and I got all excited... took them weeks to make the game fully work on windows 7 - 10 and be compatible with newer hardware).
At the time, the games premise and lore (all based on the taiwanese game series Xuan-Yuan Sword, wich is based on chinese mithology) were kinda inovative (there were no mmorpg with flying at the time, not even wow had flying mounts). But for today standards, the game itself is pretty shit.

sns CC

3y↑11

FLYFF would like a word! (regarding the flying mechanics - think they got there first, though could be wrong. Not checked this, just going by memory)
As for DOMO - Game was first published in the West by Aeria Games I think, at least thats where I played it, the attempts to revive the game after Aeria killed it did not go very well :D

ILubBL

2y↑10

how was it a good mmo for 2005? In 2005 WoW, SWG, Guild Wars, etc all existed... even for children only, Toontown existed

Neiasaurus Creations

2y↑9

I remember my S6 lily that people literally followed me everywhere for lol. I kid you not, if you walked into a town with your S6 or any of the S-lily/love pets, you'd have an army of people following you, and trying to get you to trade it to them.

Rand Zopyr

2y↑2

I guess if you were playing in Taiwan - in 2007 when you said it released in NA, WoW did indeed have flying mounts, and had for roughly 1 year.

Neiasaurus Creations

2y↑2

@asd She was. And was actually the most desired of them. I miss her so much.

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WolfCoder

3y↑92

Back in 2007~2009 this wasn't so much an MMORPG as it was a hangout with MMORPG elements. That being the case, there was an actual player population and almost the entire server would just hang out at Eversun. This caused the game to stutter really bad as it loaded each player in and made things quite laggy once they did. I played on the version hosted by Aeria Games so there was often lots of little events being hosted by the GMs at the center for some extra noise. These days, playing the hollowed out shell you can find on Steam in a mostly empty world as you only have memories of enjoyment is a very harrowing experience, not unlike your favorite mall in its final days before becoming abandoned. The interesting class system and gameplay alone definitely can't hold itself up. Suba didn't even have the character clothes permanent like Aeria did, so you don't feel like spending any money.

Pink Agaricus

2y↑2

I remember that version too. I think I played almost everything on that game portal site. Shaiya, Last Chaos, DOMO, anything that caught my attention back at that time. I also remember the short lived Dynasty Warriors Online too, which I think also died very quickly, I think it stopped operation after the earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

Cheshire Waltz

2y↑2

Ahhhh you nailed it. I spent so much actually leveling and such, but talking shit in Eversun global chat, chatting in dungeons while everyone recovered, the small talk as you tried to find a group to even run a dungeon with before the team finder... That was the game as much as picking your classes. Hey do you remember the New Year monsters? Specifically that time a bunch were spawned right outside of Eversun? The guild I was in might have had something to do with that lol

Chozen Gaming

@Pink Agaricus honestly, same. I miss Shaiya sometimes. Full luck UM Hunter and my HM Pagan.

Luneward

3y↑70

"So I had to swallow the red pill, and now my character won't stop ranting about Chads Staceys, and joining an online pickup artist community." Best line in the whole video.

first last

2y↑6

Only a Supreme Gentleman could get 2 red romance lines on him at the same time

Liana Oik

3y↑129

By far my favorite childhood MMO. So many sweet memories! I spent countless hours on it and this is pretty much where I learned English.
The community was lovely, welcoming and very friendly. Unfortunately it was never given a substantial update and it looks painfully outdated.

LGYX

3y↑9

Same for me! I still remember falling asleep whilst lvl-ing and having school the next day. Good memories.

John Maco

3y↑1

Loved it too. It had so many things to do for a MMO at those times. It was more like a social game. But yeah, under nowadays perspective it looks old.

