The Nostalgia Thread

[yung.carl.jung]

I have yet to make it through a game of III, let alone IV (I have tried).

even better!

 

[H4run]

interestingly enough I personally still get the sense of wonder and discovery from Morrowind, despite knowing every location

Morrowind almost become my number one game ever for me. But the atmosphere is too dark and gloomy but don't get me wrong it's in beautiful way though, but I remember once having a nightmare when I play it and the nightmare was related with the game and its environment, after that nightmare I directly stop my play-through

But it's among the top 5 game I ever play, and I replay it dozens of time and finish the main quest and all the dlc. For environment and beauty I like Oblivion, they are just beautiful and dreamy. Dang that experience is just mind-blowing.

But if I have to replay between Morrowind or Oblivion, I will repeat Morrowind instead, because the content is just so huge so you can escape the hollowness of npc relation with the player with its immense content. If Oblivion after a while the world will definitely feel empty, after you build something it goes back again to nothing-very fast and obvious, the obvious hollowness is not a pleasant experience, you feel like alone in the game world very quickly in Oblivion.

This video can articulate what I meant in general:

 

[Hrothbern]

Nostalgia as what is left behind, in the inevitablity of life moving forward, your life or the life around you.

Here two beautiful songs giving that atmosphere... trying to find solace
* La Montagne, 1964, from Jean Ferrat, French, about the urbanisation, the modernisation, the demise of the mountain villages, the beauty of the pure mountain life close to nature and basic means of existence. About the Ardeche, now popular for tourism.
* Ma Se Ghe Pensu, 1925, from Mario Cappello, Italian, about a migrant from Genua living in Latin America, and homesick for Genua. The vid the oldest version I could find.

EDIT
When a mood catches me, I am inclined to embrace it, and with a nostalgia moods open after a while a door as well to not stay locked in it.

In 1975 the oil crisis of 1973 delivered the biggest blows to the Netherlands and unemployment increased with 40-50% to the year before.

This song became immensely popular, everybody singing the line "we shall go on"
We shall go on, 1975, Ramses Shaffy. I translated the Dutch lyrics.

We shall go on
With the thrust
From the mild force
To go on
In a speechless night
We shall go on
We shall go on
Until we are together

We shall go on
With the faltering security
To go on
In an endless time
We shall go on
We shall go on
Until we are together

We shall go on
With the sweat on our face
To continue alone
In a trench without light
We shall go on
We shall go on
Until we are together

We shall go on
Whenever we stand still
To continue again
Naked in the hurricane
We shall go on
We shall go on
Until we are together

We shall go on
If no one expects more
That we continue again
In a speechless night
We shall go on
We shall go on
Until we are together

 

[AdamCrock]

The point is that you're leaving your home and going outside at all.

When I leave my home (apartment) it's to get the mail or take the garbage to the garbage chute. I don't physically go outside. Today marks two months since I was last outside.

It's been annoying, but on the other hand, a couple of restaurants don't have a problem delivering here when I tell them I haven't been anywhere - it means it's safer to deliver to me than it would be to someone who's out and about every day.


I have yet to make it through a game of III, let alone IV (I have tried).

So You miss the simple thing of leaving the confines of four walls I take it ? Btw. Did You not liked Civ IV to stay in play a while longer ? (Civ I and Civ IV are my favourite parts)

 

[amadeus]

What do you think, sirs?

There was something about this show to me that was so appealing. I always knew I was watching something when I was watching it, if that made any sense. That's not to say that the writing wasn't good nor the production values bad, just that I always felt like I was more at home watching this than I was most other TV that tried to portray real people. For some reason, robots made from bowling pins and gumball machines had more humanity in them than the predictable, trite characters of 1990's sitcomdom.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

So You miss the simple thing of leaving the confines of four walls I take it ? Btw. Did You not liked Civ IV to stay in play a while longer ? (Civ I and Civ IV are my favourite parts)

I miss the ability to leave here without having to consider the logistics of opening and closing doors while not touching them but still making sure no possibly contaminated gloves touch the handles of my walker. It was annoying enough before all this, to maneuver a walker through two sets of doors (this building doesn't have the push-buttons for hands-free opening/closing). Doing it while constantly having to think about which publicly accessible surfaces you don't want to touch with your bare hands while making sure that you only touch the walker with bare hands means it's more complicated than I'm willing to deal with.

Civ II is a comfortable pace for me. I tried Civ III and felt assaulted by information overload, not to mention nothing looks familiar. Civ IV was even worse. It's too much, too fast.

