World of Warcraft and Nostalgia in Gaming
The People Who Still Play World of Warcraft Like It’s 2006: http://kotaku.com/the-people-who-still-play-world-of-warcraft-like-it-s-...
It's strange to revisit old games, movies, stories. It's never the same, but perhaps you'll find something to love about it that you never appreciated before. We stop being thrilled by novelty, and so we have to find a deeper kind of worth in things.
It's interesting to me to hear these people talk about their experience with revisiting a game that depended heavily on the social experience of a specific moment. When I play an old single-player game I used to love, I'm the only one who's changed, yet for them both they and the game are different.
MMOs are not wholly created, they are given life by the moment in a way nothing else is. Interesting to think about how these games will be preserved for the future, and how eerie and empty they might seem.
This is really cool. The way I see it is, more than any other type of game, playing old MMOs or old versions of them is actually more like visiting a memorable real-life place than anything else. Here's what I mean. Back in high school, behind my school there was this concrete ledge that both I and a girl my heart was close to used to climb. We'd chill up there together for hours, sometimes skipping entire days. I visit that concrete ledge sometimes, even still. I climb it again, I sit up there, I close my eyes and I remember stuff. She's not actually there of course, but that's kind of what playing old MMOs might feel like. The location is mostly the same, if very slightly different. But the original people that the MMO-player used to hang out with are no longer there. If I were to replay Assassin's Creed 1 (my favorite game ever) it would always feel a bit different to how I remember my first time with it; but the thing is, it's really the same game. I can trigger the exact same memories (lol) to come back every time. The game stands on its own, and it doesn't really need a specific Person there to feel similar.
Yeah, it is interesting how virtual spaces can feel just as tangible in memory as physical ones. Our minds just naturally love to interpret space and assign it importance or lack therof.
Speaking of revisiting a game....I just found Knights of the Old Republic as an app. I played this game years ago on the PC and as I upgraded my systems, the game no longer worked and I always missed it. Imagine my thrill to now have it in (in absolute pure form) on my tablet! Well, needless to say, the house went to shit for a week! I bought it for 2.99. My understanding is its 10 bucks now. (I dont know if I grabbed a sale). Either way...if you have not played this game, play it...3 bucks or 10 its worth it. If you have, you have a chance to revisit it! A great game and I call it the precurser to the Mass Effect games, which, in my experience, the best RPG/3rd person shooter game ever created.
Speaking of revisiting a game....I just found Knights of the Old Republic as an app. I played this game years ago on the PC and as I upgraded my systems, the game no longer worked and I always missed it. Imagine my thrill to now have it in (in absolute pure form) on my tablet! Well, needless to say, the house went to shit for a week! I bought it for 2.99. My understanding is its 10 bucks now. (I dont know if I grabbed a sale). Either way...if you have not played this game, play it...3 bucks or 10 its worth it. If you have, you have a chance to revisit it! A great game and I call it the precurser to the Mass Effect games, which, in my experience, the best RPG/3rd person shooter game ever created.
I've been playing 1, 2: The Sith Lords, and The Old Republic MMORPG a LOT this past month or two. KotOR was a huge part of my gaming childhood. I still love playing them now. Glad to see another Knight on this site. 
Haha! You betcha! i even cut my teeth on Mmos with the first Star Wars before they revamped it and pissed everyone off. Then a friend introduced me to WoW and I smoked that crack for a few years with my husband before kicking the habit". i just recently quit Game of War as well due to that addiction as well. Now I think I have had my fill of MMO's and back to good old fashioned RPGs". Thank goodness for KOTR. It helped tremendously to kick the GOW withdrawls. Lol!
and as I upgraded my systems, the game no longer worked
what do you mean?
is it no longer compatible with the current Windows, or did you get a really crappy computer?
Ahh...I cant say, but when KOTR came out on PC, it worked with my system...then next system later, it was no longer supported. i cant say why. My future systems were a considerable upgrade to the system I played KOTR on, I like it to PS3 games no longer compatible to a PS4 I suppose.
Ahh...I cant say, but when KOTR came out on PC, it worked with my system...then next system later, it was no longer supported. i cant say why. My future systems were a considerable upgrade to the system I played KOTR on, I like it to PS3 games no longer compatible to a PS4 I suppose.
There are some issues it had with certain Windows upgrades. KotOR II couldn't work for Windows 7 at all until you either download a mod patch or went in and messed with the settings in the game files themselves. KotOR I somehow works with Windows 7 with some tweaking of game settings (not even close to the sequel's compatibility problems). I was able to get both to work flawlessly, though!
That game disk is long gone now and I can no longer imagine sitting at a keyboard to play a game ever again anyway so I'm not sorry I suppose. I'm just thrilled KOTR came out for a smart device. I feel like I am living in my Dad's day when he lived to see Buck Roger technology come to be in his lifetime. I just wonder if we will laugh at the CGI of Avatar in 20 years as I laugh at the technology of Star Trek Next Generation today. (Which btw, I thought was the coolest shit at the time!)
I don't consider it strange. actually it got some memories that came back whenever i play them. nostalgia is the perfect word i would use here. that's what i feel playing them.
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