Jessica T

I think it's cool that this game helped you learn English! <3
Though sad that they put 0 effort into modernizing it, except for making it work on newer hardware & OS

Dodi Xaverius

2y↑1

Tera Ch. テラ★ 「vVtuber」🔧

3y↑33

This game was great when it first came out. The subclass system was innovative and party training and raids were enjoyable

Flameroller

3y↑117

The red line is the red string of fate. It's a Chinese and Japanese thing where your destined partner (husband or wife) is connected to you by a red string of fate. It might be a part of other eastern mythologies as well, but I just know it's a thing in Japan and most likely China.

Felix Gonzalez

3y↑61

Ahhh, this takes me back. Anyone remember the Mayor of the town asking for D-cup ladies? How about when Merchant was released? I remember making and I think maxing out a Staff Monk. First rule of DOMO: Find a way to heal yourself. I also remember the pets. An update ruined the skin tone of my character, which matched with a Lily pet. Good times. I miss those days.

Mechanomics

3y↑6

I remember the mayor now that you mention it. Aeria ran the game into the ground but I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss it. I met a lot of friends through the game.

scotty jennings

3y↑24

The social system in this game plus its class mechanics were great. I really had fun with them. The community back in the day were great too.

ChawkeeDoesStuff

3y↑19

This was one of my first MMOs, and I spent years on this game. I revisit it often, just to hear the soundtrack and look around at the vendors. Love the honest review though, nostalgia aside I never even got past the first town, so seeing that it really was terrible is very validating!

Rock

3y↑29

Oh maaan this brings me back to elementary school. Couldn't get into world of warcraft cuz my parents weren't into the idea of subscription games. Tried out a few games and this one was the most approachable and I liked the cutesy art style. Loved it, made friends, grinded just for the hell of it. As much nostalgia I have for it, yeah its bad, especially considering how much the genre has evolved. But, it'll always have a special place in my heart.

Plaguis

3y↑2

Elementary school in 2005? Fuck I'm old.

DJFlare84

3y↑9

Usually when an NPC tells you that the next step in the quest is to talk to them, it's usually because they're talking to you from far away and want you to go to where the NPC is.

I imagine that in an earlier build of the game, that was probably the case with the Careers Advisor.

Lenore Wright

3y↑37

13:50 "Drugs, okay. WoW. Kids remember, if a random man on the street gives you drugs, say thank you, because drugs are expensive." I've even watched this video before and forgot about that reference and died laughing

MafiousBJ

2y↑4

I love how I'm more engaged by the 4:3 aspect ratio black bars jokes and changed than the game itself.

Josh can make even seeing paint dry fun to watch!

Izzy

3y↑4

I loved this game back in the day before they closed it down. The classes were really unique and had cool skills, and all of the mob and gear design was cool. The world felt pretty huge and epic despite being technically small areas. This was my brain on teenager though.

Gorkdork

3y↑16

In it's prime, DOMO was advertised as Social MMO. It was fun when servers were populated and you had lot of people to play with. Game mechanics were simple but group grind was actually quite relaxing since there was like no instanced dungeons etc. Nowadays, when servers are on the dead side, you would struggle to find redeeming qualities. Maybe other then the fact how they treated Alts and interactions with them.
And red line to players was at least a conversation starter (Again, then game was populated by active players).

I still have friends that i met in DOMO.

Cheshire Waltz

2y↑1

Ah the class mixing skills are still pretty great, I've yet to find a game that did it better. What server were you? I was on Onyx, ah the nostalgia.

Vladger

2y↑4

I actually found this one fun, the job system was interesting since you could change jobs and some skills could be mixed with other jobs, the crafting was also fun, flying was cool. The grind sucked tho.

Amikke

2y↑10

22:00 this looks like the good ol' 2D movement, where entities are actually glued to a 2D ground surface, wchich can be rendered in a 3D environment. It's much simpler to program and a lot lighter to run than actual 3D physics, so it's fairly common in old games.

