This, to me anyway, is more than just a Machinima. This is a time capsule. This video won't ever age, because the music and feel aren't tied to the latest popular genre like rap, or most current home-animation advance, like the omnipresent SFM battle montages. Even the very models, characters and some of the animations are timeless now, since their eventual removal from the game leaves them standing beyond the passage of expansions. So if we ever want to take a step back, before Garrisons, Pandas, Deathwing shattering the land; if we want to hear the voice that defined a generation of videos; or if we miss the creativity and bonkers imagination that Machinima could mean (and thank you to those who still hold it up, I'm talking about the majority though) - all one need do is load up this video. Vanessa isn't the legacy of Edwin Vancleef. This is.
Nope, I regularly just pop back to this video because I love the style. I've never come across another WMV that just said "hey, you know what, let's just go Disney"
@@fesco4752 Yorik may really be Mr. Smite in disguise. Yorik's aggro quote "You! What are you doing here?" implies he has met the player before, and in a different place. Yorik also has a very similar voice to Mr. Smite, and his clothing and coloration also appear very similar. Most notably of all, Yorik drops  [Mr. Smite's Brass Compass], his possession of which is otherwise hard to explain. Yorik is also found near a treasure chest and a miniature boat, both of which may be references to Mr. Smite being on the Defias juggernaught in the Deadmines.
We did, we just couldn't do anything about it, kind of like how they fucked the game with their greed and they did not listen to the players who foretold the future shithole retail was going to be going this route Even if Blizzard somehow managed to stay a good gaming company, bosses dying canonically is bound to happen if the story and the game evolves
one of my favourite things about this movie is the fact that you incuded the lore about the defias bandits and how they came to be (rebuilding stormwind and then lady prestor/onyxia denying them payment) ended in massive riot and the queen of stormwind ended up dead by accident really one of the best alliance lores there is and to bad it only ended up as a tiny part of alliance level/questing
This video will always hold a special place in my heart because in the 8th grade my friend and I contacted you asking for an instrumental track of this so that we could use it for a school project about Andrew Jackson and, amazingly, you gave it to us. Thank you so much. Ol' Hickory's Life was a hit in our history class; they asked us to sing it twice. We couldn't have done it without your amazing work at this amazing song.
+Digglent ..... Hooooooly shit dude, I didn't even hear that, what the crap. Wow. It's freaking Cox. My mind is so very blown right now. Thank you for pointing that out, don't even know how I didn't hear it....
I'm always gonna miss the old deadmines dungeon even if it was a pain in the ass to walk back to. Props to the creator I can't count how many times I find myself randomly humming the song. 😳✨
Any fellow Wrath Classic fresh server enjoyers listening to this while gaming in Deadmines? I love this song, thank you for making this! Deadmines was always one of my favorite dungeons
Time flies doesn't it. I was 18 when I made this, soon 30, crazy to think of it. But it's cute seeing people commenting on this now and then saying it has nostalgic value to them. Appreciate that.
This is what wow need, I don't mean Deadmines, I mean the community that did things around the game, all the parody music videos, wow PVP machinima with the same shitty software? Yes, those, we need that back, that was the soul of the game its people, not its content. But alas good times don't last, ill always remember that golden time of wow, always in my heart. To you the creator, know this, this video never fails to make me both sad and happy, sad for the memories of the past, and happy to have been part of such an experience. I try to come back yearly, to get a reminder of what TRUE FUN is/was for me. Thank you.
I feel you Antonio. I have made several attempts to fall back in love with WoW as they would drop their new expansions and so on. But I never really felt the same magic as I did when I originally played it. I'm not sure if I've grown out of the game or if the game has grown away from what it used to be. However I am truly happy to hear this video hasn't grown old for you. People enjoying it to this day really means a lot. And I too miss the good old days. Thank you!
+BishtrainerTai16 They are :D the 'Outlaw" (renamed/reworked 'combat' spec) artifact quests are on youtube- Nobbel and Preach gaming both did one, and most likely others too. It looks pretty sweet ^.^
The two artifact weapons for the Legion expansion are Luck and Fortune, two Cutlasses wielded by a pirate captain that found them after the Cataclysm. No one knows where they came from or who made them. But one thing's for certain, they're deadly powerful.
