The sounds like the premise for a Mario creepypasta horror game.
Or a joke rom
Or a Dorkly skit “The mushroom kingdom gets gentrified”
honestly this is how Tears Of The Kingdom made me feel. the world is basically the same as Breathe Of The Wild except all messed up and all the kids have grown up. too real for me.
Very Old Games -> Link’s Awakening
I feel personally attacked
I was thinking the reverse.
“New Game -> KSP” It’s 12 years old
Prince Of Persia is Mullah Of Iran now
Anyone that ditched WoW back in 2007 or so, or any other long running MMORPG for 8+ years, and never looked at it again can experience something very close to that by just logging back in.
Running through Classic with my group of high school friends was pretty damn magical. We all played together at launch and it was pretty much all we talked about between classes. We had all drifted away through the years with other responsibilities, but WoW brought us back together.
We don’t play WoW anymore, but now we all hang out in discord all of the time and play other stuff. A few of us are setting aside time for Baldurs Gate 3 now!
The games themselves have changed, but I think it’s the friends that can bring me back to a different time.
I played Ragnarok Online back in the old day and dropped it around 2006 or something. A few years back i download a private server and log back in, and found out Morroc is destroyed. It’s so bizarre.
No! What happened to Morroc!!! Best BGM in the game.
Got destroyed by some demon king or something. I think it’s in the Nova RO server.
I want to play this
Then there’s animal crossing shaming you for abandoning it
Weeds and roaches everywhere.
I love and hate the feeling in Animal Crossing that the world has just continued existing without you for the last 18 months that you haven’t booted it up. Feels like visiting old friends… but old friends that thought you were dead or something.
My fishtanks in fish tycoon didn’t bother shaming. They straight up gave me nightmares.
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That’s one of the things I like about digital storage, things don’t change or degrade.
Most times when I boot Subnautica it’s forgotten my save file :(
So happy to see a reference to Escape Velocity. I spent so many hours playing that game as a teen, modding and creating my own spaceships in Mechanisto. Good times.
This feeling is the mood of Zac Gorman’s Magical Game Time webcomics