[QUOTE=karimatrix;50160846]is that a kid from jumanji movie?[/QUOTE]
what? no that kid is like 30 now
also this shit is sad. Video games preserve weird memories. Hopped on a terraria world from like 2 years ago and my ex-girlfriend left a sign in my house saying how much fun she has with me. I know it's not nearly the same as your dad dying but shit, digging up old games/worlds can be weird
I don't have any super touching memories, but I dug up my old XBOX recently and found our copy of GUN, loaded it up and found a save file from 2006. It's surreal to see the place where you left off in a game 10 fucking years ago.
[QUOTE=Glitchman;50161071]Hopped on a terraria world from like 2 years ago and my ex-girlfriend left a sign in my house saying how much fun she has with me.[/QUOTE]
this shit is what makes me cry for the next week
[QUOTE=Glitchman;50161071]Hopped on a terraria world from like 2 years ago and my ex-girlfriend left a sign in my house saying how much fun she has with me. I know it's not nearly the same as your dad dying but shit, digging up old games/worlds can be weird[/QUOTE]
man... what a sandy day at the beach here...
:cry:
[QUOTE=Glitchman;50161071]
also this shit is sad. Video games preserve weird memories. Hopped on a terraria world from like 2 years ago and my ex-girlfriend left a sign in my house saying how much fun she has with me. I know it's not nearly the same as your dad dying but shit, digging up old games/worlds can be weird[/QUOTE]
Launched War Thunder about a year or so back, logged into my old account. Had a lot of planes with decals and stuff in a pattern one of my exes used to use with me.
Immediately signed out to make a new account.
[QUOTE=Glitchman;50161071]what? no that kid is like 30 now
also this shit is sad. Video games preserve weird memories. Hopped on a terraria world from like 2 years ago and my ex-girlfriend left a sign in my house saying how much fun she has with me. I know it's not nearly the same as your dad dying but shit, digging up old games/worlds can be weird[/QUOTE]
It makes you think: What happens to a person's save games when they die? Do they just sit there, never to be played again? Do they get thrown out with the computer of the person who died? Will someone just heartlessly erase them? Maybe someone will find the old computer they played on and discover the legacy this person left behind. Or maybe they will just sit there, never to be completed by someone else. What happens to our own save games, after we die?
[QUOTE=TornadoAP;50163421]It makes you think: What happens to a person's save games when they die? Do they just sit there, never to be played again? Do they get thrown out with the computer of the person who died? Will someone just heartlessly erase them? Maybe someone will find the old computer they played on and discover the legacy this person left behind. Or maybe they will just sit there, never to be completed by someone else. What happens to our own save games, after we die?[/QUOTE]
I think I remember some guy whose brother played Oblivion or Skyrim or one of the two. The brother died and years down the line the guy loaded the save to look at what he would have been up to, what quests he would be working on but didn't want to move him or save over it. It is really existential to think about things like that and all the memories and experiences that go with it that get frozen in time the moment you stop playing.
This video also reminds me about that Animal Crossing story whose mother used to give the kid presents before she died of cancer. Does anyone have that whole picture story? I am in the mood to chop some onions.
EDIT found it
[t]http://i.imgur.com/MTfCR.jpg[/t]
that animal crossing story fucking destroyed me especially because animal crossing was my shit
that shit fucked me up permanently
Fuck, I should spend more time with my parents and be a better son :cry:
Man this reminds me that I created an account for a game my ex played a lot, and I haven't logged in since the break up
[QUOTE=Glitchman;50161071]what? no that kid is like 30 now
also this shit is sad. Video games preserve weird memories. Hopped on a terraria world from like 2 years ago and my ex-girlfriend left a sign in my house saying how much fun she has with me. I know it's not nearly the same as your dad dying but shit, digging up old games/worlds can be weird[/QUOTE]
this made me tear up a little bit wow
Fuck man.. I didn't need to think about spiritual experiences with video games.