Lykon

2y↑6

Dream of Mirror is simply VERY old (20 yo) and free. It has many nice ideas. The pet and mount system was brilliant (basically what Pokémon has been unable to do for years), the commerce was nice and the legendary weapons had some nice lateral thinking. For example the marauder could equip lance (2h) or axe + shield for less damage but more def. Lance skills however compensated for that and had more active tanking capabilities. The legendary for marauder was a 1h lance that allowed to equip shield. I remember that as mindblowing. The graphic for the time was also pretty decent (especially if you enable cel shading).

Grim

2y↑11

This game has some awesome concepts around leveling load outs that other games have never been able to successfully recreate. The diablo style class tree but allowing abilities to be used across classes.

It really made the ungodly grind that the game is rewarding. BUT ultimately the gameplay can never be satisfying because its just too clunky. Its really a lobby game for people who want to hang out in a chat room and also want to feel like they are gaming. I know MANY people who met in this game and got married in real life.

Picked it back up after many years. Its about the same but nerfed because no modern gamer would stand for the awful grind the original was. At least not enough of them to support the game. The fix is that to level past 70 uou have to start classes over completely. Brutal.

Hojichu

2y↑1

as a person who plays this game for years it hurts to see other people be brutally honest about it LMAO but it is true. This game has a very special place in my heart, I always find myself coming back. I know lots of people who plays this game and got married IRL as well. This game brings back memories <3

Ikxi - Forever a Tatsunoko

3y↑172

The delete password at the beginning is maybe for when you wanna delete your character and not to create it.
So, you'd have to type 123456 to delete the character, if you typed that at character creation.

Rolf S

3y↑44

Yeah, that's what I thought, too. It allows you to set a second password to protect that character from being deleted in the case that someone gains access to your account. Which is pretty smart, and not a bad approach for a time when 2FA wasn't a thing yet.

Zomb

3y↑1

@Rolf S Vindictus has a two password system too

Squaul DuNéant

3y↑2

that's pretty neat !

Mechanomics

3y↑10

I'm a former player of the game, that's exactly what it's used for.

Sahaara

4y↑324

I'm looking forward to this video SO much! Back then I've played countless hours of this game! And yes, it's bad.

Somber Flight

4y↑26

Yeah... It was fun though. Found my ex through this game.

Aun Collective

4y↑17

@Somber Flight I've played many subpar MMORPGs made fun by an awesome community, and have left many good MMORPGs because of subpar communities.

My only experience with DoMo is relatively recent and it's definitely not a game whose universe & lore interests me (at least not in the first few hours). I'll give it a few more hours.

Sahaara

4y↑13

@Somber Flight I've downloaded it again and tried but I lasted 10 minutes before I uninstalled it again. By todays standard it's plain aweful. No idea how Strife lasts that long. DoMo is plain, empty and does not hold your hand that's for sure. I somehow remember it differently. Back then it was fun and I have great memories of it playing it with a friend.

Somber Flight

4y↑7

@Sahaara Heh. I remember just grinding mobs all day, getting money and exp for the next set of weapons/armour as I kept doing it. Both me and my ex quit the game soon after we reached a certain level, we'd just sit in one of the buildings and chat all day without actually doing anything. Anyways, it was fun for a while, but it is really meh. I remember controls being quite clunky even with the nostalgia, however.

Yougo Od'bro

i second this statement btw b>matz i'll be in eversun city at bank

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DreamWriter

3y↑8

Way back when I played this for a while. I ended up befriending someone that was working on a cheat tool for the game. I can't remember what most of the options were on it but the most important one was being able to add unlimited stats upon level up. This was all well and good and made for powerful characters through cheating. At the time we thought that was it... but it turned out the game had an overflow issue. The doctor class (whatever it was called) could heal players not in combat or party. PVP damage couldn't be done to anyone unless they accepted a duel. Only... when the stat that effected healing was so high, it caused an an error that made any healing instantly one shot people with negative health. It caused a huge wave of people that would just obliterate towns worth of players as the passed through.

kovidomi

3y↑131

The game indeed has not aged well for the most part after 15 years, but it still does two things better than any MMOs I've ever seen:
The social aspect as it highly encourages you to interact with other players and be part of a community, and the really flexible cross-class system that lets you mix the skills and passives of different classes letting you experiment with different viable builds.

