Not one mention of Runescape yet? Sigh. The Escapist disappoints me.
EDIT: Also, CheatCC.com, back when games had actual fucking cheats.
EDIT: Also, CheatCC.com, back when games had actual fucking cheats.
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There used to be a website called Starterupsteve, and one of the things it had was a massive list of flash videos. Like, a MASSIVE list of them. I spent the majority of my early days on the internet there.
Most of the videos were immature, but I was young then. So shaddap.
Edit: Oh, and Gamewinners [http://www.gamewinners.com]. Discovering cheat websites changed my life!
And Heavy Games [http://www.heavygames.com] took up a large chunk of my late childhood too.
Most of the videos were immature, but I was young then. So shaddap.
Edit: Oh, and Gamewinners [http://www.gamewinners.com]. Discovering cheat websites changed my life!
And Heavy Games [http://www.heavygames.com] took up a large chunk of my late childhood too.
I used that website so many times back in the Sega Genesis/Nintendo 64 days... ah, much simpler, simpler times. I miss having actual cheat codes in games nowadays... of course, I miss how developers expected us to just find all of the extra content in a game, instead of cutting it out and then selling it later...JasonKaotic said:
EDIT: Oh, for my own input apart from Gamewinners, Homestarrunner and Neopets are both rather nostalgic for me as well. I used to visit them years ago.
I think a main reason they don't is that the Sony and Microsoft won't allow it. It'd mean they'd be able to farm achievements faster than other people, hence achievements being locked out on games where you actually can if you do input them.shrekfan246 said:
Although yeah, that doesn't explain why they don't just lock out achievements in return for letting you do them. Unless it's just really lazy programmers.
I seem to recall that either Grand Theft Auto IV or the Saints Row games would allow you to enter cheat codes and would disable achievement gain. I can't say for certain though because I've never been particularly fond of either franchise (I didn't even know Saints Row existed until the second one had been released for a year already).JasonKaotic said:
But seriously. When you can seriously say that one or two games released in the last seven years allows cheat codes, something strange has obviously happened here in the industry. Honestly, the only game I care about "achievements" in is World of Warcraft. In single-player games, they don't exactly give me incentive to play through the game again. Especially if it wasn't that good to begin with. In something like Dragon Age or Mass Effect, I don't need the extra incentive because how the game is designed alone makes me want to play it again. Mass Effect gets extra props for giving tangible in-game bonuses for getting the achievements, though.
You know what else has been dragged out of the lime-light? The console. The in-game, player-usable console in PC games. In some games it was directly tied into activating cheats. But the last game that even allowed console use in-game that I can recall was Mass Effect, and to actually activate it you needed to mess around with the .ini files and the shortcut run commands.
EDIT: Whoa, I'm totally off-topic now. Ahem.
I don't think you get too much more nostalgic than MySpace. I remember pimpin' my page with an awesome Senses Fail background, and getting awesome music to play on my page. Taking those quiz things that were always on the bulletins. I got asked out by my first girlfriend through MyS, who I later asked out a months later, who later asked me out a couple months after that, who dumped me for another guy three days later. It's a long story.
Oh how I remember spending hours on there just messaging her.
Oh how I remember spending hours on there just messaging her.
www.Weebls-stuff.com [www.Weebls-stuff.com] Oh the memories I have.It's a shame though, it's really dropped off in quality in the past, and they hardly make Weebl and Bob anymore ;_;
I also loved Runescape, heaps of memories, good and bad.
I REMEMBER!Headsprouter said:
I also loved Runescape, heaps of memories, good and bad.
So that makes at least two webcomic artists I know of who work for Adult Swim now. Interesting.DeltaEdge said:
(The other is the author of RPG world, which thanks to his getting hired by Adult Swim, remains unfinished, but complete up to the final freakin' battle. Major cliffhanger, but a great comic up until the end.)
I used to go on runescape a lot, don't know why I played that game for as long as I did; it's not like I didn't realize that clicking on things for hundreds of hours to make my numbers go up was a waste of time, there was just something about that game that made me keep clicking : \
Oh also Neopets! I got bored of that site quickly, but the forum RPs sort of kept me there (I was 13, and didn't know better)
Oh also Neopets! I got bored of that site quickly, but the forum RPs sort of kept me there (I was 13, and didn't know better)
Sounds a little odd, but Tankspot.com, it was a World of Warcraft raid site, that was the go to throughout all Wrath, but fell off a cliff when Cata hit. I'm not even sure why, I didn't even like the videos and I hated the raid content when I learned about them (during New Naxx) it just brings back memories of a bygone era.
EDIT: Of course the obvious ones, Neopets, Runescape and Homestarrunner.
EDIT: Of course the obvious ones, Neopets, Runescape and Homestarrunner.
It's been said, but I've got to say Neopets. That was the only website I EVER visited before the age of twelve.
I'm also inclined to say Gaia Online. I still visit every once in a while, but all the changes have started to make it lose its appeal. Not to mention the economy is just getting worse and worse, and to an extent, so has the community and content.
I'm also inclined to say Gaia Online. I still visit every once in a while, but all the changes have started to make it lose its appeal. Not to mention the economy is just getting worse and worse, and to an extent, so has the community and content.
A lot of it has already been said. Neopets, Gaia Online, Serebii.net, all the sites I grew out of. There was some old Yu-Gi-Oh sites I visited, and Mugglenet.com when I was really into Harry Potter. Oh, my childhood. Those were the days...
http://www.x-entertainment.com The majority of the site is not up there anymore, so you have to find it all via searching but its pretty awesome and I still follow it.