I just recently got into WoW and I did this dungeon for the first time and I'm like "why does the name of this dungeon ring a bell to me... oh ya that's why"'
"Being a favorite pays"... Having good story pays in becoming a favorite. There's no real "good guys" in the story of the Deadmines, and it works well for it.
If I was blizzard, I would make this version, the classic nostalgic heroic of deadmines, with a few mechanic changes so it'd be harder but keep the same ol nostalgia. This slaps so hard I, just wow. This is perfect, I loved the deadmines when i did it on the classic stress test, and recently discovering this today, it warms my heart. I wish i was there in cata/mop to play and listen to this song. But at least I can remember the good ol days, and listen to some WoW music.
I haven't touched WoW in 3 years. I haven't heard this song in probably 5. But, still it is one of my most prevalent earworms. Any time my mind wonders it often ends up here. So, I decided to try and find it today. Took a little bit but, here I am.
Im 14 and i started playing wow for the first time on classic launch, it sucks to see everyone being so down on the game I have no idea what the "good old days" are but im having a ton of fun looking at these old youtube machinamas and songs. Great video!
working construction in an underground section of a building started humming and mumbling this, My brother working next to me, starts playing it off his speaker.
Honestly, I think Onyxia had us hanging on her whim. It's her fault that the Defias are angry at Stormwind. Then, somehow, she managed to hide that it was her doing. Onyxia was clever, devious, and deadly dangerous, She would have had Stormwind obliterated if Varian hadn't shown up.
This, to me anyway, is more than just a Machinima. This is a time capsule. This video won't ever age, because the music and feel aren't tied to the latest popular genre like rap, or most current home-animation advance, like the omnipresent SFM battle montages. Even the very models, characters and some of the animations are timeless now, since their eventual removal from the game leaves them standing beyond the passage of expansions. So if we ever want to take a step back, before Garrisons, Pandas, Deathwing shattering the land; if we want to hear the voice that defined a generation of videos; or if we miss the creativity and bonkers imagination that Machinima could mean (and thank you to those who still hold it up, I'm talking about the majority though) - all one need do is load up this video.
Vanessa isn't the legacy of Edwin Vancleef. This is.
Well said sir!
Thanks :D
OverEnglishMan Going on a trip dowm memory lane in prep for Legion release?
Nope, I regularly just pop back to this video because I love the style. I've never come across another WMV that just said "hey, you know what, let's just go Disney"
OverEnglishMan Fair enough XD
This is an extremely influential video for me. Classic stuff
Thank you Platinum WoW! Glad to hear that coming from you
I came back here straight after your video about the Defias, I was so glad that to see you were inspired by it!
Glad to know Im not the only one coming back here every 3 years or so xD. Love it
Seen you commenting a fair few WoW music videos these past few months. Glad to see you getting in on the WoW music.
So much nostalgia I'm here from 2024. Hope to come back time and time again lol.
11 years later and this song is still just as great as it was! This song is timeless!
Yep love coming back to it every now and again. Just to find out the lyrics are still in the back of my head and I just start singing along.
Almost 10 years ago, holy shit I feel old
Same... D:
The time between this video and now is way longer than the time between when this video was made and the "good old days"
indeed brohv
feel even older
R.I.P. Edwin van Cleef, the man who is more a hero than a villian
+TobiDyLetsPlay100 THE BROTHERHOOD WILL PREVAIL!
rest in pepperoni
+TobiDyLetsPlay100 OUR CAUSE IS RIGHTOUS
He might be a little more villian than hero considering he tried to destroy Stormwind
he only destroyed SW because their nobles refused to pay him for his efforts in rebuilding from the orc invasion.
Plays on repeat while I run with my boys through Deadmines on Season of Discovery
26th August.
We're comin' home, Edwin!
Edwin: Oh shit, I thought I was safe.
I've made it to westfall. And I have a shiny two handed holy sword.
And how sweet it is!
And now with Classic, we're all back in the Deadmines, swinging in time with our hips.
Heard WoW classic is being released today. Have fun with your addiction, I for one say no to drugs!
Holy shit. Your alive.
