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  • Never did understand the lose xp and const if you die punishment, those poor warriors

  • Fuck. I want to go back in time.

  • so many days and nights playing this game...so many memories. real life sucks

  • DAOC= virtual crack-It is so frig'in addicting

  • /watch?v=s5Oec3pH_So best DAOC Player ever.

  • Is this better then Runescape?

  • yes! 

  • @XsniperPro1 Runescape can't even compare.

  • After Mythic gave a LITTLE love back to the scout a few years ago, just enough for Scouts to be good - if played properly, geared properly, RR 6L5+, ML10 [and CL 10 if no buff bot] -- since then nerfs. In 2010 I finally had enough and decided to call it quits. Out of all my toons, Hibs, Mids, Albs, the Scout was my favorite - more challenging than others to play properly.

    Molvik made up for much of [old] frontier. Mythic, ever wonder why many thousands left the best MMO? -- Nerfs.

  • ...I have the main title music on my ipod. I also have "hibernia village dance" lol

  • this is the game that started most all the new mmorpgs..this is it. this is the one. all wow players care about is PvP..this is the best PvP game out there. why did they ever quit?! they have like what, 50+ raids an stuff? and DAoC has like hundreds?! .. fans were lost because a lack of common sense i believe.. im rejoining this game for sure

  • wish WoW had pvp like this

  • They need the old UI back it was cooler

  • Fookkk I miss this game!

    I haven't been able to play any other online game and actually enjoy it because DAoC set the bar so high.

    Also, to all you WoW nerds. WoW would suck if they hadn't gotten ideas from DAoC, show some respect.

  • как хреново что живу в россии. серваков русских у нас нет, а английский я не знаю( а поиграть хотел бы очень. но даже если был бы русский сервак, то его засрали бы также как и все остальные серваки.

  • is this game still out?

  • WoW kicks the shit outta this p.o.c game.

  • @rotwfighter Silly troll, without this game WoW would be alot worse :)

  • IT saddens me the state of the game today...it was soo amazing back in the day and if it had an updated engine and kept most of its core mechanics...it would blow all these other games out of the water. Why a company hasn't taken many of the aspects from this game and made their own is just odd.

  • @kookieless the game is free to download and with daoc portal you can access many freeshards, just google it

  • HOLY SHIT THIS BEATS WOW IN EVERY WAY.

    I WOULD DELETE ALL MY LVL 80S IN WOW FOR THIS LOL

    .

    but it is very confusing

  • man i wish this was f2p i love vikings and mmorpgs

  • the engine showed in this vid is shrouded isles engine ..

    catacombs really changed that graphic.best rvr game ever,i mean 3 realms with over 40 different classes,k some mirror classes for sure but a lot of new also.. i liked playing it 8 years :) maybe i should reactivate my subscription,have a 11l4 necromancer :)

  • This review cost me about 5 years ... I wouldn't of missed it for anything :) Best game ever.

  • No other MMORPG has anything on this game, EVER! DAOC FOREVER!

  • Damn, the character creation theme song just hit me in the stomach with nostalgia. I really miss this game and making stuff in the capital city and joining guilds.

  • Man my very first mmorpg, when mmorpgs had original ideas, like RvR.

  • Why are they still selling this. Almost 10 years old title... must be good then, with those terrible graphics... ppl who play this today must really love the gameplay. I dont understand, though.

  • @SirLighthill

    it isnt always about the graphics...surely there had been an engine update several years ago, but the rvr/pvp mechanics of this game are so uniqe and after 10 years even fun to play.

    on the other hand the engine of the game is practical and it doesnt need overwhelming graphics, because if it is so, you need a very high end pc to play fluently rvr with 100+ ppl

  • Why are they still selling this. Almost 10 years old title... must be good then, with those graphics... ppl who play this today must really love the gameplay. I dont understand, though.

  • Why are they still selling this. Almost 10 years old title... must good then, with those graphics... ppl who play this today must really love the gameplay. I dont understand, though.

  • If the game looked like it does in this video at the Release date of the game, it makes me wonder.......WHAT THE HELL DID THE DEVELOPERS DO WITH ALL THE MONEY THEY GOT FROM SUBSCRIPTIONS!?!?! oh the expansions........thats right but even the expansions don't look like they took a whole lot of time and effort and certainly not 30 million dolllars to develop

  • @Archanos123 shows how little you know....not only did they upgrade the graphics but they introduced new worlds alot more pve content, about 10 new classes through expansions...and a totally revamped frontier. Alot more than what you see in expansions such as wow....and it still kept its core pvp feeling. these "Next Gen" games have yet to even touch the in depth system of combat and pvp that this game had.