The worst thing for me has been losing mentors in Garry's Mod. I'll sometimes find myself pacing through dupes I have, and come across a dupe that I made with a friend who either died in a car accident or ended up committing suicide. It's a hard feeling to explain, but I think about the good times we all had with those contraptions, and instead of ya' know... Using them. I just sit there and look at them and talk with friends about how much we miss that one person. We sometimes try to do impressions of their voices, and have a good laugh, but nothing ever replaces the memory of their voice. It's all you got to remember them by, and seriously it kills you.
What's even worse is when you sometimes find one of those rare demo files or videos you guys made, and you hear their voice after so many years of not hearing it, and all you can do it sit back and start crying.
Sorry if I'm being over-dramatic, but this video makes me want to go and look at a few old contraptions.
[QUOTE=SirKillsAlot;50163464]I think I remember some guy whose brother played Oblivion or Skyrim or one of the two. The brother died and years down the line the guy loaded the save to look at what he would have been up to, what quests he would be working on but didn't want to move him or save over it. It is really existential to think about things like that and all the memories and experiences that go with it that get frozen in time the moment you stop playing.[/QUOTE]
Is it [url=https://imgur.com/a/Gh20l]this one?[/url]
I wish I had a save file from my dad on a game. I have his favorites though like Unreal Tournament, Falcon 4.0 and Quake 2. I swear if I could I would set up a LAN party with him in a heart beat.
I was looking for the comment this video was based on and I found this:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/tpzosmt.png[/img]
I remember the best gaming experience I had was playing Zelda I and completing it at 100% with a friend when I was 8.
We had a ton of metric paper and colored pencils. Both of us drew every single tile of that map, with notes detailing what we found and how we found it. We had his dad translate the little texts for us. I would explore around the most while he would handle most of the dungeons and bosses.
We took almost a year to complete it without any help (aside for the much needed translations).
Sadly, I lost contact with him and last I remember, he had the map wrapped around the cartridge. He didn't die but I wish I still had that cartridge and map just to go around and remember the amazing times we had figuring out all that stuff. Thanks to him, I felt like I had a big brother.
goddamnit, i play video games to get away from this kind of shit
I've met a lot of unique and interesting friends throughout my life inside the various worlds of videogames. Sometimes I go back to old games thinking I might once again find those moments of joy and friendship but as years pass all of those friends have since been lost to growing up and becoming their own people. Going back just is like realizing there's a giant hole in yourself.
I've had a massive change in my life recently living in a new place and I felt a need to grasp to something familiar and it was like grasping air before a plunge when I realized I was all alone when I searched for anyone I used to spend my everyday internet life with.
[QUOTE=Tarzy;50164666]I've met a lot of unique and interesting friends throughout my life inside the various worlds of videogames. Sometimes I go back to old games thinking I might once again find those moments of joy and friendship but as years pass all of those friends have since been lost to growing up and becoming their own people. Going back just is like realizing there's a giant hole in yourself.
I've had a massive change in my life recently living in a new place and I felt a need to grasp to something familiar and it was like grasping air before a plunge when I realized I was all alone when I searched for anyone I used to spend my everyday internet life with.[/QUOTE]
Don't you find it fascinating? Think of those as good memories you will always have forever. I don't even play games anymore but I sometimes just look up old things I used to do as a child for nostalgia's sake. I used to play a game called SOCOM II: US Navy Seals on the PS2 and it was my first online game some 13 odd years ago. I remember I was a part of a clan called Strider's Clan with 6 other people and we played almost every day for a solid year and a half. It really was close knit and one of the best parts of my childhood after my local neighborhood friends moved away and I had nothing else to do. Some of those guys were probably 17-20 at the time while I was barely a teen. Although I hadn't messaged him in over a decade, I still had the clan leader Strider on AIM messenger who still showed as online until a few years ago when I reformatted and uninstalled it.
Although I probably will never see or talk to them ever again, it is funny thinking "Jeez, these guys probably have kids, a wife, and a career by now even though those dudes when I met way back when were just trash talking teens like me, younger than I am now, playing a simple video game." Everyone just has their life going for them and the cycle spins on.
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