AngelaMerici12

3y↑6

Of course they have to encourage interacting and making a community. That's why you would like to come back.

Tom van Dalen

How does this game promote social interaction

Sahaara

4y↑23

That was really entertaining and funny! I liked the side borders and their change! That was a nice trip down memory lane.

Phaenomenal

3y↑13

This review made me laugh so bloody hard. Definitely more entertaining than the game itself.

Brittany V

3y↑2

This is DEFINITELY not the worst. During it's prime it was super fun and the class system remains to be the most interesting and customizable one I've seen.

Mochi Chan

2y↑2

I remember playing a lot of this one, about 12 years ago, it was more fun when there were more people in it, but right now, it does look like a 12 year old mmo stuck in its time. Capturing enemies in mirrors used to work, but was not so helpful. There were different sticks to get crystals much faster, but yes, Josh's impression is right.

MaakaSakuranbo

4y↑18

I recall being quite excited for this game for some reason. It reminded me of Ragnarok, which I liked a lot and such. And for a while I think it wasn't localised, so I was excited that it would get an English version. Then I played it for like 3 hours and was bored of it

Crescent Star

3y↑9

Is it bad I'm getting more entertainment by watching the sidebars then I am watching the game?

The love lines reminded me that I actually did play this game forever and a day ago.

Riffert

3y↑6

Hey Josh, love this series, seldom have I laughed as whole heartedly!

Josh Strife Hayes

3y↑2

Glad you're enjoying it riff :)

Austin

2y↑1

I loved this game back in the day. It felt like there were a lot of unique features and classes at the time. It was pretty popular when it first came out in English! The whole city was packed and everyone was really social.

MrRayhonda

3y↑34

i laughed a bit too hard at the "too much plot" bit. good stuff lol

Xyzen

2y↑1

FYI, the zombies in this game is called a "jiangshi" its commonly used by chinese to signify "zombie"
theres surprisingly a wide variety of jiangshi. theres also "blood jiangshis" basically a stronger version of it that is kinda like a vampire

J C

2y↑3

"If a random man gives you drugs say thankyou beacuse drugs are expensive"
This made me laugh so hard, wish i hadnt been taking a sip of my drink at the time

Aether Reed

2y↑1

I like how Josh mentioned the 'novel' zombie design here. It's actually one of the most generic... At least for chinese standards. They are literally just jiangshi. Most of the time they are depicted wearing clothing from the same time period that they 'died' in, but it'd be more accurate that they are wrapped in a cloth-like blanket like shown here as only the rich, powerful, important, etc would of been buried with nice clothes in ancient china.

Fabryz

3y↑46

I remember playing the BETA of this like 10 years ago, when I was trying every MMORPG available. I liked the background musics and still remember some of them

Plaguis

3y↑3

Would have been a lot longer than 10 years ago, the game officially launched in 2005.

IamCoalfoot

The worst part about the heartbeat is that it sounds just like the heartbeats of bandits in my MMO when they're about to ambush you. So he's walking around getting eyes, and I'm looking for Imps to smack with a Dream Catcher so I can transform into them.

Meyson

I have to admit that I really enjoyed Domo long ago. Got some good memorys about it^^ The multiclassing was pretty neat.

I remember tanking dungeons while leveling as a mageclass with warrior subclass as the tank at the time just messed up so hard x3

Good times.

Devilkin Gaming

This game was so much to me in high school, I loved getting into leveling parties and socializing, I even had an in game girl friend that I went and spent a Christmas with when I was 15, which is questionable in itself, this game was fun back then but hindsight makes it terrible.

Uriel

2y↑4

This is one of those games, I feel I played in the past for a short while. However, when trying to remember it feels more like a fever dream than anything else :D

GatedSunOne

3y↑5

What is it with low-player count MMOs having people standing around doing nothing? I've noticed this happening a lot in these videos lol.

