Games of your childhood

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[Nihilma]

I've certainly talked about this game before, but truthfully no other game I've ever played manages to this day to make me this nostalgic about childhood than this one : Lord of The Rings Online, abreviated LOTRO. It's a MMORPG that was created around the same time WOW did, and acted for a long time as one of it's contenders.

It's still "active", or as active as it gets, and is still being updated every year.

I think the thing I loved the most about this game was the ambiance. The game's system, the balancing, the PVP and raids of this game are in more or less every aspect inferior to WOW I think, but one thing this game has for itself is the atmosphere and feeling of freedom and exploration it offers. The main map is a gigantic continuous single map with every region being explorable and traversable. On one server, the whole map is loaded. The art style is very rugged, but charming in it's own way.

The quests and storytelling of the game are peak, it is what the game is mostly praised for, but where I think this game shines the most is in a different area :
Soundtrack, soundscape and ost.

The music, sound design and soundscape of this game are unparalleled, and if I don't really play this game anymore today, I still listen to the music and atmosphere or certain regions of the game on a weekly basis to relax. I've probably been influenced by the good time I had on this game and the fact I played this game at a young age, and as an avid reader of Tolkien's works, which made me extremelly invested in the game's story and characters, but I still think this game offers in it's osts something more than nostalgia. It's just good.

Let me put some examples here :

- One piece of music here, that plays when randomly walking in a certain region of the game. Insane to me that this is just that, one other OST, nothing more.

- One other piece of music, from a boss encounter this time :

- An OST composed solely with an acoustic guitar, one of my favourite classical guitar composition ever. It's just so good.

- And here a piece of ambiance recorded straight from the game itself, not an OST, just the game playing :

 

[Sloppyjakky]

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CARS 2 FUCKING WQN

 

[Apeson]

Little big planet was like gmod but for cacas. And it was a gemerald.

 

[kaiser06]

temple run 2

 

[lifesucksthenyoudie]

A lot of people in my school and I played this browser game called Manyland which was kind of like 2D Minecraft creative mode but you design all of the blocks yourself. So naturally I spent most of my time pixel copying sprites off Spriters Resource.

Another game we all played on our Chromebooks was Helmet Heroes, yet another really crappy browser MMORPG game that was mainly populated by ESL third worlders. One time the guy making the game made a change to the game's map design so I sperged out in his email, he responded by banning me geg

Other than that, we also played a lot of Tanki Online, as well as other random platformer Flash games (the Run trilogy, Vex, This is the Only Level, Give Up, etc.)

 

[pig]

I miss when Xbox meant physical hardware and not some sort of membership or laughing stock.

 

[Apeson]

A lot of people in my school and I played this browser game called Manyland which was kind of like 2D Minecraft creative mode but you design all of the blocks yourself. So naturally I spent most of my time pixel copying sprites off Spriters Resource.
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Another game we all played on our Chromebooks was Helmet Heroes, yet another really crappy browser MMORPG game that was mainly populated by ESL third worlders. One time the guy making the game made a change to the game's map design so I sperged out in his email, he responded by putting on the naughty list me Hohoho!
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Other than that, we also played a lot of Tanki Online, as well as other random platformer Flash games (the Run trilogy, Vex, This is the Only Level, Give Up, etc.)

Helmet heroes is an äryan gëm. Sad it got räped

 

[kaiser06]

i remember playing skylanders

 

[1876 o algo]

Clear Vision

 

[Itransheartblox]

Need for speed

 

[Thomsen]

Fireboy and watergirl

 

[Itransheartblox]

Fireboy and watergirl

They always forced me to play as watergirl bruh

 

[FartmingerFuckwadCheesest]

"Okay, chief, take 'em away. I'm gonna go home and sleep with my wife!"

 

[Malcolm T. Briggs]

Lee Goldson thought Tic Tac Toe was really, really hot - Yours truly, Malcolm B.

 

[lifesucksthenyoudie]

Lee Goldson thought Tic Tac Toe was really, really hot - Yours truly, Malcolm B.

Tic Tac Toe doesn't have Tracer's feet in it take your meds

 

[Apeson]

The Jak and daxter games are ones i hold dear to my heart, i had the jak and daxter collection on my ps3 back when i was a caca and i played the hell out of the three main games. It's oversaid already, but the tonal shift that happens from the first game to it's sequels is hilarious and at the same time well done. The first game has you play in a happy plataformer world like banjoo-kazooie and out of nowhere the second game does the edgiest tonal sift ever and throws the main character into a cyberpunk dystopia that starts with him getting tortured. The third game doubles down and turns it into mad max.
Just looking at the box art change from the first to last game gives an idea of how crazy the tonal shift is.

Jak and daxter(The first one):


Jak 2:


Jak 3:


It almost doesn't seem like the same series. The tonal shift is brutal, but it somehow fits into place and it shows in how much praise the second and third game get even today. Jak 2 and 3 did edgy better than sega did at the time.
I've been playing mostly jak 3 recently, they're very hard games but equally fun. Emulating these games is noobhell of impossible btw, the textures completely break unless it's on original ps2/ps3 hardware so what i've done is play the games on a hacked ps3.

 

[Apeson]

Need for speed

äryan

 

[Itransheartblox]

äryan

I really want to play wanted again

 

[Apeson]

I really want to play wanted again

Better than the goyslop they're putting out today under the same IP.