  • this game may have been great once to a handfull of people but now it is DIARRHEA DOO DOO COMING OUT OF MY ASS

  • DAOC is the best PVP MMO hand dow that is not a preference but a fact play it once and you'll see ive played it since it released and im still in love with the game.

  • i really dont get the point with ppl complaining that toa killed the game.

    surely it made it nearly impossible for casual gamers to compete, but mythic fixed it in the end.

    As daoc is nowadays, it never has been better before. A shame that all these spoilers say that toa and nf killed everything. most ppl adopted this point of view

    and quit also.

    And if ppl still have the same opinion today, they really never gave the game a second chance.

  • @buffbaer Totally agree pisses me off seeing all these people cry about it oh it was great,It still is and alawys will be better then wow

  • Alot of people are starting to come back to this game, Including myself. One of the best games ever made.

  • NERRRRDDDDDDDD this game is for nerds and is nerdish

  • @Dropgwap ? just because you dont like things that others do dosent give you the right to make fun of those others you ass

  • can't believe this game is almost 10 years old =)

    It's still fresh game ageless

  • Lol, this is like Sherwood and WoW =P

  • @xunholylord even if this was true. it would be WoW and Sherwood is like DAoC.

    <3 Brataden

  • @xunholylord Fail this is 10 years old so no ,They are like DAOC.

  • Still one of the better MMO's out now!

  • i use to play on NIMUE i was hylste i wish people still played il rejoin

  • @zachonkrack i just got back playing it

  • @Ramcool103 look me up on albion im Hylste or anything wit hyl in name

  • @zachonkrack ok

  • there is a freeshard private server called uthgard for this game now.Check it out if you dont have the money to pay monthly..... you could also try out Minions of Mirth :)

  • I faked sick many times from high-school to play this game.

  • to bad DAoC is nothing like this any more

  • @knuckles787 it is if you play on the Uthgard Server

  • all i gotta say is, what the hell did they do with WAR?

  • @ant1ph0n War is a wonderful example of what happens when someone steps forward looks at the past golden memory of DAoC - and ignorantly exclaims they can do it better. In the end, that person "steps down" and the game falls to pieces from there. War reminds me of a game made by people who have never grown up playing the types of table top rpgs (Dungeons and Dragons, Rolemaster, etc) that inspired DAoC to begin with.

  • whats the lvl cap for this game

  • @clonetrooper661 I think 50?

  • im downloading th trial now i think ill be a troll caster or troll wizard is that good?

  • i played myself and had some highchars,but i started to hate this game

    Leveling was extremely dull and repetitive. Too much downtime while waiting for energy and endurance to replenish. Trials of atlantis was a pain. now you had to level equipment too.

    Everytime mythic brought up something new, the game got worse and they never had an interest to block buffbots from game (of course, they earned money from the additional accounts^^)

    RvR was fun though and the smaller Battlegrounds even more

  • YOU GOT ROLLED BY BLUES.

  • game still rocks, join back up :)

  • Just got myself 14day trial to check this game out

  • shit game....

  • @001nion No, your taste in games is shit.

  • I loved this game, only game i was ever hooked on :p

    So big, and great pvp :D

    The expansion packs killed it though.

  • Music send a chill up my spine. This game was the best!!

  • Dark Ages of Camelot and Ultima Online....the two games that were amazing. I've played WoW, Runescape, Anarchy Online, Warhammer Online....none of them matched UO and DAoC

  • it was and is the best game ever

  • @t2t2sync

    Played DAoC for... 6 years or so. Played WoW for 4. DAoC destroyed WoW in every possible way. The only reason WoW is so successfuly is because they spent all kinds of money advertising it and they were already a huge company due to Warcraft and Starcraft.

  • hiiohjiuljkkhnn bhlou.il67k6yjumjukyum uymytmj.'/

  • Best PvP of all-time hands down! Well, until the release of Trials of Atlantis totally destroyed the integrity of the game and turned its community into assholes that cared about nothing short of personal gain and satisfaction. This game was the perfect example of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Mythic didn't understand that one too well! Oh well....not my problem, I quit playin in 2004 and have enjoyed the extra cash and time outside my house since then! :P

  • the combat system looks all slow and boreing!!