Ha....you'll come back. And when you do...we'll be waiting.....Welcome to the Deadmines. MuahahaHAHAHAHA
lvl 27 :3
I've ran it like 10 times at least on my rogue and still have yet to get that damned sword from Edwin
I really love this video
Ah shit, here we go again...
SoD spike incoming!
Back when everyone didn't realize Cata's revamp of the Deadmines meant all the old bosses were going to be made canonically dead, lol
Mr.Smite lives in Pandaria as a rare under a different name, Yorik Sharpeye.
@@sokarr4779 are you sure about that?
@@fesco4752 Yorik may really be Mr. Smite in disguise. Yorik's aggro quote "You! What are you doing here?" implies he has met the player before, and in a different place. Yorik also has a very similar voice to Mr. Smite, and his clothing and coloration also appear very similar. Most notably of all, Yorik drops  [Mr. Smite's Brass Compass], his possession of which is otherwise hard to explain. Yorik is also found near a treasure chest and a miniature boat, both of which may be references to Mr. Smite being on the Defias juggernaught in the Deadmines.
Cookie survived
We did, we just couldn't do anything about it, kind of like how they fucked the game with their greed and they did not listen to the players who foretold the future shithole retail was going to be going this route
Even if Blizzard somehow managed to stay a good gaming company, bosses dying canonically is bound to happen if the story and the game evolves
one of my favourite things about this movie is the fact that you incuded the lore about the defias bandits and how they came to be (rebuilding stormwind and then lady prestor/onyxia denying them payment) ended in massive riot and the queen of stormwind ended up dead by accident
really one of the best alliance lores there is and to bad it only ended up as a tiny part of alliance level/questing
“VanCleef did nothing wrong!”
@@NevanSlone Pretty sure a bunch of farmers in Westfall and The Peoples Militia would disagree with you there.
Not as crazy as "garrosh did nothing wrong", mind you@@curnott6051
This video will always hold a special place in my heart because in the 8th grade my friend and I contacted you asking for an instrumental track of this so that we could use it for a school project about Andrew Jackson and, amazingly, you gave it to us.
Thank you so much. Ol' Hickory's Life was a hit in our history class; they asked us to sing it twice. We couldn't have done it without your amazing work at this amazing song.
This made me emotional lol thats awesome
I come back every year to see this video
Oh.
My.
God!
It's been 5 years.. and I never fucking heard that it was Jesse doing the voices. Just heard it today!
Weird how some give him crap for being a bad voice actor right ;)
Some quality voice acting going on here... Oh and the animating on that priest....
+Digglent Omg... Now I just feel stupid for missing that...
+Digglent ..... Hooooooly shit dude, I didn't even hear that, what the crap. Wow. It's freaking Cox. My mind is so very blown right now. Thank you for pointing that out, don't even know how I didn't hear it....
same lol
wowcrendor is in there as well
>"Hammer Time!"
>Uses Mace.
Come back to watch this every now and then :D what a classic
+takeshiC1 same here
It’s been 13 years
Just completed the dead mines in classic, a 2 hour ordeal. Good times
I'm always gonna miss the old deadmines dungeon even if it was a pain in the ass to walk back to. Props to the creator I can't count how many times I find myself randomly humming the song. 😳✨
still cool 5 years later
agh :) Nostalgia !
Even 7 years later!
even 8 years :P
Any fellow Wrath Classic fresh server enjoyers listening to this while gaming in Deadmines? I love this song, thank you for making this! Deadmines was always one of my favorite dungeons
There is an offical HS Deadmines song now btw.
I remember listening to this on a loop when I was 12.
And I keep coming back, even almost 10 years later... pure gold :D
Time flies doesn't it. I was 18 when I made this, soon 30, crazy to think of it. But it's cute seeing people commenting on this now and then saying it has nostalgic value to them. Appreciate that.
Wow, you make me feel so old
Man Jesse has a range of voices.
Looking back, this was the last time we had a great machinema winner at Blizzcon..
Watching this a day before 2020 starts and I still love it
This has become even more amazing with classic!
So much Jessie Cox in one video...Vancleef, Gnome (tank), Paladin, Healer chick, Sneed, "Hammer Time" goblin, amazing.
