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Message: [QUOTE="Knighthart, post: 2558, member: 538"] I often experience times where I think back on the long-term experiences I've had in specific online games, and try to piece together how much of it really made me who I am today. Multiplayer games, MMOs, Live Service games- essentially the kind of games that are more accurately "lost to the times" That temporary aspect of it just makes it all the more emotionally impactful. The community aspect highlights the shifting nature of how people act over time- not just culturally, but personally as well, considering you were also a different person at these times. The game itself was its own culture, and you were involved. Inside jokes, dedicated slang, sharing exploits It's just weird to think how utterly immersed I was into these games, yet I was still simultaneously interacting with the world. Compared to just nostalgia on standard games, that blend of social exposure almost prevents you from being too submerged in your own little world where you start to make your own delusions of that time period. It grounds you. Doesn't it? I'll start. [MEDIA=youtube]MNMBJvRPzkg[/MEDIA] S4 League was pretty much the game I first developed a 'competitive mindset' with. Being in a community where we constantly pushed each other to improve, striving to one-up one another by out pulling off the sickest plays. Clipping every mediocre play and sharing it thinking it was the coolest shit ever. It wasn't just how we wanted to play, there was also so much focus on trying to make the most cool looking oc as well. Ai space was a game where my experience wasn't so reliant on socializing, but it still had its own merits. All the foreigners and japanese users were playing in the same server, so it was a pretty cultural mix. That ended up being my first foray in typing in another language, one I hardly knew at the time. But really compared to other mmos, people weren't really as talkative regardless. The extra focus on making everyone feel like the main character pretty much just incentivized everyone to play it like a single player game where you finally get to date your waifu. It wasn't challenging at all but still, the countless hours I had just lounging around with other players and their dolls were so comfy. And probably the game most end up having core memories with, Ragnarok Online. I think I'm going to have to attribute most of my public personality having its roots of being formed there. Though it feels like any experience shared of RO are things shared around innumerous times you've heard again and again. Lots of nostalgia for MMOs and just other general multiplayer live service games, but these three are pretty much the ones I've ended up being so deeply integrated into. To the degree of being involved in the meaningless drama, which is so charming looking back on. I'd love to read stories of you guy's experiences, to step into your world and relive the nostalgia for these eroded games that defined an era for you. You know, it'd be pretty cool if somehow any some of us unknowingly knew each other from them. [/QUOTE]

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