 

[Ferocitus]

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For some reason, robots made from bowling pins and gumball machines had more humanity in them than the predictable, trite characters of 1990's sitcomdom.

My favourite is this robot made from a watercooler and 2 table tennis balls.

Lots more like that in...

 

[Birdjaguar]

Vive MST!

 

[Socrates99]

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What do you think, sirs?

There was something about this show to me that was so appealing. I always knew I was watching something when I was watching it, if that made any sense. That's not to say that the writing wasn't good nor the production values bad, just that I always felt like I was more at home watching this than I was most other TV that tried to portray real people. For some reason, robots made from bowling pins and gumball machines had more humanity in them than the predictable, trite characters of 1990's sitcomdom.

Pluto TV has a 24/7 MST3K channel. Just wonderful!

 

[AdamCrock]

I miss the ability to leave here without having to consider the logistics of opening and closing doors while not touching them but still making sure no possibly contaminated gloves touch the handles of my walker. It was annoying enough before all this, to maneuver a walker through two sets of doors (this building doesn't have the push-buttons for hands-free opening/closing). Doing it while constantly having to think about which publicly accessible surfaces you don't want to touch with your bare hands while making sure that you only touch the walker with bare hands means it's more complicated than I'm willing to deal with.

Civ II is a comfortable pace for me. I tried Civ III and felt assaulted by information overload, not to mention nothing looks familiar. Civ IV was even worse. It's too much, too fast.

Oh I get it Do not stress Yourself about it It's not a sin haven't played part IV , take Your time and take it slow if it suits You You're doing it for fun , not to exert Yourself anyway

 

[Ferocitus]

Oh I get it Do not stress Yourself about it It's not a sin haven't played part IV , take Your time and take it slow if it suits You You're doing it for fun , not to exert Yourself anyway

Put the bottle down, Adam! You're replying to your own head noises.

 

[AdamCrock]

Put the bottle down, Adam! You're replying to your own head noises.

That's a good point Monsieur F. Ouch .... Touche ! ...

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Vive MST!

Agreed. I hate Daylight Saving Time.

 

[H4run]

Spoiler :

Mine always was exactly like this!

 

[Ajidica]

I wouldn't say I'm nostalgic for any time period. I have a romantic realist view of the 70s and early 80s, along with Austerity Britain; but I certainly wouldn't want to live in those periods and I appreciate how terrible they could be.
I also didn't really have much exposure to late 90s/early 2000s pop culture growing up. My parents didn't let me watch commercial television (public tv only), I was only allowed "educational" video games (which was how I managed to convince my parents to let me play Civ3 and Civ4!), and most of the reading I did was my dad's collection of 70s and 80s sci-fi (mainly Larry Niven because he forgot about the dirtier parts). I guess I have some nostalgia for high school and college, although that is mainly in the context of wishing I had done some things differently.

 

[H4run]

I wouldn't say I'm nostalgic for any time period.

Perhaps that is because the lack of emotional investment that tied you with certain time period because of your house rule.

 

[AdamCrock]

You know guys what I really miss .... the careless times when I was a teenager, had a dream, coming back to home from yet another concert at the break of dawn, being irresponsible, meeting with pals just to "hang out" , playing cards till 10 PM and than hitting the bar , being a misfit. Damn I miss those things and now that it's time to finally grow up .... I don't wanna grow up

edit:

I really loved Bon Jovi back then when (well it was the times when nobody really listened to Bon Jovi anymore, but I loved them all the same xD)

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[amadeus]

The family trip to the mall just wasn't complete without a stop at Woolworth's. I remember in the toy department they had one of those Nintendo displays were you could play one of the games, and the one that was always on there was Super Mario Bros. 2.

I think I have one of those combs. Is my comb 30 years old?

10 cents for coffee? With a $3 patty melt platter? SIGN ME UP.

 

[Gorbles]

I miss books. Specifically, books. I do a lot of reading in my spare time, but none of it is sinking time into a fiction novel, or even a historical account or some kind of research paper. I used to do this a lot, and it's hard to pinpoint what the issue is.

It's not just having children; they nuke a lot of your free time in general (and I'm more than happy with that trade) - some of my storage boxes of books literally haven't been opened since I moved into this place (six or seven years ago; well before children). Not quite sure what changed, and I've definitely tried to get back into it more than a few times. Just can't stick with it, regardless of the author, genre, or whatever.