Brainstorm Surge

I browsed the wiki for this game a bit and apparently the system they really developed is a very intricate pet system for battling/summoning/support. It looks interesting but I'm not willing to actually play the game to see how well it was implemented. Maybe I'll look at some videos later.

Kira!

3y↑4

imagine if the guided tour thing was a quest called ("Guided" Tour) where the guide offers you a guided tour where you don't actually get a guide, then your character points out how stupid that is (kinda like something you'd see in RuneScape)

Frog Salad

Shift makes you run faster in most games except MMOs. Usually that's an ability like "sprint" or something. I know this video is two years old but I just came across your channel recently so I'm going through all your videos. Absolutely love this series, especially since a lot of the games are ones I've seen but went, "But what if it's not good?" And now I know and knowledge is power!

PhillyCh3zSt3ak

3y↑11

That moment when you listen to the description of the monsters and realize that it's a hot take from a certain "eastern country" about western countries. I could be reading too much into it, but at the same time Weibo is being advertised for the game's videos and not YouTube.

LaydiNite

3y↑12

A couple of quick notes:
First, I don't think the red lines are really indicating lust per se. In some Asian countries, they have this concept called the red string of fate, and I think that's what it was referencing. It's like the western idea of a soulmate, basically there's an invisible red string tied to your pinky finger and it's connected to the finger of the one you're destined to be with.

Second, the zombie design is based on things from Chinese folklore called Jiang-Si. I've also seen them called "corpse puppets" or "hopping zombies". They are corpses under the control of a master who controls them with magic. That's the actual purpose of the talismans covering their faces, it's needed to gain control of them. It's similar to a necromancer in D&D.

I'm not an expert, but I thought that might explain some of the details.

jed stanaland

In most of the older rpg games positive and negative energy are the difference between life and undeath basically as long as you have positive energy you are alive and your fine. And if you have negative energy you are undead. If you were to be hit by a concentrated pulse of the opposite energy you will be hurt, killed, or possibly even swap sides. It would just need to be a powerful enough shot to do it. There are some rpg games where undead are not animated that way but the majority of them follow that pattern.

Hans-Joachim Maier

3y↑6

Am I a bad person for wishing for more bad MMOs, so I just can watch you rating them? 😈

Techno Fox

3y↑2

I remember playing this game back in 2008. I maybe played 3 hours of it before I just couldn't take it anymore.

I think the most "unique" part to me was how the monsters would talk back to you and make you feel bad about killing them.

Nami Burali

3y↑1

oh man these bring back memories. Theres a pet system, a mount system and flight! flight makes a lot of those issued with terrain minimal, but I do remember how stupid it felt for that "no small ledges, flat surface only"

Khánh Bảo Đoàn

2y↑1

That heartbeat sniper laser beam between players. I assume it represents the concept of the "red thread of fate" in Chinese culture regarding how fated lovers are connected by a red thread by the Matchmaker God.

Joshua Jacobs

2y↑1

“Too emotional.”
Oh yes. That anime went from laugh out loud amazing to sobbing and feeling depressed. I loved it

William Alewine

Which anime is it? I recognized all of the other ones.

DoranRex

51w

@William Alewine old comment ik, but it's Steins;Gate. What's the "way too good for this game" anime?

Trent Heinrich

Used to play this game so much as a kid. I learned how to talk and interact with people because of it, I'll never forget all the memories from back then. I'm 26 now )':

K D

3y↑45

This game was good years ago when there were a bunch more players...I mean the social aspects were good lol. I hated how long it took to level up.

nervsouly

3y↑5

Rule number one of MMOs: The more boring and inconvenient the gameplay is, the more likely people are to socialize heavily to escape boredom. And of course the more a game has to offer, the less interested people are in one another.