  • this game looks gay. wow is way better.

  • @theangrytaco52 Lol dude, Dark Age came out three years before WoW and is ten times better. WoW is the shallow, noob-friendly, cartoony, watered down version of Dark Age.

  • @Ozzie2368 true

  • @theangrytaco52 dude if you play world of gaycraft thats your own problem , this game has more players than wow and its community actually puts in a effort to help each other , rather than rob guild bands , ninja loot and fuck up your arena rating cause there shit

  • @SeiferOptics I don't play wow or dark age of camelot but i believe wow is the game with the most players. i think itas 11million or something like that

  • @halvarthered how many players a game have dont realy show what game is best built ... billions of fly loves poe that dosent make it taste good

  • @theangrytaco52 it is gay, but it feels old school.

  • @theangrytaco52

    Fuck you, this game destroyed WoW. I played WoW for 4 years but it never bested Dark Age.

  • @theangrytaco52

    Fuck you, this game destroyed WoW. I played WoW for 4 years but it never bested Dark Age.

  • Very humorous reading some of these comments. I'd put Shadowbane's pvp/training dynamic up against any and all pvp dynamics out there. But then, they are unworthy to be compared to Shadowbane:

    Block, Parry, Dodge, powerblocks, Sneak, Backstab, wereforms, Detect Hidden, solo playable as well as simply unparalleled gvg, nation v nation, massive siege pvp in real-time cities you actually build yourself, dynamic pvp chat channel for one's epeen. The unrivaled lord god of gothic pvp mmos. R.I.P SB.

  • Oh yeah... DAoC... TRAIN! Anyone?

  • Best MMORPG pvp system ever. In it's hay day, this was the best game on the market. no other game on any other console could compare to the fun this game provided.

  • *sigh* this game was once great...now wow is taking over its title.DAoC is not even top 10 best mmo :((((((

  • Wow is not a doac copycat poeple just call it a copycat becuase they are both mmorpgs plysbifbitbwas ancopycat it wouldn't be copying doac it would be copying older games like eq or uo

  • i heard that WOW copied this game

    it tat true????

  • @ashwinqwert

    They have copied some stuff. The game in its entirety? Not at all, WoW has a more noob-friendly approach, while DAoC (unfortunately) did not have.

  • I tried this game out when it first hit back in the day but my computer at the time was not strong enough to support it. I would love to give it a go now because my computer is insanely powerful.

  • When i was about 9 or 10 I really wanted to start this game for like a couple days but it was so complicated and all they had where beta keys and my dad was helping me get them but after like 2 months we never got one. I really would like to try this game out but it's kinda old now. its 2010 and it was like 2004 or 3 when i tryed

  • @Kelrentor

    now you can play it for free do you want the link of the best private server?

  • @Kelrentor Nice to know I;m not the only one who is haunted by the feeling of having missed the boat on this one. :( .

  • Is this game still working? I mean does servers havent been closed?

  • Id say WoW is funner and better

  • this is just kinda an uglier WoW ?

  • @dymensionprod this game out YEARS before wow,

  • it was out before wow..

  • I couldn't agree more, as I played strictly classic until the forced merger specifically because of the bot epidemic!

  • do ppl still play this looking for a new mmo to play

  • yes, population is way up due to the server mergers. I am an addict to this game, 6years strong and going!

  • Me and one of my friends are looking for a new MMO to play, I have played WoW, Aion, City of Heroes, Age of Conan and alot of other games, would you recommend DAoC?? I dont care about the graphics, just the gameplay has to be fun, good pvp (which i heard it has) and good leveling. If its a grind I can deal with it if its fun, what do you think?

  • I am a bit biased, as I have played for years on end, but I have played other mmo's and imo nothing can touch the pvp rule-set that DAoC has. Leveling has been nerfed like crazy, not too much grind there, people are very helpful and polite in game. Only downfall is that it is a complicated system, not a 1 click win like a lot of other mmo's. Ya get used to it though! :) Take the trial run, I do recommend it!

  • @MysteryBounty

    This was the best MMO imo a few years ago in its prime. You wouldn't want to go to it now... its pretty much dead.

  • @MrTREYGOMYEGGO yes. it is a very goodgame with an actual story

  • Excellent review

  • I hear so many people say that Dark Age of Camelot had the best pvp system, now im very curious why that is........

