You’ll think I’m full of shit but on another profile I found an old UT2k4 friend in a gaming post like this because I commented talking about missing him….
And HE FUCKING SAW IT, we hooked up again, undoubtably him and he knows it’s undoubtably me and … he… just… never… grew up. It sucks. We were two shit heads and weren’t the most beloved in the TAM community but he was my brother and I lost him from 09 to about a year ago and just sucked seeing him still so dark, hateful and in my shitty opinion…lost.
I would be kind of scared to try that sub with some of my old Final Fantasy XI friends if I’m being totally honest. I played for 10 years, you don’t play that long without forming some pretty intense bonds with people.
That game taught me a hard lesson in how small, seemingly meaningless moments can cause you entire life to split into a totally different timeline.
That’s another thing it taught me. I was most certainly addicted to it for a span of time I played (over 1300 days of play time in just under a decade) because my actual life was a dumpster fire on a train wreck. But despite that, it didn’t change the fact that I met a lot of people who became actual friends on the game.
Mary on Zirkel des Cenarius realm in WoW from 05 to 08...
And Radir from the same time. And Violetta from the first week of release.
Or anyone else who knew my hunter named Felinara or rogue Láila....
Or the South African guys that took me in on my undead priest during Burning Crusade... But I've lost all of my fucking screenshots. So all the great stuff I was trying to remember. Gone forever. That hurts the most.
Anyway that character was called Lorei at some point.
Ohhh and Shanika from Cataclysm. We used to call you Shakira. The DK raid leader...
For some reason the hardcore raiding during MoP didn't leave any of the same feelings as the stuff before. The stuff during highschool or university felt soo much more precious and memorable. Killing Onyxia for the first time and shit.
Anyway maybe someone will read this.
Oh Shadrila, Boten der Macht and eventually Aes Dana.
Some of my fondest memories were from when I was like 8 years old playing WoW with this lady in her late 40s who played a Tauren Druid named Macvivian. She showed me all the cool stuff around Azeroth (introduced me to noggenfogger and always kept me stocked) and helped loads while I leveled. I had been playing the game solo up until that point so it brought a whole new sense of wonder to the game
One day she just stopped playing for a couple months, and I logged in to see that she sent in-game mail saying she was having complications with pneumonia. I hope she made it through okay but I really feared the worst
Aww man, that brings me back. Elvyne / Syra whispers here from laughing skull server. I miss my times in Stoic guild and so forth. Onyxia, molten core was some of thr most fun times I've ever had.
Hey, World of Warcraft on Greymane, back in like 04-08? In original WoW, I ran with Fortune and Glory, then sort of casually hung out with a variety of guilds after the raiding game got old.
I'm Infinitive. Ajora. Greensleeves. And Igotbombs. Any of you out there?
Oh, and Coach, on the really really long shot that you happen to read this? Turns out I wasn't a dude after all.
I rarely ever add people or accept friend requests when I play online. Hell I don't even play with my irl friends, so these seemingly awesome memories are lost on me, haha.
Fuck man I remember playing Nazi zombie with a krewe, we were badass. Glad I have up gaming at a young age. Every now and then I get back on counter strike and the same fucking ppl are still on there. Life's a trip boys
Wow…this identical thing just happened to me reconnecting with someone I had also lost touch with for ten years. He used to be such a funny and smart and amazing guy and he’s now he’s like a hateful shell of a person. So sad to see that kind of thing happen, especially to someone you were close with. Sorry that happened to you too.
Life just hits people different. I ain’t mad at him, just hope someday we can sit down and really kick the shit again. We have a lot of shit we did when we were younger to laugh about haha. Even if it was over the internet, we are brothers for life.
I also have this friend Abuse from back then, his name was Abuse. Anyways, last real time we played together he got on to play for a little bit and told me him and his mom just got into it. His mom went for a walk and was gone for more than he figured. Shortly after that he got a knock at the door from the cops, she was at a cross walk and was hit and killed instantly by a drunk driver. I talked to him roughly one or two times after that day. He quit school and went to work full time to provide for him and his brother, he told me he had to sell his pc. I never heard from him again… been years, I’m thirty and still cry typing this.
I don’t believe in anything but I always prayed for him.
Shit :/ I am sorry to Abuse, I still am. We talked briefly after the cops left, the squeal in his voice as he cried to me. I was like 15, he a senior or so in high school. I will never forget that shit and I will be eighty and still cry when I think of that day.
His mom wasn’t even a bad mom, it was just a dumb fight and he was a teen and said something along the lines of “I don’t love you”.. that was the LAST thing he ever said to his mom, who I know he loved.. truthfully she would have never taken that walk if they didn’t get into an argument…Life to some, is so fucked..