+Bada Bling Jesse *was* a voice actor before he made his youtube channel.
Young Savage Jesse was a history teacher before he made his youtube channel.
Hammer Time goblin is Gilnid, pretty sure he was replaced with Foe Reaper 5000 as of Cata
If you go back and watch a lot of old machinimas you'll see he was in a shit ton of them
Jesse Cox being a voice here was a pleasant surprise. :)
Who did he play anyhow? Vancleef?
Yeah.
Sturm Novahl Thought so. he's got a good singing voice.
yinyang452 + About 3 others xD
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he at least also did Sneed
and we back again for classic!
this is an absolute relic , loved it when wow was so big
This is what wow need, I don't mean Deadmines, I mean the community that did things around the game, all the parody music videos, wow PVP machinima with the same shitty software? Yes, those, we need that back, that was the soul of the game its people, not its content.
But alas good times don't last, ill always remember that golden time of wow, always in my heart.
To you the creator, know this, this video never fails to make me both sad and happy, sad for the memories of the past, and happy to have been part of such an experience. I try to come back yearly, to get a reminder of what TRUE FUN is/was for me.
Thank you.
I feel you Antonio. I have made several attempts to fall back in love with WoW as they would drop their new expansions and so on. But I never really felt the same magic as I did when I originally played it. I'm not sure if I've grown out of the game or if the game has grown away from what it used to be. However I am truly happy to hear this video hasn't grown old for you. People enjoying it to this day really means a lot. And I too miss the good old days. Thank you!
:')
This is such a beautiful comment! I miss these days so bad!
10 years and still awesome. Who loved running low levels thru here back in the day.... great times.
8 Years later and still watching...this Video is a LEGENDARY!
Ahhh memories, see y'all in a few years :P
For season of rediscovery.
The Girl dancing is hilarious.She is like" i have no idea what's going on but i like it" lol
lol :D
*_Girl_* of course. *cough*
“Beware of my machine” Bro we can literally fear it.
1:42 has never ben more real
This video still basically feels new to me, even though when it was released, the Deadmines were half as old as this video is now. Jeez...
"Welcome to the Deadmines" is still to this date the best wow song I've ever heared/seen. Amazing job guys! Kudos from sweden 👍
I can't believe it took me 13 years to realize that this was Jessie Cox
Been 14 years.... sweet jesus has it really been so long? ....still slaps though!
I remember my dad showing me this when I was 11 and we just had a blast watching it together
That's very sweet :)
can't believe this was from 5 years ago...still feels like yesterday when this came out...we're all getting old :(
Let's venture into the deadmines once again, dig for that bitter sweet vein of nostalgia and the gems of memories from when we were great.
After all these years I come back because this song still slaps
Timeless
Last I seen this, Was in fact 2010! Still great!
Randomly remembered this song this morning. Didn't realize it's now 10 years old
Makes you feel old doesn't it. D:
I remember when this came out.. i'm so old.
We are not old. xD
9 years. i can't believe i have forgotten this song. i loved it so much back then and still love it.
This is the last official record of Edwin VanCleef and his crew.
R.I.P. Originals. You will be missed.
Even after 11years.. still an awesome song and video =D
10 years and it’s still a bop
To this day..I cry watching this..not for sad. But for a day lost to time. Thank you!
I remember first starting out, and looking for WoW content. This video is one of the first ones I watched. It will stick with me forever.
Omg this is exactly my first dungeon xD
The Guy who was tank but didnt even know what it is.
Omg this vid has 10 years
I love that Priest just dancing throughout the whole video :D
I have to come back and re-watch this every once in a while, as I did today with a huge smile on my face. Still awesome!
This has some Danny Elfman energy, and I mean that as the highest compliment.
I now...miss the old Deadmines...Thanks...
BACK TO DEADMINES BOYS WOW CLASSIC!
JESSE, YOU WONDERFUL PERSON
Now I really hope they push the pirate theme for combat rogues in Legion.