  • It's very smooth and team-based. The whole deal with Warhammer and WoW is the whole "There's your spot, this is mine" deal.

  • the graphics are from 2002

    with the add "catacombs" the graphics are like LotRO, i think

  • the game play looks awesome but the graphics look horrible but ill give it a try any ways wow's graphics looked horrible then i tryed it and loved it so ill give this one a try

  • The greatest thing about this game was the PVP system. I remember looking at my frontier map and your watch towers, if armies come within a certain range of each, will show where the armies are headed. And some armies were huge... I also loved the different environments within the frontiers. Also, being able to take boats to travel, the trebuchets, the catepults... I mean, I've never seen any similar pvp model. I loved the animations too, especially when buildings would crumble before you.

  • yeah the software is completely stable, their hardware... not so much. They need a new hampster.

  • really miss this game :)

  • Miss DAoC. Loved that game Best MMORPG to date. Mythic should redo DAoC. Just bring it back. it would be nice...

  • Euro players are starting to come on US servers. maks for an amazing boost of population. If PvP is your thing in other WoW/clones, then you are not playing the right game. Doac has yet to be bested in the PvP business.

  • @leconv

    is DAoC PvP better than WAR? I might have to download the trial.

  • @geekorthodox9 DAOC rvr/pvp is THE BEST period.

  • @leconv x100 thumbs up..

  • This video is really quite dated but it still stands that DAoC is very underrated as an MMO. It still isn't the most newbie friendly like certain obscure slash commands, but the new player areas are fun on their own, even when playing level 3 or 4 characters.

    If you haven't played DAoC, I highly suggest you at least try the trial. It is the least you could do.

  • Isn't DAoC dead?

  • Hardly.

  • Still to this day, DAOC is the best mmorpg I've played. Today, most games offer a very limited selection of races and classes. No real distinction between realms. Here, each of the 3 realms had their own unique races and classes. To date, there are around 40+ classes. Another great feature was you can level up easily from both quests and hunting monsters. Most games have an xp grind and monsters give very little xp; thus force you to quest all the way thru. Best PvP as well.

  • Uthgard freeshards, running classic DAOC, old frontiers. No TOA/CATs/LOTM anything, player crafted armor is the only thing from SI.

  • I wish all the people who are still playing War would jump over to Daoc. Mythic doesn't have enough quality staff to divide them between two mmo's. IMO the better one to focus on is Daoc.

    Oh and change the graphics back to Trials of Atlantis style, just polish the details and it'd look great. The characters look funky now.

  • Dear god, I hope that WoW bit was sarcasm. Warhammer has the new age feel i.e. the WoW feel, but thats just a matter of preference, MMO's don't have to play like cartoonish third person shooters with a few spells to be good.

    The best thing about Daoc was the realm set up, which the generic elf vs. orc human vs. undead can't compete with, not to mention it is tri-realm which made for some great PvP when the realms were populated. You had to be playin between 2001-2006 to get the full effect

  • omfg i get that it is made in 1998 when i watch this vid

  • STILL the best mmorpg out there, it's not mainstream and casual like WoW, but GDAMN is it a good game.

    Still going strong after 8 years ;), maybe not populationwise, but gameplaywise.

  • DAoC is still the best; remake it now!!!

  • @Graftin2006

    i have to agree with you

    the pvp system is by far the best pvp system out there today

    dont get me wrong though.. after playing it for 5 years off/on from launch.. it doesn't have the same great feeling when playing around launch.. after the gamebreaking expansions.. i quit the game about 6 months or so following.. came back when the classic servers were about to be launched and it just wasnt the same

    nonetheless...... it still has the best pvp system.. it is just an outdated game

  • @Graftin2006 Too bad Warhammer online sucked balls, if they remade this game I'd probably be willin to throw some cash down for it. The game where it stands now does not make me wanna spend my hard earned money on something that is dated and old.

  • @Graftin2006 Its good the way it is, no need for a remake. If they remade it, it would suck prolly lol

  • @Graftin2006 The entire player base of the past 9 years or so has a high percentage of people that agree. Mysteriously, only the developers say no.

  • is this free? and do i need to buy it from the store?

  • balls

  • you need to buy it from the store i think cause at 1:24 you see a case.