SpiritWildfireGaming

@nervsouly Trove's general chat disagrees.

nervsouly

@SpiritWildfireGaming I don't know this game and you will always be able to find examples for one or the other extreme. It's just a general tendency I recognized over the years. But one thing is for sure: The heavy lazy auto chat censoring of modern mobile games made people a lot less likely to talk to another. The whole idea of entering lists of banned words into your video game should be abandoned by game devs.

SpiritWildfireGaming

@nervsouly While I agree about the whole "there should be no banned words list", we do have to remember that most do so because, as mobile games, a big chunk of their income comes from China. And you know them with their censorship.

nervsouly

@SpiritWildfireGaming I mean China is one country and there usually are other companies running the games in the West. So it would be possible to just deactivate the feature for all other countries. I believe they do it to cut costs on support. Most mobile games have a short life span and not the luck of being an A rating on censor tower.^^

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Zachary Luhn

Did last chaos ever get better? I played it in beta and in my experience every single quest it gave me was go here, kill these things, kill harder things, go somewhere else, repeat. Might be a good one for this series if it wasn't improved.

Lotus the Mermaid

3y↑1

Insane Panda

47w↑1

I remember when Aeriagames had this game. This was my first MMO after Maplestory. I got banned because I had some assassin class and I used to drag high level monsters all the way up to the noob level and use invisibility and then the monsters would target all the noobs and kill all of them LOL I was young and stupid. I really loved the game back then, was fun flying around. I stopped playing after the ban.

PTa

Thank you for reminding me of this game it might be bad, but it's super nostalgic for me. I remember absolutely loving the log in music (I couldn't recall anything else about this mmorpg except that) and have been searching for it for a while.

Skunks Skunster

I am so happy that you have to play these games and i just can watch :) Good job, love your videos!

Rheide

I know this is an old video, but him running around with a dagger while having the new class weapon in his inventory, and then buying ANOTHER new class weapon was driving me crazy lmao

Merines *

I miss this game. I played for four years when i was a teen. The suba relaunch is definitely different. But i still want to play it because nostalgia.

Dr. Kineil Wicks

Been really enjoying listening to your Worst MMO Ever series while drawing--I've actually downloaded some of these games on Steam but hadn't yet gotten around to playing them so thanks for saving me that time. X'D

Might I recommend Digimon Masters Online to your worst-MMO list? I might play it semi-regularly, but it checks off a LOT of your "worst mmo" boxes.

Anodyne

3y↑1

Interestingly. I played this game on my own regional version, way before the international one was made available. And it was quite different.
It looks like they keep updating without thought of what was there and ended up with an absolute mess that it is now.
A lot of translation issue to be sure. Dialogues and explanations were much better when I played it in my own language.
Also the combo gems. If you align different colors gem in a correct orders, you'll do even bigger damage combo. I used to get my super combo ready then get people to PVP me and then one-shot them.

DexterousCobra

3y↑5

"Lok'tar ogar I chose the horde~I mean monsters" that one little line, is probably the highlight of this entire review

I wanna be a mongoose

Around 20 min that really hit me , i use my click to move as teleport in diablo 3 on my wizard, but if that was the default layout i would freak out, also my hardcore wizard would be dead, but at least they thought of giving you a shift toggle so you can use the ability while walking just by tapping shift.

Rahkesh Akren

This was my main and 1st ever MMO during highschool, missed it very much. The playbase had always been pretty small, 2 servers in total, but both servers were extremely active. The thing about this game is that it belonged to Aeriagames, until it was shut down for I think 2-3 years before some other company brought it and whatnot. For what its worth, the class/subclass/subskill system is actually fairly advanced even by today's standards. The story is pretty much non-existent, the gold-buying situation was pretty heavy before the game got shut down, have not been back so not sure if its still a thing nowadays. High-end raids do exist, but there is a pretty weird gate-keeping where you need to invest a lot of gold to fully upgrade your own gear to even try, and if you DO upgrade enough, with great enough onyx(materias) any1 person can solo the raids alone. I had really great memories with this game, the community is pretty awesome, as small as we were.