+BishtrainerTai16 you can pre order legion already, awesome right, im gonna level my disc priest to lv100 then maybe boost a lock to 100
+BishtrainerTai16 They are :D the 'Outlaw" (renamed/reworked 'combat' spec) artifact quests are on youtube- Nobbel and Preach gaming both did one, and most likely others too. It looks pretty sweet ^.^
That doesnt sound bad 🙂
The two artifact weapons for the Legion expansion are Luck and Fortune, two Cutlasses wielded by a pirate captain that found them after the Cataclysm. No one knows where they came from or who made them. But one thing's for certain, they're deadly powerful.
bet you regret that :P outlaw was terrible in legion
This video hits me with a nostalgia hammer every time I watch it.
7 years later, still one of the best wow videos which just randomly pops into my mind almost every week:D
I'm watching this 10 years after it came out I still enjoy it
I just recently got into WoW and I did this dungeon for the first time and I'm like "why does the name of this dungeon ring a bell to me... oh ya that's why"'
dont say that you are aging me 😂
2019 wow classic is released and the first thing I find on CZcams is This XD Still the best
"Being a favorite pays"... Having good story pays in becoming a favorite.
There's no real "good guys" in the story of the Deadmines, and it works well for it.
That's real interesting and I fully agree
This is 10 years ago and the graphics are very good BRUH.
8 years and this song is still on my playlist
Cookie was the star of this one, clearly.
If I was blizzard, I would make this version, the classic nostalgic heroic of deadmines, with a few mechanic changes so it'd be harder but keep the same ol nostalgia. This slaps so hard I, just wow. This is perfect, I loved the deadmines when i did it on the classic stress test, and recently discovering this today, it warms my heart. I wish i was there in cata/mop to play and listen to this song. But at least I can remember the good ol days, and listen to some WoW music.
8 years, still being watched
I haven't touched WoW in 3 years. I haven't heard this song in probably 5. But, still it is one of my most prevalent earworms. Any time my mind wonders it often ends up here. So, I decided to try and find it today. Took a little bit but, here I am.
Oh and it is as good as I remember.
I miss this good old version
Who else here after wow classic came out and ready for classic deadlines to come back?
What the deadmines still live they are just in the 80's you have the lower and now the higher you have it twice to get it!!! Love it!!
It's impressive how many of the voices are by Jesse.
As a Edwin Van Cleef loyalist I approve this
This is my first exposure to awesomeness that is Jesse Cox
Same here, and I will never regret going to his channel!
2023. Still listening. Jesse Cox and a f*cking banger.
7 years past...It's still so good!!
Im 14 and i started playing wow for the first time on classic launch, it sucks to see everyone being so down on the game I have no idea what the "good old days" are but im having a ton of fun looking at these old youtube machinamas and songs. Great video!
Enjoy it man, I would love to go back and play it again with fresh eyes.
I used to play as a kid, Smith and mining trolls with wow vanilla(originally when you had to choose phone or game
RIP Mr Smite...
AVAST YE SWAPS! REPEL THE INVADERS!
Nick Byrgesen YOU THERE!!! CHECK OUT THAT NOISE!!!!
Legend has it they never heard of the brotherhood again...
"You don't scare me at all one bit, When you've seen Prestor throw a fit" still goes hard to this day.
5 hours to go till i can see Van cleef again
I miss Edwin VanCleef...
SomethingLethal same
ur in luck my guy
working construction in an underground section of a building started humming and mumbling this, My brother working next to me, starts playing it off his speaker.
Love that, the full experience!
I love it when youtube recommends things I already forgotten and remind me how beyond epic some videos can be.
After i heard it was jesse, i can really hear it.
Would be awesome if the entrance to a mythic dungeon was something similar to 2:56 animation and all
I played this every time I went through the Deadmines. God the nostalgia
The brotherhood shall prevail
Honestly, I think Onyxia had us hanging on her whim. It's her fault that the Defias are angry at Stormwind. Then, somehow, she managed to hide that it was her doing. Onyxia was clever, devious, and deadly dangerous, She would have had Stormwind obliterated if Varian hadn't shown up.
when you know this song by heart you know you have a problem
Still my all-time favorite WoW fan video--totally hearkens back to the nostalgia of old Vanilla WoW.
I love this song!
My very first dungeon
Are you from vanilla too :)