  • I thought the graphics were way cooler back then, and the loading screen was possibly the most epic image I had seen at the time. I wish they'd start over, improve the ToA graphics engine (take out all the ToA content, but it was the last expansion with genuine Daoc style graphics) and just let us play the game we love. Old frontiers FTW.

  • daoc is a sick game but its going down the tubes.....imo make a daoc 2 already

  • mann ive been playing DAOC for 7 years now, and it never gets boring, seeing the old day graphics makes me almost wanna tear up :' )

  • Whoa, when was this review made? The graphics look nothing like this now and I noticed the original box art as well. Very good review tho.

  • in my oppinion daoc is the best MMORPG.

    the "three-realm-system" is great and with the possibility to fight against a different realm and not only against a grp of other player like in WoW is genius.

    i'm still palying DAoC on the EU-servers and i'll game till the end^^

    so, great vid, thx; DAoC 4 ever and Mid ftw^^

  • i really wanna play but the graphics are holding me back a lil. is it still worth it and better than wow?

  • watch one of the trailers, i think there you can see the graphics better than in other vid's.

  • These are the graphics from the original game, very old. Personally I enjoy the graphics from the third expansion the most (You get like 6 engines to run the game on, all of which are viable) I haven't played in awhile but with the server merges there should be around 3,000 to 4,000 players on at primetime, which is more than even the most popular server had during Daoc's golden years. IMO you should try it, get some friends too. A sense of community is the best trait Daoc has.

  • filthy midtards, lol j/k j/k

  • Its not as populated as WoW is, but its still got a player base, thats playable. Or you can play on the Freeshards which has a couple hundred people through out the servers.

  • is this totally free - 2 - play? or i gotta pay ?

  • Sigh, seriously people still ask this question?

  • Is it worth it to come back to this game?

  • You can play for free on the Uthgard Freeshard.

  • im having trouble with servers.....When i sign in everything is fine, when im ready to click servers there are no serverS! i want to play so bad someone please help me.!!

  • Wonder if this game is still active, looks a little dated.

  • has a loyal base of around 50,000 not big numbers but is still alive and going for a long while now. Think it had a few hundred thousand at its peak. Yeah it not mainstream appeal like WoW.

  • looks like EQ sweet

  • This game is taking FOREVER to download. This had better be the best trial in the world.

  • is these game free2play or any monthly fee??? please reply D:

  • There are private servers, mate :)

  • were can i get the private?

  • Type something like "Dark Age of Camelot private server" in Google, haha. But it's not a good game. Good luck :)

  • subscription or 14 day trial. I'm guessing that you've already figured that out by now, though, right.

  • no, its like 15 bucks a month but really fun. its the best mmorpg out atm.

    if they put it out in public more people would play

  • In your party can you have didnt people from differnt realms?

  • Is this game still worth checking out? Or is it to old now to get into?

  • look up Uthgard freeshard. you can play for free!

  • High learning curve, but worth it.

  • dont bother

  • Thias Game was the best ever....WoW is absolutely nothin compared to DAoC i loved the time AND the players AND the RvR!

  • wen did this game come out?

  • 2001 or something like that

  • Oh mythic gonna release Daoc 2? I mean isn't that not just an update from 1.99 to 2.0?

    I just reactivated too.

  • reactivated 2 weeks ago.. hell you can still play with 3k ppl.. I mean your never around 3k in any other game.. sure a billion ppl play shitcraft but i doubt they are concentrated at all.

    COME BACK TO CAMELOT! fund mythic so they can add to the game!

  • the only game that come close to wow would be DaoC2!

    I played DaoC for 4,5 years and was the best mmo ive ever played, i think many want to move back but are afraid of the low numbers. Also DaoC has is a much harder game then wow and playerskill counts much more, if your a bad player in pvp you wont get a hit in against a good player. AND a BIG plus is, no FREAKING bunnyjumping all over the place!

  • Skill matters A LOT in WoW.

    If it matters even more in this game, I'd never want to play it.

    I don't know why you're so critical of WoW. Out of all the RPG's I've ever played, WoW has the best PvP of them all.

    I'm not saying it's better than this game's PvP (mainly because I've never played DAoC).

  • If you never played DAoC then you can't say WoW has the best pvp of them all, You simply haven't played it all.

    DAoC's RvR will never be touched in terms of PvP. If you haven't experienced it its really hard to describe.

  • I never said WoW has the best PvP of them all.

    I said it has the best PvP out of the RPG's I've played.

    You need to read comments more carfully before you comment.