Daniel rogers

2y↑1

Josh making sure hes constantly reminded of the mmo he could be playing while playing this

Nyx

Man I played this for years when I was a teenager it was tedious but it was fun with alot of people farming everywhere. The community knew it was bad but we all played it anyways.

MentosFreshness

DoMO is 15 years old and the graphics are pretty bad, but the game caters to socializing with a community so much better than any other game I’ve seen. Also the job system allows you a lot of variety in easily switching between different classes and mix and matching them together. There are so many unpolished features in this game, but it really does have solid core features!

ericb31

3y↑6

this reminds me of a fairly good MMO "perfect world", where one playable race is known as the "untamed".
surprisingly, their two classes are gender-specific: the Males can be Barbarians, and the Females can be "Venomancers".
it's interesting to point out that Barbarians can turn into Tigers, and Venomancers can turn into foxes.
(it's actually a skill that can be learned at level 9)
Venomancer was my favorite class, since she also has the unique ability to TAME wild animals and make them help fight!
one thing i did NOT like about that game is that equipment has really high attribute requirements.
so a barbarian MUST put most of his points into Strength or he can't wear the best heavy armor.

Aurene

4y↑86

Me: Plans to get some sleep
John: New Bad MMO Video!
Me: Sleep is for the Weak I guess Grabs chocolate milk and gets ready

nervsouly

The sugary kind of chocolate milk or the protein version?

Longus Dongus

3y↑1

The whole me: shit is getting old.

Ryan Sutedjo

2y↑1

i remembered playing this like 15 years ago(indonesian server), and found a glitch on item mall to gather high level materials not yet accessible to all players, crafted lots of high level equipments with it, and ended up ruining the game economy LOL

Andrew Hall

I actually loved Domo, mainly the class system. Still havent found a game that did it quite like it.

I'm Bad at Games

This is so bizarre. I definitely played this when it was [maybe?] new. I don't remember who hosted it back then. I want to say Gpotato, but there were a ton of hosts for cheap, cookie-cutter anime MMOs back then, so it could've been any one of them. This early game experience is nothing like what I remember. But then again, DOMO only held my attention for a few weeks.

Edit: It was Aeria games. And I ~~definitely~~ remember that horrible map.

Nakano27

3y↑3

Bizarrelly, I think that's the closest alternative to Final Fantasy XIV. And yeah, the questing in the game isn't fun, and is extremelly grindy. First of all, why all quests begins asking you to kill 20 things, or collect 20 things?

Anyways, questing only incentivates you to level up, since the grinding is what actually gives you exp.

DarkSouls Gaming

48w

I've been watching all of these videos as I grind out Grand Chase Classic, an MMO you should definitely do a video on. This Wednesday (May 24th, 2023) they will be releasing an update making the new player experience much quicker, easier, and with more loot making it the perfect time to check it out! Elsword was technically a sequel to Grand Chase, but I never personally got into it. It would blow my mind to see this game get some attention! I even named my son after one of the main characters!

Michael R

1y↑1

The background changing constantly is pure gold. Laughed everytime

HanziDrownable

In its time that was a good game, the class mixing, customization was kinda badass.

John Smith

3y↑14

The screenshot part was actually kinda adorable, not gonna lie

DaiberryX

3y↑1

This was my first MMORPG I played after Shaiya. I played Shaiya for a very, very brief period (I don't think a full day) before coming to this one. It was great for me at the time, had a Martial Artist class that was able to use the melee weapon types I desired, and the ability to be any class on one character. Leveling wasn't so bad, and PvP was fairly balanced.

...And then the years went on. The community that was once uplifting had been given up for the growing trend of toxicity. The PvP that was once balanced by classes was becoming more and more overwhelmed by playing the lotto with Green/Blue/Orange books... making some classes utterly unplayable in PvP... and then you realize AeriaGames had nerfed the exp gains so the grind was even more tedious than it was supposed to be (comparing to the Indo release, which had way better exp gains than the global version, and was quite a bit less strain on the pockets for a decent experience). Granted on that last note, Aeria seemingly became more and more greedy...lol. I joined this game when level 50 was the cap, and TGT was like the "endgame," and left some time after Dragon's Den was unveiled and level 70 became the cap.