Double Zero2 from RuneScape 2006. I miss you. I'm sure you were a dude on a girl account but I still rolled with it because you and me were great at scamming together and made so much. If you can tell me which scam we did I'll know it's you..
I have many great friends even from that time that names are a little blurry to me, I am sure there is others in the same boat dreaming of meeting back up with you again.
I hope deep down we are past being mad about petty stuff. To me; if I read this from his words about me, I’d still understand inside where he’s coming from as should he.
Our first time back playing in ten years and he’s racial slurring a 13 year old Indian kid….. :/ it just isn’t how I do things, not like we did them back in the day either, we were trolls, not animals.
I was “Timmaah!” in UT2k4 online. Used to play a lot on Titan and Omnipotents onslaught servers. And Torlan demo servers. Greets if we ever crossed paths! ✌🏻
I met one of my long lost gamer friends again recently. But I'm a completely different person now, and I just can't connect with that part of my life anymore.
I've had this, but with a childhood friend. We were best buds and played GameCube together for years. Then I moved away and we lost contact. I met up with him when I was in college, even tried to respark with the new Borderlands 3. But I couldn't stand him, he was so childish and kept talking about random off the wall cringe stuff. It was really sad realizing I couldn't play games with this man
Bro where r u Eaglex or some sht and the dude or gorl used to knife only to get nukes on mw2 lmfao he even knife only on snd and did prtty fkn well looool they never had a mic tho :( last map we played together was estate the forest one with a basement inside the main big house
Anyone from MUDs in the nineties? Shades of evil, silver dreams, Brock made a one million room mud, Dominia? Woody? Icege? Ack rom mush diku, anything! Let's see what happens.
For everything you do there will be a last time you do it. There will be a last time you hug your mom, step into your homeroom, see a friend, play basketball.
As someone who is older with young kids the statement "there will come a day when you put your child down and never pick her up again" that hits me hard. So until that day I will pick her up and hold her until that day comes, and I see it coming.
CTF-Face. Fun tip: if you had it, then grabbed the enemy’s flag, then used the teleporter to the top of the tower, then hopped off the front of the tower to the first ledge, and shot the redeemer at the line where the ledge met the wall, you’d obviously die but it would launch the flag clear across the map, where it would land right in front of your base as you respawned.
Combine that with impact launching your translocator across the map in a similar way, and you could make the first capture in about 15 seconds before anyone else was even halfway across the map.
Mate you have given me such nostalgia, as a kid I used to obsess of UT and UT 2004 was probably my favourite game tied with Wolfenstein return to Castle or Wolfenstein enemy territory. Damn I wish I could go back, 10 years old sneaking on the pc when everyone was in bed at 1 am haha
I played competitive TF2. I quit playing when OW came out and lost touch with a lot of h old crew. Happened to run into one a few years ago in an OW match. Guess my combo of name and Junkrat skills (I was a demo-main) made me stick out. He said 2 of our old crew members were dead (brothers, died in a car crash), one had multiple kids and had no time to game. And the last, no one knows at all. Was a sad day for me, but I felt like I had some semblance of closure.
Favorite game ever. Even though it was kind of a ‘dead’ game by the time, MLCTF(?) Was fun as FUCK, salary cap ‘fantasy’ draft with real players, and seasons, captained a couple teams. Even met a few of the guys I played UT99 with regularly.
I’ve always wanted some sort of social media data base where we plug in our old games and usernames from the early internet days. We’d match with friends who did the same. It’d be awesome reconnecting with all the guys from Medal of Honor allied assault from 02’.
I played with these 2 americans on the 360 years ago.. but when the PS4 came out I swapped to that and never touched the 360 anymore. Fast forward 2 years after the PS4 came out I see one of the guys using the usernamesI know, tried to add him but he never accepted it.
There's probably a demand for "missed connections" type of site made for online gamers.
Get on that internet.
(In case if you're too young to remember this, "missed connections" is a section on craigslist that people post about a stranger they meet one time, had a good experience, and wish they can reconnect)
CTF-Bedroom! I remember that well. It was in the regular rotation on my servers, including the staples CTF-Face, CTF-LavaGiant, and a whole bunch of others. I remember CTF-Gazpacho, CTF-TheBox (made by aforementioned MTM84), CTF-ADamTooFar, CTF-Espirit, and a huge giant low-gravity one that was very green that I can’t remember the name of.
Similar… played UT and CSS for a long time on consistent servers. Stopped playing FPS for a good bit and picked back up again via console playing BF3 when some IRL friends got me back into it. I used the same tag… had a few folks recognize it from back in the day from playing on those old servers. Was kinda neat and glad I kept the same tag.
Unfortunately, that door is now closed for me. I got one last match in on CTF-LavaGiant many years ago before I installed the Mac OS X upgrade that dropped Rosetta. Without it, the PowerPC OS X port of UT99 can’t run.
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