It was really sad to not only see, but be a part of the game as it saw its decline. I do appreciate the overall experience over the years I played, and a few of the friendships I made there persevere to this day. Still, looking back, the game itself wasn't awful, but how it was handled was.

August

I remember playing this as a teen and someone added me to their party and then forced us to just...Stand in front of this questgiver without doing anything?? I had literally just started and I wanted to go complete quests but they just kept calling me to come back and I got annoyed and quit immediately, lmao.

DaWombatGaming

49w

I've been binging these and am one of the "2nd monitor" people he talks about in later videos. I loved glancing over and seeing the different bits of anime/games he placed as the side bars for this 4:3 nonsense. Made me do a double take once or twice

Grit

Back when this was under Aeria games I cut my teeth on mmos here. I was defo a 200 hr + player cause partying to grind was super enjoyable.

I also figured out how to crash the game for anyone in the area by summoning an end game event boss in the starting city and the area with the lady you took pictures with.

If any Nightshade Coven members ever find this, I still remember those days fondly. (Meilchoir / sapphire server)

This video helped me remember some fun memories, thanks man.

JoQan

3y↑3

Interesting take, DOMO has been one of the best MMORPGs I have played tbh and still regard it as one. I'm not even talking from nostalgic point of view, as I replayed it last year to lv30 range with my gf in a 10h session. This is a 16 year old game. It originally came out a year after WoW. It has an amazing multiclass system that I haven't seen in any other game. There are raid bosses, marriage system, teacher-student system, PvP arena and back in the day a lot of community organised events. Welp, this games requires you to play with others. Preferably in duos or trios. Later on with full parties to level. The way the different classes synergise with each other is fantastic. Solo gameplay is also viable thanks to the thief class. It does require quite a bit of metaknowledge to be really enjoyable though.
EDIT: Btw. It's taiwanese not chinese.

XxLittleMissMisFitxX

Man, I remember playing this game back a long time ago and then one day I couldn't login anymore cause someone beat the game and it was over which felt so weird. I guess they brought it back.

Aun Collective

4y↑12

Counting Horse Riding Tales, this game was the least enjoyable experience out of all of the games you've covered. Definitely not the worst game, but it's slow pace, uninteresting story, clunky controls, closed off world, and nothing really unique or so terrible to be unintentionally humorous made it a painful experience. Sphere 3, while generic, allowed for more exploration at least. League of Angels and Rebirth were at least unintentionally humorous. Even LuckCatchers was about 30 minutes of vaguely interesting sightseeing until realizing everywhere looks pretty much the same.

I could be wrong, but it seems that specific horrible font was used in quite a few MMORPGs from back in that time period -- Tales of Pirates being one of them.

Thad Morsell

Holy shit I loved this game back in 2008-2010. Mercenary class was the go to for mass grinding

kevintheradioguy

Binge-watching the playlist, and honestly, this one isn't even that bad!

Kas b

I remember playing this game about 10+ years ago? it wasn't on steam back then lmao It was hot shit even back then. I remember rage quitting because it was impossible to figure out how to do quests because there was no markers. It might've been released on steam 7 years ago, but this game came out like, back in the early/mid 2000's lol

Es3iya

51w

This was one of those games that we in east europe and other poor countries had to play, cos we couldn't afford WoW so we made best out of it and ignored all the bugs and other crap. But the community was wonderful :)

Alloou No U

What a fantastic background of mi'qote and hyur. I wonder what obscure mmo uses these totally common and not hyper specific races.

Gale A.

2y↑1

Loved domo back in the day, but yeah it didn't age well. For its time it was a really unique, interesting game.

goat train

halfway through this video things started looking real familiar - apparently I played a bit of this back when I was younger! Kinda surreal to recognize it after all these years :v